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Earl Umble Herd Leads Progressive
In January Butterfat Production
Twenty-one of the 103 herds
tested in the Progressive DHIA
in January had averages of over
35 pounds of butterfat. High
herd in the month was that of
Earl Umble, Atglen.
Umble’s Holsteins averaged
43 1 lbs. of butterfat and 1,137 lbs
of milk.
Harold Umble owned the high
cow for the month. The grade
Holstein produced 2,279 lbs. of
milk and 88.9 lbs. of butterfat.
There were 29 cows with over 70
pounds of butterfat.
The top ten herds and their
averages are: Earl Umble, 1,137
lbs of milk, 43.1 lbs. butterfat;
Charles Brosius, 878 lbs. milk,
42.7 lbs. butterfat; Bechenstrator
& Wilson, 1,205 lbs. milk, 41 lbs.
butterfat; Ankrum Brothers, 881
lbs milk, 40.1 lbs. butterfat;
Everett Cowan, 1,030 lbs. milk,
39.5 lbs. butterfat; Stanley Dreid
er, 954 lbs. milk, 39.4 lbs butter
fat;. Horace Walton, 1,039 lbs.
milk, 39.3 lbs. butterfat; Harold
Umble, 1,024 lbs. milk. 39.2 lbs.
butterfat; Willard Moore, 903 lbs.
milk, 39.2 lbs. butterfat and Mah-
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The ten top cows, listed by own
er and record are as follows:
Harold Umble, 2,279 lbs. milk,
88.9 lbs. butterfat; Hemy Landis,
2,093 lbs. milk, 87"9 lbs. butter
fat; Mason Brothers, 1,854 lbs.
milk, 83.4 lbs. butterfat; Horace
Walton, 1,659 lbs. milk, 81.3 lbs.
butterfat; Everett Cowan, 1,621
lbs. milk, 79.4 lbs. butterfat;
Henry Landis, 1,727 lbs. milk,
77.7 Jbs, butterfat; Mason Broth
ers, 2,182 lbs. milk, 76.4 lbs. but
terfat; Robert Counts, 2,235 lbs.
milk, 76 lbs. butterfat; Harold
Umble, 2,000 lbs. milk, 76 lbs
butterfSt; Earl Umble, 2,046 lbs.
milk, 76 lbs. butterfat.
Testers for the Progressive as
sociation are David Sweigart,
Robert L. | Janney, HArold J.
Lindecamp and Robert P. Farm
er.
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H. H. Alp Tells Poultrymen Business
Must Work with Agriculture
A unification of effort and
more agricultural - business alli
ances were called for by H. H.
Alp, of the American Farm Bu
reau Federation at the Poultry'
Booster Banquet at the Hotel
Brunswick Wednesday night.
In calling for this action, he
pointed out that too often stock
holders and labors points of view
are upheld m changes in business,
not the consumers. He also said
that agricultural policy is too of
ten determined fay groups outside
the industry.
For example, farmers operating
costs are raised by processors de-'
manding new equipment and new
processes of marketing. Too of
ten, he said, this leads to a price
squeeze that the farmer can not
fight.
In giving other solutions to
problems facing the farmer today,
he offered these suggestions.
one: Changes are needed,in the
tax schedule, both state and fed
eral, to supply relief to the pe
culiar needs of agriculture.
two: Farmers must produce
more volume at a lower unit cost.
three: New markets in foreign
countries must be found and ex
ploited
four: Food sales must be dis
associated from promotion of high
mark-up non-food items in super
markets.
five: The national diet must be
up-graded.
Alp said that with the increase
in the average farm size in the
country from 146.2 acres in 1900
to today’s average of 242.2 acres,
the farmer has become more vun
erable to what happens in market
ing and distributing his products.
At the same time, he said, the
farm has become more “citified.”
The standard of living has risen
on the farm to the state that the
farmer now is a city man who
lives and works in the country.
This combined with an average in
vestment on the farm of some
$BB,OOO means that the farmer is
much more vunerable to price
and cost variations than ever be
fore.
In speaking of the family farm
and it’s preservation, Alp pre
dicted that the family farm of
the future will be a family op
erated farm, but not necessarily
family owned or family sized
farm.
Federation Asks
That May 4-11
Be Broiler Week
HARRISBURG, Pa. At a
meeting of the Board of Directors
of the Pennsylvania Poultry Fed
eration held February 20, Homer
J. Bicklser, president, report that
directors of the Federation have
requested the State Department
of Agriculture to set aside the
week of May 4 to May 11 as Penn
sylvania Broiler Week. The high
light of the Pennsylvania Broiler
Week will be the Chicken-of-To
morrow State finals and auction
sales to be held May 7 and 8 re
spectively.
One of the other highlights of
the board meeting was passing
of a resolution asking the federal
government to discontinue FHA
funds for poultry expansion and
also to discontinue the federal
egg surplus purchasing program.
Copies of this resolution will be
sent to the Northeastern Poultry
Producers Council, Trenton, N.
J., and to the United States Sec
retary of Agriculture.
The directors also went on rec
ord favoring the proposed Penn
sylvania Egg Grading legislation
which will be presented to the
current Pennsylvania legislature.
Bicksler also reports that the
Board of Directors are 100 per
cent in support of the Federal
Compulsory Poultry Inspection
bill, which the regional organiza
tion Neppco is supporting
in Congress.
Lancaster Farming, Friday, March 8, 1957—3
However, he said, the figures
show that while the number of
farms have fallen, the number of
acres has remained about the
same with one man now operating
about twice as much land as be
fore.
In summing up the family farm
situation, he said that the family
farmer in the future will be an
individual operating a large fam
ily farm with enough I.Q. to hold
his own in a complicated market
ing'situation, or he will be a glor
ified hired hand for large corpor
ations or large government.
On improving the national diet,
he said that 40 per cent of the
population of the United States
does not eat breakfast. If these
people could be persuaded to
eat breakfast,-he said, it would
mean that egg production would
go up 71 per cent, bacon produc
tion would rise 173 per cent from
last year and there would be a
market for 28 per cent more
fluid milk.
Harold P. Klahold, president
of the Northeast Poultry Pro
ducers Council, blasted integrat
ed poultry production in a brief
address. He said that integration
is a new “gimmic” by feed manu
facturers to sell more feed.
A total of 159 people attended
the $lOO-a-plate dinner.
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