Show agricultural tools rationing called off but war demand will limit lim it the supply big increase in parts however will be available the farmers of america are continuing as usual to do a magnificent mt job of producing foodstuffs Is in 1944 for the eighth successive year they produced a record food total despite a steadily dwindling man manpower 0 w supply that deac reached e d i its lisl lowest point in 35 years agricultural tools are no longer rationed but that mean that the farmer though he has the money Is going to be able to get that new tractor or combine he wishes so he can improve on the production miracle he has already accorn its the same old trouble weve had since pearl harbor theres a war manufacture of farm machinery although recognized as an essential civilian must program has to be balanced in relation to direct war production here Is the way the government sums up the situation during the 1915 1945 crop year it la Is expected that american farmers will obtain approximately the same amount of new farm ma chinery and attachments as they did in 1914 1944 there will be however nearly more in repair parts in other words there Is still not enough new farm machinery to go around farmers in many cases ire are going to have to conserve and repair and get along the best they can with what they have rather gather than buy new replacements approximately 90 per cent of the new farm machines except tractors that will be made in the united states during the 1945 production year july 1 1944 to juno june 30 1945 will be available to american farmers about 10 per cent will go abroad approximately 7 per cent in commercial exports and 3 per cent through lend lease according to the foreign economic administration lend leased farm machines that totaled only 25 2 5 per cent of the entire production of U S farm machinery from the start of the lend lease program from marh march 1941 to june 1944 had to be sent abroad aaroa d to step up food production tor toi our boys fighting overseas this farm machinery export not only helped to feed our boys but saved urgently needed shipping space for m munitions unit ions instead of thousands of toris tons of food grown on the wrong r side ide of the ocean the chief recipients of lend leased farm machines mac hines have been australia new zealand and the british isles the latter hav w N r 4 baler saves labor 7 77 A potato digger that handles two rows at a time ing supplied if 20 per centon the food eaten by American troops stationed there australia has supplied nearly all the food for american troops in the south pacific 1944 45 1913 44 schedule B actual brodu production tion planned ria nned ITEM 1940 7 31 44 71 44 6 30 45 tractors corn pickers mowers rakes hakes side delivery nay hay loaders pickup pick up balers 2047 grain drills plain and fertilizer manure spreaders disc harrows irrigation pumps turbine moldboard plows tractor one to three bottom four and five bottom 2509 2066 tractor mounted two bottom one way disc plows deep and shallow well systems combines milking machines cream separators tractor moun mounted ted cultivators one row hor horse drawn rawn cultivators planters horse and tractor drawn 1320 P planters Is n tractor mounted planters potato I 1 includes production carried carr ledi over from limitation order 1170 L plus all production from appeals and supplemental authorizations D production through september 30 1944 american farmers will be able to obtain no more new tractors side delivery rakish rakes combines 1 or atherl other haying and harvesting machinery during the 1945 crop year than during the 1944 crop year considering the types ot of machines to in use on american farms the replacements required and the crop shifts necessitated by war current farm machinery program continues to e emphasize the manufacture of su such h laborsaving labor saving machinery as corn pickers side delivery rakes and pickup hay bay balers however has requested the manufacture tor for the 1945 crop year of more planting fertilizing and tillage equipment than tor for 1844 1944 included are such items of farm equipment as corn and cotton planters listers potato planters beet and bean drills seeders fertilizer distributors tractor plows and cultivators disc harrows walking cultivators and rotary hoes during the war manufacture of farm machinery although recognized as an essential civilian must program has had bad to be balanced in relation to direct war production when the united states entered the war production of farm machinery was sharply curtailed because munitions production had become an exacting demand on this count rys supply of steel the steel as well TRACTOR production for the period july 1 1943 to july 31 1911 1944 non canada FEA army navy farm total special purpose under 30 h p 2873 1719 1149 special purpose SO 30 and over 2068 2066 all purpose under so 30 b h 45 1816 1846 all purpose 30 and over 1209 2209 2023 14 20 20 5 garden tractors 1 1470 89 8 1057 as cast iron rubber zinc copper that had gone into farm machines in prewar pre war days had to be diverted to make tanks military trucks landing craft guns and other war goods in 1939 american farmers were able to buy new tractors but that was a year when this country made only 2141 planes in the calendar year of 1913 1943 when american farmers were able to buy a mere new tractors the united states manufactured more than planes mainly for war the critical shortage of raw materials that put a ceiling on manufacture of new farm machines la in 1942 has been superseded by a shortage of manpower and components during the first quarter of the 1945 farm machinery production year manufacture of new machinery exclusive of wheel tractors repair parts and attachments was approximately 25 per cent behind schedule this lag in production was caused by manpower shortages and the difficulty in obtaining components chiefly malleable and gray iron castings in the middle west where most of american farm machinery Is made the labor supply is inadequate a condition that will not change while war goods are still urgently needed one concern that before the war made approximately 35 per cent of american farm ma lg AN cultivating corn four rows at a time saves labor chines reported in october 1944 that by march 1945 it would probably be short workers needed to keep production up to schedule in effect during the war this country has asked its farmers to raise more crops with less men to do the work to keep their farm equipment tn in working order somehow without counting too heavily on replacements replacement and to share their machines w with th other farmers whenever and wherever possible to help farmers keep their machines going manufacture of repair parts and attachments has been increased considerably in 1844 1944 the tha scheduled production of repair parts and attachments amounted to approximately 28 3 per cent of the total farm machi machinery fiery output as coin compared with 14 per cent in 1840 1940 twenty one per cent more farm commodities were produced in 1944 than in 1940 with 5 per cent fewer workers the annual employment on american farms decreased from in 1940 to to in 1944 ap proximately workers have left agriculture tor foe war industries or the armed forces approximately farm men hid had entered the military service up to january 1 1945 american farmers have heen been ge getting eting more use out of individual farm machines during daring the war the exchange and cooperative 0 pera tive use of some machines such as tractors and combines has increased inci eased markedly one corn picker for example might he be used to harvest as much as 1200 acres of corn in a year combines have been hauled a thousand miles to harvest crops on farms la in county after county |