—Lancaster Farming, Friday, March Z 9, 1957
6
Bill Introduced Into House Allowing
Farmers to Feed Home Raised Wheat
PALMYRA, Pa. Pennsyl
vania poultry farmers may be
able to feed home-grown wheat
to their chicks without running
afoul of the government’s wheat
allotment program.
The turning point in this long
standing battle between poultry
interests and the federal program
rests in the legislation tossed into
the House of Representatives’
hopper by Kenneth B. Keating
(R., N. Y.), it was revealed here
this week by Larry- Kegerreis,
Northeastern Poultry Producers
Council official. •
“I believe it’s fundamentally
wrong and contrary to the Ameri
can system of free enterprise to
prevent poultry farmers, through
federal regulation, from free
utilization of land for the produc
tion of grain for feeding their
own flocks,” Kegerreis declared.
The proposed bill, H.R. 271
would amend the Agricultural
Adjustment Act of 1938 to ex
empt poultry and livestock raisers
from wheat allotment penalties
Where the gram is fed to stock
on their own farms.
. So far the government has won
a hands-down victory in test cases
in New York, Pennsylvania and
other states involving violations
of wheat allotment agreements
'ss' ■>
*-C 'V? -
- *
A View of the New Office Building and Plant of the New Holland Branch of the Lancaster Farm Bu reau. Upper left photo shows Reuben Hess, Mgr,
Congratulations to Lancaster County Farm Bureau, New Holland Branch
We are happy to have supplied you in your building program with
Amwelcl Doors Concrete Blocks Ready-mixed Concrete
NEW HOLLAND CONCRETE PRODUCTS
New Holland, Pa.
where the grain was fed to live
stock on the farm where it was
raised.
Current regulations forbid,
under penalty, the raising of any
wheat in excess of acreage allot
ments even though the grain
is fed right on the farm and does
not reach market channels.
' “It’s high time that this type of
autocratic legislation be wiped
from the record books,” said the
Council official. “It clearly abro
gates a fundamental right of Am
erican farmers that of freedom
of choice.
“The Council has vigorously
campaigned to ease these harsh
regulations, and has defended
earlier test cases,” he continued.
“It will continue to do so until
the job is accomplished.”
NEPPCO has been" a leader in
a nationwide drive by farm or
ganizations to amend the original
legislation. Although previous ef
forts have been unsuccessful,
Council leaders are pinning their
hopes on a renewed non-election
year campaign.
Members of the group in the 14-
state area ranging from Maine to
Virginia and west to Ohio are be
ing urged-to seek favorable con
sideration from their representa
tives in both houses of Congress.
'< "***£ 9
** ~ - i
v v *' ~ '
v _ m
v:s ~ r ✓-,
.V’ '* f‘. % *
, v * K v ~y. *< *s' .
■>>/ < * , '< V v < <> J > '■*%’' S "J/ <<W
< rst,;- *. 7 ... “7 -\ <* 77:- v:. #3%
> t J&X* SZ? A r \ ~<v~v -7 > y _'v. y / & s> w >
r ?
■7**A' « V ’■* 77 -v" '•
?■> 77 ">77 7:h - y.;u-'r; ‘ ‘ 7 7 ;
77 >» -7¥ 7 c~ 7 : 7f*77TVf7- 77^':',
'jT’ +* /s A v <-* v - * ♦ A •<■> * >•* v \ w/ x »s> -17 Kfv < J?
A**.’,' ' - - '***"'- i’T'S -” -
7 7?- ■ ' - - 775::r-v7 ’*77 -
' 7 ." i~>7. - •, *&Jskf}*~ 7/;/ ~ -*
, ’ *> ''"<’ . , v . ' *"4-< '..♦‘Vf* '. .-' t.
4 -A -• » V 717t477-. - * 7~,.
