Milk Marketing
Referendum To
Be Discussed
Further preparation of rules,
regulations and other items re
lated to the dairy referendum
will be discussed at a sub-com
mittee meeting of the Milk Mar
keting Promotion Committee in
Harrisburg on Nov. 8. *
The marketing program has
proposed to provide the Com
monwealth’s dairymen with a
coordinated program to increase
the use and sales of milk and
milk products.
Among the goals set forth in
the program are research for
market expansion, new product
development, advertising, pro
motion, consumer education and
the establishment of an informa
tion service program to outline
Quality standards and improve
ments.
The sub-committee, in its
initial meeting, suggested a 15-
member advisory board to ad
vise and assist State Secretary
of Agriculture Leland H. Bull in
the administration of the mar
keting program
Advisory board members
would be named for terms of
three years, with one-third of
the members selected each year.
The major decision facing sub
committee members at the next
meeting remains the establish
ment of a rate of assessment for
dairymen It was pointed out
that over six billion pounds of
milk was produced in the Com
monwealth in 1967, with most
going to the wholesale market.
A marketing program ap
proved by producers of an agri
cultural commodity, such as
Unhappily, when you apply convention- process makes the phosphate in UNl
af fertilizers, much of the phosphate is’ PELS ava//ab/e,.yet makes it resist
locked up through fixation in the soil. fixation regardless of how it's applied!
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been fought by carefully I’ I downUNlPHLSinthe-fall,
placing’the phosphate
closer to the surface-and
near each plant. Trouble
is>thisleavesyour phos
phorus supply "high and
dry" during the heat of
the summer. □ O'r-
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Pennsylvanians Horse Around More
If Pennsylvanians horse hor«e» Is estimated at $l3 mll
around more nowadays, it’s iogl- Hon and utilizes the output from
cal. They have moie horses. 130,000 acres of cropland. An ad-
A survey by USDA’s Crop Re- ditional $lO million is spent for
porting Service and the Penn- black-smithing, veterinary sup
sylvania Deportment of Agricut- pHo>» vitamins, harnesses and
hire estimated 85,000 horses. other equipment, and transpor
ponies, and mules in the State Nation.
in 1967. The most recent previ
ous official accounting by the
U.S. Census of Agriculture,
about 9 years ago, turned up
about 58,000 on Pennsylvania
farms.
Pennsylvania’s interest in tab
ulating its equine population is
not unique. Other states New
Jersey, New York, and Virginia
—have run surveys in recent
years to get a fresh line on what
was once a declining inventory.
The Pennsylvania survey
shows that while the horse may
not be the source of much farm
power anymore, it is certainly
the source of a great deal of
fun. Of the 85,000 equines in the
state, about 73,000 were in the
recreation category, for such
things as show purposes, organ
ized trial rides, 4-H activities,
riding clubs, races, fox hunts,
and weekend saddle bouncing.
At least 90 percent of the re
maining 11,500 work stock were
held by the Amish, a religious
group still employing the horse
foi farming and transportation.
Because of Pennsylvania’s
horse and pony popularity, al
lied businesses have been spur
red upward economically. The
annual value of grain, hay, and
bedding used to maintain the
dairymen, must be reviewed and
again considered through a ref
erendum every three years
of the
phosphate
you apply
P. L ROHRER & BRO., INC.
/
SMOKETOWN, PA.
Much of the upswing in own
ership of pleasure horses and
ponies is apparently occurring
off farms. The survey found that
31 percent of the owners sam
pled lacked facilities of their
own and boarded their' animals
with farmers or at public
stables. Ponies made up over 20
percent of the animals in the
recreation class.
Number Of Layers Up;
Rate Of Lay Down
There were 3 percent more
layers in Pennsylvania in Sep
tember 1968 than a year ago,
but rate of lay declined 3 per
cent from a year ago, and de
clined 4 percent from August
1968. Consequently, egg produc
tion is only slightly above a year
ago.
Pullets added in September
was 42 percent below the Au
gust figure, but cullings also de
clined 42 percent.
The average price received by
farmers for all eggs sold in Sep
tember was 22 percent above
last month and 29 percent above
a year ago The last time we re
leased a figure that high was in
November 1966.
The January-August cumula
tive egg-type hatch is 16,727,000,
11 percent below the compar
able period in 1967 For the U S
Local Farmers
Will Attend
Agway Meeting
Twelve local farmers repre
senting members of the Garden
Spot Unit will attend the fourth
annual meeting of Agway Inc.,
October 24-25, Syracuse. N.Y.
