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—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, December 29, 1973
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mandatory referrals to WIN and
some voluntary. The mandatory
referrals include male heads of
households and female heads of
households with no children
under the age of six Voluntary
referrals are mostly female
heads of households with children
under six
“We’ve had the WIN program
here in the county for about three
years now,” Kauffman said,
“and we’ve had almost un
believable success with people
we’ve placed in jobs. In some
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cases, we’ve had employers
come back to us again and again
for more people, and some places
have kept just about all of the
people we’ve referred to them.
And some of our WIN referrals
have left their original jobs for
better positions.”
WIN people have received on
the-job training as auto
mechanics, secretaries, practical
nurses, draftsmen, truck drivers,
machine operators, cooks,
molders, body and fender
repairman - even one policeman.
“There are all kinds of people
with all kinds of potential in the
WIN program. Their only
common feature is that they
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receive welfare payments for
dependent children.”
What happens, we asked
Kauffman, if a WIN referral gets
a/job and doesn’t perform well.
What happens if he gets fired?
“Wq take his name off the
welfare rolls,” Kauffman said.
“That’s what gives this program
teeth.”
Not all welfare recipients are
unemployed. Some are working*
in dead-end jobs that simply don’t
pay enough to support a family.
“For example, we might find a
man with a good work record - he
shows up every day, he works
long and hard, maybe in a
tobacco warehouse - but there’s
just no way he’s going to .earn
enough money to take care of his
family. Probably he doesn’t have
enough education to get a better
job. He gets welfare so his chil
dren don’t starve. If we get him a
better job, he goes' off welfare,
and his employer gets a good,
conscientious worker.”
Suppose a dairy farmer wants
'to get into the program. What are
his obligations? “The farmer has
. no obligations to us, to the people
we send him, to the state or the
federal government. We’ll send
the farmer the best people we can
find. We want this program to
work. If we can make it work in
Lancaster County - if we can get
people off welfare rolls here -
■ then we know we can make it
work in the rest of the state.”
What kind of people will be sent
to farmers for interviews?
“We’ve got a list of criteria for
applicants,” Kauffman said.
“High school equivalent, good
physical condition, energetic and
willing to leam, no fear of large
animals, some mechanical
ability, patience, ability to be an
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early riser. Especially the last
one. And, depending on the
farmer’s circumstances, the
person can be a man or a woman,
and their family size can be
dependent on whether or not
tenant housing is available.
“Now, I know that if we find
someone with all these
qualifications, they’re going to
have a good job already.
Probably the first qualification
we’ll have to bend on is the high
school equivalent. But we’ll try to
stick fairly close to the rest.”
“One thing to remember,”
Kauffman added. “No matter
who we send out to any farmer,
that farmer can reject anybody.
He can reject the first 20 people
we send him and hire the 21st.
And if he doesn’t like him after
the first day, the first week, the
first month, he can fire him. He
can fire him anytime. If a farmer
doesn’t want a person on his
farm, we’re certainly not going to
try to persuade the farmer to
change his mind.”
Past WIN successes and the
bureau’s pre-screening policies
will undoubtedly provide a
potential source of good labor for
dairymen. In the vast majority of
cases, though, this labor will be
thoroughly unskilled, and any
worker who goes to a farm will
need a lot of training Does the
farmer get any compensation for
the time he’ll have to spend in
training’
“Yes, definitely yes,” Kauff
man said. “For 42 weeks, a
farmer will get back from the
federal government half the
wages he pays to his WIN em
ployee. This means that if he
pays this person $2.50 an hour,
he’s going to get back from the
government $1.25. Or if he pays
$lOO a week, he gets back $5O a
week and his help is only costing
him $5O a week. Plus - and this is
a big plus - the farmer can deduct
20 percent of whatever he pays
that person from his income tax.
This is an income tax credit, and
it comes off the tax bill, not the
farm’s gross income.
“Say for example, in the 42-
week period, a farmer would pay
his helper $5OOO. The government
would give him $2500 back, which
means his total labor cost was
$2500. Now, he can deduct 20
percent of the $2500, or $5OO, from
his tax bill. If his taxes for the
year are $l5OO, he deducts the
$5OO from that and he only pays
$lOOO. Financially, it’s a good
deal for the farmer.”
Kauffman is excited about the
plan, and has already talked to
farmers who’ve expressed in
terest in the program. Alan Bair,
assistant Lancaster County
Agent, has also expressed some
hope for the program and
reported that he has gotten some
response to a radio broadcast he
made this week on the subject.
Book Herd Cited
Milk and butterfat production
levels established by Registered
Holstein cows in this area have
been reported by Holstein-
Friesian Association of America.
All cows are from the herd of Roy
H. and Ruth H. Book, Ronks RDI,
enrolled in the Dairy Herd Im
provement Registry (DHIR)
official testing program.
Cows recognized for their
exceptional food producing
ability in this area are:
Roaring Maples Misty Marcy
age 7-2, 17,720 pounds milk, 820
pounds butterfat, 4.6 percent test
in 305 days milked.
Roaring Maples Marc
17,630 pounds milk, 748 pounds
butterfat, 4.2 percent test in 273
days milked
Roaring Maples Posch Pam, 6-
6, 16,020 pounds milk, 656 pounds
butterfat, 4 1 percent test in 269
days milked.
Roaring Maples Bonus Beauty,
2-11, 16,370 pounds milk, 650
pounds butterfat, 4.0 percent test
in 305 days milked.
Roaring Maples Apollo Agnes,
2-7, 14,210 pounds milk, 614
pounds butterfat, 4.3 percent test
in 305 days milked.
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