B—Lancaster Farming. Saturday. October 19,1968
THE POULTRY TOtJR at the L. M. Sweitzer Farm
at Dover. The Sweitzer's have a 1400 layer operation
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THE ETERNAL FLAME at the Gettys- is inscribed with the statement by Lincoln
burg Battlefields visited by the Lancaster that reads, “With Firmness In The Right,
County Poultry Tour on Tuesday. The base As God Gives Us To See The Right”.
L. F. Photo
• Poultrymen
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birds to a cage, operation. They caster about 6:00 p m. Tour com
raise Angus cattle and pheasants mittee included Allen B. Gray
they use the. Golden Delicious to supply their commercial hunt- bill, John Jacob Oberholtzer
and York Imperial varieties. ing i andS- and Jay W. Irwin
These varieties are best for slic
es The famous Musselmans ap
ple sauce is made at another
plant
The company has 4,500 acres
in fruit trees, mostly apples, but
also a few peaches and cherries.
They also process tomatoes in
season
The final tour stop was the
beautiful farm of L M Sweitzer
at Dover. The Sweitzer’s have
64 Fewer Milk
Dealer Licenses
Issued 1967-68
The Pennsylvania Milk Mar
keting Board announced this
week that there are 1386 li
censed milk dealers and haulers
in the Commonwealth The li
censees include fluid milk deal
ers, sub-dealers, producer dis
tributors, cooperatives, milk
manufacturers and milk haulers
There are 64 fewer licenses is
sued this year than during the
1967-68 period The current li
censing period started on May 1
J. Lin Huber, Chairman of
the Milk Marketing Board, said
that the loss in the number of
licensees is due to mergers as
well as business failures.
There are 427 fluid milk deal
ers in the State, against 441 a
year ago. Erie County lost 4,
Beaver County lost 3, Mercer,
Montgomery and Northampton
Jost 2 each and 13 other counties
lost one dealer each.
Fluid milk dealer licenses in
11 counties increased over the
number of licenses during the
1967-68 period Bradford, Lehigh
and Luzerne counties each gam
ed 2 additional dealers while 8
counties gashed 1 dealer each
There are 271 sub-dealers li
censed by the Milk Marketing
Board, 7 less than last year Pro
ducer-distributors total 125 a
Joss of 10 Cooperatives licensed
by the Board total 23, a loss of
34 Manufacturing milk licens
ees in the State totaled 63, a
gam of 4, and licensed milk
haulers totaled 468, a loss of 3
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1400 layers in flat deck, eight The tour arrived back in Lan-
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