Milford chronicle., 1927-07-08
WEEKLY FARM NEWS


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WEEKLY FARM NEWS
Don't be a marginal producer.
The farmer with the greatest spread
between production cost and selling
prices can best stand low prices.
Brains and perspiration together
will make more spread" w. R.
Mex, County Agent in Maryland.
Someone has said that knocking,
as in an automobile, is always the
sign of inefficiency and lack of
power
= Stocks of corn in store in the
United States markets during the
week ended June 18th, increased by
t,O63,OO0 bushels according to the
weekly report on commercial grain
stocks in store in the principal
United States Markets issued by the
Bureau of Agricultural Economics.
Wheat fell off 2,363,000 bushels the
: same week.
w. NJ. Jardine, Secretary of Agri-
culture, stated before the American
Institute of Cooperation on May 9Th,
that there are $50 cooperative as
/. sociations each handling a business
exceeding a million dollars annually
and that it is necessary to have
business, executive, and financial
forethought in the conduct of the af-
fairs of cooperative. The manage
ment should be greatly removed
from the farmers. He advocated
system of education in the agricul-
tural schools which will train
, American farmers in the technique
of running cooperatives.
DR.. Frank B. Bomberger, Director
of the Marketing Bureau of the Del
Mar-Va Eastern Shore Association
is now organizing the agricultural
interests of the Peninsula in an eff
fort to produce better crops and the
Standardization of products. This
. Organization will consist of an ad-
visory board of selected represent
atives of each of the IA counties on
=. the Peninsula. The Executive Com
mittee will consist of three to five
members to be selected from the Ad-
visory Board. Conferences are plan
ned in the immediate future for
poultry, sweet potato, strawberry
and cantaloupe Standardization.
DR.. Bomberger is encouraging the
improvement and extension of the
dairy interests throught the PENN
on1 Ioroar. rDr0d,ofioT1 Of fI1r-
keys and lambs. He has also in
cluded in his plans the extension of
a safe farm program for the produc-
ing of food for the farm family and
feed for the farm animals.
The price fixing board, working
for under the management of an
organization of the bankers, farmers,
buyers and cooperatives on the East
ern Shore of Virginia, up to the pre-
sent seems to be materially benefit
ting all those concerned in the
potato fields of the two Virginia
Counties.
Farm equipment valued at more
than $461, 100000 was produced in
the United States in 1926, revealing
a large increase over the production
of the previous two years, according
to a census of manufacture and sale
of farm equipment by the Depart
ment of Commerce
Farm relief legislation is neces-
sary to prevent more widespread
abandonment of farms and to avoid
resulting congestion in the cities,
stated Senator Copeland of New
York in an oral statement recently.
He continued, 81 was born on a
farm, 1 have a farm, and know
what farm relief problems mean.
We have had $4,000 farms abandoned
in this country during the last five
wears. There will be $4,000 more
abandoned unless Congress provides
some form of farm relief. If we do
not find some farm relief, it means
more congestion in the cities and
worse conditions in the agricultural
sections"
Power expense is the one vital
tactor in producing crops over