. Farming, Saturday,! Mairch 14, 1964
From Where We Stand...
Trouble For The Cattleman
The cattle industry is in trouble.
It must be, if the conversations we
have had with cattle feeders recently
are any indication.
It seems to us that farmers are
prone to complain whether they are
hurting or not, but this time we believe
they have a legitimate reason to cry the
blues
Whether they are laying the blame
at the right doorstep, we are not too
sure
Whenever anyone farmers, busi
ness men, or professional people be
gins to feel an economic pinch, the first
thought is to fix the blame tor the situa
tion
Whenever certain farm commodi
ties began to be-in trouble in years past,
the cattlemen pointed with pride to
their own industry and said, ‘‘We have
no such trouble ” Usually this was fol
lowed by the phrase ‘ because we are
relatively free from Government inter
ference ”
Cattle feeding, as well as the calf
producing business, has enjoyed a re
latively stable and comfortable position
for many years Of course some years
have been better or worse than others,
but most of the time, cattle were in
better shape than most other farm pro
ducts
Now the situation begins to change.
For many years, population growth,
increased earning coupled with better
eating habits, and increased consump
tion per capita, took all the beef Ameri
can farmers could produce and they
took it at a good price
Cattle feeding operations made
money As so often happens in farming,
money draws money, and too many
farmers went into the business Quality
of cattle and consequently quality
of beef went up
Fewer low quality beef cattle reach
ed the market Couple this with a few
situations in dairy herds and the situa
tion becomes more acute Dairy herds
were culled harder and cows went to
the market younger and in better
health Some of the better cuts from
these cows found their way into the
dressed beef trade Fewer bulls are
needed for breeding since artificial in
semination has become popular, and
the bull calves are castrated and fatten
ed or fed out as veal which competes
with high grade beef
But this situation has had an op
posite effect on the processed meat busi
ness Fewer old, poor quality beef and
dairy cow culls reach the market. With
fewer bulls past breeding age to be
replaced, another large source of pro
cessing meat vanished, and higher quali
ty beef herds produce fewer of the low
er grades of steers and heifers.
Processors turned to a more depen
dable source for meat of this type. They
found it could be bought at an at
tractive price and in good quantity from
over seas. Imports increased because low
• Swine Producers
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pounds of pork, nearness to
market will make up the diff
erence of about 25 to 35 cents
a bushel in the price of corn
He said me average Mid
western producer feeds about
■450 pounds of corn, lor each
hundredweight of pork produc
ed With 51 15 a bushel com,
that’s 5& 00
With $1 50 a bushel corn in
Pennsylvania, YounKin said, it
would cost a state producer
$lO 21 to produce a similar
amount of pork
“But, if Pennsylvania could
increase its efficiency to 37 5
pounds of corn lor each 100
pounds of pork,” he stated,
"vve could lower our cost
to 58 63 ”
With a $1 00 to ?1 50 ad
vantage m market prices, he-
quality beef found a ready market.
Many economists will tell you that
most of the beef imported has little ef
fect on the quality market in this coun
try, but beef cattlemen feel that impor
tation of any kind of meat will ultimate
ly be felt in the price of domestic meat.
This may be so. We are inclined
to believe it is so, but still, the plain,
unvarnished fact is this there will
soon be just too much beef for the mar
ket
Beef farmers are in for more
trouble before the situation gets much
better We wonder just how much they
Vv ill have to hurt bexore they r.se up and
demand that'the Government come and
bail them out We hope the industry
will police itself before it reaches that
point
At least that's how it looks from
where we stand.
Snob Appeal for Milk “Lift, tear,
bend and squeeze” are the instructions
on the cartons of American milk sold at
Fauchon, an exclusive French food store
And the phrase has become a password
to those in the know, says a New York
Tunes dispatch “American milk is a
rare find m Pans and to buy it at
Fauchon has become one of the super
snob refinements of the season ”
Soviet Prices Higher Farm pric
es in Russia top those here, but profits
are less Soviet farmers get about 44
cents a pound for cattle, double what
growers here receive, hogs 54 cents,
about triple the U S price, eggs 88
cents, triple the U S price But farm
ers in Russia are so inefficient their
profit is far below what farmers get
here.
Dairy Bulls Fast Gainers Dairy
bulls reach heavy weight in shorter
time than steers and at the cost of less
feed, a recent test showed The bulls
reached 800-pound weights at 10 months
while the steers required 11 months
Bulls also required an average of 414
pounds less feed to reach slaughter
weight.
A Switch to Wheat? More rice
eaters eventually will switch to wheat,
in light of North America’s emergence
as the world’s breadbasket, the USDA
predicts World-food problems are no*
thing new, but rapid growth of popula
tion, especially in countries least able
to feed their citizens, has greatly chang
ed the magnitude of the problems.
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The Awkward Age An adolescent
is one who when not treated like an
adult, acts like an infant.
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Could Be From the Waltham,
Mass , News Tribune: “We wonder if the
idea packaged food came from the low
ly hen.”
said, Pennsylvania swine pro- of pork pioduced, a farmer
ducers can successfully com- can reduce the output cost
pete with the Midwest, 72 cents
Commenting on the corn, Conveisely, for each 10-cent
price against efficiency, Toun- increase in the price of corn,
km said lor each 25 pounds of the cost lor each hundred
feed saved for each 100 lbs weight of poik rises 67 cents.
