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
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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
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the
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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.
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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
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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
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To Stretch Alfalfa Season