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Montana farmer-stockman. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1947-1993, 1955-01-15

culture, and as fast as we can advance,
that we will be short of food here by
1875, or any other date in the near
future We should look for new plant
species that can be used i'm industry.
I can see no limitations in industry as
long as we have a free, prosperous
agriculture.
All farm programs in the past have
been wartime programs to encourage
production or peacetime programs to
restrict production. The programs to
encourage production of specific crops
have succeeded. the restriction pro-
grams have failed in one way or an
other. Therefore, ] believe we need
program to encourage us to produce
something that is needed, and I know
we still have lots of needs. feel any
farm program to be successful must
stress quality of and demand for.
With our free-enterprise, competi-
tive economy farm program to guide,
not program to control, is all that
will ever work in our country. also
feel that if we. expect to continue to
go forward at the rate we must, it
must remain a free-enterprise, COM
petitive system. Why is Russia short
of food today?
In conclusion I will tell you who !
think the small farmer is. He is the
man who farms less than l. He thinks
/ am big farmer. I think the man
who farms more than is a big farmer.
Max p. Maberry, Chouteau County.
Montana farmer-stockman. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1947-1993, 1955-01-15
Other Areas Produce
Premium Wheat, Too

YOU PEOPLE seem to lay claim to
the fact that it is only in Montana that
high protein, high quality milling wheat
can be produced (No Surplus of Mon
tana Wheat, Jan. l, NJ F-S).
The farmers of northwestern North
Dakota produce the same kind of wheat
under the same conditions as eastern
Montana. Therefore why shouldn't the
Dakota wheat farmer be entitled to
the same price support for premium
wheat as in any other area? This wheat
growing and marketing problem is
national problem and should be ham
died that way.
But I do agree with you that wheat
should be supported on a quality basis
with this difference: The support
should be paid regardless of where it
is raised. The same goes for poor or
feed quality wheat. A farmer from
Dakota or Minnesota or from any other
state is as much entitled to premium
price for a premium product as a
Montana farmer.
Most farmers in this area are of the
opinion that there should be bushel
allotment instead of an acreage allot-
ment In regards to an allotment pro-
gram for the small operator, the num-
Der of dependents should be taken into
consideration. Why not allow so many
acres or bushels per dependent.
Another system would be to cut pro-
duction on graduated basis: 1000
acre farm cut so per cent; $50 acres, 40
per cent; 500 acres, 80 per cent; $50
acres, 20 per cent. Businessmen en-
gagged in wheat farming should be more
heavily penalized than a dirt farmer,
and all Durum acreage should be re-
leased.
I like your paper and don't blame
you too much for trying to do all you
can for the Montana farmers. I used
to live in Montana myself and know
that he needs all the help he can get.
M. I. Davidson, Arnegard, N. d.
Montana farmer-stockman. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1947-1993, 1955-01-15
200 Acres Should Be
Minimum Acreage

AS I AM a reader of your paper and
also small farmer would like to sug-
gest how I feel this wheat acreage
should be handled.
In the first place, know from expert
ence that il you farm less than 200 acres
of wheat you cannot buy the machinery
you need. SO I believe anyone who has
200 acres or less should not be cut at all.
My suggestion is that every one who
farms more than 200 acres should be
cut certain per cent for every addi-
tionaI acre, so the more he farms the
more he would be. cut 1t would be ham
died about the same way as income tax.
Jesse p. BOIIinger, Phillips County.
Montana farmer-stockman. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1947-1993, 1955-01-15
Farm Program Should
Guide, Not Control

/ BELIEVE MOST of the answers to
our farm troubles are written into your
Jan. | editorials. We as farmers must
decide what we want and work toward
that end. We must write our own pro-
gram. If we let someone else write it,
it may be what they want and not the
best for us or them.
In writing this program we must con-
slider the other fellow because If it
isn't good for the nation, in the end it
won't be good for the farmer.
I believe that if the small farmer
wants to stay in business he is going
to have to be specialist. He is going
to have to spend more time and money
ON each acre and use the best manage
ment and scientific know-how there is
available to get more returns per acre.
I believe for our longtime salvation
we need vast amounts of research, bill
lions of dollars, not just on our present
plant species, but on new species SO
we can really be specialists.
/ don't believe in this day and age,
as fast as we have advanced in agrl-
Montana farmer-stockman. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1947-1993, 1955-01-15
Wants Wheat Allotment
Based on So Acreage

