Show ACROSS THE COUNTY AGENTS DESK new Serui Se cuilty ity for farmers farm families will face less money problems to in old age or in the breadwinners bread winners death in the future than they have in the past A now new law brings them under the federal old aze age and survivors insurance usually called social security starting on jan 1 1955 farm operators and employed emp loyes NN will contribute a small part of their income toward building a fund that will make such payments as possible a farmer dies leaving a wile wife and two children if at he I lias ilas las been averaging a month income his family will get a month if a farmer fanner who has been earning about a month reaches the age of 65 he and his wife will get a month besides monthly payments tor for survivors they will i receive a lump sum death payment on an insured person ranging from 90 to ya farm workers are covered under the now new law if they earn as much as from the same farmer farm operators eari earning ang or more in a year are included for employed emp loyes es the employer contributes 2 percent ul ui total wages paid and he wit withholds 2 percent ot of the workers pay this 4 percent Is sent to the director of Intern internal pl F revenue te venue amount paid by self employed farmers is 3 percent which he himself pays to director of internal revenue when he pays his income tax early in the spring since coverage start until 1955 such farmers will not pay into social security until early in 1956 further information bout about a new farm coverage under social security Is available from the nearest social security office social security cards which are necessary for all covered agricultural workers are also available there 3 avoid beet beef losses two way profits are in store tor for stockmen stoc kmen who supplement range cattle diets with protein and phosphorus in august and september first they keep cattle gaming gaining during the fall when range cattle usually lose weight and second they provide a basis for future increased production this fall weight loss is caused by a decided decrease during august in the protein and phosphorus content oi of range plants supplemental feeding will keep the cattle gaining A U S department of agriculture bulletin no shows what happened with range cattle when phosphorus was supplied three methods of feeding the phosphorus were used 1 I 1 it was applied to pastures as treble super phosphate fertilizer 2 it was fed in the drinking water as dis phosphate and 3 bone meal was fed in self feeders A group of animals called calico check group was led fed on extra phosphorus so their progress could be compared with the group being fed edua phosphorus results were conclusive cows on test weighed pounds more at calf weaning time and their calves averaged about out 44 pounds heavley than those in the check group over a a four year period the test cows averaged pounds of eel calf f per year against pounds for the check group in the fourth year the average calf crop of weaned calves was 88 percent for the chorus fed group a drop from 91 percent the first year the check group fell from atom 86 percent the first year to 22 percent the fourth year and averaged 64 percent tor for the test the test cows settled quicker average calving date dale for the three groups was january 20 as compier Com with july 24 tor for the check cows the cows getting phosphorus averaged only days between calv ings while the other group averaged phosphorus fed the year around yielded rich returns in this test protein supplements fed at strategic times also pay big dividends in weight and conditions of cattle |