TRY A CLASSIFIED AD FREY FREE STALL LIFETIME FREE STALL HOUSING Cut bedding costs 75 per cent, reduce labor tor barn cleaning and cow washing; reduce teat and udder injury to the minimum house your milking herd in free stall housing. Each cow provided a stall for loafing. She won’t be stepped on, the rear curb forces manure out into alley for mechanical cleaning or washing, A few minutes twice a day cleans the stalls and curbs, bedding lasts almost forever if your stalls fit the cows. Popular sizes are 6'6”, 7' and 7’6". Size ’em by breed. Our free stall-partition may be mounted on wooden head boards or we make a steel '‘wider. Set the legs m 8 to 10” concrete curbs to hold and retain bedding Stall floor can be soil, sand or gravel. Bedding straw, sawdust, peanut hulls, ground corn cobs, etc. Should be installed with paved alley surface 8 feet wide for mechanical cleaning or washing - 8 Models all steel welded farm and feedlot gates - 2 Models all steel welded head catch gate For prices, contact; Fred Frey, Mgr, (717)-786-2146 FREY BROS. R.D.2 Quarryville, Penna. 17566 YOU'VE SEEN NOW SEE Dari-Kool Direct Expansion Bulk Milk Tanks THE FASTEST COOLING BULK MILK - TANK ON THE MARKET ««'■ A . A w~~w ALL MODELS IN STOCK Ice-Bank Milk Coolers also Available NEW MODELS IN STOCK 450 gal. 1250 gal. 600 gal. 1500 gal 800 gal. 2000 gal 1000 gal Jli/iIHM, i r>ti Hind* * Mium SHENK'S FARM SERVICE RD4, Lititz, Pa. REST BEST THE THE USED BULK TANKS 300 gal, Zero 800 gal. Esco Phone 626-4355 Thoughts (Continued from Pate 16| 'that he has caused the high food prices. Finally the middleman, claims that if his profits margins were cut, he will be forced out of business causing our ag marketing system to fail. Let’s consider another option - a combination of causes resulting in higher absolute food prices today. Number one - higher prices today are a result of our past success to reduce production of farm grains. The land bank program and the crop allocations program have decreased grain porudction as well as grain surpluses. Just a decade ago our surplus of the four most important feed grains fed to livestock (corn, oats, barley and sorghum) in govern ment hands totaled 75 million tons. That would be 3000 ship loads. No wonder everybody thought we could feed the world - surplus grains are now virtually depleted. Secondly, world food production has not kept pace with world demand in recent years. There have been severe drought problems in the Soviet Union, the world’s largest wheat producer. The result was the big wheat deal to the Russians. The U.S. sold 19 million tons of wheat to Russia which triggered the-big price rise in grains. .dowing CORN NEEDS NITROGEN We Con Supply Your Needs call ZOOK & RANCK, Inc. RDI, Gap, Pa. 17527 Phone 717-442-4171 WANT BETTER MILKING WITH GREATER RESULTS? Try BOU-MATIC Bucket Units - Stainless Steel or Glass Pipelines ALL KINDS OF MILKING EQUIPMENT IN PLACE WASHING— AUTOMATIC TAKE OFF IN PLACE STIMULATING Shown above herringbone parlor equipped with calibrated, glass weigh jars This system is ideal for the dairyman who desires to check the production of every cow at every milking. Washes-m-place. The large vacuum reserve near the udder helps to stabilize vacuum at teat. • DARI-KOOL - BULK TANKS • BOU-MATIC PIPELINES & MILKING PARLORS RDS, Lebanon, Pa. High priced grains led to higher prices for many foods. There also has been a sharp increase in demand for food by the other developed nations of the world. We are in era when other countries are begin ning to compete in our food markets. There are two general reasons for this; first the wealth and standard of living of other developed countries has continually been rising and is now to the point of competing on our food markets. As personal incomes in the developed countries increase, their citizens demand a better diet, more meat, milk and eggs. In the poor countries the per capita consumption of grain is about 40G pounds per year and nearly all of it is consumed in some form of grain. But in the U.S. we each consume one ton of grain - most of it in the form of meat, milk and eggs. The recent devaluation of the dollar also makes it cheaper for other countries to buy our food products. If exporting is causing us high food prices than why export? The dollar is one reason. Since 1971 we have been buying more from other countries than they have buying from us causing a balance of payment deficits. In fact 9 billion more dollars flowed out of our country than in. Agriculture crops and products are used then to balance the trade deficit. CARL L. SHIRK Colebrook Rd. Lancaster Farming, Saturday, May 18.1974 Without an aggressive ex port program for ag products the nation’s balance of payments problem would be un bearable. Thirdly, wages have dramatically increased in the past 20 years. We have been experiencing an in flationary spiral which has put more cash into cir culation creating a stronger demand for food products. When we have more money to spend some of us tend to buy more causing food prices to rise. For example, in 1950 the average person consumed 63 pounds of beef in 1973 118 pounds of beef were consumed. But food prices have risen only minimally in com parison with wages and salaries as well as other things one buys. From 1947- 1972 food prices rose 74.9 percent while the upkeep cost of an automobile rose 91.0 percent and the total overall cost of living rose 87.3 percent. More im portantly the increase in disposable income rose 223 percent during the same period. Food prices have only gone up one-third as much as wages. Despite all the talk about high food prices in the U.S. on a comparative basis food is cheaper here than anywhere in the world. If I could take you to Tokoyo to purchase their best grade of sirloin, it would cost us $10.50 per pound and ground beef is $2.60 per pound that is - after it has suffered a trip across the Atlantic from the U.S. A 4 pound roast would cost us $27.00. When one store was selling a “super special” cut at Tokoyo’s best meat market for $34.50 a pound, one foreign journalist commented, “Beef is now somewhat more expensive than silver here in Japan.” When considering food prices in relative terms, they appear lower today than Phone 867-3741 ever before in our history One hour’s work in a factory buys more foocJ today than it did 20 years ago. In 1930 an American spent 24 percent of his income for food products, in 1940 22 percent in 1960 20 percent, in 197115.8 percent, in 1972 15 7 percent and in 1973 15.5 percent. That is the lowest in history. Not only are we as consumers spending a smaller portion of our in come on food, but that smaller portion of our in come now buys more. The convenient pre-cooked foods and ready-made products dominate the supermarket shelves. The result is more for the housewife’s money and less work for her. By way of comparison, England spends 25 percent of their income on food, Japan 35 percent, Russia 58 percent and in Asian countries 80 percent compared to our 15.5 percent. And all that 80 percent in Asian countries buys is a chicken hanging by the neck in the market place for a few days. And when you spend 80 percentof your pay for food you don’t have much leftover. When Americans spend only 15.5 percent of their income for food the remainder is used for the enjoyment of that second car, vacations, and that beautiful home in he coun- [Continued on Page 18) ELECTRIC FENCE CONTROLLER REPAIRS Authorized Factory Service on Most Shockers REPAIR THEM NOW. Glenn M. Hoover Leola RDI, Oregon Pike 17540 656-8020 Manufacturers of Kafstais Veal Staffs Bale Wagons stihl CHAIN SAWS SPRAYERS MOWERS and TILLERS -wen—>.i i ■ Jacobsen •■■i Mowers TRACTQRIi L - 1 POWER TOOLS KENDALL MOTOR OILS Repair-Overhauls Rentals-Service cl° h " L Jtautfer REPAIR SERVICE RD2 East Earl, Pa. Ph. 215-445^175 mile North of Goodville on Union Grove Road 17
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