Economist Believes Co-ops Should Lead In Groiving Trend to Vertical Integration THIS week in Washington two officials had woids to say about the implications of agricultural integration and how the farm er is likely to faie as integration gains a greater foot-hold Odin J Scoville, head of the farming efficiency section of the Agricultural Re search Service said that the farmer who now operates at a high level of efficiency may be worse off if integration increases output and lowers prices, although he still will letam some bargaining power and still will be an efficient operator Better off— due to integration—he said, will be the farmei w r ho has not kept up with techno logical improvements and who has had limited capital. Tips truly is a gloomy picture The farmer who now is looked to as the man who makes agriculture a business is slated lo become pinched by the farmer who never cared enough to keep up with what is going on in the business But another speaker for the USDA, Mai tin A Abrahamsen, director of the pur chasing division of the Fanner Cooperative Seivice, gave some suggestions that may help the fanner out of this dememma He suggests that cooperatives put then houses in order, sharpen up their business practices and go out and integrate with the farm operator. This, we know, is sacrilege Co-ops, in this area, are against integration in all shapes and forms Or are thev‘ > Let’s take a look In his off-the-farm operations the -This Week* Farming^ BY JACK REICHARD 75 Years Ago 'J lie Indian papoose tied to its boaid is not untamihai to Am e icaiis but it seems that many hubic-. not bom in this counliv vuic suhiccted to sunilai lieat ment Sewentj Ine ecais ago babies bom in Geimanv were not allow ed the same lieodom as those in -\nieuca For the most part ot Ihe a lust \oai of earthh pilgmn age Gciman babies weie lightl. '< oimd up in swaddling e lollies v ilb both amn and legs pinioned and earned about on pillows espe cialh made foi the puiposc \ftcr thev escancd fiom then wlappings a bag of featheis was ticei 0,1 thou backs so when thc\ tumbled otci the\ bad something to fall upon Those of the pooiei tias'-Ls weic laid in a basket with a If tic bag ot sugai in then mouths and weie expected to bc l>,\c themsehes without much (inthen attention ftom mothci oi nurse’ The nurses on the stieets cm i ltd the babies m then amis on a pillow tied to it hr pink ribbons laung as still and mo tionles- as i( ihe\ won* little mum lues In the case of LxTieasinei iidishall 1 Polk the iuiv turn en m a \eidel of cmbcv/lement (i\i u the penalU at impuso i nunt loi tucnU \cais and im oosiiu a line of S4OO 000 the full , moi m ot the embezzlement Polk \'as a nephew and the adopted s. n ol the late CxPiesident ' nnc s ixn»\ Polk 1 di ■'i n t iioi la\ 1 1) i ol 1 1 c"'. I n I mmiyhl sun acainst ilh Uotnn Lnion lileciajih ( o i )Jit ai'ioimi oi sIOOOO lot Ihe 'll la\ ol a thlC' (id\s 'ii .i ili,laiiu. ol Umt\ miles in \i h in-' Ins, m l( Idi U.L pm I !i.in, '( 1 Oil K. \ .mm i lull ol \(\> \oi k ,<l'l Ol 'll I'(| d lill-sldll t I Oik I .Inin u.is ,i lu ouhic k (I (.ii i.i _i di iu i,t d I, tin c ( Inn s< i in< s,i d dbi i <i^t 'I 111 I'llllsiu. plants of Ihr ;loui Si hiii" Maclnni (o >urUifjoil Conn ucn ikstim <’ ii Ini si vent' fi\c j cals <i"o report Is the recommendation*. The majority recommended: Don’t attempt to enter Canaan. Too much fighting, certain defeat. A little minority of two, two - ... ... against ton, recommended: We can farmer, either through his coopeiative 01 do it by God’s help, if we will; so as an individual operator, has done quite i c t übe done! Choosing between a bit of integrating in marketing his prod- those two leports was God’s ex ucts, in buying a wide variety of farm animation for the whole people— supplies