A— -Lancaster Framing, Saturday, September 26, 1959 • - -
This Week
Meat Is Cheap
Don't Beef About Prices
That engaging little head- buy something we want
line fits a recent dispatch and judged by that yardstick
sent out by one of the press meat is cheap,
associations. It has to do with Here are the figures, as
the fact, shown by the Am- by the Institute. Four
crican Meat Institute, that decades ago the average
meat “is far cheaper than at worker had to put m 421/2
was 40 years ago.” ™ lnut f at has 30b. to earn
the wherewithal for a pound
This may seem like non- of beef- Today it only takes
sense, but it isn’t It’s true, b i m 23 minutes—less than
of course, that the dollars and j ia if as i ong
cents cost of a given amount The Institute says that
of meat is far more than it “constantly improving meth
was in that long-gone era oc j s 0 f production, marketing
But dollars - and - cents do an( j retailing are keeping
not always tell an accurate nie at prices—when measured
story, and that’s the case m terms of purchasing pow
with meat , er —at a ‘bargain’ level.”
The important thing is And that, in this inflationary
how much work we must do age', is a real achievement, in
£0 earn enough money to whose fruits everyone shares.
Careers In Agr. Endless
State Dean Reports
Penn
Careers in agriculture are
almost endless in number
and variety, says Russell B.
Dickerson, Associate Dean of
the College of Agriculture,
the Pennsylvania State Uni
versity. Jobs in agriculture
may be in engineering, teach-
economics, research, ex
tension, or other fields, he
states.
Land-grant colleges and
universities graduated 7,500
in agricultural fields in 1959.
Dr. Dickerson explains, but
thejre are openings for about
15,000, not counting those
'who will work directly on
farms. A farm background
is po longer necessary for
higjh school graduates who
wish to continue training in
a College of agriculture, he
declares.
Agriculture is BIG busi
ness, he emphasizes. Of the
Census
Farm
To Be Taken
In October
It’S not too early for farm
families to get ready for the
nation wide farm census that
begins m October
It is suggested that wives
assist in getting records on
poultry and livestock pro
duction, the numbers of
birds and animals sold, fruits
<>and vegetables harvested for
-Ji6hie- use and for sale.
Other information the cen
sus enumerator will want in
cludes acres of farm land
owned, rented, or leased from
others; acres of cropland
and woodland; income from
off-farm work and from oth
er sources; and farm operat
ing costs, such as hired lab
or, feed and fertilizer
bought
The enumerator also wul
ask for equipment, such as
xractors, on the farm, and if
the farm has a telephone,
borne freezer, milking mach
ine and milk cooler
All census information is
confidential, and enumerat
ors will be under oath. With
advance preparation, farm
families can contribute to
the speed and accuracy of
the enumerator’s job.
Lancaster Farming
Lancaster County’s Own Farm
Weekly
P O. Box 1524
Lancaster, Penna.
Office*:
5? iNorth Duke St.
Lancaster, Penna.
Phone . Lancaster
Express 4-3047
Jack Owen, Editor
Robert G Campbell Advertising
Director A PuMnrss Manager
Estn'lished Vnvembcr 4 1') r o
Publl-ihed every Saturday by
Lam «t< r Farming. Lancaster, Pa
Kntfmd as 2nd class matter at
Lam 't Pa under \ct <f Afar
I x‘ ■ Jdltirnal entry » Mount
Joy 11
Subscription Rates 4 $2 per year;
three years 35 Single copy Price
6 Of •I 4
Mirr - Pa Niwspaper Pulusli
ers ’-e ci ition, \ uional Editor
ial /“^oci^tion.
some 62 million persons em
ployed in the United States,
25 million or approximately
40 per cent work somewhere
in agriculture. Ten million
work on farms or ranches,
six million provide services
for farmers, and nine million
process, market, and distri
bute farm products.
“Our population is grow
ing, yet our farm land is de
creasing in area. A better
job of farming must be done
in the future. Superior vari
eties of crops will need to be
bred, improved fertilizers
will need tq be and
more complete control of in
sects and diseases will be re
quired,” he states.
‘‘Servicing of the dynamic
industry of agriculture is re
quiring more and more high
ly qualified persons each
year,” Dr. Dickerson adds.
“This means unlimited car
eer opportunities ahead in
agriculture.”
Four year couress in agri
culture are recommended, he
points out. Where time and
money are short, high school
graduates may get very use
ful training from a two-year
course. Short courses in agri
culture, leading from a few
days to a month, often lead
to attractive employment op
portunities.
