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Show .ARD COUNTY gents imn Kai ard county junior s very successful. , get to see the ady ing an excellent itch . ;rin were a little more t he Sv. 3 average fat beef lich e less than 3lc a iow ik ys an girls receiv" VA jrofit of more than n a W oject work. lj , f some criticism, Ige, p i'at animals known He 5 ne rin8 tnat were an(j ; liials. It would be a , it v -.f hose who want to ' J. ( wl w after it is over, . -! "j3l'te beginning and ''. f. T! ructive critisicm. lng Z xsSt f officers is held ned 7aViu ting in October- ,az" Al t0 take an lnter- his if, Sy ' Dys and girls the jh demand more low ' jV ffidful of fathers to rin A;dng-no A;dng-no J to VI f AND RODENT CONTROL not V v now is the time to start baiting for grasshopper control. Locate the young hoppers on the hatching ground and bait these places. It is not necessary to cover all of the farm. Remember no one knows if bait will be available this summer sum-mer when hoppers are doing the most damage. There is plenty of bait now. Let us kill all we can while they are small and we have time to do the job. Weevil dusting should start in most fields. They are doing considerable consid-erable damage. Cut worms can be controlled if instructions are followed. Don't use DDT on alfalfa fields unless you follow instructions given giv-en by entomologists or others who are qualified to give assistance. Poison grain for kangaroo rat control can be obtained at Shepherd's Shep-herd's Feed store in Delta. FEED SITUATION The present out-look for feed in the County is not too promising for the coming year. Farmers should sharpen their pencils and do a little lit-tle figuring as to whether they can best afford to cut livestock numbers or buy high priced feed. The out-look for hay since the frost on the east side of the County, Coun-ty, is not good. The frost has done some damage to the dry grain. Yields will not be as good as they appeared two weeks ago. If you can not grow enough feed to use yourself, through the coming winter, win-ter, it might be the wisest thing to get rid of part of the livestock numbers. Range livestock men should be giving some thought to supplemental supple-mental feed. Cotton cake and pellets pel-lets should be purchased as soon as possible. Don't wait until fall. Some farmers are going to face the decision of selling livestock or mortgaging property to see them through the winter. FARM SUBSIDIES Many farmers look upon the subsidy payments they are receiving receiv-ing as something worthwhile. How much thought they have really given to these things is very questionable. ques-tionable. How long the Federal Government can continue to dip into the Treasury to help buy food supply for it's citizens, is a vital question. Farmers above all, should give this some thought. The income of most workers has gone up much more than the cost of living. Today people are better able to pay for food than ever before in the history his-tory of our Country. Based on the amount of pay received per hour, a factory worker last year, was able to buy more food for an hour's work than at any time in our history. Expenditures for food in relation rela-tion to consumer incomes, are lower low-er today than they were before the war. The question most farmers should answer "Is there justification justifica-tion for continuation of consumer's subsidies?" Supply will be very slow to come into balance with demand de-mand as long as prices are maintained main-tained artifically low by paying part of the consumer's grocery bill. Farmers should realize that subsidy wasn't meant to help them as much as it was to hold the cost of food down. George Wornham George Whornham, County agent |