Overproduction of Feed Grains Dropped Price Despite Increased Cattle Numbers RECORD pioduction last fall, poor har vesting weather and mounting stocks have all combined to bring feed grain puces veil below last year's level. 1 The nation’s feed bins are bulging fiom the 142-milhon-ton harvest of 1957 and a i ecoi d 49-milhon-ton carryover from pi deeding years , \ The 1957 feed giain crop w r as nine pei cent laiger than that of 1956 and nearly a fifth above the 1950-51 average Also, much of the coin and sorghum giain is high in moisture content and must be fed or arti ficially dued befoie warm weather this spring to avoid spoilage These cncumstances explain much of the 20 pei cent decline from last year in the average puces received by farmers for feed giams The average is now about 40 per cent lower than six years ago when the current feed grain price decline began It is the lowest figure since World War II Still other reasons for this vear’s price reductions aie that fewer corn producers are eligible for the full price support than in othei recent years, and supports for feed grams are lower Only about 14 per cent of the 1957 corn ciop in the commercial area was pi oduced m compliance with acreage allot ments, which was required for eligibility for full support puce of $1 40 a bushel The other 86 per cent w 7 as produced by non-comphers and is eligible only for the lower support late of $1 10 a bushel The doi This Week • in Lancaster Farming BY JACK REICHARD 75 Years Ago \n cimusing incident in the iitc ol Humho'dt noted Gcnnan astionomci and traieler back in the 1800 s occuned during his usd to Is/im in Sibeiia It seems that Humboldt, who had (ome to Is7\ m to make some < siiononncai obseivations, went t > the house ol JI Skotin the ti'incipal governmental otlicial in Uh place with a letter of intro duction hom the Gou” noi Gen eral of Siberia About a week lat c the Governor Genetal iecci\ crl « !(ltu fiom Skotin lepoiting tne aimal of Humboldt and his act.oils dining the lust few aavs til his stac at Is/'m Skotin vviote Some dais ago theie came bile a (iciinan named Humboldt t eh i.d up little man looking am Ih'iig but iispectable ks hovv < >ei he In ought with him a letlei liom 'io’ii Fxicllcntv, in which I ■m d'lectcd to treat him with ot iitc ness and considciation I i’ c<ncd him with all due respect ■\t ti.c same time I must obseivc that If. s individual seems to me mm su-picious e\en dangeious I Kin: the Inst he did not please iii In gossipped too much and fed not like the laic 1 odeied him though 1 hate a took Fell -a who nidkc - cvtclknl pnogs no would Ik most happv to ol In souk to\om excellence ii( vernal to dapisc both mII <ui'l m» huspitalilv and if c> d< ,itl\ looked down upon il( ll'O-l (11, UK lit oflUidli oi the 0,11 On the o hei hand he is niUMimlh talking mill the Pok s o dim i political anninals mid i 'ii ihai-n \(l(i ,1 Ion” (oil lu Hirl out with lh< m ' ni-iU to thi lop ol a lull v Inch on niano- Ihr tow n Then the' .'I ou ol a lave whith lh(\ tad hioiialit with them an in P iinm>>• i in tin -h jjjf ol a lone, 11 1 -r v. hn h -( imi 'I to ini anil > toll a'-ni 'll) i a hum tan on I In'- tin plat< il on a thi i e f 'I '-iaii'l ami annul it stiamhl 1 lia town Si une, tin meat maa uhnh thuatand the in ahil nils of the toon which is nit i iitni h ol worn! I mi iiiiatth ol dat'd thi town mid whith consists ol a snhol iff and si\ ini'n to march to u -p.it with loach d muskets t (Ik cle which Is already used , wheie; namely religion; but with a brand of religion the like of JmM which, oi the equal of which, has Jfmm, never yet been seen average price received by farmers for corn .... , „ , „ . „ dropped to 93 cents a bushel m mid- what Grandma Saw ,n H January ' Tbeie ,iave been timcs - very _ ,y ’ „ , ,—,,, , S§V a i long times in the histoiy of the Price Supports for feed grains have I u°™> Chnstian chuich. when this last been lowered in recent years as corn sup- \ chaHengmg command of cimst plies have increased Corn price supports was completely foi gotten chus were reduced from a national average of i-j* R r omans M i a iM W 28 ' 18 ’ S0 ‘ Cans had a vague idea that God $1 62 a bushel for the 1954 crop to $1.40 a D ''°‘ lo^l Bead,nt - Acts 8 w° uld , worshippers ail over 7 , , £ ~ mnn o i the woild but they had only th* bushel for the 1957 crop Support prices «. .. «... «| ilI „_i l foggiest notions how he would do for other feed grains have also been low- if 0110 TV 106 UnUlun thlSi and besides, they nguied it ered was God's business anyhow and Low feed prices this year have resulted I Lesson for March 23 - 1958 thcy needn 1 bolbei But alon § m in generally favorable livestock-feed prices r~ the i9th tentuiy, the chu,cb began In January the avpraffp nnce ppcpivpH hy T HE Blble always means the t 0 e a dmeient undoistandin* in Januaiy, tne avei age pi ice received bv 1 same thingi but Christians’ of the Bible and of then icspnnsi farmers for hogs a hundred pounds was understanding of what it means bilitics as Chustians Jesus’ com equivalent in value to nearly 20 bushels of changes fiom age to age Some- mand to "Go, touch” in all the coin, much more than the 1937-56 average times the chinch ignores paits of woild was taken seriously, and Of 13 1 bushels the Bible and looks the other way, what wc know as Woild Missions Prices Of beef steers, dairy products, as ]t weie, " hen thelr reading or Foioign Missions was re-born. and ppps also were high in January in rpla- bnngs them t 0 the ” e Plages The mrelconth century was a ana eggs also were cllgn in januaiy in reia Sometimes the gieat Missions centuiy It saw tha tlOll to food prices Puces of broilers, farm chinch may be founding of the gieat missionaiy chickens, and tufkeys, however, have re- very fond of a societies in Euiope, Gieat Bntam mamed below the 10-year average relative verse or an idea and Amenca It saw thousands of to feed costs. m the Bible, but young people going out as foreign Prices received by farmers for live- their not!on °* missionanes Now in. Giandma’s cdppk and livpqfnpk nrnrbirfs fpll about *lO what “ means t,me thc way she ’ as a humbla StOCK ana livestock products 1611 about may be far nfT Chnstian looked at it was about pel Cent fiom 1950-51 to 1954-56 During y le beam Some- the wav the churches all looked the past two years, livestock prices have times the chinch at it “We who belong to the Chi is gained back about a third of this reduction in one eta under- tian chinches in the Chnstian Since 1951 there has been little net stands the Bible Dr. Foreman countnes aie in duty bound to send change in the number of gram-consuming lightly—for that eia; and Chns- missionaries to the daik and livestock on farms The number increased tia " s ln t a la ‘f r time of fhe wolld * eatie " , anr ; of th^ W0 ’ Id h^ , , ~ inAn it. , will get another meaning, which must send money too to build about 10 pel cent from 1947 to the post- J S (. be ngbt one f or eia chuiehes and open up hospitals war high of 1950, declined rather sharply and schools, we must keep on from 1950 to 1953, then increased, but has Go lnto ~ie World doing this we and our childien, remained a little below the 1950 peak Tbe Mastel definitely expected till the whole woild has been con his tehgion to spread thioughout verted" the woild By all accounts his last oidois to his friends