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Newspaper
Mount Dora Topic
Location
Mount Dora, Florida, United States of America
Date
Apr 25, 1935
Page
16
The Sugar Section of the Adjustment Administration announces temporary acreage agreements may be signed by producers and processors to determine the acreage allotments expected to be grown this year in beet sugar.
Bureau of Agriculture Economics reports New York City pork beef and lamb retail prices well below the 1924 28 period averages by 1 15 and 36 percent respectively. Prices rose earlier in the decade then trended downward to 1933 with recent sharp gains from limited slaughter and supplies.
A US Department of Agriculture horticulturist R Winston reports that pulling grapefruit from the stem at harvest, rather than clipping, reduces corky tissue and stem end rot. The method speeds picking and lowers peel damage, limiting decay seen after harvest in Florida and Texas grapefruit.
Florida's plant board head Dr. William Newell notes annual pest losses across the U S reach 1.5 to 2 billion dollars with farmers spending 37 million on insecticides yearly. He cites citrus canker in Florida as a landmark eradication effort begun in 1912 and 1915, aided by federal funds, leading to the disease’s eventual defeat and a record of saving the state’s billion-dollar agricultural industry.
The Federal land banks reduce new loan rates to 4 percent through national farm loan associations and direct loans, effective today. Governor W I Myers of the Farm Credit Administration notes this is the second cut, with prior reductions from 5 to 4 percent on April 1 for loans via associations. Direct loans carry 1 percent higher. commission loans stay at 5 percent.
Senate committee on agriculture and forestry reported favorably a bill by Senator Trammell to survey and report losses from the Mediterranean fruit fly eradication campaign. The measure creates a five member board appointed by the secretary of agriculture to investigate Florida growers losses and report by December 31 1935.
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