4—Lancaster -Farming, Saturday, September 30, 1961 FROM WHERE WE STAND - Wheat Surplus? A Strange Paradox A strange paradox in our national agricultural picture -today shows a group known as the National Soft Wheat Committee urging full" allot ment planting of --wheat this fail—des pite a wheat surplus of over a billion bushels and a new federal program de signed to reduce wheat production. ' The committee, made up of produc ers -and processors in the eastern Half of the United States, has reported it does not feel that it is running head long into the government’s program. The committee emphasizes that the •sctft wheat farmer is not contributing to the wheat surplus. I-t maintains that across-the-board participation in the government’s acreage diversion pro gram could result in a soft wheat crop that would not meet domestic de mands. The program to which the commit tee refers includes a mandatory cut in wheat planting plus alternatives which will pay the farmer for diverting as much as 30 per cent more of his acreage into conservation uses. The committee maintains that the Vast surplusses of wheat are of the hard variety while supplies of soft wheat is in line with demand and may actually fall below current needs if farmers in the eastern part of the na tion curtail production as much as is asked by governmental agencies. In general terms wheat can be clas sified as “hard” or “soft” with the soft wheats including Eastern soft white winter and soft red, with the latter being generally grown in Pennsylvan ia and surrounding states. Hard wheat is grown primarily west of the Missis sipi River. At present rate of yearly carryover of soft wheat, supplies wou’d last the housewife and the commercial baking industry less than a month, and be cause of the characteristics of wheat, the surplus of hard wheat can not be diverted into products now being made from soft wheat flours goods such as cakes, crackers, cookies, waf ers, pretzels and cereals. The problem for eastern wheat growers then becomes one of economy. With the milling and baking industry requiring steady supplies of soft wheats and the government programs paying him for reducing production, can he make more money planting up to the legal limit or participating in the acreage diversion program? The horns of the delimma are sharp ened by the fact that government wheat programs do not differentiate sufficiently between classes of wheat. All grades and classes come under the same price support program. A survey by the National Soft Wheat Committee seems to indicate ihe grower who is producing a crop =★= LETTERS Ag-industriaiist Sees Reason For Lack of Schooling Editor Lancaster Farming Bear Sir I enjoy receiving Lancas ter Fanning The editorials and advertisements are es pecially valuable. (The ads keep me posted on what my competitors are doing) The editorial in the Sept ember 16th issue touched an interesting point. I was reared on a farm and finish ed a BS MS, and PhD de gree in agriculture and work m agmdustry The work is very interesting and I would not change jobs with anyone I know. However, the reason more students are not following courses in agriculture is that men with BS degrees in engineering or chemistry get the same pay as those with PhD de grees in agriculture Best wishes to you. with average yield per acre will be ahead of the game financially by pas sing up the government subsidy. fn addition, the committee points out, there is a good possibility that soft wheat prices will be higher next year, influenced by the increased gov ernment support level and at least some acreage reductions. Further, the grower should realize that if Pennsylvania should lose her profitable and immediate market be cause of a shortage, she might'never recover it in the future. Pennsylvania growers, who harves ted 15,468,000 bushels of soft red and 158,000 bushels of Eastern soft white wheat in 1961, would do well to con sider the possible consequences of a drastic cutback in wheat acreage this fall. At least that’s how it looks from where we stand. “If hog producers follow through on their reported breeding intentions, 1,- 845,000 sows will farrow during the ’62 winter quarter from December thru February in the 10 com belt states. This compares with 1,768,000 sows far rowed during the same period a year earlier, an increase of four p,er cent.” so goes a report from the US Depart ment of Agriculture. A four per cent increase appears small, but some college professor has figured out that the total national sur plus of fluid milk, at the rate of four swallows per half pint, could be con sumed if every man, woman and child in the country took one more swallow every other day. Hog prices in recent months have maintained one of the most stable planes in the farm commodity field. One more pork chop per family could throw the whole picture out of focus unless the market is prepared for it by cultivating a desire for that extra pork chop. Many wise men have said in many different ways that there are at least four things by which men must live in the world. They were speaking, of course, of spiritual values, not of ma terial necessities. Food, shelter, cloth ing, and the like man must also have. But if he has nothing more than these, life will be barren indeed. The other things that he must have are love, work, play, and worship. There can be no lasting happiness without love, there can be no satisfaction of achieve ment without work; there can be no release from tension without play; and there can be no experience of the joy and peace and power of life without worship. ■ —Hoards Dairyman To The Editor us going from morning to ipwp r, i , night studying such subjects lr I C Otuaenr as understanding 'ourselves . i . . _■ | and others It was brought Writes Thanks out tha t “any fool can see Ed NOTE: The following understands them.” I pro is a copy of the first letter bably will be a fool much of written by Glenn Porter to the time. We also spent a the sponsors of the Interna- tot of -time down-town being tional Farm Youth Exchange briefed by the State Depart- Program ment on United States For- The Nieuw Amsterdam September 6, 1961 Dear Sponsors- Last winter you were con tacted about contributing to the IF Y E fund This is the first in a series of letters you will be receiving from me I am on my way, after an extremely busy week in Washington and a hectic day in New York City I am going at a much more leis urely pace aboard the “Ni euw Amsterdam,” with time to let you folks back home Sincerely yours, D W Young, Biologist Research Department, Hooker Chemical Corp. Niagara Falls, NY. know how I am doing. In