Receiving awards for corn production
efficiency at the Manor Young Farmer
banquet last week were: left to right,
Butz Cites American Farmers Productivity
Secretary of Agriculture Earl hardest working people in the food. The prices they receive for
L. Butz told the 1972 White House nation; their productivity per food products have gone up only
Conference for the advertising man hour is increasing twice as six her cent in the last 20 years
Council that they couldn’t have a fast as in manufacturing in- During that time, wages of union
better product to sell than the dustnes, and farmers are members in packing plants in
nation’s generous supply of working for a fourth less than the creased more than six per cent
wholesome food—and the people non-farm average income,” per year and are now three times
who produce it, the nation’s Secretary Butz said. what they were 20 years ago,”
farmers. “Farmers are not to blame for Secretary Butz said.
“Farmers are among the the increase in the price of retail “I hope you will tell the truth
Can a 1972 farmer afford
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IBDU may sound like a secret
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tested on experimental plots at
Pennsylvania State University.
IBDU has produced good
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green color, in six years of trials
at University Park, according to
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associate professor of soil
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Also doing well is a new
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“carrier” in place of vermicuhte,
ground corn cobs, or peat
“carriers” used with other
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weight fertilizers weigh about 35
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