Show A 0 rood 1 1119 0 farm farill WAR NEWS protein meal the increasingly tight supply situation on protein meal has been particularly acute for those ranchers who must lay in a seasons supply of protein concentrate before heavy snow comes and for any small scale feed mixers the serious shortages which have developed in recent months fox for many users of protein meals has been due to the abnormally large quantities going into mixed feeds leaving less than normal amounts of concentrates for livestock feeding or for mixing with supplied by the feeder bri briefly e fly the protein feed supply situation nationally is this tons of vegetable protein and tons of animal protein available for the current feeding year october 1 1943 to september 30 1944 compared with tons of vegetable protein and tons of animal protein during the supply in relation to livestock consuming these feeds is the smallest in recent years tight farm truck situation war production boards scheduled fourfold four fold increase in civilian truck production in 1944 forecast an early easing casing of the tight farm trucking situation according to the war food farmers will still have to depend for the most part on existing equipment to keep farm production moving to market and extra emphasis will have to be placed on repair and maintenance of trucks and tires the reason as given by is that the greater share of scheduled truck production cannot be made available until the latter part of 1944 due to limited production facilities an expansion program is being launched but an increase in output of vehicles cannot be expected until the second half of 1944 the new production program 1 call for an output of medium light heavy and heavy units medium trucks will roll off the assembly lines as follows first ter 1944 second quarter 12 06 third quarter fourth quarter light heavies first quarter second quarter 1000 third quarter and fourth quarter 6 each heavies first and second quarters 1500 each third and fourth quarters 2734 each no light trucks ah ton ton or I 1 ton are presently scheduled for civilian production and agricultural demand tor for this type of vehicle is very heavy of the total production of trucks agriculture is expected to get from between to or about 20 per cent of anticipated needs has made the production pro gram a must with priority ratings equal to aircraft and high octane gasoline and the full resources of government are being mobilized to see that production schedules are met the best efforts of government and the truck industry however will not be enough to prevent a crucial year for harm transportation next year and the war food administration is urging farmers not only to repair and main maintain thin existing rolling stock but also to pool it for community use wherever and whenever necessary december isah tax deadline among those required to file a declaration of estimated 1943 income a and nd victory tax on december 15 farmers are the principal group declarations must be filed and a payment made by that date or a penalty may result farmers were riot not required t to file 11 a declaration on september is 15 did most taxpayers beca because use i 4 the bureau of internal revenue bealim the difficulty that would the he countered in estimating income be ell fore harvest was comple completed ted and the ft crops gone to market markel however some farmers may have hai declared in september if they 4 ay and paid part of the ta tax t U h they wi will 1 I 1 be required ir ed to make en 1 a n other payment on dec december ember is 15 farmers who declared on S septon her ber 11 and underestimated under estimated t their h eirin i come by more th than a n 33 per tent M 20 per cent for n non 0 n farmers wil be required to file an amended de da la ration on december 15 to to avon avoid penalty moral remember the date th cember gasoline outlook A recent OPA survey of the gy gu oline line situation indicates that farm ers will probably continue to get e nough bough of the fuel to meet essential requirements but further sacrifices are in store for civilians OPA urges the greatest cauti caution or in the use of gasoline even for essen bial uses farmers are asked to hold off ff the highway allocations tat is gasoline used to power trat tracton 11 combines etc to a strict mini minimum conservation now says OPA may more gasoline in the leaner day ahead in its report on the survey the OPA states that civilians in IW 1941 used about gallons gallone of gai ga oline per day today the daily to 6 tal production is gallons but of this amount goes goa to military and to lend lease uses leaving gallons for all other uses daily production is falling failing and military needs are rising and it is es estimated that the amount available for civilian use will be reduced by 6 per cent in 1944 and 9 percent in 1945 4 2 N 4 4 ti NI |