A3O-Uncasttr Farming, Saturday, October 11,1986 r fTlje Dairv Business __ Newton Efair Feeding The World, Thomas Malthus might have had a good idea back in 1798 when he published his famous theory of population growth. “Population tends to increase faster than the supply of goods necessary for existence,” he said. It seemed to work for England and most of the known world of that time, and still applies to some parts of the world like China and India and Ethiopia even today. But Malthus didn’t know anything about plant and animal genetics, or chemical fertilizers. The American Continent was still largely an unknown quantity, and the American farmer was still cutting his milk teeth. I wonder what he would think if he were reincarnated today, in Lancaster County? A few years back, when all the political stops were pulled out and we were going to feed the hungry world, the Malthusian Theory was something to be laughed at. When the price is right, food supplies can be increased, industry can be financed, and prosperity will continue on a fast roll. The problem is, we Americans, who were the inspiration for the whole world in producing all kinds and abundance of goods, forgot that others also wanted to get in on the gravy. They found that they could borrow our technology, and Shiwers automatic continuous flow grain HI |«|l|■ drying systems eliminate the over-drying ■mnilTil often caused by slow stirring devices. The Shiwers’ secret is the tapered sweep auger which rotates around the The Shiwers drying bin, removing even layers of Challenge dried grain, assuring the removal of Will Make You uniformly dried grain. For a better A Believer way to dry grain, see your Shiwers dealer. Mi —WE ARE YOUR SERVICE COMPANY Need Service On Your: • Farm Fan Dryer or Fan Heater Units • Shiwers Drying System • M-C Dryer • Augers Repaired or Replaced (U-Trough or Tube- Type) • Bucket Elevators and Down Spouts Repaired or Replaced Mi Us AMU CONESTOGA AGRI-SYSTEMS Jay Kreider, Mgr. 215 D W. Main St. Leola, PA 17540 (717) 656-0140 satisfactory prices. All the other competing countries like Ger many, Australia, Brazil and Argentina are trying to protect theirs also. We play by our rules and they play by theirs, making it a lopsided game. We cut back while they fill in the gaps. None of this is really new. It has been going on for a long time. It may continue, in a cycle of up’s and down’s, for years to come. The answers to the present farm crisis will continue to be a band aid application by Congressional action, transfusions of money in the form of loans or subsidies, occasional tragedies like weather, war, or other woes that affect some part of the world. Meanwhile, some fanners will' prosper while Mmthus In Reverse Others quit the farm for some other line of work. Maybe it’s time to also the money to make it work for inject some of our great farm them. It only took a few years to tradition of hard work and honest literally flood the world with food dealing into the rest of the and all kinds of consumer goodies, economy anyway. There are always two or three Thomas Malthus might reverse suppliers for every consumer. So his theory if he were alive today. It prices plummet well below the cost might read, “The food supply of production. The Third world that tends to increase faster than the borrowed our technology and the population of the world can eat it.” money to finance it is now selling Of course, you and I know that it’s instead of buying, while those that more a problem of distribution still can’t produce food can’t afford to pay for it either. For the past 50 years Congress has tried repeatedly to control farm surpluses. How? By limiting acreages, (Soil bank. Conservation reserve, PK, allottments). By slaughtering pigs in the 19305. By the Dairy Opportunity program. By setting quotas, and by the whole herd buyout. Not one of them ever worked. Why? Smart farmers put the rock pile in the soil bank, fertilized the better fields liberally, slaughtered the culls and fed and bred the best better, bought and farmed the same land that their neighbors had been paid to abandon. With the result that farm production IN- CREASED! We keep repeating the same mistakes because it is politically expedient. 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