THURSDAY, APRIL 2, 1953
RAEFORD, N. C.
THE NEWS-JOURNAL
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CONGRESS
WASHINGTON Will the public
get fed up with the governments
price support program for farm
products?
Secretary of Agriculture Ben
son puts that sort of question to
Congress.
"It is probable that we will
have to revise the (fiscal 1954
Agriculture Department) budget
estimate of price support expend
itures since losses will exceed
earlier estimates," Benson told
Senate Agriculture Committee
members the other day. "I need
not tell you gentlemen that this
is a serious situation.
"In our loan program we have
a tool which can serve an admir
able purpose in stabilizing prices
and supplies of farm products. I
am apprehensive lest through
high supports we place on this
device burdens to which it is not
adapted and so discredit it in the
eyes of the public."
That is not exactly a new
thought. It has been put in dif
ferent ways previously by cer
tain farm organization leaders
and by some farm state members
of Congress. And significantly,
during the recent sharp drop In
beef prices, there was not any
great clamor from the ranges for
government support of beef prices.
Farmers, being individualists,
do not like the controls that go
with price supports. Being hu
man beings, they do not like any
decline in their standard of liv
ing. Meanwhile, they realize that
the entire taxpaying public and
not just themselves (the farm
population is 15 per cent of the
total) pays the cost of farm price
supports.
The cost, as Benson points out,
is on the rise sharply so.
Toward the end of March, his
Department had more than $1
billion invested in farm products
acquired under the various price
support programs which Con
gress has written into law. When
you add wheat, corn and cotton
which is now under government
loan and which the Department
is "likely to acquire" Benson says,
the total cost comes to about
$2.7 billion.
The law requires the Depart
ment to make loans on crops, if
the farmers desire, when market
prices fall certain percentages be
low parity prices. Parity is a leg
alized formula designed to stabil
ize the buying power of the far
mer's dollar. If the market prices
do not recsver within specified
periods, the farmer keeps his
loan money and the government
keeps his crops.
A law which expires at the end
of 1954 requires support at 90 per
cent of parity for the so-called
basic crops wheat, corn, cotton,
peanuts, tobacco and rice.
The $1 billion worth of crops
which the Department now has on
hand includes 110 million bushels
of wheat and 259 bushels of corn,
some of which is four years old
and being sold to prevent spoil
age. It also has under loan and
expects to acquire permanently
"practically all of" 200 million
bushels of corn, 400 million bush
els of wheat and about two mil
lion bales of cotton, Benson says.
The Secretary of Agriculture Is
permitted to use his discretion in
setting support levels for certain
perishable products between 75
and 90 percent of parity on dairy
products, for example.
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Since last November, the De
partment has acquired 115 mil
lion pounds of butter is still tak
ing in about a million pounds a
day 50 million pounds of cheese
and 165 million pounds of dry
skim milk.
Benson recently f "It obliged to
agree to continue supporting dai
ry product prices at the maxi
mum level of 90 per cent of par
ity mainly because the feeds
which dairymen must buy are
being supported by order of
Congress at 90 per cent of parity.
One reason for the butter sur
plus is that oleomargarine is
crowding butter tightly m the
marketplace. And the retail
price of oleo is well below the 68-cents-a-pound
farm price at
which the government is support
ing butter.
.."We face tremendous losses on
thej disposition of perishables,"
says Benson.
That hardly comes under the
heading of glad tidings for a Con
gress hoping to bring the federal
budget close enough to balance
to make tax relief possible. And
the public, of course, is joining
with Congress in the hope for tax
relief.
75-YEAR-OLD FARMER
HELPS WORNOUT LAND
"Never too old to let the land
die", says R. P. Saddler of Route
5, Charlotte. Saddler is 75 years
old, but he can't stand by and see
the land washed away in eroded
gullies.
Several years ago Saddler took
over a wornout, washed away
70-acre farm with the idea of
rebuilding the soil's fertility. His
reason: "I have been reading
and hearing that this country will
be needing more and more food
as the years go by. If I can get
this place back to where it will
produce a little something, my
time and money will be well
spent."
The job would have been a
big one for a much younger man,
but already the eroded hills are
changing their appearance. In
stead of the deep gullies, much
of the land is grassed over now.
Saddler has bulldozed and
practically remade 17 acres at a
cost of $440. He has established
nine acres of alfalfa, six acres of
permanent pasture and 10 acres
of temporary pasture. So far he
has spent more than $5,000 and
has a good-sized herd of Here
ford beef cattle.
According to Ray A. Kiser, as
sistant Mecklenburg County farm
agent, "It is amazing to see the
progress achieved by Mr. Sad
deler. Although he is getting
along in years, he is still very ac
tive. He is making a real con
tribution toward the American
farmer's goal of feeding his coun
trymen in the years ahead."
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Most of the meat imported to
the United States comes from
Argentina, Canada and Mexico.
LEGALS
NOTICE TO CREDITORS
Having qualified as adminis
trator of the estate of Atticul H.
Bowman, deceased, late of Hoke
County, this is to notify all per
sons having claims against said
estate to present to the under
signed at his home on or before
the 10th of March, 1954, or this
notice will be pleaded in bar of
their recovery. All persons in
debted to said estate will please
make immediate payment.
This the 10th day of March, 1953.
John W. Bowman, Administra
tor. 41-46p
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NOTICE TO CREDITORS
Having qualified as adminis
trator of the estate of Duncan
Hector McGill, Jr., deceased, late
of Hoke County, this is to notify
all persons having claims against
said estate to present to the un
dersigned at his home on or be
fore the 19th of March, 1954, or
this notice will be pleaded in bar
of their recovery. All persons in
debted to said estate will please
make immediate payment.
This the 19th day of March,
1953.
Mre. Opal Baker McGill, Admin
istrator, Vass, N. C. 42-47p
0
NOTICE TO CREDITORS
Having qualified as adminis
trator of the estate of Ashley A.
Martin, deceased, late of Hoke
County, this is to notify all per
sons having claims against said
estate to present to the under
signed at his home on or before
the 10th of March" 1954, or this
notice will be pleaded in bar of
their recovery. All persons in
debted to said estate will please
make immediate payment.
This the 10th day of March, 1953.
W. N. McLauchlin, Adminis
trator, Carthage. 41-46p
0
NOTICE TO CREDITORS
Having qualified as executor
of the estate of Mary Purcell Mc
Rae, deceased, late of Hoke Coun
ty, this is to notify all persons
having claims against said es
tate to present them to the un
dersigned at his home on or be
fore the 12th of March 1954, or
this notice will be pleaded in bar
of their recovery. All persons
indebted to said estate will please
make immediate payment.
This the 12th day of March,
1953.
John P. Purcell, Executor. 41-45p
0
NOTICE TO CREDITORS
Having qualified as adminis
trator of the estate of Mrs. Ada
B. Shankle, deceased, late of
Hoke County, this is to notify all
persons having claims against
said estate to present them to the
undersigned at his home on or
before the 26th of March, 1954,
or this notice will be pleaded in
bar of their recovery. All persons
indebted to said estate will please
make immediate payment.
This the 26th day of March, 1953.
Ivey H. Shankle, Administra
tor, Sanford, N. C. 43-48C
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