Wednesday, November 16,1983/The Battalion/Page 9
Milk agreement reached
United Press International
WASHINGTON — House
and Senate conferees Tuesday
reached agreement on dairy and
tobacco legislation that would
pay farmers cash to reduce milk
output and voted against put
ting a lid on those cash pay
ments.
However, legislators indi
cated they still might attempt to
attach a payment ceiling to
another piece of legislation.
Rep. James Jeffords, R-Vt.,
warned that a California dairy
farm with 10,000 cows could re
ceive $4.5 million for not pro
ducing milk under the bill. He
said that a few such cases would
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He proposed to put an
approximate $500,000 lid on
payments — $100,000 plus the
amount a producer would con
tribute to financing the program
— which would be high enough
to include 98 or 99 percent of all
dairy farmers.
Since neither the House nor
the Senate voted for a payment
limitation, adding such a provi
sion would have required special
parliamentary consideration.
House members of the con
ference voted down the provi
sion by voice vote and refused to
take a roll call vote on the issue
that was supported by the
Reagan administration.
The measure requires final
approval by the House and Sen
ate before it goes to President
Reagan for his signature or a
veto. It was uncertain if Reagan
wouldsign the bill.
The House and Senate con-
al provisions requested by the
administration. The administra
tion had supported a straight cut
in the dairy price support rather
than paying farmers to cut
output.
“I don’t think we’ve had very
many victories here,” Assistant
Agriculture Secretary William
Lesher said. “We’re going to
wait and see” whether officials
will recommend that Reagan
sign or veto the bill.
Patrick Healy, lobbyist for the
milk cooperatives who back the
legislation, predicted members
of Congress will tell the adminis
tration that if Reagan does not
sign the bill, there will be no ac
tion on dairy legislation until
1985 and dairy problems will
continue.
Congressional observers said
another factor that might con
vince Reagan to sign the bill is
that its tobacco provisions are
important to Senate Agriculture
Chairman Jesse Helms, R-N.C.,
who faces a tough re-election
battle next year.
Regardless of which
approach is favored, all sides
want to-reduce dairy overpro
duction that cost taxpayers near
ly $3 billion last fiscal year. The
bill would pay farmers up to $10
per 100 pounds of milk not pro
duced up to 30 percent of their
output. The 15-month program
would begin early next year.
Initially, it would reduce the
price support by 50 cents to
$12.60 per 100 pounds, would
assess producers 50 cents per
100 pounds to pay part of the
cost of the program and would
assess then another 15 cents for
a national dairy promotion
program.
The tobacco provisions of the
bill would continue this year’s
freeze of the tobacco price sup
port for at least another year and
would gradually put tobacco
allotments owned by absentee
owners into the hands of far
mers.
The legislation also includes
provisions to provide emergen
cy feed at reduced costs for lives-
tock producers adversely
affected by the drought.
The dairy bill was opposed by
beef and pork producers, who
feared that the bill would en
courage dairy producers to send
cows to slaughter, raising meat
supplies and reducing prices.
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CANANDAIGUA, N.Y. —
[Patricia Pietropaolo’s first date
with her husband-to-be set the
[theme for their 15-year-old
!marriage — and it hasn’t all been
[a bed of roses.
“Our first date was a visit to
[three bogs up near Rochester.
[Talk about romantic,” Mrs. Piet-
ropaolo said, at their Canan-
sdaigua home adjoining the
greenhouse where she and her
[husband Jim raise carnivorous
plants.
The bog trip was Mrs. Pietro-
[paolo’s first exposure to the
[world of Venus flytraps, blad-
derworts, cobra lilies and other
vicious-sounding varieties.
She quickly became an enthu-
Ssiastic partner in Peter Paul
(“Pietropaolo” translated from
the Italian) Nursery.
Pietropaulo began growing
isuch plants as a hobby 25 years
ago-
While cartoons and advertise
ments often portray carnivorous
plants as giant, snapping pre
dators — or “man-eaters” — the
Pietropaolos, both of them sci
ence teachers, say that’s inaccu
rate and unfortunate.
“We even have people calling
up to ask exactly how big the
traps can get,” Mrs. Pietropaolo
said, laughing. “You wonder
who they have in mind.”
The “mouths” of carnivorous
plants do not generally grow
much bigger than a ladle.
Nor do they “stake out” in
sects or other living things to
attack.
And they are not dependent
on bugs to survive.
“For the most part, the plants
are green and photosynthetic,
and they function as other
plants do — they produce their
own carbohydrates,” Pietro
paolo said.
The species is thought to have
developed a mechanism enabl
ing the plants to digest insects to
compensate for the poor nutri
tional value they receive from
the soil in which they grow, his
wife said. She said some varieties
grow in acid sand or peat moss.
The plants have no way of
seeking out prey to “catch,” she
said. Flies, gnats and other in
sects are attracted by the plants’
scents.
“The insect starts crawling
down into the trap to get the nec
tar, and there are all these little
hairs that point downward, and
when the insect tries to climb
back up again, it can’t.”
As the insect goes deeper into
the trap, it begins slipping
around on the wax inside. This
triggers the “trap,” which seals
the bug inside.
Venus flytraps are perhaps
the best known carnivorous vari
ety. The hinged leaves normally
grow about as big as a half dollar.
ferees refused to approve sever-
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A great way of life.
Gainesville makes plans
for annual smokeout
MSC Town Hull
United Press International
GAINESVILLE — Gainesvil
le has big plans for its smokers in
celebration of the seventh
annual Great American Smoke
out — like busting them on the
highway, gunning them down in
mock shootouts and having
their kids put pressure on them
at home.
For those who aren’t satisfied
watching withdrawal agonies
during this nation-wide, 24-
hour stop-smoking campaign,
the festivities begin today in a
city-wide carnival.
Mock gunfights between
“good guy” non-smokers and
“bad guy” smokers will be held
in the streets, while a man dres
sed as Uncle Sam tours schools
telling children to encourage
their parents to quit.
The day climaxes with the
arrest of an out-of-state motorist
seen smoking on Interstate 35
who — if he agrees — will be
paraded like a prisoner of war in
a horse-drawn cage to the town
square, where the mayor will
adopt the smoker for a day.
Then the motorist and other
quitters will throw their cigaret
tes into the coffins in a mock
graveyard on the square, and he
and his family will be treated to
dinner on the town.
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