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Show News In Brief Secretary of Agriculture, Henry A. Wallace says far.mters now pay city people sqriething like $1,500,000,000 annually for power machinery, whereas before the World War, they scld power in the foil.ni icf work lanhnals Worth several Ihundred Ulillion dollars annually. To increase water su;: plies for livestock on the range, . western 'farmers cooperating! in the 1937 AAA "ifai.rJ program built earthen dams, tanks, pits, and reservoirs with a total capacity of 31,000,000 cubic-yards. cubic-yards. Receipts from the sale of principal products were 7 percent larger this June than for the sa(me month last year in the western states and 1 .per cent larger in the south Atlantic ststes. For the other four regions, -tlhe Bureau of Agricultural Econ-'cimicd Econ-'cimicd reports decreases ranging frUrj 3 percent in the north Atlantic to 10 percent in, the east north central states. |