f Is A Bargain tie Work Buys A Meal ,nv people don’t realize ut meat is becoming ; 0 f a bargain all the • conclusion is based e w figures just released tl) e American Meat In to national trade asso- Dr j of the meat packing fese figures translate , tags into -terms of pur jug power—the amount /oiking time it takes to a given item. L e aMI points out that V ear the average work (earning $2 22 an hour) to toil only 18 minutes , u y an average pound of us was about a minute a half less time than iok him to earn the same CHAIN SAW SERVICE CENTER & Used inavely's Farm Servic* JEW HOLLAND El 4-3214 The Hershey Transplanter N. G. HERSHEY & SON MANHEIM, PA. l■■■B■BaBI■BBBBaBBBflB■BBBBBflBBBflBIBBflBBBflBBBB■•BBBBBaBBBB■■B£ FEED PIONEER DRY & FRESH Better Body Condition • Less Udder Problems Easier Calving oseph M. Good & Sons LEOLA - QUARRYVILLE >llll 1111 ll (IIIIIInRIIIIIIIUIIIIIIIIIUHIIII II II IIIIIIIIII quantity of this basic food in 1958, and only about a minute and a half longer than in 1956, the all-time bargain year. If our average man could have banked the saving in working time resulting fr om last year’s lower pur chasing power price, he wo uld have put away almost three minutes for every lb. of pork he earned and 24 seconds for every pound of beef. This would have amount ed to a total saving of al most four hours of work li me during the course of the year. And, although he didn’t find this saving in his bank book, he profited from it another way he was able to spend the extra time working for other things. This is actually a more realistic method of measur ing value than the monetary system, which relies on the deceptively inflated dollar, AMI economists assert. FOR • USE AS A COMPLETE FEED According to statistics wh ich have been kept for more than 40 years, the all-time high cost of meat occurred in 1929, when 36 minutes of work were required to purchase one pound. The figure moved gradually do wnward through the 1930’5, rose slightly right after Wor Id War 11, then started do wnward again to a low of 16 6 minutes in 1956. Dur ing the next two years, the figure went up once more, then took a downward turn again in 1959. With plentiful meat sup plies forecast for 1960, meat prices are expected to con tinue at bargain levels. Don’t let spring fever push you out into the garden whi’e the soil is too wet to work, warns Lynn Smith, Penn State extension ■floriculturist. Working wet soil will pudd’e it and when it dries rt will be hard all summer. A kind and unsolicited word from an unknown friend has kept many a tal ented person from calling it quits. TRANSPLANTER Row Width Adjustable from 34” to 72” Phone MOhowk 5-2271 * Higher Production FOR EVERY PURPOSE Lancaster Farming. Saturday. March 28, 1960 — Benson Defends Sprays Chemicals Mean Better Crops “We cannot continue to produce adequate amounts -of safe and wholesome foods without chemicals,” said Sec rctary of Agriculture Ezra Taft Benson, in a statement issued by the U. S Depart ment of Agriculture. Chemicals play an impor tant and necessary role in food production, Mr. Benson said, and the government takes the responsibility for seeing that the chemicals used are carefully control led and that better chemi cals and methods are de veloped. The responsibility incudes pesticide and insec ticide regulations, chemical tolerance levels, chemical methods, and an extensive research program. The ob jectives of research are to develop safe and effective chemicals and to discover OLIVER Gives You Tupnofch Pfowin Ilj " V S# I