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Newspaper
Lancaster Farming
Location
Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
May 13, 1961
Page
11
In this Lancaster Farming column the author discusses The National Farmers Organization and its bid for fairer livestock prices through off market sales. The piece weighs legality and practicality, praises farmers for striving to influence prices, and notes mixed industry reactions and the potential for a strike label.
President Kennedy's agriculture plan proposes a sweeping 70 page farm bill before Congress. It champions supply management with acreage allotments marketing quotas and orders backed by price supports and payments. It also envisions rural expansion credits and use of surpluses at home and abroad with a broad set of remedies.
The article outlines a potential farm program process with a Secretary selecting sick commodity cases, forming farmer and consumer committees, and presenting a prescription to Congress and a referendum for producers. It cites President Kennedy noting no single cure-all and the need for commodity specific plans.
A short poem depicts spring awakening in maple trees with wind and budding branches. The verse links wind to musical tempo and hints at summer arriving soon through nature’s rhythm. The speaker credits Carol Dean Huber as author.
A devotional urging parents to unite in discipline for children. It stresses knowing children’s activities and goals, treating discipline as an art not punishment, and stresses that undisciplined children threaten family and society. It cites Bible themes from Old and New Testaments and links to Ephesians.
Growers are urged to inspect alfalfa fields daily for alfalfa weevil larvae and spray with malathion. If damage appears early, cut and spray stems. New alfalfa should reach 1 inch to 20 inches before cutting. Also promotes enrollment in the Five Acre Corn Contest with August 1 deadline and urges DDT-based tent caterpillar control in May. Guidance on forage maturity and optimal harvest stages for alfalfa rye and other grains.
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