Show vegetable oil crop needs continue high total fat and oil supplies decrease gare 1 ROWERS of vegetable oil crops crop are being urged by the war wai food administration to rem embe pressing war needs for those oil and to keep production at a level by meeting their acreage goals total oil crop acreage is substantially increased over 1944 although most of the change corn comes es from the W canning vegetable oils 64 per cent step up on flaxseed the peanut goal is down slightly but emphasis is being placed on increasing acre yield to offset the smaller plantings final goal for peanuts picked and threshed is acres harvest of acres of af soybeans is sought and pian planting fing of the needed acres of flaxseed is already well under way demand for fats and oils is expected to continue strong in 1945 while the total available supply will abe be considerably reduced production of some 98 billion pounds from domestic materials is antici over 1 billion pounds less than the billion pounds pro induced in 1944 chief cause given is ilo blower er lard production domestic edible oils cottonseed soybean corn and peanut may reach a total production to million pounds more this year than last largely due to an increased harvest of cottonseed from the 1944 crop military demands for fats and oils including butter and lard are heavy both for the expanded military program and for relief distribution trib ution in m areas under military jurisdiction preliminary reU estimates made by united states department of agriculture experts indicate a domestic disappearance of fat and oil products in ln 1944 to talling more than 10 billion pounds in in terms of fat content for an increase of about minion million pounds over 1943 expanded production of soap for the military mUi tary with some increase for civilians is believed believed to have been the major VI factor domestic disappearance of cottonseed oil declined million pounds last a year ya reflecting acting ec ting the deduc reduction tion in m output but the effect on supplies supplied of food fats was partly offset by an increase of million pounds pound in the use of soybean oil for this purpose |