■Lancaster Fanning, Saturday, August 29, 1959
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Men and Machines
Inflation at Work
TODAY’S INADEQUATE DEPRECIATION ALLOWANCES
A THIRD OF A NEW TRACTOR - lo replace one that is obsolete is
all that the average farmer can buy out of depreciation reserves allowed
' under existing tax laws,
REALISTIC depreciation allowances
TAX REFORM allowing uritc-oIT, pegged lo the >alue of lod«)’s dollar
would free hillione for vitall)-needed farm modernization.
£ American Economic Foundation
Certified Meat Type
Now Bred Into Hogs
Litter certification is one means that farmers have of
producing meat-type hogs, says J. L Gobb e, animal hus
bandman for the Agricultural Experiment Station at the
Pennsylvania State University
Meat type has bpen found
in all breeds in experimental
work in Pennsylvania, he
confirms, but breeding amm
als must be selected m
bring out the desirable char
acteristics
Lard has become so low
in price that producers of ex
cessively fat hogs may not
be able to stay in business,
Gobble warns.
Purebred breeders should
produce meat-type stock and
growers of market hogs
should use meat-type boars
and also conduct selective
mating programs, he says
Requirements for most
certification vary with swine
breeds but general proce
dures are the same
Only purebred litters are
accepted for nomina ion
When the litter attains mar
kdt wcght, two pigs, either
sows or barrows, are slaught
ered.
To qualify the litter for
certification, these carcasses
More Meat
For Less
For Nation
The homemaker will
a smaller share of her fami
ly’s total disposable income
for meat this year than she
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must be within the rules for
backfat thinness, carcass
length, loin eye area, and
weight for age
A boar tha has sired five
certified litie's is a certified
meat sire. He d boars which
do not certify five out of
nine litters nominated should
be castrated, Gobble behves
A strict S'w culling sys
tem should also be followed
Certified meat sires have
CMS. impri ted on their
bleed registrtion certificates
so that their abilities to pro
duce desirable offspring may
be known.
In like manner; boar and
gilt httermates from certi
fied litters may have C L.
imprimed on their registra
tion papers and C L. becomes
part of their registration
numbers
Breeding animals from cer
tified matings have C M im
printed on their breed cer
tificates
d d 10, 20 r -en 30 years
ago Yet she , now putting
more meat o the table than
she did whe .er bill was
higher'
These facts are pointed out
in a table, just released by
the American Meat Institute
which lists per capita con
sumption - 1921 and
1958 and meat’s retail value
as a percentage of total dis
posable income per wrson.
Last year, per capita con
sumption was 1521 pounds
and the retail meat bill val
and the retail meat bill rep
resented five per cent of dis
posable income per person
In 1948, this “same” per
son paid 6.1 per cent of lus
total cash outlay for meal,
but got only 145.5 pounds.
In other words, last year’s
person parted with one per
cent less of his spending mon
ey than his 1948 counterpart,
yet he got nine more ser
vings of meat (averaging all
meats at % pound per solv
ing)
The AMI table was com
piled from U S Department
of Agriculture figures
This Week
in Washington
r *
by Clinion Davidson
How Many People?
' -There will be almost half '* * he I
a million more people in the mbie mterUi: Joel. . w ° re think,,
•world tomorrow than there Devotional Beading: Acts 2 1-4, 12-18. retu £ees Lit,
are today and the world pop- 1 ° of J'
ulation will at least double fio|| ftlf EVefVOlie where,
what is now m the next 41 ,ul b,n l ww blood ; pnson *’
y ears - , - ;i try has become >!:
Those are startling figures Lesson for August SO, 1959 v - , m one bailacks .
when you consider what it ■■ —■ l ■ —* ports; but not ah'*
means in terms of needs npHERE IS A serious mistake Is religion li| (c
for food," clotliing, housing, A into which most religions fall, men need G o (j g u ,
schools, jobs and all the oth- and even Christian people have road to God is ban lc
er things people expect from been known to fall into the trap. Acuities and teehni C(
modern civilization. It is the mistake of fancying that quirements v.ith ou t
The authority for these leli^lon 13 so difficult, or so sacred the thacl to cit lZena
forecasts is a survey made bv or 80 somethmg-or-other, that it country? Sup posetll
lorecas f can’t'be left to the common man. has a secret
the -United Nations. If, says Rel 1S for is not the casfj
the report the birth rate , nsto . is in the heart C
continues at present levels, cra t Si religion is aH your heart" a.
and the death rate continues for theory few, says for God, n ot ,
to decline, the world popula- religion is for elaborate ritual or
tion will be nearly seven fail- professional re
hon by the year 2000. ligiomsts It is for
That is only as far in the «• sort of Rehg^
future as 1918 is in the past. i° us "Dhion, and
There were about two bil- People who want
lion people 41 years ago. To- *£. eal
day the world population is th ® Unlon
estimated at 2 8 billion, and or they dont get it.
