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I. I ■.IIIHJ.II, HI, imiij#>ll Farmers Nave | Less to Worry , t: IflCRI ¥ IIV9 Washington, D. C—Tarn price* stand at an per cent of the 1906-1914 avsrsg# —fillhsi than the prices of 1818—ni will drop again bat not as sharply as la 1921 because the Government ia required by law to maintain support prlcea of at least 90 par cent of parity tor two fall calendar years following the year la which the war ends. The Department of Agriculture haa announced. The announcement Indicates the farc er will not ba a victim of a top la prlcea similar to that which followed thtf laat war in 1921 whan prices hit the low af 116 par cant of the May, 1990. lerai which waa 385 par cant of tho 1008 1914 level. Thus the farmer will hSve more money than after the last war. War Finance Oomaatttaa officials said that la addition to the maintenance at the price level for two years, that non farm families already hav% and are ac cumulating. weekly savings throuzh>the Payroll Savings Plan of the War Finance Division of the Treasury. This, they cialm ia proof the non-farm front Will ha much better able ta support Itself than after the laat war during the nor mal lull of reconversion. Bayers af farm prodncta will have the money ta boy, it was said, and fara»ra should avail themselves of the opportunity to acquire War Bonda during the Victory Loan so as to have the money with which to modernise and handle the non farm market daman da that will ha backed with cash to pay sustained prices during the two yeara after lighting The Payroll Saving Plan has aoid $18, 000,000,000 in War Bonds to waga earn ers, that great balk of non-farmers who Will, if need be, enjoy the fruits of their savings in the reconversion period and have the cash with which ut support themselves. Secretary of Agriculture Clinton P. Anderson adds that "prosperity of the farm depends primarily on purchasing power In the city.1* Special Victory Bond to Honor Late President Washington, D. C (Special)—The IYeesarv has called rihsllsB » a ■peHsl Victory Bosd ta he said far ing the Victory Loan campaign, start ing October 19, for 811,000,000,009. The bond Is In memory ef the late President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. It will be on sale at afl Mcwrira pss> thoriaed to inae United Mates Sav ings Bonds of Series L The bond will be fa *e dnwta ation of 8300, In he fasned at S1S0. It will constitute an additional do nomination of Series B Bonds, and will have Aa same lans and aitri bates ss other deaaminacions. Jt aril carry a Iftmni af Mr. BsssstMi. J. Myron Jl&xwell, in charge of Extension entomology at State Col lege, says that the dinitro dust pro gram helped farmers in 17 counties save about $325,000 worth of corn from chinch bog damage. the two-by-five mile Mend in the PtfHM that Made the Philippine in vasion possible. Oldest V. & ser vice band, the " President'! own," poses en the Capitol steps at lef t, Lumber production for the first six months of the year was down 10.3 per cent as compared with the first half of 1944. To get early poults, .Prof. Roy Dearstyne of State College suggest! the use of artificial lights in the laying heos*, beginning December 1. pmWili|U!!'iMI CEEWHIZ* THtY MUST EAT SOUTHERN BREAD, TOO/ LOOK HOW *AST THEY'VE GROWN OUTA ta THEIR £lOTHES / HIGH s.
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