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SPING MILK WEIGHT RECORDS WITH A PIPELINE SYSTEM of milking
i one of the big problems of the Dairy Herd Improvement Association members,
f. Kurtz, Elizabethtown R 2, has what he believes to be the answer in his newly
\ milk-O-meter which records m pounds the milk given by individual cows. Re
'o be the first and only instrument of its kind in the county, the device dumps a
[of each half pound of milk into a reservoir (see bouom part in inset) for test
[e sample thus collected is representative of the total amount of milk the cow
j£urtz, who started farming 10 years ago, has averaged over 500 pounds of fat
fon his herd of 19 purebred Holsteins for the past four years. He believes in the
I keeping good, accurate records and feels the Milk-O-meter will help him to do
[is DHIA tester, Clarence Creider, Manheim R 2, is pleased with the weighing and
I simplicity of the testing day on the Kurtz farm. Kurtz believes that the DHIA
Epect to have enough calls for,the machine to make the purchase of one for the
profitable. The meter has been approved for DHlA‘records by the Pennsylvania
Diversity. —LF PHOTO
Hiring
Announced
-officials of the State
tent Service anrvoun
jweek they will hold
jirm Hiring Days a
t year.
Kocevar, local farm
it officer, said the
t are designed to
pout immediate hir
arm labor, a process
(ht take individual
N several days and
Ible travel.
meetings will be held
[Mar. 3, and Mar. 17
Inployment office, at
[Lime St., between
| 4 pm.
DAY
ATHER
IoRECAST
lay - Wednesday
pratures for the
p days will average
la little below nor
prmal temperatures
I week range from
if 24 at night to a
i 39 in the after
f Cooler over the
P> warmer Monday,
fcain Tuesday or
Jay. Precipitation
prage Vs inch or
String mostly about
I Precipitation dut-
Ipast week was .35
ptly on the night
87-28th.
t precipitation for
|th was 2,23 inches
pred to the normal
P*ry of 3:16 inches.
Bvfall in January
If Friday morning
pches as compared
fcormal of 7 to 8
av
■Jkove normal for
Farm Calendar
February 1-2-3 Meeting of
the Pennsylvania Vegeta
ble Growers at the Penn
sylvania State University.
February 1 7:30 p.m.
Southern 4-H tractor club
meets at Herr’s Implement
Co., West Willow.
February 2—7:30 pm. North
east 4-H tractor club meets
at McCormick Farm Store
State Street, Ephrata.
February 1, 7:30 p.m. An
nual meeting of Poultry
Association, at the Lancas
ter Poultry Center, Rose
ville Road, Lancaster.
February 5, Baby Beef
banquet at Armstrong
Cork Company.
February 1 7.30 pm. An
nual meeting of the Lan
caster County Poultry As
sociation at the Poultry
Center, Roseville Rd., Lan
caster.
730 p.m. Meeting of the
Lancaster County 4-H
council in room 202 Post
Office Bldg., Lancaster.
February 3 —4.30 p.m. Meet
ing of the County Teachers
of Vocational Agriculture
at Solanco H. S.
February" 4 7:30 pm. Lan
caster Area 4-H tractor
club meets at Kauffman
Brothers, Main Street,
Mountville.
February 12 Second ses
sion of the Farm & Home
planning ' meeting, at the
North Queen branch of
the Lancaster Co. Nation
al Bank, Lancaster.
February 26—Third session
of the Farm & Home plan
ning meeting at the North
Queen Street branch of
the Lancaster County Na
tional Bank, Lancaster.
7.30 p.m. Educational
meeting and - 4-H laying
flock management round
up at the Poutlry Center,
Roseville Road.
Lancaster, Pa.. Saturday. January 30, 1960
Poultrymen
Schedule
Meetings
Election of new directors
and a resume of the past
year’s activities will be the
two major items of business
at the annual meeting of the
Lancaster County Poultry
Association scheduled for
Monday night February Ist
at the Poultry Center, 340
Roseville Road, Lancaster.
Speaker for the event,
scheduled to begin at 7:30
p m., will be Robert F. Wil
liams, district sales manager
for the Lancaster Newspa
pers.
A series of six meetings
with county poultrymen to
try to develop ways to pro
mote the poultry industry
are being planned by the
county association.
-*■ Several of the regional
meetings have been schedul
ed and others are to follow
in the New Holland, Denver,
Quarryville, Lancaster, Eli
zabethtown, and Penryn
areas. The meeting in the
Quarryville area is planned
for the night of February 9
in the Vocational Agricul
ture building at Quarryville.
