I'VNCE AGAIN THE American farmer is ” producing news as well as crops and livestock Front page of the WALL STREET , JOURNAL, headlines and editorials across the nation From the smallest cultivated and pas tured acreage in modern U S farm history this nation’s farmers are producing the all time record "high in farm commodities. This is an era when official federal policy has been encouragement of produc tion reduction and controls A time when the FARM PROBLEM has been discussed, argued, cursed, exploited, and uncontrolled. Six times the Sept. 1957 total of fed eral wheat-storage loans are in effect To day, seven times the Sept 1957 cotton loan totals, and the same type reports are given for flaxseed, oats, rye, barley and sor ghums Federal expenditures this year, for support loans, the soil bank, school lunch programs, exports, and the rest of the farm program, are expected to reach $5 billion Predictions had been for a $3 3 billion expenditure Of course, farmers, and most people close to agriculture, realize much of this cost will be repaid when commodity stores are sold Much of the cost is in research designed to guarantee this country’s swell ing population plentiful food supplies twen ty years from now Much is in soil conser vation work 1 But don’t try to tell the man on the street that the farmer isn’t sitting back on Easy Sreet letting the government pay him high prices for things there was no market for in the first place „ The American farmer has performed a tiemendous job this year Even with the recession hanging on in some places, few Americans will need be hungry. But, don’t expect any thank yous, bouquets, or applause This nation, the best-fed. best-clothed m history, will reward her food and fiber producers with every form of vilhfication at'her command Once again, the farmer can expect to letum to his hearth from morning chores m the chill of a winter blizzard and learn tin ough evei v form of communication that Fust he's un-American Second, he’s a parasite Thu d, he’s inefficient Fourth he’s lazv Fifth, and Sixth, and Seventh, ad infinitum In this lespect it will be a long winter. Long and rough Who will be responsible 9 Labor un ions, desirous of low living costs for their members Hardly, although most labor lead- I'THIS WEEK | W » —ln Washington | in^°n Davidson J Davidson In Washington last week the Aheaciv there ai e more than 58 L S Department ol Agricultuie t diions worth of taim commoncli- lepoitecl that American faimeis t c>- stacked up in government til's. vear will establish a new all leased warehouses cold storage SOW r vss cprn w i . i u it r plants and under loan on farms „ . , , w SEED Winter gram crops in time retold high pioduction of M b,]i lo ns will be added to Subscn P tlon Rates- »p« * ear . which seedmgs of alfalfa or clover are to be made foods and f.beis thdt s i otkpi ie during the next s s’ S ’ nC,e * earl > neXt Spnng should be thmner ln stand than In most nations this would ha\e Jcw weeks cents ‘ those planted for top yields only Experience has ) cen good new-, and an occasion our totd i supp i y 0 f wheat will 1 ■« ■ - „ ... shown that in the average year it is very difficub oi ea sting and leio.ung hat the , almos>t tvVQ a hdlf b]lhon Max Smith to get both a bumper ciop of gram and a good hanest had been so bountiful I |>l|shels enough to meel olu loocl ldl S e supplies, gone up compai- stand of legume Many successful wheat growers \ ould bate meant genuine relict Mtec | s | or t b e next iour years We able to other living costs Had food Set good yields of wheat when sowed at the rate or 4to 6 pecks per ? 10,11 the evci piesent fear of U]J) h e crops and disappointing legume stands, ihe bumpei ciops would have two years • al food blll would meant mcicased piofils and pres ybe remaikable part of it is bdVC been S>2s billion a year moio ® SEAL TRENCH SILOS CAREFULLY Many silos are being '.ge The government would t hot this lecoid has ben establish- than it is filled j t.tins time and the upnght presents little problem to avoid honor them and the people would by the fewest number of farm The S 5 bilhon a year is money . e ’ thc trench sll ° operator cannot af 1. phased and appieciative c-is in more than 75 years on the * cll spent to l sure t hc Am * I’ 10 o ? en , Careful seahn S wlth Plastic 1} Washington this week the smallest number of planted acres nn , . . . . ( or olh< * r paper is stronlgy recommended After the i( action to thc news that laimers Sl nee the Civil War We have m PCOple Ule h® 3l and ched P est mIo is filled and the top mounded