'4—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, August 13, 1960 FROM WHERE WE STAND - “No farm loans will be made with out adequate farm records to support the loan application.’’ says an experi enced loan man who makes a business of dealing with agriculture in the Midwest Some readers will groan, “Here we go again on this record pitch ” and likely some farmers are tired of hear ing of the value of keeping records preached at them from every way they tarn. We know how hard it is for some persons to find time to keep accurate records, and we know how distasteful the job of record keeping is to some people, but we couldn’t help being in trigued by this new application of farm records. Anyone who has ever applied for a loan knows that the lender wants to have some proof of the security of the loan. Usually the security takes the form of some material possession or the earning ability of the borrower. Now along comes the idea of checking on the managerial ability of the bor rower as well as his possessions. In a recent issue of one of the poul try industry newsletter the availability of money for loans to poultry business es is compared to the availability of money for loans to other small busines ses. Newsletter states-that well-springs of poultry credit which once flowed abundantly for one and all, now show distressing signs of drying up. This is no news to most of us, and there are those, some of them poultrymen, who think tighter credit will be a boon to the industry. However, many bankers say it is not “tight money” which has caused the situation. Banks can and do put large sums into other small businesses, but the lack of standards of financial judgment in the poultry industry is making the situation critical m Oqvlrfton With, the political cam paigning occupying the cen ter of national attention, the loneliest man in Washington could be Secretary of Agri culture Ezra Taft Benson He could be compared to the captain of a ship tossed by a storm of controversy, and from which many of the crew have mutinied and de serted Many of his some four million farm passengers are discontented The , Republican par y which placed him in com mand of agriculture did not invite him to give advice in developing a farm program for the 1960 campaign plat form He volunteered no ad vice Almost eight years ago Benson set out bravely to chart a new course for Am encan farmers, with his des tination a “free, independent and self-reliant” agriculture Lancaster Farming Lancaster County's Own Farm Weekly p o i;o\ n2t Lane istt i, Puina Offices !) Not I*l PiiKp St Linristcr Pmni Phon< - Lme istor • C\in<v S Tar Is, O'v « n I (htop Hein O Campbfll, Ad\crtlsm£ir DiKdo) Husjn»«vs .Manager EM t* iisln (1 \o\einbfr 4 iyV« PublloiicO o\(rv -Uurday by Lancaster Panning Lancaster, Pa T,nt(Uf\ 2nd rlns s mit ( it r 1 under Act of Mir 8 orp) nnal entry at Mount Jny t> • .Subc-npf ion Pale-? «2 per yon. ''HIL.IC (Op 1 I iCC 5 c< n 1 s Merrde Pf Pnt)7^b ers’ '«*" »•* on National JMitor lal Association. No Records THIS WEEK —ln Washington With Clinton Davidson Case For Benson He has never wavered that course. He has sailed in troubled waters Against a trend of rising national prosperty, farm income has gone stead ily and alarmingly down ward. Non-farm income, in terms of what wages and sal aries will buy, has increased since 1952 by almost 20 per cent, but fanners’ purchas ing power has declined by one-third. No Compromise * Benson, whatever his leg ion of critics may say of him, has never been accused of compromising his convictions, or of losing faith, in the rightness of his policies When you are right, he has said, you shouldn’t compro mise with wrong It is wrong, he insists, for the goernment to tell farm ers how many acres they can plant, or how many bushels they can market, and to fine or imprison those who do not obey It is wrong, he contends, for the goernment to guaran tee farmers prices that en tourage excess production “There is a puppy in the yard, Oh Mother come and see'” Thus began the story of Honeycomb and me I moved her to a dry garage, and there was born another. And another and another, first a si ter, then a brother. When there were eight, the children came and saw them on the floor, And Sandj- thought Honeycomb should have a million more, But I am sure that eight pups is more than we will need, And finding homes for collie pups will be a chore, indeed - - No Loans While the article mentioned applies directly to the poultry industry, we be lieve it can be applied to all other farm enterprises as well- Time and time again-, agricultural economists have said size alone is no indicator of the productive ability of a farming op eration. Many lending institutions are be coming more and more reluctant to ex tend unlimited credit to the very large businesses which are showing too small a return on their over-large', budgets. Banks have added consultants to help their staffs in dealing fairly and ade quately with the agriculture in their communities. Lending agencies are re alizing the value not only of good rec ords, but of a good evaluation of those records. The correct evaluation of complete records, lending agencies know, not only helps to correct'some of the faults of a farming program, but can actually help stave off problems by indicating changes in the direction of the pro gram. Credit in farming is a tool like any other tool, and it can become burden some if more is used than is needed. Any time a farmer buys more machin ery than he can use, he is wasting money, but if he needs a piece of ma chinery to farm more efficiently, he is losing money if he does not buy that machinery. The same rule applies to the use of credit; it should be used as a tool for more efficient farming. Farm records have proved their val ue in improving production through more efficient culling, program plann ing, and marketing decisions. Now lending agencies are giving the farmer still another reason for keeping com plete, accurate farm accounts. At least that’s how it looks from where we stand from Despite an Agriculture De partment budget that am ounts to $7 billion a year, net farm income has declin ed from $l7 billion to $ll billion a year, including both the sale of farm products and government payment'. Net farm income per capi ta last year was less than $l,OOO, about half the na tional average More than 2 million people leave