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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1953-05-07, Page 7111fl'A1MI1ONT In his very interesting "Plain Horse Sense" column last week Bob Ellis plainly told dairy far- mers that their best bet is to J'de-emphasize" butter and but- ter -fat, and really , tackle the problem of cashing -in on the other values contained in milk. • Writing in the latest issue of Farm Journal (Philadelphia), Ray Dankenbring tells of what is being done—and what should be done ---along the same tines. I quote the following:— Out o3 the .maze of proposals and suggestions for solving the nation's dairy dilemma, two main steps are taking shape: (1) Put some real pressure on selling those dairy products that seem •to -nave the best future— fluid milk, cheese, dried milk, concentrated milk, and ice cream —products that put more empha- sis on the. value of the protein, vitamins, and minerals below the creamline. (2) Then pay producers on the babis of what's below the cream- line—the non-fat solids, not just on butterfat alone. The -American Dairy Associa- tion laid the ground work for the first step at its annual meeting in Chicago the other day. It voted to increase its dairy sales pro- motion fund from $2 million an- nually to more than $10 million. To finance the project, dairy farmers .are being asked to con- tribute two cents per 100 pounds of milk, or one-half cent per pound of butterfat every month —not just during one or two months of the year, as hitherto. The pattern for the second step may be found in a milk pricing plan being used in Wisconsin, and in a new, quick test for non-fat milk solids just announced by the "USDA.- The USDA.- The plight of butterfat is too familiar to need review, except that it's growing steadily worse. In the past ten years, the average, • consumer has cut his butter -buy- ing almost iii half. The cry "oleo frauds," and the plea "butter is better for you and worth the price" haven't done the job. And. it never will as long as' there's a . 40 to 45 cent a pound difference between the two products. As U.S. Secretary of Agricul- ture Benson puts it: "If the pre- sent trend of consuhptioxi con- tinues, butter is on the way out." Price is the main reason, but it's not the only one. Every day, more and more Americans step gingerly on the bathroom scales, and decide then and there to shift to low-fat, high -protein diets. Doctors give heart cases, expect- ant mothers, even overweight babies, such diets, This alone should be a tip-off to the dairyman's future. Fortu- nately, milk below the creainline is one of the best and cheapest sources of animal protein. Apparently a good many con- sumers agree, for while butter has been en the skids since 1930, sales of dried -milk have tripled during the last 20 years. Cheese consumption has almost doubled. With a few local exceptions, the fluid milk business is good, and getting better. But in spite of these gains, there is evidence that we could do a lot better, if we worked at it. Here is where ADA with its new fund can make its weight felt most—by putting more em- phasis on fluid milk, cheese, con- centrated and dried milk, and ice cream. Fluid milk •e0'uld take .a lot of the heat oft the industry if we pushed it, so that less of it would end up as surplus going into but- ter. Our population is growing. Incomes are high. Fluid milk con- sumption should keep going up steadily. And the beauty of fluid milk is that it takes care of the butterfat, too. Lower prices should be a part of our sales campaign. They would help spur consumption. (Some drop in price is almost certain when supports are drop- ped or lowered at time end of our year of grace.) Dairy producers might have to absorb part of the drop; but let's look more carefully than ever for ways to lower our marketing costs. What other food demands the extra cost of trucks and drivers to carry it to the housewife's door? And what other product demands as much cooling and storage space after it reaches the kitchen? Some of ADA's new budget should, and probably will . be, • thrown into the search for better concentrated, frozen .and ; -dried milk. The housewife is• picking ':up more and more_ of her dairy. foods at the grocery stores. She'll pick up still more if they're not so bulky, if they're easier to carry and store at home. And she'll - buy more of any dairy products that she can count on as being tasty and uniform, day in and day out. * Many dairy plants still figure the selling price of their prod- ucts on a straight butterfat basis. Government Sponsored loans Available To Ontario Farmers What Kind of Loan Do You Need? How much do you, need for how long; how much can you pay for a roan; and when can you repay it? These are the problems. To meet them the Ontario and Federal governments offer Ontario farmers two types of credit, --- long term and intermediate teem loans TYPE OF LOAN LONG TERM Title. Quatilir•atibn.: Purpose r,c The Junior Farmers Establishment Loan Act 1952 (Ontario) Age limit 21 to 35 years of age. Resident. of On- tario for at least 3 years. At least 3 years :farm experience and ability for successful farming, the To buy land for farming; erect and improve buildings; pay debts against the land; drainage. buy livestock; and such other purposes as the board approves. Not mrto.re than 80q, of land and buildings nor more than $15,000 maxi- mum, Only first mortgages on lands farmed or to be farmed by the applicant. Board may also accept as collateral security, a life insurance policy, chattel mortgage or other approved