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Show THE RICH COUNTY REAPER, RANDOLPH, UTAH rHE RICH COUNTY REAPER Benefits of Social Security Could Be Extended fo Farm Owners and Their Employees, Officials Say entered c second class matter Feb. 8, 1929 Act of March 3, 1S79, At (lie Post Office, Randolph. Utah, under tb Wm. E. Marshall, Jlii'inemi Manager SUBSCRIPTION $1.50 Per Year in Advancn I ayton Marshall, Editor end Proprietor Soil Conservation Steps Up Yield 21 demands for maintenance of fertility, repairs, buying machinery and livestock, and so on, all require cash, and there is often little left at the years end to build up a retirement fund. Often, when the farm operator has to quit work, his and may Wages today are high, and family t0is in difficultonstraits, aid or Public dePend jobs plentiful, and there is a Jjj ready market for all farm prod- - The tenant farmer and the farm uce and manufactured goods. laborer generally are in worse people probably realize, cumstances than the man who owns however, that the present pros-- 1 his land, once they have to quit perity is a result of the war, and working. With little or no savings, that a downturn is almost cer- - the tenant and the farm hand who tain to come with peace. There can?ot earn anything are soon hard may be no depression, at least P ind!ed- - heJ and jheir fammes I Looming large among factors contributing to the American farmers' record production job on food and fiber for war is the notable increase shown in acre yields of vital crops. Per acre yields of major crops during the years 1934-4- 3 were 11.8 per cent greater than yields in the practices decade of 1923-3according to government figures. In the period 1937-4the seven years during which conservation practices have been carried out as a part of the Agricultural Adjustment agencys program, crop yields per acre averaged 21.2 per cent above the 1923-3- 2 figure. Yields in 1943 were higher than in any year since 1923, except for the phenomenal 1942 acre yield which was 36 per cent above the average for the earlier decade. Comparison of acreage and total production figures shows that while total acreage in 1937-4- 3 was about 8 per cent smaller than the 1923-3- 2 average, total agricultural output increased 14.5 per cent. The increased yields since 1937, due primarily to the employment of conservation practices, have been responsible for this high output figure from a smaller acreage. The 1944 AAA conservation program, emphasizing practices that will immediately increase yields, seeks expansion of the use of lime, phosphate and other fertilizers, promotion of legume, hay and grass seed harvest, continuance of erosion control and water conservation measures and expansion of range and pasture practices. With increased needs for food and fiber expected in 1945, when most of this years crop will be consumed, U. S. farmers are looking to the Agricultural Conservation program, to maintain the lands productivity for the current crop while protecting its fertility for future plantings. 2, 3, I may, I want it r)IEsaidwhen of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow. Abraham Lincoln. Hope is the mainspring of efficiency; complacency is its rust. David Lloyd George. - Big Advance Was Made in Last Decade Gems of Thought Don't worry and fret, cir-Mo-st A happy marriage is a long conversation that always seems too short. Andre Maurois. MEXSANA not for several years! but the sufto &T Zfmade a present very high level of activ- - Thc ity is not likely to be main- great difference in the farmers situtained ation. The incomes of many are But in any case, there comes a double, in some cases treble, what 7Se faint-hearte- The chances have just begun For the best jobs haven't been started, The best work hasn't been done . BERTON BRAILEY IhS SOOTHING MEDICATED POWDER Many men are able to work even in old age, like this sturdy Florida farmer. He knows, nevertheless, that he will have to quit in a few Fish in Desert or maybe much sooner. If he years, Water time in everyones life when he has they were before. But the war and could from wells 300 feet deep anticipate a regular flow of have to slow down. Whatever stage the perhaps our present fish to the surface of is brought Social Security checks he could face prosperity business cycle is in, those who temporary. the Sahara desert. It is presumed the future with much less concern. are unable to work get no income. Farm people were left out of the they have traveled through underEveryone who has to make his own social insurance program not be- to the federal government. Together ground streams. living must be somewhat concerned cause they were thought to be al- with the money he sends a report about the future. ready secure. The reason for ex- of the amount of wages paid the A very large group of wage and cluding them was that in 1935 the worker, to be duly entered in his salary earners have found a partial program was new and the adminis- social security account in Baltianswer to these troublesome ques- trative hurdles looked very high. more, Md. On the basis of these tions. They are the workers in pri- But now the Social Security board wage records, the insurance benevate industry and commerce, those is convinced that e and sur- fits are figured. in covered employment, vivors insurance can be adminisFarmers Could be Protected. to whom the e and survivors tered for farm