4—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, June 1, 1963 From Where We Stand... The Fall Term Our youngest boy informed us proudly this week that he has less than one full week of school left till, vaca tion. Another school year is rapidly drawing to a close Farm boys and girls, unlike their city cousins will have plen ty to do to keep them out of trouble this summer, but if summer vacation comes, can fall school term be far be hind? Many of the farm boys and girls graduating from rural high schools this spring have defmate plans to stay on the farm, either as a partner with par ents or on a farm of their own, but many, many more can not stay on the farm for a variety of reasons. What will these rural young people be doing this fall when the school terms begin again? Some of them will be en gaged in occupations that have no re lationship to agriculture. Some of them will be m agriculture-related jobs, but these will find competition from people with training beyond the high school level. A few will be enrolled in agricul tural colleges, but unfortunately, the number will be far too small. According to recent best estimates, there are nearly 15,000 new jobs in ag industry each year, but the agricultural colleges are graduating only about 8,500 students. It is a well known fact that a person with a college degree, or even one with a year or two of college training, will receive preference over a person with a high school diploma or less. It is also known that a college graduate with a farm background will get the nod over a city dweller all else being equal ■ — in farm-related occupations* Reliable statistics show that high school graduates earn a higher average salary than do non high school gradu ates, and college graduates earn more, on the average, than do high school graduates We have been told repeatedly in the past few years that college class rooms are overcrowded. So insistant have been the reports that some stu dents believe it is next to impossible to “get in” the college of their choice. While it is true that general college enrollment has been rising, and some colleges have filled their quotas for fall before the spring term ends, it is also true that enrollment in many agricul tural colleges has actually fallen off in the past few years. Many agricultural colleges are in need of qualified rural youth to fill their classrooms. We urge high school graduates to consider continuing their education this fall, and we urge parents to encourage them to do so. Perhaps many parents can help with the finances of a col lege education; perhaps they can not, but they can offer encouragement, guidance and interest. Now is the time to plan for col lege. Now is the time to make arrange ments and contacts. As we said before, if summer vacation comes, can the fall term be far behind? Agriculture today requires tremen dous investments, and in this “Space Age” one of the best investments a young boy or girl can make is in high er education. At least that’s how it looks from where we stand. Need Rich Soil If you’re planning to plant vine crops, such as cucumbeis, squash, pumpkins and musk melons, you’ll find they do best on a rich loam soil con taining plenty of organic mat ter, explains James Dutt, ■vege table extension specialist. Vine crops also need plenty of fer tilizer and insect control If irrigation is needed, do it in daytinfe. 1 Is A farmer is a paradox he is an overall executive with his home; his office; a scientist using fertilizer attach- ments; a purchasing agent in an old hat; a personnel director with grease under his fingernails; ... a production expert with a surplus; and a manager battling a price-cost squeeze. He manages more capital than most of the businessmen in town. He likes sunshine, good foods. He is not much for droughts, ditches, throughways, ex perts, weeds, the 8-hour day, or help ing with housework A farmer must have faith to con tinually meet the challenges of his ca pacities amid the possibility that a late spring can bring his business tt> a stand-still. You can reduce his acreage but (not) his ambition. . . . Might as well put up with him. He is your countryman a denim-dressed, businesswise, fast-growing statesman of stature. And when he comes m at noon, having spent the energy of his hopes, he can be recharged anew with the magic words: “The market’s up ” Cato (N.Y.) Citizen * ★ More Foreign Machinery Com- does require obedience petition from foreign manufacturers of opiln.’ thLt righfand farm machinery, especially European, is wrong are Uke the ru i es of a on the increase, says the Department of game, they can be changed at Commerce. Import value jumped 24 per- will. Children, often do this. They cent in the first nine months of 1962 will P ls »y with chess-men but they over the same period of the previous JJ* 11 m , oVe .^.S ie ££ s in ways year. Much of the competition has come from special-model tractors and large neighborhood; She was always machinery produced by American manu- asking people -to play some game facturers in foreign plants. Also, parts or other with her, but whenever manufactured abroad by U.S. concerns found herself being beaten are imported and used in equipment suddenly change the j fttles of the game. No one could completed in this country, ever win a game-from her, be ★ ★ ★ ★ cause if everything else failed she _ij x- t,; „ would kick over the-card table. World Dairy Consumption Rises God }s not Mjre that little Substantial world incrsssGs in total con~ inaksߧ rules- for no reason to sumption of milk and milk products in speak of Except that He wants to 1962 is indicated by preliminary figures have His own way. from the Foreign Agricultural Service. n,e ® ible knows of no such World cheese consumption continued c f a^. yi selfi ? b Right is not , tt c -x i -x right merely because He com to rise as U,S per capita use hit a nine- m * nds it . £ e commands it be . pound high. Non-fat dry milk consump- it i s right. His laws are not tion showed a substantial increase over arbitrary rules that can be chang -1961. Total fluid milk and cream use •<£ any time He pleases. They are registered a slight increase. ★ ★ ★ ★ How About A Hiking Farm Want to convert part of your farm to a hiking area, skating rink, or barbecue pit? If so, Farmers Home Administration may loan the funds under the cropland di version program providing you con tinue to receive a substantial portion of your income from farming. ★ ★ ★ ★ Need Identical Calves Identical twin beef calves have been requested by Department of Agriculture Scientists for important nutrition and breeding re search. The calves may be either pure bred, grade, or crossbred but less than five months old. Identical twin calves are always the same sex, look remark ably like and react in much the same manner. Producers with twin calves, within a 250-mile radius of Washington, D.C, are asked to write the Animal Husbandry Research Division, Beltsville, Md. To Fertilize Farm Ponds weeds and pond scum. Fertiliz ing every 3 to 4 weeks with 5o The management of the pounds of fertilizer per half farm pond will pay dividends acre of water will add the de the same as other areas of sired coloi to the water and land. 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