10—Lancaster Farming Friday Sept. 7, 1956 Pennsylvania Angus Association in Steady Advance; Sales Fees Pay Way (Editor’s Note- This article on -progress of the Pennsylvania Angus Association is republish led*' here, courtesy of the Corn Belt Farm Dailies, with head quarters in Chicago). By Staff Reporter Corn Belt Farm Dailies The Pennsylvania Angus Assn , is now in its 15th year. The past four years Scott L. French has served as its fieldman-sec ictary There are other associa tions which are older and have had fieidmen over a long per iod-, but the Pennsylvania group doesn’t have to take a back seat to any group when it comes to success. For the group, success is meas ured in terms of keeping the wolf away from the door m these times of lower cattle prices and in doing the job the asso ciation was designed to do. - “ »Loac-Riaa 3 STEEL BUILDINGS ■You Cant Bay A Better ■ ■ Building Than S ■ LOK-RIB ! 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COME IN AND SEE US TODAY OR WRITE FOR FREE CIRCULAR Phone LYric 3-6143 From 1941, when, the group was organized, until 1952, when the fieldman program was be gun, the organization was a loose one, depending on three local groups and unpaid help to fun the sales and do the promotion. The principal business of the group was the annual state meet ing. As president of the group m 1952 Camei on Hawley of, But tonwood Farms Lancaster, Pa, Doing The Job Numerous state breed asso ciations are doing a fine job and are worthy of special rec ognition. But in any conversa tion of Angus breeders in which state association is the topic, the Pennsylvania Angus Assn, repeatedly comes in for mention as one which is “do ing the job.”’ In view of the “pinch” which is being imposed on such breed groups in these times of lower cattle prices, the edi tors felt that a discussion of the manner in which the Penn sylvania group is organized, how it operates and how it is attempting to meet its- finan cial problems would be of interest. This is told in the accompanying article. did a lot of the spade work in establishing the fieldman pro gram and getting Mr. French to fill the position. Mr French, a native of New Madison, Ohio, where he lived on a general' farm, attended Ohio State University, from which he graduated m 1946 with a Bache lor of Science degree in animal husbandry He was a member of the Ohio State beef judging team. After graduation he worked with the cattle at Ashbourne Farms, near Louisville, Ky., and then went to the University of Kentucky as coach of their judging team and as a teacher in animal husbandry. In 1952 he came to the Pennsylvania Assn. Martha Gallagher has been ol- FOR ALL POULTRY HOUSES WINDLE’S HATCHERY «c •; * * # * * COCHRANVILLE, PA. Cow And Calf Gift For The Chief As a part of its promotional activities the Brandywine Aberdeen-Angus Breed ers Assn., a regional group of the Penn sylvania state organization, gives an An gus cow and calf to President Eisenhower at his Gettysburg farm. Making the pres entation are, left to right Joe Gibbon, tt * fice secretary of the association since mid-1955 She is a gradu ate of Pennsylvania State Uni versity, receiving her degree in dairy husbandry. It was on Jan 16, 1952 that the board of directors of the association met/ to approve the plans for the expanded program Scott French said of those plans, “The success we have achieved has been because the present program was begun on a sound basis and has continued on that basis.” Financial operation of the as sociation was based on income from two principal sources membership dues and association sponsored and managed sales. The membeiship dues were set up so as not to place aw un due burden on any breeder, but to.get support from all regular members in relation to the size of their herds. The regular members or par ticipating members pay dues ot two dollars per registered breed ing female, 18 months or older, in their breeding herds the first of each year. The minimum dues are $lO and the maximum $l5O A commercial breeder having less than five registered cows in his herd may become a partici- patmg member for the mini mum dues of $lO, regardless of the number of unregistered fe males he has All participating members have the privilege of Taking part in all association activities the fieldman program and'con signment sales and shows. Non.-paiticipating membeis stay in the association with the payment of $3 annual dues, but they do not take part, m the expanded fieldman program or nominate registered animals to the association sponsored or co sponsored sales Sources of Revenue The financial statement cov ering the period from July 1, 1954, to June 30, 1955, showed the organization received $6,264 in participating membership dues with another $214 in non participating dues. This repre sents about 40 per cent of the association’s income Most of the additional revenue comes from consignment sales which the association manages or cosponsors The boaid of di rectors first set a figure of 5 per cent of the gross sale revenue as the price of operating the I sale That has now been reduced 4'i per cent The association also gets 1 per cent of the gross from sales at which the field man acts as a consultant The sectional organizations run the feeder calf sales, giving them a source of income to con duct their business. SikZal. During the calendar year of 1955 the association sponsored, Glenmore; Orville Haas, Pottstown; Hany Heston, Newton; Scott French, state fieldman, and Art Newenschwander, Mil larden Farm herdsman, Annville, Pa. The Chief Executive has a herd of registered Aberdeen-Angus. Scott French * * * co-sponsored or acted as consult ant to 13 sales in which 743 head of animals were sold lor gross receipts of $427,053 “Each year we tend to do more and more, so it takes extra in come,” said Mr. French. “Our expenses for the fiscal year 1954-55 were slightly over $2O, 000 compared to about $16,400 the previous fiscal year. “We’re still managing to keep our Jheads above water.” Compared with the othei three years, 1955 was the best year the association has had In 1952 at five sales 269 animals sold for $245,460 but the gross dropped to $189,935 on 377 ani mals sold in seven sales the iol lowing year. In 1954 the mini ber of sales increased to 11, gross receipts were up to $314, 132 and 584 animals were sold Over National Price The average price of jiegisteied Angus sold in these sales last year was considerably above the national average for registeml Angus sold at public auction Scott French said witij pride “In our sales,-47 bulls averaged $1,012 compared to a national average of $766 on 6,692 legis tered Angus bulls, and 675 ie males in our sales aveiaged $558, compaied to $490 on 38, 231 nationally. The Pennsylvania association has a total of 215 members, com pared to 17 when it was oigan ized 15 years ago. In 1955 theie were 27 new members added to the rolls The state was 13th m the number of Angus registered each year The president, vice-president and secretary-treasurer of t' l6 state association act as a com mittee to assist Mr. French m planning the field work. One of his very important job is sales management, but he cannot do the whole job and relies on local individuals to take care of some of the de tails. Mr. French and his secretaiy takes over the burden of the clerical work of the sales a ncl the detail involved' in lining up consignments, planning inspe c " tion trips, ' assembling pe dl " grees and catalog material, I°' lowing through on health mat ters and taking care of the tie tail work in the actual sale George Atterbury, Boudin 0 Farms, Chester Springs P a ’ president of the association i,l ‘ said, “This is one 0 the very important and ieJ benefits of the fieldman P>° gram. Previously, individuals ll3< done this in their little c P arC (Continued on page 11)
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