—Lancaster Farming. Saturday, January 21, 1861
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FROM WHERE WE STAND -
It s Income Tax Time
For quite some time now we have
wanted to write something on records
for income tax purposes. We came ac
jfflgg the following written by W. T.
McAllister, Farm Management Special
ist, Agriculture Extension Service, Un
iversity of Delaware. -
We pass it on to you with the hope
you might enjoy it and get some real
value from it
At least that’s how it looks
where we stand.
When I was a boy back on the
farm, the barn door right beside the
hay chute was my Dad’s favorite place
for important figures and records. He
always felt it had certain advantages
over a piece of paper it wasn’t so
likely to blow away or get lost. Be
sides, in bad weather he could do his
figuring and watch it rain, too. -
Of'course,-Dad, in his day, didn’t
worry much about income tax. - That
was-something for the Wall Street ty
coons and Dad was only a country boy.
gut it’s different today- Almost every
one has to pay some Income tax or at
least file a tax return, get’s admit
that most of the financial records kept
on the farm today are kept for the
purpose of tax filing.
Farming since Dad’s day has chang
ed from “a way of life” to a highly
complex and competitive business ven
ture. Modern farming has a multitude
of cash expenses and receipts and
large capital investments with their
high depreciation costs. The chances
are that the farmer who still attempts
to keep his records “on the barn door”
or “in his head” is paying more tax
tha" necessary.
It’s not hard to keep track of the
big receipts such as tne milk checks,
the sale of wheat, and the bouncing
check you got for Old Bessie the cow.
But, how about the great quantity of
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Davldian
Democrats succeed Repub- the years. Many of them that has placed the dollar in
licans in charge of the Ad-' have served their country at jeopardy. Washington spend
xninistrative branch of gov- a great personal sacrifice. ms is -at a peace-time record
ernment in Washington this Troubled Times ral - e °t almost $BO billion a
week for the first time in 28 year. Taxes are high.
years John Fitzgerald Kennedy, Another ruthless dictator,
, . . like Franklin Delano Roose- Nikita Khrushchev of Russia,
•u f ® velt - becomes President of. and his 80 million commun
tJl6 United States in a P eri °3 its cohorts are threatening to
!nd tte of national and World crisis - £““5,5* * b
Presidents of 1933 and 1961. When Roosevelt took of- thinkable hydrogen bomb
A great deal of history has. fie® the Nation was in the w3 *': .
been made between those depths of a depression thai *re at a critical period
vears bordered on panic. Fear grip- * n history that demands wise
T . , . ped a Nation in which mil- an .d S® leadership in Am-
It has been my privilege jj ons were unemployed and er . lca an d the Free World, if
through all of those years to breadlines. stretched through are to remain free. "We
cit y streets. A million farm- and Pray that John F.
S offices ST X s lOS ‘ th * lr ‘“ d a ” d *■- thl **
men, and to be associated „
with them in history-making J®. CARE FOR BATTERY
events. ancial m.is that led to the Cold we ather puts an ex-
My regard and respect for ba°nks ’ A rlitMess dictator tra ~ 9 f d ; n th f battery of
nearlv all of them at loval li , u ruimess aiciaror, yo u r tractor, truck or auto
honest nd dSd ouS Ad£dPh mtler^ waS rism * mobile, and Penn State ex
nonest ana devoted public power i n Germany, and tension agricultural
servants have grown over threatening world neace tension agricultural engme
uffearemng worm jmace. ers say lt 1S especially im-
Wb A r! U Kenney? ppxtant to have the battery
Like Roosevelt, Kennedy is f u n y charged to take care
the personable scion of an D f every need
old and wealthy family. ' * ’
There are similarities, too, in
their political, social and Patronize our advertisers.
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THIS WEEK
—ln Washington
With Clinton Davidson
New Administration
Beggars seldom come up to a farmhouse anymore;
But years ago we often found one knocking at the door
Asking sort of plaintively, “Can you spare a bite
For a weary traveler, and a place to spend the night?”
Mom prepared a plate of food, and Daddy fixed a bed
In the dry and cozy barn or in the wagon shed.
They never turned a man away, but shared their simple fare
With every beggar man or tramp who came a knocking
there.
small expenses—many of them paid in
cash—such as bolts, nails, lumber, win
dow glass, repair parts, twine, etc.? If
you don’t put them down in some per
manent record book as they occur,
you are going to forget about many of
them.
Even though most farm records are
kept for income tax filing purposes,
these same records can be-of value to
the farmer for other purposes, too.
''A good, carefully kept record will
provide a historical picture of the per
formance of the farm. It points out the
enterprises on your farm that are mak
ing money for you. Also, good records
will indicate the weaknesses in your
farm business.
Records furnish you with a basis
for comparing your crop and livestock
yields with various feeding or fertiliz
er treatments, with different breeds or
varieties, with other farmers in your
community, and most important of all,
with the progress you are making in
improving the productivity of your
farm.
If properly used, farm records show
you the progress you have made, the
strong points you want to emphasize
in your farm,' the weak points to be
improved, and serve as a basis for de
veloping a long-time farm plan design
ed to yield the largest possible family
income.
Whep your filing jobs are fin
ished, don’t file your record book away
somewhere, never to be seen again. In
stead, go over the book carefully, an
alyze each enterprise, study your labor
and machinery costs, compare your
yields with other good farmers, and
decide, now, what changes you are go
ing to make in your farming program
in 1961.
Get the New Year off to a good
start —get a good farm record book,
keep it, and use it in 1961.
RURAL RHYTHMS
TRAMPS
By: Carol Dean Huber
economic philosophies.