and in providing himself with a and they faUed F ° r lhey bought e r u the majority repoit was light. growing list of farm business and produc- bh.io Moicrioit Number* ra.n-u-as , J turn services Devotional Readme■ Hebrews 3.5-19 The Wisdom of Faith Abrahamsen says that it is generally [*“” ~ ' ~ uSt diTu recognized that an important motivating Minority RopOft was a shield analysis of J„ d o £ force back of integration is the desire to vious risky situation But it was make more money It IS tins same objec- Lesson for May 18, 1958 i wrong For the minonly report tive that prompts the farmer to use his L 1 bi ought in by Joshua and Caleb cooperative to further integrate hIS op- «£UCH popularity must be de- sdo ™Tkith \’o!v utkTs eiations serve • 1 y m 1 i° n faith to see the wisdom of faith" Cooperatives, if they are going to Frenchmen can’t be wrong ’’ ••The and that is why> to those vvltho "’ meet their new responsibilities in the age ™™° The * St aUeswi&sl. , fa ' th 80 of ‘ cn looks / lke sheer of integration are going to have to meet such slogans as these Popu]anty foolishness and even id.ocy it » new needs of the farmer, develop broad- may be no more than the effect a teB ‘ ° f fa th ’ tO . begln vvlth> t 0 er horizons, provide better management, of clever but dishonest advertis- 888 , natn l li eve [ be _ . . , i. ° _ i - nr* ii - light Leu to our natural selves. build better industrial relations and as- tag. Fifty million r we make wisdom a matter of anth sume business risks or metic, right and wiong a matter If the coopei atives will remove wh£ J 3 u r ||i of counting noses We wait, before their heads from the sand and start to can be and some- k making up our minds, til] we sea integrate, Abrahamsen predicts that times have been 1 ’ *1 ) vhlBl V vay , V? 8 bandwa s° n « j. ° ... . , c j. „„„ „ a headed, and then we jump aboard, farmers will receive greater savings from « w«ng as s.m J True faith a.ks fi.st, what.s ughr an expanded operation: receive improved b 8 ™’ BB ?[ [ bB J&ST* ' g What does God sav> and not what service because the cooperative will be voice of the devil do P Q °P le say’ wimt does the able to employ superior practices, and T o be suie, the Hi biggest ciowd think? will have greater bargaining power due to majority may be *>r. Foreman Counting God In larger volume of marketings and purchases right some of the time, even most The .wisdom of faith, nov in our Alrpadv infppratincf m-p spvpral smith- ol the time. But it is no infallible time as in the time of Joshua, has ern poultry co-ops, fruit growers co-ops, gulde ’ aad ‘.Vf a " ise . ma “ tbat confidence enough an God always , -C J A, . ° . L ’ knows when the nnnonty report is to count him m Most Americans nut glowers, milk produceis and giain le rl ght one. believe in God, so the polls say. growers Most of the organizations are in g o^«s Examination Day But mosi; Americans make plans, the West, although there has been some Indeed the ability to detect the laige or small, without any thought interest and action by East Coast paultry truth, even when ms m a mmouty of God - preclsely as J he dld cooperatives. report, has sometimes been God’s exist That report of the -MM way of sifting, of testing, his peo- ‘T’n "T" n 3e f nt , loned pie. There is an interesting Old God at all Maybe they just forgot Testament story which tells of one him entirely Maybe they thought of these examination days of God be had ' vorn I TI cU ° Ut gettmg sets for men now and then The be peop)e out Egypt A"yway people of Israel, set free t.om ‘ he j r plans and recommendations Egypt, had been in the wilderness had n 0 ro °™ f ° r him 7 he mmorlty a little over a year They had been rep°rt. with the wisdom of faith, given the' Law, they had what we Ipcll ' ded five