Says Strong Cattle Market
Essential To U. S. Prosperity
In the midst of cost-of-living reached its highest point since
increases, considerable atten- 1952, about $32 00 per hundred
tion is being directed toward an weight, at markets throughout
upward trend in the price of a the country,
favorite menu selection of most David H Stroud, Chicago,
Americans: beef: One reason President of the National Live
the average price for cattle has Stock and Meat Board, phrases
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it another way: “Cattle prices
are now no higher than they
were 17 years ago. How many
other products and services cost
the same or less than they did
in 1952 9 Check what you have
to pay today for automobiles,
medical care, housing, entertain
ment you name it com
pared with what you would have
paid back in 1952.”
Because the standard of liv
ing has increased much more
rapidly than have food prices,
consumers today spend only
about 2>/ 2 percent of their after
tax income for beef, Stroud
said. This is a smaller portion
of take home pay than it took
to buy beef 20 years ago . . .
and, even then, it was less than
three percent, he added. More
over, with per capita consump
tion of beef at a record-breaking
109 pounds a year, Americans
are getting 66 percent more
beef for that 2% percent of
spendable income than they did
back in the early 1950 s
“A strong stable market for
cattle is the consumers’ best as
surance of adequate suppliles of
beef ... and at prices they can
afford to pay, especially in view
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Lancaster Farming, Saturday, May 17.1969—27
of the quality and nutritional
values of the product," says the
Meat Board official. “The cattle
industry, like other segments of
agriculture, has not been shar
ing m the prospeuty of this
nation to the same degree as
most of the rest of the economy
executives, factory workers,
clerks, bus-drivers, salesmen,
teachers just about every
occupation and profession.
“When cattle prices reach a
point where a sound return can
be realized on investments in
feed, buildings, livestock, insur
ance, equipment; you can be
sure cattle producers and feed
ers are going to continue to pro
vide consumers with the beef
they want and need ”
Stroud said it costs livestock
men like eveiyone else
more to do business today than
15-20 years ago, but they are
getting fewer real dollars in re
turn for their efforts.
Then how do they stay in
business? Why does there con
tinue to be abundant supplies
of meat?
“Efficiency’” answers Stroud
“For 30 years livestock produ
cers have been taking advantage
of every new idea on pi eduction
efficiency and improvement
that has come out of agucultur
al colleges, experiment stations
and allied industries And eveiy
efficiency he’s instituted has
ended up as a bonus for the
consumer instead of additional
income to the producer. With
out the increased efficiency, he
could not have stayed in busi
ness Meat ptoduction would
have gone down instead of up,
and the law of supply and de
mand would have shoved meat
prices far above wheie they are
now ”
“No one likes to pay higher
prices for anything,” said
Stioud “And it’s natmal that
all homemakers are more sen
sitive to increases in prices of
items they shop foi frequently,
such as food We do not buy TV
sets, automobiles and houses
that often But the people who
produce food have the same
right to share in piospenty as
those who produce TV sets au
tomobiles and houses . and
the same right as the factory
worker, plumber and electrician
to earn a fair return on his la
bor ”
• Form Women
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been a resident of Lancaster for
the past 35 years She is present
ly employed by the Lancaster
City and Township Schools as «
tutor of English to Greek im
migrant children She also trans
lates letters for people corres
ics
The program also featured
ponding between the two countr
special music by the Mount Cal
vary Trio. Mrs Robert Kauffman
led devotions Hostesses were
Mrs James Garber, Mrs Russell
Swarr, Mrs Galen Benner, and
Mrs Thomas Clapsaddle
During the business portion of
the meeting with Mrs. Arthur
Wenger, president, conducting,
$25 was forwarded to the county
project (Halfway House) Mem
bers of Societies 26 and 27 will
send gifts to Conestoga View to
day while other membeis attend
ed the spring rally of the Society
of Farm Woman of Pennsylvania
at Dutch Town and Countiy
Society 27 will be entertained
by Society 24 on May 28 at 7 30
pm in the Conestoga Chuich of
the Biethren, Bareville
This meeting will leplace the
May meeting The June meeting
of Society 27 will be a family
picnic to be held June 29 at Sico
Paik, Mount Joy
Society 15
Society of Faim Women 15
held a Mother-Daughter banquet
May 13 at the Willow Valley
Restaurant with about 65 persons
present Devotions were in char
ge of Mrs Emily Greenwald
Chairman for the program was
Mis John Fiantz Speaker was
Mrs Clayton Keenei, Refton
The next meeting will be held
on June 19 at the Black Rock
Retreat, when Society 15 will
entertain the county office’s and
societies 18 and 20
Hostesses will be Mis Richard
Shoemakei, Mis Kenneth Shoe
maker Mis Robeit Reath, Mis
Chailes Anderson Mis Jon
Anderson. Mrs John Gasco and
Miss Isabel Fenee
Protect Fruits
Control diseases on fnut by
applying spiays at intervals to
give adequate protection Allen
H Bauer, extension plant patho
logist at The Pennsylvania
State University says that spray
schedules for many types of
fruit crops may be obtained
from your county agent