higher m the middl.e the trench ate pioducmg mom than we can i f ,ct learned to pioduce not two 111 hours worked food and 3 3e Packed from 24 to 48 houis with a tractor oi other means, ‘ d wcai and export duimg the but three blades of grass wheie clothing in thc world Moreover U ? PI f 3 V C CoVers are ve * v P°P ular an d should e.xt 12 months was anvthing but o ne grew beloie about one-third of that is the cost tastene d down tight and then covered over with chopped silage. ol sending food and fibers to the Wee t ds ° r low-quality g«een crops This protects the plastic and pre less fortunate people in other i ~ be w,nd llom gellln S un der the cover Animals should be parts of the world fenccd fro,n the area We should be thankful for the TO BE CAREFUL IN CATTLE BUYING - The m.x.im of newlv bountiful harvest which God and purchased steers with cattle already acclimated ,s always a dangemu s ' T"* 06 * espeClally tIUC Wlth caUle shl PP«' any distance W'e should be giateful that no lhroUBn publlc stock y alds when both lots of cattle are able to touch American ever need to go to bed roics or f,nnk Loin the same waleiing trough the risk is increased hungry, thanks to the best farm The best plan is to keep the animals entnely separate for at least crj in the world {wo to three weeks time OA Oils What \ DifTeioiue' Washington is neithei pleased einphasi/e the cost" of this sup io' appieciatiw of the reeoid ci aboundanee without slopping inru-t It has spent billions ol t„ think about So billion a year ''illai. in an ( floit to leduce pio on all Upes of so-called 'farm fine lion and it will have to spend pio^rams More billions to dispose of the But (aim puces of foods and '" r l ,lus f'bcrs ha\e not because of the A Job Well Done 1 (ost of Plenlv Most Anicnuins unfoitunuteh field, the grapes they pick off some land-owner’s vines. Here is the family uprooted, wanderers on the face of the earth, without home oi lob. Here are the nameless, face less people totally obscure, for whom history has no name except in the lump “the multitudes” Here are the sick people too poor to have a doctor; here is a woman some doctor has made poor. Here „ , , . ~ are the people in prison, here is a Bible Material: Deuteronomy 15 7-11. , „ 1 . , 34 19-21: liaiah 58 4-12, Matthew beggar shivering- at the back door. 9 35, 36; Luke 4 14-22; Hebrews 13.1-3; i John 3 u-24. What they need Devotional Beading: Isaiah 42 1-9. Of course, such helpless people nneed not have bebn so helpless if perhaps society had been different ly organized, or if there had been j better laws. Such desperate situa tion for September 21, 1958 ! lon f s ° u S ht , be Prevented m the j first place, to be sure For example: ]t has not been a lifetime since . 'T'HE LAST man 011 the totem there were beggars on all roads Food retailers? It S doubtful The cor- A pole is still a man. The man at The tramp and the hobo were com ner grocer has been m trouble for years, the bottom of the ladder, the man mon sights. Now how long is it and basically because the chain stores have underneath the heap, the last man smce you have seen a tramp ? How been underselling him by a large margin, fo * thtn ’ Uiere*^ 1 b'^B'arK^ 8 ' arK do y°" b y while building huge super markets and For the ideal of justice, as the Eibi. £ r Tven m* a"de paying higher not exorbinate wages, upholds it,is that ALLmen shall bn pression than we used to have even There is profit involved in large-scale food treated with fair- m times of prosperity is partly due retailing, but not as much as in foreign ne ®®’ and rn ? re ~ ** t 0 the fact that the man who lost cars, for instance. tion *£■ his job in hard tames used to have What about the farmer’ He has re mained aloof and unconcerned with what name of God If , er ty 1S much easier than curing it. happens to his product when it leaves his everybody get' f Nevertheless, with all the proven ownership He has remained stubbornly fairtreal -™ entex > tion we have the wit and the cour independent often refusing to join in la y er> then when SlemTases*’ tTe and such small joint efforts as watershed con- you who have HH Ik helpless ones ’ P trol for conservation, disease control, local been fortunate all Dr. Foreman co-ops, or marketing groups these years shp into that bettor. What is even worse, in this age of the no^omuciTulsfin th ft re nu j nu > u , ’ , ~ . not so much justice as you thought “hard sell”, he has heard himself called in Mark Twam’s story “The Prmci every name in the book, and usually re- and the Pauper" the prince though i acted by