%—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, May 13. 1961 FROM WHERE WE STAND - Justice - From Whose Point Of View Grandpa used to tell the story of the farmer who said to the lawyer, “My hull has gored thy ox. ’ The lawyer immediately said, “Well then, you owe me the price of the ox.” “Oh, I’m sorry.” said the farmer, “I meant to say thy bid! has gored my ox.” “Well now, we will have to look in to this matter. 1 ’ said the lawyer. “If you were as anxious to see jus tice done as to receive it,” said the far mer, “This matter could have been set tled without a second look.” In recent weeks a group ' of mid western farmers, calling themselves The National Farmers Organization, has banded together to try to get fair er prices for their livestock. In an effort to bring prices for fin ished livestock into line with costs of production, the midwest producers have held cattle, hogs and sheep off the large markets hoping that the law of supply, and demand would force pro cessors of meat products to pay higher prices for live animals. At last report, the plan seemed to be having very limited success, if any at all. But the point of this piece is not with the merits of the plan. Whether it is a good plan or not we leave to you. We simply mean to applaud this .group for trying to do something for themselves, and to defend their right to such a course of action. In a release this week, the Indus trial News Review, an organization which attempts to have editorials fa vorable to its contributors published free of charge in newspapers, question ed the legality of the action of the Na tional Farmers Organization. The opening statement of their pro posed editorial said, in part, “Some farmers, it seems, aYe labor unions with a strange and high’y dub ious form of collective bargaining.” After several very questionable statements as to the possible conse quenses of the action of the NFO, the Industrial News Review says, “More over, livestock can’t just be stored a way until prices improve.” Thinking to add the clincher to their argument, the writers quote the Wall Street Journal which said, “Even if farmers manage -to push prices significantly higher, they’ll have to market animals Oovld « • I* President Kennedy’s “New reage allotments, marketing Frontier” for agriculture quotas in bushels, bales and calls for sweeping changes pounds, marketing orders to designed to give farmers add- set minimum quality stand ee! bargaining powers to in- ards, backed up by price sup crease their income. ports and compensatory pay- He spelled out his pro- ments when needed gram methods and objectives It would stock the Secre in a 70-page, 4,000-wo.d tary of Agriculture’s “farm farm bill now before the medicine kit” with .a score or House and Senate Agricul- more of other farm problem ture Committees. It is the remedies, such as expansion longest farm bill we can re- of industrial plants into “un call ever being put before der-developed” rural areas, Congress. more credit for farmers, and The key provision is “sup- wider use of surpluses at ply management” controls home and abroad, through greater use of ac- Program Procedures » The first step m putting a' new program into effect, if Congress approves the bill, would be a decision by the Rura Rhythms Secretary that some particul- ' ' ~ _ ar farm commodity was SPRING'S PROMISE “sick.” By? Carol .Dean Huber The Secretary next would The wind plays a song in ask the county ASC commit- the Maple trees, tees and the farm orgamza- The strings are the branches tions to nominate a commit- bare, TO RECOGNIZE FORAGE STAGE OF MATURITY tee of bona fide farmers to And promise of summer days filling and hay-making operations are approaching serve on a committee to con- to come stage of maturity is very important to get the 'most ft suit with him before prescri- Floats on the morning air. value. Many growers allow their forage crops to got v bing a treatment for the ill- ture The grasses are best when cut at heading tune. c ® ne^ S ‘ . ... . . 0 S owly the branches begin to j n the early blossom stage, and alfalfa in ttte'bud t° , And, in addition, the Sec- bud, ~ , , T the f „ w . . , , . ~ . blossom stage. New-stands of alfalfa being cut for 11 retary would himself appoint Awakened by wind’s sweet ~ , ~ , . , . , the at least one “consumer rep- tune tune should be ailowed to reach 20 % blossom for ™ resentative” to serve on each They sway in time to his of fu l^6 cmtingsrßye should be cut in the- heading ™ commodity committee. The pAomise sweet; blossom stage, and -other small grains in the flowc job of that representative Summer will be here soon, early milk stage^„. Lancaster Farming Lancaster County’s Own Farm Weekly P u Box 1524 Lant.iitei Penns. Offices ) .