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Farmers Union official gives support
to new Kennedy program in hearing
THE NATIONAL FARMERS
Union and Farmeri Union mem-
beri in Hockley County have
com# to the support of the Cooley-
Ellender bill (H. R. 6400) which is
now under consideration in the
national congress.
Gilbert C. Rohde, president of
the Wisconsin Farmers Union ap-
peared before the House Agricul-
tural Committee on May 1 to pre-
sent his and the Farmers Union
view of the proposed legislation.
Following are some of the ma-
jor points made by Rohde:
TWO YEARS AGO, THE NA-
tional Planning Association issued
an excellent pamphlet entitled
“Myths About Farming” in which
the Association’s Agriculture Com
mittee attempted to set the rec-
ord straight on many misconcep-
tions held by both city people and
fanners about farming. Secretary
Freeman has likewise concentrat-
ed much of his early efforts on
getting the real facts of American
agriculture before the public.
In respect to the establishment
of farm advisory committees,
some newspapers, magazines, and
even farm groups have attempt-
ed to question the competence that
bona-fide farmers can bring to the
realm of farm policy formulation.
Their effectiveness has been dis-
counted, and the myth has been
created that the Secretary of Ag-
riculture will be the sole policy-
maker. We believe this to be an
unwarranted and unsupported cri-
ticism of the proposed legislation.
FIRST OF ALL, ILLUSTRA-
tions of the effectiveness of farm
committees at the policy level are
easy to find. Producer committees
have worked effectively in market-
ing order programs and in bar-
gaining associations. Farmer - e-
lected ASC committees have de-
monstrated the practicality of pla-
cing" more: responsibility on farm-
ers themselves in the administra-
tion of their farm programs. Any
decisions on farm policy must be
closely identified with the thinking
of the people most vitally con-
cerned. i
Secondly, in many respects the
Secretary would have less power
under this bill than he has under
existing legislation. Without in-
tending to advocate less power in
that important office, let me point
out that the Secretary can now
set any support level up to 90 per
cent of parity — or no support
level — for all but a few of the
commodities grown in the United
States. This power was possessed
constantly by the preceding Sec-
retary, and the new Secretary ex-
ercised it just recently when he
increased the supports under soy-
beans.
But under the proposal being
criticized he would establish an
advisory committee, submit the
recommended program to Con-
gress for 60 days of review and
then submit it to a referendum in
which two - thirds of the producers'
would have to approve the propo-
sal.
It seems to us that this proce-
dure recommended by the Admin-
istration is accepting less authority
in the Executive Branch, rather
than seizing the awful powers at-
tributed to it by some critics.
THE AMENDMENTS TO THE
Agricultural Marketing Act of 1937
(1) expand the coverage of this
Act to additional commodities; (2)
remove present limitations on
area coverage of a marketing or-
der; (3) authorize individual pro-
ducer allotments and national or-
ders subject to consultation with
national farmer advisory commit-
tees, approval by the President
and Congress, and subsequent to
Congressional action, producer ap-
proval in a referendum; and (4)
other provisions tor wider latitude
in the application of marketing or-
ders.
Marketing orders are a means
to the establishing of a “do-it-your-
self” approach for producers in
managing supply and in strength-
ening bargaining power as it re-
lates to price and income. These
orders have made it possible for
thousands of independent opera-
tors in milk and in a number of
fruit and vegetable commodities to
organize and to regulate them-
selves to bring stability and or-
derly marketing conditions to their
farm operations
In respect to the establishment
of marketing orders (Subtitle B),
the myth has been circulated that
marketing order programs would
regiment farmers under brutal
government controls. This was the
case in Wisconsin a year ago when
eleven farm organizations support-
ed enabling legislation to permit
farmers to establish state market-
ing order programs. The scare-
words of the opposing minority
narrowly defeated the measure de-
spite the wide support farmers
gave the proposed legislation.
The expansion of coverage of
marketing orders gives greater
flexibility in the Agricultural Mar-
keting Act and would provide far-
mers with another tool for the de-
velopment of economically sound
marketing programs.
Under the Subtitle, farmers
would develop their programs
through advisory committees and
vote democratically, by commodi-
ty groups, to decide upon use.
In the case of national orders,
or orders involving quotas. Con-
gress would review the program
prior to submission to producer
referendum.
SUBTITLE C OF THE BILL.
dealing with marketing quotas, is
in our opinion one of the most vi-
tal sections of the bill. This por-
tion of the measure spells out the
principal mechanism to be avail-
able for managing farm produc-
tion. Yet the myth persists that
farmers want nothing to do with
allotments and quotas.
