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VOL. 12 NO. 17
FOLLOWING ANNUAL MEETING of Atlantic Breeders Cooperative mem
bers Wednesday, featured speaker State Secretary of Agriculture Leliand H. Bull,
left, is shown with four ABC directors whose years of service to the cooperative
total nearly 100. From the left they are: J. Lewis Williams, 1966 president; Mark N.
Witmer, past president; Abner Risser, 1966 vice president; and Samuel B. Williams,
Jr. L. F. Photo
Governor Will Tolerate No Violence
In Milk Strike, Bull Advises
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“Governor Shafer has made
it known that _he_ will not toler
ate any violence in Pennsyl
vania during the current milk
holding action,” state agricul
ture secretary Leland H Bull
told dairymen Wednesday
He noted that “some dump
ing is going on m the western
part of the state, and that the
state police have 'been alerted
to watch the situation closely
“If you hear of anyone hav
ing trouble call the state po
lice they’ll cooperate,” Bull
promised
Speaking at the third annual
meeting o i Atlantic Breeders
Cooperative at Meadow Hills
Dining House, the Secretary
said that last year the state’s
agricultural production hit a
value of $9OO million for the
first time in. history.
SIGNPOSTS TO
THE FUTURE
He noted that this represent
ed an increase of $ll6 million
over the total reached four
years ago but added, “It is
questionable whether this in
crease has matched the rising
cost of things farmers must
buy ”
Bull said he was “deeply con
cerned about the controversy
Farm Calendar
March 28-7-30 pm, Ephrata
Farm Electricity Course,
"Farmstead Wiring Layout
and Emergency Power Gen
erator”; at Ephrata H. S.
-7:30 p.m, Organizational
meeting, Penn Manor 4-H
Community Club, at Ann Le
tort Elem. School.
March 30-7:30 p.m, Spring
meeting of Lancaster County
Farmers’ Assn., at Strasburg
Fire Hall. .
-7:30 p.m., Organizational
meeting, Willow Street area
4-H community club, at Peq
uea. Twp. Elem School.
March 31-8. p.m, Horse owners
informational meeting at
Earavillo Fire'Hall
-and' criticism that besets the
-dairy industry.”
One major problem, he said,
is going to be supplying enough
milk for lire expanding popu
lation He pointed out that al
though per cow output had in
creased nearly a ton of milk in
Pennsylvania, since 1960, there
are now 117,000 less cows in
the state
On a per capita basis. Bull
noted, there were 59 quarts
less milk per person in 1966
This was nartially balanced by
a declining per capita consump
tion, he added.
SLIM MARGIN
In comparing production
and consumption of milk in
the U.S. at this time, the
Secretary said it comes down
to one quart per person per
month. “That’s a mighty slim
margin between supply and
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Farmers’ Assn.
Sets March 30th
Meeting Date
The Lancaster County Farm
ers’ Association will hold its
Spring meeting on Thursday,
March 30, at 730 p.m, it was
announced this week by as
sociation public relations di
rector James Martin
Featured speaker for the an
nual affair will be Hollis Hat
field, administrative secretary
tor the Pennsylvania Farmers’
Association. Hatfield will dis
cuss legislative matters in
which the association is involv
ed at the state level. Martin
said
In addition, a representative
of the National Livestock and
Meat Board will give an illus
trated talk on “The Work of
Meat Promotion”
The meeting is scheduled
for the Strasburg Fire Hall,
Strasburg, Martin'■nbtedl ’
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ST 4<E UNIVERSITY
Lancaster Farming, Saturday, March 25,1967
Finol Horse Meeting
Planned For March 31
The -final countrywide horse
owners’ informational meeting
will be held on Friday, March
31, at 8 pm, at the Bareville
Fire Hall, associate county
agent Win Mernam announced
this week ,
Featured speaker will be
James Gallagher, horse special
ist at Penn State University
He will discuss, “The Foot and
Its Care’’, and “Stabling and
General Management During
the Show Season”.
As with the two previous
meetings, Memam noted, all
intei ested horse owners in the
county aie invited “This is
not a 4-H meeting,” he added
Holstein Assn,
Tour Set For
April sth
The Lancaster County Hol
stem-Fnecian Ass oeiation an
nounced this week that its an
nual tour this year will be held
on Wednesday April 5 Buses
will be leaving from the Con
estoga Transportation Company
tei minal, 825 East Chestnut
Street, Lancaster at 8 a in. ac
cording to tour committee
chairman Titus M Hurst
The tour this year will visit
four dairy farms in Chester
County, p'as the famed Long
wood Gardens
The farms of Donald Hostet-
ter, Gideon Stoltzfus, John Lia
ble, and Tom McCann will be
visited.. Several of these dairy
men are outstanding purebred
breeders, others have the lat
est equipment systems which
will interest dairymen
Lunch, which will be served
family style in the Atglen Fire
Hall, is included in the S 5 per
person tour charge
Anyone interested in visiting
neighboring Chester County on
tliis tour is urged to contact
Hurst, or other committee
members—Jay Landis and Paul
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Top Dairymen In Lancaster
CountyßejectNFO Action
by Don Timmons
With milk dumping tlus week ,
in the streets of Pennsylvania ]
and 24 other states, accompan
ied by reported vandalism and .
