*2B—Lancaster Firming, Saturday, September 1,1984
Rep. Robert Walker is ‘down on the farm’ during tour
BY JACK HUBLEY
BRUNNERVILLE Foreign
investors and imports were among
the key issues raised by concerned
farmers who met with U.S.
Representative Robert Walker at
the Paul B. Kline farm north of
Lititz on Monday.
“We’re in a tough position if we
shut down our foreign markets,”
Walker responded, pointing out
that our relationship with foreign
countries is a two-way street and
that our current farm economy is
dependent on exports. “What we
ought to do is insist that foreign
products meet our own health
standards,” he added.
Addressing a question raised
concerning the influx of foreign
money in the poultry industry,
Walker reminded farmers that the
infusion of $BO billion in foreign
capital for government bonds last
year was important to the
economy. He ventured that
restricting farm ownership, as
practiced in some states, might be
one way of keeping farms in the
hands of American farmers.
Leap-frogging across rural
Lancaster and Lebanon Counties
on Monday, the Congressman
began his tour at the farm of
Donald Hershey in Manheim,
moving to the Kline farm, and then
Sheep
parasite
found
WASHINGTON, D.C.
A microscopic
parasite has been
confirmed for the first
time as a widespread
cause of sheep abortions
m the United States, a
U.S. Department of
Agriculture scientist
said today.
Abortions in 16 flocks
of sheep in lowa,
Maryland, Montana,
Minnesota and South
Dakota have been
traced to the parasite
Toxoplasma gondii,
which causes one-time
abortions in sheep, said
Jitender P. Dubey, a
microbiologist in
USDA’s Agricultural
Research Service.
“Up to now,
toxoplasmosis-induced
abortions have been
reported in only one
other case,” Dubey
said. He is stationed at
the research agency’s
Beltsville, Md.,
Agricultural Research
Center.
Dubey said the
parasite is well known
as a cause of sheep
abortions in other
countries, but until
recently it was not
considered a problem in
U.S. sheep flocks.
Dubey said that for a
ewe to abort from
toxoplasmosis she must
contract it when she is
pregnant. After a ewe is
infected the first time,
she will not abort again
even if reinfected.
A ewe’s immune
defenses control the
growth of the parasites,
the researcher said.
These parasites remain
in the body tissues as
cysts, where they cause
no further harm.
on to the Clay View Farm of Kerry
Boyd near Ephrata. The afternoon
itinerary included two Lebanon
County stops.
Asked if a balanced budget was a
possibility, Walker stated that the
elusive black ink could become a
reality with monetary reform. He
called for the money supply to be
pegged to real, marketable
commodities.
Lashing out at the Fed and
chairman Paul* Volker, the
Congressman said that the best
way to catch up to the Japanese
would be to put Volker in charge of
their economy.
Walker maintained that the U.S.
economy is prime for growth, and
that such growth was the vehicle to
a balanced budget. The other key
component in the formula, Walker
said, is a balanced budget
amendment aimed at keeping
Congressional spending in line.
Other topics discussed included
the 1985 Farm Bill, a decrease in
farmland values since the late
1970’5, the Chesapeake Bay and
livestock disease problems in
cluding pseudorabies and avian
flu.
The Congressman urged far
mers to stay abreast of develop
ments in the Bay cleanup, since
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shoulder a large part of the the Congressman stated that the Department of Agriculture and the
responsibility for the Bay’s prograin was rapidly craning to a General Accounting Office where
deterioration. close. He said that a few individual reimbursement had apparently
When questioned on the status of been insufficient.
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