Wheat, cotton, peanut, rice and
tobacco growers have repeatedly
voted for quotas in producer re-
ferendums. Dairy farmers in the
Pure Milk Association, which sup-
plies 90 per cent of the milk going
into the huge Chicago milk shed,
recently agreed overwhelmingly to
accept’ marketing quotas.
Farmers realize that they can-
not have both fair prices and un-
limited production. Given reason-
ably alternatives, such as the feed
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grain program offers, farmers can
be counted upon to tailor their
supply to existing demand. False
slogans such as “freedom to plant’
have fallen with a dull thud on
the nation’s farm lands.
It is, we believe, the intent pf
the drafters of this comprehensive
measure that a system of national
marketing orders will produce the
desirable price and income effects
to raise farm income substantially
closer to that enjoyed by the non-
farm segment of the economy.
Subtitle D, "Price Stabilization,”
makes it clear, however, that the
present program of price supports
will be retained and enlarged to
insure farmers greater income pro-
tection.
A USDA STUDY RELEASED
last year substantiates this view.
The study shows that if price sup-
ports and production limitatkms
were removed, farm prices, with
the 1959 level as a base, by 1965
would drop 50 per cent for wheat,
34 per cent for oats and cotton, 28
per cent for corn, 24 per cent for
cattle, 23 per cent for hogs, 16
per cent for eggs and 12 per cent
for depths of the ’30s. No thinking
farmer wants this.
Another myth ir the making is
that Congress, under this bill will
delegate its powers over farm leg-
islation to the Executive Branch of
the government. The presence in
the measure of Subtitle E, "Con-
gressional Review,” we believe dis
proves this contention. The fact
that farm programs will not origi-
nate in the agriculture committees
of either House will not detract
from an objective study of any
farm proposal or discourage de-
bate. The veto power retained by
Congress will be an effective check
on the Executive Branch.
The farm programs that are fi-
nally approve^ .qnder this, new ap-
proach will, if anything, have had
closer Congressional scrutiny than
is sometimes the case now. The
bill relieves Congress of much of-
the tedious research and paper
work without in any way weaken-
ing the representative process.
Farm Facts
It haa been aald that a
modern aupermarket stock*
food from each of the 90
■talei, Puerto Rico, and the
Virgin Islands.
Wherever we live, we de-
pend on farms and ranchea
from other aectiona, provid-
ing an Important market for
their producta.
Farms in the nine North-
eastern states contain only
6/10 of an acre of crop and
pasture land per capita, aa
compared with the national
average of $.2 acres.
These are the states of
Connecticut, Maine, Massa-
chusetts, New Hampshire,
New Jersey, New York,
Pennsylvania, Rhode Island,
and Vermont.
People in these states con-
sume 27% of the nation's
meat, vegetables, fruits, and
nuts, and 26% of- the poul-
try, eggs, and dairy producta.
They produce only 8% of the
meat, 15% of the vegetables
and melons, 10% of the fruits
and nuts, and about 20% of
the poultry, eggs, and dairy
products.
They provide a market for
the 12 North Central states
which produce more than
fiffllBa modem super-
market you can
find fcod from the 50
states.
they can use. The North Cen-
tral states produce 63% of
the meat, 85% of the poultry
and eggs, and 44% of the
dairy products, while consum-
ing 33%, 80%, and 34%, re-
spectively.
Cryogenics is the science deal-
ing with temperatures below 300
degrees Fahrenheit. The name
comes from a Greek word mean-
ing “icy cold.”
BECAUSE OF TRANSPORTATION
Cattle theft is rated
as big problem today
HELENA, Montana — A Texas
and Southwestern Cattle Raisers
Association inspector told Western
Law Enforcement Officers and At-
torney Generals, meeting here
May 4-6 for their annual con •
ference, that apprehending and
convicting cattle thieves is one
of the primary problems confront-
ing the cattleman today.
J. T. Hamby of DeKalb, Texas,
explained that modem transport-
ation methods, tranquilizer pellets,
and “s hade tree butchering
places” have mi.de the cattle
thieves’ job both more easy and
more simple. “This means that
the man whose job it is to catch
these thieves is much more com-
plex than in years past,” Hamby
said.
Hamby is one of 31 TSCRA
field inspectors located ir. Texas
and Oklahoma, and he cited a
number of actual cases where
thieves had been apprehended
through the cooperation of these
inspectors with local law enforce-
ment agencies.
“This requires not only a
thorough knowledge of cattle, but
a working knowledge of modern
crime detecting techniques,” Ham-
by emphasized. “In convicting the
thieves, nothing is more import-
ant than the animal carrying a
brand because this offers positive
identification of ownership which
will stand up >n court.”
