—Lancaster Farming. Saturday, February 25, 1961 4 FROM WHERE WE STAND - Why Not Buck The Production Cycle? Why don’t producers see the peak price coming and aim for a good mar ket? This old question was asked again last-week by one of the officers of the Lancaster Poultry Association. We stopped in at the Poultry Cen ter after the Thursday auction to find out the results of the sale and got in to a discussion with a buyer and some of the auction personnel. Prices at the auction were at the highest point -in more than a year, but the volume at the sale was at the low est point in several weeks. “Prices have been advancing for several weeks. I don’t gnow why more growers didn’t consign broilers to this sale. The market will probably be flooded next week and knock the props out from under the sale.” the, buyer said. ~ Well there might be several rea sons for the small number of broilers offered. It just .might be that there are -not a large number of broilers, ready for the market because the k>w_ prices of the past several months have discouraged heavy placement of broil er chicks; Or it might he that the growers are hoping the peak has not yet been reached; Or it might be that the weather or a weather report caus «d several growers to change their minds about marketing last week. Whatever the cause, the pattern is a well-known one. The well-known law of supply and demand still func tions. When the demand is greater Than the supply, prices go up and nvhen the market is overloaded, prices .tend to go down. Doubtless the price at the Poultry Center last week wi'l encourage some [growers to place more chicks than he lhad planned to place or to place chicks [where he had not planned to place .any at all. i For this reason we have production -cycles. There have been production ever since man produced in sur plus of his own neds and tried to dis pose of his oversupply to his neigh bors. It is the normal trend to increase production during times of peak pric es, but the problem is this; production begun during periods of peak prices is not ready for market until the price situation has time to endure a lot of change. - “Everyone is doing it,” seems to be Treason enough for some producers to increase production or to cut back pro duction. It is easy to do a thing when every one else is doing it. It takes real cour age to buck the trend. It takes real foresight to look at the situation as it will be, rather than as it is. Production cycles will continue to b»e. Price cycles will continue-to rise and fall pretty much in converse pro portions. Those who jump in and out will continue to push the cycles higher *K* > Oovlditn President John F Kennedy the result of the decline in and Secretaiy of Agriculture purchasing power of the Orville L Freeman regard twenty-million people who “ithe farm problem” as one live c.n farms at the toughest and most ur- Also, they think the post gent domestic problems of war record number of un the new Administration in employed has been swollen Washington by the two million workers In private talks with farm who have left farming to leaders and members of seek jobs in the city during Congress they rate low net the past few years. farm income and mounting A new Approach surpluses a more complex At a meeting, behind clo and press ng problem than sed doors, with farm and the business slump and ns- congressional r-ecent ing industrial unemployment i y> p res ident Kennedy said; Along with many econo- “I and my party have pled mists. President Kennedy ged ourselves to raise the and Secretary Freeman be- income of farmers That lieve the business decline promise we intend to keep.” has to a large degree been He reminded the group THIS WEEK —ln Washington With Clinton Davidson Top Priority and deeper. Producers of farm products' can not stop production cycles, and joining the group only makes the cycle more severe. Why fight the cycle? You can make it work for you. At least that’s h6w it looks from where we stand. Of Crows and Corn Your editor goes through about one waste-basket-full of messages every day—messages that someone some where in America wants Eastern Indi ana farm men to hear. (And it is a pretty good sized waste basket, too) We are not unhappy about this. In fact we often wish that even more peo ple from Eastern Indiana, itself, would take the time to tell their stories'-in The Eastern Indiana Farmer. We ap preciate your mailed in and ca’led in reports of farm organization meetings, 4H news, and other bits of news about community happenings. What we like is for you-to help us keep the news as fresh and up-to-date as possible. r But to get back to the waste-basket full, industries with hew for farm implements and livestock feed ers, especially want you to listen to messages about their products. We us ually leave this up to your local deal ers, and they have something to tell you each week about vital ingredients for your farm operation when you read their advertisements. But here is an example of what we are talking about: A release came to us recently from Saginaw, Michigan, saying that'graphite sprinkled on seed corn has been proved to have resulted in more uniform spreading because of its lubricating action in seeding mach ines. „ This seems an interesting idea. . “There "has always been the prob - lem of seed, especially when it has been treated with insecticide, sticking together or to parts of the seeding ma chine,” the release continued. “This has resulted in wasteful and non-uniform plantings. Now, with gra phite lubrication, the seeds do not ad here to each other or the machine, and uniform feeding is attained. “Dry graphite, ground to about 200 mesh screen size, is sprinkled on the seed prior to spreading. The seeds be come uniformly coated, and have a dark grayish color.” Now-get this; the dark color, claims the release, offers the additional ad vantages of faster germinations, and less waste, since crows are not attract ed by the coated seeds. Now you tell us: will it work? Incidentally, this message was sent to us for you by The United States Graphite Company. —The Eastern Indiana Farmer. that he was well aware of the fact that per capita farm income is less than half the national aon-farm average, and that farmers can buy less wi + h what they have to spend than at any time since 1P39 “This” he said, “isn’tjust a farm problem. It is a nat- Lancaster Farming Lancaster County’s Own Farm Weekly P u Box 1524 Lancaster, Penna- Offices; 51 North Duke St. Lancaster, Penna •*hoiio Express 4-3047 Jack Owen Editor Robt-r' n Campbell, Advertising Director &. Business Manager Esta’ lishcd November 4, 1955 Pub'l<di»d every - Saturday by Farming Lancaster, pa Entered as 2nd class matter at jincaster, Pa under Act of Mar t l 579 additional entry at Mount >ov Pa Subscription Hates' 52 per year hr»e veers 55, Single copy Price > cen’« \femb*”= Pa Newspaper Publish ers ’••wlation' National Kd*tm-- n \sb. rhtfoTi (Turn to page 5) Lancaster Bible Material: John 13. Devotional Beading: Matthew 1# 13-23. Loving and Losing lesson for February 39,1961 THE HEADLINE above might lead you to think this is a column about a'boy and a girl. If that’s what you are looking ior, readier further.