VOL. 8 NO. 26
SAMUEL DUM AND SON DAVID, five, admire Sheba, a first-calf Holstein
heifer just finishing her lactation, while the other cows look on. Sheba freshened
at a year and 11 months and produced 1,905 pounds of milk and 650 pounds of
butterfat in 315 days. She is by H-55 (Dusty) the Southeastern Pennsylvania Arti
ficial Breeders Cooperative bull who is being proven at the present time.
County EFA
Sots Date For
Summer Picnic
t'lans for a. summer chicken
barbecue and an all-star sotft
ball game were made at a Mon
day night meeting of the Lanc
aster •County Future Farmers
of America at Manheim Cen
tral High School.
The county FFA will hold
its second annual haribecue on
August 13 at Hiestand’s ball
field, Marietta HI. Elizabeth
town chapter will make arran
gements for the picnic and the
game. During the same after
noon, the finals of county FFA
softball competition will be
held with the winner of sec
tion one playing the section
two winner.
instructed their re
presentative to the state meet-
Farm Calendar
June 3 8 p.m. Southern
4-H Holstein club meets at
the home of Charles Tindall,
Peach Bottom.
June 5 4 30 pm. Lanc
aster County Teachers of
vocational agriculture meet
in Warwick High School
745 pm Miss Milk
maid Contest Farm Bureau
Co-op Bldg , Dillerville Rd
June 6 7 - 45 pm. Lanc
aster County Poultry Asso
. elation Board of directors
meet in the Poultry Center.
8 p.m. Red Rose Baby
Beef and Lamb Club meets
in the Milton Brecht School,
Lititz Pike, Lancaster.
8 p.m. Senior Extension
club meets at the Farm Bur
eau cooperative building,
Dillerville Pike, Lancaster.
June 8 1-30 .pm. Man
heim Township 4-H sewing
-club meets at the Farm
Bureau Co-op. Bldg., -Diller
. viHe Rd., Lancaster,
in* next week to rote for a
separate contest for tractor
driving and trouble shooting'
instead at the combined con
test which is now held on the
state level. They also instruc
ted the delegate to vote for
elimination of the tractor re
cord keeping project as a pre
requisite to entering the trac
tor driving contest.
Nineteen delegates from the
10 local chapters were in atten
dance.
Freeman Urges
Dairy Month-
Observance
'Secretary of Agriculture Or
ville L Freeman today urged
all Americana to enjoy the
benefits of plentiful milk and
dairy products, in calling at
tention to the dairy industry’s
27th annual "June is Dairy
Month” observance.
In 1963, milk production
may reach a level of about
126 billion pounds, or enough
to supply every man, woman
and child in the United States
■with about a quart of milk a
day, the Secretary pointed out.
Every State in the Union pro
duces milk, and dairying ac
counts tor about 14 percent of
total farm income.
“The peak milk production
month of June is a particularly
appropriate time to pay tribute
to the efficiency of the Nation’s
dairymen in supplying this
abundance of healthful dairy
foods every month of the
year,” he said
“Milk is fundamental in any
■well-balanced diet, and better
diets and better health in gen
eral have helped our children
grow more vigorous and sturdy.
At the same time, milk offers
our older citizens their best
and most economical source of
calcium as well as a good
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Lancaster Farming, Saturday, June 1, 1963
County DHIA
to Study SNF
Milk Testing
The Red Rose Dairy Herd
Improvement Association di
rectors Monday night appointed
a committee to study the poss
ibility of forming an associa
tion to test total milk solids.
Robert Hess, Strashurg Rl,
chairman; Robert McSparran
and Charles Tindall, both of
Peach Bottom, were named to
investigate costs of equipment,
personnel needed, and other
pertinent information connec
ted with testing milk solids
not-fat and protein in milk.
If such a program is found
to 'he practicable, tentative
plans call for forming one asso
ciation to test for interested
dairymen on a county-wide ba
sis.
At the next meeting on Au
gust 26 committees for the an
nual meeting will be appoint
ed.