weie mai ch- Lancaster Farming lf? g Oideis Some chuich membeis seem to think—indeed, some of Alfred C Alspach, Publisher, Robert them will tiy to tell you—that each E Best, Editor, Robert G Campbell, . , Advertising Director, Robert J of tne world has its own spe- Wiggins Circulation Director cial local religion and it is bad Lancaster County’s Own Farm Weekly manneis, if not woise, foi us Established November 4, 1955 t. i,,,-. . , Published every Friday by OCTORARO C-niistians to baige in so to speak NEWSPAPERS, Quarryville. Pa into the tointoiy aheady staked Phone STed,nsK)V or Lancaster, out for othei gods That, of coui se. and not lose sight ot this Gei- Entered as Second-Class mattci at ls nonsen se If it weie true, then n .11 Q nrnnnodinoQ th ■ Post Office, Quany ville, Pa , u-<lcr the Pilgrim Fatheis had no busi- Ih.ili s piOLLeiun 0 s Act of Maich 3, 1579 np . s hiinomfT iho„ n,w„ 1 semi this to Your Excellency Subscription Rates S 2 per year, ... ... “ g i, 811 B ‘ ble f to tbe In a special messenger, and be? veais s, > s,nffle copy Pnce 5 6W W °' ,d Th f ey s hou W have lor a sneedy decision once moie rZL u T, j ° ln , . rehgion the Indians might have you oi my submission Jcsus would have thought lt and nn devotion to the Czar and nonsense to expect the faith he holy Russia founded to stay put in Jsiusalem Theie was no leligious vacuum anvwheie in the woild then; there is none now “Into all the woild" meant, and still means, that the Chnstian gospel has to be taken right into competition with exist ing i ehgions, some of them much nldei "Into all the woild” means Chustians go out with an arti- 50 Years Ago A halt centur> ago China was noted toi its pickled eggs, which ve;c picseived with a pickle made-of common mud, salt, salt peter and soybean sauce all mix ul logethci The eggs wcie coat eel with a plaster ot this mixtuie and laid away to cure It was u< lined the eggs kept foi scxeial in mtbs when piepaicd in this manner S\\CASTER COUNTY C VRPENTER MAKES QUILT . a , , I f Mistilicd bj the sudden death thus Adams ol Warwick Lan , . .„ . . , ~ , , , , , n , . ol a purebred Holstein bull while c istei Countx a caipentei bv . , * , , . . „ „ „ hade, completed d quilt in bis ! " ” Sta 1 , C 1 f ? lc " <nn handvvoik in 1908 It con- b .' nm f oi , ncdl Pelelsb^S. 1 .ned 11 46 patches each mea- U ' , , , , lie attempted to lemovc the img sin mt* one inch squat c Adams t m „„ ~ ° t , , V, . liom the animals nose piepaia nd he wo.ked on the quilt at loiy lo iemovjng the carcass nrhtove. a penod 0 1 about thiee when hc tollched the rin „ ai , 1 cHcnbdum leceivcd a seveie , ri , c letti ic shock which knocked him Flu wi lot the late lames Oln down , n Ulo sta „ An lmesllga . < mven.oi ol the chilled plow tJO „ dlsclosed lhdt the chain dl . ciKi ownci ol Inc laiuesl plow < 4 , , . . 4U i, ct* 1 lachod to the uns was tied azound Pkm in the uoild f.ltj jea.saso (ncrhead girdei> dlon „ whlth had been tiled loi piobatc in the d tonduit Cdll}ing ’ llO lts WdS st Joseph Cntuit Comt in In i islenccl fll ‘l na , . , The links ol the chain, rubbing 1 annh i^ h ties wci . . , , , ° ( WI , I I ' l 1K constant!