| Show farm news indi Is on oil potatoes to lo save dally bread urging all customers cust to make the alost effective use I 1 s possible 0 gible of potatoes secretary anderson points out that in this way vay american homemakers can call make a direct contribution toward relieving the world famine situation by using potatoes instead of scarcer cereals badly needed for shipment abroad A plentiful supply of early potatoes is now coming to market with peak shipments expected to be reached within the next two weeks for the two week period ending june 8 potato shipments front from early producing states totaled cars over oer cars more than shipped during the same period last year terly allocation of sugar increased Inci cased sugar allocated for civilian distribution from july I 1 through september 30 will be tons more than the allocation for april june the increased inci eased al ll Ib catlon catton which is t tons ons reflects seasonal increases tor the home and commercial packing and canning season annual per capita rate ot of consumption Is expected to be about the same as in 1945 As a world commodity sugar is expected to continue in short supply throughout 1946 and probably throughout 1947 production for 1945 46 now being marketed is estimated at million short tons this is tons less than the previous season and 73 million tons below tte the 1935 39 prewar pre war annual average the worlds output 71 million tons less than the prewar pre war average beef feeder subsidy subside slated to kin end june 30 the beet beef cattle feeder sub kiy it of 50 cents per hundred I 1 i 1 which ends on june 30 was iv as originally put into at a time when teed feed sup plit were plentiful to encourage cattle feeding operators termination of the subsidy Is in line with the 1946 grain management program to adjust livestock numbers with teed feed supplies up and free more grains for direct human consumption particularly ticul arly in relief areas abroad cattle owned by feeder which meet all other specifications tor for subsidy payments must be slaughtered before midnight june 30 to be ba eligible for subsidy payments feeders must deliver the animals for slaughter before the same time all applications for payi payment nent must be filed with county counts agricultural conservation offices not later than august 31 1946 18 16 it if all information required for payment la Is not obtained by that date applications must s sll il be filed by august 31 and more time will willbo bo allowed to secure the additional information |
