Too Much Food A Worry To Uncle Sam

Chronicle (Levin), 1 September 1949, Page 5

Too Much Food A Worry To Uncle Sam

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Received Wednesday 7 p.m. NEW YORK, August 30. Bumper crops forecast in the United States for 1949, would cause a major national problem, said the See retary of Agriculture, Mr Brannan, at a farmer lahour conferenee. He said the second largest farm output in the nation's history was assured. Record wheat, cotton, and maize crops, as well as carry-oyers from last year, created a tremendous storage prohlem. The taxpayers had good reason to he alarmed at the money the Government was spending to take perishable food from the markets to sustain food prices "but in the interest of national prosperity,- such farm price supports must not he abandoned. 'Mr Brannan said that in 1948 the taxpayers bought one out of every three bushels of potatoes produced hut got no good from them. "We now have stored 203,000,000 dozen eggs in dried form, 175,000,000 gallons of milk in dried form, nearly 55,000,000 lhs of butter, 2,250,000 lhs of cheese," ihe* said. The Government could not, under the present law use these to improve America 's diet.