VoL 21 No. 40 r | In this issue I Farm Calendar 10 ■ Farm Commentary 10 ■ Classifieds 24 I Homestead Notes 42 I Home on the Range 46 1 Junior Cooking Edition 47 | Dairy Princess Features 48 I Ida's Notebook 49 I Lebanon Dairy Show SI I Crafts feature SO I My Thoughts S 8 It’s been a very good year for tobacco on the John Hess farm, south of Manheim, where 15 wagons waited to be unloaded on Thursday evening. Tobacco and hay crops going strong MANHRTM _ Most of Lancaster County’s tobacco crop looks really good this /ear. At the John farm, smith of here, the crop is being described as “very good” and definitely better AFBF presents issues to Republicans KANSAS CITY, Mo. —Hie American Farm Bureau Federation told national Republican Party platform writers here that the nation’s farm and rand: families Wage and price group attacks OSH A .WASHINGTON, D.C. - FCbe Council on Wage and Price Stability recently sharply criticized certain provisions of OSHA’s recent proposal to mandate sanitation facilities for Farm Progress Schedule 61 Eastern Holstein Show 73 Tomorrow land of Ag 80 York Holstein Show 82 York 4-H Dairy Show 83 Weather feature 84 Life on the Farm 87 Mini vacation S 3 Bicentennial feature 100 Public Sales Register 106 Sales Reports 110 Ton per acre predicted than last year’s. Hess, who has been growing tobacco for all of his life, thought the leaves might be just a bit heavy which' made them “mean” to handle and possibly hard to cure, but support government Bum programs “designed to assist farm in their efforts to earn and get higher iiyv>tpp« through the System.” agricultural workers in the field. While noting public health and cultural reasons for having such facilities, the Council’s analysis concluded that application of the standards in many areas Serving The Central and Soufhcoslrrn Pennsylvania Areas Lancaster Farming. Saturday. August 21,1976 he’s enthused with what he has. Several times he spread apart the leaves on some of his uncut tobacco as we walked through his fields and noted the fine texture of [Continued on Page 18] c - R - Johnston, president of the Missouri Farm Bureau Federation and a member of the AFBF Board of Direc- tors, said price support and production adjustment would be inflationary, since costs would greatly exceed benefits. Council Acting Director William Lilley HI said, “The OSHA proposal is premature and unrealistic; it treats all of By DIETER KRIEG YORK ~ <PP “ York County is coming on surprisingly strong, ac cording to several growers in the area and Assistant County Agent, David Nor man" According to all con programs suuma lacuuate orderly marketing rather than fix prices. “We are opposed to government-owned reserves of farm products. Such U.S. agriculture as if it were one homogeneous unit.” The OSHA proposal was first published in the Federal Register on April 27 of this year. Briefly, OSHA would require fanners to provide Fifth cutting possible tacts, there’s a strong possibility of a fifth cutting being made this year, and there are rumors of some fellows maybe even having a crack at a sixth crop. Rain was a problem since reserves are bad for producers, costly for tax- payers, and unnecessary for the protection of con- sinners,” he said. Johnston emphasized employees working the field with potable drinking water and toilet and hand- washing facilities within live minutes walking distance, OSHA estimates the cost of the proposal to be between 14 00 Per Year 9“** * nl ™s er ** ****? *9* wet. But that same ramis *l*> responsible for having the crop come on so aroog. Adequate moisture levels throughout the growing [Continued on Psfe 16] Farm Bureau’s support for efforts to maintain Con stitutional government, strengthen the market system, reduce government (Continued on Page 15] $8 million and $l6 million for the first year and lower amounts subsequently. As the Council pointed out in Its filing, however, these cost estimates are on the low side (Continued on Pate 15]
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