Show pa J 7 R NEWS L J december tax deadline among those required to file a declaration laza la tion of estimated 1943 income and victory T taxi tax on december 15 farmere ate aie the principal group declarations must be fixed and a payment made by that date or a penalty may result farmers were not required to file a declaration on september 15 as did in 0 st t taxpayers a because the bureau of int internal e anal revenue real realized z d th the e d difficulty f encountered that would be encountered in estimating estimate esti mati ng income before bar harvest vest was completed and the crops gone to market however some farmers may have declared in september if they did and paid part of the tax at that time time they will be required to make another payment on december 15 farmers who wh declared on september 15 and underestimated their income by more than thirty three and a third per cent 20 percent for non farmers will be required to file an amended declaration on december 15 to avoid penalty moral remember the date dec 15 15 gasoline outlook A becent OPA survey of the gasoline supply situation indicates that farmers will probably continue to get enough ot oi the fuel to meet essential requirements but further sacrifices axe are in n store for civilians OPA urges the greatest caution in the use of gasoline even for essential uses farmers axe are asked to hold off highway allocations that is gasoline used to power tractors combines etc to a strict minimum conservation now says OPA means more gasoline in the leaner days ahead in its report on the survey the OPA states that civilians in 1941 used about gallons of gasoline per day today the daily total production is gallons but of this amount goes to military and to io lend lease uses leaving gallons for all other uses daily production is falling and ana military needs are rising and it is i estimated that the amount available for civilian 7 use will be reduced by 6 percents percent in 1944 and 9 percent in 1945 order bug blitz material early among the many items on the order early and be sure to betit list axe are the all important fungicides and insecticide es main reasons for early ordering are that the chemicals used in bug and fungi exterminators are badly needed in other war products manpower is 19 short transportation facil facilities Aies are badly crowded last minute orders may leave farmers empty handed they will keep well in farm storage if put in a dry place effect of recent hog marketing action marketing of the 1943 1913 record pig crop continues to be one of the major problems on the food front war food administration officials say recent government actions should go a long way toward implementing an orderly marketing of the huge crop officials explain the effect of those actions as follows ithe establishment of specific support prices on all hog markets helps to clarity the confusion re grading the exact government Goern ment support price on markets other than chicago the support price of one dollar per hundredweight below the established ceiling price ef fecile nov 29 constitutes a virtual floor price on all markets prior to this clarification farmers had no definite way of knowing whether they were selling hogs below the support price now they know the support price for their market and should not sell hogs for less than that price the october issue of the livestock and wool situation BAE BAD monthly publication li carries a front page zone map of ceiling prices at buying stations before shipping hoi hog raisers should get in touch with their marketing agency to be sure the market cna handle the hogs when they are delivered 2 packers who fall fail to pay farmers support prices for their hogs stand to realize a substantial loss the defense supplies corporation of the reconstruction finance corporation will not make rollback roll back subsidy payments to processors who pay less than the support price for hogs slaughtered after nov 11 rollback roll back slaughter payments are available to slaughterers slaughter ers who butcher bu 2600 pounds or more of livestock including hogs cattle and sheep a month for sale as meat meal prior to sept abt 1st payments were available only to slaughterers slaughter ers who butchered pounds oi or more per month I 1 since june when retail pork prices I 1 were rolled back about three cents a 1 pound dichas has been making payments t to 0 hog slaughterers slaughter ers at the rate of ap per er hundredweight on live hogs hoga the payment amounts to for a ib hog in october head of hogs average weight lbs ibs were slaughtered alered at federally inspected packing plants the subsidy payment on those thos hogs amounted to more than 16 and continued on last page M far aa la 19 WH lit m NEWS 16 5 continued from page 1 three quarters million dollars the rate of hog has been greatly i accelerated during november estimates that december january and void february hog rings at federally fe inspected packing plants will run around head per month ab about out two thirds of all hogs butchered are slaughtered at the federally inspects inspected 4 plants 3 an increase in the consumption of pork from the large numbers of hogs now going to market was brought about through a temporary increase in the nations meat ration the two point per pound reduction in ration point values of pork ranging from 20 to percent reduction depending on cuts and avera averaging a one half pound reduction on I 1 cuts will permit consumption of df larger amounts of pork in the abely ahead koirat values on most cuts wire were retained to the end that we would not feast now and experience a pork famine later 0 government purchases will also help to maintain hog prices at the support level since FDA will purchase all pork needed to maintain those levels the 80 90 day removal of all restrictions on the amount of fresh pork farmers can sell further facilitates a I 1 rapid rate of processing the huga pig crop until february 17 there is no limit on the amount of fresh pork farmers i sell at ceiling prices or give away providing they collect ration stamps for such meat and turn them over to their nearest war price and ration board along with a monthly report of it the and kind of meat sold the SO EO day suspension applies only to hogs farmers axe are still limited in the amount of beef or mutton they can cell la as meat and before selling any they must have a government slaughter permit jones gives facts marvin jones war food administrator in a recent statement answered talk fallt that dairy cows are being sold to 10 make hot dogs and poultry enterprises acre are decreasing their production of eggs and meat with the facts that we had more dairy cows on october ast 1st than a year ago our pou poultry itry numbers a are re the largest in history and egg production for t the e first three quarters of the be year yea r was 13 per cent above last years record for the same period |