Show agricultural tools rationing called off but war demand will limit the su supply aply big increase in parts Hoi however vever will be available the farmers of america are continuing as usual to do a magnificent job of producing foodstuffs in 1944 for the eighth successive year they produced a record food total despite a steadily dwindling manpower supply that reached its lowest point in 35 years agricultural tools are no longer rationed but that mean that the farmer though he has the mony ey is going to be able to get that now new tractor or combine he wishes so he can improve on the production miracle he has already accomplished shed its the same old trouble weve had since pearl Ij harbor arbor theres a war on manufacture of farm machinery although recognized as an essential civilian must program has to be balanced in relation to di war production here is the way the government sums up the situation during the 1915 crop year it is expected that american farmers will obtain approximately the same amount of new farm ma chinery and attachments as they did in 1944 there will be however nearly more in repair parts in other words there is still not enough new farm machinery to go around farmers in many cases are going to have to conserve and repair and get along the best they can with what they have rather than buy new replacements approximately 90 per cent of the new farm machines except tractors that will be made in the united states during the 1945 production year july 1 1944 to june 30 1945 will be available to american farmers about 10 per cent will go abroad approximately 7 per cent in commercial exports and 3 per cent through lend lease according to the foreign economic administration lend leased farm machines that totaled only 25 per cent of the entire production of U S farm machinery from the start of the lend lease program from march 1941 to june 1944 had to be sent abroad to step up food production for our boys fighting overseas overseas this farm machinery export not only helped to feed our boys but saved urgently needed shipping space for munitions instead of thousands of tons of food grown on the wrong side of the ocean the chief recipients rec api of lend leased farm machines have been australia new zealand and the british isles the latter hav r hay baler saves labor V A i v X adv Z ee W U amr V wi 6 it i T 1 anz t V Z Z V no A R 4 I 1 wl A Z fa TM A potato digger that handles two rows a at t a time ing supplied 20 per cent of the food eaten by american troops stationed there australia has supplied nearly all the food for american troops in the south pacific 1944 45 1913 44 schedule B actual production brodu action planned ITEM 1910 1940 7 1 43 7 31 44 7 I 1 M 1 44 6 30 45 tractors corn pickers mowers rakes side delivery ilay hay loaders pickup pick up balers 2047 grain drills plain and fertilizer manure spreaders disc harrows irrigation pumps turbine moldboard plows tractor one to three bottom four and five bottom 2509 2066 tractor mounted two bottom one way disc plows deep and shallow well systems combines milking machines cream separators tractor mounted cultivators one row horse drawn cultivators planters horse and tractor drawn planters tractor mounted planters potato includes production carried over from limitation order ordeal 1170 plus all production from appeals and su supplemental authorizations ins T D production through september 30 1944 american farmers will be able to obtain no more new tractors side delivery rakes combines or other haying and harvesting machinery during the 1945 crop year than during the 1944 crop year considering the types of machines in use on american farms the replacements required and the crop shifts necessitated by war current farm machinery program continues to emphasize the manufacture of such laborsaving labor saving machinery as corn pickers side delivery rakes and pickup hay balers however has requested the manufacture for the 1945 crop year of more planting fertilizing and tillage equipment than for 1944 included are such items of farm equipment as corn and cotton planters listers potato planters beet and bean drills seeders fertilizer distributors tractor plows and cultivators disc harrows walking cultivators and rotary hoes during the war manufacture re 0 of f farm machinery although recognized as an essential civilian must program has had to be balanced in relation to direct war production when the united states entered the war production of farm machinery was sharply curtailed because munitions production had become an exacting demand on this count rys supply of steel the steel as well weh as cast iron rubber zinc copper that had gone into farm machines in prewar pre war days had to be diverted to make tanks military trucks landing craft guns and other war goods in 1939 american farmers were able to buy new tractors but that was a year when this country made only 2141 planes in the calendar year of 1943 when american farmers were able to buy a mere new tractors the united states manufactured more than planes mainly for war the critical shortage of raw materials that put a ceiling on manufacture of new farm machines in 1942 has been superseded by a shortage of manpower and components during the first quarter of the 1945 farm machinery production year manufacture of new machinery exclusive of wheel tractors repair parts and attachments was approximately 23 25 per cent behind schedule this lag in production was caused by manpower shortages and the difficulty in obtaining components chiefly malleable and gray iron castings in the middle west where most of american farm machinery is made the labor supply is inadequate a condition that will not change while war goods are still urgently needed one concern that before the war made approximately 35 per cent of american farm ma A 1 1 7 5 fe U Y 71 77 VA xi 1 4 N u M w axx r 7 5 VII 1 IM az oil 1 X 14 M 41 41 10 1 0 V T cultivating corn four rows ata at a time saves labor chines reported in october 1944 that by march 1945 it would probably be short workers needed to keep production up to schedule in effect during the war this country has asked its farmers to raise more crops with less men to do the work to keep their farm equipment in working order somehow without counting too heavily on replacements and to share their machines with other farmers whenever and wherever possible to help farmers keep their machines going manufacture of repair parts and attachments has been in increased considerably in 1944 the scheduled production of repair parts and attachments amounted to approximately per cent of the total farm machinery output as compared with 14 per cent in 1940 twenty one per cent more farm commodities were produced in 1944 than in 1940 with 5 per cent fewer workers the annual employment on american A er farms decreased from in 1940 to in 1944 approximately workers have left agriculture for war industries or the armed forc ss cs |