Most Farmers Using Conservation Reserve To Retire Poorer Land from Production A RECENT survev bv the United States Department of Agncultiue concerning the Conservation Reseive of the Soil Bank progiam shows that most farmers are using that plan to get fields not well adapted for cultivation shifted to permanent cover Some 500 farmers in six states were in terviewed Their answers were diverse Some operators of large farms are utilizing the piogranis to reduce the size of their operations and need for hired labor Others are reducing the size of farm ing operations because of health, age or other leasons In Maine, about a third of the farmers said that they are using the program to conseive or improve pioductivity About a quarter said they needed the payments to pay taxes or meet other income needs. Other reasons listed were age, too much land to cultivate, labor hard to get, lack of camtal required to farm the land or that the land was inconveniently located About a quarter of the farmers inter viewed m Wisconsin and South Carolina said they W'anted to improve the soil Tree planting is getting a much larger plav in the southern states than in the north In all other areas, grass cover is going on the retired acres In the Great Plains this program is especially popular Farmers in these 10 states, whete a long and severe drouth was ended last year, were the top users of the conservation progiam in 1956 and 1957 About tw o thuds of all cropland placed in the piogram during those two years came fiom these 10 states And two-thirds of all grass planting scheduled on conseivation reseive land This Week k in Lancaster Fanning I BY JACK REICHARD « 75 Years Ago Josiah Quince in an at lido foi the Atlantic back in 1883 told a ''ton given In Daniel Webstci no eri Aineiifan statesman and oi.T U,IC I V’ 0118111,1 “habitants 4,11 iusi.ee. a lout lie' to Boston “ ,lfl how lho ndl, ' c i ’> cuiccl thc.t !o ( oiisu 11 the Law Lih.aii wouM r < 1 >> 11 01 al/e ds tll0 > tailed U l. dos.i calilo which meant that r -" slated in would hr out oi pocket In ' ona f, hjllow d | tthc! > wcr t m. (xpciKiituK and 1 01 h.; , in the mound and lillod I. ,<• he would lecene no ado ) I,h (ln , wood whlth on rpa.t < otnpcmalion kite! some In the meantime the jou.v; heif.tal ion he deeded to do his 15 -' d tms ol the U ibe gatheied the w.c bee legaullcs, at what I ; ( "de,esi coin m the Held and uiiahi ecu ][, \u nt to Boil on ’ ol,lihl ll ,0 , lllC pit 1,1 bdS look id up the authontus and I ‘ts i emoied the outet husks and aon 111. Cast 15,11,0(1 ,ho oals in a lou on lho . , „ . , n\t cuaK then kept tinning th^* kcais lal.i \V ( bsti i then < a,. ou i and oc el with sticks an ous was passuii, th.ough \ew \\ hen lhc , thin ]d%clb of husJf 1 k ini,.oitant insu.a.Ko t e scolthed the e i IS weie tos as< las to he l.i.d the dal ioi (| ()f t|)c ( , )Uh M]th Jh , o mi, Ins an nal in the citv and e| l( |, s -m ol tin conns. Is had he. n \U e . the t oastmg the sco.died ud.unh take mil Monei w-as no hl , sU W(1(J lcm(ncfi dnd thc me and Wcbst.i vas bc-eo ■ . a,„s of .o. n sepa. ated I, on. the ius ,cms and co.uh, < W) h In (he use ol shaip edged shills ui the Jrcsh W'atei mussel I’nc giam was (lien spiead on shins and s. 1 m the sun to di\ l.pouah com was emed in this ■n nnei (o last .net the wuntoi o ' naim ‘lO t ! told ihc m -, c i if I \\ < list(. i i' u,iv pj t p imu to c' " 1 I .id 'll |)ll |),lh .i 1c4.il .n 4LI i ' hi on .i tin houi s notice r I In" O' 'lid homed lh.it I should no d liu p.ipii- diid this dltci o' k d( min I coiisi me d to do '.(11 n w.is n>\ ol to the Federal State. Chop J ‘ l( I' 111 I*loB the La.i Itc po»-tinu Sei vice Recur ds on the 111 laiiniis Lca'-jiie in Uv "'M2 uop up to Januan 1 1932 ■mhi in end of the counU sent showed that 85 pel cent of the * 1 lilliis to chat 1 1v oii>ain/a total trucked to consuming ten* lion*- in s(\oal ol the lame East im eoinpaied to one pei cent hi iio iifii s appealing (or winker, iail v a-on iMVIS'HK !