VOL. 10 NO. 27
April DHIA
Led By Red Rose
Cow; Zook Herd
A icgistered Holstein cow
owned by the Red Rose Re
search Center, 226 Pitney
Road, Lancaster, completed
(he highest 305 day lactation
in the county in April ac
cording to the Red Rose Dairy
Herd Improvement Assn. She
pioduced 19,048 lbs. of milk
and 821 lbs of butterfat with
a 4J3 percent test. Second
lnsjh lactation was completed
by a registered Holstein cow
owned by John M Harnish,
Beaver Valley Pike, Lancas
ter. She produced 17,062 lbs
of milk and 817 lbs. of fat
in 305 days
The herd with the highest
monthly butterfat average
was owned by Christian Zook,
Ronks Rl. This herd of 14
i agister ed and grade Hol
steins averaged 1,677 lbs. of
milk and 66 lbs fat. Runner
op for high butterfat herd
was J. Richard Keller, Man
heira- Rl, with an average of
1,829 lbs milk and 65 lbs
tat on his 23 registered and
grade Holstein cows.
Farmers Urged
To Retain Milk
Order By NFU
Approximately 50 Chester
and- Lancaster County farm
eis turned out for joint meet
ing Wednesday night at the
Oxford Area High School
sponsored toy the county as
sociations of the National
Farmers Union.
The subject that demanded
the meeting was how to re
tain the federal milk order
for the Delaware Valley area,
and this was the second meet
ing this week in which dairy
men were urged to fight the
announced order termination
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Farm Calendar
June 8 10 a.m. Hearing on
the termination of the Del
aware Valley -Federal Milk
Marketing Order at South
Roof Conference Room, Ho
tel Adelphia, 13th and
Chestnut Sts, Philadelphia
7SO pm New Provi
dence 4-HL Club at New
Providence Elementary
School.
June 9 10 a m. 4-H Straw
berry Exhibit at Odd Fel
low Hall, 213 West Chest
nut St., Lancaster.
June 11 4iH Boots and Sad
dles Club at Columbia Rid
ing -Sehool, 18th and Manor
Sts, Columbia.
June 12 Lebanon County
Olucken Barbecue at Fire
man’s Park, Fredericks
burg Rain date, June 13
‘ CBicken-cooking contest at
3 p.m.; Barbecue served
fawr * p.m.
NEWEST ARRIVAL AT CORNWALL FARM is
steadied by Edison W. Osborne, Peach Bottom area
dairyman. The little Jersey heifer calf posed reluctant
ly for 'this picture shortly after her arrival into what
must have seemed literally a world full of cows as she
looked out at the 134-head herd of registered and
grade Jersey neighbors The proud Mama is Milkboy
Nan whose last completed 305-day lactation totaled
9,990 pounds of milk and 611 pounds of fat.
PSU Says Spray
Alfalfa Stubble
After Ist Crop
Alfalfa weevil damage has
been extremely severe
throughout southeastern Penn
sylvania on the 1965 first cut
ting alfalfa Management of
existing stands should be di
rected now toward improv
ing their vigor and vitality,
according to Penn State Ex
tension Service Two impor
tant factors which are un
favorable for the health and
vigor of alfalfa stands are:
extra early cutting of the
first crop, loss of leaves due
to serious alfalfa weevil dam-
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Inter-State Co-Op Members Meet
To Marshall Resistance To Gov’t.
Termination Of Fed. Milk Order
by Everett Newswanger
Staff Reporter
AiTGtL'EN Local dairy
men can expect to receive at
least 50 cents per hundred
weight less foi their milk
This was one of the disclos
ures presented to the 250
Lancaster and Chester Coun
ty dairy farmers present
Tuesday evening at the pub
lic question answer session
held to inform the members
of the Inter-i State Milk Pro
ducers Cooperative Assn of
the agriculture department’s
proposal to terminate the
Delaware Valley milk mar
keting order (Federal Order
No 4).
Under this order the indi
v:dual handler pool is ef
fect. Each producer is paid
according tq the class 1 milk
“utilization, of his individual
handler. A minimum price is
set for nulls from the
Lancaster Farming, Saturday, June 5, 1965
Poultry Federation
Sets Summer Festival
For August 24-29
Committees for the Penn
sylvania Poultry Federation’s
1965 summer festival have
begun working toward the an
nual event, according to Paul
Konhaus of Mechanicsiburg,
general chairman The festi
val will be held August 24-29
at Harshey Park, 12 miles
east of Harrisburg. As in
other years, it is being held
in cooperation with Pennsyl
vania Dutch Days, the popu
lai folk celebration. Climax
of the festival will occur on
Saturday, August 28, when a
“Miss Pennsylvania Poultry
Queen” will ascend her
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farm It in no way controls
production.