-That's not what this is' about. We are'talking about something more important than an imagmarygirl or boy. Thisls about life, your life. We may as well come to the point at once. “He who loves hislife loses it.” This is a quo tation from Jesus Christ. Aa if it were not hard enough to under stand by itself, Jesus adds an Dr. Foreman even harder sentence; “Hie who hates his life in the world will keep it for eternal life.” Jesus never talked nonsense; but he often said things that made men walkaway, asking themselves, What can this mean ? This is one of those hard sayings. The Cross Is the Answer Jesus did not explain his riddle in words. He explained it by action. Let it never be doubted that Christ was fully normal,-apart from Bin. “Like his brethren in every re spect,” a New Testament writer says Now the will-to-Hve is strong in every man. In some persons of unsound mind there is no will-to hve, only the will-to-die. But Jesus riever strikes you (nor any one else) as a morbid type, who would go around hating himself and hat ing life. Jesus had a joy in living, this is clear from all we know of him. Yet he came at last to a crisis in life where he had a chance to choose to live, perhaps for many years; but chose to die. He loved life; but he would not treasure hik life above all things else He loved life-; but it came to the point where he knew the best investment of his life would be to “lay it down” (to use his own words). Suppose Jesus Had Refused? Now Is The Time ♦ . TO DO SOIL TESTING—AII properl' owners should become acquainted with the local soil testing facilities. Home owner, in town, in the suburbs, or full-time faim ers may have samples of soil tested lo' various soil elements. As soon as the saw pies may be taken, dried, and prepared, the services will be better during Much than later in the spring. MAX , SMITH TO KEEP DAIRY COWS WELL REDDED With either the stall barn or the loose housing system of handling the milking herd it is ve.y »" portant that the cows have plenty of clean bedding at all times. With loose housing at this time of "the year it n> a ' require' additiqnal beddings in order to keep the bedd&i area clean; it is strongly advised that the loafing area no> include any feed, water, or hay facilities so that the co" are there only for lying down on the clean, bedded a.ea TO PROPERLY SANITIZE DAIRY UTENSILS—Saints means killing any bacteria that may have landed on lil equipment since the previous milking and washing use of the santitizer such as chlorine, lodophors, or 1,1 quaternary ammonium compounds should be applied ofll' to clean equipment. Just prior to usmg the equip)' 161 ’ rinse the utensils with one of these santitzers, d.am v ' el and allow to stand several minutes before milking t: ’' practice will result in a lower bacteria count and quality milk. TO RECOGNIZE SOIL ORGANIC MATTER PROBLEM Many Lancaster County soils continue to be low in matter (humus). The great amount of complete soil test done in recent years reveals this county to be one of lowest in the State in this respect. Longer rotations, c crops, sod crops, and the addition of a maximum a,TIO of animal and vegetable waste to the soil is high!} ieCf mended. This subject will be presented at the C° ul “Soils Day” on February 28th. Jesus sometimes said he ‘‘hac! suffer anfl die; but what kina necessity what this? No out? force pushed him. True, onco got Into the hands of the poll the end was foreseen by every 0 , Yet even then Jesus said he or summon angels to his aid. fore that, It would have been fectly simple not to offend Pharisees and the acnbes. P had never heard of him and • never have -heard of \him if chief priests and the rest of t) had not brought Jesus before ) Jesus had no quarrel with Roman Governor; and could hi lived to a ripe old age, in re' ment somewhere. But then w about the rest of us ? What W( we think of God? If Jesus was divine Word made flesh, if he \ God-made-man, and if he had fused the cross, ‘ then we have known that there is one God -would not do for man. would teach man, condemn praise or punish man; but would not die for man. God notjet himself be hurt Eul Christ chose the Cross, He chos die, not for himself alone but every man. The Dying Seed Look-into the garden after It has been planted. Wl you find ? To the eye, nothing, seeds rotting in the ground, i that will never comevout •seeds falling apart, dying, look again; every living seei sen "mg up a green, stem th? hold up another plant. To life, you must first have death have victory, you must be wil to Kke scars. It Is so with garc It is so with life. Jesus’ saci Is not the only one needed to the world Let us suppose i moment that every Christi; tne church were just as sellis! as much a Me-Firster, as ar outride the church. What won chi. -ch amount to? Nothing i t.ian another pompous club wo Id never have lasted as lor it has, of course; it would u . ever have existed at all Gc ti.o roll of history. Some peop) called “Great” when nothing U'.c.-a was great except t c es. Who are the truly g ’ ■ / are, they have always 1 ..." e who did notjove the They were.those wh ■, -h —whether St one sir r cf I eroism or through k g- - i themselves for ot’ 'T sett on outline* co *" Division' of ' Christi ■’nal Council of t’ e t in the U. S. A. i namfj i’resa Servi? BY MAX SMITH
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