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ress Readies cfelalyNow AgSe Cons ft A Details Programs REAP Substitute 1, I f' I-H v. imww vis lit FWi'V! 1" i 3.1 I against offering the complete Butz package for a single Senate vote. The House agriculture committee's leaders, while promis. ing to give "full consideration" to the Butz proposal, acted yesterday to begin drafting their farm bill by using the Senate ig- riculture committee's new "tar. get price" plan as a starting point.

That plan calls for setting fixed target prices for gains and cotton in each of the five years beginning in 1974. If market prices fell below the target, the government would make up the difference with payments to growers. Administration-officials have-charged the plan could push costs to an average $5.2 billion annually over the five years. House supporters of the idea said costs would be low if markets are strong, but conceded some compromises may be needed. Under the Butz drafts, congressional sources said the income supplement portion of current farm payments would be eliminated immediately for feed See AGRICULTURE, Page WASHINGTON (UPI) Congressional farm leaders appear close to agreement on proposals to set up a new long term conservation and environmental protection subsidy program, coupling it with land treatment subsidies aimed at providing millions of acres in new or improved sanctuary for wildlife.

Part of the new program' has already been written Into an omnibus farm bill approved recently by the Senate agriculture committee and expected to reach the Senate floor in early June. The bill includes provisions under which farmers could be given payments to cover part of jifinstalUngl'wUdlife habitat" on acres idled, or "set aside" under crop support programs. In addition to this, however, members of a House agriculture subcommittee Thursday discussed adding a further section to the bill when their version is drafted soon. The additional section would authorize government payments to landowners installing approved conservation and similar measures under contracts running from three to 10 years. In some respects, backers of the plan say it would be a replacement for the $200 million a year Rural Environmental Assistance Program (REAP), covering annual conservation subsidies for Rural landowners, which President Nixon unilaterally shelved last December by freejjjjg all appropriated funds.

But the new plan, tailored to emphasize long-term conservation measures, anti-pollution protection and wildlife benefits, is designed backers say to avoid many of the criticisms aimedVat the annual conservation payments. A preliminary draft of the new house plan indicates it would work this way: FirsC an eligible landowner would develop a plan of farm operation or land use built around approved practices of soil conservation, preservation of wetlands, contribution to fTood control, improved wildlife habitat, or other measures. The soil conservation service could assist in developing detailed operating plans. Then, the landowner would contract with the agriculture department to carry out the ap- See CONGRESS, Page 8 Asioclated Pmi Wlrephot MAY CORN HARVEST ground is not yet broken and corn planting time is essentially past, millions of acres normally planted to corn will probably be planted to soybeans, which have recently hit all-time high prices. AD EL, Iowa William Martens, of near Adel, is one of many farmers who harvested their 1972 corn crop in May, 1973.

Like thousands of farmers, Martens was unable to get into his fields because of wet weather. Due to the fact By BERNARD BRENNER WASHINGTON (UPI) After months oMssuing new farm policy proposals only in general terms, Secretary Earl L. Butz has finally put his plans into detailed legislative drafts, according to government and congressional spokesmen. But officials said Butz's plan to phase out income supplement payments for major crops and to make other changes in current law including elimination of floors under wool and milk supports probably will not go to Congress in a single one-package bill. Instead, Rep.

Charles M. Tea- sue. predicted, the Butz proposals probably-wilt -bro ken inlo segments affecting individual commodities and sent to House agriculture subcom mittees, which next week will begin drafting separate sections of a new omnibus farm bill. In the Senate, where the agri culture committee already has rejected Butz's phase-out plan; government sources said individual sections of the Butz plan may be offered by sympathetic senators as substitutes when the issue reaches the Senate floor soon. One official said strate- gists currently are leaning predecessor, Clifford Hardin.

But remember one of these men is a former director and Hardin a current director of a big agribusiness corporation, Ralston Purina. They say huge farms are more efficient than small ones, but they are wrong, and virtually all studies made on the problem show they are wrong; show that the small, independent farmer is considerably more efficient. Then why are those corpol rations taking over the land of America? Why do they threaten to own or control, eventually, the bulk bT'America's farmland the source of all wealth? Because of the tax shelters that have been built into law by congresses they control and presidents they have been instrumental in electing. They get by on the lie that corporate farming defended by the present administration is more efficient. Michael J.

