Northern Lebanon farmers Nearly 70 Northern Lebanon Adult Young Farmers turned out last Saturday to lend a hand to one of the area’s newest farm owners. Dale Maulfair. Not a newcomer to farming by any means, Maulfair is one of Lebanon County’s top Aryshire breeders. Maulfair, WE HAVE EXPANDED OUR LINES Metal Working & Woodworking Machines & Accessories iJET JBS-14 14" BAND SAW w IV* H.P., 110 V. Motor $44900 ■'I s '* %" x 60 Ft. PVC ELECTRICAL TAPE *.50 per roll 10 rolls for ‘4.50 J®'”™ , „ With Stand, l*/z H.P., 1 ph Electric Motor 195 00 ALUMINUM 1 • 1 ** EXTENSION - LADDERS • Industrial • 300 Lb. Rated • 10 ft. thru 40 ft. in stock BLUE BALL MACHINE WORKS Box 716, Rt. 322 Blue Ball, PA 17506 717-354-4478 lend a hand AJAX UTILITY COMPRESSOR IH.P..JIOV $ 234 50 MAKITA INDUSTRIAL 3/8" RIGHT ANGLE DRILL *ll2°° K JB/ NEILL M & WO-1" MIKE .001 Grad., Carbide Face *5O who recently purchased a 70 acre farm south of Fredericksburg, is converting a former three-story poultry barn into a heifer barn and equipment storage. Pictured here is the after noon crew, complete with crowbars. JET JTS-10 10" TABLE SAW With Combination Blade, Rip Fence, Mitre Gauge. K u ‘ *4l9°° With IVz HP, 110 V. Motor - RECOIL AIR HOSES «QOO *l6” $ 42 30 V*”x2s' 3/B”x2s’ W'xSO'. SAFETY GLASSES With Side Shields s s.7opr ‘so.4o per doz. W V X *ss9°° NFO speaker cites DOYLESTOWN - “A simple moral issue is at work in our country with ball players sup posedly worth more on the salary scale than anyone else, with other trades in between, and food producers at the bottom,” said H Kenton Bailey, speaking before over 200 members and friends at the annual dinner of the Bucks County Unit of the National Far mers Organization “Never mind that farmers cannot stay in business, that our youth cannot afford to start far ming and are not encouraged by banks and lending institutions to take on such a debt, food producers should still be satisfied with 60 percent of parity, or whatever the government dictates,” Bailey said. "A producer receiving 60 per cent of parity in prices, is getting 60 percent of what it has cost him to produce the product. If he ac cepts that continually, he also accepts indebtedness and in solvency and finally, selling out. "A tank of milk, a cull cow, a bushel of gram or a dozen eggs is only used-up energy and services,” said, “and production • Poured Concrete Silos (Sealed and Conventional) Pole Buildings Machine Sheds & Free Stall Barns Pre-cast Feed Bunks - H & J Type Laidig & Supreme Silo Bottom Unloaders Jamesway Power Choring Equipment Oswalt & Supreme Batch Mixers Manure Pits, Concrete Retaining Walls, Concrete Floors Lancaster Farming, Saturday, March 28,1981—A23 production costs cannot continue for less than the cost of production for long. Public opinion has pushed the idea that it is alright to put a price on every other product, reflecting its cost of production, except food! We seem to have the idea that it’s unmoral to put a price on that' ’ ’ "Former Secretary of Agriculture Bob Bergland said that the irony is that if each person would be willing to pay five cents more for food per day, and that five cents would get back to the farmer, farmers could receive 100 percent of parity for his produc tion, new farmers could start, and money would flow back into the economy that would generate new jobs throughout the whole system,” Badeysaid. “Each cne of us is either part of the problem or part of the solution”, he said. “The National Farmers Organization has a nation-wide marketing and delivery system, and bargains with buyers for cost of production prices for its members, but it must be used to be effective.” JOIN
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