Show s a fa rm WAR NEWS th the price stabilization a pg program lana for cattle establishes 1 high and low few etab lim limits on the average price intel which park packers c Is must pay for live cattle it they wish to qualify tor for gove govern m ant subsidy p payments Y t but bat th the Z program does NOT NC T fix p price rim clab ceilings on live cattle under the program maximum an and minimum prices have hav been tb fished for seen each of the six principal grades of beef and d subsidies rang long mg ing from 50 cents cen to 1 4 a log IDS are am payable on each of these grades however a parker packer may oay day below the minimum prices on a one or more me grades of cattle then offset this deficit by paying above the maximum prices set for other grades and still qualify for the full subsidy pa ments on all 11 cattle slaughtered to do this the average cost cast of all the cattle he buys must be somewhere sona la re batile the h big high h and low lo 10 w iguls 3 or e r nn deductions will be made ir a d e from r his h sumney payments pap ments the cattle stab liea illation tion program is entirely independent of the price support pro gram grain f for or hogs under which a subsidies are paid to packers to meet the support prices with heavy runs of cattle begin ning to come to market the points out that cattle slaughter reg mg ions in no way restrict the num ber bar that may be slaughtered this fact is as one aau that apparently has not been understood by many people orville L lee state AAA chairman says say daughter farmers ma may slaughter and deliver deive meat at from any cattle or other livestock wd owned w d by them without any license or permit and without making any report of such deliver oes les to the government commercial packets packers and per persons ionis who slaughter livestock exclusively for others on a fee basis must most obtain slaughter ng licenses from and slaughterers slaughter ers of 50 or more mine head of cattle weekly 1 or or an more livestock annual ly 1 must turn mon rate monthly tily nattily reports to the th e slaughterers Slaughter tereas ers who kill more than khz 51 head of cattle att ctt 1 weekly that produce e army style I 1 he beef I 1 must set set aside 1 d a percentage T for government purchase which must be federally inspected slaughterers Slaughter sla ers must comply with OPA regulations legal regarding gial ching grading of meat and callec tion of ration points these regu lations I 1 pertain to licensing lice nial ng grading set act wide aside for government gove rat purchase and collection of ration points mr all lee points out but they do not re strict the number of cattle that may be slaughtered the war aar production board has scheduled the plod production uoti of 56 c commercial marci a trucks for the first fast ter of 1945 compared with 10 tor for the first quarter of this year the 1945 1943 schedule includes med annu ium trucks 13 light heavies and 2 heavy units milts no light trucks were programmed for production product ien awl and acute shortages of these beha c cles ca are pred eted by cov government officials number of sheep on US U S farms I 1 is expected to be nearly 2 million less a on january 1 I 1945 than a year earlier pearlier about 50 million millien head and son less leaa than the 1933 42 average the decreased number of rf sheep next year will not net effect the total meat picture very much b because use im lamb and buaton a account for or less than 5 pe per cent of our total 0 race meat rab supply c h a ets in recognition 9 ti h of J job W well 11 D doir upon his return recall aloin a trip thru thim the far ress areas of the united states food administrator jones over the mutual network last wednesday inarene unreservedly tilly praised the ithe american fa farmer marear for his outstanding production achievements he said in part we have produced planes and tanka tank and guns gum and ammunition of every kind bedora anything that wax wa though p possible ah le before the war but bat one of the most meat outstanding prodoc tin feats of all these one of the grea greatest test production achievements ot of our entire war effort has bm been made by the nations tam farmers and ranchers I 1 wish that 0 our ur 11 million soldiers and sailors c could 0 id see what I 1 have seen 1 so 0 they could know knew that they will continue to be the best fed army in an the world they tell me that our or wheat Pr production this year will nut not only be a record but in more than a hundred million bushels greater than we have ever produced before the prospects now for another corn crop edrop near the abal 3 billion i i on bushel mark i it although it is too 0 early or to ito count on it at for or sure to but ru t the big crop itself was not all I 1 saw farmers and their families old and young men and women boys and girls people tram from the cities and towns were working early and late to get in the crop I 1 saw one 10 yew year old boy operating a tractor and combine I 1 saw one cal farm woman in kentucky who has worked her tractor day and night not only taking care of her own crops but plowing and cultivating for h her ar neighbors america owes the f farmers amen of this country a debt of gratitude for the way they have cono come through th gh on an the job of producing food to win the war many farm facts ers to are am indebted to city people who have helped them in critical periods to harvest the crops the work of our victory gardeners and ana home canners has made a big difference in our fight for far food |