growing at the rate of more £SE
than 100 million a year. The Bible t H eaches> both direcUy
Declining Death Rale and indirectly, from end to end,
Although the birth rate is that religion is for everybody. No
increasing in nearly all parts one has a copyright on it, no one
ot the world, by far the big- and no union has a right to build
gest portion of the increase a fence around it and charge ad
in population will be the re- mission. "Religion is absolutely just
suit of people living longer. as much the concern of the man in
rriw, - the street as it is of the man be-
The average number of stamed g i MS ,
years of life has a most
doubled in the under devel- Everybody Needs Bod
oped areas of Asia and Afri- The Protestant form of the
ca during this century. The Christian religion, being based di
birth rate, meanwhile, has rectly on the Bible, high-lights a
increased
Even in the United States all believers” For many Protes
the average length of life tants today this expression has
has ncreased by almost 50% very llttle meaning: They don’t
during the past 59 years. In know rauch about P nests and they
1900 the average man lived want to know moie And the
to be only 46 years old. To- last f th >fgr they want is to bo
day his average life expect- But still it is an important
cn doctrine. Because once you forget
ancy is 67 years For women it> you are alI set to sh / back
the increase is from 48 to 73 j e avmg religion to the preacher, or
years. .to your grandmother, or to old
The rate of popu ation people and children, or to religious
growth in the under-r n ' op- specialists of some kind,
ed A.ian and African - tims The Bible on the other hand
is cons derably more rapid teaches that tiue religion is for
han in Europe and North everybody on the same basis. There
America Today only a little are three important points here
more than half of the One: Everybody needs God. The
in the world live in Asia (ex
cluding the USSR) Bv the
year 2000, says the U N re
port, three out of every five TVT s rpi
wil live there INCTW Is I 116 111116 . . ,
Over-Population?
In China, which already
has a population of 650 mil
lion, twice as many people
are born each year as die.
The bir h rate per 1 000. says
the UN, is between 37 and
42 bu ‘ the death rate is only
17 to 21.
In the United States and
most European country the
9q rt L ra i e nnn ngeS^fr^ n iP BE ALERT FOR PINK EYE
28 per 1,000, and the death , T _ m
rate from 12 to 15 'LE-This eye infection shows u
By the close of this cen- uring periods of hot, dry we
tury, the report predicts, As- ymptom is excess watering of the .
la’s proportion of the earth’s v educe gains and milk production^
population will increase **“ iies under comrol as they may s P re<
from 55.2% to 61 8%, Latin other animal.; also, isolate infected animals m ads
America s from 65 % to 9 - and contact your local veterinarian for treatment
4%,Africa’s from 8% to 8.-
2 c o, while North America’s _ tl ,J
will decline from 6.7% to TO SEED FALL PASTURES—Temporary past®
5%, and Europe’s, including such as winter rye, Dual wheat, domestic ryegr B,
Hi® USSR- will drop from bromegrass may be seeded during Augus. and
23 « to 15.1%. ,
The world has not begun September foi late fall pasture. With normal we
to feed, house, clothe and ed ditions graz ng may be started in six weeks A c
ucate its present 2 8 bdlion fertilizer su.h as 10-10-10 drilled into the soil oeto 1
people properly. Yet unless ,
than can be accompl shed, wg should glve ra ? ld growth
there is little hope of build- <,
mg a peaceful world TO TOPDRESS WITH NITROGEN— Early Scp‘ eni
''woV.T p Th?r,ho '”o ttoe •» •»**«•
great mcrease in population Jn order to Set more fall growth; as appiwai
is occurring m areas where pounds per acre of actual nitrogen will P uS^
aiJrtTmt'no f/ e most act ve growth during cooler weather.- This is another
and causing the grea est un- ,
rest This “explosion” of pop- strctc h "the pas ure season and reduce feed co»
ulation growth, notes the U. [t
N , is ‘at the very heart of TO APPLY LlME—Prior to the seeding of the vvi» ,
Cm ° Ur ® X * S 18 the hiest time to apply lime or limestone to
n While the ground is being prepared for w,n^ ee (
wheat the lime may be broadcast and workled 1 ed
Give Lancaster Fa l •! the soil This gives the lime time to sweeten
advertising a chance >to k to the seeding of the grass-legume mixture
:or you, sprmg or next summer. r
■doctrine called "the priesthood of
TO KEEP AFTER THOSE FLIES
fiy control is still a problem on
arms; good sanitation practices are 1
tep. The use of Korlan as a resio
ciller is gaining in popularity. has
;ood control in most cases
prophot Joel s
the prophets Tu
the'same te m J,
troubleeand tr f a l
and '
led forms to b* ,
center of hf e th
these needs and tr
“My Spirit on All"
So —every one nee
one can find the road
is within him, it u f
repentant retuminj
there is a third p o u
poxtant, and also a
“priesthood of mj j
third point is that
world, the world h
bring to pass, i Sonci
spirit will be poured
sons, at; humanity ('
“aH flesh" means) ;
ment times, most j
thought of the Holy
tmed only for the
few. 'God’s Spirit m
Moses or a Joshua,)
David or a prophet
But not, oh never, t<
man or woman Spiri
were a small and r
The rank and file nn
from a respectful (
ordinary believei oi
his God to In e v th
private expects tie
sitting next him a' cl
Hew Testament suov
picture: the pr iei
being fulfilled 1 upu
hi God’s church and
r:t a tight lit ■> elil
’ " ose heart’s ’t
Ty Spml,” \ -i
(Bawl on or <
> Dnision of
tonal Coimc t!
Ifat m llio 1 f I
jaimniitj Pn ti
BY MAX SMITH