Across the land, an army ot
combines is gobbling through
millions of acres ot gram-heavy
corn and soybeans. Indeed, tor
much ot the country, it promises to
be a bin-bustin’ yield, a harvest ot
blessed bounty, almost beyond
belief.
And on countless family farms
across the nation, another harvest
possibility looms.
A harvest of bankruptcies.
. A noted economist has predicted
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that the whole tarm economy is
lettering on the verge of disaster,
rapidly approaching the bleak
years ot the "Great Depression.”
Any farm wife who handles the
tanuly-busmess checking account
doesn’t need an economist to
enlighten her on the stale ot tarm
finances. All she needs to do is try
to balance the checkbook.
"1 just about cry when 1 take the
nulk check to the bank,” confided
one friend during a recent sharing
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LET’S MAKE A DEAL
ot economic woes,
While the government basically
sets tarm commodity prices, it
then turns around and plays last
and loose with world market
demands tor our products.
We kitchen-table economists
figure, that Washington not only
holds all the' aces in the high stakes
game ot international commodity
trading, they’re also playing hands
that make farmers come out
looking like the jokers.
For instance, domestic meat
producers and consumers alike
labor under added costs ot
regulations and inspections at
several levels ot processing, 66
million pounds ot recently im
ported boxed ’’beef” turned out to
be kangaroo meat.
Needless to say, we kitchen-table
economists getting hoppm’ mad
over that indignity.
When gram growers respond to
pleas to plant tencerow to ten
cerow, ostensibly to teed the world,
they instead ted the bank accounts
ot other nations who stepped in to
fill the void created by the gram
embargo, likely reselling some ot
the gram they’d purchased trom
our ports.
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Again, recently, ratherthan sell - My naive kitchen-table-economy
butter at world Inarket prices nimd figures it would be better to
about $l.lO per pound) to the saU our neighbors food on the
Soviets, Washington whizzes in- world market, than to continue
stead gave it to New Zealand at the massive shipments of our ad
bargain-basement price of vanced technologies, which they
something over 70 cents per pound. can ln fnrn use as a threat in the
Guess where the Soviets will get escalating saber-shaking arms
their butter? race
An added kicker was that New
Zealand also can veto our butter
sales to other world market buyers
lor a stretch of tune.
Makes lots of sense, huh '
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York Calcium Chips
developed for poultry
Butter to the Soviets? Or
massive farm bankruptcies?
Which would really do the most
harm to this nation in the long run?
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YORK A new source' of sup
plemental calcium for laying
flocks, “York Calcium Chips,” are
now being produced by York Stone
St Supply Company for poultrymen
throughout Pennsylvania and
Maryland.
York Calcium Chips were
developed as an economical
replacement for oyster shells.
Having a calcium level of 39
percent and a magnesium level of
less than one percent, these soft
limestone chips provide a slow
release of calcium into the
bloodstream as the eggshell is
being formed.
Information released by the
University of Maryland (Bulletin
No. 377), Kentucky Agricultural
Experiment Station (Bulletin No.
291) and an analysis of multiple
research papers by David A.
Roland Sr., Auburn University,
conclude that dietary calcium for
eggshell formation may be equally
effective when derived from high
quality limestone or standard
oyster shells.
For > the past year, York
Stone & Supply Company has been
conducting feeding trials with
several commercial poultrymen to
develop a product that mixes
uniformly with the feed, is ac
cepted by the laying flock and
maintains eggshell quality equal to
results being experienced with the
supplemental feeding of oyster
shells.
York Calcium Chips are the
result of this work. As a secondary
benefit, the larger “chips” remain
in the gizzard of the birds and act
as grit or “teeth” to increase the
grinding action on more fiberous
feedstuffs:
York Calcium Chips are
available in bulk and 50-pound
packages. For more information
on York Calcium Chips, see your
local feed supplier or contact York
Stone & Supply Company,
Roosevelt Avenue at Fahs Street,
P.O. Box 1948, York, Pa. 17405.
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report on the California
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The report is available by writing
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