Good t Morning Part 111 ED NOTE: “Good Morning: 3,336 People Starved Last Night’*, is taken from a report by George C. Tolls, Manager of the Washington operation of Computer Usage Company, Inc. The report is titled, “Com puters And Food’*. 3. Cost or the ingredients at tl e point of mixture. While such calculations can be madd* "by. guess and by golly” for small herds, such practices n m.. it- would quickly lead the modern Keeling up farmer down disastrous paths. Like the dairy farmer whose p or example, meat scraps food product milk —is a re- ranging from $5 to $5.20 per suit of proper diet and breedipg hundredweight - are frequent procedures, the cattle farmer is jy mixed with soybean meal "beefing up" on new technology, 'ranging in cost from about $4.30 As a result the control of ci*t- t 0 $4:50 a hundredweight. When tle feed procedures is another ever possible, since meat scraps area in which computer usage - are cheapest when soybean meal is spreading. It takes something j s most expensive, the computer like eight pounds of grain to pro- determines the least expensive duce a pound of beef. And the 'mix that has equivalent nutri cost of that grain can make or tional value, break the farmer. Computers are therefore put Future to work in the “kitchen” figur-- "The computer farmer is a mg what to feed livestock for manager," says Anthony E. maximum dollar return. This Casino of International Minerals “least cost” rations calculation & Chemical Company. “The requires three kinds of informa- owner of a farm of the future tion; will no more be out riding a to hold up production, body condition... SUPPLEMENT GRASS WITH PURINA Good grass is a benefit. Good dairymen take advan tage of every acre of pasture they have. Cows love grass and it stimulates milk flow. Yet, good dairymen know that grass is 85% water. As summer advances it turns brown, losses its paya bility and is even less nutritious. Tests at the Purina Dairy Center proved that cows fed a grain supplement with grass produced up to 20% more milk. They kept'up in body condition, too, and held up better in production in following lactations. Visit us at the store, or give us a ring. We’d like to suggest Purina’s Research-proved plan for suppl menting grass to help you get more milk from yo; herd over the summer. Wenger's Feed Mill Inc. Ph: 367-1195 Rheems Ire B. Landis Janies. High & Sons Ph: 569-0531 Ph: 354-0301 179 Valley Road, Lancaster ' Gordonville John J. Hess, 11, Inc. Ph: 442-4632 Paradise LOW COST PRODUCTION... # the reason why more farmers feed PURINA 1. Requirements of ration to be formulated. 2. Approximate chemical ana lysis of available feed ingredi ents; and West Willow Farmers Assn., Inc. Ph: 464-3431 West Willow John B. Kurtz Ph: 354-9251 R. D. 3, Ephrata tractor than the president of General Motors is out on an as sembly line tightening bolts." L. S. Fife sees the farm land scape spotted with television towers used to scan the fields, keeping an eye on robot tractors criss-crossing about in numeric ally precise patterns. Mr. Fife has also referred to tne development of sensing de vices to relay information on fields and crop conditions to a computer which will be able to send back orders to speed up or slow down operations, alter the depth at which seeds are being planted and regulate intensities with which fertilizer is being ap plied. These are only some of the areas where computer technol ogy is having an impact on food production, quality, and plan ning in the U.S. However, the problems of a world power with starving billions at its gates are not likely to be solved through the application of current, limit ed-objective programs. If Mal thus is to be proven wrong—if we’re not destined to be decima ted by war, famine, or flood then the key to man’s very sur vival on this planet lies in the application of computer technol ogy to agricultural technology in all the countries of the world. Recently, Dr. Roger Revelle, Director of the Center for Popu lation Studies at Harvard Uni versity, proposed the creation of two government agencies to bring the modernization of agri culture to underdeveloped areas. Dr. Revelle has led efforts to in crease food production in Pakis tan and India According to him, "The only way we can be as sured of a stable world in which the United States can live peace ably, is to work for a diminution of poverty and misery every where.” It Can Work Past efforts to aid countries in their farming practices have not been" too successful But the suc cess of the Rockefeller Founda tion, whose specialists worked directly with Mexicans on their Lancaster Farming. Saturday. June 8.1968-- Hatfield Says New Marketing Practices Confronting Dairymen Acceptance of new marketing practices is one of the most dif ficult hurdles confronting the dairy industry, an American Farm Bureau Federation dairy specialist told dairy division members of the South Carolina Farm Bureau Marketing Associ ation recently. corn and wheat production, is an exception. In 1941 Mexican farm ers produced 11 bushels of wheat an acre and the country had to import wheat to avoid starva tion, Today production is up to 35 bushels an acre and Mexico exports wheat. Mexico has also sent its own agricultural team tc India and Pakistan. Crossbreeding is familiar to every farmer. Breeding in the best of a variety of traits and breeding out weak traits has produced hardier animals and more nutritious crops. Crossbreeding those technolo gies having to do with the pro duction. storage and distribution of food is, perhaps, the single most important task facing men today. A vast job of information cataloging and communications has only been started The future is being sowed now. And the message is clear. The Director-General of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization, Binay Sen. says "Either we take the fullest measures both to raise product ivity and to stabilize population growth, or we face a disaster of unprecedented magnitude . . . Problems of hunger and malnu trition which afflict more than a half of the world’s population .. .pose a serious threat to peace.” Nothing miraculous will allevi ate the present food shortage. The pooling of diverse disci plines represents our only hope to avert the violent upheavals sure to result from world-wide starvation. Hollis HnUip’d, assistant di rector of AFBF’s research and commodity activities division, told dairymen the "butter story will not be repeated if the milk industry adapts itself to the changing marketing structure.” He said that handling of milk in many U.S. markets is largely determined by “vested interests, including labor unions, trying to maintain the status quo,” The dairy industry has only two real choices, Hatfield said: (1) follow the butter route and lose another 25 percent or more of the dairy market to substi tutes, or (2) follow the frozen dessert route, meet the substi tute competition, and increase dairy product sales. He explained the recommen dations of the AFBF national dairy advisory committee, ap proved by the organization's Board of Directors, which “are based upon the assumption that the dairy industry cannot com pete effectively with substitute fluid milk products by moving further behind 'protective' reg ulatory and pricing barriers.” “Milk substitutes are here to stay,” Hatfield said, in spite of reports that many of the non dairy imitations have been pull ed off the market. “The worst thing that could happen to the U S dairy industry is to sit back with a sigh of relief and say ‘we told you so ’ The absence of non dairy fluid milk substitutes will be for only as long as it takes the laboratory technicians to remedy problems in their prod ucts and to perfect them “Fortunately, there is a grow ing feeling throughout the dairy industry that its approach to marketing is due for a change. The desire to promote the sale of milk and milk products for any use the market demands ex emplifies this change in atti tude.” Hatfield pointed to laws and regulations which deter or pro hibit the sale of dairy products in forms other than the standard types as being a major challenge to the U S. dairy industry. Cotton tents, awmngs, and canopies were used by the Ro mans in 70 B C * * » * A pound of cotton can be spun into 70 yards of fabric Available At Smoketown 13
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