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Soil Drying Out A lack of topsoil moisture has suddenly become the number one concern of Pennsylvania far mers. The Pennsylvania Crop Reporting Service said this week that over two-thirds of the state, particularly the central and southern sectors, are drying out. Through the July 4th holiday this situation for 1972 seemed impossible. Despite this negative report, all but two of the service’s 19 reporting stations still show an above normal accumulation of rainfall since April 1. Hardest hit are pastures and the maturation of corn. The drying breezes are blowing someone good, however. The combining of oats and the second cutting of alfalfa are moving along rapidly to the 70 per cent complete mark to make up some earlier losses. Fall plowing and seeding of winter wheat and barley varieties has started in the central and southern tiers. Apple harvesting is also picking up momentum with the apple size from fair to good. This week’s weather extremes were 92 degrees at Philadelphia and 38 degrees at Renovo, Clinton County; 1.91 inches of rain at Dunlo, Cambria County and no measureable amounts at Philadelphia and Allentown. Milk Output Declines The summer doldrums caught the dairy industry in its grip during July. The Pennsylvania Crop Reporting Service says that milk production slipped to 582,000,000 pounds, a drop of five percent from the preceding month and four percent off July, 1971, totals. The decline is blamed on the inefficiency of the cows in mid summer. With no decrease in the size of the herds, per cow production dropped to 840 pounds, a loss of five percent from June records. Per cow production was off only three percent from a year Lititz, Pa. Lancaster Farming, Saturday, August 26,1972—1 Realistic Analysis of Issues Is Urged Before Tax Reform , ~ , . , moderate at all points,” he Congress should undertake an objective analysis of tax our view> a ogram of reform issues according to across . the . board tax reduc . the National Association of „„ , , . Manufacturers tlons can only be made effec ’ Study ?he NAM said. th / oUgh better con should provide realistic esti- *° ? vernmen 8p n ia^' mates of the revenue to be ™e doubt very much that the gained through tax reform. leeway for any significant cover the economic effects of rat , e reduction could be pro any major income redistnbu- Vlded by plu /* in + ? loopho ! es !; tions, and consider the extent e^l ty considerations aside to which reform should focus u , Mr - H ° lr " said , the *AM on corporate versus individ- beheves tha f tax pob ? y should ual income taxes. encourage job-creating pri- In a statement filed with vate sector investment. How Senator William Proxmire, f se are we golng 0 contl ” ue chairman of the Joint Com- to u pay wa » e sca es 80 * ar mittee, the NAM said that above everyone else in the recent politically oriented industrialized world?' he charges try to make it appear asked the committee that the “corporate sector is getting off virtually scot free” as far as federal in come taxes are concerned Actually, according to Mel vin C Holm, chairman of NAM's Taxation Committee, Treasury Department figures prove that over the last four years corporate tax burdens have been increased while in come taxes for individuals have been significantly re duced, particularly for lower income groups. “The country has been bombarded with demands for massive tax changes with scant, if any, attention to the actual tax policy record to date,” Mr. Holm said “The best answers will not be found in the heat of a presidential campaign but through pains taking analysis.” Mr. Holm said the aim of tax reform should be to pro vide a better climate for pro ductive enterprise of all in come groups. “We believe that both tax equity and eco nomic progress can best be served when tax rates are earlier but at that time there were 8,000 more cows being milked. Dairy farmers across the country experienced a greater drop in individual production totals but an expanding national herd managed to show a two percent increase over the same period in 1971 with 10.5 billion pounds. RA 3 Speed 7 H. P. FINANCING AVAILABLE TRADE-IN AS DOWN PAYMENT GOOD SERVICE GERMAN BROS. 1 Mile North of Terre Hill on Route 897 East Earl, R.D. 1, Pa. Phone 215-445-6272 with mower ¥ i £ "T-