W/E ARE ONE of the very few nations ” who have not suffei ed from lack ol food Thiough the life of most now living we have produced more than producers were able to sell at a fair price. Recently we have been paying farmers for not raising ciops While some agron omists see no eaily end to our so-called surpluses, otheis tell us that the end of surplus farm production may lie in the not very distant future The National Association of soil Con seivation Districts, which is generally not given to alaimist attitudes on this matter, in a recent leaflet calls attention to forces at work that could easily lesult in a perma nent food shoitage They wain us that we can not depend too much or too long on scientific soil management or known tech nological advances to continually increase our food output There are powerful forces at work that tend to counteract these Our ci op land per capita has been decreasing rapidly For instance, the per capita acreage of ciop land available for food production in the United States was 3 1 acres m 1950 A pamphlet issued by Oklahoma State Um \ ersity a few years ago stated that 3 acres of good ciop land per capita were neces sary to supply each person with adequate nutrition When our acreage per capita falls be low this it will be necessary for us to shift from a high protein diet centering largely in animal proteins consisting largely of meat to a diet consisting largely of cereals ★ ★ ★ ★ HTHE AGRICULTURAL REVOLUTION, far from being spent, is just beginning The past 50 years have seen hand and hoise laboi disappearing from the fields; Lends today indicate that the future will bung complete mechanization and precision conti ol of nearly all farmstead operations. This forecast comes from Earl D An derson Piesident of the American Society of Agricultural Engineers As he sees it, four major trends are now in being, me chanization of farm chores and materials handling, providing proper environmental conditions for livestock, storing and proc essing crops for a marketing profit, and strong emphasis on quality control of farm pi oducts Of these four he considers the first is :: < ► • * :: - !! $ Davidson In Washington this week tlieio i- lime and quiet, to reflect on -.omo ol the events and peisonah l'(s which weie the distinguish ig maiks oi the 85th Congiess We who wnte fiom Washington lend 100 olton to place gicat cm phasis on the events without adc cu.iieh icnoiting on the men and iicquenth the women who in / uente and guide the nations and flccsmns oi the gov eminent iheie ait two tvpcs oi ollicials in Washington fuM the tm i whose name ale mentioned in Hit headlines and second the i en who make those headline I ossible 'the lattei aie at least a imnoilant as the lonnci ! he me n in tilt headlines weie Inesidtnt Lismihowei Secieiaiv , 1 State John Fosti r Dulles De If .ise Sec i < lal v Ntll.MiLliov ami Ini sidenlial Vssistant Shoiman dams Ml ol them did impoilant mbs w e !i ( «<il Heads In V( i isis Toi (dill id. in in the headlines Ih<i( vsc j c cio/cii' whoso haul e oik and ((tuition to elute in mis oi cl is i made those head ! in s possible Some of those wen in'minis ol the 85th Gonna ss ihe fotu named allow ,ik in Ik Minimali atuc branch ol no\ ’rim nl Ie w oi then decisions ro action ulneh male headlines •in iah< n without haunn eon • nlleel vilh lln ini]ioitant leadc l I ( onnn ss ( mini css a made up (l l bolh haw been lai loss suecessiul in ii mwijls and IltpublKans <t iid maintaminn national unite at a Ik two fuqueiiti' have then (iilieal time Could This Happen Here 1 THIS WEEK —ln Washington With Clinton Davidson FOUR BIG MEN dilleicnces That can be cspecialh hue when we have a Republican I'iesident and a Democratic nia lonh in Congress, and it is al most inevitable m an election \eai Congiessional unitv on impoit <ni national and international pioblems was a lemarkable ac complishment ol the 85th Con giess The ci edit for that unilv belong in a laigc measuie to fom leadens two iiom each path loluison, Ravbnin, Knowlaml &. tiai tin Those die names laimhai 1o most A.meimans but thev seldom I'eie in the headlines Few even n. Washington know the extent to which lhe\ put aside then poli tical chlleiences to close paitj lank, on issues ol gieal national nnpoi lance Sen Le ndon Johnson the Jla hum Leadoi wotked closeh with Min e>i it\ Leadei Sen Wil bam Knovvland on legislation eU«ll\ allot ting the national in Iciest The same was hue ol Speaker Sam Ra\hum and fllinoi ■U laadei Joseph Mai tin in the i louse Ml loin hmshed aside bolh p.'H\ and personal inleiests when the national interest was 'nudud \nd lhe\ did il wiih oul claiming m expecting pel ‘■ond gain oi eicdil Without that in.ilN Ihc 85)h Congiess would Nations where the per capita acreage available tor food production is an acre or less—the largest Asiastic nations have only a minor fraction of an acie—live al most entirely on cereals. If present trends in our country con tinue, by 1975 we will have 