\orth Duke St. Emeahter. Penna. Fhonc - Lancaster KXpresh 4-3047 Jut H OiM“n Editor Bob' rt <: Campbell, Advertising Dnectoi & Business Manager Esta bshed November 4, Pu> ishe.i every - Saturciaj by Lancaster Farming Lancaster, Pa Entirtd as 2nd class m"ttei at Lancaster. Pa under Act of liar B, ’ITS additional entry a' Mount Joj r i Sm "-oriprlon Rates J 2 per year three \ears S r > Single eopv Price r> ten's Membu" Pi Newspaper Publish er* ' “‘o'-ntlnn - National Rditor tal t-m» Mt'nn THIS WEEK —ln Washington With Clinton Davidson * * New Farm Frontier eventually—. There is the crux of the matter. It is difficult to hold perishable commod ities, such as many agricultural prod ucts, and processors know this. In many instances, the farmers are at the mercy of the purchasers. Producers either take the offered price or end up with supplies of produce they can’t use or even give away. Manufacturers of storable-items can ' hold production indefinitely until a fa vorable ratio exists between cost of production and se'ling price. Unlike agricultural production, manufactur ing output can be controlled almost immediately to conform to the con sumption of the product. • Producers of manufactured pro ducts know the cost of production and set selling prices high enough to cov er all costs. Why should not farmers be entitled to the same right to set the selling price for their production? Why should any group, especially a manufacturers’ group where storage of production for higher prices is stand ard procedure, question the legality of the temporary storage of agricultural products. ' -- Some .local purchasers..of ...livestock have expressed the belief that the move by- the farmers group will tend to produce many over-finished animals and eventually depress the price stir more. General consensus of livestock handlers (not farmers) we contacted was that the move is ill advised. Some commentators have labeled the action a “strike”, with the implied connotation that anything called a strike is bad for the country. We have long felt that - farmers needed some sort of bargaining agency in the wor’d of business. The action mav well be a strike, but that label neither improves or impoverishes the merits of the plan. 11l advised, the action may well be; a strike it may well be, and it just might not accomplish a bit of good- for those who have pinned their hopes un on it. We do not recommend nor talk against the action as such. We do de fend the right of the farmers to market their products as their collective and coooerative conscience dictates. At l east that’s how it looks from where we stand. wou 7 d be to “protect consum er interests” in the develop ment of any* farm program. After consulting with his advisory committee the Sec retary would send the pro posed new program to Con gress m the form of a pre scription If, however, Cong ress disagreed with the diag nosis and prescribed treat ment it could send a revised program to the President. Farmers' Choice The new program would then be submitted to produc ers of the commodity in a referendum. It would be come law only if approved by at least two-thirds of those voting in the referend- President Kennedy came f d ENROLL* IN FIVE-ACRE CORN CONTEST—LocaI to a conclusion reached earTi- growers who are interested in growing a maximum J" er by many farmers and of corn pe. acre should enroll in the Pennsylvania farm leaders: That there is Acre Corn Contest. Entry deadline is August Ist and no single cure-all remedy plication b anks are available at our Extension Of* (program) that Can be ap- Qrowers entering the contest are urged to apply extra 1 £ ®£L farn i P ro^lei »f> tilizer and plant their corn at least 20,000 stalks pei aLrt but that different commodi- v ’ ties require" different pro grams. (Continued on Page 13> Discipline it not the sam e punishment, though it i nvo , punishment sometimes, it ls the same as being “possessiyl Wanting to manage every de , of the children’* lives. It ls ' treating some and daughters i! perpetual children, picking U their wives and husbands,V colleges or their future carJ Btbl< Matt rial. 1 Klnsi 5 1-7; Prov* n means them nr. ' erbs 4-1-4, 10:1; 13 24 ; 20:11; 22:8; , “ringing mem up so ((, 28:17; Epheiiana B.i-4 when it comes time for them Otrotlonal Readln, Colo»atan«8:17-2S make choices they Will chi ——-i wisely and well. ~ 0 This means, of course, that 4 ciphne is an art, not a science changes from family to f anu] 1 from child to child. But one thn I is certain: a child who al Ws , IN AMERICA the second Sunday f° e . s e . a * pleases , is | • in May is called Mother’s Day. child, a menace, and a few weeks after that, the his . paren T ts ’ and 1 windows of stores advertise vari- .. .’ 