President Of World's
Bonk Urges Federal
The president of the world’s “Any farm or food policy we
largest bank recently urged a develop should be soundly based
massive overhaul of federal farm on economic facts and trends,
policies that would include the because if it is not it will—as
phasing out of price supports, our current farm policy does—
subsidies and average controls serve to perpetuate rather than
The proposals of Bank of solve problems.
America’s Rudolph A Peterson “To maintain uneconomic farm
■would' result in considerable units by federal poLcy is not
long-term savings for U S. tax- only bad economics, but a cruel
payers as well as more efficient social injustice to industrious
food production people who deserve a better
Addressing the annual meet- shake.
ing of the California Canners and “Any new larm policy must
Growers at the Hil on Hotel, be geared to the dignified retire-
Peterson emphasized ment of the small farm. Any
FEEDER PIG SALE
SATURDAY, JANUARY 4, 1969
1:30 P.M.
2V2 miles south ot Bethel from U S. 22 and 6 miles
north of Myerstown, Pennsylvania along U.S. 501.
400 - 425
40 -60 Pound Choice Feeder Pigs
Hamp-York-Duroc cross. All pigs are vaccinated for
cholera and erysipelas. Castrated, wormed, sprayed
for lice and mange. All pigs were raised on this farm.
No outside pigs will sell on this sale. These are some
of the finest quality pigs in the East.
NORMAN M. MARTIN
s - Route #1 Myerstown, Pennsylvania 17067
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BROWN'S
DAIRY CATTLE
AUCTION
LOCATION 3 miles north of Troy, Pa., Bradford County
on Route 14.
FRIDAY, DEC. 20, 1968
Starting promptly 1:00 O’clock
50 HEAD REGISTERED HOLSTEINS 50
34 young milking age animals~6 springing first-calf heifers
10 started heifer calves
SAMPLE OF SOME SELLING.
Rosafe Tiptop dau. fresh 3 weeks, milking 90 lbs daily,
heifer calf sells, by Don Augur True Type Model
Spring Farm Reflection Ormsby dau. fresh 4 weeks, milking
80 lbs daily, heifer calf sells, by Simpson Farm Tidy Gent
Rosafe Centunan dau, classified GP. fresh 2 weeks, milk
ing 90 lbs daily, heifer calf sells, by Glenafton Bonaventuie.
Rosafe Centunan dau due Jan 11, candidate for VG, in
calf to Maclacres Inka Top Notch
Skokie G Creation Coronet dau fresh 2 weeks, milking 85
lbs daily
Rosafe Shamrock Persus dau due Jan 15 to Mowry Ivanhoe
Prince
Other Canadian and NEBA daughters, fresh or close spnngeis,
some bred back foi early fall freshening
SALE MANAGER’S NOTE Good size group of animals
with well attached udders
Interstate tested Charts Sale Day Calfhood Vaccinated
Inoculated foi colds Catalogues
TERMS CASH OR GOOD CHECK SALE DAY
COREY & NORMA BROWN, Owners
Auctioneers: Carl Diller & Everett Kreider
Clerk: Richmond Sweet
Leadsman: Kenneth Hoose
SALE MGR.
D. O. ROCKWELL
Troy, Pa. Phone 717-297-3460
Policies Overhaul
other couise is a futile attempt
to paddle upstream against a
stiong and irreversible economic
tide—it cannot be done ”
The head of Bank of America,
the world’s largest agricultural
leader, declared that the opport
unity to revamp national farm
policy “has never been better”
since farm legislation comes up
for renewal in 1969
‘Our current farm programs
were born in 1933 in response to
a crippling depression,” Peter
son said, adding that the pro
grams have not changed signifi
cantly despite such significant
changes as
In 1935, one-fourth of the U
S. population lived on farms in
compauson to about 5 per cent
now, and agricultural production
has inci eased consideiably de
spite a diop in the numbei of
fai ms
“The heavy hand of govern
ment m the maiket place—once
vital to the faimei’s suivival—
is now a millstone around his
neck,” Peteison said, calling for
maximum fieedom of market
foi ces
He also mged sepaialion fiom
the faim progiam of consumer
onented programs
“This nation needs strategic
food reseives, but not as a mat-
tei of faim policy,” Peteison
said “Let’s have the govern
ment buy its food on the com
petitive market Piesummg ef-
HORSE AND PONY SALE
FRIDAY EVE, DECEMBER 20, 1968
MARTIN’S SALESTABLE
Blue Ball, Pa along Route 23
Load of Standard-breds from;New York State Commission
Horses and Ponies Equipment' at 6 P M Horses at 7 P M
Last horse sale of the year
Ph. (717) 354-6671
PAUL Z. MARTIN
PUBLIC SALE
BLACK & WHITE
HOLSTEIN FARM
at Dairy Cow Sale Pavilion
along Rt. 230 Bypass directly across from the Comet Out
door Theatre, just west of Lancaster.
