Phenomenal Rise in Farm Income Takes
Some Vemom from Farm Progam Attack
THE STEADY use in the average of farm
prices in recent months to the highest
level in almost five years is giving agricul
ture secretary Ezra Benson a defense that
neither he noi his attackers had counted
on
The price increase of seven per cent
since December and 11 per cent over a
vear ago won’t, however, stop the debate
over whethei the present farm program
should or should not be continued Only a
few think it should be.
President Eisenhower says he hasn’t
changed his opinion that new faim legisla
tion is needed Most congressmen disagree
w ith him only as to what changes should be
' made The odds are that no changes will
be made this year.
The farm battle throuhgout the re
mainder of this year, including the elec
tion campaigning, will be a war of words
more than action A continued rise in farm
prices could, however, take the edge off
farm programs as a political issue
The chances of adopting sound farm
legislation have been lessened by the pro
paganda war that would do the Russians
credit for half-truths and outright misrep
resentation of the facts The result has
been to whip up anti-farmer resentments
among consumers
It's interesting to follow a dollar spent
bv a city housewife for food or clothing
Sixty cents are taken out for “services” be
foie the remaining 40 cents reaches the
producer
Out of this must come 31 cents for
hired labor equipment, gasoline, fertilizer,
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BY JACK REICHARD
75 Years Ago
k news dispatch to the Phil
aclelphia Times fiom the Reading
section lepoited that Mrs Eliza
both Stewait the wife ot a well
to do laimei was auested on the
charge of uueltv to Rosa Stiause
1' who was emploved in the
home
The gul claimed she was made
to woik in the hav fields doing
a mans job and never received a
lull nights lost being compelled
to use at 1 a nr to begin hci
'jctVlsh VVOlk
She stated that one morning
she was told to remove some dead
cPickens out of the garden and in
doing it was obliged to cioss a
t 'ic t budge and fell in the watei
When she letumed to the house
it was alleged that IMis Stevveit
heat the gul in a leinble mannei
The authorities who mvestigat
ccl found the gul with hei legs
and icet swathed in dutv clothe*
Sire had laigc sores on her fed
with thorn* and splinleis fesler
,ng in the llesh oi hci ankles and
(<hcs
Mis Stewait was sick when ai
* csteci
( ONOIU KLDUCLD
FOSTU.II R\TL
\ Ijill to i educe lellei postage
'nun that to two cents was pass
<i ! b\ both hou>-c> ol Congress
'Lin Poslollicc Department an
1 ounccd the new law would £ci
■Mo (fleet Oct 1 1883
Ihe old thiee cent stamp was
to be abolished 'i he new two
(i nt stamp eontaimd a tablet up
on which was a piofile of Wash
n .'ton Sunoimding the 1 piofile * n d,Kas^cl Counlj the laij4
was an o\al band with the winds Csl plantation of tobacco in 1908
‘Lulled States Postage at the ' ,d ‘' pi* l n <ied on the J Donald
top Deniath the band was a laiip Cameion laims neai Mauetta
‘2 and at the extieme bottom "hut 90 aues wene piepaied lor
,hi wold-, Two Cents ~‘ t ' k ‘ di Cdmeron had 88 aetes
planted in 1907 with a Meld of
111 814 pounds which he sold at
Si 20 pen hundiedweifiht
iiaik in 188 i moio than 0 000
(uinnuioul tclcgiaph opcratms
m 200 cities o t the Lulled Staler
and Canada struck for higher
i 1 ages and shottei hocus
This Week 0 '
in Lancaster Farming
Lancaster Farming
Lancaster County's Own Farm Weekly
Alfred C Alspach, Publisher, Robert
E Best, Editor, Robert G Campbell,
Advertising Director, Robert J
Wiggins, Cuculation Director
Established November 4. 101 l
Published every Lr»day by OCTORARO
NEWSPAPERS, Quarry ville. Pa
Phone STerlmg 6-213 J or Lancaster.
Express 4-3047
I ntered as Second-Class matter at
the Post Office, Qnarryville, Pa., iy«dcr
Act of Match 3, 1870
Tornadoes swept sections of Subscription Bates $2 per year,
Lnusiana, Mississippi and Ala- vears ss ’ Sm?le cop> Pnce 5
hama April 24, 1908, leaving a
50 Years Ago
ti a il oi dead and iimired among ' should not be fea“r, but’"lovms and at ‘ h ® same tlme reject hls
a mass of ruins The number kill- , r . . matitude responsibility to the God in whom
ed was placed at about 350 and door °P Cn , for ™ ini ™ um term j i he says he believes. Freedom as
the number of painfully or sen aw - through s P e - Cod and the Ten Commandments a child sees it means havmg ev
ously miured at 1 200 With sev- CISi s * a *" e aid * lom the $1.250 000 Look at this fiom anothei angle erythmg his own way. Freedom for
eial thousands left’hoineless emergency fund pi onded by the again How do people react to the the mature means seeking always
Most of the dead were Ne«mes Le S lslatule 111 1931 > according to Law of God. especially as we find God-s way
1 heir number was not known he Dr Jlimes N Rule, Superintend- His will in the Ten Command- (Ba«d on outline, copyrighted by fh.
