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’To relinquish one cent of our «ix cents refund on gasoline seems a small price to |pav to help keep these -people jn tjhe state working for the .benefit of Virginia agriculture,” this farmer says.
Ned referred? tft a statement made, by Howjard Gordon of Richmond, spokesman for the ^Conference Boarjd. “A penny saved in the talent (bank could mean, as much as a dollar more, earned on the farm,,. Gordon said.,of the program. "Livestock diseases .. alone cost Virginia farmers more i than $25,000,000 each year, and another $65,000,000 could be added to farm incofne by proper use of fertiliser, litpe, and seed-.... When the.farmer’s costs have iricreased iS% aiid his nrices de* "creased 15% in the past five ve^rs. he needs the best brains available to help him stay in business.”
Estimated to Jyeild about $200. 000 a year, it isi proposed that the "bank” be administered bv the Commissioner of .Agriculture, the dean of agriculture at VPl. the director of the (Truck Experiment Staton, and four farmers appointed by the Governor. > In endorsing the proposals, l^r. Johnson -joined a gtowing ltstTof farmers and faitm organisations in the state. He pointed out that the benefits would (be not only for the farm me rs who; actually till the land, but for the increasingly large segment of the 'population engaged inVwhft is popularly termed “agri- <« bji^nesf.” to say nothing of the consumer. , j ‘Agriculture dbts not stop at the farmer's fjenoe line,” Johnson
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