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That’s m stark contrast to the net loss of about 300,000 each year that were leaving rural America during the 60’s. Now that’s not to say that everyone who leaves the city and goes to rural America plans to become a farmer. A lot of them are moving to small towns scattered across the country, where they expect to find a better life than the urban rat race they left. WE AT SEALSTOR... ARE BUILDING A REPUTATION NOT SITTING ON IT. BEFORE YOU BUY THAT HIGH MOISTURE GRAIH UNIT, CHECK OUR PRICE. WE CAN PRESENTLY FULFILL ANY ORDERS ON GRAIN UNITS. Save your fuel and money, too. SEALSTOR* it. Over the long haul the cost of fuel can go only one way UP. And once fuel is used, it's used up Period It’s like burning money A Sealstor is as close to being permanent as any structure you can erect. And that’s only the start of your savings With Sealstor, you harvest grain early, at about 30% moisture, when it's at its peak in bushels and nutn- Sealstor products are manufactured by Southwestern Porcelain Inc PO Box 8 Sand Springs Oklahoma 74063 Clip and mail the coupon to: PENN DUTCH FARM SYSTEMS, INC. Box 8,2753 Creek Hill Rd Leola, Pa. 17540 Ph: 717-656-2036 SALES MANAGER: richard enck 717-284-2773 SALES REPRESENTATIVES: Lancaster Area CLAIR GRIFFITH 717-786-2740 Chambersburg Area JOE ROCK 717-352-3278 Some of these people are bound to be disappointed. Because swapping an urban life'for a rural one involves more than just changing addresses. Many people who are disappointed with life m the city are going to be equally disappointed with life in rural America, especially if they don’t understand it or are un willing to adjust to it. The Agriculture Depart ment’s Rural Development Service says city folk don’t have to be disappointed or frustrated when they move to the country. It suggests that city people who are planning such a move check first on available jobs, housing, and services that Eastern, PA. CARLJOHNSON 215-367-6160 Lancaster Farming, Saturday, October 15,1977 are m the area where they plan to relocate. Some communities welcome new residents and are equipped to handle them. Others have limited opportunities and facilities and more people only add to their existing problems. A lot of people who move to rural America are looking for land. They want space room for a garden, a place to keep a horse, maybe a few acres so they can do some part-time farming while they continue their regular employment. Here in the urbanized East that dream is getting more and more difficult to attain. Land prices are unreasonable and land is unavailable. Not many farmers want to sell off ten or 20 acre parcels to urbanites so they can build their dream homes, com plete with dog kennels, pony barns and equipment sheds. Often the only compromise that exists is a lot somewhere in the country. Maybe one of a dozen houses along a country road, each on a half acre of ground barely big enough for a garden. Or the other choice tional value Then, the “wet" gram goes directly into your oxygen limiting Sealstor The Sealstor system cuts handling time and costs, reduces field and storage losses, beats the weather and produces a mildly fermented feed that is easier to digest, more palatable, more nutritional You get more meat or milk per acre And you stop using costly fuel for drying gram Now and forever NAME 1 ADDRESS ! TOWN | PHONE J No of animals ! Beef Hogs is a very expensive and complete agricultural unit that occasionally comes up for sale. But the price tag on such property is usually prohibitive. Live in the country is still a dream to a lot of people. As it becomes easier to live in rural America, I think the trend is going to accelerate. Survey after survey shows that a large part of America’s population would prefer to live on the land. Their second choice seems to be a rural town somewhere close to the land with a lot of open space, fresh air, sunshine and trees. Few people, given a choice, prefer an urban environment as the best place to raise a family, or for that matter, to enjoy retirement. Of course rural people have thought this all the tune. That’s one of the reasons they’ve endured the hardships and the low in come that has been characteristic of fanning for so many years. They like life in rural America. Ap parently a lot of other people do also. STATE CHECK IF STUDENT Dairy Acreage 59 ZIP
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