The Seaforth News, 1953-05-07, Page 7In his • very interesting "Plain
Horse. Sense" column last week
Bob Ellis plainly told dairy far -
mars that their best bet is to
"de-emphae ize" 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 lines.
1 quote the following: --
Out of 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 these dairy products that
seem to nave the best future—
tluid milk, cheese, dried milk,
concentrated milk, and 'lee 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
basis of what's below the cream-
line—the non-fat solids, not lust
nn 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 Wiscens±n, and
in a new. quick test :for non-fat
•"!---0" milk solids just announced by the
USDA.
s
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 in 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 ppund difference
between the two products.
As U.S. Secretary of Agricul-
ture Benson puts it: "If the pre-
sent trend of consuhption 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 bethrootn scales,
and decide then and there to shift
10 low -rat, high-p.roteiu 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 creamline
is one of the best and cheapest
sources of animal protein.
Apparently a gond 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 1peal 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, i£ we worked at it.
Here is where ADA with its
new fund can make its weight
felt :Host—by putting more em-
phasis on fluid milk, cheese, con-
centrated and dried nils. and ire
cream.
Fluid milk could take a lol•of
the heat off the industry if we
pushed it, so that less of it would
end up as surplus going into but-
tes;. 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 the 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 spare 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 stili figure
the selling price of their prod-
ucts on a straight butterfat basis,
Government Sponsored Loans
Available To O tarso Farmers
What Kind of Loan Do You Need?
How much do you need for how long; how much can you pay
for a loan; and when can you repay it? These are the problems.
To meet them the Ontario and Federal governments offer Ontario
fanners Iwo types al credit, —• long term and intermediate term
loans.
TYPE OF LOAN
LONG TERM
Title The Junior Farmers Establishment
Loan Act 1052 lOnte ioi
Oualieestionrs Alae limit 21 to 35 years of age. Resident of On•
tarin for at least 3 years. At least 3 years farm
i•xperienre and ability for successful fanning.
Pcu•iw 9 oi' the To buy land fur t'armirig: erect and improve
. Lee buildings; pay debts against the land; drainage.
buy livestock; and such other purposes as the
board approve:;,
Amount of the Not more than 50% of appraised ('slue et farm
Leen land and bo 1cUiigs nor more than $15,000 meld -
mum.
Securit • for Only first mortgages on lauds farmed or to be
lanae, farmed by the applicant.. Board May also accept
es collateral security, a life insurance policy,
chattel mortgage or other approved security.
1nfr.re:a ('ti the. Interest. nhar,e• ..- 4;v:, per :venem.
Loaf.
APPt'aieel of Appraisal of land and buildings and other security
Value offered made by competent valuators.
Other Charges Applicant pays legal and other expenses inet.rr-
red in making the loan.
Maximum et 25 years but may be drawn for
shorter period. Repayment in annual installments
of principal and interest to discharge the debt
al end of period eltasen. First three installments
may be less than later installments; additional
payments Ort 10011 may he made et any time.
Where (tan You (jet Thesis Ismael
For long term loans apply la: --
Canadian farm Loan Beard„ 1 Montgomery Avenue, Toronto, ox
The ;fu:nio(: reenters Establishment Loan Col'po'ratien, revilement
tltriiding's, Toronto, (Mario,
For intermediate leans lintels, tot—Your loeal brook of Aug,
Use:alien eltarteeed bank.
(Next week — Farm Improvement Loans ilut 1944)
Rcpuynletrt
Terme
Art to an Artist—Hearing of President Eisenhower's accampl'sit.
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, Bence the dairyman naturally
gears his operations to butterfat.
For decades, he's 'figured the
production of his cows on a but-
terfat basis, then bred and sel-
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 sim-
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.
Wilt 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 "F'rok-
er plan," or the 'fat and sonde -
not -fat payment plan."
This particular plan .is named
for Dean Rudolph Froker, of the
University of Wisconsin, who co-
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 eech other. (See table
be' we The plants test for fat,
the,( figure out from the ratio
tables hon- 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 creamline.
Here's the average ratio
of butterfat to non-fat solids
in mill.:
fat'l. sotids-uot-tit(%
3.0
• 3.5
4.0
4.5
5.0
5,5
((.0
8..17
0.47
0.117
ti.37
9.07
£1.27
0.47
Says Dean Fruiter: "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 Net butterfat."
Both dairymen and plant aper-
ators who use the Frolcer: plan
say that it's more fair, mainly
because its more flexible. With
it, daisy- plant:; ram rlei a better
job of adjusting their payments
to reflect changes in demand ter
either or the two parts of milk
.—fst or non-fat solids.
