Show A 00 F farm arm WAR NEWS food losses very small less than one pennys dennys worth has been lost through spoilage out of every purchase ol of food stock stor ed by since the beginning of L lend e n lease dlease d program in march of 19 1941 4 1 three categories of food inventories are in commercial storage today the largest being privately owned and destined for distribution to civilians vi lians the second category consists of stocks owned by the military forces for which detailed data are not made public the third includes stocks stored by the food administration these stocks are used for lend lease purposes and for emergency use by the military 1 higher feeding efficiency increased efficiency can solve a part of the feeding problems officials say in recent weeks department part parL ment officials have made such suggestions as the following in regard to feeding efficiency light hogs can be produced with less feed per pound than heavy hogs more eggs can be produced with less feed toy by culling out more of the non lay and keeping a larger percentage of pullets beef cattle should be fed shorter and lighter and more de indence should be placed on roughage for cattle and sheep canadian wheat movement speeded the has obtained a priority on boxcars a day to transport wheat from the western provinces of canada to the united states such a movement should bring 40 million bushels into this country during the next four months during 1943 approximately bushels of grain were transported over the treat great lakes to U S ports it is planned to step up this movement to million bushels in 1944 canada still has a large surplus of wheat possibly million bushels above ts estimated requirements and es estial reserves victory twine on the way A new binder twine made from a combination of and jute 11 1 ibrey is now being manufactured formerly processes form manila isal and bind ertwine beame a critical commodity when the japs japp overran the philippines end the dutch east indies our major burce of supply experiments have been conducted with various sub materials since that time bast ast year the war production board provided manufacturers with c cotton 0 aton yarn which was combined with hen bequiri to produce a satisfactory twine cotton is not available for this thie purpose in 1944 however and cie ne jute product was developed to meet binder twine requirements quire ments the new twine uses per cent a fibre fabre imported from central america end and 12 per cent ute fibre fabre imported from india seem farm machinery since most machinery is under quota for the year 1944 farmers are required t to get permits and priorities to purchase what they need from local dealers therefore the AAA committee recommends that anyone contemplating the purchase of new machinery come to the co agricultural agents office in the federal building and make application for what they want bhea iier ii aher cr of italis 70 million prod utti acres 12 million acres are in ahrn |