Plugging Crop Insurance
Benson Urges Farmers to Use
Precautions Against Crop Disaster
Farmers can and should pio
lect themselves, against financial
disaster lesulting from ciop
losses, Secretary of Agriculture
Ezra Taft Benson said today
Increasing numbers are safe
guarding their income thiougb
crop insurance or other income
protection but, the Secretary
noted, “these numbers still repre
sent only a small percentage of
all farmeis
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Instead of 500 da's
IKiakes this Utah
Random sample a
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In this second in
temountara ran
dom sample test;
Honegger layers produced
on per pullet housed basis 263.7
eggs . . . and $4.67 profit per
bird, or 81c more income than
the average of all other entries.
On the basis of two-year aver
ages at Utah, HONEGGER
LAYERS were, BEST with $4.10
profit above feed and chick cost
per pullet housed.
Compare . . , and you will buy
Honegger Layers for the best
year-in and year-out perform
ance.
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“Each year disaster and crop
Josses strike thousands*"of farm
ers ” the Seci clary said “01
course wc are always deeply con
cerned with such misfortune
when it comes but what we
can do, attar losses occui, is
limited Each farmer, by acting
now, can get crop insurance or
other income pi election”
After the disastrous drouths*
floods and other causes of crop
losses in recent years, farmers
this year have offered almost 50
uer cent more Acreage Reserve
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All-risk Federal Crop Insur
ance for 1958 is available to farm
ers in many counties Secretary
Benson urged farmers in these
counties to apply for crop insur
ance before the closing dates
This is the 20th anniversary of
that basic protection against
crop disaster ,
“Farmers in more than 80C
counties have the opportunity to
use this crop investment insur
ance ” the secretary said “Al
though still on a test basis, it
has bec9me increasingly appar
ont in recent years that its basic
function of stabilizing crop pro
duction capital banked oi
borrowed needs to be moie
fullv utilized
“Where crop disaster stikes
both farmers and the business
community feel the need foi
emergency assistance Crop in
surance has been developed to
meet this need on a business
basis *
“Farmers in counties where
crop insurance is available will
m effect be saving ‘no emer
gency assistance against crop
disaster needed’ if they pass up
the opportunity to 'become Fed
eral Cron Insurance Corporation
policyholders,” the Secretary
said
During the past 20 yars Fed
eral Crop Insurance has paid
nearly a half billion dollars of
indemnities. These insurance
checks have enabled many farm
ers to survive crop disasters
which ofherwist would have put
them out of business By its na
ture crop insurance relieves
financial stress when the need
is greatest where there is lit
tle or no crop to sell
“Federal Crop Insurance is
not protection that is ottered
gratis, it is an insurance plan
for mutual protection against
common risks to-which the best
farm 1 - and methods are not im
mnne It is a self-help method
whose success in any county re
fleets the willingness of farmers
to prepare today for what can
happen tomorrow, ’ the secretary
said
“The indemnities paid reflect
the fact that it is a very high
risk field ol insurance The 1957
citrus evpenence illustrates this
point For six years citius policy
holdeis paid a half million dol
lai-f lor protection with few
losses but 1957 citrus indemnity
checks alone will total nearly
three-quarters of a million dol
lars.