TOUGH TEXAN
Denletria Gomez, civilian chief,
of the plating plant at Kelly Air
Force Basct, 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 feel
away and die. As for Gomez, he
auffered no ill effects at all. As
head of the plating plant, he
hat dies a lot of sodium cyanide,
a deadly poison. Over the years.
his body has gradually collected
a lethal accumulation of it while
building ftp an Immunity. The
snake. obvioaaiy, had rot,
TOOK DER CANDY
In Brasil, Indiana, a 20 -year-
old wife sued her 70 -year-old
husband fee divorce; .he refttsed
to let her charge pnpsictes at the
greasy,
GELN
Tit .3i
Croydon. Sntitli.
States will Help
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
suficiextt. The plants are tied to
these loosely with soft twine,
raffia or any of the special twist-
ing materials sold by seed stores.
With low bushy plants like peo-
nies, sometimes a hoop of wire or
wood is placed about them and a
foot, or so above the ground, In
England around delphiniums
and with sweet peas early in the
spring they stick bits of brush
in the ground, Gradually the
plant grows about this and hid-
ing It but being firmly sup-
ported just the sante. 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 shoots are )tipped off
and towards the end of the sum-
mer to hasten maturity of fruit
the main stem is also nipped.
Two Crops to Ye'e?r
Where :mace is limited or
where only wants to get the maxi-
mum out of the vegetable gar-
den, there are various ways. 01
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 cropping
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 et
15 incites. The early stuff, of
course, comes ort quickly and is
used up before the later matur-
ing vegetables require full room.
Another practice Is to follow tate
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 csrrumber 01011e the
fence.
With flowers, too, it is poss-
ible to get double crops, in fact
some have even three. Amongst
the spring flowering bulb, they
set out well started petunias,
asters, zinnias, marigolds. etc.
These come into bloom within a
short time after the hast 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 Frost
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.
Ierotect ion
Now is the time to keep a
sharp watch 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 insccet or disease dam-
age.
MKY SCHOOL
LESSON
Bit
Rev 11 Barclay Warn"
B.A. B.D.
A ?'reaches' In (?hair,:.
Acts 28:140-24, 30-21
Memory( ,Selection: %Ye know
that all things work together
for good to them that love God,
to them that are the called ac-
cording to (313 1t'arpoee. Roulette
8:28.
It was a 311ret1un05 trip jut'
Paul the prisoner, from Caesarea
to name, The ship had been
buffetted by the storms and Ire -
ally broken to peices. A.:tee
three months in Malta they set
sail in another ship. At P131001i
Paul found some Christians and
spent a week with them, Mean-
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 (Rona.
1:11.12.15: 15:22,24,28-321. w a a
almost at their gates as e pris-
oner of - :.late, and they would
soon see him face to face. They
naturally determined to go and
meet him, to honour him as au
apostle, and show their love to
him as a brother, The younger
and more active would go as far
as Appii Forum, about 40 mile.e
front Rome. The rest only came
as far as The Three Taverns,
about 10 miles nearer to Rome.,
When Paul saw these brethre
he thankzd God and tookn:
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 heal'
who thought tieey 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 prise(:,
(Matt. 25i. Christiana are always
blessed when they follow the
teaching of the Bible.
Paul had wanted to preach at
Rome 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 latex
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.
SENSE OF VALTIES
A burglar broke into a
Yonkers, New York, home and
stole three pounds of sirloin
steak, a pork roast and some
chopped meat. He ignored silver-
ware and jewelry.
Spring Fever Spreads 'R und The Work
Dusting a winter's accnnmata-
tiou 010 the books kept New
York Public Library workers
busy. This spring - cleaning
chore is an auntie'
'Plorc daring than her friend, a
yretty West Berlin teen-al;et
toe -.tests the W a (11331 e c tat
Greenwald, Germany, 11 was
+'o rhilly, fora swim.
afe
rat's in the spring (Means tulips
blooming in the Tuileries Gar-
dens, They are tended by a
gar'treiter. The Areh of Trite:mai
ran be partly ,eon at left,
Eves itt Korete a soldier sac-
ouulba momentarily to swing
fever, Being awakened by his
dog Is Third 'Division Hurn, 1'fe,
Witham Getz, of 1)ubih ne, Ta.
Warmth luredearly fishermen
to the banks of tate rote/eat le
Washington, D. C., but they
turned to look at something
more interesting than the fiver,
1'iekhig' spring peach blossoms
at Carbondale. Ill., are two
pretty university of Southern
Illinois coeds, Lois Wilson on
the ladder. and Marilyn L1e119,
tes