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Show News In Brief A slight rise in the national average of farm real estate values val-ues during the past year is reported re-ported by the United States Department De-partment of Agriculture. Tne ir.dex of average value per acre of farm real estate was 86 on I March 1, 1941 compared with 85 ;n tne same date a year earlier, and 84 in 1939. In Utah the index number has remained at 89 for the past three yyars. This figure is 13 points higher than the mountain states average of 76 however. The United States farm population popu-lation has almost remained stationary sta-tionary during the past decade, the Census Bureau reports. In 1940, 30,475,206 lived on farms, an increase of only 29,856 or 0.1 pc-r cent since 1930. The population popu-lation of the United States as a whole increased 8,894,299 or 7.2 per cent. The farm population :n relation to the total, has thus dropped 1.7 points to 23.1 per cent. In 1939, the last year for which complete records on AAA soil-building soil-building practices are available, American farmers participating in the AAA farm program grew 26 million acres of green manure and cover crops. A quarter of a century ago, few farmers were cover cropping. Utah's winter wheat crop this year is now forecast at 3,400,000 bushels compared to 2,976,000 bushels. The yield per seeded acre for 1941 is now forecast at 17 bushels, compared to 15 bushels bush-els in 1940 and a ten-year average av-erage of 15 bushels. Production of winter wheat in the United States is now forecast fore-cast at 616,128,000 bushels compared com-pared to 89,151,000 in 1940 and an average for ten years of 569,- 17,000 bushels. The sugar division of the United Uni-ted States Department of Agriculture Agri-culture announces that domestic sugar beet and sugar cane pro-ductirn pro-ductirn allotments previously established es-tablished will remain the same. Consumer demand for farm products will continue to improve im-prove in. the remainder of 1941 jnder the stimulus, of rising employment em-ployment and consumer incomes brought about by the defense program, according to the Bureau of Agricultural Economics. Exports Ex-ports will also be increased due to purchasing for British needs tt-nde,. the Lend-Lease Act. The effects of increases in prices pri-ces will be offset somewhat by higher production costs. Estimates Esti-mates now indicate that the net contribution of the federal government gov-ernment to the national buying po.ver in 1941 may be as much as 10 billion dollars, compared with .'our billion in 1940. To prevent rust, iron utensils tha: are not often used should ' e dried thoroughly and oiled bghtly with mineral oil. i Utah potato growers have been authorized to feed 13,627,826 counds of potatoes to livestock but up to April 20, only 4,172,820 pounds had been diverted to livestock live-stock for feeding. During the first World War, r:48 .minutes of farm labor were required to produce the same amount of wheat as is now pro-:'uced pro-:'uced in 100 minutes. |