IN REGARD to your editorial, ''No
Surplus of Montana Wheat" I would
suggest that the operator be allowed
his 1852 average wheat acreage, dis
regarding any increase that some farm
ers planted in 1858.
A support price could be paid for all
high protein wheat starting at Is per
cent, increasing in price as protein in
creases, as it is at present. Any wheat
below Is per cent protein would be
considered surplus, selling at lower
price.-JOe GARNER, RichIand County.
Montana farmer-stockman. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1947-1993, 1955-01-15
Still More on Coyotes

THERE HAS BEEN lot written
about coyotes in our paper. I wonder
if those fellows ever had flock OF
sheep. IL they had anything the coyotes
would kill they wouldn't be so against
1880, as it has done lot of good in
our county.
There are still few coyotes left and
If it wasn't for 1880 the county would
be over-run with them, as it was before
1880 was put out. have had lot OF
lambs killed by coyotes and the best
dog we ever owned, but we can always
get a dog.-Vern Osterloth, Dawson
County.
Montana farmer-stockman. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1947-1993, 1955-01-15

Mont. Driving at night you were seldom
out of sight of mice. What was wrong?
We had plenty of mice and jackrabbitS
in those days, but still the coyotes pre-
ferred sheep.
l had one neighbor in Carter County
who liked to hear coyotes howl and
after 1880 had taken its toll he wanted
to import some from New Mexico just
for that wonderful, lonesome music.
If he had been sheepman instead of
a cowman no doubt he would have done
the bowling. - N. O. Douglas, Ravalli
County.
Montana farmer-stockman. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1947-1993, 1955-01-15
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Constructive letters On subjects Of general
rural interest WIFI be published under this
heading as space permits. Comparatively short
letters must necessarily be favored although
excerpts from longer letters may be ased.
will be used requested. Montana Farmer
Stockman may or may mot agree with she
opinion expressed.
Montana farmer-stockman. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1947-1993, 1955-01-15

Montana breeders are am sure that
you would find most of them to be par
ents, many of whose children have pro-
duced All and FLA champions
under the Danish system and some be-
fore that system was adopted.
These breeders of registered beef cat
tie referred to by MIR. circuit as spro-
moters" realize that there is demand
for good cattle. The producers of COM
mercial cattle are continually demand
ing better bulls, and by better, mean
according to standards set by the buy
erS of feeder cattle.
Generally there is a more favorable
price when there is a demand for q
product. That, believe, is what our
future beef producers win be interested
in. The show ring doesn't affect the
decisions made by many of our Mon
tana beef producers that make their
living from their ranches. They must
have profit or they cannot continue
to operate.
In conclusion, wish to state that i'm
talking to Extension people, teachers
and others, the problem of increasing
the enrolment in beef projects hasn't
changed much since 1893. cannot see
where changing the methods used i'm
judging has brought about any signifi-
cant change in the number of members
or the quality of work completed.
I believe we could gain some MEM
bers to junior beef projects if we are
returned to the old system of placing
cattle. Some of this increased enroll
ment would undoubtedly come from
families of these so-called promoters"
more commonly referred to as breed
ers of registered cattle. am sure
that there would also be more support
from the parents and members of the
various beef cattle associations.
Fortunately the American people
have always been good competitors and
think we should continue TO encourage
good honest competition amongst our
youth.
In closing may quote the All motto
'sTo Make the Best Better" and the sIo
gan ''To Win Without Dragging and ia
Lose Without SqueaIing." They viii
both be most effective under a demo-
cratic system and that isn't the Danish
system of grouping individuals, neither
humans or animals.--Howard c.. Lew
is, GaIIatin County.
Montana farmer-stockman. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1947-1993, 1955-01-15
Danish System Isn't
Democratic System

