- GLEN WOOD, lOWA, GLEN /OOD OPINION-TRIBUNE: “It may be worth your life to con- sider not only your car’s condi- tion but also your own limita- tions each time you slide in be- hind the steering wheel ” Here’s a Fourth Reason ' Why Pullets Pick Some strains of White Leg horns and other breeds have an Inherited tendency to pro- v lapses or eversion of the egg producing organs You will find some strains will have* a Ibt of “blow-outs” and if these birds have had a little bit too much com and become a little bit too fat you’ll find a lot of birds will blow-out and of course when they do this the other pullets pick them and it’s goodbye pullets This ten dency to blow-out can be de finitely bred out of a strain. Some strains are bothered __ this way and others are not " If, by chance, you happen to be unfortunate enough to have a flock of pullets that is show ing trouble with blow-outs about the only thing you can do right now is either debeak them or put on specs. The reason some strains have lots of blow-outs is that the breeders who have develop ed these strains always used specs or deaked and there fore, the birds that had a tendency to blow-outs were protected and were allowed to reproduce in the,flock In our breeding program at Babcock Poultry Farm we have never used any specs nor debeaking in any of our growing or laying birds at any time. Our birds do not have a tendency to blow-out We have definitely been able - to breed birds for you that will lay at a high rate of speed, lay large eggs and If managed properly, will not show any trouble with canni balism and blow-outs For literature and prices write to 'Babcock Poultry Farm. Inc. Route #3 Ithaca, New York Russell Mease Route 4 , Mauheim, Pa. • Local Representative Phone Manheim MO 5-4705 \ Using MARTIN LIMESTONE may mean cash for You! Sec. Benson Issues Statement Lowering Estimated Budget Needs Ezra Taft Benson Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Taft Benson Thursday issued the following statement in regard to a budget amendment for the Soil Bank Program sent to the Con gress by the President. The budget amendment for the Soil Bank Program sent to the Congress by the President today represents a revised projection of costs in the fiscal yeais 1957 and 1958 based on substantially com pleted sign-up experience on the 1957 Acreage Reserve Program and what we believe to be a more accurate projection of participa tion m the Conseivation Reserve Program. Also in connection with the cost of the 1957 Acreage Re serve Program in the fiscal year 1957, there is a change in the esti mated timing of payments to be made. In no sense does the Bud get Amendment icflect any “cut back” in the Soil Bank Program We are making and will continue to make every effort to utilize in a sound manner the funds auth orized by the Soil Bank Act. The budget amendment reduces the estimated expenditures for the Soil Bank from $1,254 mil lion in the -fiscal year 1958 to $l,OOO million, and the estimate for the fiscal year 1957 from $l,- 229 million to $452 million. The major change m esimates is in the estimated cost ot the Conser vation Reserve Progiam. Actual participation in the 1956 Conser vation Reserve Program was only a fraction of the original estimate I and the projected participation in the 1957 program is about half the original estimate Our experi ence thus far indicates that farm ers are taking time to give careful consideration to participation in a program which will take their land out of production for 3, 5 .or 10 years, as in the case under the Conservation Reserve As we an icipated and as was discussed .vith Congressional Committees, this means that it will take time Tor participation to develop to the point where annual payments amount to as much as s4so'mil lion per calendar year, the limit contained in the Soil Bank There was less than a million dollar change in our estimate of the cost of payments under the 1957 Acreage Reserve Program ($630 million), but on the basis that no payments will be made to a producer until it is apparent that he is m substantial compli ance on all crops and all phases of the program,” we have revised our estimate of the timing of Soil Bank payments It is now estimat ed that the bulk of program pay ments will be made later in the calendar year, thus shifting pay ments from the fiscal year 1957 to 1958 and from the fiscal year 1958 to 1959. For example, we originally esti mated that $413 million of the total of $630 million of 1957 Acre age Reserve payments would be made in the fiscal year 1957 and the remainder in 1958 We now estimate, based on operating ex perience to date, that only $lOO million will be paid producers in the fiscal year 1957 and the re mainder of the $630 million in the fiscal year 1958 probably mostly in the pei md July-Septem ber 1957 Also based on our operating experience to date and the change in projected participation, we have revised our estimates of op erating expenses downward by appi oximately $32 4 million for the fiscal year 1957 and $2l 8 mil lion lor the fiscal year 1958. LENNOX S D, INDEPEN DENT “Definition of a soiahstic bureaucrat, and there' are plenty of them in government ‘one who has nothing himself and is will ing to share it with everyone else’.'’ Blue Ball, Pa, Lancaster Farming. Friday, April 19, 1957 Farmers in U. S. Build Record Number of Farm Ponds Last Year Farmers built 87,430 farm ■ponds in 1956, more than in any previous year, the U. S. Depart ment of Agriculture announced Friday. Previous high year was 1954 when farmers built 86,421 farm ponds. During the past six years the USDA’s Soil Conservation Service has given technical as sistance to farmers in building 425,521 farm ponds. In all, farm ers have built 803,000 farm ponds with SCS technical help. The ponds average from one to two acres each. Most were built as part of a basic conservation plan farmers develop for their entire farm in oooparaition with the nation’s 2,726 soil conservation districts, and many pond builders received cost-sharing assistance through the Department’s Agricultural Conservation Program. Ponds supply water for livetsock, fire protection, small-scale irrigation, for fish management, improve ment of wildlife habitat, and for recreation. Farm ponds have been most popular in the southeastern, northeastern and mid-western states, according to SCS Admin- X Now is the time to Spread Your Limestone Give us a ring! Quick Delivery! IVAN M. MARTIN, Inc. Farmers in Kentucky and Missis sippi, for example have built 64,318 and 56,187 farm ponds, respectively. Farmers have built 16,256 ponds in lowa, 11,958 an Nebraska, and 8,541 in New York. “This indicates the interest farmers Hiave in water storage, one of the measures that will be given added stimulus by the Conservation Reserve ot the Soil Bank,” Williams said The Conservation Reserve, open to sign-up by farmeis this year until last Monday is signed to enourage farmers and ranchers to shift land out of ultivated rops and into grass, trees and wildlife cover, as well as water storage. Another measure of the inter est in the objectives of the Con servation Reserve is the fact that farmers and ranchers in soil con servation districts have con verted more than 4,600,000 acres of their poorer cropland to grass and trees in the past three years as part of their conservation plans. Iwdutq on CKS EEK OLD I PULLETS Now ! Rocks Hampshires nk Ph. 286 Collect. Tel New Holland ELgin 4-2112 Terre Hffl Hlllcrest 5-3455 5
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