Sociologist compares American HERSHEY - Rural sociologist Eileen Nutting compared American and Soviet farm women during her Tuesday luncheon slide presentation at the American Agri-Women meeting, held here at the convention center. A fruit and vegetable farmer, Mrs. Nutting is a graduate in the doctorate program at Michigan State University Eileen Nutting, doctoral candidate in rural sociology, spoke to Agri-Women on the double burden of Soviet farm women. CHEMGRO FERTILIZER CO., INC. I.nr.iminil State Street, Box 218 and former state chairman of Women for the Survival of Agriculture in Michigan. As part of her studies, she’s traveled to Poland, Czechoslavakia, Belgium, Switzerland and the Soviet Union, researching the roles of farm women. Farm women everywhere are alike m many ways, she says, in that they all carry dual responsibilities, both working in agriculture and CHEMGRO DOES IT AGAIN! ANNUAL WINTER MEETING Monday, November 24, 1980 at 6:45 P.M. IT'S FUN! 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Shine Tuesday announced an October 1980 base milk price of $l3 72 per hundredweight and an ex cess milk price of $12.38 The weighted average October price is $13.72 and the butterfat differential for the month is 16 9 cents The base milk price in creased 25 cents from the previous month and is 84 cents higher than last Oc tober’s base price. The advertising withholding rate, which is deducted from Good & Plenty Restaurant ALL FARMERS INVITED IT'S INFORMATIVE! and Soviet farm women equality in work under the Communist ideology. However, that ideology is not fact. Only a fourth of the Soviet Communist party members are women, and to even belong to the party, which pleads equably for all, m dividuals must be invited and closely screened Two thirds of the women work at jobs of hard physical labor Mrs. Nutting’s research found that Russian women were historically dominated by males, to the,extent of the base and excess milk prices only and not the weighted average price, was 12 cents a hundredweight this year compared to seven cents a year ago The gross value of producer milk during Oc tober was $64.9 million. A total of $569 2 thousand was deducted for advertising and promotion Shine said that producer receipts totaled 474 3 million pounds during October, a decrease of one percent from the previous month, on a daily basis and 6-2 percent above last October. East Petersburg, PA 17520 Lancaster Farming, Saturday, November 15,1980-815 some rather extreme cultural customs. Marriage ceremonies once included a whip, passed from a young girl’s father to her new husband to “keep her mime”. A husband could beat his wife and go unpunished However, a wife who rebelled and murdered her husband, for whatever reasons, could be buried ahve and left there to die. Thus, while the present Communist system Class I producer milk totaled 262 3 million pounds and accounted for 55.31 percent of total producer milk recipts during the month, up from 55.11 percent in September but down from 57 83 last October. Base milk accounted for 90 92 percent of total producer milk receipts in October, down from 92.32 percent a year earlier There were 7362 pioducers supplying Order 4 handlers during the month and the average daily delivery per producer of 2,078 pounds was down 31 pounds from Sep IT'S PROFITABLE! proclaims equality, diehard traditions still see women ad inferior. Slides shown by Mrs. Nutting depicted Soviet rural women at work in the cooperative farms, tending the animals, harvesting the crops and preserving food for the use of cooperative members. Child care is readily available, cheap and encouraged by the govern ment, which provides facilities to care for children for weeks at a time if parents desire -J.B. tember but was 78 pounds or 3.9 percent above last Oc tober There were 160 more producers than a year ago. The average butterfat test of producer milk was 3.72 percent for the month compared to 3.53 percent m September and 3.67 percent one year ago Middle Atlantic Order pool handlers reported Class I in area milk sales of 7 2 million pounds per day during October, an increase of 51 percent from a year ago, after adjustment to eliminate variation due to calendar composition
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