people simply, at Could the system be applied to aid OiUr Siim insurance program of the Social low cost, and without being unduly farm people? Farmers are scattered Heralds Male Kings Quartet Security act applies. These workers troublesome to them, over a very wide area. Could the aiMt CwmpwAwe Cmtmi FREE! are building up rights to monthly What would it mean to farm premiums be collected without the JUNMI NMUI fOnvGUBt J CSUUM insurance payments when they grow operators and farm hands to have costs of administration unmounting KUTA KOVO KEUB old and retire, and for their famithis insurance? It would mean the high, considering the small KVNTT XLO KIDO KTFX lies, when death comes to the bread- same protection it means already duly amounts in? And how would XOB XOH XSEI winner. to those who are under the system. farmers paid out what their preHowspaper Legs Show Other Stations Others, not so fortunate, look A couple of examples will illustrate miums figureto that lots ought be, seeing IBOXI5 VLOS7ANGE LESI 538 CALIF.I upon the group that has social insur- - the protection e and survivors of them dont keep any books? insurance offers. vr y n The Social board is conBack in 1936, when Harry J. was fident that theSecurity e extension of the nearly 60, he got himself a job with and survivors insurance system a construction company. After eight to farm people is now feasible. Ways years, he wanted to stop working have been devised to overcome the and retire to his small place in the difficulties. ABOUT country. He hadnt felt he could do As a basis for determining farmso, however, because he wasnt sure ers social insurance premiums, the he could earn a living from farmare they reports already making to ing his few acres. Upon inquiry he the government for income tax and found that his monthly retirement other can be used. For the purposes payment would be about $27, since farmer who he had earned an average of $108 a income tax is not required to file returns, would figure his Latest government figures month. His wife, who was also pas income on the basis of the estimated show that 80 per cent of the 65, would get half .that much; so market value of his services. In nation's war workers travel that would make the family income to and frbm their war jobs by doing this he could guide himself by over $40 every month, sufficient for the automobile. Still an important received his wages by highest their needs. reason why available tires paid farm hand. If he employs no have to be distributed cauWidow Got $79 a Month. labor, the monthly wage rate for tiously. Mr. C. was a newspaper linotype farm labor in his locality would machine operator and had always serve. B. F. Goodrich has created and Is Young and strong, this Maryland earned high Farmers could pay their prewages. He hoped to give now beginning to produce an imfarmer shouldnt need retirement all five children a good education. miums at times most convenient for proved synthetic benefit payments for many years The two elder ones were attending themselves. Some rubber, the details of which must might find it conunless sickness or an accident the remain confidentia I until after the university. Suddenly Mr. C. got venient to pay a lump sum annually, should incapacitate him. But the war. Introduction of a certain and died within a week and others might prefer to pay in pneumonia time will come when he will be too abundant natural material has deThe widow was left with three four annual quarterly installments. old to work. During his good a synthetic rubber that veloped children still at school and no inyears, farmers could pay their he should have a chance to accunatural rubber In approaches come save what Mary and Jean premiums in social insurance characteristics during processing mulate a retirement fund through could earn by leaving school and stamps if they chose. They would and has proven superior In large Social Security. His family too, She went to the Social buy these taking truck jobs. tires. and them currently put should be protected under the surSecurity field office, thinking that in a social security stamp book vivors benefit .provisions. Under perhaps there would be a small which could be turned in from time present provisions, however, the lump sum going to her, to time as payment toward their probably farm family is excluded from the no more than a couple of hundred premiums. system. dollars. She was amazed to learn Collections Through Stamps. ance protection somewhat enviously. that she was entitled to monthly For farm help, the stamp method The Social Security board receives payments for herself and the three might be best, the board thinks. The children! She younger received farmer could many letters from the buy social insurance -p- rofessional people, small busistamps from any post office or rural ness men, gas station letter carrier, and insert them in operators, restaurant keepers, operators the stamp books furnished him by of cleaning and pressing shops, of his workers when he paid their beauty parlors, and so on, wanting Half the cost of the stamps wages. to know why they cant e would be deducted from the worget RSt protection. They pay premiums for kers wages as his social security pretheir employees insurance, but mium. When the workers book was themselves cannot build up rights to or at the end of its full, period of benefits. Why this discriminavalidity, he would bring