Milford chronicle., 1945-07-20
Delaware Farm News

tule OF pickles., WHICH, may DC IL
Elected as raw material costs by
Professors in establishing ceilin"
prices for the finished product
have been announced. Each pick
ler's designated price is the price
he, or the salter from whom he
purchases salt stock. paid t. e:ow-
ers in 1911 for fresh cucum6erS of
corresponding grade and size, plus
40 cents hushel. BY allo" ing
these raw material costs. prices 10
growers are maintained at the
same levels as III 1914.
ALLEGATIONS among States ana
territories of half of $50,O00,Uo0
authorized for Farm Security Ad-
ministratiOn's tenant purchase
loaus for the next II months have
ben announced by the USDA. The
remaining $25 100000 is ear-mark-
ed for loans to World War III Vete-
rams and will be made available
wherever demand for the loans Oc-
ours. Allucated funds are distribtt-
ed on the basis of farm population
and prevalence of tenancy, and VIII
be used i'll the regular FSA pro-
eramtunder which loans are made
TO tenants. SharecrOpperS and
farm labOrers for purchase OF
tamily-siZe farms. Congress has in
creased these funds by $l0.0O0.000
over last year
Loans can cover the full pur-
chase price of the farm and allow
up to 40 years for repayment,
bearing interest at 3 per cent ON
the unpaid balance.
All livestock carcasses and
wholesale cuts of meat must. after
July Is, be clearly marked with the
slauehtarer's official Identification
number before they are sold or
transferred by the slaughterer.
A program has been announced
10 encourage full production of
Commercially-cann tomatoes 10y
increasing subsidy payments to
professors out of CCC funds.
Prices to growers to tomatoes will
rot be affected, and the increases
will be incorporated into the l9l5
canned vegetable subsidy program.
The amount of the increase over
last years subsidy payments for
canned Tomatoes will be i cents
per dozen No. > cans, with adjust
mcntS for other sizes of cans. Re
quirementS for canned Tomatoes
are very high and the increase in
subsidy is necessary to compensate
producers of canned tomatoes for
increased processing costs and 10
encourage them to shift from plo-
d6ction of canned tomato products
(tOmatO juice. tomato puree tOma-
to catsup. etCD to maximum pro-
ductiOn of canned tomatoes.
WFA has announced subsidy
program to cover l945 packs OF
certain frozen vegetables, substan-
TALLY the same as the 1914 pro-
gram. Frozen vegetables included
are sweet corn. green peas, snap
beams, and mixed packs containing
one OF more of these.
e.s
Ceiling prices for apples of the
l945 crop are increased to cents 4
standard hushel. t. o. b., any shipp-
Ing point. during the period from
Iunp % to July -. Half of the in
crease is disaster" allowance to
compensate growers for reduced
yields during the period. and bal
ance represents seasonal adjust
lnent. New ceiling price for the
fruit graded. packed and loaded on
car or truck at the Shipping point
is So AZ a standard bu&hcl
a simplilied schedule of cents
per pound zone ceiling prices for
all poultry except ducks has been
announced by the OPA. 1t replaced
the former basing point system of
pricing poultry and provides cell
ings for all sellers. Recently an
nOunced national average increase
of $l.26 pound i'll ceiling price OF
young chickens is reflected i'll the
new zone prices, which went into
effect July |. The new action pro-
VideS tables of prices for both live
and processed poultry other than
ducks for every county in the
United States every month of the
year.
The War Food Administration
and Office of Price Administration
have announced designated grower
prices on ten vegetables aSpara-
gus, Eeets. cabbage, carrots, mush-
rooms. black-eyed peas, other field
leaS, lima beans, spinach, and
potatoes to be grown for canning
in l945. These designated prices
will be used by the OPA in fiXing
maximum raw material costs to be
reflected in l945 ceiling prices ol
canned products. In computing in
dividual ceiling prices. Canners
will reflect their actual costs OF
raw materials, not to exceed the
prices designated. There is only
one change from the 1914 schedule
OF prices the designated price fuI
cabbage for kraut for l945 is $l5 4
ton. Last year the support price
was $l2 ton, and maximum of 81.
q ton was permitted to be reflected
iii ceiling prices.
OPA has announced increases il
producers ceiling prices of log.
and bolts produced in New Jersey
and nine counties of eastern Pen
nsylvania to levels established fol
the Delmarva Peninsula to hell
maintain production of logs used il
manufacture of containers fuI
lackasinS fruit and Veeetabl,
crops.
The disposal of surplus consum
er goods previously handled b,
Treasury Procurement has beer