—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, March 10, 1962 4 From Where We Stand... The Law of Supply and Demand A letter in our mail the other day said, “I am against quotas. If we would all stick together we could get the price of tobacco up to 40 cents a pound.” At a recent dairy meeting a dairyman expressed the idea that he didn’t see coo much wrong with price supports, out he was against anyone having the right to tell him how much milk he could produce. Another dairyman said recently he was for letting supply and demand make che market with no help from any regu latory agency government or farmer controlled He cited the poultry business as an example to prove that a segment ot agriculture couid survive without a regulation except by the laws of supply and demand. Now we- believe every farmer should have a right to think as he pleas es, and he must have a right to say what he thinks, but we believe he should chink the thing through to the end be rore he tries to sell a program to him self or anyone else We certainly would not try to sell a program of tobacco acreage controls 1.0 tobacco farmers, but when the farmer caid the price might go to 40 cents per pound if all tobacco farmers would stick together, he was just not being realistic In the first place, if all farmers real ‘stuck together” they would regulate bemselves just as rigorously as govern ment control proposed to do. Further aore, while we are in favor of the farm cj getting a fair return on investment, ve cto not believe he should seek out- ageous prices, or he will soon be in a losition of pricing his product out of a narket In any program, we believe farm ers should ask what is just and reason ible, and not soar off into flights of lancy. or spend time in wistful thinking chat they can ask for the moon and get t. ,In the second situation' we believe there are too many farmers who want ; o have their cake' and eat it too. We know there have been some aard times on the farm. We have lived through some of them We know that even now many farmers are having a Uaid time meeting obligations on the high capital investments they are forced to make m this highly-mechanized busi ness. Many farm programs in the past, oome good and some bad, outlived their or simply failed because of poor administration or because unscru pulous farmers sought loop-holes and Probe Slated Into Fair Funds II \RHISi:rK(! frl.ili (fox in niiuMil Commission x ill lino the lull m ,i pioposcd probe ol the disii ibution ot state funds lo lans lor the payment oi premiums ripe teaar\ oi Akii ne>t,il Assemihlv the- Serna re passed a re seilutlem dneelmi; rile- C’eim e 11 ssion lo “make' . stud} oi t he pi otile m o( iiiunon of ( lemiiim mom i to (an asso e lations In (lie l)e>p o t me nl oi A u ie n 11111 e inti*i (“.led in pim ulim! nu en- Kxdkssiiu. plc.isim „t rhe mes 10. I vouth the i niiisl shown h\ tin lomsl.i ~ „ ~ ~ 111 HIM- r.HIIK 11, Ol 1 iis Si'(ict>ir\ denning r< < ill- i law s|ienties th.it not nunc Ilian *l,OOO iiijj he allo cated to uiv one l.iu ,uul not mote than '■J mill to an\ one c otinrt “The hinds an allot attd to bona lidt annciillur.il societies as i)i esc nhed b\ law ’ Sec ie tan Hennmn said “The pin posc is to stimulate mteiesl in tlie inoduc tion ol (|ii.ilit\ livestock aiains hints and vecjer.ibles We au especially cultural commodities padded their pockets at the expense of other farmers and the general taxpayer Many of these programs were not allowed to die their natural deaths when they had outlived their usefulness, or when they were found impractical be cause some politicians on both sides of the aisle also found that it was politically expedient to keep the .pro grams from dying And because of these programs, there has grown up an attiture among too many farmers that a living should be guaranteed to any one who tills the soil whether he is a good businessman or not whether he contributes to the well-being of the country or detracts from that well-being. It is just not realistic to suppose that a price for a product should be guaranteed when no limit is imposed on the amount of production As to the law of supply and de mand and its relationship to the poultry industry, it could and very well may operate in just the same way for the dairy industry. Admittedly, there were no regula tions imposed from without, and prices aie higher in the industry, but there are not nearly as many poultrymen as be fore A hatchery representative told us last week that it is virtually impossible to sell a chick unless the hatchery will agree to wait for payment until the broilers are sold He went on to say that the only accounts of any size at their hatchery were contract growers who had little or no money in the busi ness, but were really employees for large companies who paid the grower a stipulated salary tor every thousand broilers produced We can’t help wondering how many dairymen remodeling their barns for more cows right now will be out of the business in five years from now, and of those still in the business, how many of them will be producing milk, on con tract to large corporations. The law of supply and.demand is a harsh law capable of throwing a market into complete chaos. When the market is confused, the consuming public tends J to lose confidense in the product, and loss of confidence in agricultural pro- , duce is just what we mainly do not need We do not believe the American ' farmer can afford to allow the dairy market, or any other agricultural mar ket to be thrown into chaos even if it requires amendment of the harsh law of supply and demand At least that’s how it looks from where we stand. fj.