—Lancaster Farming. Saturday. July 22. 1972
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Farmers Flood
Relief Available
Ben Shenk, agricultural
specialist with the Lancaster
office of the Pennsylvania
Bureau of Employment Security,
this week reminded self
employed farmers and farm
workers, who are now unem
ployed because of the recent
flood, to file claims for disaster
unemployment assistance at
their nearest local State Em
ployment Office or emergency
Flood Information Office.
Clark explained that any self
employed farmer who cannot
perform services m his place of
business because of damage
caused by the natural disaster
could be eligible for payments of
at least $54.00 a week for the
duration of his unemployment or
a maximum of 30 weeks. The
same rate and schedule applies to
the farm worker who is unem
ployed because of the disaster.
Unlike the regular unem
ployment compensation program
in Pennsylvania, disaster
unemployment assistance is
available to persons who make
their living in the agricultural
industry both farmers and
workers.
Phobophobia
When one is afraid of be
ing afraid, it is termed pho
bophobia, a term derived
from the ancient Greek
meaning “fear of one’s own
fears ”
U. S. Farm Efficiency
National farm output per unit
of input gained 9 per cent in 1971
over the year before, due to
better than average growing
conditions across the country and
greater application of improved
technology, according to a recent
report from the U.S. Department
of Agriculture.
USDA’s Economic Research
Service noted (fiat 1971 farm
production also was up 9 per cent
from the year before while the
total volume of inputs used in
agriculture remained the same.
Use of purchased inputs gained
one per cent over 1970 but this
was offset by a one per cent drop
in nonpurchased inputs. There
was no change during 1971 in the
quantity of farm labor,
mechanical power and
machinery, feed, seed, and
purchased livestock used in
agriculture. A gain occurred in
the fertilizer and liming material
M; Neighbors
/ . 1 THE OPINION!) OF;
' ! THE B*RIEND(I\V
If you’re snoozin’on your savings,
we’ll provide a better night’s sleep,
plus highest bank interest!
Those lumps in your mnltrnss are a
shame as well as a pain.
Because, while you loss and turn, your
savings could be earning (he highest
bank interest in America!
And the same is true if the rates you’re
receiving elsewhere are less than paid
hero. Which is the case with some other
area banks that have lowered their in
terest.
We pay 4 a /2 percent on passbook sav
ings accounts; 5 percent on six-months
and miscellaneous input groups
while there were decreases in the
farm real estate and taxes and
interest categories.
Output per hour of labor rose
markedly in 1971 over the
preceding year - 11 per cent for
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'TriOEE OF THF
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GUTTERING
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PHONE 354-4114
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Over twelve years
2* fA r\ of experience
certificates; a big s'/j percent on one
year certificates; and a whopping 5 :, /j
percenl on Iwo-year certificates.
For example, $5,000 kepi with us for
two years earns an impressive $287.50
per year.
Why “lump it” anymore—on your
mattress or elseAvhere? Banking at Farm
ers National Bank of Quarryville means
“banking the way you’d do it”.
And we think you'd pay, as we do, the
highest hank interest in America!
Farmers National Bank of Quarryville
Banking the way you’d do it.
Mi’mhci, I (>(l cm I Dcpos.l Insm.imc (.oipoinlion
Rises Sharply in 1
crops and 8 per cent for livestock.
Among the crop groups, the
greatest gains were 18 per cent
for feed grains and 6 per cent for
food grains.
Production per man-hour rose
in all farm production regions
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except tfie Soi
during 1971, v
ranging from 2 ]
Pacific to 20 per i
Belt. Drought it
Plains cut lain
there by 6 per c<
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