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Inc for thiabendazole fc ■■■■■» wmm mmm warn mmm mmm mm mam mam mmm mmm mem mam m i said in a pplicy statement on cooperatives. “I have both a public and a personal in terest in stating that the Department’s policy is to offer maximum en couragement and support to family farmers and their cooperatives.” Bergland directed ad ministrators of all USDA ! T -l The TBZ Cowculator tracks gestation cycles, ling, drying off, freshening times and other im nation on every cow... all at a glance! breed mforr sut« agencies to demonstrate that USD A “is now and always will be an advocate of cooperatives.” He said that this support should be reflected through expanding cooperative development, strengthened research and technical assistance, promotion of the knowledge of cooperative principles and practices, making full use of cooperatives in farm programs, and providing loan funds to cooperatives. “Few acts serve our farmers as well as the Capper-Volstead Act of 1922 and the Cooperative Marketing Act of 1926,” Bergland said. Bergland’s reference to using cooperatives more fully in farm production and income programs is significant in that he recently proposed that the right of cooperatives to obtain CCC loans on behalf of their producers should be' extended to wheat and feed grains. Pool loans are now 74 00 76J-58-1276 ___ J Robert Bergland available on cotton, rice, honey, and soybeans. This is the first major reaffirmation of the USDA commitment to farm cooperatives since August, 1963, when Agriculture Secretary Orville L. Freeman issued his famed directive to all agency heads to spur the growth of cooperatives. Freeman maintained that it was 4 '%* ' v " * a ~^'/>< r s>*’sr3wi ■ -f-i'A Vf*. MERCK Lancaster Farming, Saturday, May 7,1977 “more essential than ever concentration of economic that the fanners’ bargaining power in the non power be strengthened due agricultural sectors of the to the trend towards greater economy.” Taxes are big item of electric bill HARRISBURG, Pa. - Out of every dollar Pennsylvania consumers pay for electric service 15 cents goes for taxes, the state’s top electric utility executive said here this week. “Taxes are second only to fuel in the consumer’s cost of electricity, and they take a larger bite than most people imagine because they aren’t visible on the consumer's bill,” said Eugene J. Bradley, president of the Pennsylvania Electric Association. Bradley addressed some 250 Pennsylvania consumer group leaders at the sixth annual Pennsylvania Power Conference co-sponsored by The Pennsylvania State University anil the Penn sylvania Electric Association. He explained in detail the elements of the consumer’s electric utility bill. The smallest item, Bradley said, is one-and-a half cents for retained earnings. “In other words,” be said, “after all payments for fuel, taxes, wages, operating expenses, interest and dividends, much less than two per cent of the consumer’s electric dollar £- ’ *»*/ Bean exports down The marketing year ended preceding 10-year average of last August wasn’t a good 91,000 metric tons. The little one or U.S. exporters of dry lentil fared a lot better, edible beans and peas, setting another record with Shipments of dry edible nearly 42,500 metric tons, beans, at 123,000 metric tons, Roughly 70 per cent of the proved the lowest since 1967 1975 lentil crop left our and made up only 53 per cent shores for Algeria-the of the 1974-75 record, biggest buyer-and West Shippers of dry edible peas Germany, Venezuela, watched their exports drop Greece, Italy, Columbia, and 20 per cent below the Spain. remains for the electric utility to set aside for future financing.” Bradley said electric rates trended downward during the fifties and sixties. “Bigger broilers, bigger generators, greater ef ficiencies-all contributed to offsetting other expenses and to lowering the unit cost of power generation.” he said. “But by 1970 the technological gains ran out and inflation problems mounted for the industry and its customers,” he con tinued. “This impact of inflation on electric utilities is too easily overlooked by some people who are paying today, compared with 10 years ago, 95 per cent more for a new car, 85 per cent more for a gallon of gas, 107 per cent more for a physician’s office call, 52 per cent more for a loaf of bread, and on and on.” The utility executive said he expects electric bills to continue to rise as long as inflation persists, adding that some of the burden could be lessened if state government reduced or removed special taxes that electric customers pay. 105
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