Letters To The Editor (Continued from Page Al 2) ;ood employers. And respect, appreciation and even friendship. How ? By treating us as equals not on the financial scale and not as your closest buddies but as PEOPLE, skilled; intelligent, human people Finances are, of course, im portant We too have heat, electric and insurance bills. Our groceries and clothing costs rise with everyone eises? (And yes, I do garden, freeze & can, sew, etc.) But we’re not in this for the money We don’t expect to make millions or to live in palaces., a fair honest wage (%’s don’t usually work for either), a decent home (be it mobile home, house, or apart ment) and personal respect. That we do expect and work for- just like you Pnveleges” is a word we SALE CLARKE CO. YOUNG FARMERS ANNUAL AUCTION OF TRACTORS, HAY, FORAGE & TILLAGE EQUIPMENT Featuring NH 1010 auto bale wagon, several forage boxes, moldboard plows, chisel plows, one horse drawn sleigh exc cond Bring Your Sale Items Until 12 Noon Sat or Call 703-837-2466 or 1484 after 6 PM. SATURDAY, APRIL 4 12:30 P.M. Puritan Grounds, Derryville, VA STATE CALF SALE WEDNESDAY, APRIL 1 231 REGISTERED HOLSTEIN CALVES SELLING 12 Excellent 104 Very Good 115 Good Plus Many Calves with 2 or 3 generations of very goods selling 6 calves have dams with records over 30,000 16 25,000 -30,000 42 22,000 - 25,000 46 20,000 - 22,000 55 18,000-20,000 hesitate over. Generally speaking benefits are something we earn, not gifts given. If you do something extra we thank you for your thoughtfulness and will probably do it with more than words. And we hope for the same in return a simple comment "nice job” or “you can weld, too? terrific” is worth a lot. Presumably "innocent until proven guilty” does not apply to farm workers. If we happen to follow an unhappy employer - employee relationship, thats un fortunate. But give us a chance After all we’re taking a chance, too. If you have a complaint, speak up. If you’d prefer a job done a specific way, say so. At the same tune hear us, too. And please, don't promise something you have no intention or way of giving. Chances are we’re farming by choice, (obviously our first choice would be our own dairy. It sounds simple) So, we’re ‘into” farming. We know about long hours, broken equipment, sick animals, high 10:30 A.M. Classification of Dams Production of Dams All Calves and Bred Heifers Are From Plus Proven Sires Real Estate 87 Acre Farm Farm Equipment and Building Materials FRIDAY, APRIL 10 Located 1 mile north of Rt. 11, Stoughstown, or 3 miles south of Newville, PA. Cumberland Co. Terms by PAUL LEINBACH Auctioneers PaulW. Horst Melvin Sensenig PA HOLSTEIN ASSOC. PENNSYLVANIA HOLSTEIN ASSOCIATION 839 Benner Pike. State College, PA Special Sale Phone 717-234-7335 prices, rainy and dry seasons, etc, etc. We do sympathize and we work hard to puli our weight and more. We’re anxious to learn, to work, to earn our way but maybe, just maybe, we know something you could learn, too. And we do have families and other interests. Our kids have birthdays, our wives give birth just like yours. We are more than willing to trade our times for honest needs we care. We’re lucky now we’ve found honest, decent employers. We believe they feel that of us. So to them and the many others: Thanks. I guess simply the most important thing is “Do unto others as you would have them do unto you”. And isn’t that what it’s all about? A Hired Man’s Wife Royersford Dear Editor: We would like to express our sincere appreciation to Sheila Miller for the tune and effort she spent preparing the Sheila’s Shorts in our behalf m the Feb. 28th issue. It certainly has provided us with some very useful knowledge. You may be interested to know, Both Sales Held at the Farm Show Building Harrisburg, PA Sales Manager ours is not a negotiable distribution tape measure to see. line. It is a cross country Iran- , Again many, many, thanks to smission line we’re dealing with, you for your kindesss, But I think our residence just may be within 300 feet of it. So we’re very anxious to get out with our CCC storage loans will be cut, reflecting confidence the gram surplus will be cut. But a number of farm spokesmen pnvately echoed the bewilderment of a Washington observer who admitted he was “a little befuddled” about the out come of any Farm Bill. It's difficult to talk now about a four-year bill when farmers don’t yet know if there will be a new gram agreement with the Soviets, if the current grain embargo will end, or what kind of the dairy program modifications finally will come out of Congress, he said. Most obeservers seemed to agree with John Hoseman, chief economist for American Farm Bureau Federation who said farmers had to be willing to take cuts to reduce the general in flation. “The dairy cuts are more politically symbolic than economically significant in the overall economy,” Hoseman said. But to date, one program seems destined to survive: the Southern tobacco program, at present, is not earmarked for any cutbacks. The peanut program in the wake of the defeat of the nation’s number one peanut farmer may be phased out over the next few years. Hoseman said he worries that continued general inflation could blow up any farm program. Some loan rate increase is almost certain in the feed grain and wheat programs. 121 REGISTERED BRED HEIFERS SELLING Classification of Dams 4 Excellent 49 Very Good 68 Good Plus Production of Dams 8 heifers have dams with records over 25,000 17 22,000 - 25.000 23 20,000 - 22,000 36 18,000-20,000 Lancaster Farming, Saturday, March 28,1981—A39 Farm bill (Continued from Page Al) STATE BRED HEIFER SALE THURSDAY, APRIL 2 10:30 A.M. Mr. & Mrs. Leroy Bachman R 1 Columbia But Farm Bureau said it wants to make sure any increase is m line with market realities. Otherwise, Farm Bureau fears the govern ment could end up in the gram business if U.S. growers have good crops back-to-back “We want it to be an orderly marketing tool, not a price manipulating tool,” Hoseman said. With the elimination of the April milk price support increase some groups looked for a tit-for-tat to lighten the dairymen’s burdens. The National Grange had sup ported a casern amendment but the measure found tough sledding in committee. Although no definite date was set for Secretary Block to make the formal presentation to the House and Senate, it appears likely the resolution of S-509 and the dairy support question will allow him to go to the Hill with his farm program sometime this coming week.
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