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Show Forecasts Five Per Cent Rise in Food for 1943 WASHINGTON. Soaring livestock, live-stock, chicken and egg production is likely to raise the 1943 output 5 per cent above last year's record and 32 per cent above the prewar average, the department of agriculture agri-culture reported. In its most optimistic statement in weeks, the bureau of agricultural economics forecast an unprecedented unprecedent-ed production of 24 billion pounds of meat. Prospective increases in total food output, including livestock production produc-tion 10 per cent above 1942 and 38 per cent above 1935-'39 averages, and the greater poultry and egg output, out-put, it said, will more than offset a prospective 9 per cent decline in food crops from 1942. |