—Lancaster Farming. Saturday? February 24,1968
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be willing to accept lower earn
ings and lower targets on wag
es for a temporary period while
our industrial plants adopt the
modernized methods of integrat
ed production which are going
to be necessary to preserve the
competitive advantage which we
have previously enjoyed, or to
maintain a competitive balance
without trading partners
around the world ”
The Grange asked the com
mittee and the Council of Eco
nomic Advisers to seriously con
sider ways in which we may
place some type of controls over
the tendencies toward inflation
which the President and the
Council both noted in their mes
sages to Congress
“We do not agree with those
who believe that it is too late
for a tax boost to be valuable
in the present situation,” Gra
ham said “Although it might
not bring the necessary re
straint upon the tendencies of
inflation, it certainly has one
basic validity and that is the re
storing to the money markets of
the world the confidence in the
dollar ”
• Have You Heard
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keep their hands inside before
you close cai doors and that
they keep their hands inside the
car while you’re driving
Remind children to remain
seated and fasten seat belts
while car is moving And never
permit children to stand either
in the back or front of the car
You can teach a child how to
handle a bicycle safely, then
check that he knows the rules
‘for courteous driving
More Specialization Needed
In Northeast Dairy Industry
The Northeast dairy industry
is “overdue” for a change to
fewer, larger, more specialized
milk producing business similar
to the 500 to 1,000-cow herds in
California and Arizona.
A dairy authority at The
Pennsylvania State University
made that comment Feb. 1 as
he spoke to the Michigan Pro
fessional Dairy Farmers’ Asso
ciation on the Michigan State
University campus.
Joe S Taylor, professor of
dairy science Extension at Penn-
State, noted that many dairy
men in the Noitheast still have
only 30 to 40 cow herds and
their level of income is not
much better now than it was 15
years ago
“The fast expansion of the
national economy has left the
dairyman behind,” said the Ex
tension official “In the 1950’s
this size of herd earned the
dany farmer a family labor in
come of $3,000 to $4,000 when
the national wage level was the
same Today, the national wage
level is approaching $7,000 and
the 30 to 40 cow dairyman is
still at the 1950 level of in
come ”
This, Taylor said, leaves the
dairyman with three alterna
tives, expand his operation to
earn more income, sell out and
work for someone else, or be
satisfied with a level of living
below the national average
“The desue for a higher level
of income will stimulate enough
dairymen to expand the size of
their herds,” the Penn State
specialist pointed out. “Dairy
men, however, should make
these expansions gradually to
test their management- ability
and skill in handling labor as
their operations grow ”
“There is sufficient data avail
able throughout the United
States to indicate that good
dairymen, regardless of the size
of herd, make about $lOO per
cow as family labor income,” he
noted. “This indicates that a
dairyman’s only limit to achiev
ing a higher level of living is
his ability to manage labor to
milk moie cows ”
Taylor said the limiting fac
tor for the development of larg
er herds may be the size of the
farms For example, he pointed
out, there are very few farms
in the Northeast with enough
acieage to produce sufficient
forage for a 500-cow herd.
“Professional forage produc
ers will emerge as a market de
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large dairy herd operator,” the
dairy specialist reported “This
ha’ppened on the West Coast
and has started in the North
east Many West Coast dairymen
contract with local farmers for
the production of their total
forage supply, either as silage
or hay.”
Commenting on management
systems needed when operating
a large dairy herd, Taylor point
ed out that a professional milk
er who will milk 100 to 125 cows
daily should be hired or train
ed. A second labor-management
unit is 300 to 400 cows with
three milkeis and one supervis
or carrying out the duties
“Dairymen should strive to
maintain an average production
of over 50 pounds per cow per
day,” the Penn State official
said “In addition, he should
plan to produce at least one
million pounds of milk per man
per year.”
Taylor noted that one of the
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Modern equipment is speeding
up lime analyses at the Pennsyl
vania Department of Agricul
ture.
A wet lime analysis which
used to require two days of a
chemist’s time is now made in
an hour and a half, thanks to a
piece of equipment called an
atomic absorption spectrophoto
meter
Leland H. Bull, State Secre
tary of Agriculture, said lime
is analyzed by the Department’s
chemists to “make sure that
farmers and other consumers
are getting a fair shake” when
they purchase lime.
REPAIR SASH
It’s a good time of the year for
gardeners to repair frame sash,
extension horticultural special
ists at The Pennsylvania State
University say This is one of
those extra jobs that can be
done during winter.