Tobacco Crop
Smallest In
33 Years
Pennsylvania’s 1068 tobacco
production is forecast at 36 mil
lion pounds, the lightest crop in
3,'< years. Production from this
season’s 20,000 acres is expected
to be 7 percent smaller than last
year and more than a fourth be
low average.
Yield prospects are 1,800
pounds per acre, 50 pounds less
than a year ago and 25 pounds
less than the 1982-66 average.
Harvest of this year’s crop,
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over by October 1, is slightly the small late tobacco plants. Low humidity, plenty of sun- curing process is well advanced
later than a year ago but about Nearly all plants were harvest- shme and adequate air move- for O ctober L Very little of the
normal. Beneficial rains oc- ed, despite earlier fears that late crop was damaged by hail, and
curred the second week of Sep- fields would not be worth cut- mellt dunn = September created quality and color appear to be
tember and promoted growth on ting. ideal curing conditions, and the excellent.
Nixon Aid Proposes
"Foreign Food Corps"
In Address To NEPPCO
Dr. Robert R. Spitzer, a prom- country a n administration
inently mentioned candidate for which cares about and will fight
the post of Agriculture Secre- for the American farmer”
tary in a Nixon cabinet, last Noting that he has become
week proposed a “Foreign Food personally involved as the chair-
Corps” which would be dedicat- man °t Republican presidential
ed to increasing the agncultur- candidate Richard Nixon’s Na
al efficiency of farmers over- tional Aguculture and: Food
seas Committee, Spitzer alluded to
Speaking before a large au- indications he might succeed
dience at the 31st exposition of Freeman in the event of a Re
tne Northeastern Poultry Pro- publican victory at the polls
ducers Council m the Farm month.
Show Building, Spitzer blasted “I have no personal ambi-
Agnculture Secretary Orville tions,” the Wisconsin corpora-
Freeman as “unqualified for his tion president said. “I don’t
job” and called on American know what would happen if I
farmers to “get involved in poll- were asked to serve in some
tics” and to help “bring this capacity, but I know I am going
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to do all I can to aid the agri
cultural industry in this coun
try ”
The Foreign Food Corps
which Spitzer proposed ‘‘would
be a far better answer to the
problems of other countries
than the giveaway programs we
have involved ourselves in over
the last several years,” he said.
The son of a Wisconsin dairy
farmer, Spitzer said he is well
acquainted with the plight of
the farmer in this country to
day.
‘‘Agriculture is our nation’s
largest single industry, with a
value in excess of $270 billion,”
he said. “But the fact that only
six percent of our population is
today actively involved in some
kind of farming has greatly re
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farmer at the national political
level.”
Spitzer, the keynote speaker
for this three-day exposition
and convention of poultrymen
and equipment manufacture! s
from 14 northeastern states,
wound up his address with a
call for new national leadership.
Rural Electrification Admin
istration borrowers, mostly co
operatives, checked the outflow
of cash from the Federal Trea
sury by approximately $142 8
million during fiscal year 1968
They used $97 million of theii
own renewal and leplacemenl
funds to help finance necessary
construction and deposited $45.8
million in the Tieasury from
their reserve funds as advance
loan repayments
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