—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, August 5,1978
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“GIVE US A MARKET
and remunerating prices
and we can raise an amount
of produce that will astonish
the world.”
Does this sound like
something a modem-day
mechanized farmer might
say as he makes his croppmg
plans in the 1970’5?
Actually the statement
was made well over a cen
tury ago by a farmer in
Scottsville, N.Y.
Grain
stocks
way up
WASHINGTON, D.C -The
world is in the 1978-79 crop
year with near record gram
stocks Wheat stocks, while
down about 10 per cent from
1977-78, are still ample and
course grams stand at their
highest level smce 1970
Stocks continue heavily
concentrated in the U S , the
Agriculture Department
revealed last week, adding
that this country holds
nearly two-fifth of both
world wheat and course
gram stocks
With world-wide weather
expected to be favorable,
another sizeble buildup m
already substantial world
gram stocks could occur,
USDA officials say
However, unfa\orable
weather could draw those
stocks down to levels
comparable to those of 1973-
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familiar story
It illustrates that incentive
was always a maior con
sideration in the minds of
farmers in planning their
agricultural production
levels.
The New York State
farmer went on to say that
he was gratified to see a
better system of farming
taking the place of the old,
careless and slovely method
previously followed in
Western New York
“This is to be attributed
chiefly to the liberal prices
obtained for our produce for
the last few years, thereby
producing in the farmer a
stimulus to exertion, which
he does not often feel when
prices are so low as barely to
pay the cost of production,”
he said.
His comments were
echoed by another farmer
from Dorchester County,
Md.
"The last 10 years have
been marked by decided
reformation m the farming
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operations of this country,”
he wrote.
He cited how the most
primitive agricultural im
plements have been
replaced by equipment, such
as the dragharrow
Manuring was then looked
upon as an idle loss of tune
and money, he said
“But now, how things have
changed. Every farmer is
striving to outstrip his
neighbor in the largest yield
of crops, in manuring and in
all the improvements in
farm machinery ”
Today, as the American
farmer is again called upon
to play an ever larger role in
helping to feed a hungry
world, these words of a
century and a quarter ago
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