—Lancaster Farml 64 Agricultural progress result of 100-year effort Alexis de Tocqueville, the famous Frenchman who traveled widely in America in the first hall of the 1800’s, had a great batting average for telling It like it was. But as the U.S. goes, he missed the mark when he said “Agriculture is perhaps, of all the useful arts, that which improves most slowly among democratic nations.” In his day farmers tiUed their crops and cared for their livestock in traditional ways. Although there were FEATURING: • Anti-Vibration Systems • Automatic Oiling on All Models 40 Years Experience in Design and Production cl oh " L utauffer REPAIR SERVICE R.D.2, East Earl, PA Phone 215-445-6175 •A MILE NORTH OF GOODVILLE ON UNION GROVE ROAD A & B Sales & Service l Miles South of Route 23 Along 772 thru Monterey R.D.I, RONKS, PA July 12. 1975 Saturda signs of change - the in* ventions of the moldboard plow, the cotton gin, and the reaper, for example - far mers still were slower to change than businessmen or industrialists of that period. Hard to predict. We can forgive de Tocqueville for his lack of foresight regarding this one area. Indeed, few could have detected in the agriculture of the mid-1800’s the sparks of the technological explosion that would revolutionize farming 100 years later. DAVE'S ENGINE SERVICE In Rear of Stauffer’s Machine Shop % Mile South of Murrell on Pleasant Valley Road R.D.3, Ephrata, PA Perhaps the greatest change is in the minds of farmers themselves, who eagerly seize and apply new technologies as fast as they leave the laboratories; new varieties, new fertilizers, new pesticides and her bicides, new systems of cultivation, new management techniques. They welcome with equal enthuisasm new research findings concerning new uses for farm products, more efficient marketing and distribution, and improved technologies in tran sportation, storage, and processing. This change didn’t just happen. It was the direct payoff from a unique and massive effort over a 100- year period that created a vast network of agricultural research and educational institutions. Among farmers’ contact points for research in formation are the county extension offices in nearly all 3,044 counties in the 50 States, Puerto Rico, Guam, and the District of Columbia. Eash is staffed with one or more full-time professional agriculturists and home economists. ' The 11,500 county workers are backstopped by 4,500 State extension professionals. A small Federal office in USDA services and coor dinates the State offices. Extension helpers. In recent years, the Extension Services have employed a growing number of para professionals who help disseminate information on nutrition, health, and family living to poor people in rural and urban areas. In addition, the services use a legion of unpaid, trained, volunteer local leaders. Research information also reaches farmers and the public through the press, radio, and television. Ad vertising is another means by which agribusiness firms communicate with farmers and others. Supplier firms themselves are also im portant distributors of new knowledge. Research findings flow into this information net work from a variety of sources. First in research. Largest of the public research agencies is USDA’s Agricultural Research Service (ARS). It operates 127 separate research establishments,' including the Agricultural Research Center at Beltsville, Md., and laboratories in each of the States, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, and several foreign countries. ARS also conducts research in cooperation with, or under contracts or grants with, State agricultural ex periment stations, State departments of agriculture, and other groups both public and private. Other USDA research agencies include the Economic Research Service, the Forest Service, and the Farmer Cooperative Ser vice. Statistics on agricultural production and other subjects are collected by the Statistical Reporting Service. (Continued on Pace 65] YOU CAN COUNT ON US AGRI-EQUIP. I. G.'s AG. SALES R Dh. Farmersville Ephrata. PA Rt 113 Box 200, Silverdale PA 717-354-4271 215-257-5135 ROY 0. 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