—Uncaster Farming, Saturday, February 26, 1972
22
Facts For
(Continued From Page 18)
If you’ve been away from home
during a power failure and your
furnace is still off, check the
firebox for flooding oil residue
before turning on the burner.
On some models, under special
circumstances, the furnace
cannot be started by the master
switch. This means you should
give the furnace a safety check,
then push the reset button on the
burner unit. If you have any
questions about this, it is well toj
call your oil dealer, or the local
concern which installed the
heating equipment.
Records Program
Saves Money
Several years ago the
Cooperative Extension Service at
Penn State University introduced
an agricultural records
program; farmers using the
program have experienced many
benefits.
First of all, they save tax
dollars with the program. The
savings come in the area of in
come and expenses; or it can
come with the fanner knowing
more about depreciation
schedules.
At any rate, a farmer gains a
better understanding of his farm
business through the break-down
of income and expenses.
A farmer who enrolls in the
records program has the option
of distributing his income and
expenses to a specific en
terprise-such as dairy, beef
cattle, or crops. In so doing the
farmer can determine whether a
particular enterprise is making
or costing him money.
Overall this gives a farmer a
better understanding of the
strong and weak points of his
business.
For more information on this
helpful, money-saving records
program, contact our Penn State
Extension Service. Farmers are
urged to sign up now in order to
get the most benefit for the
greater part of the year.
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Editor's Desk
Editor’s Note: Bob Williams,
managing editor, had this to say
about the current farm situation
in Pennsylvania in the February
12 issue of the Pennsylvania
Farmer:
Will the rural revolt against
Jim McHale and the Shapp ad
ministration cost Senator Ed
mund Muskie the presidential
nomination next summer?
The revolt is real enough.
Leaders of 44 farm and allied
organizations met this past
month to draw a “bill of par
ticulars’’ against the policies and
programs of the state depart
ment of agriculture.
And at the Council of Farm
Organizations annual meeting
January 24 Dean Russell Larson
of Penn State answered in no
uncertain words the smear
campaign instigated by McHale
against the college of agriculture.
The Maine presidential hopeful
counts heavily on Governor
Shapp and Pennsylvania in his
64 Southeastern Pa.
Farmers See Ky. Fair
Sixty-four farmers and
machinery dealers from the
Southeastern Pennsylvania area
were among a total of 145 far
mers and dealers from across
Pennsylvania who attended the
seventh annual Kentucky Fair
and Exposition Center at
Louisville, Ky., last week.
Three local International
Harvester dealers were among
those sponsoring the trip to the
national farm machinery show.
These men included; C. B.
Hooberand C. B. Hoober Jr, of C.
B. Hoober & Son, and Bob Gantz,
Elizabethtown, representing
Messick Farm Equipment,
Elizabethtown.
The Fair and Exposition Center
is reported to be the largest
showroom for farm products and
machinery in the United States.
The Exposition Center houses
more than 350 major and short
line manufacturers in a display
drive to become the Democrat'
standardbearer. And with
organized labor and big cityi
mayors in the Keystone State
leaning toward Senator Hubert
Humphrey, Muskie must depend
on rural Pennsylvania for much
of his support.
But that support is fast
evaporating for Muskie as
Governor Sbapp’s rural advisor,
Jim McHale, continues to flail
away publicly at Penn State, the
Farm Show Commission,
agricultural and rural
organizations and just about
anybody and everything in sight.
Mr. Shapp got the word from
rural Democrat legislators at a
private breakfast meeting this
past month. They told the
governor that their house and
senate seats were in jeopardy
and with them the Democrat
control of the General Assembly.
The governor is reported to
have told McHale to “cool it.”
The state secretary of
agriculture countered by can-
area of nine and one-half acres.
Nearly 150,000 persons from 35
states and five foreign countries
attended in 1971.
A highlight of the show was the
National Farm Machinery Show
Tractor Pulling Championship.
Drivers competed for more than
$14,000 in prize money and
trophies.
Pennsylvania International
Harvester dealers placed fifth in
the national competition.
The adverse weather con
ditions caused almost as much
excitement on the return trip as
the show itself. Airports were
closed, roads were closed.
Perhaps, in spite of all the
hardships, the farmers really
were concerned most about their
wives, who were at home coping
with lack of electricity, drifted
lanes, full tanks of milk, and
more cows to milk.
celing two research projects at
Penn State the following weekend
and calling a press conference
the next week to show off his
rural support. Strangely, none of
three strictly farm organizations
that showed—Pennsylvania
Farmers Union, National Far
mers Organization and United
Dairy Farmers—are included in
the 1971 list of faml organizations
published this past June by
McHale’s own state department
of agriculture.
Now the Concerned Citizens for
Agriculture await their day with
Governor Shapp. Membership of
organizations represented on the
committee total a, conservative
45,000 to 50,000 farm families.
And in a rare display of
cooperation, the farm and
commodity organizations have
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been joined by farm dealer and
other allied groups.
The “concern” ranges from the
diversion of research funds by
McHale to health and em
ployment programs and the?
harrassment of country butchers
by state inspectors to the
management of the Farm Show
complex ... a big can of worms
indeed.
The carefully structured
committee represents all
segments of agriculture and
attempts to walk a strictly non
partisan line. But this is not
always possible. In an election
year any accusation . . . any
meeting with the governor . . .
has political impact.
Little wonder that Senator
Muskie’s concern could well be
the rural revolt in Pennsylvania
and the actions of Jim McHale.
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