4—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, July 9. 1966 From Where We Stand... Now Comes The "Real" Sfory After opening up a real bucket of worms earlier this year, when it at tempted to pin the tail of blame for high food prices on the farmer, the Ad ministration has done some sudden back-tracking in recent weeks. The tidal wave of farmer reaction which was launched toward Washington was apparently unexpected. Now, the fact that several important Congression al seats in the farm belt appear in dan ger of being washed away has caused a turnabout in public talks by both the President and the Secretary of Agricul ture Johnson made this evident last weekend when he went to tne Lone Star State via a stopover in lowa. There, after demonstrating his'skill as a caller of pigs, he reminded farmers that their good prices this year were due to Administration efforts over the past four years. He inferred they should all bow to the East when they cash their high milk and livestock checks, and bear in mind where these goodies came from when they go to the polls in November. At about the same time, Freeman told a group of farm broadcasters that the record high food prices .were a direct result of the consumer’s ‘demand for higher quality goods and services. “In the last ten years,” freeman said, “total marketing costs have in creased 43 percent At the saipe time farm prices . have dropped Substan tially ” He said the consumer has Remand ed greater convenience, wider and higher quality foods, and- she is paying for the other services which go into retail food prices transportation, processing, packaging, displaying, ad vertising, selling, and such super mar ket services as huge parking lots, check cashing, and even baby-sitting, j Freeman rebutted the original Ad ministration claim that farm prices were inflationary by pointing out that, since 1960, farm prices have risen 4 percent, but are still 25 percent below what they were in the peak year of 1951 He added that . . . “farmers have actually subsidized the nation’s food bill between 535 and §4O billion since the parity goal was established by law in the early 1930’5.” Quite a different tune than Ad ministration spokesmen were whistl ing such a short time ago, isn’t it? Freeman pleaded with the broad- Knowledge Gained In Leukosis Research May Aid Cancer Studies Reseaich on avian leukosis is helping medical scientists tiling to solve the riddles of human cancel The two diseases are sim ilai. although the poultiy dis ease does not infect humans Theie is stiong cncumstantial evidence, but no clear pi oof, that a vn us causes human cancel That vnus, if it ex ists, is a neai-ielative of the vnuses that cause avian leu kosis Scientists thus gam clues that aid in then seaich foi the human cancel vnus fiom knowledge of this poultiy dis ease When and if a cancel vnus is chscoveied, ex pel lence gained in tiying to conti ol auan leukosis will help in cuibing it scientists at LANCASTER FARMING County’s Own Farm Weekly IM. ] *n\ jm, OlllMS J> 1 f int/ Pi IT'-H M mi St , I ii it/, I* i PlloJli I <m< tM» 1 I- *,fl IT him/ i.ju-jm I>"Ji I iiimiuns I iliim 11 (, ( i h, , 1 Ml i i t(*| bill*"* 1 ij»l Mill l»i u f I pf j \ f-ai m < oniin s \ cNt u ho. \<»\ * min j 4 1 * \ • i \ S itin «1 t \ Ia 1" nin m*. 1 1111 / I* i r<.>ta-c jiud nt 1 7'»! i I UK 1 l.sl i[ J ul.IMi. cl 1 till CM* I s. . mnl ( 1 Lint/ 1 *i gional Poultry Research Lab oratory, East Lansing, Mich., are among the leaders, in avian leukosis research They helped establish the fact that a filteiable virus causes avian leukosis, and took part in studies dunng which the caus ative vuuses weie spotted through a high-power elec tron micioscope and followed on then path fiom cell to cell in infected chickens Now, the size, shape, structuie, habits, weaknesses, ways of tiavel, and modes ot action of avian leukosis vn uses aie known Recently, the ARS woikers helped show that one gioup of vuuses involved in the disease lacks the protein coat which all vuuses seem to need to in fect chicken cells These “de fective” vuuses spread by shar ing the coats of other vuuses that infect chicken cells Since the coatless vuuses by themselves appear non-infect ive, scientists think that the vuus piesumably involved in human cancel uses a similar dodge to appeal haimless There aie indications