Perelman, econo Tie 'Little Man9 Burns While Congress Fiddles Tax Shelters Built Into Law Favor Corporations George remains valid: land is the basis, the source, of all wealth. Logically, taxation- all taxation might well be based on that theory. By a progressive system of taxation, those lands that grew in value should be taxed more and more com-mensurately to their growth. It didn't turn out that way. The railroad barons, the lumber barons, the oil barons and all the growing new wealth that followed took care of such matters.

C4 Bv FRANK FARMER And TOM A. ELUS Did you know that the St. Louis and San Francisco (Frisco) railroad owns or controls mineral rights to 1.5 million acres of land in the states of Texas, Arizona and New Mexico? Neither did we, until recently. Oddest of all, the Frisco has no railroad trackage in any one of those three slates. Reading of- this, we also learned that the Frisco, together with the Burlington Northern and the Southern Pacific railroads owns or controls mineral rights to an empire larger than the state of New Jersey.

How did it come about? If you are at all well read in American history, you may recall that our government gave generously of land to encourage the construction of railroads across a continent when this nation, still quite young, was in the process of opening to westward development. Why not give away that land? We were a young republic, land rich and dollar poor, recovering from a great Civil War that had bled America almost to death. But there were strings on those vast gifts: those railroads were charged by federal law to sell the land that was not needed for right-of-way to settlers at prices ranging from $1.25 to $2.50 an acre. Only the railroads were smart, confident they could get away with it. They didn't sell much of the land held onto it with the certain expectation that one day it would increase manifold in value.

After all, what was land to that young republic? If it ran short, all it had to was preempt more land the supply seemed unending. The only claimants were the Indians who could be either eradicated or subjugated in what were to become the greatest rural ghettos in history. A century ago, Henry George began to write books about the exploitation then tak ing place. His book, "Progress and Poverty," told what was being done, what was to come. His theory was that all wealth, regardless of-how come by or how refined, began with the land.

Therefore, he contended, all taxation ought to be based on the value and productivity of the land the "single tax theory," it was tagged. Henry George was not a trained economist, he was a printer; but his book captured the fancy of the world, in Europe as well as America, so that he became one of the most widely read of all American writers of all times. Not surprisingly, his theory, no matter how valid, was buried in the decades that followed: America was soon to adopt the fallacious theory of "manifest destiny" one of land acquisition promulgated in the days of President McKinley and used as a justification for many unholy and unjustified things that followed. Still, the theory of Henry pcrous, buys farms. So does fhe lawyer.

And so do the big corporations. Boeing Aircraft recently leased 100,000 acres of potato land in Oregon; one of the world's largest lettuce producers is would you believe it? Dow Cfttmical. A couple of corporation Tenneco and J.I. Case recently bought out the Kern County Land Company, with its 1.8 million acres in California. Other corporations buying land by millions of acres of course, you should know and recognize their intent are Kaiser Aluminum, Gulf and Western, Penn Central, Standard Oil of California, Getty Oil, Goodyear, Morisanto, Union Carbide, to name but a few.

All these corporations, each representing from -hundreds, of millions to billions in assets and wealth, are buying land, taking up corporate agriculture. Why? Because they are more efficient producers of food and fiber? Agriculture Secretary Earl Butz says yes; so does his -A 'J kZf Kh i 1 13 More Students Honored byMFA mist at the University of Califor-nia-Chico, not only disputes this, but he has offers a new method of determining efficiency a method that damns all American farming (mostly corporate farming) in its findings. Perelman bases his study on something highly pertinent today, the consumption of energy in producing our food and fiber. Remember now that, for the first time in our lives, we Americans are facing an energy crisis, are told that our sources of energy are nearing depletion and that we must conserve on what remains. According to Perelman's calculations, annually American farming now consumes the equivalent of 150 gallons of gasoline for every man, woman and child in the country.

And, according to Perelman's calculations, the farmer produces energy (food) which is equal to only 30 gallons of fuel each See GLEANINGS, Page D-S UPI TelepJut STEER? At Strafford 3 ml 1 Thirteen youngsters 8 girls and 5 boys graduating from Ozarks high schools this past week were named winners of the annual MFA Scholarship awards a grant of $200 to the college of the winner's choice. The scholarships are given each year by the MFA Foundation and the local exchange in each instance. The winners are announced at the com-mencements of their high schools. Winners, their parents names, major intended and schools of their choice were: Miss Sherry Lynn Crites, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.

Cle- land Edwards Crites, Conway, from Buffalo High School, will major in physical education at Southwest Missouri State University. Miss Deborah Loyis Pyland, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Rob ert Edwin Pyland, Route 8, Springfield, at Logan Rogers-ville High, to attend St. John's School of Nursing.

