241 Com. Agreements
Signed by Countians
A total of 241 corn acreage re
serve agreements have been sign
ed by Lancaster County farmers,
according to the county Agricul
tural Stabilization and Conserva
tion office.
These agreements cover 2,172.4
acres and have a maximum value
of $120,878.90.
- , Farmers with allotments of
1 bver 20 acres have until April 1
to sign revised agreements if
they have requested to enroll ad
ditional acres in- the soil bank'
program.
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Top Butterfat Producer in Red Rose
The highest monthly butterfat
producer in the Red Rose Dairy
Herd Improvement Assn, in
February was Lass, a registered
Holstein owned by John S. Shelly,
R 1 Manheim. She produced 2,064
lbs. milk and 1218 lbs. butterfat.
Second was another registered
Holstein owned by Mary B. Stoltz
fus, Morgantown. She made a rec
ord of 2,302 lbs. of milk and 115.1
lbs. butterfat.
The high herd for the month
belonged to Harry H. Ranck, R 1
Ronks, with an average of 1,653
lbs. of milk and 61.6 lbs. of but
terfat. Second was the Marvin A.
Eshleman, Strasburg, herd with
an average of 1,309 lbs. of milk
and 47.3 lbs. of butterfat.
In the 305 day lactation divi
sion, a registered Holstein from
the J. Lester R3 Man
heim, herd took the honors with
a record of 19,422 lbs. of milk
and 679.6 lbs. of butterfat.
There was a tie for second place
with a registered Holstein for
the Job Stoltzfus, R 2 Elverson,
herd and a registered Guernsey
from the Raymond Witmer, R 1
Willow Street, herd tieing with
677.4 lbs. of butterfat each. The
Holstein produced 16,732 lbs. of
milk while the Guernsey produc
ed 14,572 pounds.
The top 15 herds with their
milk and butterfat average are:
Harry H. Ranck, R 1 Ronks, 1,-
053 lbs. milk, 61.6 lbs. butterfat,
•Marvin A. Eshleman, Strasburg,
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1,309 lbs. milk, 47.3 lbs. butterfat;
Jacob L. Kurtz, R 2 Elizabethtown,
1,219 lbs. milk, 45 8 lbs. butterfat;
Jay E. Landis, 1,264 lbs. milk, 45.5
lbs. butterfat; Job Stoltzfus, R 2
Elverson, 1,087 lbs. milk, 44.8 lbs.
butterfat.
Allen K. Risser, R 1 Bareville,
1,085 lbs. milk, 44.6 lbs. butter
fat; C.' J. Kurtz, 1,144 lbs. milk,
44 5 lbs. butterfat; Raymond F.
Witmer, R 1 Willow Street, 847
lbs. milk, 43.8 lbs. butterfat; 3".
Rohrer Witmer, R 1 Willow
Street, 882 lbs. milk, 43.4 lbs but
terfat;' John S. Shelly, R 1 Man
heim, 1,038 lbs. milk, 42.0 lbs.
butterfat. v -
Ezra M. Martin, 1,107 lbs. milk,
42.8 lbs butterfat, Robert H.
Kauffman, R 1 Manheim, 1,064 lbs.
milk, 42.7 lbs. butterfat; Tobias
D. Leaman, 1,092 lbs. milk, 42,5
lbs. butterfat, George A. Rutt,
R 1 Stevens, 1,053 lbs. milk, 42.5
lbs. butterfat, Albert R. Fry, 1,-
059 lbs. milk, 41.4 lbs. butterfat.
Testers for the association last
month were David Miller, Robert
Probst, Jay Risser, James Herr,
Walter Ely, Clarence Crider, Wil
ber Houser, Joe Hmish, Ross
Mast, Claij: Griffith and Arland
Powell. -
Egg Buying
Policy Changed
By Government
Beginning this week the USDA
will offer to buy a new-type of
“stabilized” dried whole egg
solids and will discontinue buy
ing shell eggs because sufficient
quahtities have now been pur
chaesd to meet school lunch re
quirements for the remainder of
the school year.
As a result of cooperative re
search by the egg drying indus
try and the USDA in recent
years, the new “stabilized” dried
whole egg solids are much more
palatable and have far, better
keeping qualities than dried egg
products of earlier years.
Thus, any purchases of whole
egg solids under the modified
purchase program will be held in
reserve for use in the school
lunch program next fall. The pur
chase of 50,050 cases of shell
eggs last week bring to 313,714
the number of cases of shell eggs
purchased since the program was
resumed in February
Lancaster Farming, Friday, March 29, 1957—-
County PFA
Backing Quality
Control Bills
The Lancaster County Farmers’
Association has thrown its sup
port behind a legislative move to
help producers of high quality
eggs, it was announced this week
by President, William B. Jacobs
R 2, Narvon.
The organization has asked
members of the Commonwealth’s
General Assembly for an egg
quality control law, which would
guarantee that the quahtv of eggs
sold would conform to the label
on the egg carton.
At the present time Pennsyl
vania egg producers are losing
their market to out-of-state pro
ducers who can guarantee the
quality of their eggs The quality
of eggs produced on Pennsylvania
farms usually is just as high as
in other states, according to Ja
cobs.
But because ot laxity in the
grading and enforcement of the
duality standards, there is con
siderable variation between deal
ers as to what constitutes a spe
cific grade of egg.
“In other words the label on
eggs from out-of-state is an ab
solute guarantee as to the qual
ity, whereas the label in Penn
sylvania does not always mean
what it says,” he says.
The proposed legislation would
require all dealers to have certi
ficates, and would require them
to adhere strictly to the truth in
the sale of eggs.
Farmers who sell directly to
the consumer would be required
to grade their eggs and to label
them according to grade. It is
felt the control law would help
to standardize the quality of eggs,
and that the producers of high
quality eggs would benefit fiom
a relatively higher price.
Poor quality eggs would be
labeled as to their grade, and as
a result would sell at a lower
price
The proposal does not neces
sarily force the “small egg pro
ducer” out of business, but it
would force him to gather his
eggs more often and more re
gularly, keep them clean and in
good condition, or he would have
to take a lower price.
The benefits would come to the
egg producers who are doing a
first rate job of producing and
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Elmer Brill
Elizabethtown 7-5441
Frank H. Bucher
Lititz MA 6-9124
C. B. Erb
Landisville TW 8-2531
Lester Erb
Landisville TW 8-3216
Martin R. Kraybill
Elizabethtown 7-2696
A. H. HOFFMAN, INC.,
marketing their eggs. Fitty-eight
per cent of the eggs produced in
the state now are classified as
Grade A or better. But because
of the inferior eggs that are plac-' t
ed on the market, the consumer
often turns to out-of-state eggs
because of the quality guarantee.]
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