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Pilate Judged
lesson for March 15, 1961
Biclcgronnd Scripture: Matthew 27:11-26;
John 18:2* throuch 19:22; 18:1-17, 81-36.
Devotional Readme: John 10:12-22.
This WAS ONE of the momen
tous meetings in history. As
so often is true, what you could
have seen with the naked eye or
with a camera, was not what you
could have seen with the eyes of
the spirit. To the outward eye,
everything was
rigged in favor of
Pilate. He had the
authority; Jesus
had never been so
much as a village
head-man, while
Pilate was the co
lonial governor
representing the
Roman Empire.
Dr. Foreman Pilate had large
numbers of soldiers to carry out
his will, Jesus not so much as a
single servant-hoy, Pilate was offi
cially the judge, and Jesus the
prisoner; but now we know (would
we have guessed it then?) that
Pilate was being judged, not Jesus.
Jesus walked out from that hall of
“justice” a condemned man; hut
the verdict of the ages is that it
was Pilate who was the guilty one.
What Pilate thought
It is not mere guessing to sug
gest what Pilate was thinking, in
that early morning court room
scene. We know what he said, how
he acted, and so we can venture to
say what he was thinking.
“I have the power here,” he
must have thought. Of course. Did
not Rome always have the power?
What can a young and friendless
barbarian (for so Pilate must have
regarded his strange prisoner) do
against my orders? The Governor
could not know that this very pris
oner would exert a power through
the next twenty centuries far
greater than any government has
ever been able to impose. There
now are societies that honor Jesus
ell over the globe; but where are
the Filatc-societies? With Pilate’s
Now Is The Time . . .
MAX SMITH
be necessary to plant some temporal-} summer pasture
during hot, <ir> weather Some producers have surplus forage
crops at one period ot the year, and shortages at a later date.
Planning is needed to have quality forages to teed at all times
Seeds lor temporary summer foiage crops should be ordered at
once T'ae supplies may not meet the demand
To (Veep-teed .Spring I-*uubs To Vaccinate Heifer Calves
Sheep picducers, who aie in-
terested in marketing spring mg heifer cahes against bang’s
lambs should feed e\tra gram disease continues to be impor-
m order to get their lambs to tant The program, is designed
market weights as early as pos- to build up a resistance against
sible The Easter season is ap- the disease in ieplacememt cat
proaching rapidly and theie tie. The idea of not vaocinat-
w ill be little time to push the mg because the number of m
lamhs before Easier, howevei, lected cattle has been reduced,
records show that laanjb prices is a dangerous one and could
decline as summer approaches, lead to harmful outbreaks,
therefore, earlier maiketings Dairymen are urged to con
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death his power came to an end
With Jesus’ death His power
would begin anew.
“This man has done no wrong
but...” Pilate acted unjustly anj
he knew it. One trouble with that
man was that he really cared foj
something else more than justice.
“I have my own career to think
of,’’ he thought.
What Jesus thought
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The prisoner looked on tha
judge with something between
pity and contempt. He knew that
Pilate knew nothing whatever
about the case. He knew that
Pilate, like some modern envoys,
did not probably bother to learn
the language of the people to
•whom he was assigned as gover.
nor—and that he had to depend
on the chief priests and other
religious leaders of Judea to guide
him in his decisions. Pilate
listened for the voice of power;
and those who made the power*
structure in that country all said
Guilty: Crucify this man. Pilate
like all men in authority had to
keep his ear to the ground, he had
to know what people were saying.
There was no difficulty in hearing
them. The streets were full of
screams. Luke says sadly that
“their voices prevailed.”
Two kingdoms
Yet if Jesus ever had contempt
for any man—and he did—he must
have felt contempt for Pilate. The
governor had one idea of what the
real world is; the prisoner had
quite another, Pilate believed in
what he could see and handle and
manage. Jesus believed in a King
dom of Truth. He was not carried
away by the word “King.” When
Pilate asked him, “You are a king,
then?.” Jesus said in effect, “King
is your word. I was bom to bear
witness to Truth." This Pilate
could not understand at all. A
kingdom of armies, fortresses,
wealth, yes; but a kingdom of
truth—what is truth? Jesus bad
not groveled before Pilate, nor
asked him a single favor. But he
had offered Mm Ms one chance,
his last one. If Pilate had shown
the least heart-interest in Truth,
Jesus would have talked with Mm.
He had talked with rich and poor,
great and small before; he would
have pot refused to speak to the
heart of the judge. But it was now
too late. The judge had heen
judged. Is it not so always, when
a man faces Jesus, and must
choose?
(Based on outline* eopyriidifed by lb*
Division of Christian Education, National
Council of the Churches of Christ in tho
U. S. A. Released by Ceamuaity Tits*
Service.) .
BY MAX SMITH
To Inspect That Silo
As the silo is being emptied, it is a good
none to inspect the interior surface to deter
mine the need of any maintenance treatment
After a period of years, most silos will be in
need of a new coating of mortar to All in the
pitted places where the ‘acidity from the -sil
age has worked. Metal and wooden silos may
need an interior coating in order to preserve
the smooth finish. An - an-tight silo- ‘With
smooth interior walls is very important in
the preseiving of high quality silage. Propei
maintenance is important
To Select Forage Crops
Livestock producers should plan m re
lation to the lorage crops needed this sum
mer and toi next winter's supplies. It may
The importance of vaccmat-