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Evening Attractions At 1979 County Fair SECTION 2 - PAGE 5 - PI.AINDEALER - FRIDAY, MAY 4,197S f The 1979 McHenry County fair will feature special evening programs in addition to its galaxy of exhibits and educational attractions. The fair will be held Aug. 1-5 at the fairgrounds in Wood­ stock, Charles Weingart, Fair Association president, said today. Traditional opening night attraction will be the Miss McHenry County pageant, with about a dozen women representing county com­ munities competing in this pageantry of beauty and personality. Because this is a 4-H fair with about 1,200 4-H boy^f and girls exhibiting each year, onev evening, Thursday, is devoted to a parade of the more out­ standing exhibits. The Friday night program will feature the Ail-American Rough Riders, and Weingart explains this is a thrill show with Dodge pickup trucks. Sonny James, well-known country western singer, headlines the Saturday night show in the grandstand. Back again for the year will be a Demolition Derby. This will be the Sunday night at­ traction, and taking part will be local drivers piloting old autos in a smash-up, bang-up type event. Demands for both indoor and outdoor exhibit space indicates much interest in this annual event. Almost all exhibit space has been contracted for, Weingart summarized. The largest array of aircraft and ground equipment ever seen at O'Hare will be on display Saturday, May 12. More than 20 different air­ craft, including some of America's newest fighter jets, will be available for a close-up look during the Armed Forces Day Open House, hosted by the 928th Tactical Air Group, which is headquartered at O'Hare. Other displays in the hangars and around the flight line will be a medical air evacuation exhibit, army ground equip­ ment, a display of military uniforms dating back to the Revolutionary War, a Medal Honor display, a hoT"air balloon, and the State of Illinois Emergency Services Disaster Agency van. Entertainment will be provided by the 566 AF band of the Illinois Air National Guard, the Military Airlift Command band from Scott AFB, 111., and the Navy band and a drill team from Great Lakes Naval Training center. The Prairie Union Bluegrass, a highly- rated local band, will perform during the afternoon, and Fflag Williams will present a program of country music. Other entertainment will be announced. Hot dogs, soft drinks and other refreshments will be available, sponsored by the 928th Civilian Welfare Council. The Illinois Air National Guard will also have several refresh­ ment stands. Hours for the Open House are from 10 a.m. until 4 p.m. KEEPING HEALTHY n 6. IINY, WHITE TEETH ARE ATTRACT I VE~ ALURING-AND COMPETE WITH THE EVES AS THE FOCAL POINT OF A CHARMING APPEARANCE. KEEP *XJR GUMS AND TEETH CLEAN AND FREE OF sPLAQUE'-THE FILM THAT HARfiORS HARMFUL BACTERIA. 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Crystal Lake Rd. Jack Block's Agricultvro Dy John R. Block Illinois Director of Agriculture Q. With beef at record prices, Administration economic adviser Alfred Kahn and others have advocated cutting con­ sumption as an inflation- fighting technique. Beef producers say that would ac­ tually aggravate the situation. What's the story? R. Elliot, Danville. A. One of the best comments I've heard on the situation came from Secretary of Agriculture Bob Bergland. He said, "The best thing to do about high beef prices is to leave them alone." Let's look at why. The price of beef cattle, like that of any other commodity', varies with the supply. When there is plenty, the price goes down, when there is a shortage, the price goes up. But here is the key element in livestock trade: Regardless of the price, you can't vary the supply quickly. It takes about 18 months for beef cattle to reach an optimum market weight of about a thousand pounds. If cattle are sold before they reach that stage, they under-use their ability to gain weight for each pound of feed and thus produce more ex­ pensive meat. "Fat cattle" sold after they reach that stage show diminished gain for each pound of feed • again making the meat more expensive. Obviously then, fed cattle can't be kept off the market economically for any length of time and, of course fresh meat can't be kept longer than it takes to spoil. In this industry the production and distribution lines must keep moving. Given that context, you can see that to keep his productivity and efficiency up and his costs down, the cattle feeder has to aim at producing the optimum number of cattle for a market which is 18 months away. „ An even longer cycle is going to determine how many feeder calves there are and what the feeder has to pay for them. Remember, each of those calves comes from a cow and each of those cows takes 15 months to reach breeding age and another nine months to produce a calf. Now a farmer can't afford to have non-productive cows on feed and he can't afford to feed them if the calves will be sold in a glutted market at a loss. So if the price of live cattle is less than the cost of production, then cows go to market and production capability is reduced. Down the road, that means, first, fewer feeder calves and then fewer fed cattle, less available beef and higher prices. We're talking about V/z to 3^-year cycles. Today's high prices were caused, to a considerable degree by artificial disruptions in the market over the past three years, which shook producer confidence and produced cutbacks which raised prices. The beef boycott and the last major truckers' strike oc­ curred when feeders were already losing $100 a head on fed cattle. They had no choice but to cut. Then, when herd sizes were down to where the cattleman was beginning to recoup years of losses, the government allowed in 200 million pounds of foreign beef, dropping the bottom out of the market and again causing producers to lose confidence. It's easy to see that a stable demand is the most important factor in the price of beef and that disruptions inevitably lead to higher prices. My advice is to buy beef at the levels you plan to consume it in the future. Illinois cat­ tlemen take pride in producing the best in the world at the lowest price. How many steaks you'll need for your summer barbecue next year is what the cattlemen is trying to fig&e out now. He'll be happy as you are if there is plenty around at a fair price. (Send your questions to: Jack Block on Agriculture, State Fairgrounds, Springfield, 111., 62706). Which Way! Some men are convinced that most women have a wonderful sense of right and wrong -- but little sense of left and right. 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