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TIME ONLY o 16 speed transmission with Torque amplifier 18.4 x 34 Rear, 9.5Lx15 front tires*Position,depth and mixed control • Many other features all standard U&IDENCREEK Hi FARM H AT PARTICIPATING LONG DEALERS I 900 TRACTOR '' 85 HP Diesel Fleming, who Is also director of the Federation’s Washington office, said repeated efforts by “left wing political activists” to build a political coalition of farmers and labor union members “will continue to fall.” “The inherent weakness in any farmer-labor coalition was demonstrated this year when President George Meany of the AFL-CIO aided and abetted by Secretary of Labor Dunlop persuaded President Ford to place an embargo on U.S. gram sales to the Soviet Union. “This anti-farmer effort by the forces of labor played right into the hands of Secretary of State Kissinger, whose support for the car telization of trade through international commodity agreements drew a sharp protect from the American Farm Bureau Federation Board of Directors long before the Soviet grain embargo was announced. Farmers haven’t forgotten that it was labor leaders who launched the campaign to have price controls on food imposed in 1973 action which created such devastating dislocations in the livestock industry then and later. “Those farm-state U.S. senators and representatives who in the past have sought to make common cause with lawmakers from union dominated industrial states in an effort to win passage of government farm program bills have done and are doing a disservice to NELSON WEAVER & SON Box 152-R2 Lititz, PA 49% SOYBEAN MEAL BULK or BAGGED PHONE 717-626-8538 >fBPlfet R 9500 TRACTOR UIMP Perkins 98 PTO HP Diesel Engine • Shift on-the-go 12 speed transmission • Independent P.T.O. Power-steering • Dual-disc brakes • 9.50 x 20 front, 18.4 x 34 rear tires CALCIUM ROAD ATONTELAUNEEDAM PHONE (215) 926-3851 American agriculture," Fleming declared. “They have Jeopardized the income earning op portunities of American agriculture. Target prices and compensatory payments the Brannan plan do not provide a reliable basis for future agricultural income. “Many urban members of Congress who voted for the farm bill in 1975 did so in an overt effort to get rural members of Congress obligated to vote for big spending urban legislation. “This was made crystal clear when the House of Representatives voted on the motion to override President Ford’s veto of the 1975 farm bill. “At that tune. President Kuhfuss of the American Farm Bureau Federation told all of the Hjuse that the effort to override the veto was not prompted by con cern for the welfare of agriculture. “Instead,” he said, “it was spearheaded by George Meany as an integral part of the AFL-ClO’s budget busting campaign to create a $lOO billion deficit and thereby make a shambles of Firms buy steers Several local buyers purchased Lancaster County steers at the Farm Show sale held last Friday. Those participating in the 4-H event included: H. D. Matz, Ephrala; Vintage Sales Stables; Marvin Miller; Park Myers; Charles Myers; K. Henry Stoltzfus and Ike Weaver. BLANDON, PA, Lancaster Farming, Saturday, Jan. 17,1976 the ceilings on the federal budget set by President Ford and the Congressional budget committees. "Treacherous concepts can be and often are packaged in seductive phraseology,” Fleming declared. Fleming noted that the Senate Nutrition Committee has proposed that Congress create a food and nutrition policy board composed of the Secretaries of HEW, State, and Agriculture in the office of the President. “See who comes in last on that one,” he said. Fleming said that in ternational trade on the basis of comparative ad vantage and “fair com petition” was dealt a severe blow by the 1975 grains embargo. “Political manipulation of trade is a very poor substitute for the market system," he declared. “The failure of the Ad ministration to impose countervailing duties against subsidized unports of cheese and ham from CATALYTIC ELECTRIC HEATERS * * JU* A VERSATILE, CLEAN WAY TO PROVIDE NEEDED WARMTH FOR LIVESTOCK WE SELL, SERVICE AND INSTALL E. M. HERR EQUIPMENT, INC. R D 1 Willow Street foreign nations is another instance of actior adverse to the interests of fa mens and ranchers. "Meanwhile, in the larger arena of expanding mutually advantageous international trade it remains to be seen whether the international trade negotiations now underway in Geneva ac tually will result in expanded world trade or whether our government will permit separate negotiations on agricultural and industrial products, repeating the mistake which was made 10 years ago during the Ken nedy Round.” “Federal land use control remains a major threat to farmers and ranchers,” Fleming said. “Even as members of the House In terior Committee were rejecting Representative Udall’s federal land use control bill, the ‘controllers’ were coming through the back door and using the federal Water Quality Act to achieve their goals. You can expect more action on this front. ACS STAR AND i . - ){ LP Gas heaters furns off oas and off, in case >es out or gas flow ited 13 717.Afi4.-VWI