farms each year to seek better pay ing city jobs. While many of those a round him have become dis couraged, Benson has never lost faith that his policies will, eventually, prevail He contends that the situation is the resuH of bad legislation enacted before 1953 and con tinued too long afterward. In a “Report to the Ameri can People” on his TVs years which he plans to make 8 full years, as Secretary of Agriculture Benson describ ed the_e as “a period o. great and lasting prograss. The groundwork has been laid for the kind of prosperous, ,r n to Page 5 RURAL RHYTHMS NEWBORN By Carol Dean Huber that builds surplus stockpiles higher and higher. It is wrong to take money from the Treasury to pay farmers not to produce, or to' over produce, he believes Since 1953, Benson as head of the Dept of Agriculture, has spent more than $4O bil lion. That is more than the Department spent in the 90- years that elapsed from the date of its establishment io Benson’s appointment From Bed to Worse him as they ah Ulv , , “father-image,” v hc 5 t ll or a Roosevelt or a d!p ' one else Isaiah (b ei^‘ ' ul top drawers m his coi,“ 01 of the royal doubt on the g 00( i , d ‘ When he died, Isa ml, u g the vision God had ' aS| before God became a time of disaster a J V had not seemed ieu b J, f oi Isaiah was not ca,™ rapture when ho sa , sight* of the Du me \, ( many saints have i c ,, ‘ ■ a terrible expenc nce thing Isaiah feels , s , n , 1 sms, sms which God deal’ THE ROMAN CATHOLIC name b y washing them a \vav for it is “vocation;” the Prot- burning them avay estant name for it is "calling” into common language, p c They mean just the same thing, common • Isaiah has to the call of God to a man or woman setting right with c«.j for special service. Protestants and ca ii m S’ him to be api oph e j Catholics as well are now begin- would say, a pieachei i ning to expand the - if the tant part ° r a Pievhcr’j word. It is being * s to condemn men’s nils seen by many, pieacher can lead othe.j Bible Material: IsaiaK 6 Devotional Beading. Isaidh 12 1-6. Visisn and Qafi Lesson for August 14, 1060 though others are slow to see it, that God may call a man to" be a giocer or a farm er just as well as to be a minister of the Gospel. No Christian, surely, has any business Dr. Foreman staying permanently m a job where God does not want him to be. The more you believe m the will of God, the better you can see that it is really not good at all to choose your own way without ask ing what Go'd’s will is. The wiser 3'ou believe God is, the more eager you will be to learn what he has for you to do. When Half-Gods Go “When half-gods-go, the gods ar rive,” a poet said. Let us say that better* When half-gods go, then God arrives! How did God arrive to Isaiah? That man was perhaps the most famous, certainly one of the most distinguished of the Hebrew' prophets. How th 6 call of God came to him, he tells us in chapter 6 of the book of his prophecies In some ways the story is hard to understand: but in other ways we cam put it into a modern dress, so to speak, and get a good deal from it To put it shortly, Isaiah's call came when he saw the Lord. But when did he see the Lord ? He dates it so that all his readers would Identify it "In the year that King- Uzziah died I saw the t Lord,” he writes. That was like 1865 or 1945, when two great presidents died King Uzziah had not been a perfect king, but he had been a strong one. People had leaned on Now is The Time . . . TO CONTROL CORN EARWOKM-Si corn growers can increase the quality their product by controllmg the corn worm; this worm enters the silk er the car and destroys the general a; ance and sale value A new spray b’ name of “Sevin” at the rate of 4 pi of the 50% Wettable Fowler per acre be used to spray the ears and the : The corn fodder may be used for live, feeding 7 days after the last spray I the first spray four days after the 'hk appear, and repeat at 4-day wt< until 3 spray =, have been applied. MAX SM: TO LET STRAWBERRIES GROW NEW RUNNERS year’s crop' will largely come from the early runner. 1 this summer; therefore frequent fertilizing with mh will encourage more strong runners. The runneis shorn located so as m permit clean cultivation later this sum If tire 1960 patch is to be retained, it is suggested that tops be mowed off, and with the use of a culli' alol rows narrowed to a foot or less a Top-drcssmg ol 5(1 of actual ii-trogen fertilizer per acre will help S rcnV 1 runners Clean cultivation late into the fall is the b :st ' to control weeds TO SOW TEMPORARY PASTURES AND COVER 0 —Dual wheat, winter rye, domestic ryegrass, 3ncl bromegra-s are all cover crops that may be seeded 311 after early August to make fall pasture or green crops Sin c Dual wheat is fly-resistant, it will make i September _and October pasture and retained next > car a wheat crop TO "RENOVATE PASTURES—Both July and Augu= l regarded ~s good months to kill an old stand of P r od; it may be plowed, or disced several times m° r kill all vegetation New seedmgs of pasture grasses a' gumesmade during late August or early September p good chance of getting.well started before ' vlllt will come along to maTcc good pasture next spi in ® and fertilizer should be worked into the soil dur» preparing process and before feeding forgiveness of God vh 0 felt that forgiveness hr preacher has the light t< other men’s sins u he . own. A Sense of Human Need A Christian leader, hei what a “call of God” “A call consists m real;; ,and realizing one’s own meet that need ” So it Isaiah He hears the von saying “Who will go cries out, “Here am I, Not all God’s messenger ants have heard literal si they could have taken oil recording machine But ( is always the same Men dom if ever aware of the the wor'd until Cod ha; them What is it to be a of the Gospel ? Without th sense of God, a mmi&tei another career man wno living by preaching inthr raising hogs or selling iods. Without the usion young man asks the a tions about the mmisli asks about' any old job 1 it pay, how about pi bonuses, my chance to t famous 9 But once God h; a man, the ministry is challenging opportann God’s man, and to ho'n find him, regaidless of i security. All the quest on in “Here am I!” (BtsoA on outl'nos con Mo Division of Ch 21 Ki.itonal Council of r’lt * Christ in flic U. S t I* Community i'rcss Scruu) BY MAX SMITH
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