VOL. 24 Ho.# Jf~
Farmers warned of future economic problems
By JOYCE BUPP
Staff Correspondent
RED LION - “We have a
[ovemment trying to spend
ts way out of the inflation
problem,” warns Lou
Moore, agricultural
economist from Penn State
University. “It hits us ah
Pa. Farm Show gets a face-lift, new schedules
By JOAN LEESAU
HARRISBURG - The
Farm Show Building
Complex has had a face lift
and a few of the schedules
In this issue
Farm Calendar 10
Editorial Comments 10
Cumberland Co. roundup 34
Guernsey banquet 35
Homestead Notes 42
Jr Cooking Edition 44
Kendy’s Kollumn 46
Joyce Bupp 47
Home on the Range 48
Eggs 52
Ida’s Notebook 56
Farm Women Calendar 57
Ladies have you heard 57
I Classifieds 60
! Lebanon DHIA 9®
Dauphin DMA 95
JforkDHIA 97
Lancaster DHIA 104
Fundraising 105
Sales Register 134
Serving The Central and Southeastern Pennsylvania Areas - Also Maryland, New Jersey and Delaware
and there’s very little any
one of us as individuals can
do about it.”
Moore pronounced that
verdict and issued a -few
warnings and recom
mendations to the farming
community when he spoke to
the York County Farmers’
have been changed for the
1979 Farm Show, January 8
through the 12.
In file dairy division the
numbers an individual or
herd unit can show has been
reduced from ten animals in
the colored breeds and/or
eight eight Holsteins to eight
Pa/s certified farm markets growing in numbers
By KENDACE BORRY
“Producer marketers
have a unique opportunity
today,” Eugene McDowell,
director of product ser
Lebanon Co, farmer wins state alfalfa contest
UNIVERSITY PARK - Six
Pennsylvania grassland
farmers received 1978 State
Alfalfa Growers Awards at
the recent Forage and Seed
Lancaster Farming, Saturday, November 25,197$
Forum last Friday at Rut
ter’s Restaurant.
“In five years, it may not
mean much to' be a
millionaire,” the economist
predicted, “because the
government keeps printing
too much “funny money.”
Terming inflation the
in the colored breeds and six
Holsteins. The previous
group classes have been
combined into one class
called the exhibitors herd
with four animals. The
premiums have been in
creased accordingly for this
class.
vices,for PACMA’s con
sumer product division, the
Pennsylvania Farmer’s
Association’s marketing
affiliate, stated. “They have
Conference held at Penn
State main campus.
Dr. John E. Baylor, Penn
State Extension agronomist
and contest coordinator,
country’s most pressing
problem, Moore indicated he
believes that neither
voluntary nor mandatory
economic controls will be
successful. He regards in
flation as a final link in a
chain of government inac
tions, and calls it “a long
The' sheep and swine
classes remain the same
except for one change in the
market lambs. Junior
market lambs will be shown
by weight classification
rather than by breeds.
Grade mares will not be a
separate class anymore.
an outlet for their sales, with
no middleman in between
them.”
He was speaking of the
Certified Farm Market
points out that the winners
were selected on the basis of
points received for hay
equivalent yield per acre,
pounds of protein, and total
term problem being at
tacked with short run
solutions in hopes that it win
somehow go away.”
“Depression and
recession” are terms being
heard frequently in .what
Moore accused as “scare
tactics.” Moore said that
They will have their own.
class in' their respective
breeds. A pony pulling
division has been added this
year. Thursday night will be
the run off for the State Pony
Pulling Championship. Hus
will be the Keystone Pony
Pullers Association sane
program, which is another
name for the Retail Farm
Market Division of the
Pennsylvania Farmers’
Association, Camp Hill.. The
digestible nutrients during
the entire growing season.
Champion alfalfa grower
was I. Hershey Bare,
Lebanon R 2. He produced
$6.00 Per Year
histopr of the present money
worries trace bade to the
Johnson administration’s
handling of the costlier-than
admitted Vietnam war and
the beginning of social
welfare programs.
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tioned state championship
contest.
The pony pulling contest
replaces the “Parade of Blue
Ribbon Stock” which was
traditionally held on
Thursday evening. Ac
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program, which was
originally set up under the
Pa. Department of
Agriculture, has -for two
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8.71 tons of hay equivalent:
3,268 pounds of protein, and
9,730 pounds of total
digestiblenutrients per acre,
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