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Show age JjTHE WRAL. Provo. Utah. y. October 5. 1978 UfT urn On To 1 n Q SALVATION OF SMALL FARMS may lie in return of the horse, John Davis, Belfair, Wash., believes. Davis is convinced that farming with horses, rather than mechanically operated equipment, can be economical and profitable for the small farmer. UPI Telephoto Farm Draft Horse is an Idea Whose Time Has Come.. .Again - John Davis thinks the BELFAIR, Wash. (UPI) salvation of sirall farms may lie with an idea whose time has come or rather, come again. Davis, who has a small family farm on the outskirts of this Kitsap County community, has two Belgian draft horses, each weighing about a ton, which pull a variety of farm implements. Most of that equipment has been reconditioned by Davis from his father's earlier years of farming. Davis said he's convinced farming with horses, rather than mechanically operated equipment, can be economical and profitable for the small farmer. In an era of soaring costs for modern farm implements, David figures horsedrawn equipment can help the small farmer cut production costs and thereby increase profits. "A good team of horses will work for you for 15 or 20 years," he said. "They are like a crop in themselves because they have a natural replacement, something which is pretty hard for a tractor to do." preserved without wilderness designation," Nishiguchi's letter ex plained. "Existing laws have protective authority." Farm Bureau members, who include about 80 percent of Utah's farmers and ranchers, "are expressing increased resentment of outside influences as areas continue to be considered for wilderness in opposition to local recommendations," Nishiguchi said. He pointed out that the draft environmen- tal statement on The ad- agricultural economist predicts trouble for enactment of any sugar legislation this year as the House prepares to consider two separate proposals to raise sugar prices. Congressional aides have predicted a House Ways and Means Committee bill raising the market price for raw sugar to 15 cents a pound has a greater chance of acceptance than an Agriculture Committee bill setting the price at 16 cents. The Agriculture Committee bill also would adjust the sugar price twice a year based on increases in the wholesale price index and parity. But Senate Finance Committee approval Tuesday of a bill that would raise the sugar price to 17 cents a with an escalator prompted S)und Hjort, the Agriculture Department's chief economist, to predict trouble for any sugar bill this year. "It looks more and more like no legislation," Hjort said. "This (the Senate Finance bill) will limply add to the controversy. ' ' p ,.A- - H a sr. Cattle Stress Can Result In Disease Changing weather, moving and handling the animals, and other conditions of fall that result in stress are great for the viral agents and bacteria that cause infectious the major disease Tune into Fall with a new Sony color TV beef and dairy, With United Saving's premium in lieu of interest program, you not only earn the respiratory the wilderness cattle. proposal stated: "Allocations that will be particularly adverse to local communities and the employment situation will not normally be made." Reductions in livestock grazing on wilderness acres are estimated to run as high as 75 percent. That level of reduction will not only affect the livelihood of grazing permit holders but will affect the nation's meat supply and result in damage to the very environment that is supposed to be protected, according to the farm organization. Those diseases in are some of problems of cattle, both cording acto Dr. Clell V. Bagley, extension veterinarian, Utah State University. Some of the more common ones he cited are shipping fever, basically a pneumonia that often occurs after the stress of shipping and at some other times; diphtheria, "Farm Bureau supported passage of an upper respiratory the Wilderness Act of 1964." the letter tract infection that to the Forest Service chief explained. primarily involves the "We were led to believe there were larynx; and limited acres of high, inaccessible rhinotracheitis, an federal lands in alpine country with unof the nasal ique scenic vistas to be preserved." passages and trachea. Farm Bureau is recommending that He pointed out that the all federal lands other than such acres causing the infecagents be returned to multiple use managetious respiratory disment, stating that "In multiple use, eases often increase in there would be something for their ability to produce everyone." as they spread disease The current proposals, if adopted, of would add millions of acres of lower through the population effects Often the cattle. Forest Service land with high value for produced by the viral grazing, mining and other uses. agent itself are only mild, but when their action combines with that of bacteria the effects multiply. The i s, Economist Predicts Trouble For Enactment of Sugar Bill administration supported the (UPI) market over the next ministration's chief WASHINGTON ft farming. Davis said he wants to help prevent the small farm from disappearing because he feels the small farm is essential for the nation's future welfare. big farming, or whatever you want to call it, isn't going to work in the future," he said. "It exists on the theory of a large ratio, one man feeding thousands of people. "I think the idea of one feeding one or one man feeding three or four is better, healthier." And he added he thinks the lifestyle is beneficial for his boys, Tom and Todd. They're experiencing a type of life that is as educational and worthwhile as it is rare, he said. 'Justifiable Alarm' Expressed By Farm Bureau Over Rare II Utah's largest farm organization has told the U.S. Forest Service that the wilderness principles established by Congress in past legislation have been lost and that Utah farmers are alarmed" over current efforts to make massive additions to the nation's wilderness system. Frank 0. Nishiguchi, president of the Utah Farm Bureau Federation, has told Regional Forester Vern Hamre of Ogden, in a letter commenting on the current RARE II program of the U.S. Forest Service, that: "We believe the establishment of national values as superior to a local or statewide judgement, in a policy matter such as land use, is indefensible." NishigMchi quoted Farm Bureau policy, set by the farmers of Utah and the nation, which says: "Experience has shown that the concept applied to certain areas under the Wilderness Act has resulted in the serious degradation of the resource." He added that the current data to be used in national decisions about adding wilderness area to the present 16.6 million acres in wilderness management have several weaknesses. They fail to recognize economic and other benefits from livestock grazing that accrue to the general public and the losses that will follow reduced livestock grazing. The Forest Service studies have also failed to identify data showing the adverse watershed impacts produced by wilderness management, the farm leader said. "Unique land values can be - Davis said there's "no way I can pay the prices of big machinery to do the work for me. If I buy bailers, rakes, tractors and plows, it would take me 30 years, the rest of my life, to pay for it." Davis now works in the woods for Simpson Timber Co. to help supplement his farm income. But he hopes soon to be able to devote himself full time to "Agri-busines- r 1 1 The veterinarian antibiotics extension noted that and sulfas often are used for diseases. He five respiratory price their main purpose says years and promised to pay producers if is to either prevent or their cost of production surpassed 15 control secondary cents. President Carter warned Congress bacterial infections in adthis week, in a letter to House Speaker which may develop infecthe to virus dition Thomas O'Neill, that "adoption of a tion. Actually, no drugs higher or escalating market price available serve objective threatens any sugar legisla- presently well to inactivate the tion this session." viral agents. The anHjort said the House Agriculture Committee bill would cost consumers tibiotics and sulfas have on the viruses $3.5 billion more than the Ways and no effect Means bill during the next five years themselves. and the Senate Finance Committee bill He said, "Good care would cost consumers $4.7 billion. The and husbandry Ways and Means bill would cost conprocedures are the best sumers an estimated $485 million. Sugar producers and the corn means for prevention sweetener industry led support for the and treatment. You can bills. 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