228,000,000 people and only 2 2 acres per capita As population increases the acreage per capita will steadily decrease —if available acreage nationally remains approximately constant But it is not remaining constant It is be coming less year by year. The amount of productive land used for food is being rapidly cut down around nearly all major cities by subdivisions in suburban areas Similarly, the creation of parks, airports, reservoirs, highways and other special uses is using up land faster than new and is being brought into culti vation by drainage or irrigation By the year 200 b—less than half a century awav —at the present late of growth we shall have 335,000,000 people and only 1 6 acre of crop land per person Before we reach that point we will have to change from a predominantly meat diet to one consisting largely of cereals. There are some who believe that Con- you e . de " gress ought to take steps to guard what ®/°^ d s/if.re remains of our once limitless heritage of Epe ct. Take his crop land. Those who hold to this view :ob and you leave “Do y° ur might” strongly urge a land-use survey to accu- hlm rootless, a The wise reader will reflect on rately determine just where we are now, dn « er - un A app * j uu x ? and without justice and the day’s work are re and what should be our course to prevent meaning- in a world that can hnd lated But lest we forget, we must US from becoming a have-not nation in the no use for him. ' call to mind another important side vital matter of soil resources sufficient for „ to this, suppose i get what the our needs —The Farmer’s Exchange W ol *’ or don * eat ’ world rea]ly owes me—not a living, When we turn to the Bible we but the chance to make a living; * * * * should expect to find that the book ® upp f e } hav . e * ,? D *- f en probably the most important In his words: Which says so much about social makmg work possible for mTWhat The farmer who steps down from his justice (remember, the name is not js my part now? One thing 1 surely tractor equipped with finger-tip control of important but the thing is'), would IS that I should give the job every the hydraulic mechanism IS loathe to feed give some hints about how this th,n £ x ’ ve S ot - Social justice means his cattle with a bushel basket ” And this principle of aU-around fairness af- see , mg l hat "° man 13 -)° bless - So ' j. „ i cial justice also means that no man farmer no longer needs to do his chores the fects the day’s work of men and Wlth a Job hes down on lt old hard way The engineers have devel- women. And such is the case The There are certain industries oped all manner of highly efficient ma- A P ostl f Paul > one of the “work- Where the “workers” have things chines to take the place of human muscle in& ® 3t ’’ me ” that e^ er J,! ved ’, had aso well sewn up that it is almost cmr? mnra aro mmina problem church at Thesalonica impossible to fire a man unless he tp , „ ii a Christians there had somehow actually gets drunk on the 30b. It Pal 111 pi oductivity has actually dou- got the notion that the end of this is surely social injustice to demand bled since 1940 and this increase IS as world was right around the corner, a job, and at the same time demand great as the total increase between 1820 Th ®y were llke P eo P le working in to hold it whether one really works and 1940 Mechanized equipment, electn- at it or not. Social justice, applied oitv imnrnvpd fertilizers and nesticides across tke prairie, they take a lot to the day’s work, isn’t all the re cuy, improvea fertilizers ana pesticiaes more jn t e rest m the tornado than sponsibihtv of society— it is the re these are forces that have transformed in finishing the job. So these people sensibility of the workers as well, farming to an almost miraculous degree, had quit their jobs and were hvmg, a. Christian, especially, shows the And Hew miracles are still coming 14 seems > on their good-natured genuineness of his Christianity by -The Farmer’s Exchange “ ve f mtT thTSua*™ rk way he g ° eS ab ° Ut htS mt.ii ■ with a sharp order. “If anv one will not work let 1,,™ + » (Based on outlines copyrighted by _ not WOrK, let him not eat.' the Dnismn of Christian Education, r n dll 111 O' work, in short, IS part of a Chns- National Council of the Chnrches of *ai mm to tl£m , s duty . p ld does not owe Lancaster County’s Own Farm Weekly anybody a living, no matter how ' Alfred C Alspach, Publishei, Jack pious he is. H Owen, Editor, Robert G Campbell. Advertising Director, Robert J Wiggins, Circulation Director Established November 4, 1955 _ rm m* Published every Friday by QCTOKARO WflW IS I HP I I HIP NEWSPAPERS, Quarryville. Pa - *’” • • •■•► s lilt A llll • • Phone STerhng 6-211? or Lancaster, Express 4-3047 tntered as Second-Class matter at tlie Post Office, Quarry ville, Pa, u»der Act of March 3, 1879 Subscription Rates - $2 per year, three years $5, Single copy Price 5 cents. This y car’s crop halves! points up anothex lubute to the ingen