little words (in our would call an organized church. Engbsb t r ha ls lade ak they had a mihtaiy organization difference: The LORD is with All was *et now for the actual Ps The pe ° ple f° uld J no ? behevs march into Canaan, the promised ' brt and 80 tb ey died without land. Under God’s mspnation, ever setting foot on Canaan’s soil. Moses takes piecautions first. He k takes faith to count God m to sends twelve leading men in to y° ur P'ans and your hopes It takes . , “spy out the land,” perhaps the * aitb believe that what God A pet Pigeon sa'eel the life of s _ __ __ first -.ntellurence’’ scot,on of anv wants done - can be done - Th® test James Myeis a youngster resicl- ■' 1 "■ 1 army recoided in history. They 01 faith 15 not the sure thln S> th ® mg on a farm neai Hanover, Pa gird authonties were summon stayed in Canaan for nearly six p . r °i ec !, tbat par ? l l lllB^- b 8 test when the boy met with a peculiar cd w ho pronounced it an Amen- weeks, without any seciecy (Pass- faith is not the bright day but accident while chmbmg over a Can Eagle which was the size of >ng as Egyptians they would at-* be ona Jesu ® b ™self once fence m the meadow a ]alge turkey A n examination tract no attention in the Canaan ?orTb^in^3 The lad slipped and tumbled found the bird was uninjured, as of tba t era ) They came back with l \ c b J^ H 0 n fhe woad e n among some tangled vines, which only one shot had struck the one unanimous report Canaan was- he 8 c “ s °“ ln ® caught his leel and left him hang- wmg, paialyzmg it for a tew mo- a a ol ' I ? try wcil WOTth the conquest, ’ h» u.l n.g head downwaid over a locky merits and tbe cqnquest would not be Di ViS | on of Christian Education Na -1 nKmii £ u rn U „ easy. At that point the unanimity t»onal Council of the Churches of Christ Id inc about Sl\ led deep The Smth placed the ea Q le in a efonned The tnckv nait of anv Pr A Released b 7 CoromunUr bin made a stiugglc but was un huge box, and the following day PP S’ P 3 y rcss scrvic.j able to lie himself The pigeon bung Sundaj, several hundred v Inch-was raised In the youngster persons visited the faun to see T and alwa;s accompanied him the bird iIOW JLS J.IIO illllC • • • rbout the lann flew back to the bain, flapping its wings and coo mg m such unusual manner it aUiacted the youths father, who In a letter from U S Post 01- followed the bud to the lavmc hco Department to Pennsvl m lime to save his son who was vania’s Secretary of Hrghways found in an unconscious condi- Samuel S Lewis, the department turn ' piaised the slate for its good rural roads During that same week in Mav Good lural roacls > lho Post-of back m 1908 John Ford, of Han- iice ofllcials Pointed out enabled ovei Pa, tned to frighten his lhe rllral flee delivery mail cai brother Hauv by playing ghost ru ‘ ls cover their routes in a and was confined to his home I lac tion of the time foimeily re with a bullet wound in the thigh Q unec * By retiring the horse On his wa\ home from a neigh- c * l<Jvvn CQUipmont for the .faster 1)01 s house that night Hanv n ' olor vchlcle ' two oi more ol a cemeteiv which his * b(> °^ d slow routes were con in other had told him was haunt- s< d>datod at a substantial saving ed He ‘-avv a white ligme stand- 111 operation costs Dig on lhe lallcsl tombstone and between 1923 and 1933 the curving a pistol shot at it post-oflice department made 128 (1 , - ~ . , r nual routes consolidations in Alien the shooting Ham ran , „„„„ ~ ... . , , home without investgating and , ""”! f^ d r ( ! l° tdl ff' oki not know he had shot his -; 1 a 'mg of SL S 075 In addi 1 i olhei until John came limp- ~n “"f 1 was get ... .. ~ ~ 1 ting eailiei mail deivcncs mg into the house His miuiv vas not sen ions Postmaster Thomas J Lang tilt at Washington, Pa, stated William