Milford chronicle., 1926-01-29

food, are expected by the meat
packers to lead to increased pro-
duction of animals for slaughter la
ter in the year. This is part of the
farmers problem to solve in his
business. His success or lack of
success, will very largely depend
upon his ability to study the prob
lem and form his own plans to meet
the situation. If the farmer is in
capable of doing this, then he is in
deed in need of enlightenment, both
in practical business as well as in
the profession of farming. That is
Just what most farmers are deli
cient in-business education. They
can grow crops, but how to dispose
of them after producing, is the
weakest link in their mental attl-
tude. Pity tits, but it is true in
many cases, the farmer has not the
ambition to try to get himself IN
position to help himself. 1t is not a
money problem, but mental prob
lem with them. 1t would be un-
fair to knock the Delaware farmers
as a whole, for there are men of
intelligence and good business abll-
ity among the farmers Of this state
the equal of any in other states;
but there are too many who are con-
tent to get a bare living without ac-
cumulating property, or supplying
home or personal cOnveniences for
themselves or families. They seem
to care but little as to their child
dren's future, or realize that the
world is moving forward and that
they are standing in the ruts after
the successful men have gone for
ward and gathered the profits. It's
the little things that must be solved
in every home and by all who at
tempt to carry on for themselves,
which brings success. The dumb
driven-ox kind of people, never did
and never will create progressive |
community, town, county or state.
Life is just matter of study from
childhood to the end of its affairs.
Let the farmers of Delaware lead
in this first principle of success for
themselves and the community's,
and the results will be success.
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FROM statistical reports made to
the United States Government thru
the corn growing sections Of the
Middle Western states, the chief
cause for small demand for the corn
crop of 1925, results from farmers
selling the hogs, which are the
greatest consumers of corn of all
animals. The high price Of corn
last year led farmers to cash in on
their hogs and also turn their corn
into money. This policy resulted
in less corn fed to several millions
of hogs, which created surplus
of corn-even though the crop of
corn was much smaller in the num-
ber of bushels grown. AS the Eu-
ropean countries take but small
of corn grown in this
country, the apparent surplus of
corn is the result of a short-sighted
policy on the part of farmers
Several millions of
hogs less than were fed and turned
into pork in 1924, is reported from
such states as Iowa, Illinois and
other corn growing states. 1t will ,
require several months to breed
hogs to replace those disposed Of,
in addition to the hogs required for
the market supply of the country.
At present it looks as if pork will
retain it's present high price until
the pigs of this winter and spring
are fed and fatted for the slaughter
houses; and, that corn will not
reach higher figures until later in
the year, when the demand for corn
has again become normal as the re-
suit Of increasing the hogs Of this
country to normal numbers. These
reports sound like common sense
and are worth giving thought by
those who grow both corn and hogs
for the market as crops from
their farms.
WITH the beginning of the New
Year business in the United States
is upon so firm a foundation, that
local reaction, or conditions, in no
matter what part Of the country,
are incapable of shaking the public
Delaware has had her
share of prosperity with the whole
country.
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STILL there's one consolation to
be found if some of the boys don't
learn anything in college nowadays
except playing the saxophone and
dancing the Charleston. Even these
two vices are to be preferred to par
lor socialism.
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