.4—JLaricasfe& inarming,- Saturday -DecegifaeJ-lti-i1962 r ~ r "' ~ From Where We Stand... Contracts - Contract farming-, vertical integra tion, or whatever other name it is called, has come in for its -share of bouquets or brickbats, depending on who has been doing the talking during the past few years. Many people in the poultry in dustry, which probably has had more business conducted on a contract basis than any other segment of the farm ing community, believe that most of the woes of that business have been brought about because outside money has come into the industry. Of course there are many others who will disclaim this contention and say that it has been the so-called Out side money that has made_ it possible lor the industry to weather the price storms. The dairy .industry, too, has had a certain amount of contracting in some sections of the country. Beef and hogs have been financed by industries in the corn belt states. However, up to this time, crop farming has been relatively free of contracts. But in a recent speech, the presi dent of a giant canning firm hailed contract farming as having become the most satisfactory method for orderly marketing of many food crops. W. B lyiurphy, president of Camp bell Soup Company, said, “Many crops could be contracted at a tremendous saving to the taxpayers, to the benefit of crop quality, to the benefit of the country’s balance of trade, and to the over-all health of American agricul ture.” Contrasting the advantages of mar keting agricultural products through the free market or crop contracting as op posed to production control under mar keting orders or land limitations, Mur phy called crop contracting “the most satisfactory method for the farmer, the processor and the consumer”, because “over supply is largely eliminated, price speculation is largely eliminated, and crop service work has an ideal atmos phere to take hold. The incentive for high quality is maximized.” Murphy went on to contrast sup ply control through the use of con tracts or government regulations. He cited the machinery needed to police control policies from the government, the difficulty of making regulations fair to all segments of the economy, and the possibility of placing dictatorial powers in the hands of a few officials Then using Pennsylvania’s most widely contracted crop, tomatoes, as an example, Murphy pointed, to what he called “the enormous strides” -that have been made in the past decade in improved yields per acre and greater net income to the farmer. He pointed to the fact that total output of tomatoes in the past ten years has increased by 65 per cent. With this we have no quarrel. But if the total NET income per acre has more than tripled as he con tends, why are fewer and fewer farm ers m this county growing the red fruit. Help Keep Pipelines Fi <>m Freezing Repan mg the door to the LonCOStCP Farming pumj) house aiul replacing r , ancaster county’s Own Farm hioken window panes helps ' Weekly keep the water pump from p _ ' - T i.eezmg on cold nights. A P ’ °' B ° X {faster Penna. .off*.®! . i Novembe a r 4 ’ socket tor a heat lamp just p. o. Box 266 - Lititz, Pa. 1955 * Published every Satur over the pump is helpful on Offices: by Lancaster-Farming, Lit extiemely cold nights when 22 E. Main St. Itz, Pa the tempeiature diops very Lititz, Pa. quickly, says Henry Wooding, - Lancaster J,.. Penn State extension agri cultural engineer. Blessing Or Bugaboo? We believe some contracts serve a very useful purpose in guaranteeing the farmer a market for specialty items, but we can not agree that all the im provement in the tomato growing busi ness, or in any other phase of agricul ture, has come about because some com pany offers a farmer a guarantee 4 price. __ Contracting companies necessarily have to assume some of the risks of production, and they have to allow themselves a margin to offset possible losses. Farmers will do well to check carefully any contract for production offered them by any company. We do not mean to imply that the long-stand ing contracts with reliable companies should automatically be suspect, but no business concern offers a farmer a guaranteed market because of a com passion for the farmer. At least that’s how it looks from where we stand. There is an old story about the agriculture book salesman who told the mountaineer, “With these books you could farm twice as good as you do now.” To this the old farmer replied, “Heck son, I don’t farm half as good as I know how, now.” This story came to mind this week when we read the report from the Pennsylvania Department of Agricul ture’s Bureau of Plant Industry stating that a large percentage of the seed going into the ground on Keystone state farms is of sub-standard quality. We believe there is no excuse for using poor quality seed when it re presents such a small portion of the total cost of production. In these days of enlightened farmers and high wages, it is an absolute waste to plant anything but the best seed available. At least that’s how it lobks from where we stand. Although rigid control and sanita tion regulations bar a similar- occurrence in this country, Italy is rocking from a million-dollEix cheese scandle. It seems the cheese was made from garbage. An Italian food inspector .was quoted as saying the cheese had “an ugly green color. The binder is a plastic normally used to manufacture buttons. . . ” Feathers are for the birds in more ways than one. The latest is in trans forming broiler and turkey feathers into a high-protein meal useful in feeds and valued at $lOO a ton. A startling report from Denmark claims that scientists in that country have developed a process for keeping fresh milk at room temperatures for up to three or four weeks. ' ’ J- ( Farm Your Best £ M. M GARBAGE INTO CHEESE PRETTY FEATHERS AMAZING IF TRUE Jack Owen, Editor Robert G. Campbell, Advertising