$6.35 Price For Milk Asked By Producers (Continued from page 1) in this area, the increased costs of roughage and grain normally chasing increased quantities of roughage and grain that have raised on the farm in past years will cause the cost of producing milk to increase daring the months when such supplies are needed. On this basis, Inter-State requests at least an additional 20 cents a hundredweight above the $6.15 annual level for the Janu ary through March 1958. “Thus, Inter-State recommends that the present price, of $6.35 be continued through March 1958.” A cut-off date for emergency re lief pricing was also set by Inter- State. “On April 1, 1958, if conditions are normal and additional feed supplies are no longer needed, the price would return to the re commended annual level of $5.75, which would be m proper rela tionship Class 1 price,” Honan added. The hearing in Lancaster was one of a senes being held by the commission. Most of the hearings have been in relation to ad}ustmg prices to the increased costs of production brought about by the dry summer. Commissioner Uhljsaid that the commission will have to hold an additional hearing or conference, now planned for Harrisburg m the near future, before any legal decision can be made. However it is doubtful that the commission can decline an adjust ment in prices. Armstrong testifl ed that as of Sept. 3 pastures in Lancaster County were gone, the corn crop was only 50 per cent of normal farmers got only 40 and 20 per cent of normal second and third cuttings of hay, and 75 per cent will have to buy grain and hay . There were, however, two voic es at the hearing against higher prices to consumers. Scully pre sented a three point program de signed to help super-market sales of milk They were 1. Increase the spread between home delivered milk and milk at the store to three cents a quart 2 Lower half-gallon prices by half a cent a quart. 3. Allow no premium for homo genized milk. All of the milk produced by Scully’s company is sold through stores, and he said "that 60 per cent of the production is in half gallon containers. As a reason for dropping the premium on homogenized milk, he said that the cost of homogen izing is only .036 cents a quart He said that he favored leaving a premium on Vitamin D and high fat milk. The present prem ium for milk over 4 per cent butferfat is one cent and the pre mium for homogenized milk is also a cent a quart. Frank Eshelman, R 2 Manheim, an independent producer, back ed Scully’s proposal. He said that it is time to give the housewife a break by letting her buy in the stores and paying her the differ ence in home delivery costs He said that the need for a more efficient marketing system is apparent and that a shortcut to the consumer must be found Eshelman put the load of find-, ing this short cut on the back of the dealer and retailer. The dealers in asking for a price increase pointed out that in six representative dairies in the Lancaster area, labor costs are up eight per cent and overall costs are up five per cent. The six dealers had total sales of $5,563,702 last year. Of this, $1,341,416 was paid out in salarys and wages, $3,789,- 000 was marked up as costs of salse (this includes money paid to farmers for raw milk,) other costs were $911,000, leaving an operating profit of $220,638, wihich is 3.9 per cent of total sales. However Pfantz, in his testi mony, showed that dealers are realizing 10 per cent on their net worth and 8.1 per cent return on their employed capital. New Members Appointed to USDA Agricultural Research Committee Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Taft Benson has announced four new appointments to his Depart ment’s Agricultural Research Po licy Committee. They are Paul S. Armstrong of Los Angeles, retired general man ager of Sunkist Growers, Inc,, co operative citrus marketing organ ization; Hary B. Caldwell of Greensboro, N. C., master of the North Carolina State Grange; Dr. C. Bruce Lyon of Philadelphia, Pa., director of research on chem icals for the firm of Rohm & Hass, and Leroy Getting of Sanborn, lowa, a cattle and lamb feeder. On the 11-maji committee they replace Roy Battles, Homer L. Brinkley, Frank 5. Haumont, and Dr. C. G. King, whose terms of appointment have expired. The committee, established under the Research and Market ing Act of 1946, gives advice to USDA on research and service work and helps to get the cooper ation of producers, farm organiz ations, industry groups and fed eral and State agencies in carry ing out such work. Its quarterly meeting' is being held now in Washington. Armstrong recently was named a special consultant to review US DA services to farmer coopera tives. He is a graduate of Michi gan State University and was a vvarded an honorary doctor’s de gree by that institution in 1946. He was general manager, of Sun kist Growers for 25 years prior to his retirement last January. He has been a member of the Board of Trustees of the Nutrition Foundation, a director of the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce and is a trustee of Pomono Col lege. Dr Lyon holds degrees from the University of Nebraska and Farming thi Not at a It takes a careful business head to farm ★ Is the mineral and fertility of my farm being maintained? ★ls my farm as good as it was five years ago—ten years ago? ★ Is my hay and pasture the best I can possibly grow? ★ Is my livestock healthy and profitable? The farmer who knows how much his farm can business head- He knows that-he cannot afford to de lay liming when his soil calls for lime. He knows he has to feed his soil for more and better crops, and that these produce if limed and fertilized correctly has a careful let us spread your limestone! use MARTIN'S LIMESTONE Ivan M. Martin, Inc., Blue Ball, Pa. the University of Chicago. He-was employed by USDA from 1938 to 1944 in plant pathology and soils research. Before joining Rohm and Haas in 1953 he was engaged in research for the Hawaiian Pineapple Co. Getting operates a large farm on which he feeds lambs and cat tle. He is a past president and a director of the lowa Wool Produc Millport Roller Mills J. C. Walker & Son Lititz, R-D.4, Pa. S. H. Hiestand & Co. Salunga, Pa. vxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>(J)xxxxxxxxxvvxx\\xxxxxx> Lancaster Farming, Friday, Oct. 25, 1957 ers Assn, director of the Nat ional Wool Marketing Assn, dir ector of the lowa Assn, of Soil Conservation Districts; a member of the lowa Natural Resources Council; a director of the State Farm Bureau, and a former mem ber of the USDA Sheep and Wool Research and Marketing Advisory Committee. Caldwell has been a member and chairman of USDA’s Cotton Gap, Pa. Grubb Supply Elizabethtown, Pa. D. W. Hoover East Earl, R. D. 1, Pa. crops will produce more and better livestock. The best way to learn how much limestone your soil needs is by using Martin’s free limestone test. No obligation at all' ( and Cottonseed Research and Marketing Advisory Committee for several years. He is also a member of the National Planning Association’s agricultural commi ttee and of the Advisory Budget Commission of North Carolina. 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