Another will be held on Feb
15 at 7.45 in the Penryn fire
hall
The central committee from
the poultry association is
composed of Levi Brubaker,
Mark Myer, Daniel K. Good,
and Harry S. Sloat.
USE A BROOM
When heavy snow falls on
your ornamental evergreens
and other shrubs, use a
broom to remove it, suggests
A. O. Rasmussen, Penn State
extension ornamental horti
culturist?
Surplus Milk Is Problem
Interstate Members Told
“Class one utilization will
be less in the coming year
than in the past year, and
farmers will have to assume
some of the blame for the
surplus milk situation”,
dairymen were told by Dr
Tames Honan, asst. mgr. of
the Interstate Milk Produc
ers Cooperative at the an
nual meeting of district 11
at Quarryville on Thursday.
Speaking to the nearly 300
dairymen and their families,
Honan cited an example of a
cooperative group in Mary
land producing slightly over
a million pounds of milk on
106 farms After the farmers
installed bulk tanks, 68 of
the producers produced over
a million pounds of milk.
Honan said that temptation
is great to enlarge herds to
help pay the costs of install
ing bulk handling equipment
but he cautioned, “We must
be careful not to produce
more milk than the total
County Boy Reports
Agriculture In Peru
The following is a report received from Mrs. Elvin
Hess, Slrasburg HI. James, youngest son of Mr. and Mrs.
Elvin Hess is at present in Peru as one of the two delegates
to that country in the International Farm Youth Ex
change program. The following report was forwarded
from Peru. (Editor's note)
After spending a week for
instructions on Peru in Wash
ington* D. C. we left for
Peru by plane on October
15. We had a nice trip stop
ping in Honduros and Equa
dor before arriving in Peru.
I spent the first week with
the SCIPA (the same as our
county agent) at Lima. The
agent and his assistants were
Americans working for the
American Foreign Service
folks. Lima is quite a city
with a population of one
million people. On one side
of the street corner is a man
sion and on the other is a
hut. The church 1 attended
was nondenorainational for
the Americans.
I then left for nay _ first vis
it to an Indian family who
lived 14,0000 feet high in
the Sierra mountains. They
planted potatoes which was
all done with oxen and wood
en plows plus about twelve
servants. The chief took me
to an old fashioned Indian
Roast one day. The roasting
was all done in a hole dug in
the ground and heated stones,
good. In this town the only
The potatoes were especially
two cars were owned by a
very wealthy man and the
doctor who lives right out
side of town.
Traveling down where it
was a little warmer, my next
stop was Huaraca, a small
town but in this country a
large one. One day we
traveled up into the moun
tains by horseback to spray
their potatoes. They use hand
sprayers that strap onto your
back. The agent and I only
directed the operation.
The next town had no el
ectricity although the people
were very friendly. They had
a big welcome for me with a
big arch of flowers and pro
duce.
From November 12 to No-
$2 Per Year
market can use.”
Honan said, “We in man
agement can do nothing un
less we are directed by the
membership of the coopera
tive.” Interstate has gone on
record as opposing any rela
ting of Philadelphia mills
prices to the prices in the
Midwest.
The Cooperative recogniz
ed four dairy club members
for their outstanding work
during the past year. Receiv
ing show halters were Don
ald and Paul Trimble, Quar
ry ville Rl; Lucille Kreider,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ev
erett Kreider, or Quarryville
Rl; and Carol Ann Krantz,
daughter of Mr and Mrs.
Elvin Krantz, New Provi
dence Rl.
Arrangements were i n
charge of Golden Davis, Ox
ford, fieldman for Interstate.
Chairman was Daniel Trim
ble, Quarryville Rl.
JAMES HESS
vetnber 30, I attended a con
ference for Latin'American
4-H clubs which was very
interesting. I also spent sev
eral days with an American
family which was very en
joyable because it was little
more like home.
On December 14 I went
back to the country again
to a large dairy farm near
Cajamorico. They have 250
milking cows and about 350
heifers. The farm is 1500
acres and is all m grass.
The pasture is rotated every
couple of 'days and used all
year around. The only barns
are square milking sheds.
They tie about 100 cows at
one time and women do all
the milking.
I will be spending one
month from January 17 to
February 17 in the sugar
cane and cotton country.
These crops can only be
grown by irrigation.
My stay is only half over
I will arrive home sometime
in April.