4 —Lancaster Farming, Saturday, November 10, 1962 From Where We Stand. Grain Storage Can Most livestock producers and dairy men in Lancaster County will be pur chasing some hay this winter, and many will have to buy some grain as well. However, many com growers in the county were pleasantly surprised when they began harvesting their corn crops this fall. We have heard of reports of farm ers in the southern end of the county averaging 125 bushels an acre in spite of the drought conditions during most of the summer. Some of these farmers may even have more corn than they need to meet their feed requirements, even though they will be feeding heavier grain rates in an effort to help make up the hay shortage, Some farmers will probably be tempted to sell their excess corn as soon as it is cribbed, and there are some advantages to selling without a long storage period, but statistics in past years show there is very little price risk involved in storing corn for five or six months. Naturally there are some risks of loss from spoilage and from rats and mice, but with the storage available on most farms, or with the good temporary storage facilities available at reasonable cost, the losses in storage can be cut to a minimum. Over the past 10 or so years, farm ers have been able to make an average of 10 to 15 cents a bushel over storage costs. During the same years, the price average increased nearly 22 cents a bushel three months after harvest time. In most cases this was more than a 17 per cent increase over the price at harvest time in October or early Nov ember. What are the chances that the price increases will come this year? Market ing specialists say that as long as this area remains a grain deficit area (using more corn than we grow) we-can expect seasonal price advances that will at least cover storage costs. A common question is what does it cost to store corn. Like all other costs, this varies widely from farm to farm. About half the cost will be the storage facility itself. This is a fixed cost whether or not you use it. Annual fixed cost of a bin or crib is likely to run about SVo to 8 cents a bushel. The variable costs include interest on money invested in the stored crop, damages and losses (you never take out quite as much as you put in), insurance, and the added cost of handling the corn into and out of storage as compared with selling directly out of the field. Total costs of storage for three or more months wnll run somewhere be tween 11 and 16 cents a bushel. Since the average seasonal price advance has been 22 cents for several years, there is a chance for a 6 to 11 cent a bushel profit. On a 100 bushel yield, that figures out to a six to eleven dollar an acre profit, and that might be some of the easiest money you made farming all year. At least that’s how it looks from where we stand. Don’t Store Rffgs In Heated Rooms It may be all right during ijancaster CountVs Own Farm Weekly P. O. Box 1324 Lancaster, Penna. P O Box 266 - Lxtitz, Pa. the Mimnier, hut egg piodut- ors should hn-d a better place than a heated basement to store eggs timing the ivintu. Ofllces says Call O Dossm, Penn State extension poultry lahst. , - Lancaster Forming 22 E Mam St st, Lititz, Pa Entered as 2nd class matter phone - Lancaster E?Cpr ? &s 1-3017 .or Lltitz.Pa. under Act ol Mar, LxtitzTVlA 'd-2191 ' ' 8. 18'7$. - • • Mean Extra Profit Agriculture Advances American agriculture has advanc ed more in the past 50 years than in all the prior years of our.history. Modern fanning, combined with a progressive system of marketing, processing and merchandising is providing more -food for Americans for less -money than ever before. In spite of this, the non-farm public takes it for granted that food should be cheap when all other items which make up our living expenses are much higher in comparison. The foundation for continuing agri cultural advance, which reach from farm to market, to home, or industry, is two-fold. It depends on research and the hard work and ingenuity of farmers. Agriculture is big business. There is an investment of $21,300 for each farm employee as compared with $15,- 900 for each worker employed in manu facturing and industry. The biggest, of our nation’s industries is composed of 3.7 million independent producers. That’s the number of farmers shown in a recent report of the Census Bureau. These farmers and their employees feed America . . with one person employed in agriculture to 27 non-farm persons. In Russia, the comparison is one farm worker to two and one-half persons. What a contrast! Never before have so many been fed so well for so little and with such great efficiency as in America. This is the success story of this decade. ★ ★ ★ ★ Dangerous Trend A new and disturbing form of inte gration from Ihe egg buyer back to the farm level, on a coercive rather than a voluntary basis has been reported to us recently. If there is much of it taking place hatcherymen and freedom may be forced into some sort of retalia