Show Crop Prospects Favorable I Prospects are favorable for another er record breaking year of food pro pro- production production the department of agriculture ture has pointed out in a summary of agricultural developments However er the demand for farm products is expected to increase more than pro Moisture conditions were favor able at the beginning of 1943 and with only average weather from now until harvest crop yields per acre are likely to be about equal to the general level in 1940 and 1941 and higher than in any earlier year Stocks of feed grains and of wheat and numbers of cattle on feed Jan Jan- January January uary 1 were at an time all fec rec rec- ord Numbers of sheep and lambs on feed for market were only slight slight- slightly ly below the record set a year earlier |