Meet die {Continu'd from Pa* 10] luals and companies believe they formulate better foods in a test than what God has made liable to us on farms. Go to any ermarket and examine, the jucts on the shelves. The com mon is there, and it’s not going to way. Farmers have products and 3 y of life to protect which is being reached upon by greedy and even iphemous businessmen and their is m government. Isn’t it worth a pennies per hundredweight or dto let people know how valuable nutritious our products are? Are to just stand by the wayside while contents of our God given Horn of nty are replaced by artificial ducts? hope not! laving a dairy farm background, I an ongoing interest in the dairy mess, I get a special feeling of sfaction and assurance every time >ar the words: "A message from American Dairy Association and ry farmers in your state." nebody is letting the consumer w that my family is involved in the err Tiir 7/ o*** ninnmii Agromafic hydraulic manure pump SUPER EFFICIENCY A. Big 12” square plunger. Big 12” square check valve. c - Enjoy advantages with 10’ underground pipe. Positive movement of all mat- erials assured. Adjustable stroke (from 6-12 Per minute). • Pump a big 12 cu. ft. of manure per minute. RYDER SUPPLY CO* ch 4ISE V2OI challenge production of one of Nature’s finest foods, and in my opinion, it’s worth the few pennies per hundredweight it takes to get the job done. Whether we’re dairymen, cat tlemen, hog producers, or poultrymen, the challenge remains the same: Promote your product, lest you lose your share of the market to imitation products. Any opportunity the farmer has to take part in such promotions - whether on a small localized scale, or a big national effort - should be seriously and positively considered. For those who believe someone else should do the advertising for us (like the grocery store owner, for example), I wouldn’t count on it. It’ll be up to the farmers, their cooperatives and their associations to keep agricultural products in the limelight. I wouldn’t count on the government helping either. The poultry hearings and the findings of the Senate Select Committee on Human Nutrition and Needs are strong indications of that. In neither case were the interests of the poultry, meat, and dairy in- The large 12” x 12” plunger is designed to move 12 cubic feet of manure per minute. Angle iron guide assures perfect head alignment. dustries upheld favorably. It’s further proof that there's a job to be done, and if you want it done welt, you have to do it yourself. At a few pennies per head or hundredweight, the costs of ad vertising and promotion are still relatively small. Yet the costs of not advertising could be devastatingly huge. SPECIAL MILLER HIGH LIFE SIX-PACK $1.69 On a recent excursion to Florida, I spied a big sign in the window of a dairy store which in bright bold letters proclaimed that Miller High- Life Beer was on sale for $1.69 per six-pack. Down South, beer is sold in grocery stores, gas stations, and even dairy stores. It’s interesting to note that the special on beer was advertised during June, which is supposed to be Dairy Month. Presumably the ad vertised special on beer generated a bit of extra business and profit, but it wasn’t promoting the product dairymen should be advertising. It gets back to the idea of competition The modern Hydraulic Manure Pump by Agromatic works like the old reliable hay baler with square plunger. SHEWS FARM SERVICE Lancaster Farming. Saturday. July 9,1977—1 See Pennfieid Open House Page 5 501 E. Woods Drive Utitz, Pa. 717-626-1151 between products mentioned earlier. In this case, it appears as though beer was getting top billing, and of all places, in a dairy store! Too much of that sort of thing, and the demand for milk will erode for sure. PARTY PLANNED, BRING YOUR OWN MILK An as yet unnamed dairy club met earlier this year and believe it or not, there wasn't a single drop of milk within the room reserved for the social affair. But, not surprisingly, there was enough booze to go around if you wanted any. If not, you went thirsty. That incident isn’t by any means extraordinary. Not many major dairy shows go by where the owner of a champion dairy cow doesn’t throw a small party. Rarely is milk the drink. It's in areas such as these - right on the home front - where farmers can stand to do a lot of improving in promoting their products. It’s an important way of setting a good and convincing example. O,S */VC ‘'oam£- VERSATILITY Handles long, short or no straw 1
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