Leo M, Zamory, Architect
Comfort-Pocket ludHty
It's lovely from the outside and just about per
fect within, this long, low ranch-style house that
brings you extras that happen only once in a
lifetime.
An outstanding feature of this design.is its
superb circulation. Note how each area is pro
vided with complete privacy. The bedroom wing is
compactly set off from the living, quarters. The
bedrooms, larger than the average, feature spa
cious closets with sliding doors, and have cross
ventilation.
There is a super-sized den for the master of the
house which will also serve admirably as a TV
room or as extra bedroom. The convenient back
vestibule saves living room traffic and is easily
accessible to both kitchen and cellar stairs. Nole/
ingenious placement of bathroom, with glass
endow i *,)) shower.
reduction, Prices, Profits
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ducer himself.
Gentlemen, I have spoken
rather plainly. This is time for
plain talk. You must realize that
the Department of Agriculture
as not interested in interfering
with legitimate functions or ac
tions of your industry. We re
cognize that a near record num
ber of hogs have been slaugh
e ud tered and processed with marked
B tiL ™ *, ITVW , . fnlro . j,,™* efficiency The Department gen
uinely wisih'es to do all in its
tt B e of the American farmer. As l{Kwer to farmers and be
a Nation, we simply cannot af-. of aid to the livestock and meat
ford to let him carry the full industry in the solution of their
brunt of^increased processing .problems That is why we meet
end distribution costs, yes even here today,
increased profits, in other sec- F#ur Things to Discuss
tors of the meat industry. During the remainder of the
As your Secretary of Agri- day I wish to join with you in a
Culture, I state emphatically mutual search for ways to im
that I will not stand idly by du- prove the economic lot of hog
ring such times without defend- raisers. I think we Should dis
mg .the farmer with every means cuss such things as the following -
St my disposal. * i. How can the current .pork
This does not mean I would purchase program of the Depart
not see you make a profit. I ment be made more effective?
would Legitimate profits unde&l 2. What more can the Depart
gird the American free enter- ment and industry working to-i
prise system. yether, do to enlarge outlets for,
(tighten up your cosits. Keep your
profits and mSargHis in line with
the histone pattern of a large
volume, small margin industry.
We all have a job to do—farmer,
government, meat packer, mar
keting agency, retailer. The live
stock farmer' is bearing more
than the full brunt of price de
fine at a time when his costs are
I am positive that everyone
concerned with the wellbeing of
the livestock industry will join
with me in continuing his ef
foits to improve the farmer’s
position These efforts must be
intensified by all of us We must
*uake the-livestock and meat
business profitable for everyone'
5n it, including the most basic
member of 'the team—the pri
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mark and pork products both at
lhame and abroad’
3 What more can he done to
IfaoiOdtaite desirable adjustment of
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thog' numbers to effective de
mand? '
4. What actions can be taken
by the processing and market
iny industry to lower their
costs, to narrow the (processing
and marketing margins, and
(hence to pass more of the con
sumer's dollar spent for pork
hack to swine producers?
Once again may I assure you
that we genuinely appreciate
your coming K here and the help
ful spirit m which you are en
tering into the discussion I’am
■confident that the economic lot
■of the hog producers will im
prove in 1956 and 1957. We want
to see it improve as rapidly as
possible, on a sound and con
tinuing Msis.
Our American farmers are
doing a magnificent job of pro
ducing food and fiber. We must
vigorously pursue every step
that will assure them an adequ
ate Share of the broad and rising
■prosperity which America en
joys.
Dry Milk Offer
Begins for Feed
Sale by Bidding
GD 18 P. DRY MILK OFFER
The U. S. Department of
Agriculture has offered 1,875,-
195 lbs of nonfat dry milk solids,
found to be unsuitable for human
food use, for sale on a bid basis
for feed use. Bids were first due
Monday, February 6, and on a
daily basis thereafter-
Sales schedule No 5 of An
nouncement DA-110 lists the lo
cation and quantity of the 37
lots offered for sale The dry
milk is stored in Minnesota,
lowa, Ohio, Wisconsin, and one
lot m California. Bids should be
submitted to the Livestock and
Dairy Division, CSS, USDA,
Washington 25, D- C-
Approximately 2.4 million lbs
of dry milk were sold recently
in a similar operation.
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Cubage: 30,855 cu. ft.
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Lancaster Farming, Friday, February 17, 1956
Meat Institute
Replies on Profit
Packers Make
CHICAGO Following is com
ment by the American Meat In
stitute with respect to Secretary
of Agncultuie Benson’s remarks
today at the meeting of the Na
tional Swine Industry Committee
“We are in hearty accord with
the objectives outlined by Sec
retary Benson The industry has
been exercising every effort to
keep down operating and dis
tribution- costs, over which it
has no control, to keep
operating efficiency at the high
est possible level; this in the
face of difficulties encountered
by everybody m the livestock
and meat business during a pe
riod of declining prices and in
creasing costs all along the line-
Expenses Gain
“As for spreads -or marketing
margins, operating expenses in
the meat packing industry ad
vanced . from $1,973,000,000 in
1949 to $2,650,000,000 in 1954,
or 34 par cent from 1949 to 1954
For 1955 figures are not yet
(available, except that a wage in
crease last August added an es
timated 50 million dollars an
nually to the industry’s oper
ating costs
This was greater on an an
nual basis than the earnings of
the entire industry in 1954
Services performed by meat
packers, in which ‘marketing
margins’ are'included.' represent
in considerable degree values
added to the product—indispens
able to the use of our raw mate
rial, which is livestock
Notoriously Low
“As for packers’ profits, these
are notoriously low—too low in
fact to provide adequate funds
for plant improvement and mo
dernization, research and pro
motion. In 1955, such reports as
have been issued, show that
meat packers’ earnings averaged
less than a cent per dollar,of
sales—a profit so small that had
it not existed at all there would
have been appreciable difference
in the price of meat or what the
farmer received for his livestock
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Fraser Named
Assistant in
Foreign Office
ca i« f. rw!H
Appointment ot Gordon 3
Fraser as assistant administrator
of the U S Department of Agn
culture’s Foreign Agncultiual
Service, in charge of market
development, was announced
today by the Department
Mr Fraser, a native of Moro,
Oregon, will have wide responsi
bility for administering Foreign
Agricultural Service programs
designed to help maitam and
expand markets for United
States farm products abroad.
These include programs under
Title I of the Agricultural Trade
Development and Assistance Act'
of 1954 (Public Law 480. 83rd
Congress, as amended).
The new assistant administ
rator has been Secretary of the
International Wheat Council, of
which the United States is a
member, in London, England
since 1952 From 1950 to 1952
he was Chief of the Food and
Agriculture Division, High Com
mission to Germany, Office of
Economic Affairs In 1949 and
1950 he was the U S- Depart
ment of Agriculture’s represent
ative to the International Wheat
Council
Mr- Fraser served in the armed
services from 1941 to 1947, and
from 1945 to 1946 was associ
ated with food and. agriculture
operations of the Department of
the Army in Washington, D. C.
and Germany-
He received his B S degree
ih agricultural economics from
Oregon State College, Corvallis,
Oregon m 1939,
“In connection with the entire
subject it Should be recognized
that prices of meat at wholesale,
‘as received by packers, had de
clined about 23 per cent at the
beginning of this year from the
peak levels of 1955- Also note
worthy is the fact that the’ in
dustry has been extremely active,
and with increasing success, in
finding 'foreign outlets for
American pork products, includ
ing lard”
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