Interdependence Emphasized In caster on November 26, starting
1968 Farm-City Week Observance
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Pennsylvania’s Farm - City The Pennsylvania State Univer- Craft Snles Bu i ld i ng) and pro .
Week observance scheduled sity, pointed out that the 1988 fw.r
for November 22-28 will em- celebration will also focus atten- ceed two blocks t 0 the Center *
phasize, more strongly than tlon on the need for a discus- jj. M. Smith, Lancaster Coun
ever before, the interdepen- sion of problems of mutual con- , Aeent savs the i mDO rtance of
dence that exists between rural cern to all Commonwealth resi- *. g “*’“ y * „
and urban people. Marlon R. dents. this b,n( * uet cannot bc over
Deppen. State Farm,City Week Loc , llyt the Annual Agrlcul . stressed. For the eighth time in
chairman, announced today. ture-Industry Banquet will be rccent yetrs > tbe busines s and
Deppen, assistant’Cooperative held at Lancaster County’s new agriculture communities will be
Extension Service director at Farm and Home Center, located drawn together as a group to
ATTENTION FARMERS...
WHY SHOULD YOU BUY A NEW
CASE FARM TRACTOR NOW?
,25% discount on any New Case tractor I
on our lot purchased during November.
2. Waiver of Finance Charges until spring.
3. 7% tax investment credit.
4. 20% depreciation allowance on 1968 tax return.
5. Protection from company price increases.
STOP IN TODAY FOR ANY EQUIPMENT NEEDS.
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Box 23, Kinzers, Pa. Phone 442-4186
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Lancaster Farming, Saturday, November 23,1968
discuss mutual problems and LATE FALL HAY CUTTING
activities.
Calvin D. Johnson, Special
Consultant on Public Affairs for ou , can a c u ttmg
New Holland Division, Sperry- from legume-grass meadows if
Rand Corporation, will be the you time , ‘ h « cutt P rQ P« rly
principal speaker. then mulch for winter protec-
Pennsylvania is linking its on ’ ® ays Dr> George R. Gist,
celebration this year to the f ns |? n . agronomist at Ohio
theme, "Farm-City Partners Sta * e University,
for Better Living.” County Meadows should be permitted
committees are organized f row a * e October, Dr.
throughout the state to plan p ist P° ints °nt- Right now,
community programs in cities, legumes are storing food re
towns, and rural areas. serves in their root systems, and
"Agriculture has become a bil- harvesting during this reserve
lion dollar business in the Com- £uild-up will reduce next year s
monwealth,” Deppen said, “but ? ay , cro P- 11 even result
this is only a small part of the in almost complete winterkill,
economy compared to the im- especially after a wet season,
pact of agricuture on other en- Food reserves in legume roots
terprises that depend solely on are lewer after a wet season
farms for the products they than after a dry one.
process and sell.” F°r a late harvest, Dr. Gist
Agriculture takes more steel, advises cutting during the last
rubber, petroleum, trucks, week of October or the first
tractors, and electricity than week of November. This late
any other industry, the chair- harvest will keep regrowth and
man emphasized. Agribusiness— depletion of food reserves at a
the food and fiber produced on minimum.
farms, its transporting, process- As a mulch following the late
mg, and marketing involves harvest, he suggests up to four
to varying degrees, 37 percent tons per acre of strawy manure
of Pennsylvania’s total labor or two tons per acre of old hay,
force. straw or similar material.
“The rapid increase in the
number of people in the United
States has created new and un-
usual demands for food, housing, phosphate powders have cal
industry, and a host of other c i U m acid phosphate,
necessities,” Deppen pointed Tartrate powder has potas
out. “It has lead to some con- s j um acid tartrate and tartaric
cern that land was being gob- ac j d
bled up at such a rapid rate Combination powders have
that soon there would be little two acid ingredients—calcium
left on which to produce food.” acid phosphate and sodium
It is true, he said, that much aluminum sulphate,
land is needed for houses, fac- Read the label on the can fac
tories, shopping centers, high- f ore buying baking powder
ways, and recreational facilities. a jj ingredients are listed
In Pennsylvania, three million Almost all baking powder
acres of farmland have been used in home baking is double
diverted to other purposes since a c,ting or combination powder.
1950. Baking powders react at dif-
More important, it seems to f eren t rates of speed because of
have widened the gap between the d iff ere nt acid ingredients,
rural and urban centers and to rphis means you can’t change
have separated farm and city b aking powders among recipes
people by a much wider margin and use same amounts,
than land alone.
“In celebrating - City iUes,” the state chairman
Week, efforts are being made to emphasized
biing the important issues to the It is essential, Deppen said, to
forefront and have the two im- realize that farm and city
portant segments of our society people, working together, are
attempt to solve differences that the most potent power for pro
might exist in local commun- gress in this nation
NEEDS CAREFUL TIMING
• Have You Heard?
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