matoes. lettuce, milk, and potato* and the declines were not offset by higher prices for oranges, chickens, and some vegetables. Thus, Livermore says, the cost price squeeze tightens its grip, forc ing fanners to look for wavs to re duce costs by greater efficiency m production and marketing methods. Prices of food, feeder livestock, and motor supplies contributed m >st to the increase. Grass and legume seed averaged sharply higher than a year earlier, while food and to bacco prices were up six per cent above a year ago. Clothing and fa' m machinery reflected advances, with sharpest gains in moldboard plows and manure spreaders

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