Vol. 11. No. 41
Gov. Leader Calls Crop Conditions
In Southeast Counties ‘Worst Ever’
HARRISBURG As southeast
ern Pennsylvania entered the
eighth week without substantial
rains, growth of the majority of
crops in the State came to a
standstill due to lack of moisture,
the State Department of Agricul
ture reported Wednesday
Returning from a tour of four
hard-hit southeastern counties
with Gov, George M. Leader, Agri
culture Secretary W. L Henning
declared drought conditions in
many areas were reported by
some farmers interviewed to be
‘ the worst ever experienced ” Re
said conditions were almost be
yond belief in the areas toured
over back roads.
T{ie Montgomery County Dis
aster Committee Wednesday had
its request for federal assistance
in the hands of the Pennsylvania
USDA Disaster Committee. Simi-
Guernsey, Jersey Cattle Club Ask
USDA to Modify Milk Market Order
PETERBOROUGH, N H. —The
American Guernsey Cattle Club
here has filed a request with the
U S. Department of Agriculture
requesting the separate pooling of
special milks under Federal milk
marketing orders.
The American Guernsey Cattle
Club has been joined in this re
quest by American Jersey Cat
tle Club, Columbus, Ohio. The two
purebred dairy cattle associations
represent some 100,000 dairymen.
Both organizations sponsor na
tional trademark milk programs
Golden Guernsey and All-Jer
sey under which sales have in
creased steadily. However, the or
ganizations pointed out that fed
eral marketing orders are placing
an unfair burden on their pro
ducers.
In a joint statement released
by the two associations, they point
out that under Federal Older
regulations all dairymen are paid
the same basic price for the milk
they produce, regardless of the
differences in quality and conse
quent marketability. This pena
lizes the producers of a special/
premium milk, actually forcing
them to subsidize the producers
of regular milk.
Special milks, as defined by
the two associations, need not be
confined to just Guernsey and
Jersey milks.
Here is how the separate milk
pools, as advocated by the Guern
sey and Jersey associations,
Liaison With Rural Churches
Established by USDA to Help Leaders
In recognition of the import
ance of the rural church as a
community institution in serving
farm people, the U. S. Department
ol Agriculture announced today
that it is establishing a focal
point for closer relationships with
town-country church leaders, and
with both denominational and in
terdenominational organizations
This will provide a more dnect
Quarryville (Lancaster County) Pa., Friday, Aug. 23, 1957
lar requests are expected within
the next week from Berks, Bucks
and Chester Counties. Montgom
ery estimated crop losses at $3,-
600,000.
Meanwhile, the Pennsylvania
Crop Reporting Service painted
to growing season rainfall de
ficiencies 1 in four representative
areas. Philadelphia was 9.69
inches below normal; Reading,
620 inches; Harrisburg, 6.04
inches, and Allentown 5.06 inches.
Weather and crop surveys for
the week ended Monday showed
tobacco and potato yields and pro
duction declining steadily. Late
peaches, apples, tomatoes and
potatoes are not attaining their
usual size in drought areas Pas
tures are reported at only 61 per
cent of normal and hay crops con
tinue poor
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would operate
Producers of special milks
would be paid the Class I price
for that part of their milk sold
as special fluid milk. For the rest,
special milk producers would re
ceive only the regular price for
surplus milk.
In any market where a separate
pool was adopted for special
milks, the producers of regular
milk would be paid by the regular
pool as it is now operated, accord
ing to the utilization of the milk
in that pool.
This type of pooling would per
mit special and regular milks to
stand on their own feet, each to
expand or contract on its own
merits, according to the Guernsey
and Jersey organizations.
These organizations point out
that their proposal would nob
guarantee special milk producers
a better price than that received
by other dairymen. It would give
them the opportunity to further
increase the Class I sales of their
special milk for their own bene
fit, which under the present mar
ket wide pools are shared by all
producers in the market, regard
less of the quality of the milk
they produce.
The Guernsey and Jersey asso
ciations will welcome discussions
of their proposal with any in
terested parties. "We are not
asking for privileged treatment,"
they state, "only for equal op
portunity."
link with USDA to help these
leaders stay abreast of the chang
ing scene of rural life. They will
be kept current on the Depart
ment’s program, informational
materials, and personnel.
