6 —Lancaster Farming, Saturday/May 21. 1960 Weekly Food Bulletin («
‘ the market in an effort to Local Vegetables Move T o Market '
wSe fa^ifenC^lllons 8 ° are Production of fruits and were shipped in from South in |g £ P SJ^ av .
underfed. vegetables moves with rapt- Carolina. sliahtiv over £^ e ,
It is, in the situation, re-
grettable that farm problems Pennsylvania and . harvested throughout the isfactorily.. Fryers and ?
are to become a matter of sey are already P g Eastem shores of Virginia ers have decreased soi«» b ’
political campaign charges iocM httvs and Maryland. In the next in price thereby keenW
and counter-charges rather of the available good ys £ ew we eks New Jersey with country point nrf 1
than constructive debate that this weeK. . should be in full swing with Florida oranges
could be expected to contrib- Fair to good include strawberry harvejst .
ute to understanding and a ach ’ £ e en Strawberry prices generally able . Watermelons are
solution. Election campaigns le y> raoisnes, sp ,gr are epen< j en t on we ather a verv high priced ,* e
seldom provide an answer to «" >totoes and conditions. 0l» So Itocs®
sny major problem. Th b w"ct has brought Cool weather his slowed creasing slowly j„
cabbage and broccoli from production of asparagus, it will be awhile before
Patronize Lancaster Farm- the nearby sections of Vir- thereby not overloading the nlies are enough to cause
Ing Advertisers. ginia. The first snap beans markets. Prices are very tea- substantial price decrease
This Week
(From page 4)
fiddled while agriculture’s
house has been on fire would
be grossly unfair. It would
be equally unjust to accuse
the Administration of being
callous to a situation in
which farm income and pric
es have steadily , declined,
cost to taxpayers has increas
ed, and consumer prices have
gone up.
Facts Not Disputed
The facts concerning farm
ers—as well as some state
ments not based on facts—
have been widely publicized.
The facts do ot justify com
placency or failure to cor
rect a situation that is get
ting worse than better.
On farmers’ side, net in
come has declined by one
third, farm debt has m'ore
than doubled, and more than
a million farms have “disap
peared” in the past 10 years.
Rising production costs a
gamst declining income have
caught millions of farm
people in a painful cost-price
squeeze.
On the consumers' side,
food costs have gone higher
while $7 billion a year in
farm program costs have ad
ded 10 percent to their tax
bills Surpluses taken off
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