mumbling, “Ah, they don’t know everything was smooth and fine what they’re talking about ” when he chan s ed P laces wit) Up hoc hppn inn npr ppnt r-icfht in env tbe pau P er and looked at thing be , „ Been iuu P er cent rl S nt ln sa y from the seamy side, he could nr I mg that But he has been just as wrong in find justice anywhere, not attempting to do something about it Who The average American doesn’t know , what the farm problem is all about Be- wdes the spoil with the'suon/ a f cause no one has told him It is a subject leaves no share for the V “o.j of vital interest Any theorist m the country °niy so-called, it is picciseiy cm can get newspaper space for his ideas and P ersons v[ ho cannot fight foi then people often buy them ,as silly as some of votes!’ the Umporta^plp 'e ' them are forgotten and obscuie, thm-e The farmer is not a theorist He is of five and die m the shadow> it neces&tv, a realist It is about time he faced P recisel y these whom a tine -ir the reality of getting “his side” across to Christian J ' ustlce v” 11 not imgo thP pnnsuminu nnhlfp The strong will get their sha, e , r tne consuming public more besides if they can get fj If he doesn t, and all farm programs with it. it is the weak wno w are abandoned, the farmer may find him- protection and defense self in the role of an urbanite; when in a The Blble Imes them up fm ■ few decades, the nation’s farming is done by f°^ y ra £ -ta « lot the\ am t fewer than 1,000 economic units, closely nTel aloa^lnS% P a knit in a powerful, omnipotent, agriculture knows) win never be able topn i combine, evoking every possible bit of ba( k Her e are the people r, nr profit from their products At least, this is that they cannot buy food on the claim of one theorist. ‘ on s h ° whGal u ’° v c'-i' T) 4. 4.1, i o tnti/t from somebody el^c* 5 - hnr But then, who cares? DM ers want all within reason they can get for their members, they still know farmers are the best customers for products of industry. Food processors are about as low-paid as any organized labor group. Industry itself’ This is unlikely for the same and many more reasons. . Politicians 9 Hardly. Most politicos are of the “there go my people, and I must hurry after them, for I am their leader” caliber. Urban politicians realize the farm problem is a nice, safe and advantageous issue. The farm boys haven’t been slow to catch on to this either. But over the years, they all have been too confused and afraid to do much, except change the name of USDA bureaus. Remember AAA, PMA, etc. ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Lancaster Farming Now Is The Time .• . Lancasi Alfred C Alspach, Publisher, Dan McGrew, Editor, Robert G Campbell Advertising Director, Robert J, Wiggins, Circulation Director. Established November 4, 1955 Published every Friday by OCTORARO NEWSPAPERS, Quarryville, Pa -■ Phone SXerling 6-2112 or Lancaster, Entered as Second-Class matter at the Post Ofnce, Quarryville, Pa., uwler Act of March 3, 1879 ter County's Own Farm Weekly Express 4-3047. 4—Lancaster Farming, Friday, September 19, 1958 justice for ALL By MAX SMITH County Agricultural Agent & TO FEED LEGUME CROPS Late September or October are good times to apply phosphorus and potash fertilizers to pastures or hay crops containing alfalfa or any of the cloveis Fall treatment with 30 to 400 pounds of 0-20-20 or 0- 15-30 will eliminate the need of a spring applica tion and will give the plant roots ample time to stole the soil elements. Forgotten Folk It is not only individuals who have run into personal hard times who need help, but whole groups and classes of people in trouble, need more help, more fair treat ment, than they usually receive. There are, for example, the people in the mental hospitals of Amer ica, a half million of them at a recent count. Unless your state is a most unusual one, such pa tients m your state do not have nearly enough doctors, nurses, attendants, or attention. Then consider that for every patient who can get into a mental hospital, even the understaffed, overcrowd ed ones we have, there are num bers of others who cannot be ad mitted What is being done for these people by your church, your community, your state? Or con sider juvenile delinquents, or adult lawbreakers on parole. Does your community ignore these bottom rung derelicts, or does it do any thing to help them, or to prevent their hetng derelicts? dimmed on outlines copyrighted by the Division of Christina Education, National Conned of the Churches ot Christ in the U. S. A. Released by Community Press Service.)