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.<toi, at a dinnei in New Yoi l
Ik the mo of the talk centeicd
noon the nnpoitance ot doing
'-'itjil thing, thoioughh and with
lull nioasuie of one'- ability
'I \\ ehstei ilkistialed In an
('Pcinnu o ( a pettv nistuaiue
- -( liiat was hi ought to him
' Jitji a vouns lavwci in Poits
noiith OnK a small amount was
r,'o lud and a Jte was
thtit pi oinked 4 pc<‘kinci on the \aiiout, customs
4c knew that to do his clit.it I' 1 , >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<i tut nt\ tioi
l iJd ov t i .i_.i'u dlirl ds I
i (i ioiJii ,m_v ihuu I h.id oh
lit ,i in hoi Hu s dt m\ I iii4c i tips
lu coin I kneu Ihdl 1 hdd no
lilt •<, pj( pjll <1 Ilf i Uds ,j si niish
(I d 1 in\ id nut of .ut)Lin (me ids
o con si f I uds hdiulsonu I
jid both in jjnu diul monte 10,
i,d |Oin iu \ to Uoslon
POLICE BREAK UP
MOR4L RACKET
Geoigc F Poaison 30 and his
v lit Nellie weie ancsted in
Boston Mass on charges of
blackmail It was alleged that thm
i oiaan ensnaicd victims In her
1 eaiit\ and suasivc graces, whde
hoj husband appealed on tile
s'cue at the cntical moment to
laige sums ot nioncj is
the price ol damage to the pie
st mod dignitv as husband
Both wcie natives ol Bangoi
10 e and operated in vanous
nlies m the New England states
50 Years Ago
\u aulhontv on Indian hislon
'I went\ five \eais aso moic
potatoes ueie moved to maikol
L\ motoi ti nek 111 Pennsilvaiiia
l/ian am other impoi (ant potato
mowing stale in the countiv ac
coidim> 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
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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, <iop
the nation and in 1932 pioduced loins win, had Ini husband ar
a i rop totaling 21 450,000 bushel-) n slid lot disci don admitted she
duew him bodily out of their
Mis Hannah Coism of St home
vading one another's homes, of
course. Each home became its
own center of preaching and
teaching.
Whether a church practices In
fant baptism, or whether they usa
a dedication seivice, all chuiches
agiee, in theoiy, that parents
ought to do whatever they can,
thiough the yeais, to introduce
then childien to Chnst. A going
chuich is one that helps its young
patents to do this Some paients
,will tell you they don’t want to in
fluence their childien, so they
won’t say a woid about religion
,to them but wait and let the boys
and gills think for themselves.
That’s s bit sillly, isn't it 7 You
teach your child what is proper
food and how to eat it You help
them with their arithmetic, you
talk to them about everything you
know about Why do you keep si
lence about the most important
Pei son in the woild 9 If a child
nevei hears the name “Jesus”
outside a chuich, Jie’s likely to
conclude that Jesus doesn’t mean
much to his paients . and hs
may never become a Chustian at
all
Person by Person
A going chinch fuitVieimore is
not only telling what Jesus has
done "person to peison" but also
peison bv peison Paul has been
called the gicatest piess agent
who fever lived By this it is meant
that he was the most enthusiastic
single "salesman” the Christian
faith has ever known Paul could
talk with large crowds, and often
did But when he stayed in a city
for any length of time, we know
he took time for individuals "You
TO FORCE EARLY PASTURE Eaily pasture
uili be most welcome on many fauns this spring
Both wmtei giains and more permanent kinds of
pasture mixUuos may be biought into production
carliei by top dresing this month with nitrogen
Ic’tili/ei Applications oi 50 to 60 pounds per
acie ot actual mitogen should piovidc gracing
10 days to two weeks earlier than normal On
peunanent pastmes it is lecommended that only
a part oi the field be loiccd with this leililwer
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