Show No Food Sorry Is Experience Rare in USA Come back next week we have no milk or bread or other important food today Most of us have never heard an American storekeeper say those words reminds County Agent Kay R Bendixsen He says we simply take for granted that there will be bread meat fruits vegetables and dairy products always available in our food stores In effect we show great faith in farmers ability to provide us with the food we need I dally daily UNFORTUNATELY how how- however ever many persons have very I little understanding of how the decreasing number of far far- farmers mers are able to do it They fail to fully realize that more and more people are becom ing dependent on the farmers who stay on the land to raise food Mr Bendixsen said Yet the county agent points out there are two sides to this story FARMERS and ranchers have come to rely more fly ily on city and town workers for tractors gasoline fertilizer er credit home appliances newspapers and many other products that make their effi effi- efficient production and their modern way of living pos pos- possible possible sible The combined efforts of millions in fields barns pro pro- processing plants offices stores and other places make pos sible the miracle of Americas America's modern agriculture envied by both free and communist countries the world over Mr Bendixsen said |