that the pattem of spiead of avian leukosis resembles that of cancel The ARS poultry sci entists found specific types of tumors occuned more often in chickens of specific ages Certain foims of human cancer similaily aie most prev alent among people of ceitam Re- the 17’. I ! Ad\c 1 tiMUST casters to go homo and tell the “real" story of farm prices and food prices to their listeners. Mr. Secretary, we’ve been atellin’ ’em, and atcllin’ ’em, and atellin’ 'em again, but y’all down there in Washington just can’t seem to get your stories straight! tAt tAt Best Definition Of The Week A pessimist is one who builds dungeons in the air. ★ ★ ★ ★ Fewer Cows Equals Less Milk, Equals BOOM The long term outlook for the dairy business, and for those who remain in it. could hardly be better. Cow numbers have been reduced across the nation to their lowest point in many years. The population has finally outrun the supply of milk, and it may be some time, if ever, before the milk supply approaches the surplus level again. That, at least, is what some informed independent ob servers are predicting. Since 1961, Pennsylvania has lost nearly 100,000 milk cows, almost twice as many cows as there are in the state’s leading dairy county, Lancaster. Our county has fared slightly better than the state as a whole; we only lost about 7 percent of our cows between 1961 and 1965, and are actually producing more milk than we did in 1961. But across the country, farmers by the thousands have reportedly been sell ing their herds, deserting the dairy business for the better paying livestock market, or leaving the farm for city jobs. It is estimated that one million milk cows will be lost this year, and that, on top of the million head lost last year, lowers the total by three mil lion head since 1960; six million cows out of the milk line in the past ten years’ Although the long-range per cow production is up, there are no prospects for enough milk to satisfy the growing demand The recent raise in government sup port prices may help somewhat, but it will have to be raised several times over before the trend toward reduced cow numbers will be reversed Too little, too late, is the way one authority described the government’s action. So, those of you who have hung on this long, continue to have faith in Old -r « rpi rp» Bossey, she’s coming into her own at a JNOW IS JL 116 i 11X16 * . • rapid, and profitable, rate ages Children 3 to 4 years old, for example, most fre quently fall victim to the blood cancer, acute leukemia Usually only a few chickens in a flock infected with leu kosis show disease symptoms Human cancer also occurs without apparent contact be tween patients The poultiy scientists found that a day-old chick can ear ly billions of leukosis viruses in its body, yet live out a noimal lifespan without de velopmg disease symptoms Cancer researches suspect that the supposed virus that tuggeis cancel ous growth in humans is present generally in the population but af fects only about 6 people out of 100,000 Anothei ARS discovery lais es the possibility of vaccina tion against cancer if a vnus is pioved to be the cause The poultiy scientists found that hens expei imentally injected with leukosis virus produced baby chicks resistant to the disease Antibodies t'o leukosis weie apparently passed from parent thiough egg to oit sprmg, even when hens weie vaccinated with a dilute prep aiation of leukosis vnus To date, a vaccine for avian leu kosis has not been developed because so many virus shams ai e involved Studies on the role of glands in tiiggenng or pi eventing leukosis in chickens have led (Continued on Page 12) HOW LONG WILL YOU GO LIMPING? The people of ninth century B. C. Israel provide a caic-la point. Officially committed to the worship and service of the God of Abraham, they nevertheless found themselves attracted to the Baal gods of their neighbors. The God of Abraham was a mighty God who had brought them out of Egypt’s bondage and established them in the land of Canaan but he wasn’t much fun, something the Baal gode , unquestionably were. . . .. . , , , r . „ . So they tried to keep both: the r J :, D ;,“ •***s of the God Of Abrahaml id ' and the pleasure of Baalism. A 1 D.v.1i.n.l Dc l.rsnomy 6I 9 gOOd itlCd if tllCy lldd gotten The piesident'of a prominent away with it. but the prophet