Farming. Saturday, May 1,1971 President Nixon Declares Salute to A talk by President Richard M Nixon in the White House Rose Garden was the highlight of the 1971 annual Newspape,. Faim Editors of America (NFEA) Convention in Wash ington D C. last week President Nixon spent more than a half hour with the Farm Editors Besides the expected explanation of why Farming is vital to the national economy and how farmers have been do ing more than their sharr in the fight against inflation, the President took the occasion to announce a special Salute to Agriculture Day on May 7. Leaders of American agricul ture will be invited to the White House for a reception and brief ings on both agricultural and general national issues. Plans are to make the Agriculture Day an annual event. The President also chatted in formally with the newsmen, particularly commenting on the drought which was underway in the Texas-Oklahoma area. The President shook hands with and greeted each of the approxi mately 40 farm editors. This was followed by a tour of the White House by a staff aide. ■Whereas the NFEA in the past had difficulty even seeing the President, the reception this year was both friendly and repre sented a generous amount of time from the President's busy schedule. President Nixon talks during the meeting with Farm Editors in the Rose Gardens last week. With him is Clifford Hardin, U. S. Secretary of Agriculture. Looking on is S. Archie Holdridge, Farm Editor of the Hartford Courant and president of the Newspaper Farm Editors of America. ZIMMERMAN’S FARM EQUIPMENT Bale Elevators Farm Wagon Gear 7 ton & 10 ton sizes with or without Tires Bulk Bins Galvanized bm with painted boot 3 to 9 tons Feed Proportioner Meter Feed Carts 16 bushel capacity Gal vanized construction We are the manufacturers of the Air-O-Matic ventilation equipment, egg carts and poultry house cleanout equipment. Call us for the name of the dealer in your area. ZIMMERMAN MFG. CORP. Voganville Road, R#l, New Holland, Pa 17557 Phone 717-354-9611 George M. Zimmerman. President Nixon. Emphasizing a Point Secretary Hardin Speaks Elsewhere at the NFEA con vention, Clifford Hardin, U.S. Secretary of Agriculture em phasized the administration’s record in getting a new high level of farm exports and in creasing participation m federal food programs from 10 to 14 million persons since last year. Commenting on the adminis tiation’s recent action to in crease the price support on milk gl Chicago Tribune. He greeted and chatted with each of the visiting editors. by 27 cents to a new level of $4 93 per hundred for manufac turing milk of average test, Secretary Hardin said there is general feeling that the dairy industry is on the verge of majoi surpluses which could ie sult in senous downward pres sures on milk puces over the next year or two ” But the Secretaiy added that it takes a long time to expand dairy herds and theie’s a greater milk promotion effort under way —factors which may help head off surpluses On the question of chemical controls, Secretary Hardin in dicated'there is a trend toward making distinctions between various types of chemicals There ard some good but short lived chemicals which are dangerous to persons handling them; it is felt that persons using these should be licensed, he said. Hardin said farm groups need Whitten Says Farmer Needs His Share of the 'Fair Advantages' Jamie Whitten. D-Mississippi. House Appriprialions Commit tee chairman, spoke on the need to give the farmer “fair advan tage” in the U.S. economy. Whitten described the U. S as a country of laws to give fair advantages and he said eiery gioup wants to dictate what it considers to be fair through the law. “How can the farmer oe in dependent when we have all these laws to give labor and other groups a competetive ad vantage?” Whitten asked He told the Newspaper Faira Editor’s of America that trying to get price by creating scarcity is dangerous and that “that’s what we’ve been preaching ” Whitten also pointed out that a high standard of living de pends on the amount of time it takes foi a person to get his basics In this country only five pei cent of the people are need ed to provide these basics, leav ing the other 95 per cent to do other things, he said But there’s a problem, he said, in finding politicians who will look after the five per cent Noting that the last depression started by breaking faim prices, Whitten emphasized the impoi tance of the faimer as a buyer of chemicals, machinery and other products If farm income Agriculture Day Allay 7 Zane Wilson, Lancaster Farming managing editor, at tended the annual convention of the Newspaper Farm Edi- Sf„t Amem. (NFEA) to Washmgton, D.C, last weak. The articles and pictures on these two pages are his renort on that conference. They represent an attempt to capture some of the highlights of the conference and spell out fm local readers some of the thinking and policies of top Washington officials which will be of importance and interest to local people. The annual NFEA Washington convention is designed to give farm editors from across the nation an opportunity to exchange ideas and to hear top agricultural officials out line their programs and policies and to ask questions about particular issues. It’s always a special treat for the editors when the pre sident of the United States agrees to receive them and it iva