GUARANTEED
PRODUCTION
The day may not be far
off when farmers can buy
dairy heifers actually guar
anteed to produce a certain
certain amount of milk, say
'University of Minnesota
dairy scientists. They are de
veloping a new breeding
system which helps elimin
ate undesirable genes and
could make such guaranteed
production heifers possible
After ten y ears of work on
the new system, the Minne
sota researchers have made
marked progress toward de
velopment of special lines
of Guernseys and Holsteins
Heifers of these two breeds
which could be guaranteed to
produce 10,000 pounds milk
or more annually may be re
leased by the University it
self in a lew years One
Guernsey herd last year av
eraged 501 pounds butterfat
and 11,100 pounds total milk
per cow, and a Holstein herd
averaged 515 pounds of fat
and 15,000 pounds of milk.
PELLETING GIVES
FASTER GAINS
Pigs fed pelleted rations
gained faster on ’ess feed
than those fed rations in
meal form, but pelleting ex
penses resulted in higher
feed costs, according to re
search done at South Dakota
State College Researchers
reported that pigs on pellets
gained 3 4 per cent faster on
2 9 per cem less feed, but a
cost of $6 50 a ton for pel’ct
ing made gains from this
feed more costly.
by Clinton Davidson
Farm Laws
Perhaps as good a way as
any to describe what happen
ed to farm legislation in the
first session of the 86th Con
gress is to write the story as
a baseball writer, raised on
the farm, might tell it.
There is no question but
that farmers’ legislative team
finished last in the 1959 Con
gressional " "League, along
with the "Washington Senatr
ors in the American League.
President Eisenhower op
cned the season, as usual, by
throwing out the first ball.
Congress hadn’t finished
warming up when the Presi
dent fired a brand new farm
program proposal to the Hill.
Secretary of- Agriculture
Ezra Benson then went in to
pitch for the Administration.
The first batter he faced was
the House Agriculture Com
mittee. That committee re
fused to swing at his offer
ing, claiming that he wasn’t
getting it over the plate.
The same thing happened
when he moved over to the
other side of the Capito l and
made the same pitch to the
Senate Agriculture Commit
tee. Mr. Benson left the
mound with the count two
balls and no strikes.
Trouble on the Mound
Mr. Benson had not much
more than sat down on the
bench when a dispute arose
as to just whose team he was
on, anyway. The Secretary
insisted that he was on the
farmers’ team but there were
protests from the stands that
he was a ringer; that he real
ly was a pitcher for consum
ers.
Umpire Eisenhower ruled
that he belonged on the
farmers’ team and refused,
despite protests, to thumb
him out of the game. That
settled it, Mr. Benson stayed.
The next rhubarb was ov
er who would pitch for farm
ers when Mr. Benson wasn’t
in the game. Both ,the Na
tional Grange and the Farm
Bureau claimed they had
been sent to Washington to
pitch for farmers.
Out in left field the Farm
ers Union heckled the Re
publicans and cheered when
ever the Democrats came to
bat.
Runs, Hits & Errors
During the more than eight
months legislative season the
farmers’ team had a total of
218 times - ‘at bat,” that be
ing the number of farm bills
introduced. Some 43 batters
got on base by having their
bills approved by one of the
agriculture committees All
but a few were left stranded.
The first runner over the
plate was a bill to prevent
the Secretary of Agriculture
from ruling on REA loans
Umpire Eisenhower, howev
er, thumbed the runner out
with a veto
The farm team protested
and asked Congress to over
rule the umpire. The Senate
said it was a bum decisidh,
but the House said he called
the play correctly.
The next two runners were
the bills to reduce acreage
allotments and increase price
supports for wheat growers
and to freeze tobacco price
supports for five years A
gam Mr Eisenhower ruled
lhajt- both runners were out
at plate
The President insisted that
he wanted a wheat bill pass
ed this year and sent Mr.
Benson to the plate as a
pinch hitter He didn t get to
first base
The farm team staged a
ninth inning rally to put ov
er three runs. The first was
a bill to strengthen the farm
er-owned and operated Farm
Credit System The second
gave cotton growers a more
workab’e law for transfer
ring acreage allotments, and
the third extended the law
authorizing foreign sales of
farm surpluses
Bible Maleiinl; Malochl.
IlcTotional Reading: X John 1 5-9,
The Long Pull
Lesson for September 37, 1959
THE SAME thing never happens
twice But the same kind of
thing happens over and over m the
history of mankind. Man is the
same sort of creature everywheie
you find him, and all the gadgets
and inventions of the past 300
years have not changed him very
much. So you
might expect the
same kind of sit-
uation or problem
to turn up again
and again in the
long story of man
on this planet.