Hamby said that membership in
a cattleman's association also of-
fered considerable protection for
the individual cattleman. "In the
Texas and Southwestern Cattle
Raisers Association, we not only
have men who help apprehend the
thieves, but also have an attorney
who is available at all times to
help local prosecutors in wbrkfllg
up the theft cases. The Association
also leases signs which serve as
a warning to any thief,” Hamby
said, “and most of the thieves I
have talked with said that they
try to skirt those ranches which
have these signs posted.”
Agriculture in Texas has pulled off
its own quiet, varied revolutions
Bv STUART McGREGOR
Diversification was the shib -
boleth of progressive farmers and
agriculturists in Texas during a
full generation ir the early part
of this centurv, and it is not an
unknown word today. We have
achieved diversification of produc-
tion of both crops and livestock
products, but Texas agriculture
has undergone a more revolution-
ary and helpful development —
and without much agitation on be-
half of it. It has redistributed it-
way that it is much better adapt-
ed to natural soil and climatic
conditions. As a result, the char-
acter of agriculture in nearly
every part of Texas has under-
gone a radical change.
these counties each produced more
than 100.006 bales. About 30 coun-
ties on the South High Plains, in
the Pecos Valley, the Lower Rio
Grande Valley and the Coastal
Plain near Corpus Christi produc-
ed nearly two third:; of the state’s
crop. The cotton-production map
of Texas has completely changed
in 15 years.
Another sensational development
has been the increase in grain
sorghum acreage. Introduced into
the United States from semiarid
areas of South Africa and Asia
not many years ago. it has flour-
ished in Texas as in no other
state. It is now Texas' leading
crop in acreage and the second-
This applies to the greatest of J ranking crop in value, exceeded
Texas crops — cotton — which by only cotton. It grows well in
has been the leader in annual pro-
duction values for a century. Not
many years ago the Blackland
Belt regularly produced half of the
Texas cotton crop with William-
son or Ellis County usually lead-
most parts of the state, but heav-
iest production comes from the
High Plains and the Costal Plain
near Corpus Christi where there
is a plant producing — from grain
sorghums — starch dextrins, su-
muda alone.
The introduction of foreign grass-
es from the semiarid areas of
Western Asia, Scuth Africa and
Central America has been a sen-
sational development that has
greatly aided the development of
Texas agriculture. The most im-
portant of these grasses has been
Castal Bermuda, but other for-
eign grasses, including Dallis
grass, blue panic and buffel, are
widely grown.
They support a much larger
livestock population for any given
area than the nativq grasses
Grown principally in the eastern
half of the state where the rainfall
is greater, they have encouraged
the shift of cattle raising from
west to east, the principal shift
to natural conditions.
ing the state with a production of i gar and syrup formerly produced
rrtfire than 100,000 bales each. In [largely from corn.
1960, 28 leading Blackland Belli -
countries produced only one fourth j While millions ot acres of grass-
of the Texas cotton crop and there j land in some parts of the state
was not a single Blackland coun- j have been plowed to produce
ty among the state's 10 leading crops, millions of acres in other
producers. [areas have been converted from
Eighteen"'counties on the South [ cultivated land into grasslands.
High Plains produced almost half More than half a million acres
of the state’s cotton crop. Six of have been planted in Coastal Ber-
Florldan it deported
MEXICO CITY (AP) - Dale
Fish of Gainesville, Fla., has
been ordered deported foi falsify-
ing checks. The Interior Ministry
said he had forged checks valued
at thousands of collars.
Mexican generals to visit
SAN ANTONIO (AP) - Eight
Mexican generals will visit army
installations in Texas and Okla-
homa next week as guests of Lt.
Gen. Donald Booth, commander
of the 4th Army.
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Lavalland, Texas
Heavy grain appeals
keep ASC office busy
Heavy appeals on yield assign-
ments under the new emergency
feed grains program are keeping
the ASC county committee in ses-
sion every day.
J. W Evans, office manager for
the ASC here, said that farmers
have been “stacked like sardines”
every day at the local office.
The rush of appeals has appar-
ently been touched off by a ruling
permitting farmers to use eleva-
tor receipts to prove their produc-
tion to be greater than the produc-
tion figure assigned by the county
committee.
Evans says farmers are also
bringing in notorized appeals, and
the county committee is accepting
them.
BEEF SURVEY
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) - For
about five years now, Ohio State
University has been conducting
research with roast beef.
Home economists are trying to
determine how various sizes of
roast and cooking temperatures
affect yield, tenderness, flavor
and preparation time.
