Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1944-09-08
Delaware Farm News

Maximum prices for potatoes
produced In a Hesitate area, includ-
ing Delaware, are being increased
by 80 cents per hundred pounds
at the shipping point during
August. The increase is being
made to allow for substantial re-
auctions in yields from drought,
according to OPA. under require
ments of the sterilization Exten-
sion Act.
In an amendment to the price
support program for Irish pOta-
toes. WA says deliveries of pOta-
toes in renovated used bags may
/ be made at the same prices as
those prevailing for deliveries In
new bags.
Farm wives, housewives. and
other home professors of fruits,
juices. preserves, etc. for resale
will be allotted enough sugar this
year to produce as large a pack as
they did in the 1941 season. Home
professors who need more sugar
for canning for resale than the
previous 250-pound limit can apply
TO local War Price and Rationing
Boards for enough to pack as
they did in 1871.
ALLEGATION among states and
territories of $15.0O0OOO for tenant
purchase loans during this fiscal
year has been announced by WA.
The funds, administered by FSA
under the Bankhead-JOnes Tenant
Act, are distributed on the basis of
farm population and prevalence OF
tenancy. They are made to tenants.
sharecrOppers. farm laborers. and
veterans for purchase of
farms, repayahle over
a 40-year period at per cent
interest.
Ten thousand bushels of Argen-
tine corn have been allocated this
month to Delaware livestock farm
crs through regular trade channels
by the feed allocating committee of
the Delaware AAA. Ninety tons of
soybean meal and sixty tons of lin
seed meal have also been allOcated. I!
feed wheat from the /
Ever-Normal Granary may now be
Ted by farmers to all classes OF
livestock rather than being limited
to dairy cattle and laying flOcks as
it was in 1943.
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Augmented supplies of legume
and grass seeds are expected to be
placed on the market by farm pro- !
ducers as the result of price in
creases authorized by the OPA. !
Increases range from 1920 to IS /
per hundred weight for sales from I
farmer to farmer. Retailers may
increase their mark-ups from 2 to
3 cents per pound on sales from 9
TO so pounds. The AAA, with Con-
gressional authority, is making
special production payments to
farmers who harvest red clover for
seed.
Farmers in Delaware during the
second quarter of this year used !
52.8 per cent of the States quota |
of copper wire for farm uses,
according to Clarence E. Ocheltree.
State AAA chairman. The second |
quarter quota was $500 pounds.
Quota for the current quarter is
5000 pounds. The WPB will base
it's ALLEGATION of critical materials .
for poles and transformers for
farm connection with electric pow
or lines on the farmer applications
for such connections on file in |
county offices of the AAA.
Ernest 8. Mattiford. state COM
for the Delaware Agri-
cultural Adjustment Agency. says |
that the more fertilizer Delaware !
farmers buy and store on their
farms during the next four months
the greater will be the national
of plant foods. Output |
can be upped 100000 tons for the |
year if early farm buying keeps |
fertilizer planty working at capa-
city from late summer to early
winter.