Lanc«i%ter Farming. Saturday. Augmt 7. 1976
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New hook depicts rural America
WASHINGTON
Kate of Ilural nx-nta", a
photo book of \mencan
agriculture m the Bicen
tennial \ear, was published
last month by the US
Depurtn nt of Agriculture
This panorama of modem
farming, in large picture
book form it with 288 pages,
is the I'j76 Yearbook of
Agriculture It contams 335
photographs, mostly black
and white but including some
in color The photos center
on farm mg, farm families,
and coiLitrv living as it is in
the Bic itenmal year
More than 50
photographers located
across i - nation were asked
to use .if cameras during
1975 ' early 1976 to
photogiaph typical rural
America at work and at play.
"If someone had been able
to put together a good book of
photographs in 1776 showing
Colonial life as it really was,
that book would be in
valuable today. It would
bring early America to life
for us in a way words alone
cannot do," says Secretary
of Agriculture Earl L. Butz
in the introduction to the
Yearbook.
“As we thought about this,
we decided that we wouldn’t
miss the opportunity to
photograph America's farm
life for the 1976 Bicentennial
“This book captures,
photographically, American
rural life as it is today. Not
only will the book become
more valuable with each
passmg year, but its first
purpose is to help you un
derstand better right now
what modem farming is
really like,” says Secretary
Butz.
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‘Modern agriculture is
changing so fast that it is
hard to keep up Those who
used to live or a farm’ may
have fond memories of those
experiences, but if they arc
away from the farm for even
a while, they quickly fall
la hmd "
I he
“Farms are getting
larger, as they should," the
Secretary continues, poin
ting out that they are still
family farms because far
mers with tractors, self
propelled harvesters, and
automated equipment can do
a great deal more than a
farmer could with horses, a
scoop shovel, and hand
harvesting
"Over the last 20 years, the
outp 1 per hour on the farm
has increased more than
three times as fast as output
per man hour in non-farm
activities," Secretary Butz
Racing featured at Allentown
ALLENTOWN At a
time in life when less ad
venturous men are either
retiring to a life of ease or
preparing for it, three
veteran race-car drivers are
still standouts in their chosen
profession.
The dauntless tno will be
in the large field of top
drivers in the East and
Midwest expected to com
pete in the Super Midget
Racing Club program at the
Allentown Fair on Saturday,
August 14. It will be the first
time the fair has sponsored
auto races since 1968, when
the sport was discontinued
after being a closing-day
feature from 1919.
Bicycles
It’s fun to stay fit
riding a John Deere
Choose from many
colors, frames, and
speeds - 3-, 5-, and
10-speed models, and
bikes for boys
and girls
notes "Whereas one farm
worker produced enough to
feed himself and 19 others 20
y cars ago. he can now feed 56
besides himslclf
"We have become so ef
ficient that we arc way and
above the world’s largest
exporter of farm products,"
the Secretary says
“The photographs in the
book have captured some of
the flavor of this pulsating,
efficient, productive
agriculture - and the
qualities of the farm
people," whom he describes
as ‘‘strong, independent,
resourceful people with a
deep faith and optimism, and
a robust ability to enjoy life
along with the work.”
Two recent Yearbooks of
Agriculture - “Contours of
Change”, 1970, and “A Good
Life for More People”, liftl -
dealt with probems on the
Ed “Dutch” Schaefer, who
just turned 61 last June 23
and has been driving racing
cars since 1930; Carl Miller,
who was in his twenties when
he raced in his first midget
at Domey Park just before
the outbreak of World War
• II; and Lou Fray, winner of
the 1975 SMRC cham
pionship, who drove his first
midget in 1946 will be
competing with a lot of other
veterans in addition to many
Farm and ranch people
are making increasingly
effective use of fertilizer and
chemical tools such as
herbicides, insecticides and
fungicides, many of them
derivatives of either oil or
natural gas.
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land such us rural areas
which progress has
bypassed, pockets of rural
poverty, substandard rural
housing, and deficient
community services
A copy of “The Face of
Rural America”, the 1976
Yearbook of Agriculture,
may be obtained for $7 30 at
government bookstores or by
mailing a check or money
order payable to the
Superintendent of
Documents and addressed to
Superintendent of
Documents, Government
Printing Office, Washington,
D C. 20402 In addition, each
member of Congress has a
limited number of copies for
free distribution to con
stituents.
The Agriculture Depart
ment produced the book but
has no copies for public
distribution or sale.
of the up-and-coming young
and aggressive racers who
have been steadily climbing
in the ratings.
The Allentown Fair has an
open format and possibly
will attract drivers such as
Ronnie Dunstan, mostly a
modified stock car driver,
who won the SMRC feature
at Bloomsburg last year, and
Glenn Fitzcharles, also a
modified driver, winner at
Flemmgton.
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