Farm Families Live Better
--And Pay More to Do It
Farm families have made tre
mondous gains m levels of living
since 1941 This shows up in all
categories of family spending
Mm e money is going loi medical
care foi modem cuipment and
laboi-savmg materials which give
homemakers more leisure, and for
impiovxng homes for more com
fortable, more pleasant living.
Findings from a recent analy
sis of faim household expendi
tames by home economists in the
USDA Institute of_Home Econo
mics provide evidence of the
gains Data used for the analysis
come chiefly from a survey in
which nearly 4,000 farm-operator
families living m all parts of the
Lmled States reported their 1955
cxpcndituies, fiom a recent sur
vey of urban family living ex
penditures, and from a survey of
both farm and urban family living
expenditures in 1941 These data
weie supplemented by mforma
lion from the Bureau of the Cen
sus on housing facilities' and
euipment
Farm families spent about two
thirds more money m 1955 than
in 1941, when dollar values arc
adiusled for price'changes Tin-,
late of spending is about half
that of city families The rate in
was about 30 per cent Rural
levels of living are closer to ur
ban spending than these figures
indicate, however, because farm
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Ephrata
J. B. Hosteller & Son D. L Diem & Sons
Mt. Jov Lititz
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high. See how much farther
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or International light now. Pay
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Quarryville - Wakefield
Cope & Weaver Co.
Willow Street
families usually have much home
pi educed food and usually don’t
pay separate lent for the faim
dwelling
Medical care made most gain
in this category Faim families ap
pi cached the closest to city levels
of spending Farm families spent
an average of $325 in 1955, as
compared with $155 spent in
IQ-D (in dollars of constant pui
chasing power) The 1955 level
is about three-fourths that of cit'
families
One reason for the gain is the 7
widespread growth of medical
piepayment plans and health in
suraice These enable families to
procure surgical and medical
tieatment when neded Also, new'
hospitals built under the lural
community health assistance pro
gram make medical care more
icadily available to farm families
Almost impossible to measure
is the improvement electric pow
er and equipment brings to coun
try living The rapid spread of
po vei lines is an indication of
the value farm families pul on
power In 1940 only 33 per cent
of farm households had electri
city, 18 per cent had piped i mi
ning water, and 15 per cent a
mechanical refrigerator By 1956,
94 per cent of farm homes had
electricity, 64 per cent piped
running W'ater, and 90 per cent
a mechanical relngerator.
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Gap
Messiek Farm Equip.
Elizabethtown
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'v goodly number had washing
machines, telepflbnes, indoor
flush toilets, and other facilities
and labor saving euipment
II ow much use of electnc cui
lent has increased is indicated by
cxpendituies lor cuncnt In
1055, luial families spent a ycaily
aveiage of $Bl In 1941 the aver
age was $39 and the rate for cur
icnt was higher
More farm families now pur
chase piped and bottled gas loi
cooking and fuel oil loy heating
and fewer buy wood, coal, and
kciosene That’s lust another evi
dence of how city conveniences
aie spreading to the farm
Farm houses also are being im
pioved In 1955 farm families
spent an aveiage of $125 for re
pairs and remodeling Work most
tieuentlj fepoited was painting,
papering, and installation or re
pau for plumbing, awnings, storm
vwndows, or screens And moie
than twice as many families
bought furniture in 1955 than m
1941
Food was one item which took
the same percentages ol the farm
tamily dollar in 1955 as in 1941
The patera of food spending, how
evci, has changed Farm families
cat out more and, like city fami
lies, they buy more of the con
\ ement processed or semiprocess
ed foods Less food is home pro
duced This may result in fami-
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Intercourse
David Kurtz
Morgantown
Lancaster Farming, Friday, March 14, 1958—5
Four Lancaster County Farmers
Attending PFA Wasliigton Meeting
A group of Lancastei County other ielated subicets
Fanners were in Washington
D C this week to talk to Con
gressman Paul Daguo about legis
lative problems affecting faimcis
of the area I
As a pait of a statewide
delegation of 150 leadeis ol the
Pennsclvania Farmers’ Assn ,|
the entire Congiessional dele
the local men helped to entertain 1
gation from Pennsylvania at din
ner on Tuesday evening I
Those fiom Lancaster County
attending the Washington meet
ing were ,1 Roy Gieidei, Rll
Mount Jo>, Henij Shciner R 2
L 1 titz, Noah Keider Sr, R 2 Man
heim and John Weidman, R 2
Mount Joy |
On the agenda for discussion
with the Congiessmen were the
questions of price suppoits and
farm progiam, trade with for
eign countnes, labor problems
affecting the faimer and various
Potato Prospects
Down Due to Weather
The wintei potato crop is now
foiecast by the Ciop Reporting
Boaid at 4 975 000 hundredweight
down about 715,000 cwt, from the
forecast of a month ago, laigely
due to adverse wealhei condi
tions in Flonda.
lies eating less of some important
foods they used to produce, be
cause it has been found that fami
lies use less when they buy food
than when they produced it them
selves
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Healthy Chicks Make Great Layers!
Why Laying Pullets
Pick One Another
There are five mam leasons foi cannibalism in laying
pullets
1 They may learn to pick during the starting and
growing period
2 A layer is in a constant state of pregnancy and
therefore has many cravings for various foods
3 Lack of exercises and not enough to do
4 A tendency toward prolapses (eversion of the egg
laying organs) in some strains.
5 Inherited cannibalistic tendencies in some strains.
Picking Among Chicks and Growing Pullets: Chicks
may start picking because they are too warm, because they
are left too long without feed or do not have an adequate
water supply. White-washed walls causing too bright a
house may cause picking in chicks and older birds.
Pullets on range that cannot get out of the house at
daybreak frequently start to pick because they are hungn,
thirsty and don’t have anything else to do.
Babcock Bessies, and all Leghorns bred by Babcock,
are gentle strains and do not have a tendency toward pick
ing. Just the same, any strain of any breed will pick if
improperly managed.
Babcock Bossies will come up into large eggs for you
rapidly which will increase your profits tremendously next
summer and fall.
BABCOCK HATCHERY
Lancaster County Branch
Route 3F, Lititz, Pa.
Russell Mease
Route 4
Manheim, Pa.
Phone MO-5-4705
Also while in Washington, the
gioup was scheduled to visit
the offices of the U S Dcpaitment
of Agiiculturc Meetings wei e
scheduled with undci Secietaiy
of Agiicultuic Tine D
and Miles Hoist, formei Secic
taiv of Agiiculturc m Penns\l
vania .
The Lancaster Countj iolks
were scheduled to aruve in the
Nation s Capitol at 2 p m , Tues
day and weie to letuin home (ne
evening ol 5101 eh 12
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Removed
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For Dead Animals i
Dealers in
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