cl.™. ,w weTfbm'ed^.hoa cM of PI,M “ “““ men*. S,™ pe.pl., „.t Ch„.. S;;S%V.'.,, c .VIS-J.S!:rMK
f j y j , If special aid had not been tians of comse, think of these *” th * us a Released by Commimitr
caieful IGCOlds made f AT it TT m I Press Service. >
T + i i ui i r given to Noith Union Township
In inan\ towns whole blocks of , , , . , „ .. ~ . 1
little homes and cabins lay spiead s ( dl00 > dl , stl,Lt Fayei \° Cou " ty ’
o\ci the giound Under this mass ll ; S £°° ls WOU , d h f vo been C f AT™ T c T* „
ol wreckage hunch cds died " d f W han , all f ocat ; on f rom th * iIOW IS 1 IIC 111116 .. .
Stale Council of Education, and
icncwed efloils to collect out
Fled Chasci a faimei icsidmg standing taxes this third class
..t Spnng Road and Chestnut d.stiict was able to continue its
Axenue Vineland N J , hit upon schools loi the nine month tcun
a noxel idea of buiying the eggs Ilundieds of other districts were
in the sand ot his sweet potato ddecl bj the Council, and all
hoi bed when his meubatoi broke Commonwealth schools weie ex-
down The result had pi oved most peeled to complete their mini
giatifjmg, foi the eggs hatched mum teims icquired by law
ard the chicks weic as lively and Dr Rule wained that a much
stiong a-, those hatched bj a larger emergency fund for use
mother hen
Fifty \eais ago this week wom
en wealing Meirv Widow” 01
cartwheel hats weic loqueslcd to oi all the emeigency legisla
leave then headgear at the door ( 10 n sponsoied by Pres F D
it then attended the opening sen Roosevelt it apopars (hat the new
ices of the Mens Chinch in At- faim leliel bill had caused the
lantic CiU was announced bj the neatest misgivings as to its ulti
pastoi the Rev Sidney Good- mde results Piesident Roosc
\elt reminded the critics that the
Women will be welcome to measure was onh an experiment
these sen ices but thev will not
be permitted to interior with the . r ,
comfoit of the masculine wor- I'vcm .c five c cars ago this week
riiipens said the associate ice- hc slal ® fo,e * ll ( ec I . nurscnos
j Ol weic in the midst ot their spring
Men uOl c pei nutted to smoke shipments of forest tree seedlings
unci icinoic then coats if thev de- : Moic th ‘ m , se ' en ™ ll,on 1 > oun ’
, f j v tiees weio being shipped to in
dniduals in evetn county m Penn
sjhania
TO USE CAUTION WITH I'ERTILIZERS _ In neaily all cases it
Js a pool practice to allow seed and ferlili/ei to come in contact wi*h
each olhei when planted, the geimmalion will be killed or stunted
m most cases The feitili/er should eilhci be plowed down, drilled
on top and woiked into the soil, or sidediesscd at planting time
\ihm Doorl who h.d 5 ... vnd *“.h” ‘T ' S u^ pcudlI > djmd Si«« to seeds that have been inoculated
la \ c csvtK. “ zz„vz'zzxsiz 1 '”, t po,a f
Most public schools in Pennsvl learn he had inherited $6,000 and to the voung spiouts Senaialediill d, , llaßin S lo the seeds
van.a had been able lo keep then a garage at Foil Wayne Indiana seeding ,s recommended g ferUluer pn ° r t 0
25 Years Ago
Uwi «■ they msy about esrtslrt
•tats or national laws; they com?
ply, but with a «our face and J
■low heart. Sometimes they spell
It outi “I don’t like this law, but
, . , A , it’* the law and I’m obliged to
interest on debt, taxes and other operating flarry it out. I have no choice.’*'
costs He has only 9 cents left for his labor, God’* law, like man’s, seem (to
out of which he must pay family living iom » p«opia) like so many prison
costs His average wage is less than 50 b * r *; But Bil I , aw * a ” laws °*
an hmir freedom, not restraint, because he
cents an noui. „ , . is the freedom-loving God. It 1»
Consumers are told they pay tor their bim* Material; Exodus ii:i—is is written into the Preface of the
food twice—once m higher prices and Pactional Psalm 105 2J - 4a - Ten Commandments I"I (the Giver*
again' when they pay their taxes Any of these laws) am the Lord thy
housewife will tell you that food costs a lot find Sfifs Men Free God ’ ***** brought thee up ~. outi
of money and that prices have been going of the house of bondage.’*
UP UP :. ~ . Lesson for April 27 * 1958 5 Veil-advertised and much-
The other fact is that the average wage leen picture. “The Ten Command
earner in 1957 could buy more and better »-p H E thought of God should be ments,” devotes only ten minutes
food With a smaller percentage of his in- the happiest thought in the Of Its nearly four hours to the Ten!
