ELECTED AT A MEETING MONDAY night were the above officers of the Red Rose Dairy Herd Improvement Association. They are Jason Weaver, Quarry ville R 2, president; Kenneth Skiles, War von R 2, vice president; Samuel Dum, 2191 Greystone Road, East Petersburg, secretary, and Jacob Houser, Lampeter, trea- surer. DHIA Board Reorganizes; Reelects Jason Weaver Jason Weaver, Quarryville R 2, was reelected president ot the Red Rose Dairy Herd Im provement Association at the group’s annual reorganization Monday night Kenneth Skiles, Narvon R 2, was elected to replace Robert Hess. Strasburg Rl, as vice president, and Samuel Dnm, 2191 Greystone Road, East Petersburg, replaces John Shelly, Manheim Rl, as secre tary. The board of directois reap pointed Jacob Houser, .Lampe ter, as treasurer for allot tier year. In other action, directors voted to fix a charge of $4 50 for any commercial n ishing to receive the monthly newsletters and the annual report of the association. The price for the L. F. Photo Lancaster Farming, Saturday, March 2,1963 — annual leport alone would be $1 50 Robert Hess, the county’s delegate to the state associa tion of DHIA directors, report ed that the state will not push, any form of testing other than the one now in effect, but will cooperate with any local or ganization which wished to include one of Cne other types of testing. He reported that approximately $500.00 worth ot equipment per tester would be required for making protein tests, and approximately $l5O worth of equipment per tester would be needed for tbe solids not-fat test He emphasized that the needed equipment r» so delicate that is could not be hauled fiom place to in an automobile. The directors voted to in- struct the head tester, Jay Hiseer, to have the supervisors poll their dairymen to find out how much interest there is in total nutrient testing of nulk. If sufficient interest is shown, the board will then inquire about costs and attempt to set up a program for tnose inter ested. A five dollar charge, m addi tion to- the regular fees, will be charged for each milking over two per day. The ruling came about as a result of two dairymen in the county who have three cows on three times a day milking which causes the tester to make as many as four trips to the farm during the month. An additional fee of $4 per herd will be charged for the use of the milk-o-meter in milking parlors This cost was to cover the time and milage spent m transporting and washing the meters. This will be m addition to the 5 cents per cow now paid to the as sociation for the use of the meters The directors informed the testers that no herds snould be “averaged” unless in extreme cases of emergency and then only with the approval of the extension service and the farm er. If the tester can not col lect samples from the herd during the centering period,- the directors said he should secure a qualified replacement to take samples for him. The meeting was held in the Lancaster County Farm Bureau Cooperative building, Dillerville Pike. SCD Banquet Is Next Week A new color movie called “Beyond Tomorrow”, produced by the Pennsylvania Soil Con servation Service, will he shown at the annual meeting and banquet of the Lancaster County Soil Conservation Dis trict next Wednesday night. Mam speaker at the banquet, scheduled to begin at 6.30 p.m. in Hostetler’s banquet hall in Mount Joy, will be Jack Owen, Editor of Lancas ter Farming. Awards for outstanding co operation with the district will be presented by Richard Wit mer. County Commissioner! member of the district. Henry Givler, secretary of the distuct, will present the annual icpori, and special guests will be pre sented by the toastmaster, Amos Funk, chairman of the district directors. Garland Gmgerich, teacher of vocational agriculture at Penn Manor High School j is 13
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