Philip F. Aylesworth of the
Federal Extension Service has
been assigned on a Departmeht
wide basis to work closely with
USDA agencies in serving church
leaders.
DISCUSSING DROUTH CONDITIONS in
Lancaster County are, 1 to r, former Coun
ty Agent Floyd (Dutch) Bucher, Secretary
of Agriculture William L. Henning, Gov
ernor George Leader, County Agent Max
Smith and Willis Z. Esbenshade, Lancas
$75 Per Hundred
Champion Brings,
At Garden Spot
The Grand Champion steer at
the Garden Spot Baby Beef show
Wednesday at the Lancaster
Union Stock Yards sold to Acme
Markets for $75 per hundred
weight. The 900 pound animal
was shown and sold by Miss Con
nie Quesenberry, R 1 Strinestown,
York County.
The reserve champion animal
was shown by Vernon Good, R 1
East Earl. The 955 pound steer
was purchased by H. F. Hilde
brand, Strasburg, for $46 a hund
redweight.
The sale average was $30.15 and
the average weight per animal
was 959.3 pounds. The 78 animals
weighed in at 74,830 pounds.
Another sort of record was
placed by the Elmer M. Hoover
family of Bird-xn-Hand. Seven
Hoovers, Jay, Ella, Clyde, Glenn,
Clair, Curvin and Nelson, had
steers in the show and sale.
There was no single large buy
er at the sale with sales being
made generally throughout the
area Restaurant buyers included
the Stockyards Inn, Lancaster,
and the Crystal Inn and Berkshire
Hotel of Reading.
Both the champion and reserve
steer were bought by then youth
ful owneis at the Stockyards
Feeder Calf sale held last fall.
The Garden Spot Show and
Sale is an annual event sponsored
by the Stock Yards for children
of patrons All exhibitors were
between the ages of 6 and 18.
I Only 12 Townships in State
Untested for Brucellosis
HARRISBURG—With the addi
tion of four townships in Bradford
County to the State testing pro
gram for brucellosis, Dr. Howard
A. Milo, director of the Bureau of
Animal Industry, State Depart
ment of Agriculture, today re
vised estimates for completion of
testing of the Commonwealth of
Pennsylvania for brucellosis.
Dr. Milo said only three town
ships in Bradford County remain
outside the testing program and
nine townships in Lebanon Coun
ty have yet to apply for testing.
He added the entire State should
be tested prior to his original es
timate of an. 1, 1958.
The Bradford County townships
completed include Athens, North
Towanda, Ulster and Smithfteld.
Dr. Milo said the remaining three
Now Is The Time . . .
By MAX SMITH
County Agricultural Agent
TO SPRAY FENCE ROWS Post harvest time
is highly recommended as a period when chemi
cals such as 2,4-D and 2,4,5-T may be used to spray
on brush, briars or weeds. Details on the use of
these chemicals are available through Penn State
Extension bulletin “Chemical Weed Control.”
TO FLUSH EWE FLOCKS Many successful shippers continue the
practice of providing additional grain or succulent pasture for the
breeding flock several weeks in advance of breeding time The
objective is to increase the number of multiple births
TO MAINTAIN LIVESTOCK CONDITION Present drouth condi
tions make it difficult for all livestock to maintain body condition
unless extia nutrients are provided It is strongly recommended
that livestock be fed hay, silage or additional giain in older to pre
vent thin condition when entering winter quarters.
ter. Smith told the officials that the north
ern tier of townships in the county are
hardest hit by the dry weather. The
Governor did not visit any Lancaster
County farms in his drouth condition tour
Monday. (LF Photo)
townships probably would com
plete testing within 10 days.
Brucellosis is a communicable
livestock disease which costs live
stock farmers thousands of dollars
annually.
According to Dr Milo, there are
only 12 townships of the 1,569
townships in the State without a
brucellosis tseting program. He
said there are 55 counties certi
fied as brucellosis-free and only
two, Bradford and Lebanon Coun
ties, that have not yet completed
testing.
For a county to be considered
brucellosis-free the infection can
not exceed one per cent in the
county cattle population and five
per cent of the herds in the coun
ty.
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