American unhcisitv was trav- Elijah, that disturbing man of eiing in some ot the moie re- God, spoiled everything bychaK mote areas ot noilhcm Canada, knging them to choose once and! It was spungtime. the frost for all. ... was breaking up and the roads 1 How long will you go limping -aim sf issable. Coming " d,ffc ™ n ‘ ° r p ‘ nlon 1 s ; j a lonely LORD is God, follow him;) rintsln-ifis flip but if Baal, then follow him,i cducalo? (I Kmgs 18 21 HSV) 1 MUST CHOOSE TAKE CARE 1 lere “ ««■ sarcastic play on OF WHICH words m his challenge. The RUT YOU Pnasts of Baal did a limping CHOOSE. kind of dance around the altar. YOU WILL The Israelites, he suggested, j}],] j’p FOR. °°ked equally ridiculous as they Rev. Althouse THE NEXT tne d to sene both God and Baal, 25 MILES.” Stop hopping fiom one foot to The choices we make in life another! Let there be an end are often like that. We choose a to this idiotic limping! You must road and find that we have also choose between Baal and God. chosen a destination. That’s what Walk one way or another, but Harry Emerson Fosdick meant * alk, don’t limp, when he said: "He who chooses Jesus himself experienced this the beginning of a road chooses inner civil war, particularly' the place it leads to.” This mak- during that period oi soul-search ing of choices is both a privilege mg in the wilderness. One inner and a responsibility, for we can- \ oice kept tempting him to use not complain about the destina- his new -found power to forcefully tion at which we have arrived if build the kingdom of God. "-Why we are the ones who have chosen not?” the voice taunted. "Didn’t the road. _ God give you that power?” The Yet, much as we enjoy the voices were calling for a divide!! privilege of choosing, we often loyalty, a loyalty to both thf try to avoid making decisive God of love and the demon of An End to limping Lesson For July 10, 1966 choices. As the old saying goes, ta w power, we like to "have our cake and eat There could be but one answers it too.” We delay as long as we - You shall WO iship the Lori can with important choices in or* t, oui God and him onlv shall you der to avoid commitment. serve.” Whj 9 Because God ieJ quues it and man needs it. A man cannot suc\ ive divided with-j in himself These inner ci\ il war* mav cripple a man for life ATTEND THE CHURCH hm f S 3 something 01 someone else. But! let theie be an end to thishmpmgfl OF YOUR CHOICE SUNDAY By Max Smith, Lancaster County Agent By planting seveial varieties of alfalfa, growers can stietch the maturity time so that the crop can be cut at the proper stage; many growers claim their entire acreage comes into the bud stage at the same time making it difficult to get it cut for maximum feed value For late summer seedings the maturity time of the vanous varieties should be recognized and aim to have some come eaily and some later To Remove Manure Pack Cattle feeders and other types of live stock pioduceis aie reminded of the heat given off from manuie accumulations during SMITH hot weather For maximum comfort this problem should be eliminated by frequent cleaning In addi tion manure packs present good places foi the reproduction of flies and other insects Good sanitation is extremely im portant dm mg the hot summei months To Circulate Air For Livestock To Respect Water Rights The day may come when t de ™ and fOl water seem . s some livestock will enjoy air on le increase, especial conditionmg during the summ- or agriculture Farmers er months However, for the 3l e ad^e install irriga time being and during extreme- * lon systems are reminded of ly hot weather, it will be help- cei tain water rights The legal ful if large fans can be install- decision will grant any faimer ed in the barn to keep the air "his share ’ of the water in a moving, bank barns are about stream or lake, but this may as cool a place as can be found have many interpretations, so on many farms, circulation of legal counsel is advised in cas* this air over livestock will help any question or dispute, keep them more comfortable Read LANCASTER FARMING For Full Market Reports (las.J on outlines copyrighted by th* Division •f Chnsition Education Rational Council of th#i Churches of Christ in the USA fteieesMl Community Press Service) To Stretch Alfalfa Season
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