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
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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.”