• \ltM/,KS VPI’L \I I 01! WORKKKS si j 1 ■ lanneis ucic willing to Pennsthania was listed one ot M»od wants loi the i iftht kind Hit si\ leading potato states in under 1956 and 1957 contracts was there. The lams last year enabled farmers to obtain good stands of perennial grasses These farmers in the middle of the dust bowd area also say that they intend to keep the land in grass after the contracts expire. Much of the land being replanted was virgin sod until it was plowed during World War II in an effort to produce more wheat to fill the then great demand In that part of the nation the re-establishment of sod cover is a long expensive and tedious pioject. The 1958 signup for the conservation reserve program will end on April 15 Con tracts in this program run for three, five or 10 years WITH MEAT animal prices continuing at a high level, stockmen are wondering how' much longer it can last Here is what the government has to say m the latest g rowin § church, Agricultural Situation Outlook ° ne Wlth a , bl f “Cows, heifers and calves are being ™ ay . sc °° $ I|| ® and not enough % 28 held back from slaughter as farmers pre- room to park 1 pare to lebuild herds, and slaughter of Sometimes it ' I these classes probably will continue below means a chmch Vjr , last vear Marketings of fed cattle, though, Wlth piogiessive ; ® will be close to the 1957 level methods and im- jm “No big change from a vear earlier is that takes " • M expected in hog slaughtei until fall market- the lead m its Dr Foreman mgs of the spring crop Marketings may rise denomination a little in late winter and early spring u „ . „ _ . . „ i~v • , i i v ii xt. J uxi & Go Home to Your Friends Prices may dip at that time, though they i i i x ix i u xi i inore is a bettei meaning of are hkelv to remain relatively high through « gomg church » than any of th " es ° r Summer It is an even better meaning than The Outlook also notes that the num- "geneious” If the budget” of a VVIII remember i" he says t 0 th « her of cattle and calves on farms is down chuich runs up over SlOO 000 an- how v\e dealt with one per cent from a year earlier, the "sec- nuaUy - lf the ' )e °P ]c thcic to ond straight drop m the current downturn tf/US (I Thcss 2 »• transia state, eveiybody who knows about tlon ’ * golng church may hav * ~ it will call it a going chinch But evangehstic meetings, and evan theie is something better than gebstlc setrnon s But if it takes that A clHiich leallv gets going Sa ' nt Pau] for a guide ’ no chuich when its members begin to do that Wld lrna S lne tbat tbis 15 a B there simple thing which Jesus told the lS t 0 evan S ellsm Distubutmg the man to do who had been bodev- Same traCt t 0 evet y bod y wltb m tied so long: “Go home to your range of the church ls stlU not th ® h lends, and teU them how much thmg F ° r people are dlfferent the Loid has done for jou ’ A “ Llke 3 father wlth hls own cM going chuich is one whose mem- dren ’ *’ >au * sai d A father knows beis talk to other people m their tllat n ° tWO of 1115 chddren a r« homes and all around the com- allke> and what wdJ work wltH munity—talk to them about Chi ist ° ne won ’ 1 vvork Wlth another Thrf Gospel Is always the same; but Winning the Family the ways of telling the Gospel A going church again, is one stor y so as to persuade people by where, as the book of Acts puts it. ll > are as varied as the personal “teaching and pleaching" Jesus is les merL going on all the time The Gicok (Based on outlines copvrlchted bj th* WOld for “nrpnptiirwr” j DUislon of Christian Educ-itlon, Nat woia ror hcie does tlnml Council of the Churches of Cbrisj not mean standing in a pulpit and I? the T s . A Releand by Comm unity x_ii _ _ _ vr( ss sirvlcii) talking in a loud voice It means simply telling the stoiy, letting people know. People tvcie not in Lancaster Farming Alfred C Alspach Publisher, Robert E Best Editor, Robert G Campbell, Ariierlising Director, Robeit j Wiggins, Circulation Director Lancaster Count} N Own Earm VVceklj Established Not ember 4 1955 Published eseij Friday bs OCXORARO NEWSPAPERS, Quarivville, Pa Phone Sleilme G 211? 