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Show Agriculture Needs Ctood Management, Secretary Reports FROM now on, agriculture must do a better job of managing. manag-ing. Secretary of Agriculture Charles F. Brannar recently told a -group of Land Grant college j representatives. While the agri-1 cultural revolution through which farmers are passing puts a new era of better living within reach, the . Secretary warned that it also stirs up the "rtimbl-i ing. volcano of surplus d volcano vol-cano that always threatens to I erupt and engulf us in its smothering, smoth-ering, spreading flow." Farmers in this country are now producing .about a ; third more than in the years just before be-fore the war. So, although population popu-lation has increased rapidly, and there is less cropland per capita, yet actual production is from 10 to 15 per cent more per capita. And production is still on the upward trend becaUse of increased mechanization, improved improv-ed varieties of crops and livestock, live-stock, more effective insect and disease control, and soil-conserving practices. I r r SECRETARY Brannan pointed out, however, that the end of Unlimited demand is in View. and mentioned cotton, wheat, potatoes and eggs as those crops for which trouble might develop. On the other hand, the Secre-I Secre-I tary said, more milk, rtieat, fruits and vegetables are needed to meet the nutrition requirements require-ments of the nation, and as a means of avoiding surpluses of grains and fiber. "The extent to which we can shift our production toward meeting our needs will depend on the: prosperity - of town, and city people," Secretary Brannan reminded his audience. "The farmer's customers must have jobs and fair wages if they are to buy the kinds of food they want and need and if they are to support the kind of agriculture that our nation nced3.'.' |