Washington they kept differences” but “a wise man eign Policy, Soviet Policy, (Turn to page 11) Lancaster Farming Lancaster County’s Own Farm Weekly P O Box 1524 , Lancaster, Penna. Offices: 53 North Duke St. Lancaster, Penna Phone - Lancaster EXpress 4-3047 Jack Owen, Editor Robert G Campbell, Advertising Director & Business Manager Established November 4 1055 Published every Saturday by Lancaster Farming, Lancaster, Pa Entered as 2nd class matter at Lancaster, Pa under Act of Mar 8, 1870 additional entry at Mount Jov, Pa Subscription Rates $2 per veir three years $5 Single copy Price 3 cents Members Pa Newspaper Publish ers Association, National Editorial Association jove that spot. Luke Is caiefiii Devotional' Beadingt Deuteronomy' to tell us that Jesus grew both m 6 - I ' 9 - wisdom and in stature; that is t 0! nsay, mentally and physically. Thj old Greeks used to have a motto which the Romans copied and j, still in circulation: "A sound mini How Jesus Grew Lesson for October 1, 1961 I ih a sound body.” Jesus cut —— —' way forward in both respects Ht A PERSON who no longer grows pew in wisdom—that word 13 ceases to be a person. He important also. No doubt he becomes a fossil, if he is old, or to knowledge. His mother would be stays a baby, if he is young, teach him, as Deuteronomy ft. Our world is cluttered up with rects parents to do; but while 1 babies who never grow up, and knowledge can be put into a boj with fossils in human shape. The or girl from the outside, as n ■>ssils haven’t were, by an instructor, wisdom-, ,d a new idea in that is, knowing what to do with thirty years, and the knowledge you have—has to he babies haven’t be developed on the inside a id any ideas of coach can guarantee to teach J ieir own yet A hoy enough knowledge to get into, inuine human the university; but no coach can! eing grows guarantee to teach wisdom to g 0! roughout his with It Jesus grew in wisdom by ce-time, grows working his way forward. It is ol spirit when he n 0 use to wish to be wise without no longer grows being willing to go through the trouble it takes. In his body It shocks some people to think wh ... • . . that Jesus ever grew; but Luke wno •••‘6O J6SUS. says plamly that he did, and tells One way of judging the woith us how. The church has always of a man is to ask: Who likes said that Jesus Christ is both God him’ Merely being popular is not and man; and this is hard to un- enough Popular with what kind derstand But if we try to make of people? Luke writes that thei the problem easier by saying that boy and young man Jesus ad Jesus was a special kind of human vanced “in favor with God and] being who did not grow and did man.” (God and men, literally), not need to, then we are not mak- ,Put into everyday language, this ing the problem easier but hard- means both God and men liked er; for we are then denying that him better every day In later he was truly human. years Jesus had bitter enemies, who at last murdered him; but m his younger years, if Luke tells the whole stoiyat this point, Jesus appears to have had no enem.es He made only friends Jesus was not one of these cranks uho doesn't care what people think about them But he did not foiget (what so many oherwise noimal persons forget) that it is much more important that God should like you than that other people should We must leave it to the reader to think it out horn heie. If Jesus grew physically and men tally, spiritually and socially, how can Christians have all-iound growth like that in our own lives’ He cut his way forward Luke, writing our third Gospel, uses his Greek language with care He uses one word for “grow” —in Luke 2:40, and another word in Luke 2:52. Luke 2:40 tells how Jesus grew, or rather simply tells us that Jesus did grow, before he was twelve years old. Luke 2:52 tells us how Jesus grew after he was twelve years old. In speaking of the little boy Jesus, Luke says he grew, but''he uses the same word that is used to describe the growth of garden plants and flow ers It is a good word to tell how little children grow It comes nat urally, they can’t help growing! Give them food and sleep and the out-of-doors to play in, and they will grow without knowing it. But after twelve Luke has an Now Is The Time . ♦ ♦ BY MAX SMITH TO CONSIDER FLY-FREE DATE— Wheal growers are urged to recognize October 10th as the Hessian Fly-free date for Lan caster County. Varieties other than Dual and Redcoat should not be planted before this date. TO PLANT COVER CROPS—To have all ground covered with vegetable growth over the winter months is a good Some tomato, tobacco, potato, or corn fields may, as yet, not have any cover crop seeded. Corn field on which atnzine was used and especially if the field is going back into com in 1962, it is very important that some crop be Sowed tins 'fall to be plowed down next spring. Any of the winter grains may be seeded until early November and give cover and protection. MAX SMITH TO PROTECT FARM MACHINERY—As machineiy is useJ for the final time each season, it should be cleaned a lia greased before rust has a chance. Also, it is good manage ment to get it under coyer before bad weather arrives The Machinery Shed is a good' investment on most farms With all barns being filled to capacity these years with f eccl supplis and in order to reduce the possible fire loss, the storage of machinery in a nearby shed especially for the purpose is recommended. TO SAVE THOSE FINGERS!! AND THE HAND—We i<> peat the word of caution that tre mechanical corn picker may rum your future, if you are not careful. Corn pickm. season is at hand and operators will be exposed to this m a " chine If corn picker operators will only remember stop the maerme while cleaning or making any repairs, an take time to be safe, many accidents will be prevented TO PLAN FALL FORAGE INSECT CONTROL—AII alfal fa, clover, and trefoil growers should plan to treat then fields this fall for spittle bug and alfalfa weevil contro Heptachlor is recommended for October and Dieldim October and November; either sprays or granules may used. These recommendations for fall treatment are repl a mg any spring applications. ier word. It Is a word suggest ! effort, struggle. idy and mind iome people are, we say, o nc> led. Part of them grew but thj :t didn’t. We have all known jple who were “brains” but lyslcal weaklings. We have als o mi people who are very stion. to the neck, but pretty u e ,], (Based on outlines copyrighted by Che Division ol Christian Education, National Council of the Churches ol Christ in the USA Released by Community Press Service.)
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