Kenneth Emerson, Unit Man
ager, said the local delegation
will include: Henry Shenk. Ray
mond Weaver, John Campbell,
Roy H. Book, Amos Rutt, Mor
ris Zook Jr., J. Everett Kreider,
Melvin Stoitzfus, Amos H. Funk,
John Yost, Amos Petersheim
and Samuel Beiler.
They will be among some 5,-
000 farmer-members of the co
operative expected to attend the
session from Agway’s 12-state
area. Official delegates will rep
resent Agway’s 102,000 owners,
all farmers.
Members will elect six farm
ers to the board of directors and
hear reports on the coopera
tive’s fourth year Agway was
formed in 1964 by the merger of
three regional farmer coopera
tives of the Northeast
Agricultural leaders from
slate and national oi ganizations
aie also expected to attend The
commissioners of agncultuie of
states seived by Agway will be
special guests at the meeting
theie is a decline of 12 percent
fiom last year
Stocks of all eggs in cold stor
age August 31, 1968 was 2,977,-
000 cases—7 percent more than
a year earlier.
the phosphorus and oth
er vital nutrients are
down in the moisture
zone where roots are
most active in the hot,
dry summer.lHComesee
us soon about the
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Lancaster Farming. Saturday. October 19.1968
Sale Register
MON. OCT. 21, 10 a.m.. Valley
Acres Guernsey Dispersal at the
farm, located at Hellam, Pa., 7
mi. E of York on Rt. #3O. In
the center of Hellam turn S at
the Bank on Broad Street for
V 2 mile.
TUBS. OCT, 22—1 P.M. Robert
L. Walters Registered Holstein
Heifer Sale 4 ml. S of Oxford,
just off Rt. 472, near Hickory
Hill, Chester Co., Pa.
TUBS. OCT. 22 1 P.M. Tri-
State Calf Sale at Abingdon
Livestock Market, Inc., Abing
don, Va.
THURS. OCT. 24 12:30 P.M
Public Sale of Holstein Heifers
and Bulls, along Rt. 272, 3 mi. S
of The Buck and 15 mi. S of
Lancaster on farm #2, Lancas
ter County. Pa. Terms by Glair
E. Kreider, owner.
FRI. OCT. 25 1 P M. 14th An
nual Lancaster Feeder Calf Sale
and Special Fall Feeder Sale at
Cattle Auction Pavilion, Lancas
ter Union Stock Yards
FRI OCT 25 7 pm. Vintage
Fall Feeder Sales, Vintage Sales
Stables, Inc. 10 mi E of Lan
caster on Route 30
SAT. OCT 26 1 00 P M Bth
Annual Fall Feedei Sale at
Abeideen Sales Company Live
stock Auction Maiket. on Md.
Rt 22, 6 mi E of Bel Air, Md,
and 6 mi W of Aberdeen, Md
SAT OCT 26—11 30 A M Pub
he Sale of Antiques Household
Goods, Faim Equipment and
Garden Tools, along Rawlins
ville Road at the corner of Hill
Rd., % mi S of Baumgardner,
2 mi. SW of Willow Street.
Terms by Joseph H Resser Sr.
TUBS. OCT. 29—at Noon Ayr
shire Auction, Pa. State Key
stone Classic at the Guernsey
Sale Barn, 6 mi. E of City along
Rt. 30.
TUBS. OCT 29 1 PM. sth
Hfereford' Steer Sale- at Abing
don Livestock Market, Inc.,
Abingdon, Va
TUES OCT 29—1 PM. Feeder
Calf Sale located in Central Vir
ginia
THURS OCT 31—1 PM Com
plete Dairy Dispersal IVz mi. W
o£ Rt. 896 at Homeville along
the Homeville and Cream Road,
Chester Co, Pa Terms by Estate
o i John H Clendemn
FRI NOV I—7 30 P.M ES T.
Clean up sale All kinds of cat
tie will be offered Sale sport
sored by W. Va, Dept of Ag
riculture and the South Brancn
Stocky aids, Inc, Moorefield, W.
Va
SAT NOV 9—9 30 A M —Com
plete Sellout Public Sale of
Farm, Dauy Cattle, Equipment
and some household goods,
along Rt 241, 5 mi W of Eliza
bethtown, 1 mi E of 441, Conoy
Twp Terms by Mrs. Willis
(Bill) Shoemaker.
WED. NOV. 13—10 AM Public
Sale of Tractors and Farm Ma
chinery at Wenger’s Farm Ma
chinery, Inc, So. Race St., My
erstown, Pa
SAT. MAR I—Another All Day
Community - Farm Sale at
Georgetown on Rt 89©, 6 mi. SE
of Strasburg Sponsored by Bart
Twp Fire Co (Watch for lar-ge
ad.)
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