EAR CORN, small grains and* concentrates are ground, miyed and blown into storage by this automatic, continuous flow, farm feed processing unit. Designed and built by agricultural engineers at the Pennsylvania State Univer sity agricultural experiment station, this unit was put to practical use recently on the farm of Fred Davidson, War riofrs Mark. R P Prince, who conducted the trials, was pleased with the results as was Davidson. (Penn State Photo) f*r Philadelphia Milk Hearing, Closes After 7 Months PHILADELPHIA— A Federal- jgtate hearing to consider chang ing regulations in the Phila delphia milk marketing area closed here last week after ses sions covering a period of more than seven months. But in all probability' it will- be at least lanother five months before the decisions .of the United States Department of Agriculture and the Pennsylvania Milk Control Commission will be announced. The mam issue of the lengthy has been this, should the ’Philadelphia area’s traditional handler pool system be replaced by. a market pool operation’ Under the present handler pool, each dealer pays his pro ducers a blend price based on how the dealer utilizes the milk in his own busines. In a market pool, each producer receives a blend price based on how all milk in the market is utilized by . all dealers. Milk used for Class I, or bot tling, purposes receives a higher price than manufacturing, or Class 11, milk. A blend price is a weighted average of the two rates. The chief opponent of a mark et pool during the hearing has been the Inter-State JVMk Pro ducers’ Cooperative, whose mem bers form a majority of milk in the Philadelphia •area. The market pool proposal orig inally was made by I Elkin Na thans, a/New York milk broker, who has complained that receiv ing stations he handles in the buffer area near New York are unable to buy milk without pay ing a premium to meet the Phila delphia price. The Mutual Fed eration of Independent Coopera tives, Inc, of Syracuse, N. Y., which indicated in testimony that it wanted some excess New York milk put into the Philadelphia pool, also asked for a market pool. These outside proponents were joined, in the hearing, by Sealtest Supplee Division, -Na tional Dairy Products Corpora tion and Foremost Dairies, Inc., two large Philadelphia milk deal ers who also engage extensively in manufacturing. The New York market area now operates under Federal Ord er 27 with a market pool, while Philadelphia is regulated by Ord er 61 with a handler pool. Testimony was given by ex perts from Pennsylvania State University, several Philadelphia dealers, both large and small, and Inter-State’s directors, staff members and individual produc ers. / t Inter-State contended that to change t(T a market pool in the Philadelphia mulkshed v would lower the price to producers while possibly raising the price to consumers and would result in an unstable market. In the forty-six days that the Only 4 Angus’ Now No ‘Aberdeen,’, Breeders Decide At the recent annual meeting cf " national Aberdeen-Angus breeders in Chicago, it was voted to shorten tha official name of their organization from Ameri can Abredeen-Angus Breeders’ Assn, to American Angus Asso ciation No provision was made ior shortening the name of the oreed. however, it will continue to be known as Aberdeen-Angus to signify the areas in Scotland where it originated. .The Associa tion is the official registry or ganization for Aberdeen-Angus cattle in America; its member ship exceeds 32,000 cattlemen Offices of the Association are at St. Josephs, Mo. At the annual meeting, William W. Bramard, Jr., Downsbragh Farms, Far Hills, N- J., was named to a three-year term on the Angus board of directors. hearing ran intermittently be tween June 11, 1956, and Feb. 2, 1957, ten lawyers interviewed alid cross-examined several doz en witnesses. A total of more than 10,000 pages of testimony was placed in the record. The Federal recommendations will be submitted to all interest ed parties, who, in turn, will be given a definite period in which to study and submit further briefs in opposition to, or in sup port of, the recommended deci sion. Following these Briefs of Exceptions, government repres entatives then study them and issue a final amended order. Producers may vote only on the complete amended Federal order as proposed and have no choice ias to the type of regula tion in it. If the required number of producers voting approve the amended order, it will become effective. Once the Department of Agriculture has held a hearing and found that amendments are in order, it takes the position that producers may vote only on that order as amended and nob on an individual issue such as types of pools. Dr. W. L. Barr of Pennsyl vania State University summed up the chief advantage of a hand ler pool when he testified: “In a tnarketwide pool, individual handlers are not in a position to reward extra quality through higher utilization. Consequently, the milk supplied tends to gravi tate to minmum acceptable stan dards. “On the other hand, in an in dividual handler pool, dairymen who produce milk of higher qual ity than that which meets mini mum standards are sought by handlers with hieher than aver age utilization. This system pro vides an opportunity for produc ers to earn economic rewards for doing more than is required.” Summer Hatched Pullets Get Eggs On Market Earlier Pullets start laying about six months after they are hatched \vith the first eggs mostly small dnd medium size. At eight months eggs are of the larger sizes. Most chicks for layers are hatched from Jan. 15 to May 15 with the result a large number of pullet and medium sized eggs come on the market from July to Novem ber. With that background, County Agent Max M. Smith points out that from July to November in 1956 prices for medium eggs were 12 to 20 cents lower per dozen than large eggs. Supplies of med ■um eggs were starting to drop off by December while supplies of large eggs increased. By early January 1957 the price differ ences between medium and large eggs narrowed down to 3 to 5 cents a dozen. Pullets hatched from late May to early July lay their smaller eggs from December to March when prices for the smaller sized eggs are relatively higher. These summer hatched pullets can lay more large eggs the following July to November when the mar ket prices are firmer for the larger eggs. ..miiillllllHIHIIi!!!!!! Gel General Electric’s deluxe 13.7 cu. ft. re frigerator-freezer or popular 12 cu. ft. model today at our rock-bot tom trade-in prices. Big savings ore yours if you act promptly! 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