Gap Between City and Farm Closing Rapidly; Change Becoming Apparant Boats of the rural community of 1975 will be sunk deeper into urban ground economists of the U. S. Department of Agriculture predict as they examine past and present patterns of development m agricultural communities throughout the country. Their findings suggest a new agricul tural community is emerging which might be described as “city life widely spaced." The trend toward greater economic 'and social defttendence of agricultural communties on larger towns and cities was described' by John H. Southern, an economist of USDA’s Agricul tural Research Service, at a meeting of the Texas Agricul tural Workers Association. Major events that will largely determine the pattern of the rural community 20 years from now have already happened. Southern says. In a sense, there fore, no crystal-ball gazing is re quired to visualize the mam fea tures of the future new look of the U. S. farm community. Events or situations that deter mine what the character of the farm communities will be in 1975 include 1 (1) the revolution in agricultural teichnoligy and farm management; (2) popula tion gains and the growth of ur ban centers; (3) the impending labor shortage; and (4) the ris ing standard of living. On the economic side, the rural community is more than qver dependent on the urban. Just before World War 11, only about 25, per cent of farm pro duction supplies' fertilizers, seeds, feeds—came from urban industry sources. Now, farmers « H | FERTILENE LIQUID FERTILIZER Come or Call Us Today (Lane. EX 3-4396) for Complete Information on this effective labor-saving LIQUip FERTILIZER REPRESENTATIVE!.. ADVANTAGES offered by FERTILENE Liquid Fertilizer All of FERTILENE is immedi ately available to plant life. You can fertilize when and, where needed. Plant response is-fast, Less loss by leaching. 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While more highly commer cialized agriculture brings about larger farms, greater invest ments, and greater incomes, it may also transfer certain func tions and some decision making from the farm to nonfarm sect ors. This can be seen, for ex ample, in broiler production where rurail and urban interests are closely linked. Farm land values will be de termined to an increasing extent by nonagricitltural factors, such as location of good roads, de mands of non-farmer buyers, and suburbanization. Suburban -communities like clusters of leaves along the main stem and branches of highways' and roads—have grown in recent years at about 3% times the rate of the gain in national popula tion. This movement into the countryside will increase rather than 'diminish, the economists predict. By 1975 the total U. S. popula tion is expected to'' Increase by two-fifths, but the working force —made up of persons already ALL FARMERS Donald Prescott-Bainbridge RDI, Elizabethtown 7-2010 Benj. B. 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During the same period, farm population may decline by as much as 30 per cent. All this makes for closer ties with urban communities, since the remaining rural fami lies will have more members working off the larm in urban jobs. A new standard o£ living has spread rapidly over the Nation in, the past 20 years. The levels of living of farm and city people are more nearly alike now than they were only a short time ago. The gap will continue to narrow. Socially, also, the new look of the agricultural community is one of greater dependence on ur ban centers. More and more rural residents will be going ito urban schools, churches, shop ping centers, and to recreation and entertainment facilities. In the new agricultural community, various occupational groups will live in ithe rural areas, and many of them will have jobs in towns or cities. Thus evidence is piling up that the farm communities of the future will be drawn more close ly than ever before into the life of urban communities. ATTENTION! Adult Fish Stocking in Warm Waters To Hit Stride During This Week Though the greater portion of this years trout plantings has been completed, the Pennsylvania Fish Commission’s 1957 program to replenish Commonwealth wat ers with adult fish will lake on a new proportion this week, accord ing to an announcement by Dewey Sorenson, superintendent of hat cheries. Involved in the activity in addition to trout, will be small mouth and largemouth bass, wall eyes, northern pike, catfish, crap- pies, yellow perch and - elvers. "For the next several weeks, hatchery crews and drivers will be dispatching close to 600,000’ brook, brown and rainbow trout to complete this years stocking of the state’s approved trout waters. Meanwhile, other Fish Commis sion personnel will be engaged in no less than seven other fish transfer operations involving the state’s warm water areas,” Soren son said. While the approximate number " h f ho P e to « et 0 " the of trout due for distribution could f hand ’ f™, favorable condi be ganged at the hatcheries,' 10n f> we should encounter no dif the Commission official could f * cul y , ln realizing maximum speak with no certainty on the matches. numbers of the other species, ex- According to the Commission’s cept to indicate how many of each could constitute the total pro gram. During its recent meeting, the Fish Commission authorized the transfer of up to 200,000 catfish from the Delaware River to in land waters, and a maximum ex penditure of $lO,OOO for the trans fer of smallmouth bass and wall eyes from Lake Brie. The per fish cost to the Commission of the bass has been set at $5O, minimum size nine inches, and $.75 per walleye, minimum size eleven inches. 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Lancaster Farming, Friday, May 3,1957 — 1 t chery on Pymatumng Lake, yel low perch Irom the Linesville and Pleasant Mount Hatcheries; elv ers from the Octoiaro River bet low the Chester Dam and from the Susquehanna below the Coso« wingo Dam; smelt from Lake Ene and Harveys Lake, largemouth bass from water icservoirs and other sanctuary waters across the northern counties of the state, and noithern pike out of Cana- dohta Lake. Sorenson refrained from nam ing ithe areas that would receive warm water fishes until a detei nnnation is made of the success of the netting operations. He said “We can’t be sure of the numbers, therefore of the waters to be stocked, at this time. Adverse wat er and weather conditions during the periods when these species* are concentrated m areas where they can be netted or flapped, could keep their numbers below -1956 records, 158,206 catfish were transferred from the Delaware River. Due to storms on Lake Erie during the netting period no wall eyes were captured, and only 1,- 794 smallmouth bass were netted, well below the hoped-for catch. Sorenson also obseived that the in-season trout planting last year exceeded the current availables by close to 400,000. He added that unless additional revenues are made available to the Commis sion, there will be no alternative to a further reduction in the num- COLOR pHWtMOtWt TELEPHONE QUARRYVILLE, PA. ber of trout reared for distribu tion next year possibly 10 per cent more. COMPANY -> * w |
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