These are the words of Franklin Smith of Goolidge, Georgia. Smith purchased a 600-ton Butler Stor-N-Eeed structure in August, 1965 . .. his first experience with a vertical silo. He didn’t have enough total silage storage ca pacity and since he preferred' this method of feeding and liked the feed that came out of the structure. Smith decided to purchase more stor age fe 1966. He purchased a 20’x60’ 520-ton concrete stave silo' because of the lower price. Now Smith says, “I made a mistake.” He comments, ‘‘My Butler structure will hold nearly twice as much silage as the concrete stave ... I lose 10’m the top of the concrete silo because of the distribution and the settling . . . I can never get it fu11... I have to refill several times because of the poor packing and settling. The Butler structure costs very little more on an’ actual cost-per-ton of storage ... I don’t like the labor problem of climbing up the chute on the concrete silo to adjust the unloader to an other silo door . . . the unloading rate is much slower than my Butler.” And. most importantly, Smith says, “I have severe spoilage in my stave . . . there is no spoilage in my Butler structure.” Haw Available ia Battem or lop Unlootkr DESIGNERS and BUILDERS of SYSTEMS AGRI - INC. R. D. 2, Ephrata We are your Butler Agri-Builder for low cost farm buildings. Stor-N-Feed livestock and dairy systems. One source responsibility. H JAMESWAY L 1 J SALES & SERVICE (FORMERLY ADDISON MARTIN, INC.) 7 Made A Mistake / When / Purchased A Concrete Stave Silo" STOR-hl-FEED' Phone: 717-354-5374 (Continued from Page 1) payment up to the larger of 25 acres or 50 percent of the feed gram base For the first time in Lancas ter County history a tobacco re ferendum will be conducted by mail This will be held February 19 to 23 All farmers or persons who have had an interest m a tobacco crop in 1967 are eligible to vote in 12 counties are includ ed in the voting. Should the voting be favor able a price support of 28 8 to 28 9 cents a pound would go in to effect, but all farmers would have to stay within his allot ment Connolly pointed out that allotments have set at 26.000 acies 4,000 acies higher than the 22,000 grown last year John Kimble, State Farmer Fieldman, lead a speech piepar ed by the state committee The speech said in part “Agriculture is a producing industry, just the same as the production of automobiles, steel, drugs, publications, etc. are producing industries The agricultural industry is the same from that standpoint; However, it is different in some other respects. The farmer, as a part of that producing in dustry, has many more uncon trollable factors concerning his production than the other pro ducing industries The farmers' of this industry are different than the producers in other in dustries, because of numbers. Whereas there are somewhere around three million producers of agricultural commodities in this country, there are only a relatively few producers of auto mobiles, steel, drugs, publica tions, etc In the other produc ing industries they as an indus try can survey the market poten tial for their products and manufacture for that market. This is possible because they can control their production and there are only a few of them so that they can anticipate what the others will do These other producing industries, when their market is met, can shut down production and eliminate siz able poitions of their costs Ag riculture cannot shut down its production overnight Those are some of the differences. “Here are some similarities. No producing industry in this country is presently producing at 100% capacity Neither the steel, the automobile, the drug industries nor any of the others are anywhere near manufactur ing the quantity of goods that they are capable of manufactur ing Nobody criticizes them for shutting down a production line because they have met their market and when continuing to produce after they have met their market would mean flood ing the market with commodi ties and breaking their price structure. Why should anybody expect the agricultural industry to do any differently’ We can not afford to produce at 100% capacity anymore than any other industry “Now, where does the indivi dual farmer fit into this? He fits in from the standpoint that he can ignore it or he can co operate The programs are vol untary. He can choose for him self whether he will participate. What we are asking each farmer to do when he makes his own decision as to whether or not he will participate is to fully realize that he is part of a total industry.” DID YOU KNOW - An Act was adopted in 1812 requiring a listing with the nearest Justice of the Peace of logs, shingles or lumber placed in the Susquehan na and Lehigh Rivers, and their Tobacco Program
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