038—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, January 26,1980 CAMP HILL Delegates to the Eighth Annual Con vention of the Pennsylvania Farmers Union adopted a major addition to the preamble of their con stitution. The addition is known as their family farm policy. It was adopted to read; “The family farm structure of agriculture since the founding of this nation has provided a system of food production as well as-economic and social stability. The family farm type of agriculture has proven its widespread benefits to our society, and remains the most viable system of agricultural production m the long-term interest of the nation. “While the family farm still represents a large portion of the agricultural system in the U.S., other structures increasing their grip mi the nation’s Lancaster County delegates to the Pennsylvania Farmers Union convention in Camp Hill this week included, from left, Mr. and Mrs. Forney Longenecker, Daniel Groff, Robert Spahr, and Abe Witmer. U. of Maryland professor indicted for grain swindle WASHINGTON, D.C. - F ormer University of Maryland Professor Wolcott E. Stewart, President and sole stockholder of Ex change Market Traders, a commodity broker from Laurel, MD was indicated by Federal Grand Jury in Baltimore, MD on Tuesday, January 8, 1980 on 14 counts of Mail Fraud. The indictment charges that during a three month period, March, 1978 through June, 1978, Stewart con tracted with farmers in Maryland and Pennsylvania to pro'-de their gram to gramenes in Baltimore, PFU members approve family farm policy food supply system. New directions are an absolute necessity within this decade to , reaffirm and redirect policies to preserve and enhance the family system of agriculture. “No singular plan or policy can by itself achieve the objectives of a stable family farm system. A combination of production and income stabilization programs, land tenure, credit, resource con servation, equality of taxation, cooperative en deavor, education, social and other broad policies must be established at local, state, national, and in ternational levels to provide a systematic approach to preserving the family farm system of agriculture in this nation. “Family farm structure of agriculture requires that the ownership, operation, and management of a farm unit Salisbury, MD, McGaheysville and Harrisonburg, VA. The defendant instructed the gramenes to make payment directly to him for the delivered gram. Stewart, upon receivmg the payment for the gram, approximately $182,000 00, deposited such m his own personal bank ac count and used the money for his own personal gam. Pursuant to a Federal warrant issued by the Distnct Court, Baltimore, MD, Stewart was arrested by Postal Inspectors, on January 17,1980. Assistant Umted States are vested within the family who hves on the farm and derives a livelihood from that farm Policies which encourage the separation of ownership, operation, or management of agricultural units are contrary to the interests of family farmers as is any single commodity approach to agricultural policy. “The problems involved in the structure of agriculture are not only economic and social issues but also mat ters of morality and justice. “Family farms are a balancing force m the social, economic and political structure that is vital to the stability, preservation and improvement of representative democracy. “Agriculture has historically been called upon to respond to the national and international enses and past decisions have left Attorney J. Moscowitz ad vises that Stewart could receive up to seventy years in prison, $14,000 in fines, and/or both. Bond was set at $15,000 by Magistrate Frederick Smalkin. Wonder Why? Horse racing is described as the “Sport of Kings” but it’s not the sport of presidents While British royalty frequently visits the track, U S presidents never seem to do so This uni que difference is also true of prize fighting agriculture and the family farmers without a stabilized poll cy, framework for in dividual farm decision making. “There already exists a crisis in family farm structure and without substantial changes in present public policies and the establishment of new public policies this may be the last generation of family farmers. Unfortunately this $a EQunw wunnc Fttim nm DO YOU DOUBT THE HIGH YIELDS WE REPORTED WITH THE REAMS PROGRAM OF TOO DU. SOYBEANS PER ACRE, 5 FT. ALFALFA, OVER 30% PROTEIN? Two cases of 100 bu. beans were reported by people I trust. The Reams program is reported to produce 20 ton alfalfa per acre in a year, but he doesn’t print it because people would think he is a liar. The two main materials used are plenty Hi Cal lime (not Hi Mag.) and soft rock phosphate, not much potash. Well manured farms need none. We or you don’t get those yields the first year or two. Neither does a chronic sick man become a Pikes Peak race winner in a year or two. He east non toxic natural food for years, what God gave man to eat, Gen. 1:29 That diet won that race for years. You can't beat nature; both in food and fertilizer. In a 10-10-10 commercial fertilizer you have 30 lbs. of plant food to the hundred. Soft rock phosphate has no filler. It is high in calcium, phosphorus, many minerals" and trace elements, just what you need. And only $BO per ton bulk because it comes direct from the mines - no blending expense and hand labor. Spreading $9 per ton locally. 50 lb. bags, $9O per ton. Now the Yolo Microbion-Co., an entirely different company, the culturer of our BX soil bacteria has plenty legitimate test reports in various states, of BX and about Va of the normal amount of fertilizer producing 5 to 25 bu. extra over the normal amount of fertilizer. Now a combination of these two programs is a winner at a very reasonable price. BX draws the nitrogen out of the air and increases Pand K by,making it more available what is'in the soil, and probably drawing some out of the air also because the soil test readings go up. The combination of soft rock phosphate and BX and Hi Cal Lime is making happy customers. Reports are the Arabs will raise prices much more because they want to strangle us, figuring one’s loss is another's gam. Our leaders' are glad then they can call it a national emergency and do with ns what they want. Bureaucratic plans are discovered. Much worse is to come. Get ready to be self supporting. Raise all your own food. Build a solar greenhouse for yourself and others. Pity city people. v Go organic to save inflated chemicals. Don’t stop farming but don’t get big. People will have to eat to live. Our fertilizer customers will have a tremendous advantage. No alfalfa spraying. Better standing and more nutritious crops. Little vegetable spraying if any. We are not just in business for the fast buck to grab your check and run. In fact pioneering a business is not profitable at first. We are offered many products, but we pick out, those which we think pays the farmer the best because we love farmers. “We stay alive if farmers survive,” says a sign. If you want to have me stop m sometime, draw good directions. Time is precious. Take soil samples in the meantime. We test free at the shop for good customers. ORGANIC CENTER 217 S. Railroad Ave., New Holland, PA 17557 * 717-354-7064 Plenty of Free Literature Eli Stoftzfus - Owner & Salesman Tom Burnett - Shop man and soil tester. We are very near the sales stables. Stop in. Tom knows the message. crisis may not become sufficiently evident until the trends become almost irreversible. The op portunity to reverse these trends exists today. To wait until the present crisis is fully documented and evident is to doom the family farm structure of agriculture. The posponement or rejection of reforms would result in the ingredients for the inevitable social conflict that has historically been climaxed by violent upheavals within the society. “It is evident that the social, economic, and en vironmental costs of per mitting the family farm to. disappear from this society are incalculable since it would set forth.the beginning of the distgruction of the very basis of U.S. society and its democracy.”
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