TABBY IN THE SHOAT PEN. When Farming’s Editor, Everett Newswanger,
it comes to keeping warm you can’t beat caught her in the act on the recent Grange
the Richard Holloway family’s cat. She Tour during Farm-City Week. Oh, yes,
just makes herself comfortable under the when Tabby gets hungry she helps herself
heat light with the little pigs. Lancaster to a few self-fed pig pellets too. L. F. Photo
Rnrlrc Hnrrlin cording to John W Scott, Wash- expects will take an “objective
mange DOCKS naram mgtonj natlonal master approach” to the problems that
Selection of Clifford M Ha'- Speaking at a Grange Middle confront farmers,
din, chancellor of the University Atlantic Leaders Conference Scott, who headed the Penn
of Nebraska, by President-elect Friday night at Holiday West, sylvama State Grange for six
Richard M Nixon to be secre- Scott described the new head of y ears before his recent election
tary of agriculture, has the “full the nation’s agriculture as a as national master, said he an
endorsement” of the Grange, ac- “middle-of-the-roader” whom he (Continued on Page 20)
Grubb Supply Company Stevens Feed Mill, Inc.
Elizabethtown
Stevens Feed Mill, Inc.
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S. H. Hiestand & Company
A Christmas Wish
We wish you all the best of holiday
cheer ... a Christmas bright with joy.
Thanks to you our Christmas will be
a happy one . . . serving you has been
the greatest treat' of all.
Harold H. Good
Salunga
Stevens
Terre Hill
Lancaster Farming, Saturday, December 21,1968
SECOND SECTION
Consumer Protection
Concern Of Ag Dept.
by L. H. Bull.
clearly stated “foi the pio-
Penna Sec of Agriculture teCtlon ° f the pubhc health and
renna. see. ot Agriculture the pieventlon of fraud and de .
Consumer protection has be- ception ”
come one of the most important A k factor m enforcement
issues of the piesent time and of these laws lg the inspectlon
eieiy effoit is being made to seivice provided by the Depart
fhrw,fCT S gUai ment With food, for example,
the buying public inspector buy food in retai
Some people look on consum- markets and s y tores - just as
er protection as a new trend, a oldinary eonsumers do _ and
modem switch fiom the buyer sen d it to laboratories foi analy
beware” attitude that prevailed ag when Vlolatlons ale dete< £
bUSm6SS deals not S ° ed, the necessary steps aie tak-
To the Pennsylvania Depait- en to co " ect the Sltuatlon
ment of Agncultuie, howevei, °* the Ke y aws were
consumer piotection is nothing 01 finally enacted in 1909 and
new; it has been a major pait amended periodically to meet
of the Depaitment’s services changing conditions Rules and
and responsibilities foi half a regulations which have been
century or more diafted in accordance with these
As a matter of fact, about half * aws are frequently revised to
the laws administered by the keep them in step with modern
Department of Agriculture are times and to cover the vast ar
directly involved with food sold ray of new food products being
to consumers. offered the public.
The purpose of these laws is (Continued on Page 20>
Follow our Alfalfa Program
0-18-36 Can include Boron and Chick
or weed control at your desired
0-26-26 rate of application.
Use our Truck Spreader Service or rental Trailer Spreaders
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Ph. 392-4963 or 392-0374
YOUR FULL SERVICE DEALER
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