Co-op seminar scores programs and challenges GETTYSBURG - Farmers and agriculture in general will be faced with significant changes in production and marketing practices as the result of new energy con servation measures, but these changes will occur slowly, according to Donald A. Frederick, assistant general counsel for the National Council of Farmer Cooperatives. Frederick was speaker at a tour and seminar for of WHITE WASHING with DAIRY WHITE -DRIES WHITE - DOES NOT RUB OFF EASILY -NO WET FLOORS - IS COMPATIBLE WITH DISINFECTANT AND FLY SPRAYS - WASHES OFF WINDOWS & PIPELINES EASILY. ALSO BARN CLEANING SERVICE AVAILABLE WITH COMPRESSED AIR To have your barn cleaned with air it will clean off dust, cob webs & lot of the old lime. This will keep your barn looking cleaner & whiter longer. MAYNARD L. BEITZEL Witmer, PA 17585 717-392-7227 If no answer call Willard Beitzel 717-656-9569 Barn spraying our business, not a side-line. 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He cited as an example tax credits for solar crop drying. The National Council of Farmer Cooperatives representative said that consumer representation on cooperative boards will take place in the futre and in terest groups will push to lift the tax-exempt status of cooperatives. George Steele, president and board chairman of Agway, Inc., also a con ference speaker, noted that the farm cooperative sector must first understand their own problems before they try to work effectively with the general public and legislators. “The farm community spends too much time telling each other about problems of the industry rather than working effectively to solve them,” Steele said. “We as cooperative members must establish a sound program of cooperative education for consumers. And farm organizations must leam to listen to people’s viewpoints outside of agriculture.” Charles F. Lebo, program specialist for the Penn sylvania Department of Education, stated that the state has the largest vocational agriculture enrollment in history. Over 16,000 secondary school PURINA RAT CONTROL PELLETS JOHN D. KURTZ PHONE 717 354-4616 717 665-6023 RD3, EPHRATA PA 17522 IRA D. LANDIS PHONE 717-665 324« BOX 276. RD3 MANHEIM PA 17545 WENGER’S FEED MILL INC. PHONE 717 367 1195 RHEEMS.PA 17570 T' FRESH CORN students in 200 vocational or technical" schools are enrolled in agricultural programs. Lebo urged the Penn sylvania Association of Secretary of Agriculture Bob Bergiand visited Hesston Corporation headquarters here recently to learn firsthand about the problems created for farm equipment manufacturers during a sagging farm economy. Secretary Bergiand (white shirt at left) talks with Hesston officials near a new conventional square baler which Hesston introduced this year. Rep. Dan Glickman, D-Kans., accompanied Bergiand on the tour and arranged the Hesston visit by the agriculture secretary. OT3 W. E. MANIFOLO & SONS Lancaster Farming, Saturday, October 22,1977 Farmer Cooperatives to work closely with teachers of vocational agriculture in developing new programs for youth. Dr. Jack H. Armstrong, If you aren’t completely satisfied that loose bait Purina Rat Control Pellets are more palatable than any other rat bait you've used, return the unused product along with a copy of the sales receipt to Purina and we'll send you a complete cash refund. Requests for refunds should be sent to Rat Control Pellets Guarantee, Ralston Purina Company, 13001 St. Charles Rock Road, Bridgeton. Missouri 63044. (Guarantee offer expires May 1,1978). And now PURINA RAT CONTROL PELLETS are available in a con venient place pack. Compare our New PLACE PACK RAT CONTROL with other “pitch packs" and you'll be pleased with the results. Your Purina dealer has Rat Control Pellets and other fine Purina Health Products. See your dealer for more information. ES Purina ••• planning tomorrow with research today JOHN J. HESS, 11, INC. PHONE 717-442-4183 PARADISE. PA 17562 UMBERGER’S, INC. PHONE 717-866-2324 RICHLAND PA 17087 UMBERGER’S MILL PHONE 717-867 5161 FONTANA PA 17042 PHONE 717 382-4805 FAWN GROVE PA 17321 deputy administrator of the Fanner Cooperative Ser vice, Washington, D.C., pointed out that his agency WEST WILLOW FARMERS ASSN., INC. PHONE 717-464 3386 WEST WILLOW, PA 17583 LEHMAN FEED STORE PHONE 717 528-4151 YORK SPRINGS PA PICKERING VALLEY FEED AND FARM STORE PHONE 215-363-8810 RT 113 6 GORDON DRIVE LIONVILLE PA 19353 (Continued on Page 61) ■» s 59
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