* .WJI,. 77'.* J}4' 7 > vv "-
7 7<" 7-7*
< * -^”7,7**’”
*< a A y. 7“
, • / A *>A , v
T * +
•s v \ *"#«*
ft
ps '<
s
(-S- ! x
| •<&■ V <• „
U" ly
V“ <
Tel. ELgin 4-2114
Grange Backs
School Bus
Legislation
S. Ralph Wanner Master of
Lancaster Co. Pomona Grange
No. 71 announced today that the
Grange is actively supporting
House Bills No. 204 and 205, now
under consideration by the Legis
lature in Harrisburg, which would
permit School Districts to use the
same school buses that haul the
.children to and from school for
transporting these children in ex
tra curricular activities such as
basketball games, field trips by
students of vocational agriculture
and similar other programs plan
ned and supervised by school au
thorities.
Wanner stated,'' “These bills
will correct an inequity imposed
upon school districts by legisla
tion enacted at the last session
forbidding the use of school buses
for such extra curricular activi
ties, and districts," therefore,
were forced to hire common car
rier buses by the Public
Utilities Commission, when trans
portation was needed. This creat
ed additional expense and incon
venience which was unwarranted.
In these days of high taxes every
effort must be made to hold costs
at a minimum, and these bills are
a step in that direction.”
-4 < t
7 m
< -
v { *
» > •> '•
New Farm Bureau Feed Mill
Includes Novel Modern Equipment
. Open house at the new Farm
Bureau mill in New Holland will
be held from" 7a. m. to 6p. m.
April 3 at the new building.
On display will be a line-up of
modem milling and feed process
ing equipment, installed in a new
modem building.
The new- building has lieen
built to replace one lost by fire
fest year.
. The new facility is designed
with sufficient storage bins for
handling bulk.- grains as well as
recieving the major- feed ingred
ients in bulk. Also facilities to
. blench -store r and -deliver bulk
feeds with-the new air lift bulk
delivery truck are included.
Grains received by rail will go
over two air super cleaner before
going into storage bins. Another
feed cleaner installed is a gyro
whip feed dresser which auto
matical remove foreign matter
and hardware, which might get in
to feed during processing. ■
An unusual time and labor
saver to be used is the weigh
buggy. The exact amount of gram
and other- ingredients for each
feed formula can be drawn into
the buggy and then mixed.
This eliminates the tedious bus
iness of bagging ingredients' be*
fore mixing. N
Bagged Ingredients will be con
veyed from the warehouse to the
mixers by a belt conveyer. A port-
able-automatic scale .can be plac
ed under numerous over-head
bins for filling the 100'pound bags
wuh grams. -
Provision is also made for the
future installation of a conveyor
blending system which would
take part of the load off the two,
mixers.
The mixers have a two ton cap
acity each. A large hammermill
and a molasses mixer complete
the new efficient feed processing
system.
Now when grain is delivered to
the mill by a farmer to be pro
cessed, it can be dumped into a
pit where it is fed automaticaly
into the hammermill. It is weigh
ed after it is
gioUnd, and then goes into the
mixers.
Driving ont o the scales to
weigh the load and then to weigh
the empty vechicle is completely
eliifajriated.
Other equipment installed in
clude a corn cuterand grader for
scratch gram production, and ah
oat crimper.
Standard feeds to be produced
at the mill include 14 per cent
dairy feed, New Holland 16 per
cent all mash laying feed. New
Holland 22 per cent laying mash
with 3-nilro, 32 per cent steer
supplement and beef supplement
A.
v 'fci?' ‘S'-
<*i< / s v '** ** * *** * * ?»
iXv' *&>£ v * ?'s "C* ■»
<* v Cv > Ss-41 •*5 < ”s»
- - -'V^MT‘ ;> s ~> ' t>tys - • Vi
--;? ' : - -*v '*,*;
4' “-’, *, '}f '."T‘p~‘<'<'-^,
' 1 /■ - * * " , % ./
- Vlf
* v ' t
* <
V " > v ' \
* &<
* ni -
v
v ■*'**;*■«*•<.