come than at any time in more than 40 world, but often it isn’t On busi- Commandments. Most of the story
years From 1947 'to 1957 factory wages « ess contracts the words “Act of Is concerned (the narrator says)
increased 67 ner cent but food costs rose God always mean catastrophe,’’ With the story of freedom against,
mu eased o/ pel cent, out iooq costs lose gomething dhe and dreadful. Just tyranny, of free men under God
only 31 pel cent. mention God, In a serious way, as against the slavery of life under
Prices paid farmers for raw products at some party or v « dictator. That Is quite right
have gone down by an average of 20 per and about the Exodus of the Hebrew
cent in the past 10 years All, and more, of P e °P le will stop people lro ™ Egypt, it was the
the increased fond costs are the result of » milin g and look blrth of * free pBopl# - By taten
tne incuasea xooa costs are tne result ot at in a sus . tion, the picture hit the nail on the
higher processing and distribution costs piC ious, almost hesd. But the picture Itself didn’t
In 1948 the farm price of wheat was resentful way. It bit that nail at aIL Freedom, In
$2 81 a bushel and the average price for a is plain that the picture, is just getting away,
pound load of bread was 13 8 cents Last ■ orna people breaking loose, drowning your ene
year the average price of wheat was $205 f^^ufcod 0 Wefof
a bushel and the aveiagG pi ice Of a loaf Of They think of freedom Is always attached to a
bread was 19 cents Wheat went down by Him as the Eye question: What will you do with It?
27 per cent and the price of bread went up In the Sky, sleeplessly watching. Freedom-from is not enough Thera
29 per cent They think of mm as a Cosmic bas to be freedom-for. Tbs gen-
In 1952 the government supported Galculator . forever at vvoik add- •ration that left Egypt were not
milk at 90 ner cent of na ritv and the avor fag up the good deeds and the i° ndemneft to long wanderings, as
miiK at ju per cent or parity ana tne aver misdeeds of all human bem g s , the picture suggested, for that riot
age price Ol milk was 22 8 cents a quart waiting for a slip, a big mistake, ous night at Sinai They were mad#
In 1947 the government supported milk at a sudden sin, to give Him the to die' In the wilderness because at
83 per cent of parity and the retail price Of excuse to pounce They think of • Orltlcal moment they refused to
milk averaged 24 3 cents a Quart Him as the Judge, all-knowing, fight for the land of promise. (See
un-forgetting, to whom and from Numbers 13, 14.)
• whom there is no appeal. God’s Fre* Men
q o( j ff, e Deliverer God sets men * ree today—-he has
, . , „ , _ always done it—ln a more pio
™ P I K Gd ln *>™ d sense than changing their
S unhfn’nv 1 status from slaves to citfzens. God
foim STJn 7 7 77 * et * men flee «n ‘heir souls. He
loim of slow self-tortuie It is like „ f „ n . . „
lnr . nrf , creates a free heart as well as a
living in a prison 01 a concentia- 0 ~ _ .
tion camp, under the guard’s con- ° kan one - G ° d S men are t not , or :
stantly watching eye Now this is 2“,^“^^*“
the very opposite of Bible ieligion J T
The keynote of the Bible fiom pk ar ® s „ et £ e f. the “law of
beginning to end is Salvation, t T
which means Deliverance, which s *7 ° d
means to be set fiee God is not f" d man God s free men discover
a God who enjoys getting people I w
into trouble, he takes delight in t resp °^^
getting them out of it The root *° God e No man
of a man’s feeling toward God Can stand 111 the llberty ol falth
of linancialh distressed schools
d.sliicts would be needed tor the
1833 35 teims
Nine of the 56 children attend
mt' the Mailus School, Lapeer,
Mich vveie sons and dati"hteis
ol John Swoishe a mcmbei of the
s< hool boaid
4—Lancaster Farming, Friday, April 25, 1958
By MAX SMITH
County Agricultiual Agent
'•v TO PLOW DOWN CORN STALKS The m
testation of European Corn Borer seems to be
*T on the mciease in the county in recent years,
W I' one of the most practical means ol reducing the
**** rtouble is to got the coin stalks either plowed
down or destioyed by May 1, this pievents'the
111 foT- corn trash from last year solving as a breeding
place for a new cion ol borcis Local growers are
urged to follow this piacticc now
■ kS TO be CAREFUL WITH 2,4 d weed sprays
The continued use of the ester form of 2 4-D
XvJHHB fiom now on is dangeious and should be discon-
tinued on most farm crops The danger of drift
Max Smith oi the spiay and fumes onto easily damaged
plants is too'gieat to take a chance Legumes,
tomato plants, shrubbeiy, and soon tobbacco plants will be too
numerous for the ester toim to he used safclv Use the amine forms
oi the low\olatile ester forms foi best icsulls
TO FERIILIZE I'ARM PONDS The icsulai fertilizing o£ farm
ponds is recommended Irom now until late September, complete
ieitilucrs such as 10 10 5 or 1 8 4 at the late oi 250 pounds per year
pci halt acre ol watei is recommended, this fcililuer should be
pul on the half acie pond at no moic than 80 pounds at a time and
Inoadcasl over the water This opphcation mav be icpcated at two
to thiec week intei vals until the clesned si eenish cast water is ob
tained Less Double fiom pond scum and weeds will be beneficial
iiom this piactice