Show efad M gj british laborites labovites Lab orites propose drastic dra F farm arm regulation by news analyst and commentator service 1618 eye street N V W washington D 0 washington one by one brit bin ain Is nationalizing her basic indus t ties les what about farming agriculture was britaina Brit ains largest indin industry artry right up to 1039 1939 but before the war britain r f produced pd I 1 less e s s than a 0 third of the food and teed feed the islands con burned by 1043 1943 they were producing 70 per cent of the wartime rations for their own people plus the allied armies and refugees within their borders government control cont was dut but it it worked and the british with their socialist government do not intend to let it islip clip back if regulation can stop it to that end n bill Is now before par diament which would bring the american farmer down to washington with a pitchfork in each cacti hand the two pillars of the now gov crement polley policy ore are stability and ef fici fl clency ency 11 The agriculture bill would create stability by guaranteeing prices it provides 1 that the prices and other market factors of wheat barley oats rye potatoes and sugar beets be fixed in the year before these crops are arc to be harvested 2 prices and other factors effecting fat stock mm milk and eggs to be announced for a period of one year and also minimum price sand other conditions including quantities for a further period of two years consequently the producer v u 5 A george casily casely Is one of the farm ere era who has increased hla his production on 60 50 acres in devon england En cland with daughter sylvia he Is pitch ing hay of fat stock milk mft and essa eggs will know actual prices and other conditions of sale a year in advance and minimum prices and conditions which include ony any quantitative limitations for two years ahead there is planning and regulation for youl stability however says brit agns minister of agriculture Is not enough and then he goes after effle efficiency lency with toot foot horse and guns two requisites tor for efficiency are promotion of research into farming problem sand an organization which will provide the individual farmer with technical advice very good the united states government does a pretty good job on that score the point is what does docs the british government ask ash ln liv return for what it intends to offer both the farmer and the landowner have parts to play it says end and points out that the rules of good husbandry require the former farmer to maintain his holding at a reason able standard of efficient production bearing in mind cleanliness of the land maintenance of fertility and freedom from disease and pests the rules of good estate maii manago age i ment require the landowner to maintain his estate with adequate buildings drainage ditches and hedges so that the occupier con can be an ef ct i producer and that Is not merely suggested in the bill it Is required the farmer eror or the landowner will live up to of these conditions or he will lose his land the first step against on an of I tender fender Is to place them under for fori ori or i i mal supervision otter they hove have had a chance to state their case the next will be to issue instructions as to what Is to be done again giving the offender the opportunity to state his case it the offender Tender of is a landowner ap na 1 tha th tv expense of carrying out the orders e exceeds x ceede the annual rent of the land he e can appeal to the agricultural land tribunal the third step would be dl dispossession in 12 months or sooner oo 00 er A landowner would have to submit a forced sale a landowner occupier might be forced to rent to an op ap proved tenant a tenants tenancy would bo be terminated the low law end there it deals with the past and the future as well as the present experiments will be made to adjust farm boundaries made many hundreds of years ago and the intent is to prevent the splitting up of farms into uneconomic divisions stability efficiency liberty mystery of the whooping crane As a whooping crane detective I 1 am not worth a whoop this per haps is natural since I 1 have no credentials denti dent als lais as a naturalist but in the course of leading the fish and wild life service on an a wild crane chase has I 1 encountered some interesting facts this Is the story while I 1 was in florida I 1 heard some convincing descriptions ot of whooping cranes said to bo be found on a nearby plantation I 1 know knew the tha whooping crano crand rapidly was becoming extinct and I 1 had no never VC r h heard ea rd of any of them having been seen se C n in florida so when I 1 returned to washington I 1 immediately communicated my discovery to mr lincoln ornithologist of tile tho fish and wild life service of the department of the interior lie he was very ve ry polite and patient and even agreed to ask mr belsey one of 0 the departments representatives to interview my wife who was still in flodda Flor dOi as to the reports leports which she had firsthand first hand it long before I 1 heard from my wife chatas that as a result of further consultation with the audubon bird bonk find and a very conversation with kelsey there was unanimous u agreement nt that the cranes were not whoppers pers but must bo be sandhills sand hills its on an old story to the service but they take no chances and run down all clues cities E even ven it the only proof the discoverer lias has Is the earnest insistence si stence that was a w alil earie wane because ind hp him him 9 part of the reason for those these me meticulous tic inquiries Is that the service I 1 Is S at present conducting a n survey in hope of locating the nesting place of the whooping cranes this spot never has been found but it almost certainly Is somewhere in canada lincoln doubts that there are more than 50 of these birds alive toda although there ore are records showing that ahat the skies over the western plains once were darkened by the flights of hundreds even thousands of them it if like the passenger pigeon they disappear entirely north A merica america will have lost its tall est as well a as s one of its most beautiful birds the whooping crane stands over four feet tall has a wingspread of seven feet and lies flies with neck and logs legs out straight it has white plumage except for black tips on the wings has black logs legs a and nd yellow bill and a bare red crown A little less than two years ago national Matlon nl audubon society op ap pro preached ched ached tho the government and offered to furnish funds for the working out 0 of a n joint survey the purpose of which was to locate the breeding grounds and other points where the cranes gathered in order to Q orrange for their further krotec pi election the one place in the united states where cranes are arc known to pass their summers Is the national wild life refuge near corpus christi Chrls tl tex no nest ot of a whooping crano is known to have been seen within 20 years or perhaps lo longer tiger the birds have been observed passing over the dakotas manitoba and saskatchewan iche and it Is taken for granted that somewhere north of these points the nesting grounds are located none has been discovered although one government plane and a plane belonging to a collaborator 0 a collaborator lab orator la Is a person paid by some private institution but who is p permitted e r to use department of the interior facilities have down over many thousands thousand of square miles in this area every possible effort gitil hafl been made to locate the nest lor for it Is here that protection Is most important por tant |