Farmers Spent Over $42 Billion For Goods in ’6l UNIVERSITY PARK, PA. Foity.two billions of dollars is a lot of money, but that’s how much U S farmeis spent in to buy goods and seivices from the lest of us and fi om other farmers. Dr. Russell E. 'Larson, dir. ector of the Cooperative E\_ tension Service at The Penn sylvania State University, says “Farmeis are certainly some of the best .customers Amen, can business has. They spent aiound $27 billion to buy all the different things u took to picduce 1961's bumper crops lllliliilllllllillilliiiillliillllilllilillllllliliiiilllililllllliiiiiilillilllllllllil WANTED! Sales Executive To represent one” of the area’s leading feed Com panies. Will work directly with D. H. Van Pelt (dairy specialist) merchandising Hornco Unipel Dairy Feeds. Must be experienced with some segment of the Dairy Industry. General Agricultural experience also necessary. Age requirement 28 to 45 years, include experience, age and two references when mailing request for interview. All names will be kept confidential. Address letter to D. E. HORN & CO., INC. Lincoln and West Sts., York, Pa. Attention Sales Manager lllllillllli!lilllllllillilllliiillllllllliiil!llii!!llll!lllll!lliiliilllllllilllil!!lil It’s Here! FIJI dairy feed let us tell you about if S. H. HIESTAND & CO. Saiunga great quantities of items like tractors and fertilizer and seed and bank interest and visits from the vet. Larson continues,! “the tanner and his wife spent another $l5 billion for the same vast variety of things that city people buy like TV sets, toothpaste, appendec tomies, college for the kids, houses, trips to Yellowstone Park “All of us, whether we woi k in a steel mill or teach school or sell groceries foi a living, have a big stake in farm prosperity ” Just as other citizens, the American farmer buys a lot of just about everything, af. fecting most incomes in one way or another. But some Regional goods get used up in reallv big amounts in the farming process and farmers have to keep on buying them. Although farm people make up only 8 per cent of the population, Dr. Larson re. ports, they buy 13 per cent of the petroleum produced in the United States more than any other single industry; S per cent of the rubber enough to have put tires on all the automobiles manufac. tured in this country last year, twice as much steel as the lailroad industry about 5 million tons, and more elec tricity than was used by the cities of Washington, D. C ; Baltimore, Chicago, Boston Detroit, and Houston combm. ed! Farmers also buy more trucks and tractors than anv other industry. They also uti. live $l% billion worth of fer. tilizer and lime on their fields annually. Statistics can be dull, but Dr Larson believes, the ex. citing story is in what all this big faim buying power means to people everywhere in the u s. Millions of the so.called “city” jobs depend on farm ing Some 6 million people aie involved in providing the goods and semces that fai. mers buy. Another 10 million work at transporting, process, ung. storing, and selling faim products. Their paychecks help expand American buying povvei all along the line. It’s estimated that 4 out of 10 jobs in pm ate employment aie related to aguculture . . they depend on the farmer’s continuing to be a “big cus. tomei ” Onh S per cent of Amei i_ cans about 15 million, actu. aIU Ine on farms today “but,’ Dr. Lai son savs, “when \ou add them together with all then business pait_ neis in oui economy mei. chants bankeis, truckeis, pio_ cessois wholesalers the ‘agiKultuial’ population is far closer to 40 than S pel ■PEp Ph. 898-3221 Lancaster Farming, Saturday, November 3, 1962—13 cent of the nation Economists expect faim in come to continue in 19 62 at the same inci eased levels ot last year So, there's promise of a continued steady market for'goods and sen ices plus leeway for spending for capi. tal investments in new farm buildings or more land foi bigger operations. Dr. Larson concludes, “Ac. ioss the nation, it would be hard to find a more impoitant customer than American agn. culture ” Dairy Cons Daily cows should be kept in the barn on cold fall nights Udders chilled on the ground are prone to mastitis, reminds Dr S B Guss, extension vet ennanan at Pena State. Now Open Longer Hours. Cal! early and late for Parts and Service. Help in Locating Equipment for Picking, Combining, Plowing. Demonstrations on Your Own Farm, Dnvs an Allis-Chalmers Tractor feel big power in action enjoy Allis-Chalmers conveniences and comfort. And, every buyer of a new Allis-Chalmers Farm Tractor* gets a big 3-Day Air Trip to the Land of Power to see inside Alhs-Chalmers factories. Ask us all about it. POWER TASK FORCE Service ALLIS-CHALMERS <AC> SALES & SERVICE >/ L. H. Brubaker Lititz, Pa, Grumelli Farm Serv. Quarrjrviile, Pa. Snavely’s Farm Service Nissley Farm Service New Holland. Pa. La use h Bros. Equipment Farm-City Week To Emphasize Communication Communications is the the me of this year’s Pennsyl vania Faim.City Week obser vance set tor November 15.22. In announcing the them® State Chairman, Ralph C. Blaney of Penn State, said communications is important in the lives of both farm and city people And the better the communications are, ha said, the better these two seg. meats of our society can, un derstand each othei and their problems To fuither stiess the im pel tance of communications (Continued on Page 20) ALL-OUT f to help ▼ you w finish Z fall work ▼ Ir■ f I a | ‘applies to all models except B-I N. G. Myers & Son L. H. Brubaker Washington Boro. Pa. Stevens w ~1 I Rheems, Pa. Lancaster, Pa.
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