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Show Large Grain Stocks Should Alleviate 1 Fear Of Crop Failures, Bsrtcch Says The large stocks of grains on hand today should give farmers a comfortable reeling, Douglas H. Bertoch, chairman of the Duchesne County Production and Marketing committee, said today. Not too many years ago, a short corn crop forced the liquidation li-quidation of many livestock, and reserve, grain supplies would have come in handy, he said. Then, too, recently reported dust storms in the southern Great Plains may cut the wheat crop somewhat this year, and the stocks already on hand will give a margin of safety. According to the latest reports re-ports of the Department of Agriculture, Ag-riculture, here are the figures on grain stocks: Corn stocks on April 1 totaled almost 2,014 million bushels the largest in history for the date. Farm stocks of 1,634 million mil-lion bushels were smaller than in 1949, but terminal stocks were the largest since 1942; stocks at interior mills, elevators elevat-ors and warehouses were nearly three times as large as a year ago and largest of record. Of the othvr feed grains, April 1 stocks of 523 million bushels of oats and 135 million bushels of barley were about average, although smaller than a year ago. Wheat stocks of about 663 million bushels have been exceeded ex-ceeded only twice; the record for the date was 896 million bushels in 1943. Stocks of rye, and other food grain, totaled 13 million bushels bush-els on April 1 the largest for the date since 1945. |