—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, March 10, 1962
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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
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frl.ili (fox in niiuMil Commission
x ill lino the lull <copulation
'1 I lii* D(‘i)<n tmiuit of Auric ul
iun> m ,i pioposcd probe ol
the disii ibution ot state funds
lo lans lor the payment oi
premiums ripe teaar\ oi Akii
<ulnuo William L lliniim^
ml tortaj
In till e losni" lioni s oi the
I'M,.' session oi the f!e>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 ~ „
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1 iis Si'(ict>ir\ denning r< < ill-
i<l tint tho J'i',7 Lcjfisi.ituie ,nl(] Ml rlu,) members.”
at the leanest ot (he lx part- , , , ~ r , ,
. , . i I m hi the funds In fans is
e o ut, imitasud tlu ojeiall ,
appropnatiou for this purpose ( * t() piemiuni awards loi
noin sloo.ooo to tin pi esent evln-hitt. ot Inesioei.-.*nd* d'-;ri-'
.$1 10,000
Vlliu,il)on of the liiiuls is
Ejouruert In law theSe(ietai\
jiointed put A major eh;;ibilm
ieqnuemeiu is that tans hate
at.ulahle punted premium lists
and till a statement ol pre
mium p.iMiients foi a thiei
mmi penod
The .Joint
'llu> 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.
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of ungiaciousness to dredge up all
the sms and failings on his record,
Bible Material Exodus 20 16. Mat- rr vaii have to write a lecommen
tliew 12 ~-.7 20 b9-7i. Punerbs 12 17. , f ou . vc lo , Le “ itt-ounneu
iie\ otiunai Keadinc. Coiossians 3 i- datum it is only right to be per
fectly truthful in giving your
opinion of the applicant for the
job. 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
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