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Show Tarm Conservation Report 11 pro'ect : rBScerPPorts under CUrre.nt Sural laws merely give the ffreak' not a "bonus", - wnokin, Chairman of the 'Faction and Marketing IdJSnisSStion Committee, said! nfine out that legislation di-Pce di-Pce support programs at tfin Percentage of "parity, said that "parity" Mr- HopKjn Qf relationship 8 farmers' income and out-teWJjS out-teWJjS or falls according . relative positions of the J ?ric?s Smc" pay out and re- ?Kee supports on the 1948 f wheat, explained Mr. c,r0W are directed to be set Ker cent of parity, which Stages nationally about $2 a blrflhe 10 years since the loan JSram was started, according raD?Ptment of Agriculture pvwheat prices have aver-Za aver-Za bdow the loan in 3 years. ag! dESn onlv 3 or 4 cents. In 5 otlieseVars, 1938-39, the am was new and slow in Sfnf stated and only 86 mil-Pi mil-Pi bushels were pledged for 6 in 1941'42 ?d 1942-3' nr Es were depressed as exports f re restricted by war and the SSwcr reached all-time high K The largest amount ever St .d loans was in 19423. Sen the total reached more than 408 million bushels. Ample Feed Supplies toFPecd applies for 1948-49 will nrobably be the largest on record in relation to the number of livestock to be fed, reports the Department of Agriculture. With livestock numbers the smallest in 10 years, the corn crop will be the largest ever produced, oats and grain sorghums are near record re-cord and barley above average. While the hay crop and carryover carry-over will provide ample supplies per animal unit, some areas may have to supplement the supply with other roughage and silage. The record feed supply per animal will encourage more liberal lib-eral feeding and increased production pro-duction of livestock products. About the same number of livestock live-stock will be fed in 1948-49 as in 1947-48. Cattle and work stock numbers are expected to continue downward, at least through 1948. Production of hogs and poultry, however, probably will expand during 1948-49 and more cattle will be grain-fattened than during dur-ing the current feeding year. Good Pasture Saves Grain Dairy production records are adding concrete proof that good pasture saves grain as well as holds and builds up the soil, says Lester Maxfield, Chairman of the Duchesne County Agricultural Agricultur-al Conservation Committee. He cites dairy herd improvement records at Cornell University. One herd was fed plenty of good hay and pasture and a little more than 2,100 pounds of grain. This herd produced an average of 14,-000 14,-000 pounds of milk a year. Another An-other herd had poor pasture and poor hav. But each cow was given 5.800 pounds of grain. That herd produced an average of 14,-' 14,-' GOO pounds of milk. The good hay and- good pasture, pas-ture, therefore, produced about J-he same amount of milk as 3,-700 3,-700 pounds of grain. The grain would have cost the dairyman $5 a hundred as compared with the small cost of lime, fertilizer, seed, and labor for improving the pasture. Meat Production and Supplies Livestock production goals, established es-tablished by the Department of Agriculture with the help of State U.S.D.A. Councils, take into in-to consideration the relation between be-tween current slaughter and future fu-ture supplies, as well as the realistic need for gearing such goals to the feed situation, says J. Vcrn Hopkin, Chairman of the Production and Marketing Administration Committee. Discussing the current livestock live-stock supply situation, Mr. Hep-kin Hep-kin said that goals for slaughter of cattle and calves were set at 32 million head for 1948, or about 4 million less than the actual slaughter in 1947. This lower slaughter goal was necessary neces-sary to put a brake on further reduction in cattle numbers and thus insure a greater beef production pro-duction in future years. , With the U. S. Population continuing con-tinuing to increase at the rate of about a million a year, there is future danger in cutting the number num-ber of animal breeding stock too low. And, even though the goal sought a smaller slaughter in 1948 than in 1947, the goal still would mean a further small decrease de-crease in the number of cattle on farms. Because of the smaller available avail-able feed supplies, the goal for the 1948 spring pig crop was slightly smaller than a year earlier ear-lier and farmers met this goal. The 1948 spring pig crop is now estimated at only 3 per cent less than the 1947 crop. The 1948 fall pig goal calls for an increase of at least 10 per cent in the number of pigs raised over the number raised last fall. Feed supplies during the coming year are expected to set new records. But an important import-ant point to remember is when hogs are held back for breeding, to that extent are available meat supplies reduced. |