WHATS NEW FROM WASHINGTON
According to the Cooperative Digest in
their column on '‘Inside Washington” re
learn that it is rather unlikely that Con
gress trill come to any agreament on a
"long range" farm program during 1948.
Both the Senate and House agricultural com
mittees have listened to proposals from
farmers and their spokesmen as noil as of
ficials from the Department of Agriculture,
TJSDA recommendations so far are very sim
ilar to previous legislation. One ner -pro
posal is a "modernized” parity formula and
proposals for state and county TJSDA com
mittees. The "modernized” parity formula .
would boost the level for livestock and
dairy products, but lower it on grain and
cotton, .The proposal is meeting violent
opposition from the southern bloc. The
recommendation for state and county TJSDA
committees .is a compromise between the old
conservation administrative set-up and the
extension service,
But-the prediction is that Congress rill
be too busy with legislation dealing with
foreign affairs, the normal ampunt.of dom
estic billo and. appropriations to deal
with a highly cont.vovorsiu.'’. measure such
as farm legislation-—ospSciaLly with elec
tion in the oiling this fall.
T-o nest important issue on tno ioroign
affairs auondn is tho '‘52 7 bil lion Har shall
plan riif-Zu 7 r j« ijent '"Vu.can submit tod to
Congress T .it bail, of course trill get
plant’, ; f at ';er„t ion from Congress and much
hot debate is e;cpected
This program is proposed to aid 16 Europ
ean democracies and agriculturally r,ould
mean cor tinned demand for all-out aroduc
tion at jeast Through IS52* ..In fact it is
expected that other countries in the west
ern hemsehero mould need to su-m^y some-,
of tho foodc According td President Tru
man under this n re gram,, tho foreign court
trios -could bu n'O] e to impom gi-ain for
current consumption, ar.d' forcilizor aifd
agricultural machinery to increase their
foe 1 pin. iUCt ion w •
Southern members of Congress aro asking
for modification of Federal taxbs on oleo
margarine. Senator Fulbright from Arkan-'
sas say", "To.ether producer of goods in
the U,S; demands the protection against
other domestic.goods that is demanded by
the dairy industry for buttsr.'1 He also
stated that rrhen the tax "as first propo
sed, there nas reason for ‘it as 'it "as
manufactured piinarily from imported fats
and oilsr ',!Ton 30 per cent of all margar
ine' is made from domestically produced
soy bear, oil and cottonseed oil '''
Hep., Dirksen of Illinois has introduced a
bill to set up a national laboratory to
conduct research into problems relating
to fertilizer anu 30JI fertility
CO-OP
JJJSi RECEIVED
heuj SHiFmtni of pflim
in FILL I CLOPS
SHELLHC VRRniSH
' LACQUERS
BRUSHES in au SIZES
ALL SUES Of
. ijL.inr oy,;s
WE STILL HAVE A
SMALL AMOUNT Of ^ " PLMUJQQD
fix Uf NOW BEE ORE SPftlNh CUMES
WATCH FOR
OUR TRUCK TIRE SALE
DAYTON 6 FISKE TIRES
"not better than the
BEST ■
BUT BETTER THAN THE
REST " :
TAP PAN GAS RANGES
'36 DODGE PICKUP
'41 CHEV PICKUP
fiRTLEU
OlOfi
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f.
The forecast for the trheat crop- for 1948
is good. Another bill-ion bushel rheat
crop is predicted for 1948-the fifth
in a ror«
Tho present break in grain prices rill pro
bably moan a great doal to local farmers,
but this .'ill not reflect in the pricos
hero for somo timo.