security. Interest charge, -- 4"'„ per annum. Amount of the Loan Security for - Loan Interest on the I,o s.rm Appraisal of Value Other Charges • Repaymetri Tenets appraised "value of farm Appraisal of land and buildings and other security offered made by competent, valuators, Applicant pays legal and other expenses itnetu'- red in making the loan. Maximum of 25 years but may be drawn for shorter period. Repayment in annual installments of principal and interest to discharge the debt at enol of period chosen. First three installments may be less than later installments; additional payments on lona may be made at .any torte. Where Can You Get These [.,oamms? (.?or long term loans apps' to: -- Canadian Farm Loan Board, 1 IVIontgomi The ,hinter Farmers Establishment Loan .Buildings, Toronto, Ontario. For intermediate loans apply toe—Your Canadians c'hat'tered blink. (Next week -- Penal Improvement mry Avenue, Toronto, or tlorpov'atiolt, C'arliantent local brand, of emir Loi .Aot 1944 14.4 41141411,14 . SI R" i ,Q0 s v fi r Al; to an Artist—Hearing of President Eisenhower's accomplish- ments as a portrait artist, 15 -year-old .Audrey MacAuslan, high school sophomore, decided to present him with a sample of her own artistic •talents. Seen above, she holds a portrait of the President which she painted after studying his face in photo- graphs. They carry this back to the dairy- man—pay him on a butterfat ba- sis. Hence the dairyman naturally gears his operations to butterfat. For decades, be's figured the production of his cows on a but- terfat utterfat basis, then bred and set- ' ected to a great extent for butter- fat. Here's where the USDA's new milk test could come in. Dairy plants could adopt this or a sine ilar test :for solids -not -fat, and use it in addition to their test for fat. Then figure the dairyman's milk check on the basis of both tests, Will such .a plan work? Well, one version of it has been work- ing for more than 10 years,. in Wisconsin and surrounding states. Many dairy plants in this area pay their producers on the "Frok- er plan," or the "fat and solids - not -fat payment plan." . This particular plan is -named for Dean Rudolph Froker; of the University of Wisconsin,' who CP - authored it with Dean Clifford Hardin of Michigan State. College. It works on the principle that butterfat and the non-fat solids in milk are in a fairly definite ratio to each other.. (See table be' w.) rhe plants test for fat, then figure out from the ratio tables how much non-fat solids there are in the milk. Then the dairyman is paid on the basis of both parts of his milk, not just the part above the creamlhie. ;,,. • Here's the average ratio of butterfat to non-fat solids in milk: fat%, solids-not-t:at% 3.0 8.27 3.5 8.47 4,0 8.67 4.5 8.87 5.0 2.07 5.5 9,27 8.) 9.47 Says Dean Froker: "The straight butterfat method of pay- ment is now so obsolete that it should no longer be used. We've got to keep our eye on the econ- omic ball—put more emphasis on. total milk solids, and relatively less on just butterfat." Both dairymen and plant oper- ators who use the Froker plan say that it's more fair, mainly because it's more flexible. With it, dairy plants can do a better job of adjusting their payments to reflect changes in demand for either of the two parts of milk --fat or eon -fat solids. TOUGH TEXAN Demetrio Gomer, civilian chief of the plating plant at Kelly Air Force Base, near San Antonio, was walking along one day last August when a rattlesnake bit him on the leg. Gomez stood by while the rattler went into con- vulsions, crawled a 'few feet away and die. As for Gomez, he suffered no ill effects at all. As head of the plating plaint, he• lnam.dles a lot of sodium cyanide, a deadly poison, Over the years, his body bas gradually collected a lethal accumulation. of it while building up an immunity. The snake, obviously, had not. TOOK 11ER CANDY In Brazil, Indiana, a 20 -year• old wife sued .her 70 -year-old husband for divorce; he refused to let her cheep popsicles at the groeery. GREEN TIIIIMB (50,,,aOt\ s-init'a . Stakes will _Ile tp Tall annual flowers and all the climbers of course will need some support. Often stakes a little shorter than the plant is high and driven in close will be sufficient. The plants are tied to these loosely with soft twine, raffia or any of the special twist- ing materials sold by seed stores. With 1(5w -bushy plants like peo- nies, sometimes a hoop of wire or 'woods placed about them and a foot, :,or• so above the ground. In • >angla;iid • around delphiniums andIith sweet peas, early in the spring they 'stick bits of brush in °the grotteid :Gradually . the plant granase' about this and hid- ing it' but . being family sup- ported .just the same. Most peo- ple nowadays stake their toma- toes, at least the early ones. Usually a six,_ or seven foot stake is driven firmly in the ground when the tomato plant is set out. About every' foot of growth the stem is tied loosely but secure- ly. All side shoot are nipped off and towards the enol of the sum- mer to hasten Maturity of fruit the main stens is also nipped. Two Crops a Year Where space is limited or where one wants to get the maxi- mum out of the vegetable gar- den, there are various ways of growing two crops or practical- ly so on the same piece of land. Of course where one goes in for this intensive sort of gardening, extra fertilizer is essential and the soil must be well worked and . rich. In this double crapping business we alternate rows of an early kind with a later one, for instance,' radish and carrots, or lettiuce and beans, or