VOL. 10. NO. 30
FHA Recreation
Loans Locally
Are Encouraged
Producing additional dol
lars on low-income or idle
Lancaster, Lebanon and Ches
ter County farm land is toe
ing encouraged toy a Farmers
Home Administration super
vised credit program to de
velop farm-toased recreation
enterprises.
'Richard W Hoover, the
agency’s county supervisor,
with offices at the Post Of
fice Building, Lancaster, Pa.,
this “week listed the many
types of recreation enterpris
es financed toy FHA loans in
rural areas
Area farmeis may apply for
loarc to finance construction
of vacation cabins or other
facilities such as ponds and
lakes for boating and fishing,
vacation fauns, riding statoles,
nature trails, picnic grounds,
youth camps, travel-trailer
parks, and shooting preserves
‘‘‘Farmers Home Administra
tion is using its farm operat
ing and farm ownership loan
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Penn State Will
Study Unstable
Flavors In Milk
A 'basic study of milk
from the time of its secie
tion bj the cow’s mammary
gland until it is processed
and stoied for consumption—
will be undei taken by Penn
sylvania State University sci
entists under a $124,810 .grant
awarded by the U. S Depart
ment of Agriculture
With the aim of gaining a
’better understanding of milk
flavor instability, the univer
sity scientists will seek to
identify and trace /to their
origins - those milk constitu
ents responsible lor flavor
Changes/ 'This 'grant research
is part of an effort by USDA’s
Agricultural Research Service
io find new and improved
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Farm Calendar
June 29 630 pm. Dairy
meeting at Abram Groff’s
farm, Pinkerton Road, Mount
Joy; sponsored by IS F.
iCoip Will feature a panel
discussion Dr E J Czar
netsky will speak to the
group on an amplified long
distance telephone hook up
and will answer questions
from the danymen attend
ing
4-H Regional hoise and
pony indigmg contest at
Harvey A Fulmer faun.
Glen Moore Rl; from 10
a.m to 3 pm
July 1 730 am Nursery
men’s lour of Long Island
leaves by bus fiom King of
Prussia Plaza Shopping
iCenter; return about 8 pm.
MANY “DETOURISTS” have discovered what
Spruce Villa’s regular customers have known for a
long time they can buy fresh, wholesome milk in
the country in large containers and save money in
the bargain! L. F. Photo
Umble Cow Scores
Excellent- In Recent
Classification Trial
Menynook Tiptop Patricia,
a Registeied Holstein cow in
the herd of Harold M. Una
ble, Atglen, Pa, has been of
ficially classified ‘'Excellent”
—the highest designation at
tainable in the tjpe classifi
cation program of the Hol
stein-Friesian Association of
America.
This highlj select designa
tion is applied only to ani
mals scoung 90 or more of
the 100 points representing
theoretical perfection in body
conformation, and of over 74,-
000 Registered Holsteins of
ficially classified foi—type last
year, only 735, -or about 1
percent, were rated “Excel
lent.”
The Unable Holstein moved
into - the “Excellent” bracket
for the first time during a
recent classification of the
herd by Clyde Wilson, Rush
ville, Pa., an official inspector
on the staff of the national
Holstein organization. Her
score was 90 points.
Area Holsteins
Completing New
Milk Records
New, officially recognized
milk and butterfat lev els by
registered Holstein cows in
this area were listed in a re
cent special lepoit fiom the
Holstein-Fnesian Association
of America Records weie list
ed for cows owned b\ the
following dairymen
Elam Bollinger, Manheim
1- Dunloggin Giet
ehen. a seven year-old. pioduc
ed 20,260 lbs milk and 775
lbs fat in 332 days
2- Lyndo Dean Janay. a
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Lancaster Farming, Saturday, June 26, 1965
County Poultry
Assn. Auction
Grosses $2350
The weather cooled down
Thuisday evening and the
bidding urges of the 100 to
150 'persons coming and going
at the auction sale of equip
ment at the Lancaster County
Poultry Center heated up to
the extent the Association
was able to gi oss $2,350 22 on
the sale of their equipment
and materials
Auctioneer Omar Landis
took excellent advantage of
the lively buying interest
displayed by the crowd. While
such miscellaneous items as
clip iboard, song books, paper
cups, etc. -went -for -what ap
peared to be relatively high
prices, some of the -larger
equipment was very reason
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Dairymen Can
Beat “Summer
Slump” By Mgt
Good dany management
dining hot weather can keep
August milk production near
the May level the U >S De
paitment of Agriculture le
poits
Dauymen have long com
plained about a “summei
slump” generally consideied
a lesult of the hot weather
But coopeiative leseaich. (by
USDA's Agncultuial Reseaich
Seivice and the Georgia and
Louisiana Agncultuial Experi
ment Stations indicates that
i educed milk yield is not
mainly due to heat exhaus
tion in cattle
Di Robeit E McDowell
AR'S dairy scientist at Belts
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County Dairyman Sells
Milk By The Jug Through
Own Farm Retail Outlet
“A business like this takes
a considerable investment,
but it pays me a satisfactory
return,” says Milton Biubaic
er of Spruce Villa Dauy. The
farm is just north of Litilz
on the temporary Route 501
detour. While the detom may
have hurt some other local
tradesmen, it has brought a
lot of tiaffic right to the door
of Spruce Villa.
The business to which this
danyman refers is a letail
milk jugging operation. He’s
been at it for about thiee
yeais now and currently sells
his total production from a
35-head Ayrshire herd through
the attractive retail farm
stoie in gallon and half-gal
lon jugs He compared the
investment needed for setting
up this retail outlet as about
equivalent to that needed if
he had chosen to double his
MILK BY THE JUGFUL is dispensed by Milton
Brubaker in his attractive farm store where customers
bring m their own gallon or half-gallon jugs for re
fills. The store also handles other associated food pro
ducts L. F. Photo.
$2 Per Year
held size instead of running
the jugging business
Under the regulation of the
Pennsylvania Milk Control
Commission (PiMCC) any
dairyman can sell jugged
milk at his own puce Bru
baker said But he imut sell
only his own milk which is
produced on his own farm,
processed in his own plant,
and sold at the faim
To man> danymen who may
be avei aging less than $5 per
hundredweight for their milk,
the 80 cents per gallon that
Brubaker gets may sound
pretty good But as in any re
tailing of faim products,
there are additional costs and
problems that are often ov
erlooked by those not im
mediately involved. We al
icady mentioned the large in
vestment needed, but how
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Weather Forecast
Temperatures for the five
day period, Saturday through
Wednesday, are expected to
average near normal. Nor
mal for the peiiod would be
a high of 86 degrees and a
low of 63. It will be warmer
Sunday and Monday, then
cooler Tuesday and Wednes
day.
Precipitation for the period
will probably total less than
V\ inch, occurring as scatter
ed showers about mid-week.