VOL. 9 NO. 23 THE CAMERA IS LOOKING DOWN THE LOADING CHUTE at part of the consignment of 32 Yorkshire gilts from Willow Glen Farm, Strasburg, which were shipped to India this'week. Pushing the gilts toward the truck are, left to right, John Henkel, George Cogley and Joseph Little. Henkel and Little are owners of Willow Glen. Cogley, the owner of Leacock Yorkshire Farm, had 15 Yorkshire boar pigs in the‘shipment. Giving the men an assist are Henkel’s three daughters, Kathy, Nancy and Jody. L. F. Photo. Milk Co-op Files Suit; Mr 7 m t -j-j • • A Names Jsarfirainin£r AfirenCV w A suit foi nearly a half mil lion dollais has been filed by a Pennsylvania milk produce! s co-operative against a 'bargain ing agency with 'Which it was formerly affiliated. Intei-State *Milk Producers Cooperative, Inc, charges in Hie suit that the Metropolitan Cooperative Milk Producers Bargaining Agency, Inc., in duced producers to withdraw Farm Calendar May HO, 11, 12 Newspapei Farm. Editors Association spring meeting in Washing ton D C M,iy 11 _ 7 30 pm. South ern Holstein 4-H meeting in the Chestnut Level Church house. 7 60 p.m Ayrshire. Jersey, Brown Swiss 4-H club meets at the home of Kenneth Fshleman, Elizabethtown R 1 7 80 p m Gi assland Futui e Farmers of Amenca meet in the Garden Spot High School, >'evv Holland 7 45 p m Manheim Young f aimers Association meeting on forage ciops in the high school. Bpm —.(Fulton Grange meets at Oakryn Hall. ' Pm. County Plowing contest committee meets at the Court House. (Continued on Page 14) • their Interstate membership and form their own organiza tions The damage suit for $480,000 was ifiled in the C. S District Court at Scranton, according to a spokesman for Metropolitan, after dairy farmers shipping milk to (Bupp’s Dairy, Hanover, fanned the Cumberland-Adams Bulk Producers Cooperative and shifted their supply to New Holland Farms’ Graybill’s Sta tion The suit charges that the shifting from (Bupps to New Holland Parous was illegal. Metropolitan, claims the dair ymen moved their supply to avoid payment of bulk tank charges of 2d to 30 cents a hun (Contmued oa Page 3) Summer Ass’t For Extension Miss Alice Savidge a senior at Mansfield State College, has been appointed summer assist ant home economist by the county extension service Miss Savidge, a native of Hegins, has had 11 >ears 4-H work and at present is presi dent of the campus 44H at Mansfield. She will assist county 'home 1 economist, Mrs Doris Thomas, with the summer 4-H program. Lancaster Farming, Saturday, May 9, 1964 Pick Countv JVlan R «* a i'd L Graybill of Penn Dairies, Inc. Lancastei has been named committee Chair man for the 1964 Convention of the Pennsy 1\ ama Association Milk Dealers to be held in Harrisburg, May 4 to 6 Graybill heads a convention T** UP of A ,Lanca T S ' ter County dairymen Aaron L Landis Cream Top Dairy, Lan- v' N °T r f er F ™- lac - lumbia = Wll ‘ iam t /'v' Inc , Lancaster; Richard E Mohn, Cloister Milk Company, Ephrata, Robert H Keen, Queen Dairy Company, Lancas r; G. Mooie, Moore (Dairy Company'. Lancaster, F G Mai tin, Penn Dairies, Inc. Lancas tei Graybill. appointed Chairman by Association President Louis Galhker of Johnstown, and the ▼ , , Lancaster committee will plan convention programs for an ex- pected turnout of 500 dairy in dustiy members fiom through out Pennsylvania He said it would be caned the “Conven nv,,,iior,CTO - n „A I “7,°* d . . eatl ® speakeis on cuuent da iry industiy topics and piob- Jems Giaybill will head the fiist days proceedings, and three other Lancaster men will chair "meetings during the second day. Richard Mohn m charge of Administration, Sales and Ac counting. Dr. Charles Livak of Penn Dames will head the Plant, Laboratory and Procure (Continued on Page 16) County Hogs Go To India For Foundation Herds Five ‘Lancaster County farm eis this week contributed to the improvement ot swine breeding stock in India A shipment of 183 pigs, 117 from