Miss7 Katherine Jean Lynch, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Wil From that day forward, the tax burden fell more and more inequitably on the little man the one ho owned little or no land, the man whs toiled daily for his barely-living wage. The landed barons got off easily; those without land fared worse and worse with the advancing years. Look about you today; where do the monied interests tie up their money? In the land.

The doctor, growing ever more pros- Springfield, May 27, 1973 liam Albert Lynch, Route 1, Fair Play, graduating1 from Stockton High, will majqr in psychology at SMSU. Mi- Linda Sue Hughes, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Dwain Hughes, Route 1, Greenfield, Greenfield High, to major in elementary education or physical education at Drury College. Miss Helen -Jo Hall, daughter of Mr.

and Mrs. Orville Lee Hall, Route 1, West Plains, West Plains High, to study secretarial science, Hardin College. Miss Margaret Jolene Morse, daughter of Alpha J. Morse, Ca-bool, Cabool "High, to take up secretarial science at Crowder Junior College. Miss Kim Adele Frazer, daughter of Mr.

and Mrs. Robert Harold Frazer, Route 10, Springfield, Fair Grove High, to major in education at Drury College, Miss Deborah Joy Keithley, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Henry Keithley, Route 1, Clever, from-Clever will study See STUDENTS, Page D-8 his leg, slashed cross marks over the bites and sucked out the venom. He said he hardly felt the cuts he induced, due to the immediate pain in his leg.

Cindy Hayes, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Rillis Hayes, was with him, and helped him drive into West Plains after he became ill. He was given several shots at West Plains Memorial Hospital. The snake apparently was a poisonous cottonmouth, a water-type snake.

i were lifted aboard the plane and arrived in "fine shape," Smith said. He declined to reveal the costs per head, but said "it is economically feasible." The next shipment -will include 330 head of 12-week old bull calves weighing about 270 pounds, but the 707 can hold up to 380. If and when the shipments increase in size, Smith said it will be possible to ship as many as 850 calves in the huge 747 jetli- Elmira, Ontario. The machine was demonstrated one day recently on the Otis Fulbright farm west of Republic. Open the doors, tilt the bed and turn on the power takeoff; in less than five minutes, a three-ton stack of hay is deposited from the Stack'n'Mover made by McKee Brothers, NATION'S BIGGEST Inheritance Tax NAMPA, Idaho This Brahma-Shorthorn tons," Miricle said.

Is be the biggest steer In cross steer, owned by Jack Miricle, left, of the U. Miricle thinks so, and he thinks the Kuna, Idaho, is six feet, four inches at the with- steer, called Satan, may reach 4700 pounds beers and is 12 feet long. His chest diameter is 11 fore he stops growing, feet, two inches and he weighs a "cool two Scout Training on Farm Aids Snake-Bite Victim WEST PLAINS A West Plains youth is convinced today of the validity of Boy Scout first-aid training. Paul Johnson, 16, son of Mr. and Mrs.

Larry V. Johnson, had helped untangle a horse from a fence on a farm east of West Plains recently when he felt something strike him on the leg. Looking down, he saw a black and gray snake near a pond and he had to leap back to prevent being struck again. He went to the car, tied a shoe lace around Hay Stacker Demonstrated A "hay machine" manufac tured by McKee Brothers, Ltd, of Ontario, Canada, was recently demonstrated on the Otia Otis Fulbright farm west of Republic. The machine, called the "Stack'n'Mover," is handled by Hi-Way Truck and Machinery Company, Brookline.

The com pany is operated by Jim ind Earl Schofield. Several officials of the compa ny were on the Fulbright farm to witness the demonstration of the machine, and these included J. H. Wehrly, sales manager of Mid-Continent Sales, St. Louis, Bill Clement, of the home factory, Dewey Meeks', of Kimberlihg City Salesman), Ray Smith, St.

Louis, John Dubbledee, Bunker Hill, 111., Carle Hanner, Patoka, 111., Al Perrier, DeSoto and M. C. Beck, St. Louis. Wehrly said the machine dem onstrated on the Fulbright farm is the "three-ton size, and can be run by a 65 to 70 horse tractor." The machine, with a pickup, shredder, blower and loading-unloading frame sells for The company also makes an 8-ton model for the "big-hay" country, Wehrly said.