} on the conduit, had dMnhution o the ca,l lo.tune v , O , n thlou „ h lt unUl tonlatl eMnnalcd at 563 000 000 the builw t , l<ide vuth the h clct . • I which was 101 l l„ Joseph D u ltuting thc bull ( 'jui a son to be dclmimsleml b\ moans of a ti usl iimd T.elurnins hom a pait% at I ’\{ \sn ri % purri r\- i- " hlth he hdcl won d Soosc Ernest lAC VSILR I \KMhRS I V«vL Ihrnei of llall i Jn Twp , W , th (hs . j'<IION \GAIVST HOBOS cocciocl that thicnes had stolen ill of his chickens iaimeis in uppci Rapho '1 \vp 1 <HI( iol( i CounU made a move A potato that had all the lea to deal the aica of tramps bark lines ol an auplano with the e\- m Maich 1908 The lamieis toption ol a piopellci was dug <l...imd that women and \oimg up on the faun ol F W Shultz "Is in main of the homes had ol (neat Falls Mont bt'ii 1 hi( atoned and abused In 111 l)llms Jingle tingle went Mis Lee In an (Oort to put an end to Kiefauvei’s cluck as it waddled M' nuisance larmois mined m aionnd the laim neat Boonsboro (he mine posting notices on M(i aftei swallowing a hell liom Hu n pi ope i ties to the etieet that tin hahj s rattle li and biggais are not al hwed on the piennses and that Fating si\ eggs a daj the Rcc ‘d! caught will be dealt with ac cci chug to law’ An attempt to convert Biancly \ ire Creek into a ditch, thus do st! oymg the identity of “the old swimmin hole” which James Y-'hitcomb Riley made famous in one of his poems, had been de feated by a decision of the Su pieme Couit ol Indianapolis The t court hold that the stieam could not be conveited into a ditch because the ‘necessity for it had not ben made apparent by the petitioners ’ 25 Years Ago [—Lancaster Farming, Friday, March 21, 1958 fHE / yBIEBas/ SPF Now Is The Time . . . By MAX SMITH County Agucultuial Agent Ci TO DEHORN CATTLE - The good cattleman mil clehoin his cattle while joung and during the wintei months (hat aie fiee liom flies Young Mil c, btoc,< fhdf ha\e not been dehorned as calves Max Smith and aie too old foi tieating with commcicial pxo ducts and electiic dehoineis, should be heated be \oungel n fges P£,SUlro Th ° opcldl,on Wl]l cause less shock at the TO KEEP PLANT ROOTS MOIST _ Within (he next lew weeks Tiam : oung Ilowei vegetables and loieslu plants will be set out Due o wcalhei condil.ons some 0 t these not be planted mompt . C : "V IP , nion , < ! , n lhese tdscs 11 - 'eiy essential to piotect the nla((^Tlip S JJ |i lec . ing ln 01 bv keeping them moist in a o#ol dark fs expellcM ” muM n ° l be <lllovvt<l “» (l >' out ,f ,ap.d ,oot.ng TO USE SIMPLE SEED — II i 7 , , oi pastiuc oi loiagc ciop ,s to be made this spnng .Ms'Ssedthat lenna Expci iment Station a'simpk-'SxtTii e’ol o^Th‘T'l riiHrE 1 R Edwaids ol Owensville Ind . had consumed mole than 26 280 o( them \ patient in a hospital in Way A New Day Dawning What happened 7 The missionar ies succeeded better than Grand ma expected To make a long story shot t the Chi istmn church uas no longer as it had been for centur ies a Em opean-Amei lean aflair. Theie was an Indian church and an Afucan church and a south Pacific islands chuich and so on aiound the globe What were thesa new churches to do’ Sit still and live on missionary offerings from far-off America listen to sermons exclusively from missionaries, ba “run” from New York or Edin burgh or Amsterdam? Not for long' The more Christianity suc ceeded the more certain It be came that these “mission" churches would begin to stand on* their own feet (Based on outlines copyrighted hy tbs Division of Christian Education, Na tional Council of the Churches of Christ/ In the USA Released by Community Press Service.) TO BE EFFICIENT Much is vvuttcn m lecent Jodis about the iamily sized farm being on it’s way out, theie is little need to accept this state ment merely because of the predicted trend No doubt the tamily-sizcd farm is getting larger and should be expanded as large as possible How evci opeiation 3 ol various sizes may be equally diluent, herein lies the impoitancc ot proper planning and management (loss, (,a teeth liom a fellow patient and s'‘nl them home to be available when he got discharged. stole a set of lalse )
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