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Show - I , ' -'" ' ; I" 1 1' y s have . tuM I f !' !t;r r s i v,,ar: ' irru-iiltui?- This year " ' ' ' ! !' p.. ex,,, , :, , (,, ' " ( .!;.!: till . w.xWmv, - i'': 'm- ' ! !,:, ,,! ' ; i ' ia.-; . ,i t -up j : - I!...- , ,o ., it,,, ut I .: ' - L'"",:t '" " i, , '.' ;t - than I , .l el .t'. a utile : i , ,i , ' ha : . 2, 1 ! ' i" 'u'l,'..- , i htt'.shi-i i n 1 1 ' ' I twmt Ml peine, il this will ''r ' 's,,,'l aec,i-ili:u; to expert ' - Total supplie.- may amount ! '"' ' I'tlie mnre than 22 million ""uu.l.s , ran s,.t.Jf about ,,ne-' ,,ne-' l' ni'h larger than (he everaKe m 'Ml I.', . J -Thus year's crop of n-iltup .seed Missouri, an important seed- producing State, is expected to ani-i"Uit. ani-i"Uit. to 4 1-3 million pounds. Add-i"K Add-i"K tlie carry-over to this year's total production gives a total supply sup-ply of nearly 20 million pounds of redtop seed, compared with nearly -7!) last year. crop practices have in least 65 percent over ', pleted under prewar pi Britain's Crisis vs. v Exports What effect will all import restrictions -ha agricultural export tra Traditionally : .Great not been the most Ini; porter of U. S. agrici ducts. Since the war, f gely by loans from th, : Other countries, the U ' dom has continued to p., ,, . purchases of food in ti:, I -Canada ,and in Latii : markets. In view of dwindling i, : plies, however, the Bi 'u-ti ...... Minister has recently a; n ,lt,.,l a plan to reduce food import hard-currency countries by i i, i i $600 million yearly and to aim at a gradual further expansion m British agricultural output ,,; 211 percent. A major part of the 1 ut in British imports will be probably be in farm products( of which, the U, S. has supplied large quantities In 1946 exports to the I'nited King dom accounted for almost 19 percent per-cent of the total value of u s. agricultural exports. 'Old Dobbin' Numbers Decline There are now almost one-fourth fewer horses in the world than before be-fore the war. Horses numbered 75.2 million in 1946, about 19.5 million below the 1934 38 average. Reasons for the decline from 1938 to 1946 are mechanization of agricultural in certain area., including in-cluding the U. S., and wartime losses in devastated areas. The largest decline from prewar occurred in the Soviet Union, PMA Farm News Cyril ( lop I'ru-iM'el-i Dmia , lrv hot weather throughout the Com Belt coming at a time when 'com was in the critical silking stage, has reduced prospects of this year's crop to 2.4.57 million I ushels. This is a drop of 223 million mill-ion below prospective production on August 1, about 202 million bushels below average, and the smallest since 1936. The 1946 corn crop set new records at 3 2S8 million mil-lion bushels. On August 15, farmers in the States producing about three-fourths three-fourths of the total crop reported that 65' percent of the crop was silked. Assuming from 7 to 8 weeks as the time from silking to maturity, at least two-thirds of the crop would be matured on or before October 10. Turkey Price Supports Available September 1 Because present high feed prices may cause many producers to market their turkeys earlier than usual, ithe Government's price support sup-port program for turkeys will be ready for operation on September 1 instead of a month later, as originally planned. The program will operate through January 31, 1948. Purchases will be limited to turkeys tur-keys purchased and dressed after August 30, at prices reflecting a national average of 90 percent of the August 15 parity price. Prices will be announced around Sept. 1. Grain Exports Soar Above Last Year's U. S. grain exports to food-deficit countries set an all time record last year. But if exports should coritinue at current levels during the rest of this fiscal year, that record would be turned into, a "has-been". 1 With the allocation of 45 685,000 bushels for October, grain export allocations for the first 4 months where numbers in 1946 were 49 percent below' the 1934-38 average. In stead of the prewar 16 percent, the Soviet Union last year had about 10 percent ofthe world's horses. Europe still retains the" 24 percent per-cent of the world's total although numbers there declined 21 percent below prewar. Seed Supplies Reported Reports on seed production and available supplies of three crops that are widely used in agricultural of this fiscal year total more than 200 million bushels. Total grain export allocations for the 1946-47 year amounted to 593 million bushels, bush-els, of which recent figures show almost 581 million had been shipped ship-ped before July I pf this year. No corn is included in the October Oct-ober allocations. Grain scheduled for export include wheat, flour, barley and gtain sorghums. Fanners, Ranchers Urged to Complete Com-plete Stock Water Dams Under ACP Many farmers and ranchers in Utah County have not as yet completed com-pleted the construction of stock water dams they signed up to build under the Agricultural Conservation Con-servation Program (ACP), Chairman Chair-man J. Earl Smith of the County Agricultural Conservation Committee Comm-ittee points out. The next few weeks will be excellent ex-cellent ones for this type of work, he stated. The county has need for many more stock water dams than are now on the range and pasture land. Stock water dams are an important im-portant factor in conserving grass cover on the land. When a range or pasture has numerous small stock water dams, grazing is much more evenly distributed and the overgrazing that results when water wat-er supplies are limited is held to a minimum. These dams also help to decrease water-washing of the soil. They hold and store up water from flash floods and help prevent serious gully erosion. Last year under the ACP, about 6 stock water dams were built in the county. About 12 will be built this year, Chairman J. Earl Smith estimated. Since the program began, be-gan, nearly 18 dams have been built in the county. However, a recent survey made by the county committee shows that the county should have at least SO more dams than it now has. Information and payment rates for this practice can be obtained at the county office in Provo. Several Sev-eral contractors are now building dams in the county, and the county office can provide their locations to ranchers and farmers who wish to get in touch with them. Pasture Programs Recommended by Feeds Committee Development of improved pasture pas-ture functions for different areas of the county is a basic research problem, according to recommendations recommend-ations of the Feed Advisory Committee Com-mittee for consideration under the Research and Marketing Act of 1946. Purpose of such research would be to make pastures more complete and dependable In providing nutrients nut-rients for livestock kept on individual indiv-idual farms. A 25 percent increase in the acreage of legumes and grasses is necessary for a balanced agriculture, the committee says. This suggestion ia in line with recommendations for farm practice pract-ice throughout the Nation. Under the Agricultural Conservation Pro-grami Pro-grami green manure and cover |