Vol. 11, No. 13
Exchange Use
Heavier in 1956
Says Brubaker
Two hundred twenty-six more
growers took advantage of the
marketing facilities of the Lan
caster Poultry Exchange in 1956
than in 1955, Levi H. Brubaker,
president, reported at the annual
meeting Jan. 17.
In all. 871 growers marketed
6,407,415 birds in 82 sales for an'
average price of 21.38 cents fdr
the Tuesday sales and 20 65 cents
for the Thursday sales Sixty
two .per cent of the sales were
on Thursday. -
In predicting the future of the
poultry business, Brubaker said,
“Wfth the government creating
new acres of productive land and
loaning bioney for business, I
wonder if the government wants
to preserve the family farm or
just make a token effort in that
direction
The construction of the new
Poultry Center building was the
topic of much discussion both by
Brubaker and" by a seven-man
panel representing various seg
ments of the poultry industry.
Brubaker said, “There
ably no more difficult time to
undertake a project such as this
and there probably is no time
when it was more needed.
“But when the new Civic Audi
torium is built just across the
road, we will be right at the, hub
of the county here with this
bujlding.”
A panel composed of Glenn H.
Herr, Manheim; Paul Andes,
Bareville; Willis- McCarthy, New
Holland; Reynolds Minmch, Lam
caster; ‘Robert Thompson, Lan
caster; Roy B. Erb, L ancasfcer ’>
and Charles D. Warfel 11, Cones
toga, discussed some of the prob
lems facing the industry.
ILowell Blass, Beading, was
moderator.
One point on which the panel
found agreement was ’that a fed
eral and state inspection pro
gram for dressed poultry is due
for the immediate future.
However, it was felt that the
inspection will-not affect either
production methods or the mar
ket. As one member noted, pro
cessors grade and inspect their
own products on the line now.
L. Howard Martin. Lancaster,
was reelected to the board of
directors of- the association. New
ly elected -members are Carl B.
Risser, Lititz, and Paul Rowe,
Strasburg.
Martin represents feed and
hatchery men, Risser the buyers
and processors, and Bows the
producers.
A guest of the association was
Abram G. Bucher, who serves as
an advisor to the board of direc
tors
Entertainment was furnished
by the Catalina Four, a quartet
composed of Raymond D En
lenger, Aaron Landis, John Ston
er and Stanley Longenecker.
ELECTED TO THE BOARD of directors
of the Lancaster County Poultry Exchange
Jan. 17 were (I. to r.) Carl B. Risser. Lititz;
Paul Rowe, Strasburg; and L. Howard
Martiny-Lancaster, Risser'represents buy
Inter-State Producers Told
Market Pool Can Cost Producer
Members of the Quarryville
and Southern -Lancaster County
locals of Inter-State Milk Pro
ducers Cooperative were told
Jan. 24 that adoption of a mar
ketwide pool for the Philadel
phia milk marketing area will
cost either the producer or the
consumer two to two and one
half cents a quart.
O. H. Hoflman, Jr., general
manager of Inter-State said that
the marketwide pool system will
result in the top quality produc
er receiving a little less for his
milk-and the other producer re
ceiving a little more for his as
long as no more milk comes into
the marketing area.
“I have never known of a
single instance in which the in
troduction of a market pool did
not bring into the area more
milk than could be used,” Hoff
man said.
Inter-State is now battling to.
retain the present handler pool
system, under which the produc
er is paid on the basis of milk
used by-the handler to which he
ships rather than the average for
all handlers in the area. A
lengthy hearing, is being con
ducted by the Pennsylvania Milk
Control Commission.
Twenty-five year membership
awards were presented James W.
Heavy Poultry Breeds
Susceptible to Typhoid
The American Veterinary Medi
cal Assn, reports that the heavy
breeds of poultry seem to be more
susceptible to fowl typhoid than
are the light breeds.
Quarryville (Lancaster County) Pa., Friday, Feb. 1, 1957 -
Gardner, Rl Peach Bottom, and
Leiper Jackson, R 2 Peach Bofr
tom.
About 300 members and wives
attended the luncheon meeting,
at the Quarryville Methodist
Church.
