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Auxiliary To Meet At
Sperryville Oct IS ;v
The Ladies’ Auxiliary'of the S' Sperryville Volunteer Fire Company twill meet- Monday night, October 16, ft the Sperryville school. All members and any other r persons interested -are urged to attend to plan activities for coming year. The fire company needs •your support! -5 ’
-vfPrices Due To Level Off
Then Show Strength -
; - How long will the. downward trend in farm prices continue? '*'■
Dr. J.- L. Maxton, agricultural economist at V.P.I., sees a general leveling off this month and next, followed by “some strength in the winter and spring months."
The economist says the prices of (whole milk, wool, wheat, oats, buckwheat, flaxseed and potatoesare due to go up in the future. ' After the harvest is complete and the products stored, price advances are expected for apples,
sweet potatoes, corn, vegetables, - cotton, hay, and soybeans. . 1 ...
Advance'in the prices of most l of these products will "result from —decreasing supplies and increased ~ demand. The apple crop in the ' west ia below normal, so Dr. Maxton says Virginia apples ont of storage should be in good demand. ' On . the other hand eome prices are slated to weaken. Dr. Maxton says prices of slaughter cattle, sheep, and lambs likely will go down as a'result of heavy supplies in October and November. Hog prices are expected to declino for r'the same reason and by a larger percentage until in December. Poultry prices will be influenced by meat animal prices and decline somewhat, while egg prices are not expected to reach last year’s December price levels. Supplies of fluecured and hurley tobacco • are larger than last year, and may . temporarily exceed demand twith some weakening of prices. ~ ‘Dr. Maxton points opt that farm costa are expected to rise,: and that the farm parity ratio - average likely will be just slightly above 100.
^ Mr. and M«- Boy Atkins and ' - jjonsJ; jigger and Junior, were ' dinner guests Sunday of Mr. and
Conner Jenkins. ’ % -
' bushels produced in 1959.
“•Despite, the large, corn crop last year we’ll need the big crop expected this fall. Increasing live' stock numbers, resulting frdra the high demand for meat, brought on by the national emergency, has ' forced us to draw heavily on our . reserve corn supply,” the PMA chairman said. “Even though the f com is needed, the rush of the grain to market at harvest time invariably produces an adverse effect on the price growers receive. By taking advantage of the s COC loan program, growers can help promote orderly marketing * f , the crop and at the same time help sasure a better price by redeeming the loan and selling on a stronger t ■■ market later." ^' ’4- I
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