NEPPCO Turkey Conf. Speakers
Hit Disease, Marketing & Housing
The largest crowd ever to
attend a meeting of the
NEPPCO Turkey Division since
its founding in 1944, was on
hand last week in Gettysburg
foi the Division’s Mid-Atlantic
Conference. Total registration
of 131 filled both the meeting
loom and luncheon to capacity
Dr L D. Schwartz, Penn
State University veterinarian,
led off the morning session
with a review of the latest in
foimation on the control and
tieatment of the major turkey
diseases. Among other prac
tices. he denounced the fairly
common one of using untreat
ed farm ponds to water tur
keys Wild birds, animals and
insects that have access to the
ALL MILK PRODUCERS:
Three of the feeds in our Green Pastures dairy feed line
have been purchased by many of you in increasing
quantities.
This greater volume on these feeds enables us to put them
into mass production in a more efficient way.
The resulting SAVINGS are CONSIDERABLE and will be
passed on to all dairy feed users who can handle, on a
prompt-payment basis, five-ton loads of
The above applies to BULK DELIVERIES ONLY.
Ask your Miller & Bushong representative or dairy specialist for more details or call
us collect at Lancaster 717-392-2145
Miller & Bushong, Inc.
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pond can easily infect an en
tile turkey flock, he stated.
At the business meeting, dele
gates heard a repoit on mem
bership and legislative matters,
paiticipated in a discussion ol
program ideas for the Divi
sion’s Fall Meeting at the
NEPPCO Exposition in'Harris
burg, and voted to organize a
tom to Harrisonburg, Viigima,
in September.
William Wampler, president
of the National Turkey Fed
eration, was the luncheon
speaker He reviewed the vari
ous programs and activities of
NTF and called attention to
the expected record 1966 tur
key crop of nearly 113 million
birds While this is six million
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No. 511
No. 518
(No. 518 in minimum quantities of two tons)
over the previous high set in
1961, the industiy is not over
ly alaimed, he said, because
conditions both at home and
abioad have changed consider
ably since then Inci eased
population, short supply of red
meats, and a huge expoit po
tential all favor the movement
of a recoid quantity of turkeys
this year, he said Even so, he
cautioned that continued ex
pansion or a change in the do
mestic or world situation such
as an end to the war in Viet
Nam could icsult in senous
overproduction and depressed
prices Growers, he said, would
do well to exercise caution in
their future plans
The afternoon program was
devoted mainly to pole barns.
Dr. Tevis Goldhaft of Vine
land Poultry Laboi atones, gave
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Lancaster Farming, Saturday, March 12, 1966
SECOND SECTION
Fair Fund Cash To Youth Groups
And State Events At Record High
HAKRISUUKG Cheeks
totaling $774,404 ha\e been
disbuised tiom the Pennsyl
vania Fair Fund to count}
and local tans, statewide
taim oigani/atioiis and youth
actnitj groups, accoiding to
State Secretaiy ot Agncul
tuie Belaud PI Bull.
The amount is the highest
ever granted by the slate as
pattial i eini'bursement to
tairs tor the piemiums
paid in agi icultuial judging
contests and foi operating
costs
“Since many thousands of
peisons actually lecene this
nionec in recognition for
giowing the best ciops or
livestock or toi woik at the
fans, he added “the funds
seive the added purpose of
stimulating the economy in
the aieas wheie the fans aie
piovided for gieater reim-^eld
Until thiee jears aso. the
annual amount appi opnated
by the state to fairs was
f'DO 000 A new law in 1*163
14%
20%
32%
buisennent to tans, and an
amendment to that law last
\eai extended the lenniburse-
merits
“Althouuh the tans receive
tins money tiom the Fund,"
Se letaii Bull noted, “they
actually pa> all ot it to those
winning the induing contests
or to emploiees who help
conduct the tans
Winneis ol the premiums
have set fine examples in.
pi eduction and marketing of
faun pioducts This increas
ed piodivction and maiketing
ot bettei fiuahtv ipioducts
helped inciease the state’s
cash meipts tiom tarm prod
ucts bv HO 000 000 in 1965.
‘Out total cash receipts
vveie declining until 1963,
when we tinned the tide,”
he pointed out “We had a.
modest inciease ot $4 mil
lion in 19 0 4 In the past year,
om total receipts dumbed to
an estimated 1820,000,000.
hen final ftguies for last
veai aie available we may
learn we have leavhed a new
all-time high
“Onl\ once heto’-e :n our
entne histoix were om cask
icceipts Inghei than last
\eai In 19 51 cash leceipts
totaled $8 2 o million Pnor
to last jeai, i eceipts went
o\ei the $BOO million maik
on onh loui occasions ”
l\o tan statewide oigamza
tion ot youth activity gtoup
can lecene moie than $2,000
tor expenses Fairs can le
cei\e up to 50 pei'ceut lenn
buisement on the premium,s
paid to pioducei contestants,
but not moie than $lO,OOO.
In addition tans which con
duct harness horse racing
weie gianted as much as $5,-
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Agr. Dept. Bans Use Of
Foreign Ships Tainted
By North Viet. Calls
The US Depaitment of
Agnc-ulture announced this
week that it will not approve
shipment of caigoes on for
eign-flag xesselis which have
called at anv Noith Vietnam
port on oi alter Jan. 25,
1960 This action applies to
all piogiams ol the Depart
ment, including Public Daw
480 and Voild Pood Pro
giam shipments.
Exceptions to the prohibi.
tion will be made if vessel
owneis gi\e satisfactory as.
surances that no ships under
then control will be employ,
ed in lutme tiade with Xorth.
Vietnam. In cases where con
tiacls entered into pnor to
the eltectne date of this pro.
hibition lecnnie trade with.
Xorth Vietnam, exceptions to
the pi ohibition will be made
it the vessel owners give sat
is tact 01 y assurances that such
vessels, will be withdrawn
trom su) h tiade at the earli.
est opportunity consistent
with contractual obligations.
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