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Show HIGHLIGHTS . . in the week's news PICKLES: In the midst of an all-time-high demand for pickles by the armed forces and civilian sources, directors of the National Pickle Packers association, at a wartime meeting in Chicago, forecast a shortage short-age of pickles for civilians unless fprmers increase cucumber acreage in '944. Available pickle stocks are reported to be l1 million bushels less than a year ago. CHINCH BUGS: The prolonged drouth is adding a new danger in the corn belt the threat of a much larger larg-er number of chinch bugs next season. sea-son. Dry fall weather is favorable to the pests, as they can go into hibernation with small losses. An open winter also preserves many of the insects, who would ordinarily be killed by cold, it was said by entomologists. |