0 £O P e^- Ju , vem le d ous stuff for “Father’s Day” pres. Up^ ents ar « simply undiscipi, n| ents Maybe there would be more turned loose. It «*, enthusiasm if Mothftl‘"s*and„Fath- at “ rst £or parents to dod fie d t er’s Day ’ were p 1118 combined. In the Fh» Biblt And Discipline actual life of the Old Testament and New pc , home, if father the duty of discipline. The VC t and mother are tact that discipline has to be S( not teamed up to- out as a parent’s duty shows th s gether, they will parents were then, as they Jr not carry the now > inclined to skip it load For once, meaning of the word as we % friends, let us it in the H.S.V. is Interesting gjj stop, being senti- ln the Hebrew and the Greek, tii Dr. Foreman mental about word is the same as one trani mothers, let us think about fa- lated sometimes “correction" 0 there and mothers together. Let’s “punishment.” We can combir, think about what parents must do the two Ideas and say, Disciph for their children if they have any 1° the home means correctwj serious intention of bringing the snd-punishmeiit. How much coj * children up right And let’s not section? How much punishment talk as if it were easy and pleas* ~Tbat’s where the art come . ant. Let us talk about something essentially the thing is so difficult, so unpleasant, that ways the same ur principle thousands of parents put it off and a abdd shows signs, in chain, neglect it, with results that bring actlon * oa habits, of going ». disaster personal and national. from the ideal person he ougt m be, that is the time to correct VltCipiln* straighten him out, just as This u the duty of discipline, would correct a rose or a tom; Children will not ask for it. they -plant that was dragging m are disposed to resent it. It has to mud Parent’s Duty Lesion for May 14, 1961 be done by the parents, both par- And this gives the clue to ents. The children must not get meaning of ‘‘the discipline of the idea that father can be played Lord” of which Paul sr oft against mother Each must (Eph 6:4), For m a Chi support the other. Any arguments home, the ideal for every about discipline had better be car- will be Christ-likeness. m Tied on either,before the couple less Few children (there nu marry, or (after the children saintly exceptions, unknowi come) while the children are this writer) will unfold into Cf -asleep. Now there are two things likeness without help As the parents must’ know, or their gardener helps the flowers by “discipline" will not work. X. letting them sprawl natural!' They must know what their chil- the parent helps the child by! dren are .doing. With very little ing him out of whatever soils children this -.means,—what they soul are doing every waking minute. The other thing tp.be about "“SSfauS'SSnSSi 18 now you want them to grow up. National Council of the Churches what sort Of ideal you have for Com m unity h pr«a B.r«cf» , “" 1 their character and life. Discipline Is An Art - Now is The Time ♦ * ♦ ' TO BE ALERT FOR ALFALFA WI —Alflfa growers are urged to inspect fields daily for the presence of weevil vae feeding on the top leaves of the pla nl These small green worms will riddle plants if not kLled by spraying with oxyclor. If the plants are in the stage when damage is first noted, it i® be best to cut and then spray the stubl to kill the worms. New alfalfa fi f should be allowed to come into 1C to 21 blossom before cutting. MAX SM TO SPRAY FOR TENT CATERPILLARS—Late AP rli early May is the best time to kill the tent caterpiU ars ;V (( they are small; the unsightly tents or nests are home f° r small worms until they 'run out of food, then they to other and are harder to kill. The best time to them is when the tent is about the size of a golf ball, use of DDT at the rate of 3 pounds of the 50% W et ® Powder per 160 gallons of water (3 Tablespoons per will do a k limg job '/r i BY MAX SMITH s' ‘ 1
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