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
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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.
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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
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non-chemical means to in
sure better and safer foods.
Chemicals used in food
production must be approv
ed and tested. Then they
must be used safely and ca
refully, he emphasized.
When proper precautions
are taken, chemicals can he
lp give us bigger and better
crops.
“Abandoning their use on
farms and m the food in
dustry would result in an
immediate decline in the
quantity overall quality
of our food supply and cau
se a rapid rise in food pri
ces paid by consumers,” he
said
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federal government be un
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be assured of clean, safe,
and wholesome food.
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