Maryland cattlemen to tour
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Lancaster County operations
LANCASTER Maryland
cattlemen will have an
opportunity next week to
v 7sit four modern beef
production facilities in
Lancaster County. The one
day tour is set for Thursday,
March 6.
Sponsoring organizations
are the Extension Service at
★ Barn Cleaners, Manure Pumps,
Manure Stackers, Silo Unloaders,
Bunk Feeders, Feed Conveyors
MARVIN J. HORST
DAIRY EQUIPMENT
1950 S. sth Avenue, Lebanon, Pa. 17042
Phone: 717-272-0871
the University of Maryland,
the Maryland Cattlemen’s
Association, and the Division
of Marketing in the state
Department of Agriculture.
Chief coordinator for the
educational tour is William
E. Kunkle, Extension beef
cattle specialist and
assistant professor of animal
science at the College Park
campus.
Kunkle reported the tour
will stress waste
management techniques,
including manure-handling
systems being used on the
farms which are visited.
Feed-handling systems will
also be highlighted.
Transportation is being
provided at nominal cost for
tour participants. Buses will
leave simultaneously at 7:30
a.m. from West Friendship,
Howard County, and
Westminster, Carroll
County. Both buses will stop
at the north gate of the
Maryland State Fairground
in Timomqm, Baltimore
county, to pick up additional
passengers. They will depart
from the fairground at 8:15
a.m.
The buses are scheduled to
arrive by 9:30 a.m. at the
Farm and Home Center, 1383
Arcadia Road, on the north
edge of Lancaster.
Residents of northeast
Maryland and the Eastern
Shore may board the buses
in Lancaster at a reduced'
rate for the actual farm tour,
provided that space is
available.
Tour host will 'be Max
Smith longtime Perr State
Extension agricultural agent
in Lancaster County.
Total cost for the tour is
expected to be about $1(1 per
person, Kunkle said.
Reservations may be made
by calling Dr. Kunkle’s
office in College Park;
phone: 301/454-3732.
Locations of the Howard
and Carroll county bus
pickup points are the
Baltimore - Livestock Ex
change north of West
Friendship and the parking
lot in Westminster behind
Ascension Episcopal church
and the county office
building annex.
Buses are expected back
at the original pickup points
between 5:30 and 6 pm. In
case of heavy snow, the tour
wiilhe postponed one week.
Lancaster Fanning, Saturday, March 1,1950—A2
. On being
a farm wife
-And other
hazards
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V Joyce Bnpp
A South Carolina farm
woman lobbying in
Washington recently told
representatives that far
mers should be “pitird,
pampered and loved.”
Well now, I can certainly
go along with the “loved”
part.
But as for the “pitied and
pampered” - forget it!
Farmers have voluntarily
chosen a vocation that
inherently comes with long
hours, uncertain financial
returns, and daily roulette
with livestock, machines and
the weather.
Any farmer who want to be
pitied for that had doggone
well better tack i«p the “For
Sale” sign and let some
more positive producer take
his place. We don’t need him.
And as for pampering,
only the lazy crave it or the
sick deserve it. Agriculture
is neither.
While we don’t need pity or
pampering, there are a few
things we do seek.
like respect. Respect for
the contribution that
agriculture is making to
America’s badly sagging
economy. Only gram dollars
have served as the stable
prop under a shaky balance
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of payments on the world
trade market. And respect
for the fact that
agriculture’s productivity
has made tiiis country better
fed at cheaper cost than any
other nation in the world.
And instead of pampering,
how about a little political
support? But political
support that reaps benefits,
not just for the farmer, but
for all.
Protection, for instance,
from being hung by the
noose of our own
bureaucratic red tape,
stretched ever tighter by
desperate agencies clinging
to the rope of their livelihood
for dear life.
Or how about revisions to
laws that allow the dumping
on our markets of cheap,
subsidized imports, not only
of milk powder, cheese, or
beef, but also of steel, shoes
and garments.?
We don’t need pity or
pampering any more than
doctors, truck drivers,
lawyers, teachers, super
market managers, business
executives or welders.
All we ask is a little
political common sense.
Save the pity for those
lacking it.
We Can Do The Job Now
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