Director Entered as 2nd class matter at Lititz, Pa. under Act of Mar, 8, 1879. - Bible Material: Matthew 25:35-40; John <l5 9-14, I Corinthians 13; Gala tians 3 23-28, Ephesians 2:14-19; Colos sians 3 12-17, I John 3 11-18, 4 7-21 'T'HERE are three ways of know -- ing what a thing is. First is by looking, the word up. in the dic tionary, or to have some, one tell us about it. Second comes, die ' winch comes by looking "'-atthe thing itself. Best way of all.is to have "it, so to speak, as part of yourself. For in stance, take ‘-strength.” Any dictionary will tell you what strength is, in carefully chosen words. You could then tell someone else what strength means, only your telling would be just a matter of remem bering the right words. A better way would be harder to forget. Suppose you nearly drowned at a bathmg beach, and a lifeguard rescued you Then you would know what strength is, and you would always remember it, evgn if you forgot what the dictionary said. But the best way of all is to grow strong yourself. Then even if you last your memory entirely, you would know what strength is. “1$ your heart true to my heart?” All this is specially true of the much-talked-aboiit thing- called, in our language.Lbve. The Bible has much to say about it. But let no reader of the Bible think that be cause he has read about it, even on these inspired pages, he now knows love. Every writer of- the Bible would agree that "to know Ipye truly, we have to. be loved, and to 'love. Nevertheless, the words the Bible writers use are not unimportant. Thejr- give us a Clue to how vye may recognize love, genuine love, from imita tions. The Apostle John gives us a rather horrible example of what hate is; and expects us to under stand that love is its opposite. Love is NOT like what Cain the murderer feltfor his brother Abel. Why did he murder him? John times. A Correspondence Course from t' MAX M. SMITH University is available in eight lesso (course #ll7 - cost ?2.00) Many steer feeders keep their cattle too closely con fined during the winter months; the open shed or barn is most ideal for local feeding operations Steers that are confined to a warm, poorly ventilated barn will not eat as Rood, wiU require more bedding, and will not utilize their feed as well as those having the freedom of outside exercise and fresh air. Steer comfort requires more hours outside than indoors. .Devotional Reading; Amos 9:11-15. New Kind of Love Lesson for December 16, 1962 Now Is The To Get Your 1008 Agronomy Guide ■>:s This is one of the very best- Extensioa Service publications from Penn State Univelj sity, it covers all types of pm latmg to all farm crops; every farmer shpullj secure and be guided by this important boola let , 53 This practice becomes more each year and every farmer is urged to, rj cognize the' importance of keeping accou| of his business Farm account books 85 aiailable from our Extension Office at To Provide. Cuttle Outside Exercise itsks. in., otter Vonl% -because-. he v, Sad and his 'brother good. Uatn jornesfrom. lad;; of unity, lov comes from unity, of spirit. Saint JjOhn is fond of explainij thing by naming its opposit .ove, we have seen, is the opp ite of hate. It is also the opposii E death. Most people would sa off-hand that the opposite of deal is life. John would warn that h without love is death. Not to lo\ means remaining in death.—An yet, love may lead to death, lite ally, and it must lead (or 1 marked counterfeit) to devotus of life. How would you like to jj shut up for hours on end, daj after day, with subnormal clp| dren -who can' hardly even tali cannot hold a pencil, cannot pljj or move' like normal children Most o£us would think that a pel fectly horrible existence; but theJ is a little, lady some seventy yeai qf age, who does just that. ,1 because she loves children lit that. And i£ you’think,well, Qian an old lady, she can do this, hi a young woman, no,—if you thin that, ydii evidently have not ml a young woman this writer rj members, one of. the happiej young women he ever met, wlj finds her happiness in helpuj these helpless children. There j more than one way to lay dove one’s life. ' I Not in talk but in truth <\ Saint John is called the Apost| of Love, but he has no exclusi| right to that honorable title, one can read what Paul said I 1 Cormthians 13 for example, m Peter m I Peter 3:8, 9, or ol Loid Himself in the Sermon c| the Mount (Matthew 5), to me| tion only a few of the places id warding careful study) withol seeing that all agree on this: Lo| is real when it becomes Uvia acts, something more than | word. In fact, John contrasts'lol “in word or speech” with “fi deed and truth.” As we were sa| ingi about strength*, so with, lov| We know it a little from readiM or hearing?ubout it. We I better when some one loves un we know it best of all, not who we become eloquent about $ bS When what we do every day| t| W ay we habitually move andfthil and act, the 'way we live, spe* love so plainly no one can mps | And now if someone complaii that this is, too high for us,lst | freely confess: This kind o| 103 is so. rare as to be a new surprii every time' we find it. But |nd| we do; for it is the signatijge 9 God. , a (Baled on ontUnea c spy righted 9 the Dlrlslon of Christian Ednaatlu National Connell ot the Chnrshcs | Christ In 'the U. S; A. ‘Xoleaud 3 ComnlimUy Bren Ssrrl'st.) ja Time . . . BY MAX SMITH To Keep Accurate Farm Records To Protect Trees Projm Rodents Rodent injury to youi; ifruit tiees and ornament? trees may be very severe periods of continued heat; snow cover; these trees mfij be protected by wr ppii. with fine wire mesh or utfj aluminum foil; start the tenal a,hout two inches the soil line and go about feet above the ground ley this should give protect'"! from both field mice and fros rabbits. ' I •. |
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