10—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, April 1J5,1959
ASC Urges Wool Growers
To File Payment Clai
•Chairman Landis G Beck
er of the Lancaster County
Agricultural Stabilization
ai~ d Conservation' Committee
1 day urged woll
•ho marketed U«»
March ’to be prompt
SjrjrSTSSS
wool program
The deadline for applica
tions is April 30, and t
oavment rate will be an
Sneed as soon as possible
after that date
Growers can speed ®
payment program by
filing of applications, th
Chairman pointed out.
He explained that mfor
mation contained m the ap
plications is needed bythe
United States Department of
Agriculture in computing
the average wool price
ceived by growers during
ihe 1958 marketing year
That price must be calculat
ed before the rate of - pay
ment to growers can be de
termined .
Under the wool program,
payments are made to grow
ers as an incentive to in
crease wool production The
payment rate is the percent
age necessary to bring the
national average price re
ceived by growers for wool
up to 62 cents a pound
The percentage method of
payment encourages a good
30b of marketing, since the
giower who receives the
highest price for his wool al
so receives the largest pay
ment
James S Nicholson, Mun
cj RD 2, Pa has resigned
his position as~Chairman of
the Pennsylvania Stabiliza
tion and Conservation Com
mittee. His resignation was
‘accepted effective as or Mar.
12, 19569
Earl Groff, Strasburg RDI,
Pa, will become acting
chairman of the committee
until a successor is appointed
by the U. S. Secretary of
Agriculture
Mr Nicholson served on
the State Committee since
January 1, 1956, -liaving serv
ed as both a regular mem
ber and vice-chairman prior
to his appointment as chair
man on January 1, 1958
Mr. Nicholson’s resigna
tion was tendered to afford
him more time to pursue
other interests.
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springtime, they remove wa
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hasten the time for ideal
plowing conditions
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State Spring
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On Schedule
HARRISBURG Spring
farming and planting activi
ty in most parts of the Com
monwealth is on schedule,
the State Department of Ag
riculture reported today.
According to the fennsyl
vania Crsp Reporting Ser
vice's first issue of the Crop
and Weather Round-Up for
Ihe 1959 growing season,
farmers were able to make
good headway with spring
plowing and sowing of oats
and other early crops during
the past two weeks Soil
moisture m most areas has
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Natl. Grange Master
Asks New Plan
University Park—A nat
ional farm program financed
and operated by producers
was advocated tonight by
Herschel D. Newsom, Wash
ington, master of the Nation
al Grange.
Such a program, he told
the campus Grange at Penn
Slate University, would give
farmers “equitable income
Opportunities” and save tax
payers "Up to $6OO annually
in wheat and dairy supports
alone.
ms
Trice support programs
that take off the market all
farm commodities not absor
bed by the market at some
predeterminned fixed price
level, he charged, are actual
ly “price fixing programs ”
He called these fixed price
support programs “inequi
table, excessively expensive
and unworkable ”
Where farmers could not
obtain equitable income for
their products through their
own marketing associations
and coop natives. Mr New
som proposed enabling legis
lation “to give producers the
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