uity and proved ability of the Amciican tanner Ciop pioduc tion in 1958 may equal the high est ever lecoided in this coun tiy on a reeoid low planted acieage Foi foui sliaight veais laim pioduction has kept an even p tl ce at the highest point in fus ion Only 330 million acies wcie planted this year but crop yields pel acre have been climb mg steadily sincce the emlv 1930’s and thev aie just about double what they weie in the di ought yeai o 1 1936 In the pi kc pictiuc the net income leali/ed b\ tann opeia tors the in si hall ol this year iS almost s', moie than the pie \ions iccoid set the iirsl halt of 1952 it was, lift moie than in the lust hall ol 1957 Howovci 1958 tola] net in come is not expected to exceed 1957 b\ as much as it has the first bait ot the yeai Piedic turns aie that umisualh high meat pi ices mac come to an end this fall Piospecls aie that hog pi ices mil be uoiking lower in the next Jew months to the S3B maik with (ho greatest price Decline expected this month Months of weak cattle pnees 4—Lancaster Farming, Friday, September 5, 1958 7 r ai’s wrong h«re3 The Sabbath Commandment does not stait with the Sabbath It -taits with the other six days "Six dajs you ■•hall labor . . Old Test ament and New alike set up work as pai t ol the “whole duty of man ” But -here is where trouble be gins In our society as at piesent oi gammed, it often happens that a man who wants to work, can’t. Bible Material: Exodus 20 9, 10; Nehe- Fanners sometimes have a hard mi»h 3-4, Ecclwiastea g 10; _ E ph«- time undeistanding that this is so lama 4 28. Coloasiaas 3 22—4 1; Thes- . . _ ° ou * salonians a 6-12. A farmer can find more to be done Devotional Readme: Psalm 90 1-6,13-17. ‘ ban he can do, year m year out. . But the factory worker, the pro lessional man, doesn’t always find it so simple The factory has a lay off, oi merges with another one, or just closes down. Thousands of men and women in a distant state can be thrown out of work by one CAN WE talk of social justice decision in a New York office As and our jobs at the same time ? for the professional man, in hard If we can’t we must admit that times he does not have the clients social j'ustice will not work where he used to have. His expenses go perhaps it is more needed than in on, his debts pile up, but his pa most places; it won’t work where tients (if he is a doctor, for ex we spend most of our waking time, ample) don’t pay, they can’t pay in that area of life that means s a because they are out of work. So much to »s' ~ ,t may come about that literally namely our jobs millions of people, the highly cdu- Take away a cated and trained as well as count man’s job and less unskilled woikers, find them-- I The Day’s Work j Ivesson for September 7,1958 ★ ★ ★ By MAX SMITH County Agricultuial Agent MAKE SILAGE CROPS The month of Sep tember is most active foi those making both corn • an d other temporary silage crops Research work y s^ows this tyP e of pieserving to be most efficient 1 m getting the maximum of feed nutrients Coin ‘?|L 1 , m the eaily dent stage is best for most livestock. steer feeders may want the kernels to be well dented for more fattening value If frost hits the Sllage tlop ’ whlle stlll 111 the field ’ ll should be jtk CL| t within a few days, m ordei to pi event the loss ot leaves and becoming too diy. ■I IIJHRI to CARE FOR DRY COWS The total lacta- tion pioduction of most cows depends a gicat deal Max Smith on hm condition at ticshemng time, some mjv be tleshy but many' aie 100 thin in order to do their best Pasture alone will seldom piovide sufficient nutrients for piopei condition this is especially tine lor the last week or ten days piior to tieshenmg Many cows will respond well to 6 to 8 pounds of a filling lation during this iinal icsling period Cow-, stalling a lactation in good flesh will usually pay big dividends for this e\lia feed and caie TO CONSIDER GLASS BLOCK ’IN DAIRY BARNS Daily men who aie planning to icmodel oi expand their barns oi milk houses might consider glass block as modem and recommended budding material Thej have insulating value, allow' nunc light, arc easy to keep clean, prevent condensation and aie aluactive Aie highh iccommendcd in milk houses 3 0 CONTINUE WEED CONTROL FOR NEXT YEAR _ One ot the best w'ci\s to ha\c a good oop oi weeds next year is to allow the matine plants to go to seed this tall the fight against weeds must be evoiy land ownei at all limes in oidoi to make any piogiess Too mam weed pate lies aie allowed to mature and bioadcast seeds ox'er ’he neighhoihood II weeds have matuied at this lime (hev should be cut and burned on the spot onl\ to cut them a’ maturity will not cue good icsulls aie piedictcd although leedei cattle demand is expected to re mam stiong selves either woiking for nothing 1 or not having a chance to work at all. Nonetheless, 1958 appeals to be headed foi the improvement catcgori for the farmer. ★ ★
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