Washington, Mar. 10. Midwestern farmers last year pocketed a 20 per cent. increase from the cash sale of corn, while farmers for the nation as a whole reported cash income 12 per cent. below 1937, the Department of Agriculture reports.
Cash income from the sale of corn last year amounted to $271,657.00, compared with $221,757,000, in 1937, en increase of $50,000,000. That did not tak® into account corn fed to livestock and marketed "on the hoof."
Illinois farmers sold $95,618,000 worth of corn in 1938, compared with $88.381,000 in 1937, while Iowa farmers increased their cash corn income from $30,565,000 in 1937 to $70,298,000 in 1938. In Indiana the increase was from $16,889,000 to $19,681,000. crops, $318,176.000 compared with $360,000.000; citrus fruits, $80,879,000 compared with $139,200,000; applies, $82.231,000 compared with $108,140,-
The decline in cash income from livestock and livestock products was smaller than for crops. Stockmen gold meat animals valued at $1,892.- 443,000 last year compared with $2,039,211,000 in 1937—United Press.
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