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Newspaper
Lancaster Farming
Location
Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Aug 30, 1975
Page
2
A reflection asks where believers are growing in faith guiding toward maturity. It uses the Parable of the Talents to urge personal growth and lists measuring questions about depth of relationship with God, learning from challenges, faith sharing, love, usefulness, and Christlikeness leading to rekindling the gift of God.
Guidance urges complete soil testing before seeding or renovating lawns and fields. Recommendation includes delaying alfalfa cutting until after September 15, applying lime and fertilizer after soil tests, and using cover crops to protect soil through winter while reducing erosion and improving organic matter.
In a farm commentary, the writer critiques USDA estimates on Soviet sales and price impacts. The piece notes initial 75 cent wheat and 30 cent corn price effects, a later nine percent price rise, and quotes officials like Buzz and Arthur Burns amid shifting figures. The tone questions government accuracy and warns of potential hunger if errors persist.
A USDA communications letter notes farm prices fell in six of ten months August to June and in June were below August 1974. Despite this, consumer prices for all items less food rose while wholesale grain prices climbed this summer though July still stood 11 percent below the prior year.
A USDA study shows that a 25 percent rise in wheat prices would add less to bread cost than a 4 percent rise in processing and distribution. In 1973 the net farm value of wheat in a loaf was about 4.1 cents of 27.6 cents total, while labor to move bread accounted for 4.52 cents. The net farm value represented about 15 percent of retail price, with a 276 cent loaf listing major costs and noting a bushel of wheat yields about 70 loaves. A $1 per bushel wheat price change shifts loaf value about 12 cents, and Russia’s 1972 purchases raised bread price by 109 cents, with farm wheat changes contributing only one cent.
Lancaster County Conservation District meets September 3 at 7 30 p m at the Farm and Home Center. York Interstate Fair runs September 5 at the York Fairgrounds with Pa Dutch Farm Festivity through September 7. demonstrations begin September 6 at 10 a m. September 10 Yo Ag teachers meet at Solanco High School 4 30 p m. September 11 Schuylkill County goat club meeting at 7 30 p m.
The article notes Americans doubt Betsy Ross made the first flag and cites Marines who say the first Stars and Stripes was shown to an enemy at Fort Schuyler on August 3, 1777. It describes an improvised flag using a soldier shirt, a captain’s cloak, blue union, and a wife’s flannel petticoat for red stripes.
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