Hary E. Bettendorf, Librarian JSfw 1 l ;T,f JR * L L,BR * RY Agricultural Library PENNSYLVANIA STATE COLLEGE The Ferma. State University Tfeiversity Park, Ponna. Jjj Vol. 111. No. 17. Three Directors Re-elected at FB Meeting Three directors of the Farm Bmeau Cooperative Assn were 10 elected to three >ear terms at the annual meeting of the co cp Wednesday at the Guernsey Breeders Pavilion. They are Willis Z. Esbenshade, 1631 Esbenshade Rd, Lancaster, .Northeastern District, Paul G- Hershey, R 3 Manheun, Northwest ern District; and Veryl E Brown, 111 Peach Bottom, outheastern. District. Named to a one year term to l.h a vacency on the board was David L. Neff, R 1 Washington Boro, in the Southwestern Dis t 'ict' The va cency occured when Hark S. Hess, R 6 Lancaster, re signed due to heavy committ ments involved m managing the cooperatives feed division The treasurer reported that the Lancaster County operations dur ing the past year grossed $558,- 612 01. Some $3.7 million dollars oi supplies were handled during the year. At the afternoon session George G Connor, general manager and executive vice president of Penn sylvania Farm Bureau Coopera tive Assn., gave a speech He was followed by Prof. J. William Frey, professor of French at F&M. A breakdown of the coopera tives operations shows that pur - chases, marketing, gross income and total operating costs are all up from 1956. Total volume of sales was about $lOO,OOO greater than last year Gross income jumped by $30,000. Chester Co. Extension Meeting To Be Held Tuesday at Cochranville The 45th annual meeting and dinner of the Chester County agriculture and home economics] extension service will be held at 10 30 a. m Tuesday at the Coch- ranville Fire Hall. In the morning session reports on the brucellosis eradication program, home economics leader training, DHIA program and fruit extension work will be given In charge of the meeting will be R Leroy Light, Cochran ville, president of the group Hary A. Samworth, Mrs Ro bert Evans, Mrs Waren Goss, 1 Richard Barnard, and Horace L I Piange will be the speakers | Following a family style beef lunch at noon, extension workers will give their annual reports. Highlighting the afternoon ses sion will be an address on “The Agricultural Challenge” by Wil liam M Carroll, extension agri cultural economist. A style review given by 4-H home economics club and adult group members will follow his speech. I Miss Janet Herr, Oxford, will 14,000 Entry Blanks Distributed To Find State’s 1958 “Milkmaid” Selection of Pennsylvania’s 1958 “Miss Milkmaid” has started with state-wide distribution of o\ er 14,000 Milkmaid entry blanks to various area 'dairy organiza tions and groups This year’s contest is .being sponsored by the Pennsylvania June Dairy Month Committee, comprising most of the Common- : wealths leading dairy farmer and Quarryville (Lancaster County) Pa., Friday, March 7, 1958 GASOLINE IS AN explosive mixture and must be handled properly on the farm. This arrangement on the Howard DeLong farm, R 2 Quarryville, is just about as safe as an installation can be. The tank is buried -give a report on her activities at the National 4-H Club Congress in Chicago last December The meeting will ad] our at 3 p. m. Tickets may be secured at the Chester County extension office or from any of the following members of the executive com mittee. Harry H Bickel, Pottstown, Charles C BrosiUs, West Grove, Mrs. Charles W Davis Jr., West Chester, I ’ Newton Evans Jr, Chester Springs, Benjamin Gart ner, Phoemxville, Mrs Alfred Z Haines, Grove, Mrs William High, Pottstown Edward R Hoppes, Oxford, Harry Ireson, Oxford, Marshall L. Jones, Westtown, R Leroy Light, Miler C Long, Pottstown, James N Manley, Downing town; Miss Louise McMullan, Popcopson, Kenneth Sellers, Unionville, Gideon K Stoltzfus, Atglen; T. Barnard Walter, Homeville, Mrs Walter, Charles T Wollaston, Toughkenamon; Harvey C Worthington, West Chester, and Hoopes T. Yarnall, Russellville. milk dealer organizations. Basic qualifications for entry in the contest include the follow ing; must be the daughter of a dairying family producing milk commercially in Pennsylvania, must be single and a high school graduate between the ages of 17 and 22, and must never have been a professional model. Entry deadline is March 15. and a pump is used to fuel the tractors. The hose and pump are grounded to pre vent sparks from static electricity. Shown here is H. Lee DeLong, 16, a sophomore student at Solanco High School. (LF Photo) Keystone Girl To Be Named Furrow Queen A Pennsylvania farm girl wil 1 become “National Queen of the Furrow” and preside at majoi functions during the National Plowing Contest and Conserva lion Exposition at Hershey, Aug 21-22, the contest committee an nounced Friday following a meet