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...other possibilities. The stalk contains 10-20% of a fiber that is superior to cotton and linen intensile strength, second only to Manila hemp. In addition, milkweed seed contains 21% of a semi-drying oil almost identical with soybean oil, and the oil-free seed cake is a valuable livestock feed with 40% protein content...
...appeared on the Chicago livestock market last week for the first time since October 1920. Expected hog production...
...Indiana: Even with normal weather, corn will be off 5%-10%; soybeans 15%; milk 2%-5%. More beef animals will be sold, but at weights below 1942. > Iowa: The State has an alltime record number of livestock on farms, but grains will...
...situation was terrible, was fast becoming desperate. Honest butchers had only a scaleful of high-grade cuts, black markets were growing like a yearling, meat-hungry citizens paid outrageous prices-and practically nobody knew what to do. Harried Washington officials last week guessed that up to 20% of all livestock slaughtered is going to black-marketers; in New York City alone illegal meat sales total about $2,500,000 weekly...
Another trouble: meat price ceilings are in the wrong places and at the wrong levels. All retail meat prices are pegged at the March 1942 level, but livestock prices (exception: hogs) are as free as a steer on the range. Inevitable result: a record wartime demand pushed livestock prices smack against retail meat ceilings, squeezed profit margins so thin many a jobber and packer was temporarily forced out of the market...