FRIDAY, DEC. 20, 1968
8:00 P. M.
DOOR PRIZES TURKEYS AND
CANDY FREE COKES
2 years credit terms. Credit can be arranged prior to sale.
CHARLES C. MYERS, Owner
fective market pui chasing, gov
ernment buys would be made
during low price peuods, thus
saving the laxpayei money and
providing a floor in a declining
price period ”
Peterson envisioned the role
of government as “providing a
fiamework to assist agribusiness
in self-help programs designed
to strengthen their ability to sup
ply the domestic and world
markets ”
This would be accomplished
primarily by insuring competi
tive marketing practices, provid
ing informational services, and
providing aggressive suppoit for
a healthy business climate in
international tiade, “remember
ing the need to buy as well as
sell ”
Peterson emphasized that
v hatever faim piogiam is devel
oped “must help solve the piob
lem of the small faim, not pei
petuate Ins maigmal existence
“Studies indicate that faims
with sales in excels of $20,C00
nei year eam a rate of letum
on investment equal to or bettei
than what they could earn in
other potential investments It
is because of this compelling
economic leason that the com
meicial faimei will continue to
gi ow
“We need a piogiam which
will enable the small uneconom
ic farmer who is unable to or
unwilling to bung his farm to
ALSO REFRESHMENTS
50 Top Minnesota
Fresh and right ready to fresh
Lancaster Farming, Saturday, December 14,1968 —
and Registered
Canadian Cows
the commercial level by expan
sion oi meiger to take his land
out ot pioduction with dignity”
Petei son’s pioposal involves
the government paying an annual
sum based on an equitable foi in
ula with an automatic phase out
piovision It would allow the
faimei to maintain his home on
the piesent site, if he so desned
“We can anticipate that much
of this i etired land will return to
production sometime in the fu
ture when world food demand
lequires resumption of its pro
ductive capacity,” Peterson said
He added that rural communi
ties may require renewal assis
tance in the form of induce
ments to industry to locate
plants in these areas to utilize a
labor force idled by the chang
ing economy.
“But make no mistake,” Pe
terson emphasized, “a program
of this kind a kind of social
security for the small farmer
and his community will cost
no more than our current pro
grams.
“Implemented by degrees
ovei a 3-5 year period, the pro
gram would cost considerably
less on the long term Moie im
pel tantly, this kind of piogram
is designed to woik tow aid a
solution instead of a pi esei ra
tion of the status quo
“Let’s learn fiom histoiy that'
a good policy today may not be
good tomonow,” Peteison con
cluded “Our new faim policy
must have built in flexibility to
change with changing condi
tions ”
Internal Parasites
Rob Sheep And Goats
Are you one of the many live
stock men who aie buying food
for worms 9
If you haven’t had your sheep
01 goats checked for internal
parasites recently, the chances
aie good that you ars .wasting
money, says Dr Robert" Ham
mond, Extension vetermanai i at
the University of Maiyland.
“Postmoi tern examinations
fiom the Maiyland Livestock
Sanitary Sei vices laboratories
this fall show that many Mary
land sheep and goats have
worms,” he explains
Worm intestation tends to
“build up” duung the summer
especially if no preventive
piogram is followed
Intestinal parasites cause
damage in many ways They
rob the animal of his food after
it has been digested, they cause
irritation in the intestinal tract,
they cause mechanical blockage
of the intestines, and they cause
pneumonia through develop
ment and migration of worm
larvae in the animal’s lungs
Dr. Hammond recommends a
combination preventative pro
gram and treatment If you
know your animals have worms,
they can be treated If you only
suspect it, your veterinarian can
examine a fecal sample and
make sure
Treatment depends on the
kind of parasites found, but
phenothiazine or thiobendazole
are the most common chemicals.
Phenothiazine is more common
ly used and is cheaper, but it is
toxic and not as veisatile as
thiobendazole
Aftei treatment, Di Ham
mond lecommends, change pas
tille. and continue to iotat£
pasture at least eve>v month
Feed a low level of phenothia
zme in the salt continuosh
and have fecal samples checked
by a veteimanan befoie evei>
pasture notation
Government - owned utilities
s?ll electricity below “cost” to 20
percent of Americans at the ex
pense of 80 percent, according to
investor-owned power compan
ies Private utility customers
will continue to bear this bur
den until public power is placed
on an equal basis.
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