16—Lancaster Farming. Saturday. November 18.1967
• Lorson not due to a lack of potential
/rwo.« i. * 01 ’ expanding world food pro
(Continue* fiom Page 1) auction but to the Inability to
"The desire for more protein realize the potential quickly
in the diet seems to be com- enough,
mon to all societies. The level “Agricultural production in
of income appears to be the the developing countries them
only Important factor con- selves will have to be raised
straining the level of animal enormously, if the spectre of
protein Intake. global hunger is to be dis
" The use of grain for direct P®* l * ol - .. .. .
consumption never seems to 0l * the World
exceed 400 pounds per person Bank has been emphatic m en
per year regardless of the lev- couraging its borrowers to get
el of income. Once annual in- on w, 11 * 1 agricultural develop
comes reach several hundred bas backed its urg
dollars a year, the direct con- m S>f w *tb increased lending for
sumption of grain as food be- such things as fertilizer pro
gins to decline, dropping to ductipn and agricultural train
-150-200 pounds where it seems in “ TT s ® ho ? ls ' ... .. _ .
to level off. “U.S. food aid. for the first
"Sharp population increases. «”* programs of^ric^rai
srszss
fleeted in the fast-growing de- uons ’ ne sam '
mand for foodgrains.” WHY SHOULD WE
Larson continued “Food BE CONCERNED?
shortages for the most part are Larson went on to say,
believe every United States FARM FIRE LOSSES
citizen and taxpayer, when con- Flre destro yed an average of
fronted with the outlay of large more than a half miUion do i.
amounts of manpower and pub- j ars 0 j j am property a day in
1 c funds for research, educa- im Parm flre losses laat year
tion, foreign aid or any other reac^ed a record high of $196
major program, has the right m ini on
to ask this apparently rather
selfish question— *Whj Should HURRICANE DEATHS
We Be Concerned?’
“Aside from the rather ob- Hurricanes have taken more
vious humanitarian aspects of than 5,000 lives in the United
helping these people, we must States in the last 50 years. The
face the fact that ‘One way or highest single-year death total
another a balance between food was 1.836 in 1928.
production and population will
t . in the farming community and
If the balance is not reach- man y re | a ted ag-industrial
ed by desirable social means, coun terparts impress upon our
it will be reached by the anci- non . farm friends> neighbors,
ent methods of famine, pestil- business associates and politi
ence and war, he said. C al leaders the national and
As Carroll Streeter, Farm international economic and so
journs! editor, rather bluntly c j a j va | ues 0 f a healthy agri
put it.” he continued ‘These cultural atmoS p here . (Persuade
people aren going to starve them to look into the ‘right
quietly • • • end’ of the telescope when
Coming back to his The t bey view our industry.)
Telescoped Evolution idea
where he likened the two “This industry will require
views of the world food situa- the interest, energies and abil
tion to the two ways of look- ities of our youth, if it is to
ing through the telescope (1, meet the challenges that lie
magnify the situation or 2, re- ahead. It will also require the
verse the instrument and put support of non-agriculturists
considerable distance between- if we are t 0 win the world
you and the inevitable), the wide race between the stork
Dean said: and the plow,” Larson con-
“It is my intention that we eluded.
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