Lancaster County, left Philadelphia, Tuesday, by KLM Royal Dutch Airliner bound for Bombay, India. The pigs 'will go to four bleeding farms operated by the Indian Government Council foi Agncultuial Research where they will be used to establish foundation herds The offspring of the foundation herds will be distributed to projects aiding refugees and other needy peo ple The 47 Yorkshires and 70 Landrace pigs from Lancaster County weie purchased by the United Church of Christ “World Service Forty three Hampshne pigs and 20 Tamworths from breeders in Ohio joined the Lancaster County contingent at 'Philadelphia for the first leg of n _ H/\|» f l 5l Cn fATICI ucaiv " ll * vaoll V 1 01 n . - Kl*l fICfS Sllgftr OCCtS HCfC possibility of a new cash crop or Lancaster county, the Penn- State University has Panted three experimental P lots of su S ar beets m 016 Lan " disviile area [Fourteen varieties of sugar I^ee t Sj twelve of them furnished by theU.'S Department of Ag uculture were seeded this week at,the P - S U - iField Re ' search Farm Seed of one vai- iety in the plots came from Cahfornla and one was im *> ort *d from The Netherlands .Of the hybnd vane^ f ro m the USDA, six are estab- At a recent meeting of the ® oard of J?;f c ) ors ® f cas^ r Count - v - Mllk for Health > Inc • tbe . * oR ° WI “S elected for the 1964-1965 term iesident Francis G Mai , Piesiaent, rrancis Vj iviai i a -4 Fll g iam f D uve Lancastei. }, ice T Pre t! den J.’ Jobn J J 1 ® 1 ’ 1- f R - Sectetery. Kemy F Ketteang Lihtz R 3 and Tieasurer. Milham J Deisley, 1126 W Clay Sheet, Lancaster. Rgpiesenting milk produceis Qn Boa rd of Duectors aie Samuel A Dum, 2191 Giay stone R d East Peteisbuig. Ldban z B Conestoga Rl. and Noah s Esbenshade. Lan caster R 4 Lancaster Countv milk deal eis on the Board of Directors are Mahlon H Graybill, Lititz R 2; Norman K. Musser, Colum bia R 2: and Robert H. Keen, 1732 Niblick Ave, Lancaster Milk For Health Reorganized $2 Per Year the flight to Amsterdam, Neth erlands After a stop for re fueling, the plane continued t» Bombay, India, and the govern ment farms Heifer Pioject, Inc handle* the mechanics of the airlift with the Indian government paying the ft eight An ft eight for the 180 head to Bombay is reported to be $27,000, 01 SISD per head, consideiabl> more than the original cost of the 9 to 11 week old pigs John Henkel co-owner Willow Glen iFaim, Strasburg Rl, which furnished the 82 Yorkshire gilts, said the pigs were loaded in lightweight met al pens on the plane About eight head were loaded in each, pen on the lower deck and six per pen in the upper deck. Tke pigs will be fed and watered emoute Two United Church of Christ ministers, the Rev Horace M. McMullen Salt Lake City, Utah, (Continued on Page 6) lished shams and six are ex perimental crosses On the farm of John Neff, 'Mount Joy H 2, one variety was ■planted and various fertilizer applications will he used to check- feitility needs of the crop. One variety on the farm of Willis Kilheffer, Manheim HI, will check cultural prac tices. These two plots were seeded to a variety popularly grown in Michigan Drawing on his experience with sugar beet culture in Ida ho and Oiegon prior to coming to Penn State seven years ago, iDr Albert S Hunter, Profes sor of Soil Technology, is con ducting the experiments in co operation with John Yocum, su perintendent of the 'Field Re search Farm Arrangements with the two farmers were made by county agent M. M. (Smith On Tuesday Dr Hunter, us (Contmueu on case 6J FIVE-DAY WEATHER FORECAST Temperatures during the ne\t five dajs are expected to average more than seven degrees above the normal range of 73 in the afternoon to 49 at night. It will be briefly cooler about Monday and again at the end of the period. Precipitation may to tal about a half inch as scat tered showers on Saturday (mostly in the mountains) and again Sunda> and Tues day.
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