HOW ABOUT NOAH’S ARK?
Here’s an enigma within a riddle.
Everyone knows that we are
strangling in a flood of milk, but
who is doing anything about it?
The trouble is, every individual
probably feels just as helpless as I
do at this point. So we do nothing,
except keep on producing more -,
and more and more milk. And
the flood gets higher all the time.
Don’t worry, Uncle Sam has an
Ark that will save us from the
flood. Maybe?
Secretary Block is very much
of the problem, and par
ticularly the almost intolerable
dairy price support program. He
admits that is it not only in
tolerable but “embarrassing” and
cannot be continued as presently
operated.
The figures we hear are sort of
mind-boggling. If a quarter of a
million dollars sounds like a lot of
money, it is. But the surplus is
costing the Government a quarter
of a million dollars every hour,
twenty-four hours a day! You and I
may be able to justify the ex
penditure of 6 million dollars a day
to keep the dairy business afloat,
but is is pretty hard to argue the
point with the rest of the tax
payers! Storage of the unwanted
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surplus adds another 43 million a
year to the cost.
It’s nice to know that our dairy
industry has this enormous
capability to supply all the milk,
cheese, butter, ice cream and
other goodies we can use. But
politically and economically it can
be a disaster. We might be inclined
to ignore the politics, but we can’t
ignore the economics, especially
when the price of milk is
established by legislative decree.
THE ARK IS LEAKY
Several options are available to
the industry, to relieve the flood.
We have tried foreign and
domestic giveaways, and we
(rather the Commodity Credit
Corp.,) had exported some of the
surplus butter at a fraction of the
purchase price. Anything that has
been tried so far only takes care of
a few drops in the big bucket
anyway, and always is open to
criticism. Meanwhile we continue
to store the surplus and hope that a
miracle will occur in the market
place.
We can continue to store the
surplus and hope that the domestic
commercial markets can absorb
the surplus in the near future.
Changes in the fluid milk
standards should be made to allow
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for more equitable pricing of milk
solids and protein. Someone has
suggested that \u are already
“eating” more milk ana dairy
products than we are drinking,
anyhow.
In lieu of a support price for
milk, there could be a subsidy paid
on cull cows, to encourage more
culling. However, this would also
have die effect of further flooding
the red meat market, and die beef
feeders wouldn’t stand still for
that.
National Milk Producers
Federation has offered a plan for
producer funds to be used to buy
any surpluses over the 5 billion
pounds purchased by CCC. This
would have to be initiated by an act
of Congress and supported by a
national referendum by dairy
farmers. An appointed dairy board
would advise the Secretary of
Agriculture on the level of pur
chases, import quotas and the use
of surplus dairy products.
A final solution to the problem
would be to impose production or
marketintg quotas on all
producers. It would have to be
rigid and across-the-board. To
achieve a 10 percent reduction in
supplies, evey producer would be
allowed to ship only 90 percent of
his proven, established base.
Quotas could be established and
enforced either by the industry
itself or by government decree.
The only other possibility that
suggests itself at this time is to
convince consumers to drink more
milk. That will take a serious and
concerted effort by everyone, not
only the dealers, to educate,
promote and advertise the merits
of milk and dairy products. I
believe that it will take both
generic and brand promotion to
accomplish the job.
We must all work a little harder
to assure that quality and flavor
are good, and that stores, schools,
and consumers handle milk and
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A total of 48,500 seedlings will be
distributed to 28 landowners in the
county this month by the Bureau of
Forest Management, New Jersy
Department of Environmental
Protection, he announces.
Area Foresters assigned to
Hunterdon, Mike D’Errico and
Duke Grimes, coordinate the effort
at the local level. They have been
involved in aiding the land-owner
in determining if site is suitable
and in selection of varieties. They
also arrange for truck delivery to
the Extension Center parking lot
and distribution, Wettstein ex
plains.
Of the seedlings ordered, most
are 3-year old white pme. Other
evergreens in sizable numbers are
2-year-old Norway and white
spruce. Tulip poplar, red oak and
black locust make up the hard
woods on order.
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dairy products properly. Milk and
everything made from it is good,
natural, healthful and nutritious.
My earnest concern is that we
can, by some combination of the
suggested measures or an as yet
unforseen miracle, bring the
supply into balance with the
demand, and still provide a decent
return* for producers. Younger
dairy nnth high debt
Hunterdon Co., N.J.
leads state in tree
seedling orders
FLEMINGTON, N.J. Hun
terdon County again leads in tree
seedling orders from the New
Jersey state-operated nursery,
reports Calvin Wettstein, senior
county agent.
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loads will face some difficult
decisions until the miracle hap
pens.
You can help to build the “ark”
by first believing there is a
problem, then, giving ah the
support you can to those who must
eventually try to Solve it, however
distasteful and difficult it might
seem.
The state nursery-produced
seedlings are available to farmers
and land-owners principally for
-eforestation. Purchasers may cut
developed trees for Christmas
trees, but only up to 50 percent of
those in a stand. And, they agree
not to dig and sell any trees,
Wettstein remarks.
The Bureau of Forest
Management and the Cooperative
Extension Service have jointly
promoted reforestation of idle
land, steep slopes, areas not
suitable for farming, for many
years. Site inspection by an area
forester and completion of an
order takes place before a January
31 deadline. Seedlings arrive in
April for immediate planting.
“Planting a thousand tree
seedlings is quite a chore,” says
Wettstein. “A thousand trees will
generally cover an acre or more
depending on species.”
“Mimy resort to hand-planting
with a spade or pick mattock.
Others use the service of several
tree planting machines operating
in the county.”
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