rHE^PENHSVLVAWiA VOL. 9 NO. 40 County Dairyman Pioneers Retail Milk Sale At Farm b\ Everett Newswanger Staff Reporter The e is a lot of work and iieadacres in this business,” Arlington Miller when speakirg of his five month old letail milk operation Arling ton p-tneered the “Sell milk light v the farm in gallon iug» ’ .Ma in Lancaster Coun t\ when he built a beautiful sfies -*om adjacent to bis milk fcc,ise Trading under the ‘Elmdale Farms Dairy” label, this Registered Guernsey Bieede? sells raw milk in gal lon cc-itainers at the farm. The milk from the 36 cow dairy herd is earned to the 300 gal bulk tank for cooling. Each day a fresh supply of letiesn ng milk is pumped horn this tank to the 150 gal. holding tank in the sales room ‘o be 1-pped out for Miller’s customers at 75 cents a gal lon The milk that is not sold at the aarm is shipped to the Heishtj Chocolate Company, Heishey, Pa. Because of the nature of Miller s operation, the milk house and sales room at Elm dale are constantly visited by Fedeip.l and State inspectors (at le?it once a month) \ou can’t be doing this end something else,” said Ai !,!i2tor “The place must be New Dairy Show Set For Sept. 14 The "£w All-American Dairy Show :o be held in the State Fum Show Building Septem bei 14-:7 will be the biggest mtei nr*-onal open dairy ex position this year in the US, "iu! perhaps in the whole 1 01 Id Hith entries coming from 15 states and Canada, the 2,200 hiaik has already been passed. This figure is expected to go higher when animals from a P eluninary junior show ad vance to the main event un “ei a late registration priv ilege The appointment of six 1)1 eed t .penntendents for the ( Co-:mued on Page 6) Farm Calendar 3 800 pm Manor Hung Farmeis meeting at Penn Manor High School in ih<> room Plan meetings lj n ex (. yeal. Ji; Faim Women So -1 ‘ 22 meet at Lancaster S! icptnng Centei foi a hike ' M 11 Bpm County ASC delegates ‘‘‘ Lr.ncastei county ASCS I’Pice 1466 Manheim Pike, L.’nca?ter Ladies Auxiliary, R onks Fire Co annual chick -611 corn soup supper served ? "d take-outs after 10 am. kept meticulously clean ” But he feels the inspectors are not the real problem It’s the milk you have left when your retail customers have been satisfied This milk must be sold at the wholesale manu factured price which averages only $3 50 a hundred pounds. “This will leave you in the ‘Red’ for at least a year until you have built your trade,” stated Miller Pait of this de ficit can be recovered with the farm produce and ice cream which the Miller fam ily also have for sale in their store. Other problems include the long hours in the sales room necessary to accommodate the consumer, the license and the $7,000 extra investment it cost to build the sales room and buy the holding tank, the people who want to see the cows during the milking oper ation, and the necessity of changing clothes before going from the cow stable to wait on a customei in the sales room. How do the people who buy the raw milk like it ? Arling ton tells of a small family who used only six quarts a week of the pasteurized type milk before becoming his patron Now' they buy four gallons a week of the high quality fresh milk produced at Elmdale. And this is not an isolated case For many people it seems to be a case of drinking more milk now l and enjoying it more Mi and Mrs Miller and then three sons Clair age 17, Carl age 14 and John age 9 operate this growing family enterprise which is lo cated northwest of Lititz in the town of Elm Group of P. S. U. Extension specialists examine progress of sugarbeet crop at Field Research Laboratory near Landis ville. Dr. Albert Hunter, Professor of Soil Technology shows a beet pulled at random from the plot. L. F Photo. Lancaster Farming, Saturday, September 5, 1964 Mrs. C. L. Nestleroth purchases a gallon of raw milk from Carl Miller, son of Mr. and Mrs. Arlington Miller, Elm. The Miller family have opened a store to retail the milk from their Registered Guernsey herd right at their Elmdale Farm. L. F. Photo. Sugarbeets: A Sweet Crop For Lancaster Farmers? Will sugarbeets be a crop of the futuie in Lancaster county 7 This is an idea that is being tested by the Penn sylvania State University not just foi Lancastei county, of couise, but for the whole state On Tuesday, September 1, a group of Extension special ists from Pennsylvania State University and their guests tomed the sugarbeet plots in Hershey and in our area to obseive the progress to-date Di Clarence S Bryner, Ex tension Agronomist, fiom P SU, said that the Extension Service was not leady-to state at this time that sugarbeets were, or were not, a possible ci op for Lancastei county He said theie vveie a lot of fig- ures to be gatheied and anal yzed before such a statement would be meaningful The individual sugarbeets should weigh between 2-3 pounds each, but total yield fig ures will be one of the more important pieces of informa tion that must be gatheied be foie deciding to promote them m this area 20 tons per acre would be a veiy desnable ie turn In Michigan, Dr Bryner said, they are harvesting 18 to 20 tons pei acre Sugarbeets are giown in a foui wear rotation It takes about 120,000 acies of “beets” to suppoit a lefineiy This means that there must be 30,- 000 acres under cultivation each yeai, and that amount of sugarbeets will be processed (Continued on Page 6) $2 Per Year Youth Leaders In County From Latin America As part of then Conference piogram about 60 leaders of the Intel -American Rural Youth group visited Lancaster county on Monday, August 31. This group came from 18 countnes m Latin America, plus Puerto Rico Their visit to Lancaster county was to ob serve oui 4-H piograms in ac- . tion ’ In the morning they visited t the farm of Elvin Hess, Jr, to | see dairy, beef, lamb, corn and I tobacco projects Three of the | Hess children are 4-H mem bers, and their father is a 4-H r leader They also observed a i model 4-H meeting and a dem t onstration on making the fam [ ous Pennsylvania Dutch shoo , Ay pie The next stop was the El mer Lapp farm, Kinzer RD. Here they saw electricity be ing generated by a water wheel and a six-horse Cone stoga wagon which Mr Lapp demonstrated They discussed farming and farm problems • with the Lapps, and then : moved on to New Holland where they were the luncheon guests of the New Holland Ma chine Company Lunch was followed by a panel discussion by volunteer 4-H leadeis and members which was moderated by Mrs. Dons Thomas and Wmthrop Mernam of the County Ex ■ tension Service Our youth club work is so 1 well-supported and highly or ganized that it is probably dif ficult to lealize that this may not be so in other parts of the world Howevei, the youth pro giams in Latin Amenca are in their infancy compared with oms What are some of then problems 9 Howard E. Law, Director of the Inter- American Rmal Youth Pro gram of San Jose, Costa Rica told the group m Washington D C that they must increase enrollment ten times if they are to achieve the effect they desue Law said that unless the rate of enrollment can be greatly stepped up. the rural youth program costs will be so high and their impact so (Continued on Paste 16) Weather Forecast Temperatures for the five da\ period Saturday through Wednesda'v will average 2 to 7 degi ees above normal. It will be generally warm most of the peiiod except cooler Siindaj and Wednes day. The normal high and low for the period is 79 de gi ees and 59 degrees. Piecipitalion of 1 to .5 inches will result from scat tered showers. These will oc cur mostly in the northern districts on Saturday and again on Tuesday.
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