Few Forest Fires os Spring Draws to Close
Officials of the Department of the >cnr when the file dangei
Forests and Watcis, particulaily can be cxticmcly ciitienl, came
Wiose charged with forest pio- to an and with just about half
(cction, are emitting a sigh of the number of wildfires that oc
rclief these days as the 1970 tuned dining the same peiiod
•pring fire danger peiiod comes of time in 19(59.
1 p v. . 1970’s fu e 1 CCOI (I Ihi ouch the
1 ,S • Clltl <*f M.>V i even led 737 fl.es.
of the fact that th.s year s S„1 >m? vhlt . h , e( , some 4>064
firejeason. normally a time of itc ,. es fo , Jn aV01 ,,,, 0 pol n ,-e of
55 acios During 1969 theio weic
I 445 files which bin netl off some
15.000 acres foi an aveiage of
10 4 acies per file
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Across the
Bi oiler Merger
Pari of a repoil in a leccnt
edition of Bioilei Industi.v
Perhaps a haibmgei of things
still to come in this countiv.
the United Kingdom still is
locking fiom mid January ac
qmsition by Impel ini Tobacco
Gioup of Associated British
Foods foi the equivalent of $45 -
6 million It is having serious
icpeicussions on Amencan
biecdeis who have outlets in
Bi itain
Associated Bntish Foods in
cludes 115 faims. six hatcheries,
18 feed mills and six piocessmg
plants Of some 16 compan.es
in \BF, the one best known to
Amei leans is Buxted Chicken
Co Ltd
Impelial's action was pieced
ed bv pin chase of Allied Faim
Foods in 1868 and, in 1969, the
Ross gioup
The new Ross Buxted com
plex will supply about 28 pci
Editor's Desk
cent of the UK's bioilei mai
ket. estimated .it 265 million
head a jeai This would give
an annual output of about 70
million buds and about 10
per cent of the tin key meat
Atlantic's Sires Lead
Fiom the June edition of the
ABC Tiansmitlci
For the eighth consecutive
time, Atlantic’s A I-proven Hoi
stein sues lead othei studs
with the highest aveiage pie
dicted ditfeicnce foi milk pio
duction on the Penn State
daughter hei dmate lepoit
The latest compilation is dat
ed Apul, 1970 and is based on
the .Tanuai v USD A sue sum
manes loi bulls with 70 pei
cent lepeatabilitv oi highei
that ha\e semen available
The aveiage PD foi Atlantic’s
13 sues is -723 M and t-20F
These ligines lepiesent an ex-
Lancaster Farming, Saturday. June 27. I!)70
tia i etui n ovei teed cost ol S2l
pei lactation, tompaied will!
heidmales piodutiug at bleed
a\ ei age
With mloimation based on
huge numbeis ol daughters in
numeious hcids loi sues cui
lenllv in seivicc thiough \ai -
ous studs, each Penn Slate ic
poit adds moie significance to
the need foi sampling and piov
ing voting sues in membeis’
heids
The pin pose ol this pi obtain
is to develop \vellpio\en sit e
capable of extensive inline
seivice and suppoited with the
danvmen's confidence that
hisjhei pioduction will lesult
In a icccnl speech bcloie thr
U S House Committee on Ways
and Means, Chfloid M Ilaicl ir
‘a libeial lathei than a piotoc
Secietaiy of AgiiculUue uigcd
tionisl appioach to tiade ’ while
testilymg in favoi oC the pic
posed Tiade Act of 1969
Haulm noted that £Ol many
yeais, the U S has expoited
moie than $5 billion annually
of agucultmal pioducts He
contended that the figuie
would be consideiably higher
if not for “umeasonable trade
barriers set up to protect ex
cessively high guaranteed
prices” in some other count! ies
He concluded, “Above all,
U S agriculture needs a world
wide climate of liberal trade In
such a climate importers and
exporters of faim products can
best work together in seeking
solutions to their problems.
The Trade Act of 1969 is cast
in a libeial mold. I urge that it
be enacted without delay ”
Under the Euiopean Common
Market plan, 290,500 dauy cows
aie being slaughtered, another
130,000 “letned” fiom milk pro
duction presumably added to
beef heids—this year
But, no significant i eduction of
dauy suipluses will be bi ought
about and that’s what the
piogiam was all about, lepoits
Foreign Agriculture Magazine
The European Community
Commission, which is sponsoi
mg the piogiam under which
EC danymen iceeive subsidized
payments, still looks upon the
lesults as “disappointing”
Besides failuie to icduce sur
pluses, leasons foi disappoint
ment aie
The initial goal was for 250,000
dauy cows undei each measuie
and while the slaughter total is
16 per cent above its goal, the
“nonmaiketmg of milk” total is
nearly 50 per cent shoit Thar
means the combined total is 16
per cent below the goal
Less than two pci cent of the
EC’s total of 22 1 million dauy
cows is involved in the piogiam.
Fiance, which is the EC’s big
gest milk pioduccr, with 9 7
million dany cows, has the low
est (5/10 of one pei cent) pei
ctntage of cows involved in the
slaughtei measuie
Some othei things pointed up
in the aitide 94 pci cent of the
cows subsidized foi slaughter
come fiom heids undei 10 head
i" size 54 per cent (155,400) of
them aie fiom heids aveiaging
horn two to five cows But, that
c nnot be considcied unusual,
smce the avciage numbei of
cows pei (aim thioughout the
PC is c-lnnated to be less than
in e
Liberal Tiacle Policy
Europe’s Cow Removal
In coivast, heids in this aiea
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