16—Lancaster Fanning, Friday, Feb. 28, 1958 7 Egg Plants To Market Stale Certified Eggs In a new move to piovide con sumers with high quality eggs, the Slate Department of Agriculture announced seven egg packing plants have signed agreements to cooperate under a Pennsylvania egg ceitification piogiam John L Rainey, duectoi of the Buieau of Markets, said adoption or the plan by the egg stations will assure more umfoimity in giading and will help to stabuzc the Pennsylvania egg industry The seven plants maiket more than onehaf-mnon eggs daily Under the new program the Dc partment will license employees vit any distubutmg plants that sign voluntaiy inspection agree Farm Calendar Feb. 28 4 H Leaders Banquet 6 30 p in at Shasbu'rg Fire Hall March 4 Southern 4-H Tractor Club 730 p m at Mann & Giemelli, Quarry\ille Fouith Farm and Home Plan ning 'meeting 930 to 3 at North Queen St Branch Lan caster Co. National Bank March 5 Annual meeting of Farm Bu reau Cooperative 10 a m at Guernsey Breedeis Sale Pavilion, Route 30 East descheduled due to snow) 4-H Electuc Club 7 30 p m at PP&.L Bldg Lancastei Cost of milk pioduction con ference 130 p m at Farm Bureau, Lancaster Red Rose Baby Beef & Lamb Club 8 p m at Milton Brecht School Lititz Pike, Lancastei March 6 Noithein 4-H Tractor Club 730 p m at Naaman Heishey’s Manheim Educational meeting of the Lancaster Countv Poultrv Assn —7 30 p m at Poultn Center, Lancaster Topic will be Phases of Broiler Pioduction and a panel on Conti act vs Owner Raising of broilers March 7 County Sheep Feeding and Management meeting _ 8 p m at Farm Bureau, Lancaster Speaker vvil be Ben Morgan of March 8 Reoiganization meeting of ex tension executive committee S3O a m at Farm Bureau, Lan caster | KILL GARLIC I | IN PASTURES NOW with | WEEDONE 2,4 D | WEEDONE 1 (Concentrate) “48’ H 1 gal can H 5 gal can | WEEDONE LV-4 = (Low Volatile) ji 1 gal can H 5 gal can WE ED All 64 (Amine) g 1 gal. can H 5 gai can g TO CUSTOM SPRAYERS 1 P SPECIAL PRICES ON LARGER ORDERS AND SMOKETOWN, PA mcnts with the Department Each must meet Department standards tor licensing egg graders The program, which supple ments a cooperative Federal State plua, will help “sell” the high standards of Pennsylvania eggs by the means of a special label on each caiton packed in the co opeiating plants In January the Department re vised the State’s egg standards ana through-stuct enforcement measures is gaining consumer con fclence in Pennsylvania eggs, Rainey said All eggs sold in car tons must now be more complete ly identified for giade and weight standards Rainey said the certification plan was adopted at no additional c-pense to the Commonwealth He explained that organizations' in the certification plan will pay a lee to the States and employees will be supeivised periodicaly by Bureau of Markets egg inspectors Applications to certify eggs un der the new State plan have been approved for Keller’s Egg Com pruy Telford, Hallman’s Cream erv, Souderton, Stauffer Farms, Fed Hill, and Tn County Produc eis Cooperative, Worcester, all Montgomery County, Bucks Coun ty Producers Coopeiative, Doyles town, J E Copenhaver, Eliza bethtown and L M Sheaffer, Ephrata, both Lancaster County .$ 3.45 .$16.25 $5 60 $27 25 $ 3.75 $l7 75 * ' 7 *sQ c y* St*** V ''~' / «,?"'^; ,^ J/ ' ; v>" %fT) / f “>£J« -», • /^gfcsS* * °‘”‘ er " l ''° U T^OSt, , u 5^5? '"oav,* This Week Kaylor Bros. RT. 230, RHEEMS, PA. MARCH 4 ALL DAY Chester Co. Dairymen Plan Tour in Dixie Chester County Dairy farmers are making plans for a bus trip to North Carolina expected to last three days The tour will leave West Chester’s Short Line Bus station at 6 a m Monday, March 3 and will return to West Chester by way of Oxford at about midnight March 5 In between dairy farmers will have met folks in the Tar Heel state, visited dairy farms in North Carolina and Virginia, visited a cigarette manufacturing plant, visited the largest integral ed broilei growing and processing plant in Delaware and logged 1,- 000 miles by bus in doing so Reservations and a “$l7 50 de posit for bus fare must be in the County Agents office in West Chester by the morning of March 1 Checks should be made payable to Harvey C Worthington Other expenses will be for meals and two nights lodging One meal on the trip will be on the Cape Chailes Feny during an hom and 45 minute crossing of the bay Arrangements for the toui were made by Dr Joe Pou, North Caiolina Dairy specialist ,# »e fe, f s n it fZ' i 7 Point Plan Aids Keeping Stock Well A seven-point “life-saving” pro gram for America’s “barnyard babies” which will be bom on farms this spring, was offered to livestock owners recently by the American Foundation for Arhrnal Health The seven points stressed by Foundation authorities include 1 Make sure mother animals get a complete ration, including the correct balance of proteins, and minerals If deficiency sym ptoms appear, call a veterinari an. 2 Provide clean, dry, di aft free quarters for brood sows, cows and ewes Keep them fiee of filth, lice and mites 3 Be on hand to assist in births if necesary. Disinfect nav els of new-born animals 4 Make certain young animals aie nursing properly All animal babies need plenty of their mother’s first milk (colostrum) 5 Be especially aleit for signs of scouring It may indicate di sease or improper feeding 6 Have pigs vaccinated again st hog cholera about weaning time When the veterinarian vac cinates against cholera, check as to possible need for other types of vaccination 7 Obtain a prompt diagnosis and take corrective action the S V* *• V- WWA •4'tV**?'' fork 'f ■—o - *£ ;,V L ' .. <e * > This Week Walter Binkley & Son LITITZ, PA. MARCH 6 ALL DAY Next Exposition To Be Nov. 11-14, Committee Says HARRISBURG Dates for the second annual Pennsylvania Livestock Exposition were set for Imov 11, 12, 13 and 14, 1958, by the exposition committee As piesident of the Pennsyl vania Livestock and Allied Indus tries Association, Inc , Leon Falk, Jr, Pittsburgh, set Dec 13 for the pnnual meeting ot the associa tion in Harnsbuig to' give final approval of the dates and to plan its sponsorship of the 1958 ex position in cooperation with the State Department of Agriculture. Agriculture Secretary William L Henning reported that a legis lative appropriation of $50,00 for the 1958 exposition will be avail able toward payment of premiums the same amount as for the 1957 livestock show “Outstanding success of the first show clearly demonstrated that Pennsylvania has won de serving international recognition m the production of beef cattle, swine and sheep,” he declared. moment signs of sickness appear; it may mean the saving of young animals which would otherwise be lost. y%: I ’ rj: I ~ fc->i H I’l pfi I I f^ v f i » Pfi <?>*»* <♦ m I',? st n f| ;% f ‘ ■«£.» I ;■«) ; I „ ,** i :• i - I nt - IwJ Ib j|l w fpH * Tf: 1' h\ ■ s *
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