mg in Hershey County and district elimina tions will be conducted with the cooperation of soil conservation districts and vocational agricul ture teachers and supervisors according to L H Bull, general chairman of the exposition com mittee Any farm girl in Pennsylvania who is unmarried and between the ages of 16 and 21 years, in clusive, will be eligible to com pete Final selection and crown ing- will take place in the Hershej- Arena about a week before the plowing matches A trip to New York City is but one of the many awards offered the winner. Edward Fisher, Coudersport 1957 president of the Pennsyl vania Association of Soil Con servation District Directors and Thomas Malm, vocational agncul ture supervisor at York, were named co-chairman of the queen contest committee. The contest will be sponsored as it .has been for a number oi years, by tha local dealers oj the American Steel Wire Divi sion of U S. Steel. Details were explained to 'the exposition com mittee by Paul G. Strom, Cleve land, the division’s director oi agricultural extension. Penn State Survey in Southeast Counties Finds Bulk Tanks Costly Dairy farmers who shift from can to bulk handling of milk may expect some increase in produc tion costs W L Barr, Economist at the Agricultural Experiment Station, University Park, Pa, be lieves In a survey of 127 farms in southeastern Pennsylvania, in creased returns, except on a few ol the largest faims, failed to cov er all of the added costs of chang ui’ to the use of bulk tanks, he reports Added costs ranged fi om zero +o 25 cents or slightly more per hun dredweight of milk produced In some cases, prospective costs v ere so great that dairymen re fused to change A few quit the daily business when faced with ihe prospect of purchasing bulk tanks ‘‘Most bulk tank routes were started by milk dealeis who de c.dcd to shift to this type of op nation,’ Dr Barr observes Dairymen are rapidly adopting Food Industry to ‘Brainstorm’ Problems at March 26-27 Conference One of the most critical prob lems facing the food industry will be taken apart and put back to gether March 26 and 27 when the voluntaiy Pennsjlvania Food Mar keting Advisory Council meets pear Harrisburg to review 1957 accomplishments John L Rainey, director of the Bureau of Markets, State Depart ment of Agriculture, said mar- S 2 Per Year July 25 Set For Second Bred Gilt Sale Directors of the Lancaster County Swine Producers Assn Thursday night scheduled anoth er bred gilt sale to be held July 15 This sale was scheduled after the very successful results ol the Feb 22 sale were determin -d Tickets for the annual meeting md dinner of the organization vere distributed at the meeting The dinner a family style ham upper, _will be held at 630 i m March 27 at Blue Ball Fire Hall. The price is $2 a per son Tickets are available from my director of the association ir at the county extension office Three directors are to be elect id at the annual meeting. The erms of C Warren Leininger Denver, -Spotted Poland China weeder, Arhe Anderson, Masonic Homes, Duroc Jersey breeder; and Howard Siglin, Millersville vo-ag teacher, expire. New direc tors will be elected for a three 'ear term. On the program will be J. I Hoffman, Coatesville YMCA sec retary, who will show movies of the Canadian Rockies The directors have not deter mined the place for the July sale as yet. Also to be determined is the prospect of selling some boars. At the recent sale, boars failed to bring much demand from the buyers. All gilts to be sold at the July sale must be bred to farrow lat er than Aug. 1. bulk handling of milk, and they probably are making correct de cisions. “In some cases, bulk handing lias been made attractive to farm ers through increases in percent ages of their milk put to higher p ice uses. Dealers have accom plished this change through drop ping some can shippers and be cause some producers have de cided to go out of the dairy busi ness. “Dairymen who insist on ship ping their milk in cans may event ually encounter difficulties in find ing markets in some areas.” While bulk milk handling elimi nates lifting of heavy cans, it has failed to reduce the time spent on dairy chores, he has found. With bulk handling women and chil dren sometimes manage the milk ing operation where with cans they would be unable to do so. A full report of Dr Barr’s inves tigation will appear soon as a bulletin of the Station. keting phases will be outmed, criticized and then improved upon by an expected 100 representa tives of the Pennsylvania food industry. In addition, the two-day meet ing will feature the “pooling of ideas” for second >ear progress ot the organization which is staff ed by specialists in the Slate De partment of Agriculture
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