USDA’s Campbell
Applauds
Exports, the fastest-growing
segment of the American far
mer’s market, represent one of
the greatest opportunities in
America’s expanding
agriculture, Under Secretary of
Agriculture J. Phil Campbell told
a group of Michigan farmers last
week.
Speaking at a public meeting of
farm people in the Cass City High
School, Campbell noted that the
value of farm exports last fiscal
year was $8 billion - ten times as
high as in 1938.
“Some $2 billion of that came
from soybeans and soybean
meal, a crop most of our farmers
had never even heard of in 1938,”
the Under Secretary noted.
While the domestic market is
growing at a rate of only about
1% percent a year, Mr. Campbell
said, export sales are expanding
very rapidly and offer American
farmers a great opportunity.
Remarkable increases in crop
yields and livestock production
efficiency have made it possible
to increase farm output faster
than the population is increasing,
on less and less cropland,
Campbell noted. Agricultural
output per manhour in 1970 was
four times that of 1945, he said.
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“With modern technology, high
price supports are no longer
appropriate for most of our
major farm commodities,”
Campbell explained. “They act to
price our products out of world
markets and to encourage
wasteful surpluses.”
Utilizing the freedom given
them under the Agricultural Act
of 1970, Campbell said, the vast
majority of eligible U. S. farmers
in 1971 took advantage of their
opportunity to shift cropping
patterns and reduced production
costs, thus boosting net profits
and putting themselves in a
better position to win markets
and increase sales.
“When our farm programs
were first developed in the mid
-1930’5,” he observed, “most of
our farm production was con
sumed right here in the United
States. We didn’t have much
export market. Our farm exports
in 1938 totaled about $BOO million.
“Today, export markets are
taking the production from one
crop acre out of four.”
Farm policy-makers, he said,
must gear their thinking to an
agriculture which is highly
dependent on world markets.
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Brucellosis-Free Status
Awarded to Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania has achieved
certified brucellosis-free status,
it was announced today by
Secretary of Agriculture Jim
McHale.
A cooperative state-federal
program has been in effect for
years to eradicate the dreaded
cattle disease that causes cows to
abort, and thus has plagued
livestock producers and dariy
farmers with financial losses.
Elimination of the disease in
Pennsylvania also means a
public health hazard has been
alleviated. Bovine Brucellosis is
one of the sources of human
undulant fever.
A certificate of the Com
monwealth’s Brucellosis-Free
status will be presented to
Secretary McHale at a later date.
Dr. Homer S. Forney, acting
director of the department’s
Bureau of Animal Industry said
Pennsylvania was declared a
modified brucellosis-free state in
1958. In the past several years,
several foci of the disease existed
within the Commonwealth, in
cluding several herds in
Washington County. The disease
was finally officially eliminated
Sept. 5, paving the way for full
brucellosis-free status.
Forney said during the past
fiscal year 18,210 herds, com
prising 359,980 cattle, were blood
tested.
In addition to individual herd
testing and area plan herd
testing, Pennsylvania has used
two additional programs to find
infected herds, Forney ex
plained.
One is the Brucellosis Milk
Ring Test (BRT) for screening
dairy herds four times each year.
When infection is indicated, the
entire herd is blood tested until
infected animals have been
eliminated. Only Brucellosis Milx
Ring suspect herds need be blood
tested in this program.
The second program is the
Market Cattle Testing (MCT)
plan, whereby cattle going
through markets are identified
with a specially designed
backtag. The cattle are than
blood sampled at slaughter and
the backtag is used to identify the
blood sample and locate the herd
origin. Market cattle suspect
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herds are, also blood tested to
determine whether the disease is
or is not present.
The cattle industry is urged to
remain alert for this disease of
cattle. Complacency in the past
has proven very costly in
regaining the free status for this
and other eradication programs.
Chester Extension
Offers Sewing Courses
The Chester County Extension
Service will offer sewing courses
in Basic Skills, Menswear, and
Drapery making beginning the
week of October 9 according to
Carol Rothermel, assistant
Extension home economist.
Anyone interested in the courses
should register by September 29
by calling or writing the
Cooperative Extension Service,
402 North Wing, Courthouse,
West Chester - 696-3500. There is a
small charge for each course.
The Bais Skills course will be
offered on Tuesdays at the
Cochranville United Methodist
Church and on Thursdays in
Bucktown at the St. Thomas
Moore Catholic Church. This
series of six meetings is for those
persons who have had little or no
experience in sewing.
A men’s knit jacket is made m
the Menswear course using new
easy techniques rather than the
conventional tailoring
techniques. This course will meet
for five weeks in the United
Presbyterian Church of Paoli.
The Drapery course will meet
in Downingtown at the Central
Presbyterian Church. The course
will consist of a series of five
meetings concerned with fabric
selection, how to measure, and
construction techniques. A
variety of top-of-the window
treatments will also be included.
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