OySGOk4
IN VIEW OF the fact that am cred
tied with being one of the individuals
who initiated the so-called Danish Sys-
tenn for judging junior livestock shows
in Montana, / feel that it is my duty to
register some of my thoughts and OBJ
servations on the subject.
The program was instituted on an ex-
perimental basis. We thought that many
children were staying out of beef prof.
ects, especially because of. jealousies
and i'll feeling due to the picking of
champions in our junior shows. We also
had in mind putting more emphasis on
record books and less on the animals.
My thinking on the subject is that to-
day the record book is more impor-
tant than ever because of higher 0per-
ating costs and smaller margins. am
convinced that the only way we in Mon
tana can successfully stay in the beef
business is to produce the highest quail
ity beef that we can breed.
The South, which produces low grade
beef cheaper than we can, together with
the culled dairy cows, can supply the
market with an abundance of this cheap
meat The feeder who finishes cattle
is in the same position that we are, as
his costs are high and he must produce,
with his high cost operation, superior
quality product which will yield high
er net profit.
There is no state in the Union that
can and does produce finer quality feed
er cattle than Montana. We must con-
tinue to produce higher percentage
of this type of beef cattle no matter OF
what breed they are. To me it seems
important that we impress this fact
upon the youngsters in All or FLA beef
projects through their record books with
true and real facts.
To me the most controversial practice
in regard to the junior beef project is
the paying of prices for red and white
ribbon groups that are equal to those
paid for blue and, in some cases, pur-
pie ribbon groups. We certainly
wouldn't permit our school teachers to
reward our students on such basis.
In regard to Mr.. Swaffer's article
montana Farmer-Stockman, Dec. ID,
on the subject of the Danish system,
am of the opinion that he wrote this
article with the consent of his board OF
directors who, so far as am con-
cerned, are very successful and pro-
gressive group of men. AS individuals
they have helped a great deal in secur-
ing budgets for education, experiment
tation etc. on state and national ba-
sis. These men are sincere in their
beliefs and they realize that even in the
production of beef cattle, you cannot
stand still, you must go ahead.
Just about year ago attended
meeting of the Montana Hereford
Breeders Association where there was
a good attendance This group Of breed
ers voted unanimously to recommend
doing away with the Danish system.
The Aberdeen-Angus Association passed
a similar resolution about the same
time.
TIE vos were tn inquire as to who those
Montana farmer-stockman. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1947-1993, 1955-01-15

Jonuory IS. l95s1s
Evening star., 1955-11-30
Woman Psychologist Answers
$4,000 Question on BOXING

NEW YORK, Nov. 80 GA psychologist DR. Joyce
Brothers of New York. has reached the halfway
S64 900 Question" teevision and show
She $4,000 the CHS program night with her
knowledge of boxing
Brothers %, New Orleans as the site of two
Evening star., 1955-11-30
Us wfAFHta sValAV

WEATHER BUREAU FORECAST-Cold weather will con-
tnue the East and Midwest tonight but it will be
in the Lower Mississippi Valley and the Southern Plains
New England and In the Northern and Central Rockies.
Rain Is expected in the Northwestern StatesP Wire-
photo Map. NefS
Evening star., 1955-11-30
By the Assoeiated press

Diplomatic observers said to-
day chances now are better that
Egypt viii turn down a Soviet
offer to help build its cherished
high dam on the Nile and 60
ahead instead with Western
help.
The $1.3 billion Aswan dam
project has become an important
piece in the East-West game for
the effections OF the Middle East,
especially since Russia has Of
fered economic and other aid
in that area. Western observers
about it came from
these factors:
l. Egypt's revived negotia-
tions with the World Bank for
help in financing the project
were reported going well, though
a decision is still considerable
way off.
2, Secretary Of State Dulles
and Foreign Aid Director John
B, Hollister in separate but
parallel public statements yes
terday Indicated the United
States is not inclined to cut aid
to the Middle East. but may in
crease it.
United States aid policy may
be vital to the Aswan Dam prof :
Evening star., 1955-11-30
..undsSouqht
5

