Milford chronicle., 1946-09-13

farming crops will be advanced by sheltering birds
and small game Says the Times:
while statesmen struggling TO fix boundaries
between nations philosophy regarding fences
is growing among the nations farmers and landown-
ers Experts in the United States Department If
Agriculture, investigators in the State Experiment
Stations and private individuals have come to the
conclusion that clean boundary lines lines, like
straight burrows, detrimental the best interests
of agriculture A half century ago good farmers
were proud of thei dweed and bursh free fences and
walls. Good countrymen careful clean out
the fence corners
THE results of experiments show that wild life /
is one of the farmers best friends In areas where
no protection permitted for song BIRDS pheas-
ants grouse snakes and skunks the balance of Nature
was thrown awry. Insects, grubs, and other pests
multiplied. Gardens and crops suffered damage. |
Year by year the bill for sprays, poisons and insect
cides has been increasing until last it reached
a figure of more than S50,000,000.
cit seems probable that learning another |
lesson from the husbandrymen OF the Old World. |
For centuries they have cherished the hedges and
brush boundaries between fields and along country
side lanes The idea a pleasing pat
tern on our landscape. In place of starky bare wire
fences we shall and more lanes of shrubs and
trees where wild life can find sanctuary. Fence cor
ners will become islands of safety. Our farmers are
little land farmer will receive he from the birds
and animals he protects Farm lads who have always
dsked bursh- cutting time and who have been adjur-
ed TO low and cultivate the corners will favor the
philosophy Our municipal authorities in charge
of roadsides may we'll consider of these practices
along the straight stretches of highways when safety
conditions permit. Instead of moving the grass and
brush, perhaps wild life can be increased and road
maintenance reduced by permitting trees and brush
TO grow the banks and rights of way"
CUSSING THE OPA has been 4 national past
time. All of which is natural in country that
dslkes dictaton of any kind The only hitch is the
inconsistency in the reasoning of many of OPA'S
violent critics They forget that the thing that made
the OPA in the first place was uncontrolled govern
deficits. Deficits year after year have cheapen
ed our money. OPA hired soften the newt
able blow. Its original purpose prevent
economic disruption of the effort. After the
it indulged in every cheap, punitive trick mag
Unable TO hide the effects of increased of pro
duction and rising prices. But it could stem
the tide than it could freeze the rising of the
each mornng-because the public debt continues
TO increase TO this day
Many of the people who belabor the OPA most
vciousy the very who applaud when the
Federal government builds hundred million dollar
electric power dam or ndulges in some other useless
project which puts few more names on the public
payroll. Members OF the Congress actually brAg,
while the country staggers under unprecedent ted
debt of the public money that they have secured for
their districts. They brag of their part undermining
the solvency of the Federal government, and are
reelected by the OPA haterS for their achievement!
AS long as the public debt continues to rise there
will be terrific pressure for Federal dictatoria
troll over the free market The longer the people
submit TO such control, the harder it will be TO
preserve liberty and the American type of representa-
tive type of government. Finally if the deficits
continue, this country will have what has come to
be known European initiation, in spite OF the fact
that we think we are too big and permit
such foolishness.
CRUDE OIL PRICES recently increased by
about IS cents barrel. This the inevitab,
result of general price rises extending over Ions
period of time
Early in the war the oil industry asked fo
higher prices and was refused by OPA in spite OF
the fact that operations bound be mor
costly under the war economy than under th
peacetime economy which preceded it. Since th
time that request made, operating hav
shown still more substantial rises Labor for instance
is much costly. So materials And
most important, deeper drilling and increased explor
alton activities necessary to the proper development
or Oil reserves nave aQQeQ 10 the OVeral COST
Output and consumption of crude oil today a
record peaks. Domestic civilian demand has beer
phenomenal, especially in view of the dearth of
autos, oil burners, ETC., and military naval genera
shipping and export demand has been sustained 4
levels far above expectations. In order guarante
safe reserve capacity, the oil industry has material
increased its expenditure for the exploitation of
fields, and for drilling methods which produce max
mum supply with minimum of loss from any give
locality.
The rise in the cost of oil products to theconsum
er has been we'll below the general rise in prses. Toe
the quality of many oil products, notably automobil
lubricants, are being improved, which is in itself
important economy far the is concerned
Superior gasolines, born of experimentation
in the offing. AS in the past, the consumer
receiving excellent return for his money.
A SAMPLE SURVEY made some time ago indie
aled that more than 100000 veterans planned
establish their buninesseS. very large precent
age of these interested in retail trade in on