18 —Lancaster Farming. Saturday, Jan. 31.1976 Butz addresses York meeting YORK U.S. Secretary of Agriculture, Earl Butz. made an appearance in York a week ago yesterday (Friday), to speak before the 13th annual Agribusiness Seminar, spon sored jointly by the York County Agricultural Extension Service and the York Area Chamber of Commerce.' Displaying a sense of humor much of it “canned" since he uses the same Jokes over and over again at different speaking engagements Butz had the audience laughing intermittently. Although this paragraph is not Intended to be an editorial column, it could be said that the Secretary’s presentation was more entertaining rather than revealing of agricultural policies. More than anything, it was, perhaps, a talk stressing the importance and potential of agriculture. The reader is Invited to judge for himself, as we present the bulk of Butz’s speech; “It’s a real pleasure being here I commend you for this agri-business seminar that I understand the Chamber of Commerce sponsors,” Butz said. Upon learning that the Extension Service was also involved with it, he quipped: “I should know that anything worthwhile, Extension takes credit for.” After a burst of laughter, he acknowledged: “And usually they deserve it too.” A minute or two of small talk followed, then he focused for a time on agribusiness. “Agribusiness has kind of a bad connotation in this country. The word agribusiness has kind of a bad con notation,” be continued. “When I was up for confirmation four years ago the liberals in there beat me over the bead without mercy because I had had some association with M> more... hift less. 83-hp Ford 7000 with Load Monitor. Step up to the 83-horsepower tractor that does more. 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We are all part of this great food and fibre complex in America.” (The audience was divided nearly half and half between farmers and agri businessmen.) “And anybody who tries to send one sect of that against another is doing a great disservice to this whole agricultural complex in America. “Because this milk that came from a Holstein cow out here this morning one of these farms doesn’t have much value until it’s packaged either as milk or butter or cheese or whatever it may be and attractively displayed in a super market counter in Philadelphia or New York. That's agribusiness. The bushel of wheat produced on a Kansas farm doesn’t have much value ... until it’s an attractive breakfast roll in a Philadelphia pastry shop. That’s agribusiness. When I was on a farm back in Indiana we used to produce our own power ... we had a colt or two foaled each year. We produced our own fuel we raised oats and hay. We produced our own nitrogen and we hauled it out of the cow stable. Now somebody supplies it much more ef fectively than we did it then, and at much lower cost That’s agribusiness. It’s all a part of this food and fibre complex. And somebody says: ‘Yea, but they make a profit.’ I say: T hope they do.’ Like farmers, they deserve to, that’s what they’re in business for. “The other day I was in a news conference somewhere out here in one of the larger cities and some woman who must have been the food editor she asked a question with a kind of a sneer in her voice. She said: ‘Well, aren’t farmers making money?’ I said ‘I hope so, I think that’s what they’re in business for. “You can’t convince me that some of you chaps in this room get up at five o’clock in the morning, seven mornings a ▼eek and go out to the cow stable because you like to ,*ate with Holsteins. I think you have a higher motive in tjpn that. 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