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December 4. 1971
Shapp Speaks on Changing Role
Of Pa. Department of Agriculture
Pennsylvania’s agricultural
businesses will finally be put on
an equal footing With other
manufacturing and processing
firms in the competition for loans
from the Pennsylvania Industrial
Development Authority if
Governor Milton J. Shapp has his
way, according to the governor's
office.
The Governor recently told a
meeting of the Pennsylvania
Food Processors Association that
he supports H. 1196, which will
allow PIDA loans at low interest
rates for agricultural en
terprises.
The bill, which had already
passed the House of Represen
tatives and was slated to be in
position for final passage in the
State Senate, will put the State
Secretary of Agriculture on the
PIDA Board, it was reported.
Shapp also said that his ad
ministration is working to change
focus of the Department of
Agriculture
“We want to change the
Department from simply an
agency to promote farm
production to a department to
provide a whole host of services
to people living in rural areas,”
Shapp said.
“It is generally overlooked, but
some of the worst cases of
poverty exist not in our ghetto
areas but in rural areas,” Shapp
said
“Several rural counties have a
higher percentage of welfare
cases than are found in either
Philadelphia or Pittsburgh.”
Shapp cited development as the
key to the poverty problem in the
rural areas
“We want to encourage careful
development of our rural areas.
This means the encouragement
of new jobs in these regions so
that those already on the farm
won’t be forced to move into the
cities in order to find a
livelihood,” Shapp noted.
“And this also means the
development of new jobs for the
overflow of citizens who will be
moving back to non-urban areas
from the overcrowded cities.
“It also means the wise
development of new communities
and careful expansion of already
existing ones to handle this
population growth without
polluting our rural beauty.”
Shapp said he wanted to make
sure that rural development,
which will leave its mark on the
countryside, is carefully planned
and executed.
“For this reason we have
established a State Office of
Planning and Economic
Development to inaugurate a
comprehensive statewide
program of research and plan
ning for future growth,” the
Governor said.
“The vanguard ot this new
office is already at work on
developing an economic and
industrial growth plan for one of
our rural regions which I hope
will serve as a showcase for
statewide activities along these
lines,” Shapp said.
Big Pirtdiman.
“CHIK-EZE”
Hinged bottom model Chik-Eze includes egg tray which can
be put into use at 10 weeks.
This feature will actually permit birds to be kept in the
start/grow cage at full laying age if necessary. It also -eli
minates problems of egg gathering and egg breakage if
circumstances delay movement of pullets to grow/lay or
permanent lay cages, and it takes care of eggs from birds
that lay permaturely. The lowered floor provides a 2 inch
gap for eggs to roll out onto tray.
THE ALL NEW FLAT DECK CHIK-EZE
PULLET REARING CAGE
. . . offers durability, economy, performance and practical
labor saving features that increase management efficiency.
The heart of the system is the Big Dutchman chain and
trough feeder providing 96 inches of feeding space per
cage. There is full availability of all the feed to all the birds.
All feed is automatically recirculated and remixed, result
mg in better feed consumption.
Extra feed capacity makes high density of birds per cage
row practical and manageable.
BIG DUTCHMAN
A Division of U.S. Industries, Inc.
EASTERN BRANCH
215 Diller Ave., New Holland, Pa. 17557 Ph. 354-5168
“This new office will aid in the
development of new towns,
provide the kind of information
needed for judicious development
of natural resources and ex
pansion of water and sewage
facilities' and develop economic
barometers to help Pennsylvania
do on a statewide basis what the
federal government does on a
national level,” Shapp pointed
out.
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Farmers use only about half of
the available cropland in the
United States. That’s less than
they used 12 years ago because of
improved production, according
to New Holland, the farm
equipment division of Sperry
Rand.