Poultry Inspection Bill
Introduced in Congress
Bills calling for- compulsory
poultry inspection were introduc
ed in the opening session of the
85th Congress. In the Senate such
a bill was introduced carrying the
signture of 11 sponsoring Senat
ors as follows: Geo. D. Aiken
(R. Vt.): Gordon Allott (R.jCol);
EdwardTT. Thye (R. Minn)
garet Chase Smith (R. Me); Wil
liam Purtell (R. Conn); Irvin
Ives (R. N.Y.); Frederick Pyne
(R. Me); J. Allen Frear (R. Del);
John Butler (R. Md); and John
W. Brecker (R. Ohio).
This bill would place poultry
inspection in the U. S. Depart
ment of Agriculture. Another bill
specifies that it must be under
the meat Inspection Bureau of
the USDA.
ers and processors; Rowe, producers; and
Martin, feed and hatchery men. This is
Martin’s second term on the board. (Staff
Photo)
O. H. Hoffman, Jr.
Farm Bureau
Coop to Meet
On Wednesday
The twenty-third annual meet
ing of the Lancaster County Farm
Bureau Cooperation Assn has
been scheduled for Wednesday,
Feb. 6.
Charles C. Burkins, general
manager of the cooperative, said
the meeting would begin at 10
h.m. in the Guernsey Breeders
Sales Pavilion at Ronks, six miles
east of Lancaster,
Burkins also said the program
will include the"election of four
members to three-year terms on
the association’s board of direc
tors.
He added the nominating com
mittee has announced the follow
ing slate of candidates lor the di
rectorships:
Northeastern district Walter
Witwer, R 2 Gordonville, incum
bent, and Adam Esbenshade, R 2
New Holland.
Northwestern district Henry
L. Shenk, R 2 Manheim; and Hen
ry L. Hess, R 2 Elizabethtown.
Southwestern distnct Ever
ett Kreider, R 1 Quarryville, in
cumbant, and Robert Shellen
berger, R 2 Columbia.
Southeastern district Elvin
Hess, R 1 Strasburg, incumbent,
and Walter Hiramelreich, R 1
Ronks.
Additional nominations may be
made from the floor of the meet
ing.
Reports on the past year’s op
eration of the farmer-owned busi
ness v will be. made by Burkins and
Charles M. Wolgemuth, assistant,
manager.
A report on farming conditions
in Lancaster county will be made
by M. M. Smith, county agricul
tural agent.
Luncheon will be' served at
noon and the session
will include a question and an
swer period in which members
will quiz Lancaster County and
Pennsylvania Farm Bureau em
ployees about the cooperative’s
services.
$2 Per Year
Lancaster Milk
Price $5.95
Effective Today
Dairymen start receiving $5.95
a hundredweight for milk mar
keted in the Lancaster area to
day under a tentativeorder issued
by the Pennsylvania Milk Control
Commission.
At a hearing held Jan. 18 in
milk dealers and pro
ducers in the Lancaster area had
proposed price changes that
would have upped the price of
milk to consumers by nearly two
cents a quart. .The proposal was
based on increased operating
costs
Of the new increase, the pro
ducer is getting a 25 cents in
crease and the dealers are getting
15 cents for each hundred pounds
of milk. This means a price rise
to the consumer of about a cent a
quart. There are 46 x k quarts to a
hundred pounds of milk.
The action followed closely on
the heels of a similar order for
the Philadelphia area suspending
the quarterly one cent a quart
price decrease scheduled to go in
to effect there on the first of the
year
Half-pints of milk sold to'
schools will be returned to the.
levels paid during October, No
vember and December of last
year Milk sold to schools foe re
sale through dispensers will! be
priced at two cents a quart less
; than the price of milk sold
through dispensers in restaurants
during those same months.
Milk dealers had been granted
a 15 cent a hundred increase and
producers 5 cents a hundred last
April 1. The Commission granted'
a half-cent a quart drop in price
to consumers instead of the
scheduled one cent decrease.
Milk prices to the consumer
are now 24 cents a quart for home
delivery and 23 cents in the
stores.
Prices to the consumer wilß de
crease by one cent a Quart from
the Feb. 1 levels on April 1„ in
crease one cent on July 1 and
again on Oct. 1 and decrease-one
cent a quart next Jan. 1 under
the quarterly price adjustments
set up by the Milk Control Com
mission.
Pennsylvania Second
In Holstein Numbers
BHATTLEBORO, Vt Penn
sylvania was again second in Am
erica in both tee number of Hol
stein registrations and the total
of animals transferred last year.
American Holstein - Frieean
Assn, figures show that 27;740
head of Holsteihs were registered
in the state last year and that 16,-
825 animals changed owners dur
ing the same period.
New York was first in both
categories with totals of 37,041
registrations and 24,442 trans
fers.
Other states ranking in regis
trations are Wisconsin, 25,598;
Ohio, 15,930; Michigan, 12,597;
and Illinois, 10,341. In transfers
other leading states are Wiscon
sin, 14,657; Ohio, 10,390; Michi
gan, 9,509; and Illinois, 6,571.
Nationally, new all-time highs
of 205,527 Holsteins registered
and 127,769 transferred were set.
For the second consecutive
year, both figures were greater
than the combined totals of all
other dairy breeds.