Milford chronicle., 1927-08-26
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FARM NEWS /
For Delaware Farmers

of his supposed-to-be dear friends
much older and wiser buddy
wrote him. keep your head out OF
the clouds and your feet on the
ground" Not so bad for anybody
eh?
We hold that there is no line OF
demarkation between agriculture
and business. There are those who
have endeavored to support the
doctorine that business, so called,
and agriculture could never work
together for mutual good, but the
Chamber of Commerce of the United
States has unmasked the falsity OF
these teachings and has demonstrat-
ed beyond a doubt that both groups
can and must work in harmony tor
mutual benefit"
Representative of Is national
farm and industrial organizations
visited General Herbert M. Lord
Director of the Budget of the U. s.,
on August 18th, for the purpose OF
securing the Generals consent to
recommending an enlarged program
of agricultural research and to in
clude in the budget for the fiscal
year, appropriations to cover the
proposed activities, when he con-
fers with the President in Rapid
City
The committee stated that the
Department of Agriculture since its
inception in 1862 has been given so
many tasks by Congress that it has
practically become a "jack-of-all-
trades.
Secretary Jardine said recently
that the time had come for a real
enlargement of our research work.
SHS
Potatoes are doing we'll in the
northeast, but in some central and
northern sections they need rain;
elsewhere they are good to excel
lent. Truck crops are mostly fair
to good in the east with the recent
rains in the Middle Atlantic States
of great benefit, and generally good
progress and conditions are noted
in other sections.
Tree fruits are still poor in the
Lake area and the Japanese Beetle |
is damaging apples and peaches in
New Jersey. Red spider is report
ed from portions of the Pacific |
Coast States. According to DR.. F. |
B. Bomberger of the Marketing |
Bureau of the Del-Mar-Va Eastern
Shore Association, apples and
peaches on the Del-Mar-Va PENN
sula will be about a 55qo crop
with every indication that the quail
ity will be good to excellent.
Shipments of western apples to
date have been only one-fifth as
heavy as a year ago, principally be-
cause of delayed mOvemnt from
Northern California. Eastern
apples were moving at the rate of
20 cars daily, and various kinds
were jobbing at $2-3 per bushel-
basket, about twice last summers
price.
If you have ever said that figures
don't lie, give us your opinion Of
these comparison with your own ex-
perience.
An editorial in The Breeders
Gazette for July 21 says. Farm
records kept on AZ farms in Cass
Co., Neb, last year shows that the
ten best farmers made an average
income of 1926, while the ten poor
est farmers made an average of
q1On ToIor In
comes, the differences is even more
striking; the ten best made $2,199
each, while the ten pooest actually
lost an average of $1,675. These
farmers are in the same county,
and some of them live almost side
by side. Farm expenses of the best
ten farms took only $43 of each $100
Of gross income, while the expenses
Of the ten poorest farms ate up $97
of each $1O0 income.
An editorial in Farmstead, Stock
and Home for July says: Members
Of the staff of the Minnesota Agri-
cultural Experiment Station have
been making a study Of the cost Of
producing various crops in the Red
River Valley, which has been called
|
One of these tables recently shows
that in 1926 the average cost of
growing an acre Of wheat was $12.-
As; barley, $11.83; potatoes, $49.45.
The return per hour for labor, al
ways an interesting item to the
farmer, were wheat $1.13; potatoes
Sill. The purpose of the studies
which have resulted in the fore
going figures is to show how farm
ing can be made profitable"
The following is excepted from
the material recently presented to
President Coolidge by a group re-
presenting agricultural interest.
These figures are based on the 1925
census, represent a five year sur
vey and have not been successfully
contradicted. We have found costs
Of production as follows:
SLAP bushel for corn; S242 a
bushel for wheat; .28 a pound for
and $.61 a dozen for eggs.
This is 798o above the five year
average price received by farmers.
This varies in States but is not far
from representative.
The Yearbook Of Agriculture
states that return per farm family
for the United States for labor and
management in 1926 was $64S.
SSS
If you, our reader, get this far
Town the column let us know what
you find most interesting in these
weekly collections. OF course, we
want your criticisms too.
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