Last month, notice was giv
en by the U S Department
of Agriculture that it was
considering immediate ter
mination of Federal Order
(No 4 in its present foim “Al
most insurmountable adminis
trative difficulties in the ef
fective and uniform enforce
ment,” was given as the rea
son for this move
Officials of the cooperative
at the meeting in Octorara
Area High School auditorium
expressed the feeling that
the department failed to even
try to enforce the order In
terstate is opposed to end
ing the order. They list these
reasons why it should be con
tinued and enforced: I—lt
establishes a minimum price
to. be paid to producers; 2
It ensures an adequate milk
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JerseysH ave“CowPower”
Says Million-Pound Milk
Producer Edison Osborne
Last week we asked editoii-(
ally what it takes for a daay
man to produce a million
pounds of milk a year piofit
ably. Edison W Os-borne of
Cornwall Faim at Peach Bot
tom HI has performed this
feat for the past three years
with his 134-head Jersey heid
He feels that the extra “cow
power” he gets from his Jer
seys is -pait of the answer.
What is cow power’ Ed ex
plained it as a measure of
the productive efficiency of
an animal It represents a
ratio of her milk production
to her body weight For ex
ample, a 1000-pound cow pio
ducing 10,000 pounds of milk
would have a cow-power rat
ing of 10, since she produced
10 times her body weight in
milk This is a good rating,
L. F. Photo
Vo-Ag Teachers
Prepare For FFA
Week At Meeting
Lancaster County teachers
of vocational agriculture dis
cussed the details prelimin
ary to final preparations for
FFA Week at their regular
monthly meeting held this
week at Elizabethtown High
School
PEA Week is an annual
event held at Penn State Uni
versity This year it is sched
uled for June 16-18. The
teachers heard T. M. Malin,
area supervisor for vocational
agricultural education, out
line some of the details ef
fecting this year’s program
He told the teachers that the
fee for participating students
had been raised this year to
help cover the increasing
costs of PFA Week. It was
found that because of in
creased entries last year
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M. M. Smith To Attend
Special Courses At
Colorado State Univ.
■Laneastei County Agricul
tural Agent, M Maxwell
Smith, has been awarded a
Faim Film Foundation Schol
aiship to attend the National
Summer School for Extension
Workers This three-week ses
sion will be given at Colo
lado State University, Fort
Collins, Colorado, fiom June
14 through July 2, 1965.
Smith will enroll in two
Extension Courses, “Princi
ples in the Development of
Agricultural Policy” and
“Public relations in Exten
sion Education ” Both of
thpse are ciedit courses to
ward advanced degrees in
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$2 Per Year
■Cbborne said, 'but a danyman
• is practically guaianteed a
l profit from any animal with.
- a score of 12 and up Excel
; lent would be about 15
A Jeisey producing 10,000
i pounds of milk is generally
> consideied the equivalent of
a Holstein producing 15,000
r pounds in terms of net profit,
- he said As he warmed up to
. the subject he listed a few
■ other things he likes about
: the breed They are a small
: animal, generally less than
i 1000 pounds, which means
i they are easy to handle and
- require somewhat less feed
• for body maintenance
In light of current consum
■ er thinking on high fat foods
we wondered a,bout the “dis
advantages” of producing
milk that tests between 5 5
and 6 percent butterfat He
suggested that even if pro
ducers were someday forced
to sell their butteifat at a
disadvantage, if consumers
could be convinced to buy
milk on the basis 'of its non
fat, useful food value then
Jerseys could still compete
with lower-testing breeds be
. cause their solids-not-fat
. OSNtF) is generally higher.
, His herd is averaging about
9 5 percent BNF, about 15
percent higher than the aver
age 3.7 percent fat-test herds.
He predicted payment on this
I basis will not come about un-
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Bob Fisher Awarded
Two-Day Tour To Study
Consv. In Upstate N.Y.
•Rolbeit E Fisher, 16-year
old son Off Mr and Mrs. Earl
S Fisher of East Earl Rl,
will be orie of thirteen Penn
sylvania' 41H Club members
making a two-day bus tour
of southcentral New York
state on June 16-17.
The 4-.H’eis, all participants
m the Soil and Water Con
servation program, will ob
serve conservation practices
on the tour and will visit
points of interest in the Fin
ger Lakes region
Fisher, a sophomore at
Garden Spot High School, has
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Weather Forecast
Temperatures for the five
day period, Saturday through
Wednesday, are expected to
average near normal. Normal
for the period is a high of
81 and a low of 58 degrees.
It will be warmer over the
weekend, and cool toward
the end of the period.
Precipitation will occur as
rain about Sunday and again,
on Wednesday. Total accumu
lation will probably b» more
than % inch.