24—Lancaster Farming. Saturday. April 12,1969
U. S. Farmer
Is Underpaid
The cost of medical care went
up 85 percent from 1947—9
through 1966 and rent went up
52 percent during the same
period, while food increased only
35 percent
This end other statistics ic
lated to the cost of farming to
day were released by the New
Holland Division of Sperry Rand
Corp. recently.
An hour’s factory work says
Sperry Rand, purchased only 15
pounds of round steak in 1935,
but in ’66 the same amount of
work earned the consumer
enough to buy 2 4 pounds of the
same meat.
And milk, of which an hour’s
Taork brought 4 6 quarts in ’35,
is another staple the consumer
got more of for his hour’s wages
;n ’66—9 7 quarts to be exact.
So why are food bills up? The
cost of processing food is one
answer Another is the cost of
packaging, and a third the ris
ing cost of transportation
Nonfood items tallied on the
check-out tape are yet another
icason, says the firm
‘ln other words,” Sperry
Hand’s food researcher con
cludes. ‘‘the cost of maiketing
food has sent the groceiy bills
up to a laige extent
• From 1947 through 1966, the
total bill for maiketing Amen
ca’s food went from 522 6 bil
lion to over $521 billion, oi
n»re than 130 peicent increase
m less than 20 yeais
The f aimer, says Sperry
Rand, has not been getting the
benefit of higher food puces
Average wholesale faim prices
have in fact, been declining
High food pioduction and
I his
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Bowmansville, Pa.
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over-supplied wholesale mar
kets aie other factors.
Here’s what the farmer has
been averaging in receipts re
cently, according to S-P’s re
search; 2 8 cents for corn in a
30 cent box of Cornflakes; three
to four cents for wheat in a 22
cent loaf of white bread; 23
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R. D. 3, Ephrata
Wenger's Feed Mill
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Rheems
cents for the cotton in a man’s
$4 dress shirt.
Farmers arc employers (for
3 2 million persons), consumers
($45 billion a year for goods,
services, household items, cloth
ing. etc.), taxpayers ,$l7 bil
l.on in real estate taxes in ’66)
and suppliers (world's largest
exporter of food products, with
moie than $6.9 million in faim
products sent to world markets
in 1966).
Farm production is on the
upswing. Farmers produce more
than six times what they did in
1919-21. One farm worker pro
duces enough food, fiber and
other farm commodities for 39
persons
Yet many farmers are “agri
cultural dropouts.” They retire
and nobody takes over, or they
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•RU-Tr«d«m*rk— Rilston Purln« Co.
Inc.
g p - ying iolM w. £ZSSSZ »w,
'"Sue h, B h farming pmduc- -
tiuty, the faim popul. nn Wilson, Penn State e<ten
linues to shrink. slon c | o thing specialist. First
New Holland sees hope for , mpi -essions help us recognize
the future however, in the ap- friends in a crowd, and may
nhcition of ever-improving help us to see a person’s i-nme
f-rm equipment to make the diatc plans so we can adjust our
North American farmer moie behavior accordingly. Re.*ard
nroductive and better paid less of how accurate these first
than he is today. impressions are, they ha -e ail
influence on our lives.
Origin of the diamond industry A disgruntled friend uys
. f of time but that considering the wa> nis
'n, 1 . In hef it was some pre- wife has him trotting her-- ind
historic gal who first used the theie. he should have been ;iven
word 'mme” in connection with a bridle shower before hr mar
precious stones. riagc -
West Willow
Farmers Assn., Inc.
Ph: 464-3431
West Willow
James High & Sons
Ph- 354-0301
Gordonville
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the Purina Dry Cow Program folder.
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help prepare your dry cows for good
production at low cost.
Ira B. Landis
Ph: 394-7912
1912 Creek Hill Rd., Lane.
John J. Hess, 11, Inc.
Ph 442-4632
Paradise