ThasiWeek
(Pram »suee 4)
farmers for the alleged ‘high
oS t of food.’ Others believe
,|, a t farmers are getting rich
‘t taxpayers’ expense,” or
!u a t ‘farmerss are subsidized
l 0 m ake up for their ineffi
iency ’ These fallacies must
' c effectively dispelled ”
Consumers, for example,
, an buy almost one-third
ao rc food for each hour of
, vor lt than they cou’d in ’47,
ven though food prices are
Lgliti An hour’s work in
i 960 would buy 2 5 pounds
5 f beef compared with an
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From HORNCO FEEDS... improvements to serve business pouitrymen!
D. E. Horn & Co.. Inc. is proud to announce the appointment of
Muhro as Poultry Service Manager. Mr. Munro will be available to all Homco cus
tomers for advice and guidance on vaccination programs, antibiotic potentiation,
ventilation, and other complex and unsolved problems of the poultry industry.
With management becoming of utmost importance to poultry raising the
addition of Mr. Munro to the Hornco well-rounded service staff will be a most use
ful and profitable service to the business poultrymen of this area.
Mr. Munro is a graduate of Cornell University where he majored in poultry
husbandry. He acquired a vast experience with poultry during the past five years
while he worked for one of the most successful broiler operations in the Delmarva
area where he had complete responsibility of 800,000 broilers.
FEEDS
D.E.HORN&CO.,Inc. km, pa Phone 2-7867
average of 1.9 pounds in
T;Sfi^49.
Since 1947-49 farmers’
'share of each dollar spent
by consumers for food has
declined by 13 percent, but
the spread between what the
farmer receives and the con
sumer pays has increased by
45 percent.
Department of Agriculture
flguscs show the average
consumer spent 27 cents out
of each dollar earned in 1947
for food Last year he spent
only 20 cents Food still is
the biggest bargain in Ameri
ca
Farm Breakthrough
‘‘ln the past two decades,”
Mr. Freeman said, “the av
erage farmer has tripled his
output per hour of work.
Nothing like this has ever
been known in the world be
fore. It is one of the signi-
ficant and important break
throughs of human history.
“The truth'is,” Mr. Free- The food that can be pur
man said, “farmers have been chased with wages for one
subsidizing consumers rather hour’s work in America
than the other way round, would take four hours of
Because farmers have been work in Russ.a. The average
subsidizing the rest of the American farmer feeds him
economy - - - farm income self and 25 others. In Russia
has steadilv declined. four people on farms feed
“The incomes of our farm themselves and only six oth
fami'ies are lower relative to ers in crtleS
+he rest of our economy than “We need to tell—and re-
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Introducing. ..
John Munro
“Poultry Service Manager”
Call us today for advice on your
problems. Let us prove when
you buy Hornco Feeds.
“Service Makes The Difference”
Lancaster Farming. Saturday. April 22, 1961
at any time since „ the 19305.
Farm net income has drop
ped about one-fifth while for
the rest of the nation it has
increased by about two-fifths
in the past 10 years.”
Mr. John
tell—that story,” Mr. Free*
man said.
% Gardenspot
(From page 1)
Thursday night at the home
of Walter Overgaard, Lan
caster R 4.
In other action the club
donated $lO 00 to the Inter
national Farm Youth Ex
change fund, and made plans
to operate a booth at the An
nual 4-H Spring Jamboree
on April 29
During the program, Ellen
and Esther Overgaard pre
sented a demonstration on
the control of common plant
diseases. A film on fire safe
ty was shown by Mr Rich
ard Hagy of 111 Crest Lane,'
Lancaster
Next meeting ol the club
will be he’d May 18 at tho
home of Wilmer Wenger, 75
Greenfield Road, Lancaster
Farmers, Gardeners,
and Flower Growers:
PLAN NOW TO USE
AGE-OLD JERSEY
GREEN SAND
(Natural potash and trace
minerals)
AND
COLLOIDAL
PHOSPHATE (Calphos)
Economical, practical to im
prove our mmerally-deficient
soils New spreader available
for bulk spieading.
No Chemical Addiiives
in any of our materials
Brooklawn Farm
118 Kreider Avenue
LANCASTER LO 9-1580
or See Your Local Dealer
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