The hay stacks caa be placed in the most convenient places at baying time, then the top can be removed and the rack' used later to move the stacks to a desired location. I Bite Too WASHINGTON (UPI) In a move underlining the fact that commercial-scale family farms have grown dramatically over the past decade, Agriculture Department economists say a nAl completed study shows mat the federal inheritance tax may begin to pose a lerious threat to keeping farms intact when the owner dies. As a result, the department's Economic Research Service (ERS) says it plans to devote some of its future research budget to studies of estate planning tactics for farmers. The newly-completed study by economist W. Fred Woods noted that a decade ago, farmers didn't worry much about estate taxes because most farm estates FFA Chapter Receives Calf for Heifer Chain PURDY The Purdy FFA Chapter has received a second heifer for its "chain." A two-month-old Holstein hei fer was presented to the chapter by Tom Deveno, son of Mr.

and Mrs. Joe Deveno. The calf was given to Duane Kaiser, who will raise the heifer and present her first heifer back to the chapter. Deveno is a for mer member of the chapter and young Kaiser has just completed his freshman year. Great? fell below the $60,000 level at which the tax bite begins.

But production assets per farm more than doubled over the past decade and reached a national average of $100,000 last year, Woods' report noted. A review of 21 typical owner -operated family farms showed that death taxes could without advance estate transfer planning take nearly 20 per cent of the capital invested in three types of farms. For example, Woods cited a typical Corn Belt hog and beef farm with assets estimated at $240,000 last year. Federal and state estate taxes would have climbed from less than 2 per cent of the farm capital in 1968 to 10 per cent in 1972. Another example in the study showed changes between 1961 and 1968 for a hypothetical irrigated cotton farm in the high plains of Texas.

Captial in the farm rose from $117,300 in 1961 to nearly $465,000 in 1968, and death duties jumped from one-tenth of 1 per cent of the capital in 1971 to 19.8 per cent in 1968. "So far, death taxes don't absorb a large portion of capital on most farms. But because farms have grown rapidly in size and value. and because See TAX, Page D-8 i Fuel Working "Just yesterday in Idaho they worked out a situation like this and got a supply to farmers. In that case and others, they're not getting everything they asked for, but farmers are getting 80 to 90 per cent of what they asked for," he said.

Stephen A. Wakefield, assistant secretary of the Interior, joined Ligon in saying that the See FUEL, Page D-8 McLean Ranches Hire Young Japanese Vet WILLARD Masumi Kubota, 26, of Tokyo, Japan, has been employed by McLean Ranches as a "cowboy trainee." Kubota is a graduate of the Nippon Agricultural and Veterinary College and is employed by the Soga no ya Swine Business in Japan. Kubota will work under direction of Albert Hanlon, McLean Ranches manager, while he is in the United States. Voluntary Program WASHINGTON (UPI) OU companies are cooperating to get fuel into gasoline pinched farm areas to keep tractors running under the government's new voluntary fuel allocation program, an Interior Department official says. Although the program is only a few days old, Duke R.

Ligon told the House Agriculture Committee Thursday, it appears to be working. Ligon said one typical set of situations involves areas where major firms have closed down service stations or "pulled out" by ending contracts with distributors." In such cases, Ligon said, the Interior Department's office of oil and gas urges the supplier to exchange stocks with firms remaining in the area so they can take up the slack for essential customers including farmers. Companies involved have demonstrated a willingness to comply under this voluntary plan, Ligon said. Peterson Wins Show STRAFFORD All-around champion of last week-end's legistered Quarter Horse show by the Strafford Saddle Club was Randy Peterson, of Ashland, riding My Lady Crockett. The all-around exhibitors were Cynthia Fischer, Hannibal, riding Miss Jackie Clegg, and Mary Pat Shea, Ballwin, riding Don's Sissy King, Entries totaled 181.

Grand champion stallion was Me Quick To, owned by Chuck Ehler and C. Morrison, Skia-took, and reserve cham--pion stallion was Pacific's Bailey owned by Sandra K. Simmons, Lee's Summit. Grand champion mare was Tee Jay Ole Miss, owned by Ted Richards, Camdenton, and reserve champion mare was Angel's Dude, owned by Richard and Sara E. Luke, Springfield.

Grand champion gelding was Joe Bar Image, owned by Loren See HORSE SHOW, Page D-8 Flight to Paris for Holstein Bull Calves Requires 7 Hours How long does it take a Holstein bull calf to get to Paris? It takes 7.5 hours, if he is put on a TWA 707 jet at Chicago O'Hare and flies non-stop. That is information directly from Dale Smith, of Springfield, president of Pampered Beef, which recently sent the first of numerous-intended plane loads of calves to France. A total of 195 bull calves, in containers' of 15 calves each,.