value. Potato and apple income nearly doubled. Drought Hits

value. Potato and apple income nearly doubled. Drought Hits Corn But a dry July took one fourth of the state's corn crop to put a $18,000,000 dent in total crop value and blacken the feed pic ture for livestock. Cotton yielded neatly a bale to the acre, small grains made near record yields an ' peanuts made a phenominal 1.800 pounds to the acre average, but corn, potato and some commercial vegetable yields skidded badly. Cattle, sheep and itog growers were caught between a 10 to 15 per cent [trice drop and heavy ex tra costs from drought-shrivelled pastures and soaring hay prices Cattle marketings were up 5 per cent over 1951, but as the build-up of the last few years moved to market the price plum meted. from a drop of $2 a hun dred in July to $9 a hundred, or 25 [ter cent, in Decembei. Calves did a little better. About half the calf crop was marketed m the first six months of the year when prices were a little above 1951. but a 15 per cent price drop m the last half of the year can celled this out and mote. Even with higher marketings, total value of eat tie and calves was down $4,000,000 from the year before, with the loss to •armors multiplied by lower gains on dry pastures and high feed prices. Hog growers took their big licking on the Spring market, w hen 00 per cent of the hogs were sold and the price was off 15 per pent Two or three per cent more hogs were sold in 191)2, but total value was down 10 per cent. Re acting to the market and to the shortage of farm corn, growers indicated they had cut the 1952 fall pig crop by 4 per cent and were planning to cut then- spring crop 22 per cent. Sheep ran into a 12 per cent price drop, but highet marketings kept total value close to last year's $4,800,000. although as with all animals, costs were much higher.