The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1943-10-22
Farm Farley Puts
Acreage Goal
Up Z Per Cent
State Leaders Plan The
Planting Program
For 1914

Minimum production goals set for
1914 for Maryland farmers by sew
enty-fve agricultural leaders, con-
Guiding a three-day conference at
College Park on Wednesday, call for
the planting of 1,579,000 acres, an
increase of seven per cent over 1913
field-crop acreage.
The food+for-war program fur
ther calls for maintaining milk pro-
duction at the current annual fig
ure of 953,000,000 pounds through
holding the population of herds to
100000 head of milk cows.
Although curtailed production of
broilers and turkeys was recommend
ed, the leaders urged poultrymen to
maintain egg output at present levels
by better feeding of layers, cut to
100000 from the 1943 high of
4,241, 900 hens and pullets was re-
commended.
Notable in the 1914 production
schedule is an asked-for increase of
twenty-seven per cent in acreage
planted to wheat, and three per
cent increase in corn, to bring plant
ings to $4,000 and 100000 acres,
respectively, compared with 100000
acres and 475,O0O acres this year.
A soybean acreage Of $4,000 con-
templated for 1914, represents a
fifty-one percent increase over the
1943 total of $4,000 acres. A rs
percent increase in planting clover
to bring next years acreage to 25,-
900 was suggested.
An eleven per cent boost to 10,-
900 acres in sweet potatoes, and an
increase of ten per cent in tobacco
acreage to bring the 1914 total to
$4,000 acres, was recommended.
The goals adopted were described
by the agricultural leaders as flea
sible of achievement after apprais-
ing the feed, labor and machinery
situation" va
The group calaed for three per- cent
boosts in acreages planted to vege-
tables, both for table consumption
and for sale to professors.
The shortage of feed, growing out
of the prolonged drought of 1943, a
committee headed by K. L. Turk re-
ported, demands that farmers pro-
duce a maximum of milk and eggs
with corresponding reduction in
the emphasis on hogs, broilers and
turkeys.
Greatest efficiency in feed utili-
cation will be obtained from dairy
cows and laying hens" the commit
tee reported.
The committee warned that live
stock numbers must be kept in pro-
per adjustment, with available feed
supplies" 1t suggested an education
al campaign to encourage farmers
to produce higher quality hay, make
fuller use of pastures, grow all feed
grains practicable, and build up grain
reserves for emergencies.
mo further expansion of milking
herds or laying fiocks" is possible,
reported the committee, because of
the critical feed situation" Culling
of fiocks and herds was suggested.
To ease the feed shortage, the
committee approved importation of
feed grain from Canada and Argen-
tina, and the raising Of the ceiling
price on corn to $1.40 a bushel ito
establish more uniform relationship
for all types Of livestock" and to
stimulate the movement of corn held
by Western growers to the East.
Increased paintings of seventeen
principal field crops and decreases
in three were proposed by commit
tee headed by G. E. Burkhead, Of the
agricultural economics department,
University of Maryland.
To facilitate the planting of a
greater corn and wheat acreage, Mr.
Brkhead's group suggested cuts un-
der 1S43 paintings in oats and barley
acreage Of eighteen and twenty-one
per cent respectively.
To meet these goals the labor COM
mittee, headed by Paul E. Nystrom
University Of Maryland Extension
Service, declared twenty-four per
cent more family workers will be re
quired in June, 1914, than in Janu
airy, i944, and that double the num-
Der OF hired hands will be needed
In June az compared with the first
month of the year to attain a peal
OF employment Of $1,000 on the
FARMS.
Because OF the foreseen "acute
need" for hired workers. the com
mittee called upon Congress to pro
vide funds now for agencies which
will be assigned the task of recruit
ing and placing farm labor in 1914.