POTATO PROGRAM
U.S.D.A. ?uiy chongo its policy for hand
ling surplus potatoes boing purchased un
dor the prico support program.
Up to nor, a large part of tho potatoos
purchasod havo gone into tho production of
industrial'alcohol. If tho nor policy
is adopted, tho greater portion rill bo
converted into potato flour for shipment
to occupied Germany.
at the ond of Juno, the Canmodity Crodit
Corporation had bought more than 4,500,000
bushels of potatoos, all of tho odrly typo
grom frem Florida to Long Island.
Of this amount, 180,000,000 bushols rent
to school lunch'programs and charltablo
institutions--2,843,000 into industrial
alcohol—119,000 bushes into flour, and
934,000 bushols into rhat'U.S.D.A. de
scribes as ”air stripping.”
This is the novel method of dumpdng pota
toos onto tho concrete strips of aifports
in sunny areas. In this manner, tho po
tatoes aro sun-dried for livestock food,
Tho CCC exnocts to buy betreen 20 and 25
million bushols of early potatoes through
mid-September.
mo PRICES
If tho growing season continuos favorablo,
tho Bureau of Agricultural Economics pre
dicts that pricos of food grains rill do
el ino during the noxt for months and rill
average some-hat lower in 1948-49 than in
tho current feeding year.
Although much depends on the growing sea
son this summer, prosont indications point
to larger food grain supplios this yoar.
Jfl£D ADS
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FOR SALE
About 35 BARRED ROCK FUTXETS, hatched
April 21. Sco: C, ^7. Peters.
ASSIST. SEW WARITE R1A0E
BRIEF VISIT TO VALLEEI
Assistant Secretary of tho Intorior,T7illiam
A Unrno and party uorc takon on a wvhool
uhiz” tour by C, T7. Potor6 and Kirk Stono
Thursday morning of-this nook. Tho party
arrivod at 9:45 a.m, and motored through
most of tho farming'aroa of tho Valley ox
copt tho Butte aroa, Thoy visited Miss
Kollogg*3 placo and tho Experiment Station,
At 11:00 a.m. they xroro takon tp the train
at ’Tas ilia.
Includod in tho part£ woro: High-ranking’
Officors of tho Amy; H. Hex Loo, Assifct.
to Jar>cs P. Davis; Louoll K. Puckott from
tho District Land Offico at Jinchorago;
Kenneth J. Kadou, Field Coordinator in
Alaska for the Department of the Intorior;'
and Itorgan Eurr of tho Reclamation Sorvico/
Charles Hilson of the Soil Conservation
Scrvico aiso accompanied tho group on the
farm tour.
Note: hool-uhiz" ras borrowed from tho
phraseology of Kirk Stone, in describing
the tour.
Fifty-five million porsons produco or
handle farm products; Then agriculture suf
fers from lou prices, high costs, and lor
incomo--l/3 of America suffers directly.
iCECREfiin solo oniy in bull
NOTHING SMALLER THAN A
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miLK in GPLLons omy to consumers
EGGS By THE CASE & HALF CASE
LUHOLESALE TO RETAILERS - SAITIE AS
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