The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1933-11-09

is entirely different. Every dairy
man has milk check come to him
regularly each month, but unfortu-
nately with many of these dairymen a
large percentage of this check imme-
diately passes from his hands in order
to meet his payments.
There is probably no state in the
union that has such a wide range of
crop production possibilities as has
the state of Maryland. There is not a
single section of this state where some
suitable type of feed crop could not
be grown in order to meet the needs
of almost any type of farming that
the individual might wish to do, or
any type of farming that might be
profitable in the community.
When l speak of the East, l mean
only those states lying on the Atlantic
seaboard and | do not include the New
England states. In the last five years
these eastern states have produced
approximately 30 per cent of the ma
tons corn, rs per cent of the entire
wheat crop and II per cent of all the
winter wheat. There has been pro-
duced during this period about 16 per
cent of the hay, 26 per cent of the
potatoes, rs per cent of the apples,
% per cent of the vegetables put in
cans and perhaps more than so per
cent of all the marketable vegetables.
These farmers have produced 10 per
cent of the cattle, per cent of the
hogs, 20 per cent of the dairy cows
and IL per cent of all the eggs pro-
duced in the United States. To re-
move any of these items from the
competition for agricultural products
would be boon to the agricultural
west and ia remove all of them would
more than solve the agricultural ills
of the nation.
There are some items in the Agri-
cultural Adjustment program that are
doubtless disadvantage to our farm
ers as producers. Two of these items
are extremely important to us. The
plan adopted requires that fiat re-
duction be made on production
throughout the country. This doubt
less will work somewhat of hardship
to our people, in that we are COM
PEELED to reduce to even smaller guam
titles, commodity items that are al
ready a deficit in our area. And this,
in spite of the fact that we are To-
Gated in the very midst of the best
markets in the country. The other
item is the replacement of the utiliza-
ton of land taken out of production.
We are asked to not plant any of this
land that is taken out of the produc-
ton of corn, wheat and tobacco in
crops that might compete with other
crops of which there might be sur
plus in the country at large. We are
asked to do this notwithstanding the
fact that our farmers have paid out
no less than thirty-fve million dol
lars for additional feed supplies dur
ing the last five years. l am conf
dent that every farmer can well afford
to analyze his own situation with
respect to the crops that he is grow
ing or could grow in relation to the
food requirements of the animals and
individuals living on these farms.
Your Experiment Station and your
Extension Service can give you much
help in making an analysis of your
farm business. That many farmers
are taking advantage of this kind of
service is indicated by the thousands
of letters that are being written each
year in Analysing farm production
programs.
Coordinate with the questions in
volved in our Agricultural program is
that of land utilization. Here again
Maryland is extremely fortunate in
that it has had surveyed, classified,
and mapped every soil type in every
county of the state. In addition to this,
a large percentage of the soil groups
have had fertility tests run on them.
AS result of this work it has been
possible within the last year to pre-
pare for you a new report, or bulle-
tin, on the soils of Maryland, giving
them valuation as to their produc-
tivitv. In this report the soils of the