,• ■ Farmers' Union
(‘Continued from Page 13,
pressure to lower consume!
Brices of food and fiber "It
further discrimination agalns
America’s already underpale
family farmers.”
The committee was critica
0t the Department of De
Sense’s 6-month, 50-percent
out in military purchases o<
prime beef and pork cuts, of
tSie Department of Com
merce's limitation on hide
•sports, and of President
Johnson’s request for an in
crease of cheese import
quotas. |
“Until farm income is on
• parity with the income be
ing earned in other segments
of our economy, there is no
inflation resulting from the
farmer’s share of retail food
costs,” the NPU executive
••conjittee said.
**lm spite of some increase
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In the price of a few com
modities, the parity ratio rs
only at 82 percent, the av
erage income of persons on
farms Is less than two-thirds
the per capita income of the
non-farm population, and
farmers, who are only 7 per
cent of the population, are
receiving only 2.9 percent of
the nation’s income, exclud
ing income from off-tarm
employment. Under these cir
cumstances, farmers’ prices
are not inflationary and Ad
ministration actions are in
compatible with the Great So
ciety concept,” the commit
tee’s statement continued.
They said the President,
his Council of Economic Ad
visers and the Budget Bureau
are “not m tune with, or at
tuned to, the situation in
rural America.
"The" helter-skelter, boom
or bust, and ill-advised moves
concerning beef and pork,
cheese and hide prices, are
subtracting from stable food
prices and fostering further
chaos in rural areas,” the
statement concluded.
• For The Farm Wife
(Continued from Page 14)
tablespoons of Cheddar
cheese and place under broil
er just until cheese melts.
VEGETABLE
BUTTER SAUCE
V 2 cup (1 stick) butter
2 tablespoons chopped
chives
% teaspoon salt
4 bay leaves
1 10-oz. package frozen
spinach OR 11/*I 1 /* pounds
tresh spinach
1 small head cauliflower
6 carrots, cut in sticks
■Melt butter and add
chives, salt and bay leaves.
Keep warm one to two hours
before servings. Remove bay
leaves. Arrange cooked veg
etables on a serving platter
and pour hot butter sauce
over all. 4 servings.
GLAZED CARROTS
'6' large carrots
i 2 tablespoons butter or
margarine
Vi' teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon sugar
Vs teaspoon ginger
Wash and pare carrots.
Plaice in a 2Vz quart cas
serole. Cut butter into small
pieces and dot over carrots.
Mix salt, sugar and ginger
and sprinkle over vegetable.
Cover and bake for 1 hour
in a 825 degree oven. Makes
ij servings.
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For the
Farm Wife and Family
Ladies. Have You Heard? ...
By Doris Thomas, Extension Home Economist
Safety Tips When Using Insecticides
Read directions every time you use an
insecticide. And be sure to follow instruc
tions and safety precautions printed on every
container.
If you’re using an insecticide in an
aerosol container, look foi the arrow on the
spray button and make sure it points away
flom you before you press the button
Stoie garden chemicals by themselves,
c L out of reach °f curious children. Keep
children and pets away from the area while
you re spraying.
Some Things To Know About
An Electric Blender
An electric blender can help you do THOMAS
many types of tood pi ©para- the instruction booklet that
tion quickly and efficiently, came with the blender for
When kept in a handy place, specific directions on care of
you can use a blender every it. Sometimes special recipes
day, not just tor special oc- are given in the booklet. But
casions or party menus. whatever lecipe you use, al-
An electric blender woiks ways follow instructions for
best when you use it accord- peifect results,
mg to the manufacturer’s di- For Y ou To Try
rections. Pla'ce it on a clean, Dice cooked hanlj add lt to
, *7* sur * ace> and plug it a golden chees-e sauce, and
in o a conventional 120 volt serve .hot over cooked cab
a ernating cunent (AC) b a g e> cauliflower, broccoli, or
e ecfne outlet. Put food or asparagus. A dash of Wor
liquid in the blender jar and C estershire sauce will give the
set the jar on the blender cheese sauce extra zip.
base.
Before scraping the sides
ot the blender iar with a
rubber or plastic s>patula,
#{|op the blender action. Do
I’ot touch the blades With
any utensil.
You can use a blender in
preparing many recipes, with
some exceptions. A blender
will not beat egg whites,
mash potatoes, gnnd law
meats, or extiact pure juice
tiom solids.
, lif And , verjs- impoitant, read
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