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Show Farm Scrap Needed by Steel Mills Farmers can help themselves to get steel whether it be a new piece of farm machinery, an automobile, a keg of nails, a roll of fencing or other products by promptly taking their accumulated scrap to the nearest near-est scrap dealer, the Committee on Iron and Steel Scrap of the American Ameri-can Iron and Steel Institute said today A grave shortage of scrap threatens threat-ens to thwart the steel industry's attempts to make up the 19 million tons of steel that it has lost since V-J Day as a result of strikes and work stoppages. The scarcity of scrap is due largely to the fact that industries which usually generate scrap in large quantities have not been operating at all or operating at low levels since V-J Day. Farms have always been a good source of scrap and during the war whe.u drives were conducted, agricultural agri-cultural areas yielded large tonnages ton-nages of scrap to help win the conflict. In view of the current scrap shortage which threatens the full use of steel-making facilities farm era are asked to take their scrap now to town and sell it to scrap dealers If the scrap is unusually bulky, preventing its easy transpor tation by the farmer, the scrap dealer can be called or arrauge menls can be made through tht-1 local farm agent to get it to the dealer The steel which weeks ago should have gone through the processing and fabricating channel, is far behind be-hind schedule and. therefore, the American Iron and Steel Institute's Committee on Scrap has warned that a complete return to normal in the flow of scrap cannot occur until the supply of new steel approxi mates the demand. In the ten months from Augusi 1945 through May 1946. production of ingots and steel tor castings was 22.036.U00 tons lower than output over the same period of 1944-1945 Presumably, better operating con ditions would have enabled at least 19.000.000 tons of that total to have been made The 19.000.000 tons would have supplied the steel for 1.000,000 small dwellings, plus the steel for 1.700.000 automobiles. pins all the bale ties made for farmers over the last nine years, plus 50. 0011.000 one-uuart tin cans, plus a washing machine and a stove for evnry one of the 1.000.00(1 home? mentioned above--and still there would remain 7.500.000 tons of steei for other purposes, including much needed fans machinery and equip mem The raquiremtutK tor all oods whethei fur the Uume, the farm, transportation rtci., will he talfillnil in direct pruyiiltfotl 'n the receipt by the steel tnilU ot scrap |