—Lancaster Farming, Saturday,- Dec. 14,1974
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Beefmen
Western stockmen drove a give Butz 10 steers, but the
herd of bawling, mooing secretary said the law
range cattle to Agriculture prohibited him from ac-
Secretary Earl Butz’s cepting the Herefords.
doorstep Thursday in a Leaders of the drive called
protest designed to publicize the protest a success, saying
their beef over rising costs, it united cattlemen and
The stockmen sought to consumers in drawing at-
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tention to beef prices.
The 2,000-mUe trail drive
from the Dakotas and
Montana ended at dawn
Thursday when the stock
men herded the 47 head of
cattle into a temporary
corral set up on the grassy
Mall across from the
Agriculture Department.
The drive produced one of
the most bizarre endings in
history for a trail drive. As
the stockmen prodded the
cattle into the temporary
enclosure, a few joggers
Farm Equipment
Safety Program
The Eastern Lancaster
County Adult Farmer
Program being held at the
Hinkletown Alternative
School will sponsor a
program on the “Safe
Operation of Farm Equip
ment on the Highway” on
Wednesday evening,
December 18, 1974. Speaker
for the evening will be
Trooper Edward Rowlands
of Troop “J” Pennsylvania
State Police, Lancaster Pa.
Trooper Rowlands has been
the Safety Education Officer
in Lancaster since 1971.
Slow moving farm
equipment and oversize
loads are responsible for
many accidents each year.
Trooper Rowlands has many
ideas on how to protect
yourself while operating
farm equipment on the high
ways.
loped across the Mall. Gulls
from the tidal basin wheeled
and cried overhead and the
sounds of subway con
struction and morning ruch
hour traffic sounds mingled
with the beeve’s bellows.
One sign posted on the
portable holding pen said:
Ranchers can’t afford to feed
me, consumers can’t afford
to buy me.”
Twenty steers were
scheduled to be slaughtered
Friday, with the meat given
to needy families in the
The meeting will start at
7:30 p.m. on Wednesday
evening December 18 at the
Hinkletown Alternative
School. The school is located
approximately Vi mile north
of Route 322 on Wanner Road
just east of Hinkletown.
Interested persons are in
vited to attend, refreshments
will be served.
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Two 550-pound steers, two
calves and two cows that will
be sold and a rodeo steer
were brought along - to at
tract public attention to the
livestock producers’ story of
sharp losses, high feed costs
and consumer resistance
while "middlemen get fat
instead of the cattle."
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Maryland farm in 8
demonstration of the
economic squeeze, said
coordinator Leroy Schecher
of Bison, S.D., said.
The cattlemen, allied with
the Consumer Federation of
America, wanted Butz to
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Carol Foreman, executive
director of The Consumer
Federation of America, said
Butz was unresponsive to
consumer requests for
various actions to expose
real costs and profits in the
meat business but “he
certainly understood the
problem of the meat
producer.”
The secretary’s
spokesman said Butz urged
the protesters to take ad
vantage of their publicity to
get ther facts across. In a
formal statement, Butz later
said most of the 14-month
squeeze was due to inflation,
although middlemen profits
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