Milford chronicle., 1953-11-27
Farm Bureau Hits Out
At Price Support
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crops, depending upon the overall
supply"
Another resolution urges a five
cent deposit on all bottles in which
alcoholic beverages are sold in an
effsrt to eliminate the casting of
empty bottles along highways,
causing damage to automobile
tires and farm machinery and con-
stituting a menace to health and
safety. Recommends passage of
such legislation by the General
Assembly.
Other recommendations of the
bureau include:
That study be made to ascer-
tain if there is any method of
check-testing of moisture samples
as to moisture content of grain by
a disinterested party.
That, because potato growers are
faced with a disease problem
brought about through purchase of
infected seed, legislation of pre-
pared lowering the tolerance of
certain specified diseases to not
more than one per cent of any one
disease and containing not more
than four per cent of combined
diseases.
That soil conservation assistance
be continued to each district as set
forth under the reorganization plan
recommended by Secretary of Agri-
culture Benson.
That agricultural conservation
payments be limited to permanent
practices only.
That plans be developed to meet
the needs for increased research
toward reducing costs, improving
quality, and expanding markets for
agriculture.
That there be no increase in
taxes on farm property not related
to the dwelling on it.
That each of the three counties
set up commodity committees to
select a state chairman for each
commodity to deal with the prob
lens of producers in the various
phases of agriculture.
The resolutions were adopted at
a business meeting of the Farm
Bureau which preceded the bur
eau'S annual dinner meeting in
Peoples Church in Dover last week
with an attendance of 200 and with
George G. Simpson, bureau presi-
/ dent, as POSTMASTER.
John 1. Taylor, a cattle farmer
of Oklahoma City, the principal
/ speaker at the dinner, praised the
1949 flexible farm program law as
being based on sound economics
aimed to keep supply in line with
demands, but that the law was moi
used because shortly afterward the
Korean disturbance broke out anC
the government guaranteed 80 pei
cent of parity.
Speaking of the recent loud pro.
tests against Secretary BensOn's
program, Mr.. Taylor mentioned diff
ficulties cattle growers face but HI
assured he was not one of '"thOsC
who went to Washington to SCI
Benson, because he and other cat
tlemen knew when they were re
ceiving S6 cents pound for feeder
calves the price was too high anC
would have to come down. Those
who made the trip, he said, were
one who jumped into the cattle
/ business for a profit or joined il
for political reasons.
Mr.. Taylor spoke his and hi:
area cattlemen'S approval of thC
Benson policies and commented
that there are those who wan
government to guarantee a profit
able price for farm production bu
no country has ever done so ant
maintained it's freedom.
During the dinner, vigorous ap
plause greeted a statement of Dr.
John A. Perkins, president of tn,
University of Delaware, in praise o
the Benson policies.
Gov. J. Caleb BOggs pointed on
that the increasing population o
Delaware in recent years calls TO
a stepping up of research to keel
pace with it and said that farm
organizations, working with tn
state, have the opportunity to i'm
prove the standard of living 70
farmers.
U. S. Senator John ]. William
was unable to make the trip from
Washington because of heavy fog
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