01 Lancaster Filtered as SeconcLClass matter at the Post Office, Quarrj\ille, Pa, Act of Match 3, 1879 Subscription Rates ¥2 per ve.ir, tbire veais S 5, Single cop> Price 5 cents of labor In a letter to W F MeSparran a league official, the Philadelphia Society for Oigamed Charity of kred to coopeiatc in securing good places for “men who are veiling and an\ious to do inoie instead ol less than is required of them” McSpanan advised the society that the league tanners could use a hunched or inoie men Hemy W Giadv, the great Southern cditoi and oiator, who dicri m 1890, gave advice to the la liners ol his native Gcoigia and the South in gencial which is as nnind toclav as it was when it wa spoken Gradv said ‘When even jtarmci in the South shall eat biead liom hi s i'v n fields and meal liom his own pasture, and distuihed b\ no cieditor and enslaved bj no debt slnll sit among his teeming “ai ders and oichauls and vine} aids and dailies and barmard pitch ing his cions in his own wisdom and giowmg them in independ ence making cotton his clean sin plus and selling it in his ov.m tunc and in his chosen maiket and not at a mastci s bidding celling his pa\ m cash and not in a leceiptcd moitgage that dis chaiges his debt but does not i e sloie his heedom then shall be bi taking the fullness ol oui (lav ’ Express 4-3047 25 Years Ago 4—Lancaster Fanning, Friday, March 14, 1958 Bible Material Mark 5. 18-20. Luke 8 26-39, 10 1-2. Acts 5 42, I Thessolo nlans 1 6-10 Derotlonal Reading} Calosslnns 1 24- Going Church Lesson'for March 16, 1958 THE common expression, "a going church,” can mean a number of different things Some times it means no moie than a church the doors of which aie seen to be open once In a while, even if only eveiy other Sunday Sometimes it means a rapidly Now Is The Time . . . By MAX SMITH County Agncultuial Agent ' ‘•'V * |L t. TO TOP DRESS GRASS STANDS New scod mys of 1957 that Ruled to obtain a good stand of clovoi 01 alialla need not be deslioved providing . rn. d , “ 00( * c ‘ | Rh of timothv 01 other Image grass is picsc-nt fhe lopdiessing o( these fields dining the month oi aich with iO to 80 pounds oJ actual nitrogen per due will give Hicculant gi owlh of the glasses and good vields With this practice ln«of y t ', ) hcim ', sl tlu ' growth at heading time in order lei wnh , i ( -> Ualllv '<"‘>ge mav still be obtain ed wnthout the piesence ol much cloven oi alfalfa Max Smith ohf ,nfod D |Th RING 1° AIS ~~ VR ' I(I ~onl spl,nii odts Wlll be obtained it the seeding is made dunn« the last week in March as compared to am lalei seeding OaS .ecpme cool wet weathci for maximum yields t lieu el me calls seeclmes matin e moie bcloie hot weather aruves heie in the southeastern pa 1 1 of the state If the oats ale to seive as a nm so (i op (01 a m w mass seeding (hen only one bushel per acre should be sudnl olheiwis, one and one hall to two bushels pel aue mav be seeded TO MAKE NEW PASTURE SEMIIM.S Spurn- and .all a.e the two best times to make new- sec ehims o) pastmi mi\lines with the caih September seeding benm lavo,e,| || sp.mu s eedim- is to be made, it is lecommencicd dial it be done dm me kite Maich 01 taih Api 1 1 this pel nuts a maMimnu ainoiml ol cool moist weather befme the hot summc-i months 'tin mound should be limed and ici tiii/ecl to soil tests Im fon I lie sc t ]■* | lla( | ( seedme ol spring oats makes a m«od inns,