Farm Calendar
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Bradford-Sullivan Farmer’s
Assn, meets at Wysox.
13th Annual Adams County
Farmers’ Assn, meeting
at the JJendersville Fire
Hall, 7 p.m.
33rd Annual Conference, PA
Assn, of Conservation
Districts and State
Conservation Com
mission; continues
through October 8;
Pocono Manor Inn,
Pocono Manor.
Thursday, October 9
PA 4-H Horse Show con
tinues through 12th Farm
. Show' Complex,
Harrisburg.
Family Focus for the 80’s
sponsored by PA Ex-
tension Service; 8:30,
Hershey Convention
Center, Hershey.
55th PA State Guernsey
State Sale; Guernsey
Sales Pavilion, Lan
caster; 12:30 p.m.
Friday, October 10
Adams County Farm-City
Farmers market and
tour; Gettysburg; 9:30
am. to‘4p.m.
Montgomery Pomona
Grange legislative din- >
ner; 6:45 p.m.; Wismer
Hall, Ursinis College,
Collegeville.
Saturday, October II
National Trotting Pony Sale
at the Farm Show
Complex, Harrisburg
Uhionville Community Fair,
Unionville; Continues
through October 11.
Food is still bargain
WASHINGTON, D.C. -
Last year, according to a
Department of Agriculture
study, the average
Pa Veterinary Medical Assn.
98th annual meeting
Seven Springs Mountain
Resort, Champion.
Continues through Oc
tober 14.
National Apple Queen
Contest; South Mountain
Fairground, Arendtsville.
Berks County Sheep and
Wool Growers tour,
starts at 8 a.m.
Old time steam tractor
display; 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.;
Rough and Tumble,
Kinzer.
American wage earner
worked only 4 minutes to
earn enough to buy a 1-pound
loaf of white bread that cost
52 cents; only 13 minutes to
buy a pound of sliced bacon
that costs 81.85. Only 15-%
minutes to earn enough to
buy a pound of sirloin steak
that cost $2.17; only 13-%
minutes to buy a pound, of
pork chops that retailed at
$1.90.
He or she had to work 4
minutes to buy a pound of
broiler chicken; about 4-%
minutes for a pound of
tomatoes that retailed for 64
cents; only 16 minutes to buy
a dozen oranges that sold for
$2.25. Just 11 minutes to earn
enough for a pound of butter
Lancaster Farming, Saturday, October 4,1980—A13
that sold for $1.56; only 5-%
minutes to earn enough to
purchase a dozen large eggs
for 77 cents. That adds up to
only 87 minutes for the whole
order.
Around the world only
Canadian workers averaged
better. They bad to work
only 83-% minutes for that
same food-purchasing
power.
On the other hand, the
Japanese worker had to
spend 7 hours and 15 minutes
on the job to earn enough for
those same groceries. More
than 2 hours and 54 minutes
just to earn enough for the
sirloin; 88 minutes just to
buy the dozen oranges.’
Workers in the United
Kingdom had to stay on the
job 3 hours and 18 minutes to
earn the full order; French
workers, 2 hours 46-%
minutes. Those in Denmark,
2 hours and 28 minutes.
Italian workers, 2 hours and
19-% minutes; Belgian
workers, 2 hours 4-%
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minutes. Swedes and West
Germans, 2 hours;
Australians, 1 hour and 57
minutes. Dutch workers, 1
hour and 53 minutes.
A breakdown of prices of
the items shows sirloin,
which cost $2.17 in the U.S.
was |3.73 a pound in France,
$5.68 in West Germany,
$15.66 in Japan. Pork chops,
just $1.90 here, cost $2.55 in
France, $2.58 in West Ger
many, $2.67 in Sweden, $4.70
in Japan.
Eggs, which cost only 77
cents a dozen in the U.S.,
were $1.46 a dozen in France,
$1.12 in the United Kingdom,
$1.09 in Japan, $1.73 in
Sweden, 83 cents in Canada.
On the other hand,
oranges, which cost $2.25 per
dozen in the U.S., were only
. $1.92 in France, $2.11 in West
Germany, $1.67 in the United
Kingdom, $1.65 in Australia,
and $1.68 in Belgium. But,
they were $2.29 in Denmark,
$7.92 per dozen in Japan.