The United States again, as
in 1933, has a serious unem
ployment. problem, with
more than 5 million jobless.
Steel mills are operating at
about half capacity. Farm in
come is low, and the $9 bil
lion stockpile of surpluses is
a problem.
Tremendous spending in
foreign aid has resulted in a
drain on our gold reserve
Biblg Material: John 4.
Devotional Beading: John 1 43-51.
Can This Be—?
lesson for January Z'i, 1961
BELIEF does not always burst
like the sudden tuming-on of a
thousand floodlights. Belief may
come slowly, like the twilight at
dawn, first only a glimmer on the
edge of darkness, a sliver of lighter
grey along a cloud’s rim, growing
into the glory of 'othe>- '-nrise.
So it has al
ways been. Many
books in the
Bible are con
cerned with faith,
or belief. Espe
cially John. Not
only is Jesus in
the spotlight, but
John turns the
light also on
those who be
lieved —and .on those who did not.
Why did the believers believe?
Why .did the unbelievers fail to be
lieve?
Can This Be The Christ?
Stories,in the Bible get their
names, often, not from the Bible
Itself but from some student or
Other (perhaps centuries ago) who
tagged the'’story with a name it
never lost. One such story is in
John 4, its usual name is “The
Woman at the Well.” She certain
ly has the spotlight at first, but she
does not .keep it. Jesus, as always
m the Gospels, is in the center of
the picture; but the light, so to
speak, is so held that it shines
now on one, now on others of those
who surround that central Figure.
The story begins with the woman,
but it does not end with her; it
ends with the neighbors (she
seems to have had no friends) who
also believed Let us look at just
one thing in this story: how faith
grew.
It began dimly enough, to be
sure The_neighbors did not believe
at all, and the woman very little.
But she was beginning to have an
inkling of the truth. Can this be
the Cluist? she said. This is the
first stage of faith, and it is not
very high. But it is necessary.
Only from this can a higher step
Now Is The Time ♦ • ♦
BY MAX SMITH
TO SANITIZE DAIRY UTENSILS PROP|
ERLY—The sanitizing of milk houseiJ
equipment is necessary but should bedoney
only to clean utensils and just prior to us-j|
ing. Sanitizmg means killing the baclemi
that may be on the utensils, and does noil
mean the cleaning or washing of tlitl
equipment. Alter the utensils have been I
thoroughly washed, rinsed, and stored tl«i
sanitizers come into play before the nexll
milking. All sanitizers should be drained!
from the utensil before using. 1
MAX SMITH
TO ADJUST PROTEIN PEEPS—The type and qualtv d|
roughages used should determine the protein content of thN
grain mixture fed to dairy cattle A grain mixture contain |
ing about 12% protein is sufficient if cows are fed excel I
lent quality legume roughage. With pood quality
a 16 to 18% ration is needed for good production and bod'j
weight. The testing of the hay and silage for feed nutncnty
is the best way to knpw the true feed value , I
TO ORDER SEEDS EARLY—One of the best ways of
ting the quality and variety of seeds desired is to order and
take delivery early; this is true in all types of garden
flower seeds and especially true with alfalfa or clovci I' l * 1
is to be broadcast by early March.
TO FEED MOLASSES—AII types of livestock may n*
molasses in their rations or -on the roughages; this >s all |
economical -source of nutrients and energy and in lllo£t |
cases will increase the palatability of the feed or haj ' Vl|l '|
both dairy and beef cattle from 5 to 10% of Molasses i« 3) |
be mixed with the grain ratiop. With poor quality ha>
sumption may be increased by mixing molasses whh
water (1 part molasses—2 parts hot water) and
over the hay as fed-in the trough or manger. I
be reached. This; is the stji
hesitation, of doubtful inquiry
it is inquiry. It shows interjj 1
They Kept Coming
Evidently this woman’s ji (
bors did not laugh her off. ]
her trifle of faith was contaj.
A man on the street may be
looking up toward—what ? He
not know, himself. He may f
maybe he heard a new imj
plane overhead. But even if j,
looking at nothing at all, 0 i
who see him will look up tot
we read that the men of Saij
went out to talk with Jesus j (
i see him for themselves. The (j
word for "they were cornmf
"they caipe” to him is inters)
It is not the word that woufc
used for one single act. It
form of the verb meaning a fl
is done over and over. It sujj
that they did not all go out at!
they came out one by one, bys
groups. Some of them were s] t
to wake up than others. Fji;
like that. People have diffeiuj
action-times when driving »
some will put their foot on
brake quicker than others l
have different reaction-times jl
faith, too. Jesus did not hold
against- the late comers; mj
should we.
“And We Know”
How do people come to l
to be assured In their minds
hearts, that Jqspg is indeed
Savior of the world, and
Savior? Very much as those
maritans did. We usually beji
some one else suggesting it ]
be x parent, maybe a teal
Maybe suggesting it timidly
not too confidently; but at I
aiousing our interest. Tlie i
step is personal contact i
Christ. This is absolutely esses
the essentia! of any true Chni
faith. No one can have deep:
in an X, a question-mark, j
and unbodied name. This cm
must be more than for a mot
only. As Christ came to that
lage and stayed for two days
we can Imagine how he mustl
been kept busy all day and fit:
the night—so- he must be inf
into our minds, our heai Is f
only after 'experiences hho I
that one can say, “I have heart
myself, and- I' kpqw.” Tins to
mg is not like knowing that 3i
2 are 4. It is the kind of Knots
wi,cn person meets person, a to:
mg born of faith, bringing fait!
its full power.
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