Show increase continues in production of oats oats production continues to increase in the united states despite the fact that the number of horses and mules on the count rys farms is declining that the demand tor for oats dats has been adversely affected by the substitution of m mechanical ech anical power for animal labor on farms Is indicated by the postwar post war trend in oats prices oats since the war have brought prices about on a level with those prevailing before the war in comparison with the price position of other feed grains and mok most other agricultural commodities this Is an extremely unfavorable situation F farm arm commodity prices generally have aver averaged igei about 40 per cent higher since the war than before t |