-iiic.isicr Count \\ Own |<’.irin V\ o< kl\ P 0 lU>\ J r,.*-! 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To lecommend a person (howevei kind your mothe) about whom you have some serious Why Be Truthful? Lesson for March 11, 1962 doubt, is no ical help to any one. ~ „ . On the other hand if you know of 3 ‘ ' peop « see some disci editable incident which tiamt - v f at . al - others can see has nothing whatever to do with some pails of it. Hot arguments M x - s f|tness for thls particular go on among the expeits: Is the b 1S haidly right to tell it Ci: dr ?hgion something so t b it happens to be 1 f specl f dl * nd dlf - the truth S ferent that a non- . . ... . ■ Christian cannot Not just because it s true 1 understand it at If it's tine, then tell it, is a poor 1 ail, or is there title That’s what is wrong with I some point of con- gossip even when the gossip ir ' tact, something tactually true Truth can be told winch doesn’t call w ith bad intentions, with malice tor a special re- and resentment. Theie is an \elation before a ‘eleventh commandment" along man-can see it 7 side the famous ten Thou shall Dr. Foreman Probably the love thy neighbor as thyself. “Is Ten Commandments appeal to it tineis by all means one ques more"non-ieligious”persons than tion to ask about anything you some other parts of Christianity, want to say If it isn’t true, don’t One of them we have for constd- by anv means tell it But if it is elation this week as we have had tuie theie aie othei tests Is it olheis iccently Thou shall not kind’ Is it helpful’ Is it the kind beai false witness Oi—turning it ol thing you would want others to aiound as we can and must, — say and spiead around about Thou shalt be tmthful Who can- vourself’ not understand this' Who wants . ... ... a hai for a fnend' Who wants to ln the ,mag * Gcd r do business with a man who can't The Chustian nwtne foi truth be trusted' Who wants to many fulness is unique Not that other a pci son whose woid means niolues aie wiong It i» good to nothing' fell the tluttl because people de pend on you it you do It is good to tell the tiuth for its own sake Nothing that is not trua The maim difference between It is good to tell the truth because the ordinary understanding that way you never get caught in truth and thi standing q£J| whatj^^l always reinem we believe that truth is not truth ber. One is that when God for when it is mixed with falsehood, gives sms, he “remembers them It's like passing a glass of mixed no more;” and when we forgive water and carbolic acid to a vis- others, we should do the same, ifor and telling him, “Have a never dragging out of the past glass of w’ater.” It is ( waiter, truer what, we claim to have forgiven, enough; hut not .all of it. The The other flung is that we simply word “water” is a true word for cannot deceive God, We can put half- of what is in the glass, a on Sf false front for other people, fatally false word for the rest but never for God. The God of if it. Perhaps the most dangerous truth knows the whole truth form of untruth is a mixture of about us. truto and falsehood; for the part- (B „ e(l „ tlin „ o ,„ rUh(ti truth makes people think the ik. million or Christian K4uc«tio«, vlmlp thing is truth Thev will >'«tl«n»I Coum II of tko Ckurche* of viioieuung is uum. incy win Chr)st Jn the , « Rei»«».a or ake the he-and-truth much more community crew serrio*.) sasiiy than a he alone. Now Is The Time . . . is important to keep tile seeds and the lerti li/ei Irom contacting each other Fertilizers containing either nitiogen or potash will bum most seeds and i educe or stop germina tion In most cases it is advised to put the feitili/ei on sepaiately trom the seeds, or have it placed an inch or two to the .side and one to two inches below the seeds 01 plants. When setting flower oi vegetable plants the tween cows m the herd roots should not come three t -1} in contact with a complete fertilizer. To Treat D.iirv Cons \s Inilivicliials Mam stood dauvmeu will heel each cow as an individu al animal and the amounts ot hiv, sil nte and aiam will vaiv between animals some tows have the abilitv to maki bittei use oi laiae amounts ol hav oi main and will ante meatei amounts ot milk lor this (xti a intake ol leed nut rients Inhci italic e is a bi., tac ten and lesulU in stu rtet abilitv to (imvert leed and roiiftbaite into milk Good re- sults Tnaj-Mre-ex perted - imt the feed-milk rations be- Not everything that is trua Second, while it is not ever right to tell a lie (unless, some would say, there is no other way to save a life), it is not by any means always right to tell all the truth. At a funeral, if some kind words aie being said about the deceased, it would be the height twork of lies it is hard to ■tout of Yes, yes But the reason for being sons and BV MW SMITH To Observe I’ert ib/er I’Lieement With the tiend toward heavier amounts ot higher anal>sis fertilizer on most crops i£ To Sou Spring Oats liar I y If weather conditions per mit, spring oats grower* should try to get the gram sitded during the last week in Maiih 01 the tirst week in \pril, this is the best time to seed oats in southeastern Pennsylvania tor best yields. It oats aie to be used a« a nurse ciop, then the seeding rate should be one bushel per aire without any leguma seeding the rate is 1 \' s to 2 bushel per acre To Spray For Wild Oar He Early spring is the b< st mri£ PCSPI€>CJr a ?E u (Continued on page, 5) 1 milking