Hondurans Are Poor
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have the airplane ai their only even they travel into some areas
link with the outside world. The only once per week.
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STEER FEED
Is another feed you should try for your
steers. Just add it to your corn or other
grams to produce well finished steers.
WHEN YOU ARE READY TO CONTRACT YOUR CATTLE FEEDS decide on die
RED ROSE BOOKING PROGRAM. You do not obligate yourself for any fixed
amount of supplement you take whfot you need and pay the low price for what
you take.
These Red Rose Dealers will furnish all of your feed needs
Walter Binkley & Son
Lititz
Brown & Rea, Inc.
Elverson Supply Co.
Henry E. Garber
R. D. 1, Elizabethtown, Pa.
L. T. Geib Estate
Red Rose
CATTLE FEEDS
From these statistics it is pos'
and
DISINFECTING
Atglen
Elverson
Manheim
Phone 392-7227 E
I. B. Groybiil & Son
s Refton Strasburg
E. Musser Heisey & Son Mountville Feed Service
R. D. #2, Mt. Joy, Pa. Mountville
Heistond Bros.
Elizabethtown
A. L. Herr & Bro.
Quarryville
David B. Hurst
Bowmansville
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ilblo to ico that transportation
Is really one of the big prob
lems In developing a country
like Honduras,
Because of these adverse con
ditions produce goes to market
on the backs of men. In addition
must is also transported by ox
cart and horseback. The mule
train is a common sight in Hon
duras and it is not uncommon to
see ox carts backed up to air
planes or railroad cars unload
ing them.
Working as an agricultural
missionary 1 did experience
these different kinds of travel.
In order to get the job done it
was necessary to walk as much
as 15 miles per day between vil
lages; to ride horseback 20 and
25 miles per day; to ride for
days at a time cramped in a dug-
SURE you wont to get your steers to market
fast. Here is where Red Rose Cattle Supple
ments can help you. Mixed with your home
grown grains these supplements will furnish the
proteins necessary for proper balance and better
feeding!
Rbo-J^Rosb
32 Beef Cattle Supplement
Use this supplement as a mixing ration for
home grains or use it as a protein supple
ment to balance the feeding of low protein
roughages.
Rbo'^Rosb
50 Beef Cattle Supplement
This supplement is in mash form. Feed it
at the rate of one pound per head per day.
Lancaster Farming. Saturday, September 21.1968
out canoe; to fly in, around and
between high mountains by Mis
sionary Aviation Fellowship pi
per cub airplane. Yes, it was
even necessary to go some of the
miles by ox cart.
The land resources of Hondur
as contribute to the poverty.
There are broad valleys with
highly fertile soil. They arc re
ported to be some of the richest
soils in the world. However,
much of the land mass is steep
mountains and unclaimed jungle.
Unfortunately, the rich, fertile
valleys are owned by the 10%,
the already rich class. The mass
es of the people are forced to
live in the productive, difficult
to till mountains or as squatters
on a richer persons land hold-
Martin's Feed Mill, Inc.
R. D. 3, Ephrata, Pa.
Musser Farms, Inc.
Columbia
Musser's Mill
The Buck
Chas. E. Sauder & Sons
Terre Hill
Ammon E. Shelly
Lititz
E. P. Spotts, Inc.
Honey Brook
H. M. Stauffer & Sons,
Inc.
Witmer
ings. It is said when Cortez re
turned to Spain, the King en
quired what the topography of
the New World was like? Corlc/.
replied by rolling a sheet of pa
per into n ball in his hand and
dropping it on the table “Thai, ’
he said, "is the new world.”
The centuries old method of
"slash and bum” agricultuic
that is used also limits the pin
duction of a Honduran farmer.
Make no mistake about it, with
their capital and their growing
conditions this method is not all
bad. In fact, at the present eco
nomical level it remains the be.-t
for their area. However, it does
not permit optimum use of land
resources and as the populations
grow this centuries old method
of agriculture will have to
change.
With this method a farmer
clears a piece of land, about l z
acie, with his machete in Feb
luaiy He lets this diy and bums
u during April In May he plan.s
a patch of corn using his point
ed stick The binning has de
sti oyed weed seeds so there usu
ally is no need to cultivate He
hai vests this crop in September
ci October Without icmoving
the stalks he plants a second
ci op of com in the same paten
duung late Octobei or eaily No
vembei This ciop is hai vested
in January and then the field is
abandoned for 6 to 7 yeai s
Water is the earner of amoe
bas and other disease producing
geims Hondurans usually have
open, polluted wells or else get
then water supplies from pol
luted streams. The dysenteiy
they get from this water suppiy
is one of the mam reasons they
aie too ill to work about one
half the time Some doctors re
port villages where 98% of its
lesidents have active TB Some
of this disease can be attributed
to poor diets as well as the
water
To further illustrate how
transportation, types of agricul
tuie, and education all combine
to cause poverty in Honduras,
consider the following. Remem
ber, Honduras is a lush, tropical
ccuntiy capable of growing
many vegetables San Pedro
Sula, one of the major cities of
Honduras, the fastest growing
city in Latin America, gets most
of its fresh vegetables from
Guatemala Fresh vegetables
shipped over 400 miles, over half
of it dut road into an aiea that
is entuely capable of supplying
this maiket itself The missing
links aie 1) access roads for
farmers to get their ciops to the
main load, 2) faimers not know
ing how to grow the vegetables
because no one has ever shown
them, and 3) a primitive slash
and burn agncultuie that limits
pioduction per man to produc
ing only enough for his own
family.
These are some of the physical
factors creating mass poverty in
Honduras Next week we wi'l
shaie with you some of the
hopes Hondurans have to raise
them out of this poverty.
PENNA. POTATOES
August heat had considerable
influence on the State’s potato
ci op prospects The Septembei 1
estimate at 8,170,000 hundred
weight was down 4 percent from
piedictions of a month earlier
The Pennsylvania Crop Re
poiting Service said that if the
latest estimate materializes, the
crop will be 10 percent below
last year, but 15 percent above
the 1962-66 average
Yield per acre is expected to
a\ erage 215 cwt, second only to
last year’s lecord yield of 240
cwt The five-year aveiage yield
per acre is 184 cwt
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