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Show The Rambling Rhymster By LES PLETTNER SIZE We are awed by the size of the universe great; By its depth and its breadth and its height; By stars so far distant that years we mast wait Ere our eyes can at last see their light. ' Some say, "Of what import is wee little man, Who rides on a flicker of dust. . . In a void that's so endless and great No one can conceive of its reach and its thrust." And yet there Is nothing to daunt us in this, Whenever the question may rise; For in thought of man's value we will go amiss, If we measure him just by his size. Since nothing in space is so little or small That it could not be volumes more wee. And nothing's so big, so great or so taU That a million times greater 't could be. With a slight bit or thought It Is easy to sec. . . . That all is not in size and weight. The truth Is quite plain, that in infinity. . . The small is as great as the great. For mind, soul, and being count heavy, and most By them can man's value be told And they are more precious than Milky Way host Than worlds in the void that is cold. increases over the 1944 acreage suggested sug-gested on individual crops Include 52 per cent more acres of flaxseed, 47 per cent more sugar beets, 38 per cent more cover crop seeds, 16 per cent more tobacco (other than flue-cured and burley), 11 per cent more sugar-cane (except for syrup), 8 per cent more rye, and 8 per cent more hay seeds. Suggested decreases de-creases in acreage include 39 per cent fewer dry beans, 9 per cent less of truck crops grown for the fresh market, and 6 per cent less rice and sorghums (except those for syrup). Prices Remain Stable. Prices for agricultural commodities, commodi-ties, on the average, have remained re-mained stable for more than a year, it is pointed out by USDA, the maximum max-imum variation in the index of prices received by farmers being I only 2 per cent. A continuation of j this stability is anticipated for several sev-eral months. Lower prices for truck crops and minor grains were found ! to have been more than ofTset by higher prices for wheat, corn, cotton, cot-ton, hay and oilseeds. In most cases, according to the reports, these high- i er prices reflect the increase in gov- ! ernment price support levels from 1943 to 1944. Livestock and livestock products ( show a drop in the index of about 2 per cent since October, 1943, when it reached the highest point during this war. These changes in prices, according ac-cording to agricultural economists, reflect basic supply and demand conditions but do not reflect changes in farmers income due to increases in production payments, which are not included in computing the index. Meat prices, the USDA report continues, con-tinues, probably will continue at or near ceiling levels in most of 1945. It is expected that prices received by dairy farmers will decline less than seasonally during the months between December, 1944, and March, 1945, probably averaging about the same as a year earlier. Dairy farmers farm-ers may anticipate the highest level of returns ever reported for that period, pe-riod, because of a higher rate of dairy production payment during the next few months. This would result re-sult in milk and butterfat-feed price ratios being more favorable than other important livestock-feed price ratios. |