peas and potatoes. We also have less space than normal between the rows, if necessary no more than 12 or 15 inches. The early stuff, of course, comes on quickly and is used up before the later matur- ing vegetables require full room. Another practice is to follow the harvesting of the first vegetables like the peas; lettuce, spinach, radish, early onions, etc. with an- other sowing of the same or something else that will be ready say in August or September. Then there are certain crops like squash, pumpkins that we can plant in the outside rows of corn, or we can have staked tomatoes along the end of any vegetable row and cucumber along" the fence. With flowers, too, it is poss- ible to get double crops, in fact some have even three. Amongst the spring flowering bulbs they set out well started petunias, asters, zinnias, marigolds, etc. These come into bloom within a short time after the last tulips, and in some cases the first of these are followed again by later set out plants or by annuals from seeds such as nasturtiums, alys- sum, cosmos, etc. By careful spacing and planning and by using both ,perennials and an- nuals it is possible in most parts of Canada to have some bloom in the garden from the last snow- fall to the first. Beware Late Trost In some areas there may be still danger of late frost. For a few extra early and tender things like melons, cucumbers and tomatoes one doesn't need to worry if some protection in the form of special paper caps or miniature glass or plastic green- houses are used. These will fur- nish ample protection against quite a severe frost for several weeks. By using them one can plant any of these tender things outside from two to three weeks earlier than usual. N otection. Now is the time to keep a sharp wate i for attacks' of dis- ease or posts. All of these can be controlled if counter meas- ures are taken promptly. On the market today are all sorts of prepared dusts and sprays and simple inexpensive dusters and sprayers for applications. One should regard any wilting or damaged foliage with the great- est suspicion. That may mean a dog or cat has raced through the garden but it is more likely to indicate insecet or disease dam- age. UNDAY SCIIO jjsso fa. Barclay Warrc r $.A.B.D. A Preacher In Chairm • Acts 28:14b-24, 30-31 1V£emory Selection: We know that all things work together for good to them that love Go& to them that are the called ac- cording to his purpose. Romans 8:28. It was a strenuous trip for Paul the prisoner, from Caesarea to Rome. The ship had been buffetted by the storms and 5n - ally broken to peices. F -.ter three months in Malta they set sail in another ship. At Puteoli Paul found some Christians and spent a week with them. IVIean- while the news of Paul's coming reached t h e church at Rome. The writer of that wonderful epsitle which they had received some three years before, and in which he had expressed his earnest desire to visit them, and his hope that he should .come to them in the fulness of the bless- ing of the gospel of Christ (Roxn. 1:11..12.15: 15:22,24.28-32), w a s almost at their gates as (t pris- oner of state, and they would soon see him face to face. They naturally determined to go and meet him, to honour him as an apostle, and show their love to him as a brother. The younger and more active would go as far as Appii Forum, about 40 miles from Rome. The rest only came as far as The Three Taverns, about 10 miles nearer to Rome. When Paul saw these brethren he thanked God and took cour- age. How it lifted his spirit that these brethren in Christ should journey- so far to meet him. Per- haps there was some Judas near who thought they should have been working instead. But those who went wouldn't have missed that meeting. Remember what Jesus said about visiting those who were sick and in prison. (Matt. 25). Christians are always blessed when they follow the teaching of the Bible. Paul had wanted to preach at Ronne but didn't expect to travel there at state expense and be provided with a guard as he preached in his own hired house. Three days after his arrival he met the Jewish leaders. At a later meeting he explained to them the gospel. As usual, some be- lieved and some did not. For two years he continued preaching and writing letters to the church- es. Among the . converts were some of Caesar's household. Chains didn't silence Paul. He, like John Bunyan who wrote Pilgrim's Progress, used the sit- uation for the glory of God. By Bev SENSE OF VALUES A burglar broke into et Yonkers, New York, home and stole three pounds of sirloin steak, a pork roast and some chopped meat. He ignored silver- ware and jewelry. Grp g Fev r Spreads ' WorM Dusting a winter's aceurnula,- . tion oft the books kept Now York Public Library workers busy. This spring - cleaning' Chore is an ailnu s... Even in 'Corea a soldier sac- cumba momentarily to spring fever. Doing awakened by Ids doh iq Third Division man, Fiat, Wil`(ionn Getz, of Dubuque, 1[a '11ore daring than her friend, a pretty West Berlin teen-ager toe -tests time W a n n s e e in (ruenwald, Germany. Et wxr:a< two chilly for a swwhn 'ii'armth lured. early lishermner to the banks At the Potomac ill 'v':tsbingtou3, D. C., bat they turned to look at something more interesting than time, river. Paris In the swing means tulips blooming in the Tuileries Gar- dens. They are tended by a, gardener, The Arch of TritWiph can be partly seen at left. ricking spring peach blossoms at Carbondale. mil., are two pretty University of Southern Illinois coeds, I.ois Wilson on the ladder. amid 'Marilyn tieblg.