BlO—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, December 5,1981 Thinking about sending Christmas cards? Better hurry. Your friends could still be waiting for them on New Year’s Day. At least that’s the delivery service a couple of hundred Mid- Atlantic area dairy families have come to expect. Dairy farmers get their paychecks via the mails, sent out from their cooperatives, or pnvate handlers. The bulk of us receive only monthly checks, although some accounts are set up for bi monthly payouts. With agriculture such a credit intensive business, there are few farmers who don’t have some regular loan payments rolling due for machinery, cows, crop ex penses, not to mention the mor tgage on the old place. And, likely, those payments for dairymen are set up to pretty well coincide with the receipt of the milk check. This farm wife, for instance, regularly plans to be near the mailbox on the second day following milkcheck mailings. Like most paychecks in these days Patz ★ Bam Cleaners, Manure Pumps, Manure Stackers, Silo Unloaders, Bunk Feeders, Feed Conveyors MARVIN I. HORST DAIRY EQUIPMENT 1950 S. sth Avenue, Lebanon, Pa. 17042 Phone: 717-272-0871 Old Guard GfloQOmall QmgODO’sroe© €®ubpodq^ Lancaster, PA 717-569-5361 “Friend of Farmers since 1896."- Inflation requires constant evaluation of your insurance coverage. Our agent in your area will gladly give you an evaluation of buildings, machinery and livestock. Consult him without obligation. N. 6. MARKS AGENCY R.D. #2, Box 174, Myerstown. PA WILLIAM R. MILLER, IR. 201 W. Broad St, Elizabethville, PA MINGLE & MCDONALD INS. AGENCY P.O. Box 50, Aaronsburg, PA ROBERT T.OLNEY 121 Potterbrook Road, Westfield, PA On being a farm wife -And other hazards Joyce Bnpp of tight economics, it's spent before it even passes a bank teller’s bands. So when several days had passed and many of our cooperative’s members had *ti H not i cueived then NoxuxiUu uxccK. i cceully, they were plenty upset The checks had been pre-sorted, stamped with first-class postage, and hand delivered to the I Baltimore postal facility. By contrast, some members in ex treme western Maryland received their’s the following morning, while nearly a week later, others were still lost. A massive headache of stop payments and reissueance of checks, hand deliveries and various emergency procedures bailed out dozens of farm families faced with loan payments and land tax penalties, plus the black mark against credit that goes with late payments. The vanished checks eventually turned up in bags of third-class "junk mail”, which normally is mailed out at just pennies There's never been a better time to buy the tractor, combine or implement you need. Right now, we're offering a special "Harvest The Savings" year-en program from White Farm Equipment Company. The program features a choice of big factory rebates, waiver of finance charges, or special low interest rates —pick the one that fits you best. STOLTZFUS FARM SERVICE 'Tractors will be awarded January 15, 1982 Entries for the tractor give-away are limited to ( per farm operator of 50 acres or i You must be 18 years of age or ol Big factory rebates. Wdver of finance charges. Or, special low Interest rates. IN AND SEE US TODAY. CO) Box 295 Cochranville, Pa. 19330 215-593-2408 WHITE FARM EQUIPMENT The most aggravating part of the Pafnlim wana problem is that it’s happened again niIIB and again. Of course, there’s a solution for better service. Raise the cost of LEBANON Cedar Crest FFA stamps. Look what that’s always members Dale Zuck and Mark done for better service in the past. Patches recently competed in the In fairness to the Postal Service, Area FFA Tractor Driving Contest their rural post office personnel at Blue Mountain High School seem considerably more efficient, and genuinely concerned One of my favorite local post- contestants had to back a manure mistresses, when asked if she spreader into a stall and drive it would have to shut down during the through an obstacle course. The recent period when the govern- second course consisted of backing ment literally ran out of operating a wagon from one stall into money, replied that she guessed another. There Was also a written they pud her enough that she could test for all contestants, come in for a day or two not knowing whether her paycheck would ever amve. next xhe contest ended with Mark Patches placing first with 237 , t . , _ points and Dale Zuck finishing GenlST" Postmaster third with 255 points. Plus, new tax laws favor buying and taking delivery on new equipment by the end of the year. So you can save on the cost of equipment now—and save tractor contest The contest consisted of two course. On the first course the taxes later. AN A NEW TRACTOR!* During this special "Harvest The Savings" program you can also win a model 2-35 While-Iseki utility tractor. To register, just come in and fill out a special "Harvest The Savings" contest form. There's no obligation to buy. Entry forms are available, and can be submitted, by mail Just write "Harvest The Savings Tractor Giveaway',' White Farm Equipment Company, 2625 Butterfield Road, Oak Brook, 1L 60521 Void where prohibited bv law
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