16—Lancaster Fanning, Friday, Feb. 28, 1958
7 Egg Plants
To Market Stale
Certified Eggs
In a new move to piovide con
sumers with high quality eggs, the
Slate Department of Agriculture
announced seven egg packing
plants have signed agreements to
cooperate under a Pennsylvania
egg ceitification piogiam
John L Rainey, duectoi of the
Buieau of Markets, said adoption
or the plan by the egg stations
will assure more umfoimity in
giading and will help to stabuzc
the Pennsylvania egg industry
The seven plants maiket more
than onehaf-mnon eggs daily
Under the new program the Dc
partment will license employees
vit any distubutmg plants that
sign voluntaiy inspection agree
Farm Calendar
Feb. 28
4 H Leaders Banquet 6 30
p in at Shasbu'rg Fire Hall
March 4
Southern 4-H Tractor Club
730 p m at Mann & Giemelli,
Quarry\ille
Fouith Farm and Home Plan
ning 'meeting 930 to 3 at
North Queen St Branch Lan
caster Co. National Bank
March 5
Annual meeting of Farm Bu
reau Cooperative 10 a m at
Guernsey Breedeis Sale Pavilion,
Route 30 East descheduled due
to snow)
4-H Electuc Club 7 30 p m
at PP&.L Bldg Lancastei
Cost of milk pioduction con
ference 130 p m at Farm
Bureau, Lancaster
Red Rose Baby Beef & Lamb
Club 8 p m at Milton Brecht
School Lititz Pike, Lancastei
March 6
Noithein 4-H Tractor Club
730 p m at Naaman Heishey’s
Manheim
Educational meeting of the
Lancaster Countv Poultrv Assn
—7 30 p m at Poultn Center,
Lancaster Topic will be Phases
of Broiler Pioduction and a
panel on Conti act vs Owner
Raising of broilers
March 7
County Sheep Feeding and
Management meeting _ 8 p m
at Farm Bureau, Lancaster
Speaker vvil be Ben Morgan of
March 8
Reoiganization meeting of ex
tension executive committee
S3O a m at Farm Bureau, Lan
caster
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SPECIAL PRICES ON
LARGER ORDERS AND
SMOKETOWN, PA
mcnts with the Department Each
must meet Department standards
tor licensing egg graders
The program, which supple
ments a cooperative Federal State
plua, will help “sell” the high
standards of Pennsylvania eggs
by the means of a special label
on each caiton packed in the co
opeiating plants
In January the Department re
vised the State’s egg standards
ana through-stuct enforcement
measures is gaining consumer con
fclence in Pennsylvania eggs,
Rainey said All eggs sold in car
tons must now be more complete
ly identified for giade and weight
standards
Rainey said the certification
plan was adopted at no additional
c-pense to the Commonwealth
He explained that organizations'
in the certification plan will pay
a lee to the States and employees
will be supeivised periodicaly by
Bureau of Markets egg inspectors
Applications to certify eggs un
der the new State plan have been
approved for Keller’s Egg Com
pruy Telford, Hallman’s Cream
erv, Souderton, Stauffer Farms,
Fed Hill, and Tn County Produc
eis Cooperative, Worcester, all
Montgomery County, Bucks Coun
ty Producers Coopeiative, Doyles
town, J E Copenhaver, Eliza
bethtown and L M Sheaffer,
Ephrata, both Lancaster County
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Kaylor Bros.
RT. 230, RHEEMS, PA.
MARCH 4
ALL DAY
Chester Co.
Dairymen Plan
Tour in Dixie
Chester County Dairy farmers
are making plans for a bus trip
to North Carolina expected to
last three days
The tour will leave West
Chester’s Short Line Bus station
at 6 a m Monday, March 3 and
will return to West Chester by
way of Oxford at about midnight
March 5
In between dairy farmers will
have met folks in the Tar Heel
state, visited dairy farms in
North Carolina and Virginia,
visited a cigarette manufacturing
plant, visited the largest integral
ed broilei growing and processing
plant in Delaware and logged 1,-
000 miles by bus in doing so
Reservations and a “$l7 50 de
posit for bus fare must be in the
County Agents office in West
Chester by the morning of March
1 Checks should be made payable
to Harvey C Worthington
Other expenses will be for
meals and two nights lodging
One meal on the trip will be
on the Cape Chailes Feny
during an hom and 45 minute
crossing of the bay
Arrangements for the toui
were made by Dr Joe Pou, North
Caiolina Dairy specialist
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7 Point Plan
Aids Keeping
Stock Well
A seven-point “life-saving” pro
gram for America’s “barnyard
babies” which will be bom on
farms this spring, was offered to
livestock owners recently by the
American Foundation for Arhrnal
Health
The seven points stressed by
Foundation authorities include
1 Make sure mother animals
get a complete ration, including
the correct balance of proteins,
and minerals If deficiency sym
ptoms appear, call a veterinari
an.
2 Provide clean, dry, di aft
free quarters for brood sows,
cows and ewes Keep them fiee
of filth, lice and mites
3 Be on hand to assist in
births if necesary. Disinfect nav
els of new-born animals
4 Make certain young animals
aie nursing properly All animal
babies need plenty of their
mother’s first milk (colostrum)
5 Be especially aleit for signs
of scouring It may indicate di
sease or improper feeding
6 Have pigs vaccinated again
st hog cholera about weaning
time When the veterinarian vac
cinates against cholera, check as
to possible need for other types
of vaccination
7 Obtain a prompt diagnosis
and take corrective action the
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Walter Binkley & Son
LITITZ, PA.
MARCH 6
ALL DAY
Next Exposition
To Be Nov. 11-14,
Committee Says
HARRISBURG Dates for
the second annual Pennsylvania
Livestock Exposition were set for
Imov 11, 12, 13 and 14, 1958, by
the exposition committee
As piesident of the Pennsyl
vania Livestock and Allied Indus
tries Association, Inc , Leon Falk,
Jr, Pittsburgh, set Dec 13 for
the pnnual meeting ot the associa
tion in Harnsbuig to' give final
approval of the dates and to plan
its sponsorship of the 1958 ex
position in cooperation with the
State Department of Agriculture.
Agriculture Secretary William
L Henning reported that a legis
lative appropriation of $50,00 for
the 1958 exposition will be avail
able toward payment of premiums
the same amount as for the 1957
livestock show
“Outstanding success of the
first show clearly demonstrated
that Pennsylvania has won de
serving international recognition
m the production of beef cattle,
swine and sheep,” he declared.
moment signs of sickness appear;
it may mean the saving of young
animals which would otherwise
be lost.
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