20 —Lancaster Farming, Saturday, July 21, 1962 Off Flavor Milk More Prevalent In Summertime The problem of bad tasting milk, especially in the summ er, has plagued dairymen toi years Otten it is blamed on the ration, but this may not always be the case Oft-tlavoi ed milk, accoidmg to many studies, may be caused by out side souices including handl ing and processing W. R Hesseltine, extension dairyman. University of Dela ware, has compiled a list o£ gome of the common milk fla vors and their probable cause He indicates dairymen can use this reference for trouble shooting off-flavor milk in their herd Many of the flavor problems, he points out, can h* easily remedied if the source of fat flavor is known 1. Taste-grassy or weedy, cause-presence of weeds (of ten wild onions) in the teed 2 Taste-silage, cause - feed ing silage and hay before milk ing 3 Taste-sour, iery high hac tena count, cause-dirty uten sils, poor cooling 4 Taste-bitter, rancid like butter, or like soap, cause stripper cows, slow cook cool ing, with foaming, cooling warming, and cooling again 5 Taste-salty, cause-masti tis, stripper cows, and indm dual cows 6 Taste-malt. cause - high bacteria, dirt} utensils, poor cooling 7. Taste-like c a i dboard, cause-exposed copper or iron in equipment, cans need retinn ing, milk exposed to daylight Pa. Sweet Corn Competition Was Great in ‘6l Stiff competition from New York and New Jersey in 19.61 kept demand for Pennsylvania sweet corn: at a generally low level during the peak of its marketing season through August to mid-September According to the annual re port of the Federal-State Mar ket News Service, these states, with heavier supplies, influenc ed price trends which Penn sylvania had to follow because of its weak marketing posi tion As a result, 1961 prices were lower than in 1960. In I 960", Pennsylvania yellow «weet corn ranged from a low of J 1 50 to a high of $2 25 per crate. In 1961, the range was from 90 cents to ?1 90. The one bright spot m the 1961 picture for Pennsylvania •weet corn was that hydrocool ed ears averaged about 25c more per crate than non-hydro cooled corn John P Capus, U.S Department of Agricul ture Market News representa tive in Philadelphia, noted that h>drocooled stock sold well when it was difficult to •ell the non-hjdrocooled pro duct, and many standing or ders went unlilled on some dajs In volume shipped into 41 cities during its mam 9-week season ending in September, Pennsyhama ranked sixth. More than half of Pennsyl vania's corn went to Phila delphia with Pittsburgh the next biggest market Accidents in farm homes take approximately 2,600 lives each ' year * Falls lead the list Anchor scatter rugs with »kid-proof backing, and keep «tai ra uncluttered ‘and- >well Make Your Well Water SUPERCHLORINATE „„„ everclor EVERCLOR DESTROYS WITH Glqae. smßadeHiaii cx/cddiidc 1 SUfERCHLORINATION tVSKI'UKt SAFE Kill, Wid.ru-EnJ. .1 OccMmimlo »4Ml.n j^'klNG ..... ..1.1, A *. “'T """ “ ,