One of these
might be called
the Run-Down
Situation. We Ur. Foreman
could call it the Problem of the Rut,
It is the statirof things when noth
ing of great importance, i* happen
ing ss far as we can see, when one
day Is about like most other days.
In fact, It's the way life looks to
many people over 40. The great
thriii« are over, death la nowhere
yet in sight, there Is nothing to do
but to keep on plodding as patient
ly as possible.
For Uw Long Pull
The prophet Malachl lived In
such times. This last book of the
Old Testament comes from a time
of disillusionment, weariness and
tedium. The great thrill of coming
home from exile was over long
since more than one hundred
years, in fact. Nobody bad -seen a
miracle, no Moses was m sight.
The Jews in Palestine, where Mal
achl preached, had once been all
excited about being able to come
back m peace to Jerusalem to
build a temple and to worship the
true God. But as time went on
people became tired of the endless
senes of sacrifices, even the priests
became bored with the whole thing.
People stopped coming to the
temple. The priests did not think
of carrying religion to the people,
and the country was sinking deeper
and deeper into religious indiffer
ence and moral decay. There were
Now Is The Time . ..
TREAT STORED GRAlN—
could be inspected before cold wee
ratify any weevil, moth, or othei |
it may reduce its value Old c
>rage may also be infected The,
irbon disulphide or carbon tetiali
'hile the weather is warm is iccorai
‘O PAVE THAT BARNYARD— Kd
' the type of livestock produced on
paved barnyard has many adv
lhat will improve the value of d’ e
~tead as wel 1 as sanitary condition
cost of using concrete or blacktop surfacing
little providing a proper base of 4“ to 6 inches of
stone is placed as a base. Ramps and slopes sli
MAX
made rough so that animals will not fall
TO REDUCE GRAIN LODGING —Many producers <
to fact the problem of the small grains lodging sev
fere harvesting. In many cases this may be due
ccllent growing season; however,,several pioperl
will reduce this problem Seeding'later in the la
gested, barley between Oct. Ist and 10th and wie
Oct 10 to 25th The omission of any nitrogen. l cr! 1
also help to stiffen the straw; fertilizers cental®
phosphorus and potash are recommended, ones su
20-20 or 0-15-30 at the rate of 300 to 400 pounds I
TO BEWARE OF FROZEN SUDAN GRASS *
frost on sudan grass develops prussic acid tha
livestock; farm operators are cautioned about tins ■
this time of the year; animals should not be
graze any growth that has been frosted or any |J e
following a killing frost. If considerable grow ’
ground at the time of the frost, the material mai
to the silo and after a two week fermenting P rOC
be safe to feed. Do not feed it immediately 3
in the silo.
NKSSES, J eMj ,
and folloivei <5 Th
business of Ch,„, *
coding- idea »
It Is not hem Say
aonal cxpei, once '■
a witness , n t
else is to -tate thl
sees them T l]p Ch
tasks and , e po "
we forget thm ee nt
ity wo aie not
wise. a
Testimony foi* qi I
Ing on his suit - r , 1
When you om.n . 0( J
in the rpung > yol , i
the catalogue says I
excited oiei the r J
advertisement m J
alogue, cvciy p lctlll 1
mony—in talk ArJ
vincmg testimony 13 1
your neighbm acluj
me not going to ij
matoes any bcttci I
tomatoes vou nave s|
no mattci vihatthoJ
Bat if you have ad]
matoev fiom a ce tail
you can let the catafl
The Bible has a'ij
about Chi xst and |
Cnuich E'tit a 11,(1
ao with the <-eed caH
ically convinces pJ
actual The)
to Christ that can J
a good Chii'tian 1
Into All the World
The tragedy of (
something that v,<
funny if it v. ere not
wrong. Eveiy Sur.di
almost any chinch,
■people- who are mil
takes at once One
“witnessing" means
means words, or wo;
They take part in th
sing with loud voice;
nicest things about
"Amen!’’ when the
them . . . and they i
nessmg for Jesua ” 1
n not just sw eet-UU
it is,”as St John put
Fe walked, living
Furthernioi c, an exi
ac-home witness is i
,11 tended He distin
tne end of the eai
away, m how many
guages, with how i
r nes, is your church
Jesus? A church t
'i-uelf about Christ
taa Dnectne.
<3i.s*d on outlmts
r > o» mum "* f’ hrL
■onal I oancil o) :
t rist lj> <' ir ®
Cpmn.iXHitj I’reiS str\
BY MAX SMITH