violence, we asked several lead
ing Lancaster County dairy
farmers tor their impressions 1
The general feeling of our '
dairymen ranged from “sym- 1
pathetic” to “it’s against all *
moral standards of decency to 1
dump food away”, with the ma- 1
jority apparently leaning more *
toward tie latter sentiment. '
DO FARMERS NEED 1
BETTER MILK PRICE? 1
With the whole National
Farmers Organization effort di
rected toward securing better
milk prices for the nation’s
dairymen, it was surprising to
be told by several of the farm
ers interviewed in Lancaster
County that the present milk
price was sufficient to enable
an efficient operator to make
money. All-agreed it was un
equal to good wageS'mfmy -oth--.
ers enjoy m our economy when
one considers the seven-day
week the farmer puts in. and
his increasing investment in
land, buildings, livestock, and ;
equipment ’
WILL NFO EFFORT '
SUCCEED? (
No daily man consulted ev i
pressed much hope for an NFO
by Don Timmons
Chester Countians Urged
To Join And Support NFO
Approximately 45 dairymen
and other interested persons
gathered at the Honey Brook
Grange Hall Wednesday night
for an informational meeting
sponsored by the National
Farmers Organization (NFO)
MILK HOLDING ACTION
J Winfield Trego, Eagle area
dairy farmer, and one of only
three Chester County dairymen
who have been actively cooper
ating with the 25-state NFO
milk holding action, w r as unof
ficial spokesman for the group
Referring to graphs and fig
ures from a book by Frank Le
roux called “The Fai mers’
Woist Five Years—l96l-1965”,
Trego observed that average
farm net income is at its low
est point since the Depression
years, that, in relation to in
iH Wea/Aer
Temperatures for the next
five days are expected to con
tinue below the normal range
of 54 to 34 degrees. Little
day-to-day change is expect
ed. -
Precipitation may total *4-
% inch, melted, says the
weatherman, but he wouldn’t
say whether it would occur
as snow or rain. He does look
for one or the other on Mon
day or Tuesday. ‘ -
$2 Per Year
price victory Some thought it
might gain the organization
some members, but didn’t feel
it would affect the milk price
—at least, not more than tem
porarily
The general consensus was
that NFO wasn’t getting enough
cooperation from members or
non-members to bung suffici
ent pressure to bear in the
marketplace As one dairyman
put it, “You can’t get the job
done with only one-quarter or
one-fifth of the supply con
ti oiled”
FARMERS’ IMAGE
Some felt the sensational
publicity the milk strikers were
receiving was damaging to the
consumers’ opinion of farmers.
But several others said the
public eye has to be opened to
the farmers problems in mak
ing a living. One farmer not
ed, “You can’t worry about the
public unaee at this point. The
present effort will dramatize
-theJarmer’s need for action”.
WILL YOUJOINNFO?
No dairyman we spoke to
during this interview had ever
been contacted by an NFO or
ganize*’, but we did talk with
one county fanner earlier this
week who had been approach
ed several times by NFO. He
mentioned hov'ever, that after
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come ot the rest of the popula
tion, farmers are in a mighty
poor position He added, there
is no surp l us and he doubted
there ever had been
DUMPING COSTS MOUNTING
Trego told Lancaster Farm
ing by phone on Thursday that
it is costing him approximately
575 to $BO a day to dump the
milk from his 55-cow herd ia
the gutter
How lone can he continue
this practice’ “I can keep
dumping al’ my milk for about
one month,” the dairyman said.
He added that if the NFO ef
fort is unsuccessful in getting
contracts for Chester County
dairymen, both he and his
brother will plan to work their
way out of the dairy business
as soon as possible
Tiego, who farms on rented
ground, said dairymen can not
continue to operate at present
prices
HIGH-PRICED LAND
“There’s not much land down
this way that’s not worth at
least SlOOO an acre,” Trego
noted, adding that too many
farmers aie now living off of
loans made on their land in or
der to meet operating expenses.
NFO IN 25 STATES
According to NFO field rep
resentatives Dave Elwell of
Woodstown, NJ. and Les Mc-
Namara of Kennett Square area,
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