Ben Morgan
Will Head Up
Livestock Show
Harrisburg Ben Morgan,
University Park, today was
named general superintendent
of the seventh Pennsylvania
Livestock Exposition, Nov. 11-
15 in the State Farm Show
Building, by State Secretary
of Agriculture Leland H Bull
following a meeting ot the
1963 Exposition Committee
Morgan, a membei ot the
extension livestock staff of the
Pennsylvania State University,
will be filling that assignment
for the sixth consecutive year
The exposition, open to beef
cattle, sheep, and swine en
tries from the United States
and" Canada, will be conducted
by the Department of Agncul
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AGRICULTURAL LIBRARY
THE PENNSYLVANIA STATE COLLEGC
DHIA Secretary Calls For
Cutbacks In Milk Flow
The dairy industry needs
some kind of controls on pio
duction, but 'the individual
tanner can’t cut back without
hurting himself financially, the
secretary of the Red Rose
Dairy Herd Improvement Asso
ciation believes
Samuel Dum, who farms at
2191 Greystone Road, East
Petersburg, said this week that
he would not like to see na
tional controls on dairy produc
tion because of the difficulty of
administration, but he believes
a dealer could impose quotas
on all his producers with fi
nancial benefit to both the pro
ducer and the processor.
Dum explained that recently
about 25 per cent of his pro
duction has been going into the
“no price” category for which
he received only about $2 00
per hundredweight. Another
portion of his total production
went Into class II for which
he received slightly over J 3.00
per hundredweight.
With feed costs running to
about $2. 16 per hundredweight,
the dairyman can not afford
L. F. Photo
Four Lasses
To Vie For
Miss Milkmaid
Four Lancaster County farm
girls will compete for the title
of 1963 Miss Lancaster Coun
ty Milkmaid on June 5
The four lasses, daughters
of county dairymen are Miss
Jean Kreider, Quarryville Rl,
Miss Carol Lee Wilson, Quarry
ville R 3, Miss Marilyn L
Rohrer, Parodist Rl, and Miss
Bonnie Lee Miller, Christiana
Rl
The contest, sponsored by
Lancaster County Milk For
Health, Inc., will be held in
the Farm Bureau Cooperative
auditorium, Dillerville Road,
at 7 45 pm , on June 5
Mistress of ceremonies will
be Miss Jane Thurston, asso
ciate county Home Economist
Judges are Miss Joan Kline,
WGAL-TV, Larry Bauman,
Lancaster Newspapers, Inc
and Robert Keen, Queen Dairy,
Inc , Lancaster
Miss Joyce Kreider, Quarry
ville Rl, was the 19G2 county
winner The 1963 winner will
compete for the title ot Penn
sylvania Dairy Princess next
month.
Plow Contest
Dates Are Set
HARRISBURG The 19 63
Pennsylvania State Plowing
Contest today was set for Au
gust 15 on the Joseph Hooker
farm, Bernville, E.D2, Berks
county, with State Agncultuie
Secretary Leland H. Bull as
honorary' chairman.
Charles W. Passmore, Lanc
aster, contest ■cnairman, said
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$2 Per Year
to produce milk at these lower
prices, and has to count on
his class I utilization to bring
the blend price up high en
ough to pay a profit.
If the individual farmer cuts
batek on production, he loses
part of his share of class I
milk, but if dairy companies
imposed quotas on all farmers
so that each producer kept his
share of the class I milk mar
ker, production could be brou
ght into line with demand,
Duin believes, and the dairy
man could reduce production
without losing net income.
Dum began farming at East
Petersburg on the farm of his
father-in-law about 10 years
ago He now has 25 registered
Holstein cows of which 22 are
currently ,in production.
When he installed a bulk
tank: several years ago, he set
a goal of 40 pounds of milk
per cow. Since that time bis
production has gone to an av
erage of 50 pounds per cow,
and he has reached the'capa
city" of his tank “I have culled
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Gypsy Moth
Campaign
Is Reopened
HARRISBURG Another
gypsy moth trapping operation,
■was being planned today by
state and federal authorities as
a check follow-up on effect
iveness of recent spray opera
tions in eastern Pennsylvania
for control of this most ser
ious insect pest of eastern
hardwoods.
Henry F. Nixon, director of
the Bureau of Plant Industry,
Pennsylvania Department of
Agriculture, said the moth
trajppmg will center in and
around a 10,000 acre area ’n,
Monroe and Pike counties that
had been sprayed earlier this
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FIVE-DAY
WEATHER
FORECAST
Temperature's during the
next fixe days are, expected
to average txxo to six de
grees above the normal
range ot 58 .it night to 79
in the afternoon. A warming
trend throughout the pe,riod
turning cooler near the end
ot the period is expected.
Ihecipitation is expected to
total li to Jo inch falling
as showers ne,ur the end of
the period.
Rainfall during May xxas
only about 40 per cent of
norin.il. and rainfall since
Ajinl 1 has been only about
»7 per cent of normal. Total
precipitation since Aptil 1
xxas 3.5 inches lompared to
the 7 niches normal.