Ph. EL. 4-8721
“Crop insurance operation 1
and service can be stiengthened
by more farmers mining this co
operative plan,’’ he said “It is
EZRA TAFT BENSON
cropland than the $5OO million
winch Congress appropriated
would cover
Fanners can still put land in
Conservation Reserve, 'which is
another form of income msur
ance It is available to farmcis
growing every kind of field ciop
in every state
Secretary Benson uiged tha
“producers farming high risk
croplands, or who have impaired
family situations such as old age
or poor health, or who hav'e in
efrcient acreages, should consul
er putting then cropland mtc
the Consenation Reserve befoie
the final sign-uo date, Apnl 15
County Agricultural Stabilization
and Conservation offices can pro
vide information about the Con
servation Reserve*
i Lancaster Farming, Friday, March 28, 1958—5
Tent Caterpillars May Move Soon
From Winter Quarters to Shade Trees
Although snow lingers as wmt
cr’s remindei in some areas, the
Slate Dcpaitinent ol Agiiaillmc
‘■avs it isn’t to caily to lake a look
at those neaiby wild chciry liees
lor botheisome tent caloipillais
Dr Thomas L Guyton, dncctor
of the State Bmeau ot Plant In
die try, suggested homeowners in
sped the ciotches of wild cheny
trees dining the ne\t week He
>a'd after Apnl 1 it might be too
late The pests also attack un
spiayed plum and apple tiees
Tent caterpillais aie capable
ol defoliating shade and orna
mental trees In certain areas
tncy have been found in such
truly a farmers’ program The
piemiums they pay for protec
tion provide the funds for loss
payments where disaster stnkes ’’
Crops on which insurance is
currently offered in more than
800 counties aie wheat, coin, cot
ton tobacco, flax, soybeans, dry
edible beans, barley, peaches
citius fruit and a few additional
crops under h combination policy
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Healthy Chicks Make Great Layers!
Are YOUR Eggs Going
Over An Assembly Line?
Have you ever seen your eggs go over the assembly line at a
large egg giading station 9 Your eggs can't fool these machines.
You are paid on % Grade Aor better Grade B’s, cracks poor
shells and “bloods ’ don’t made Grade A Eggs are' sized into 6
grades Jumbos, Extia Laige, Laiger, Mediums, Pullets and
PecWees
This system increases your return about Old a dozen over the
old method where your eggs are sold along with everyone else’s.
With this system you make a lot of extra profit if you have a top
quality pack But you are penalized if you have poor quality eggs.
GLF, a large farmeis’ co-op with grading stations in New
Yoik, annually present a sjhar trophy to the entry showing the
highest egg quality at the Western New York Random Sample
test (Entries showing a net profit below test aveiage do not
qualify )
This year Babcock Bossies won this GLF trophv The
Bessics that laid these eggs came fiom a Random Selection of
Bessie hatching eggs leacly to incubate into chicks for 'our custom
ers The chicks you buy are the same as we enter m the tests
Babcock Bessie eggs are making a great iccoid at egg giading
stations from coast to coast They are easily showung 95',<• Giade
A at grading stations
EASY WAY TO MAKE MONEY
The easiest monev you II ever make is deciding to buv
Bessies You may as well produce top quality eggs while
you’re at it The chick you buy largely determines r 'n top
quality you can produce with good caie and management
Wnte for 48-page catalog and Bessie folder
BABCOCK HATCHERY
Lancaster County Branch
Route 3F, Lititz, Pa. Phone MAdison 6-5872
Russell Mease Bob Decker
Route 4 R D.
Manheim, Pa. Milford. New Jersey
Phone MO-5-4705 Phone Milford -1-4909
huge numbeis that one depart
ment ollicial lemaiked thec look
ed like an aimv marching shoukt
ei to shouldci
On or about Apnl 1 eggs (hat
wi'ie deposited last tall will hatch
Egg masses now can be found
iluod togelhei by a sticky sub
sUncc in a collai like foimation
Oil the end oi twigs Each mass
contains between 200 and 350
eggs
The caleipillars will spin a
silky web in tice uetches This
will be their home loi the cluia
tion ot the leading period This
\/(!> will be noticed within the
"cxl several weeks and should be
destroyed by wiping it Irom the
tioe with a bloom 01 by hand.
Once the web is dcstioyed the cat
eimllars will die
Tent cateipillais crawl fiom
lhe \tOb like nest lo feed on loaves
'lhc pests as a mle can be found
‘at home’ in the cailv morning,
at right and on cool dajs
Spraying is elective, Doctoi
Gavion said One spiay of 50 pci
cent wcttable DDT or 25 pci cent
wdfable malathion will conliol
Ihc pests for the entnc yeai