Members Of All Souls Uni
tartan Church last night opened
q city-wide campaign Ito raise
$1,000 as part of the eongrega-
tons share in the $428, 900 ma
|tional drive for the Unitarian
Service Committee.
The local effort will run to
January /. Mrs. Ralph r.
Fuchs. chairman Of the District
of Columbia Unitarian Service
Committee, presided at the din
ner meeting last night in the
church, Sixteenth and Harvard
streets NV.
DR.. Frank 2. Click Of Boston,
executive director Of the Uni
tartan Service Committee, out
lined the committees domestic
and foreign program.
One of the national projects is
the Columbia Heights Boys Club
lat ALI Souls Church, he ex-
|plained. The club, first inte-
grated boys club in the city. has
|225 boys, Of whom about fifty
are white. The leader is Belforo
Fisher. a Negro, and DR.. Walter
IE. Hager, president Of District
Iof Columbia Teachers College. il
chairman of the advisory board
The National Committee appro-
Ipriated $4,000 to run the club
which has been going since De-
Icember /, 1854.
Evening star., 1955-11-30
Egypt Shift to West
On Aswon Dam Seen

ec.t. Informed sources said that.
while the bank is satisfied the
dam project Is economically
sound. 1t questions Egypt's abil-
ity to repay the full amount it
would have to borrow to con-
struct 1t. Grants from the
United States-and possibly
Britain and other Western
powers -conceivably could make
the difference.
Rough estimates are that
Egypt could pay about half the
cost of the dam and the accom-
panying power and irrigation in
stallations in its own currency,
but would need about 5000 mil
lion more than Egypt reasonably
could be expected to repay with
out harming other aspects of its
Evening star., 1955-11-30

with slowly rising temperature
tomorrow.
Wind West to northwest 20 tc
80 miles per hour becoming is to
20 miles per hour tonight and to-
morrow.
River Report
tFfom q. 8 EngineerBt
Potomac River clear ut Harpers Ferry
and clear ct Great Falls; shenandoah
clear st Harpefs Ferrz.
Temperatures for Yesterday
sReadings washington National Airport
Midnight 20 Noon --A 80
am - Is 4 pm. 81
am. 1k 8 pm, 81
Record Temperatures This Year
Highest, 0S. on July ~ and August =
Lowest, 10 on February g.
HiigI, and Low Of Last "a Hours
High, SO, at $40 pm.
Low. 20, at 4.25 am.
Evening star., 1955-11-30

work week and that autornation'
has eliminated jobs in Govern
Iment and the opportunity for
advancement. Therefore, a
shorter work week sin Govern
ment is essential, the council
contends.
S. Authorization Of in-service
training programs in Gov
ernment.
6. Removal of all known Com
ImunistS and subversives in Gov
Iernment. However, the council
urged the "discontinuance of the
practice of labelling as security
risks separated employees whose
disloyalty has not been proven.
7. Restoration of 26 days of
annual leave and is days of
sick leave for all Government
workers and the right Of en-
Iployes to increase their present
amounts Of annual leave.
8. Removal Of multiple taxa
|tion Of Federal employees.
o. Exemption Of retirement an
Inuities from Federal income tax.
10. Restriction of the use Of
military personnel in jobs that
lcan be filed by civilians.
II. Opposition to any central
wage board for Government per
diem workers. Collective bar
gaining rights for unions repre-
Isenting per diem workers before
various agency wage boards.
IL. Establishment of a safety
program in Government to cut
down accidents and injuries
among Federal employees.
13. Strengthening of the Gov
Iernment's performance rating
system to provide adequate warn
Iings to employees whose work is
unsatisfactory before they can
|be fired.
IA. Protection of employees
against salary cuts when their
Jobs are downgraded through no
fault Of their own.
is. A mandatory rule that one
member Of the three-member
Civil Service Commission be an
AFL man.
One noteworthy omission is
the health-medical insurance
program the administration has
proposed to Congress, The AFLI
unions favor the idea but are
Withholding any Endorsement
until the cost to the enpioye Is
reduced and the Governments S
share is increased. The admins
tration fayors a plan whereby
the Government would contribute
one-third and the employees two
thirds. The unions want the
Government to pay at least half
the cost and perhaps even more.
Evening star., 1955-11-30

survivorship benefits, without
any tie-up with social security.
Also optional retirement with
full annuities at age IS after 80
years Of service, regardless Of
age.
2. Official recognition Of Fed
eral employe unions and estab-
lishment Of bargaining rights
which would require all Govern
ment agencies to deal with Fed
eral employe groups on personnel
policy matters and grievances.
8. Upward adjustment Of clas-
sif1ed and postal employees sal-
aries. The council did not set
any amount Of increase, nor did
it indicate whether such a drive
would be pushed in Congress
next year. Chances are the
unions win wait until at least
1857 before making a serious
attempt for pay adjustments.
And the situation at that time
viii depend on the cost Of living
index and other factors.
4 A basic Federal work week
Of S5 hours. The council says in
dustry generally is reducing its
Evening star., 1955-11-30