Smith a Lancaster liN o(lKe ’’Oived moic than 10,- 1 Lunnlv lainru residing near rural marl patroru, vvhojc ttiictt nw , Akr.m had an ixcitin" expeu- C( ' 0(1 lll( ' u mall hcfoie noon IU bl KAY THISTLES Canada Thistles are listed as a noxious (net that Sal ui dav mo7nnm 50 c.ath day the veai loumi. v'eed rn Pennsv Ivaiua land owners arc expected to control them and 0..1S ago this vuek Thuc was a picvent (1m spread of the seeds One method of control could be to ’o. of commotion among the cows Back m Mav J 033 a( the an u h< ‘ spn I n B' vhcn lhc thlSlle f a ‘e growing rapidly and from 6 ■ long the edge ol the wood, ad nual convention of the Knights ff' U^' amino foim of 2 4 D as ion,mg his propci tv and Smrth and Ladies ol the Golden EagL J. 1 , Bc ' U 01 d [, lU to doming tielcis of tobacco -o’ h.s gun and we m t„ invest,- held at Easton ,t was deeded !«' /onatocs 0, legume cops Allow 10 days to two weeks before kale Ik found tin ca.u ol Urn- Un 1934 ga.he,mg would take land rs plowed 01 worked n ‘"' ( ln b( <UI nnusual lai „e plae eat York Pa TO PI AY FOR oiiatitv ,mv -pi , r ind wlvdi had tak, 11 perch on JO L\\ IOK LETTER QUALITY HAY The risk of getting tin top ol a hid) lie In m 1,. . .1 , tuuny "eather is 100 gieat and mav be very costly if local loil lo siu the’ini d Smith nmed , c ear s ago this week dauvmen ually reeogm/e the gieat value oi top quality hay We ~ ,K v,„.. ind hioii'dit the bud u"ni \ ba7 ‘ ,d ' ' Vd . S be,d of a hav conditioner (cither crusher or crimper) m the mound vvlnre i 'a! tih 1 QUC ( , S,rcot Lan ,hu floUl nnmediatclv after mowing, and also, the installation of a ) e succeeded m ciiiluini" it dl h, l.nrl h ,i ih alUtk ' s madt ‘ b -V PIOSV hdy innsher to complete the curing job in the barn These two u : aid figh , ' (’ t 0 ' W3S P,J< pr ; ia, i° S makc d splend,d tGam the danger of loss of feed k c I on display tor sale value by not mal field cur mg methods Further details aie available v ith the loss estimated at 5350 000 50 Years Ago Lancaster Farming Lancaster County's Own Farm WeeKlv Alfred C Alspach Publisher, Robert E Best Editoi Robert G Campbell, Advertising Jireetoi, Robeit J Wiggins Circulation Dueclor Established November 4,195 s Published even Friday by OCTORARO NEWSPAPERS, Quarryville, Pa Phone STerlmg or Lancaster, EXpiess 4-3047 Entered as Second class matter at the Post Office, Quarryville, Pa, ipvler Act of Maich 3, 1879 Subscnption Rates $2 per fear, three years $5, Single copy Price 5 cents. 25 Years Ago 4—Lancaster Farming; Friday, Maly 16, 1958 i ' ' By MAX SMITH County Agricultural Agent TO CONSIDER A TRENCH SILO Many in stock producers need additional storage space for silage ciops, with ample moisture this spring excess forage ciop giowth might be pieserved for later use The trench silo is one of the most economical means of making silage and should be useful to many grass silage feeders at this time of the year Assistance in locating and plan ning is available fiom youi Extension Service. TO UTILIZE EXCESS FORAGE CROPS Rank growth of most crops in recent weeks picsents a suiplus of pasture lor the coming weeks It is suggested that produce! s make either silage or hay from this excess growth rather than allow the animals to tramp and waste large amounts This feed might he vciy useful later m the season Max Smith TO KILL WEEDS IN SPRING OATS Local giowcis who wcie fortunate enough to gel spnng oats seeded might keep in mind that manj of the weeds may be eiarhcated by spraMng when the oats are Pom 6 to 12 inches high with la-pound (one pint) of the amine foim of 24 D Cut this amount in hall it oats aic seeded down to legumes Weeds such as muslaid, wild ladish and ragweed can be contiolled v Rh this pi ac lice
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