,FcnTnlxi<r» .Sgtjtf dcfy. October 17, 1959 FROM WHERE WE STAND - Measure Your An old Arabian proverb says, "Mock sure -your matenal ten tunes, you can dftt it oiily once.'' ‘ Farmers today are measuring 'iinafi cial returns agonist rising capital outlay and wondering wtiere they can cut to beat the price squeeze. Many dairymen are looking for a way to maintain a grade A standing without going to the expanse of installing bulk "taftk and bulk handling equipment So-called cow pools which'came over the horizon in a blaze of publicity a few years ago offer the dairyman some of these advantages.' But, by and large, cow pools, milking, cooperatives, contract milk ing systems, dairy corporations, or what ever else, they may be called are simply a rffeOns by wfiicn.a person or company with money can purchase dairy coV/s and the feed-and-equipment Jo produce and" hireisomeone else to do the work.' ' 1 This all sohnds' innocent enough on the foce of it, did the broiler con dra'cts of a ago. Only a few years back industry was be ing looked upon the -deal : pattern for efficient prodaefton and nteketing of meat. Following plo.se on the heels of whole sale acbption*bf, contract broiler produc tion came a*" slicing market, forcing many of the smaller producers out of the business. At the present tirrle one of the largest hatcheries in the fcountry has thrown itself into voluntary bankruptcy from fincmciai troubles that may exceed One and a quarter million" dollars. In our Own county one of the big contractors of & few years today dlScourdging 2 Davidson Nikita Kruschchev was im pressed more by the ability of so few in this country to produce so much food for so many people than by any thing else he saw. Time and again, and espec ially after his visit to Coon Rapids, la , Russia’s top man expressed his unstinted ad miration for American farm-, er's. They are, he admitted, the best in the world. Kruschchev fairly drooled over the food surpluses which cause many Ameri cams so much concern. He said, in effect, that he wished hd had that problem in Rus 'SnS for a while anyway. He was impressed by the fact that American farms are so' highly mechanized that one or twp men are able to operate a highly productive 200-acre farm’. In Russia a similar farm would require many workers. Kruschchev Didn’t Boast Kruschchev boasted about ■Russia’s sputniks, moon rock ets, military weapons and in dustrial progress, but he was Lancaster Farming Lanca*t*r County’* Own Farm Weekly P O Box 1524 Lancaster, Penn*.. Office*: 51 N T oi th Duke St. r.ancaster, Pehn*, Pho -c - Lancaster FXpress 4-3047 .Tack Owen, Debtor Robert G. Campbell, Advertising rtireclor A Engines* AJbtiag-er Data’dlsbed November 4 195 T Pul every Saturday by r.aj-’*«t»r Farming. Lancaster, Pa Dntered as 2nd class matter at Lam aster Pa under Act of Mar. t ’ c ~" additional entry at Mount Jo> Ps Subscription Rates: $2 per year; three years S 5. Single copy Price f» *»ih M< t •e S Pa Newspaper Pubisb ers Association, National Editor, ial »moclation. THIS WEEK i Washington With Clinton Davidson C J w <i Farmers Praised frank to admit that we are far ahead of Russia in agri culture. It amazed him tq learn that in the United States only 12 percent of the people live on farms and that each produces enough to feed and clothe nine people in this country and still leave enough to meet the needs of one person in a foreign country. Krushchev didn’t say so, but in Russia six out of every ten people live on farms. Each Russian farmer doesn’t produce enough to feed him self and one person in the cities. That’s quite a,contrast. Russia has an area double that of the United States, but her .productive farm land is about the same as in this country. Although, Russian mechanization of farming has made great strides in recent years, more than half of all farm work is hand labor. Although no reliable fig ures are available, it is known that the American diet is considerebly superior to that in Russia. We, for example, consume twice as iriuch meat, milk and eggs per capita as the Russians. Surplus Worries Khrushchev’s remarks in -lowa made a lot of people wonder whether our surplus es are as much of a burden as we seem to think they are. They are far less a worry than not quite enough would be. In this country we produce only about 7 per cent more food than we consume. In Russia according to the most reliable informtion, food production is at least 20 per cent below that needed to provide a diet equal to that of this country. Ours is one of the few countries in the world where Material Again broiler- contacting. Layer contracts came next with Sub sequent depression of egg pricee, but not to the extremes j|6 which broilers Went, mainly - because the percentage' of con tracting was not as large. Throughout the corn belt there is a movement, meeting with considerable success, to contrast hog feeding opera- _ hops. One reason hog feeding has not ’ been more completely contracted is prob ably because of the large percentage of home grown grain fed to hogs. " • The broiler industry is-slowly--regain ing its position in the nation's agricultur al picture, but it still has a long way lo go. There are some indications that the egg industry has evpn farther to go. Hog prices have not been all that farmers would like to see, but they have not real ly hit bottom as poultry pnces have done. Dairy prices have not been- high in some areas, but generally, they have held their own about as well as" any farm commodity! If the time comes when.' a man or a company con Own dairy cows without doing the milking; dairying-may well be on the road to Over production and low- v ered prices, tlnless the dairymen of Ibis'" country want to become mere farm labor ers, they must continue to own and con trol a substantial part of the forming bash ness. Contract dairying might iook like a good pattern to follow, and at might‘look like the available .goods can be stretched by using this source of capital, but ddify men had better measure their material a* gain. They can Cut it only once. At least that's how it looks "from where we stand. the constant threat of hunger if not actual hunger, is not a, problem. It is the only court* try where farmers are con stantly criticized for their productive efficiency. In oth er countries they are'praised. Americans eat better than 9 out of every 10 people in the rest of the world, and for a smaller percentage of their income. If Khrushchev’s vis it taught us anything, it should be that we ought to be thankful for the be:t farm ers in the world. Educated Rural People Will Be InDemandSoon “Dr. Robert B. Corbett, president of New Mexico State University, said in a speech recently that a few years ago young men were told not to take engineering because engineers were a dime a dozen. Today, he stat ed. men trained in engineer ing are the scarcest and most demanded in our economy.’’ “The same situation could conceivably develop in farm ing. Our population is in creasing so rapidly that in 10 years, according to Dr. Corbett, unless the nation is careful, it may wake up and find itself incapable of pro viding food for that sharply expanding population.” (Newberry, S. C., Observer PROTECT LIVESTOCK Keep livestock out of fields of frosted sudan grass ot sorghtxm, urges Dr. Samuel Guss, Peru! State extension Veterinarian. When these plants are frosted, deadly acids are formed. Just a few mouthfuls of this frosted forage can kill cows In case of poisoning, early treatment is imperative. The 1959 Census of Agri culture wi|l get underway in Pennsylvania Nov. 11. The information will provide an Up-to-date guide for future farm planning. Questionaircs will be sent through Vhe mail to farm operators, and a few days later a census ta ker will call for the answers. i Lesson for October 18, '1959 CHRISTIANITY is a religion of * sharin'g, but nbt all sharing is Christian. Sharing when you have ,to isn’t it/otherwise - everybody who pays,taxes would be a Chris tian. Sharing. vcry,ratejy / is Mfdly it, either, because Christian shar ing is a constant habits not an occasional what you want, cle. out your "cl artd giving unteerS the fit of your is some di; yet .from C tisn aha Sharing ; can be' Chrii indeed the Apos til Johtt inquires whethef we can imagine We have the love' of God in us if we’ do not Share with the needy (I Jollh 3:17). But Chris tian sharing is something over and beyond letting other people use some of the things we call ours, some of the time. • Sharing Christ It c«tl all be put Into two words. At its best &nd highest, Christian sharing means sharing Christ. But In order to understand those two simple Words, put together in that way,-We Have to do some further thinking. A short story in the book of Acts (chap. 3) helps to mike this clear. Peter and John have be come such famous men that we forget how poor they actually were. They had been fishermen, and they had been away from their lake a long time. When they told the beggar they had no silver nor gold, they were as good as saying they had nothing but pennies. Yet they gave that beggar something far better than money; they gave him the power of Christ What happened is recorded as "a miracle; and miracles are not m our times granted to most men to perform. Yet sharing Christ is still possible. Observe that the poorest Chris tian, the i6ne least able to share Now is The Time . .. BY MAX SMITH TO SELECT MEAT-TYPE B HOGS—Hog breeders and feed realize that modem markets de mals-with a larger proportion ( fat; also, that not any one bre« is more of a meat type than at is largely a matter of selecting I breeding animals within each fi dividuals that have length and s are preferred over short, fat, a! hogs; animals that appear to h ness of large muscles are also MAX SMi i * Selection is very important if i spring are to be of the proper type. TO DELAY HAY CUTTINGS—Fourth or fifth c alfalfa should not be made now until several da Killing frost; to remove the final cutting during la bet or early October before frost could result t ent injury to the stand. After a killing frost, the es go down into the roots and are stored during f After this period, experience has shown little ( next year’s crop. Since hay drying weather is no in October, it might be best to remove the growtli of for greenv£ceding. In new stands of alfalfa, it allow some cover for the winter. TO GIVE CALVES SPECIAL CARE — The wmt season will soon be on hand and many new born | be housed; these dairy calves are the replacem* few years from now and should get the best cai job of care and growing the heifers this birst V mean better and larger cows for your future calves should have warm, dry, sunny, and draf' ters. They should get regular feedings and have to the best legume hay oh the farm. A small le* ing Dairy Calves” is available from the E^tensiot TO PREVENT CHILLING COW vention is much cheaper and better than any cure. In the fall months dairy cattle should no to lay on the ground aftea* cold weafher liflg of high-producing udder tissue could bring tls condition. When frosts and freezing ' vea dairy cows should be housed at night to P rc ' en tion. Sharing 'money or t hl had what th, who is not . namely ChuJ An Amazing o„ ( ; Hers is a occurred lc„ * firificie too J twites what ", h . mean, In the J. alcsngr doing „ Some young hooh see him. Th ev J lng-about haw money to g 0 tO . night. So—beine rushed this toil only took what 8 had, onlyadolia t( papers lepmtcd, derod him then were arrested a Pennsylvania tool them of the niur them. All a faiilJ familiar m big crt restcom iction chair. - But the astonis pened. The family dent weie Koieam They wrote to tl Pennsylvania, ask prosecute those ho to help them Mot Korean family we of getting up p f U selves) to be usei tlon»—ordinal v, an religious, of "the killed their young Bringing Christ In No doubt many, people, when they case, felt nutated angry. “Those hool murder, let ’em hi business ha\ e thos ing religion into it the point They di( ion” into it, they into the situation sharing Chust i him into eveiy si Christ is (we hoj situation, foi msti ship on Sunday m in the offering we But the haid waj way—to share Chi about him omto e talk about him T( to make eveiy situ edy and miiidei—i you have invited i help otheis (Based on outline tho Dn isioh of Oil National Cpnnnl of Christ m tlio I S Commimitj Puss 1c
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