or mail it tion? they ask. We have no more to any office of the board so that security than our employees. it could be added to his record. Few From Farmers. With the stamp system the Invest in Liberty Very seldom among these letters small farmer would find it unnecfrom the is there one essary to keep books or file reports Buy War Bonds from a farmer. Yet farmers have about the wages of his paid help. On fully as much reason to seek social the large farm the stamp method insurance protection as others of A midwestern farmer smiles with could be used for temporary or the The notion that casual workers not carried on the farmers are an independent and satisfaction as he reads the figures on a check received for his regular pay roll. Wages paid in the group is no longer Agricultural income is nowproduce. of room and board and form two to the true. It is a hangover from earlier like be included in the workthree might times 1939 the but this level, when times, most farms were situation wont last, econo- er s total wage, and the value set Today farmers are much happy on them could be based on data more vulnerable. They have to buy mists warn. Unless this middle-age- d and published from time man gathered is ( Underarm Perspiration Odor) fortunate, however, his to more and sell more; operating savings will dwindle away, and he time by the department of agricosts are higher, and falling prices will face old age without culture. often mean serious losses. security. Farm people have every claim to Then too, sections differ as to about $79 amonth under the be included under the e e and agricultural prosperity. North and and survivors insurance survivors insurance program. Their i & south, west and middle-weare Mrs. C. is one of 765,000program! V claim is all persons the because stronger widely unlike, while in each there workers 65, their aged wives, many of them are already partly are plenty of spots that present a widows, past and children and depend- under the system. In the wintertime quite different picture from the rest. ent parents who today are receiv- or in other In 1939, the last year before the for farm ing monthly payments on account of work, many farm war boom, nearly lf work in people e of the and survivors insurance. To industry and pay farm operators in the country had date the on sopremiums DE0D0RAOT CREflm system has paid out nearly cial insurance. In a a gross annual money income their lifetime, half a billion dollars. yield isnt stiff or atickyl Soft it payments amount to substantial (allowing for food consumed the The mechanics of e and sur- sums. And yet very few Spreads like face cream. farm family) of less than $600;by ever people vivors insurance are simple. Every get benefits is actually soothing! Use right because they dont work had less than $1,000, and 89 pay in worker day every a after shaving will not irritate, covered in covered per cent had under $2,500. employment long enough pays, under present rates, 1 per or often has light, pleasant seen t.No sickly It is difficult for farm owners to job enough to qualify for the cent of his wages as a premium on smell to cling to fingers or clothing, save much out of these small cash his monthly The payments. inclusion of e and survivors insurance. farm will not spoil delicate fabrics. mcomes. Even a farmer with an under the program This is deducted from his pay by would people at once net both income Yet average of $2,000 a tests in the tropics made by nurses rectify the infmds it hard to put much asideyear his employer, who pays an equal justice to these workers that Yodora protects under tryprove and for sum. Four plug times a year the em- a big gap in the social old age or misfortune. The constant ing conditions. In tubes or tors, 10c, 25c, 60c. security ployer sends both contributions in program. A kobbrni, Inc Conn. 1 old-ag- so-call- ed old-ag- MUTUAL SYSTEM STANON old-ag- v . Vk iviin vif ijivnr n irr n ijijjnn jun old-ag- SNAPPY FACTS RUBBER general-purpo- se Low-inco- K It also keeps reminding me to meet my production goals. Fertilizing Tomatoes Nearly Doubles Crop Two research men of the soils department at the University of Wisconsin, found that tomatoes need a lot of fertilizer and pay a on it, even on land that big profit already is quite fertile. They report that compared with unfertilized tomatoes the best treatment increased yields enough to net $244 extra to the acre above cost. This was on the basis of the 1943 cannery price; these tomatoes were sold actually on the Milwaukee market at a higher price an. greater return for the fertilizer. Most profitable of the fertilizer programs tested was a broadcast fer-tiliz- application to the acre of 500 pounds pounds 500 row- - er at the be a fertilizer cost of $20.80 to the acre, this treatment increased yields by 69 per cent. Row applications alone were not able to bring out top yields and were less profitable on the acre basis. The fertilizer which was broadcast gave just as good results as more expensive formulas containing larger amounts of either nitrogen or phosphorus. These results were secured on a Miami silt loam soil which contains medium to high amounts of phosphorus, a fair amount of potassium, plenty of boron and has a reaction ranging from just below neutral to slightly alkaline. The variety of tomatoes grown was a rather late one named J. T. D. 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