tion. And, once again, the producer will be caught in the middle. To put the matter in its barest terms, the egg buyer tells the produc er, “I’d like to go on buying your eggs, but I can use only eggs produced by a certain strain of layers, fed on a parti cular brand of feed. I’ll sell you the chicks and the feed and buy your eggs.” It is hard for us to believe that only one kind of feed and one strain of lay ers can produce the quality of eggs that such a buyer must have for his outlets. It is not hard to believe that he stands to make a three-way profit from his producers when he insists on selling them the laying stock and feed before he will buy their eggs. In all previous “quality programs” that we have heard about the producer has been offered a choice of perhaps four or five different strains and the same number of feeds all of which would produce eggs of comparable in terior quality and yolk color. A producer who is “offered” this type of deal by his buyer should pass along the word to excluded feed dealers and hatcherymen in the area and make every effort to locate a new buyer. Everybody’s Poultry Magazine Jack Owen, Editor Robert G. Campbell, Advertising Director Established November 4, 1935. Published every Satur day by Lancaster-Farming, Lit- itz. Pa, Btbl* Material: Cental! 1: 38-31; Psalm 8; Matthew 8:34-34; Hebrew* 3 8-18. De vatlanal Raa4la( i Hebrew* 3 8-18. Ulan I*Bhr for November 11, IW2 MOST people would rail the Bible book about God; and this 'hi -true!- Bdt then* is -some-' thing just as-tfue, and for .Important; itiaa bookabout man.. Just as there are truths about God known, unless God reveals them, so .there are truths , about man that have to be shown us. The race of man has seldom taken itself seri ously enough. Men suppose they are like the beasts that perish: today here, tomorrow gone, and nothing else to be said. Men-think their Jives are. so short and insignificant that it does not matter to any one what they do. Men have thought of themselves as so tied to this planet Earth that when it dies we shall die with ft. Men have seen that we are" animals, and so they think we need 4io. more than animals do, food, a roof, a little place in the sunshine. What’s right or wrong for a beast is right or wrong for us . . . and so forth." Man ths Master , The .Bible gives no encourage ment to any such mistakes. Man is much higher than a mere "higher animal.” He is first of all a creature of God, that is the key to the meaning of his existence. “Thou hast made him,” the poet psalmist cries. This alone gives man a glory. The same hand that wrought the universe, the same Mind that conceived the galaxies, are the mind and the hand that designed and developed man and mankind. Not only so, but God has made man only a little lower than God, so far as this earth is concerned. On this earth, our home, God has set man as the master of all. Every living thing is placed under the control of man. Much that man does,-espe cially the good that man does, is part of his continuing age-old struggle to be what God created Now Is The The forage testing program n available for every farmer in the state, at this time of the year when the winter feeding program is ahead it is suggested that both dairy and livestock producers test their hay and silage, the quality of these forage crops will determine the kind and amount of grain that should be fed Due to the dry season, some roughages may be poop in quality and therefore, difficult to balance with a grain ration unless a test is made. hair coats are ahead for all kinds of cattle; MAX M. SMITH in order to prevent a serious infestation of cattle lice, it Is best to treat the animals in the fall if any lice are detected Use rotenone or pyrethrum sprays or dusts on milking cattle; on beef cattle or cows not milking use lindane, co-ral, methoxjchlor, or Ronnel Repeat the application in i 2 to 14 days To Provide Outside Exercise Por Breeding Animals All breeding animals should be allowed outside daily ex ercise, this >s just as true m dairy cattle as it is in herds of sows or flocks o£ ewes. This exeruse provides animals (omfort, maintains health, and enables tne animals to pioduce larger and stronger >oung To Eliminate Hats and Mice Rodents, take a.-heavy toll and intended him to te:-^r»aete^ of life on thisplanet. Every-ho*< ' pital you see is a battle-ground, « part of the long war against' tag tiny living things that cause-dia* ease,—germs and viruses, When you see a wheat field or a watey tower, you see signs of man's con quest of hunger and thirst. When you see a clothing store, or tarn on your furnace or light the wooq - in your fireplace, you are looking at part of man’s long war with the climates in which he lives." -Man .Is not meant by the high CMS ‘to be the victim ttf his 'environment • but to rise above it and cmrtroWfc Man lha Slava But that is -not the wholsjotoef. The meaning of man is ndtta-h* found in-his conquests alone, tnit in his .service. Some msiter'h* must have.-hfan