Show ag news in brief possibilities for legal lega 1 consolidation of some of national farm loan associations will be investigated vesti gated by adamia adain st a ion d strict appraiser C W wright when he arrives in the state this week an announcement from the farm credit adm n st aticy jot jont office management is advantageous vant ageous because it effects a number of economies there is only one set of books records and files and costs of examination are reduced the announce me it po nt ed out utah farmers have borrowed in farm security administration community service loans for farm improvement jonathan garst regional director of the adm ni said early this week the loans are made to low income farmers for the purchase of farm equipment good purebred sires arid and firm improvements they are designed to put the small farmer on a successful competing basis with better equipped persons mr garst explained more than half of all animals sold in the nations livestock markets are trucked in a bureau of agricultural economics report issued recently points out trucking i ng of live livestock s tock to market started in 1916 when about animals were shipped in by motor truck last year more than 27 million animals were trucked in the report said just over half a billion dollars worth of farm machinery was produced in the united states last year a wall street journal re por lays this represents an increase of 19 per cent over the value of machinery produced in 1936 it was reported last years production was worth of equipment as compared to in 1936 the united states and france are the only two major manufacturing nations in the world in which production is below the lev el of the years from 1923 25 a bureau of agricultural economics summary announces japans production appeared to be comparatively greatest with a percent increase over the 1923 25 average germany came next with an 80 per cent increase in industrial du production and italy next with 40 per cent raises the report said |