IN New YORK tomorrow ana ask
for its Endorsement. The AFL's
is considered certain.
The legislative goals to be
sought from Congress include
some immediate ones, as well as
some long-range ohjectives.
Among the immediate objec-
tives to be sought next year are
liberalization of civil service re-
tirement benefits without CO.
ordination with the Social Secur-
ty System, official recognition and
bargaining rights of Government
employe unions. impartial ap-
peals and grievance procedures
for both veteran and nonveteran
employees. salary cut protection In
cases Of downgrading, and a
number of other items.
Long-range objectiyes include
such items as a 35-hour Federal
work week.
OBJECTIVES-Here is the list
of resolutions approved by the
council. which it is asking the
AFL to ratify:
/. liberalization of civil serv-
ice retirement benefits and family
Evening star., 1955-11-30
Benson Expects
Beef Price Gain
By the Associated Press

Secretary of Agriculture Ben
son said today, in answer to
pleas from some cattlemen for
e-bolstering action, that he
expects prices Of beef cattle to
strengthen in the months ahead.
In a formal statement COM
menting on the beef market sit
uation. Mr.. Benson said the
Government is participating in
beef purchase and promotional
campaigns designed to help i'm
prove the cattle market.
Recent drops in cattle prices
largely reflected the fact that
during October and November
feeders sent to market an un-
usually large number Of heavy
weight cattle for which there
Is q limited retail outlet.
Mr.. Benson said the Defense
Department - acting upon his
suggestion purchasing o ma
jority Of its boneless beef require
ments from heavier cattle. which
is the class affected most by the
recent price declines.
Mr.. Benson said his depart
ment also is encouraging export
of beef, and in this connection
the International Cooperation
Administration recently author
ized the purchase Of about 2t
million pounds Of beef for Spain
Stating that prices Of heavy
steers have increased 81 a hun
dred pounds from the low point
reached the week of November
10, Mr.. Benson had this TO say
about the future outlook
Fed cattle marketings appear
Evening star., 1955-11-30
TODAY'S WEATHER REPORT

District and vicinity-Fair and
cold tonight, with low around rs
in the city and 20 in the suburbs.
Fair with high near As tomorrow.
Maryland Generally fair and
colder tonight with some snow
fiurries in extreme western por-
ton, low 8-16 and 1925 in east.
Fair and continued cold tomor-
row with some snow in west.
Virginia Partly cloudy, cold
and windy with snow fiurries in
the mountains tonight, low 8-l8
In west and 1925 in east. Fair
Evening star., 1955-11-30
Tide Tables

The Sun and M00i
Evening star., 1955-11-30

tied for his previous $32 900 win
nings in his American history
category last night and quit.
Stanley Skeens, 26-year-old
coal miner from Danyille, w.
Va. won $4,000 for answering
a question about the Bible. He
will get a chance to try for
$4,000 next week.
He was asked to recite any
five of the seven verses between
lines three and eleven of the Ser
mon on the Mount, as given in
the fifth chapter OF Matthew.
He recited lines four, five. six.
eight and nine.
Evening star., 1955-11-30

world championships and one
American title fight in three
days in 1892. She gave these
contestants, winners and weight
divisions for the fights: James
j. Corbett knocked out John l.
Sullivan for the heavyweight
crown; Jack McAuliffe knocked
out Billy Myer in the light
weight class, and George Dixon
beat Jack Skelly. featherweight.
She can try for the grand
prize next Tuesday night,
Steven Frohlich. 80, a Czech
immigrant who is in the seed
business in Princeton, N. J., set