Show CROP PROSPECTS 1951 Production May Set New Record With a break in the weather American crop production in 1951 may set a record but whether the peak output is the answer to spiral- spiral spiraling spiraling spiraling ing food prices is the big question even for the nations nation's farmers One favorable trend is the grow grow- growing growing ing number of beef cattle and hogs sources of a major item in the country's diet Cattle numbers are now ow at a head compared with a low of in 1948 Stocks of wheat and corn raw material for meat and dairy pro ducts are ample and without vl acre acre- acreage acreage age restrictions Winter wheat planting is up sixth one-sixth over last year Indications in the midwest corn belt point toward another bumper planting this spring of of- officials of- of officials of the department of agri agri- agriculture agriculture culture said in a recent report regon |