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Show Page 6 UTAH FARM BUREAU Shuman Urges (Continued from Page 1) assurance that this plan will be implemented. Provide that, after an (4) agreement is reached on the amount of aid to be provided and the commodities that may be acquired, the recipient nation, operating through private trade channels, select the class, grade, and quality of product to be purchased; determine the markets through which purchases are to be made; and make its own transportation arrangements. (5) Provide that information on the quantities of products au- thorized for shipment under the program be announced as far as possible in advance of the procurement dates to allow farmers to make needed adjustments in production and marketing plans. (6) Reduce the cost of govern ment programs by providing markets instead of subsidy payments and other price support activities. (7) Authorize recourse loans on affected food and feed commodities. Provide for coordination (8) with other economic aid programs. Mr. Shuman expressed pleasure that many of the points in the Farm Bureau proposal are very similar to key points in President Johnsons message on 'Food for But he added: Freedom. Changes in our domestic farm programs also are needed. We are opposed to compensatory payments, he said. If we pursue this route it inevitably will lead to limitations on payments and thus lower the net incomes of efficient producers. The dumping of CCC stocks in order to hold down market March, 1966 NEWS prices to farmers is part and par- cel of the compensatory payment approach. No friend of the farmer could support the governments use of its stocks to depress market prices and thereby force farmers to depend on direct payments from the Treasury for their net income. The Presidents proposal for the establishment of food and fiber reserves would perpetuate the governments ability to depress market prices, the AFBF presi- dent declared. Mr. Shuman said the world does not need to starve if the underdeveloped nations can be induced to accept the profit incentive method of capital formation-competi- tive capitalism. Further extension of food aid by the United States should be conditioned upon the willingness of the recipient nations to replace government management of agriculture with a market price system. Also, we should Insist that they encourage private capital investment by permitting incentives, by checking inflation, and by removing other obstacles to progress. Such a program would make it possible gradually to replace food aid with increased local production or commercial purchases financed by increases in their own exports of those things they can produce most efficiently in a relative sense. Our Marketing Food For Freedom program is designed to achieve these goals. As such shifts took place, the need for public financing of the Marketing Food For Freedom program would be reduced. By building markets at home and abroad and producing for need rather than for storage and surplus disposal, we could move away from domestic control of agricultural production and marketing, he said. USU Short Course (Continued from Page 5) sugar in whey into a high protein product that can satisfactorily replace meat in mink rations and This is a dog and cat foods. good way to utilize whey that is now largely a waste product. It has a lot of promise! he declared. Dr. C. A. Ernstrom, professor of Dairy Manufacturing, USU, explained a continuous process he discovered for making cottage cheese without starters. Instead of making it in batches that require 8 to 15 yours, with this process, 2000 pounds of uncreamed or 3000 pounds of creamed tage cheese can be made cot- contln-usous- he said. Ml gi m m m' Of You Live Better ..Electrically! more electricity yet than the pay less for it average family in the U.S.A. You use There just isnt any substitute for electricity for comfortable, clean, care-fre- e living. Thats why almost every family is using more electricity today than ever before. So if your electric service bill is more than it used-to-b- e it is NOT because you pay me more for an of elechours work (one kilowatt-hou- r tricity) . Quite the contrary. Its higher because youre using more electricity. Just take a look and see how many electrical helpers you have in your home. In fact my hourly pay to run them is less than it was in this area 20 years ago even though the price you pay for almost everything else has almost doubled. Thats why I say that electricity is by far the biggest value in modern living. "addij&lowd Electricity is plentiful . . . ' . and cheap . . . in the area served by Utah Power & Light Co. V JOB" X . f S A S 'A U5 ; 'IIIVJJH ly per hour. With 880 million pounds of cottage cheese now being made each year in the United States, this can be a big thing, We've said this before. Are you getting the message? If you're not using the Farm Bureau Tire Program, you're losing money. You need a tire? You call your County Farm Bureau President and tell him. He'll putyouintouch with the man with the tires. Farm Bureau is buying them in carload lots. Twine and wire, too. Fertilizer and seed also. Part of your service as a Farm Bureau member. Might as well save some money with the program. After all, it only makes cents. : |