Miss LeVelle Wood, project lead-
er, says the information will be
important to restaurants, hospitals
other food service operations in-
terested in using less expensive
cuts of meat while maintaining
good quality.
He says that if the farmers can
prove their production, it is pos-
sible that the county will receive
and even larger production as-
signment than originally.
He pointed out, however, that
some of the farmers have brought
in their proof and found it to be
smaller than the yields assigned
by the county.
One of the reasons for the stack-
up in the local office is the num-
ber of times farmers have visited
the local office. “I think some of
them have been in three or tour
times,” Evans says'.
The appeals will he closed out
on May 12, while farmers have
until near the end of the month
to sign up for compliance.
“I think there will be a he ,vy
signup,” Evans says. "A big ma-
jority of them arc complying,
while the rest are considering it.”
Members of the county commit-
tee are C. D. Bond of Ropesville;
Otis Wiley and Drew Bowman,
both of the Levelland area.
The famous Orient Express has
discontinued service to Budapest
and Bucharest for lack of busi-
ness.
Much cotton, feed
already in ground
Hockley County farmers are a-
round 75 to 80 per cent through
with their planting of crops this
season — at least the first time
around.
This was the estimate made Fri-
day by County Agent Bill Taylor,
who also says thai probably 10 per
cent of the cotton is up at the pre-
sent time, despite cold weather this
past week which delayed germina-
tion and growth.
Heaviest planting has been done
north and northeast of Levelland.
In the Anton area, planting is esti-
mated at 95 per cent completed.
Planting has also been heavy in
the Ropesville area.
A lot of grain sorghum went into
the ground in mid-April, while
some farmers will wait until the
last of June- to plant their late
feed.
The county has a good subsoil
moisture, but surface moisture has
been a problem in some areas of
the county, and blowing dust has
kept farmers in the dryer area*
out of the field.
Taylor figures that the late
planters will have finished the last
of the planting, barring weather
interference, by the end of next
week.
Tha outstanding area farmers
Hava already taken delivery
an Dekalb sorghum saad.
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Gerald Re of re
Pool (Ml
W. B. RoMiftt
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Joe I. Gamer
I. C. Hamilton*
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r. E. Roleff
T. J. Ballard
L. D. Bur|e»*
Cay Phillips. Jr.
It. M. Miller
Ervin Gilliam
T. E. Barton
D. M. Tlpps
r. L. Kbit
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Wiliam Clements
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T. H. Kimbrough
Georg a Llgoa
G. H. Aims
W. D. A to hi '
Paul Christian
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R. L. Heard
Gay Hleks
E. D. Patterson
R. E. Rullln
L. L. Hood
T. Richardson
E. E. Hale
V. A. Wright
Roy M. Bland
James R. Brown
A. A. Richardson
E. L. Bn ant
C. E. Myall
Billy Ray Ta>lor
'“•“■'Mllen Johnson
Gayta Blair
L. L. Hood
E. O. So hoe n rock
Albert Legate
lohn Dukatnlk
Lewis Barry
ferry McMIlllan
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C. C. Cooks ton
Ann* Hoover
J. B. Neal
Hayden Blair
D. C. Thrash
Boh Aweeney
N. L. Relnsrh
E. E. Pair
J. O. Rogers. Jr.
W. B. Gage A Aon
J. G . Morrow
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B. D. Whitley
J. L. Wald An
W. L .Savage
Willie J. Ivey
A. M. Armstrong
Boh Hodge
L. I.. Hood
A. M. Tone
Bart Eads
Paul Esch
Joe Wade
E. J. French. St
Barney Arnold
E. B. BamlsfnltB
Roy Johnson
Jack McMIlllan
Glen Shirley
C. P. Aran In#
8. A. Richardson
Joe Ray Cookstoa
J. B. Hope
J. B. Craw-ford
Jack Sherrod
Alton Pence
Henry Storrh
lorry Rofeff
R. L. Heard
R. L. Strickland
Marvin Atroepe
Robert Hill. Jr.
J. L. Brawn
B. D. Miller
R. E. Bnlltn
A. H. Epperson
MUton Her!
H. E. Crawford
P. L. Johnson
H. E. While
Paul Christian
John Rlster
J. D. Parham
Charles Roloff
Rev Willis
Buddy Miller
V.. F. Schoenrocl
J. J. 1 ox so rli
I. J. Duff
J. B. Neal
Bert Atockard
Jmmle Cox
Roy Cox
Travis Jennings
Jim McDaniel
Everett Simpson
Herbert Welch
Hubert Searcy
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