o—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, December 28,1968.
ID * i The decline in number of milk
IT Sim IVIIIK Ana cows has slowed appreciably in
vi rj j .« the wake of record high prices
r.gg Production for milk and currently is esti
mated at 2 percent below a year
Again this year milk produc- ear ii er Milk production for No
tion per cow registered a rela- yember > totaled 513 million
tively large seasonal drop from pounds, 2 percent above last
October to November Average y ear but 0 percent below No
pioduction at 710 pounds for vem ber 1966.
the month was up 25 pounds November 12 snowfall
from last year but 10 pounds A INovem sn °wiall
short of the November 1966 lev- ran f n S upwards to 24 inches in
S A portion of the blame is at- ce f tra ! counties disrupted farm
tnbuted to low quahty hay re- actlvltles ! n several counties,
sutong from mny
first cuttings The shift to win- Qf powef for milking machines
ter rations lowered production Many trees still retained then
rates in many herds. leaves at the time and the heavy
Frank H. Bucher Jonathan S. Shirk
2160 Main St, Rothsville 366 E Main St. Bareville
626-6504 656-9302
Jason H. Mellinger Edgar C. Umble
R l,_Strasburg Pequea Ave, Gap
687-6546
Lester Erb
312 S Mt Joy St. Elizabethtown
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442-4525
PENNSYLVANIA YOUNG- FARMERS Ren Beiler, Secretary, (standing) James
INCORPORATED. At the signing held last Fink, State Advisor, Department Public
Friday at the Farm and Home Center are Instruction; Dave Ditrich, Region 111 Vice
left to right (seated) David Zeafla, Region President and Carl Miller, Region II Vice"
I Vice President; Jay Foreman, Director President.
Public Relations; Ivan Yost, President;
burden of snow caused much Rate of lay declined an average each month since July 196&, and
limb breakage and disrupted of about three-fourths of an egg the November flock was larger'
electrical service per layer from October. than for any month since Janu-'
There were 257 million eggs The 14,672,000 layers during ary 1967.
produced by Pennsylvania lay- November 1968 -is an increase The egg-type hatch from Jan
ets during November, 4 percent of 2 percent from the same nary through October was 20
below October 1968 but about month in 1967. The number of million birds, 6 percent below
the same as November 1967. layers have been increasing the comparable period in 1967.
Cm You Afford Not To Be A
LANCASTER CO. FARMERS
ASSOCIATION MEMBER?
• Can you afford to lose the Pennsylvania Milk Control Law?
• Can you afford to lose your farm to land-grab government schemes?
• Can you afford to lose your sales tax exemption on farm supplies and
machinery used in production?
9 Can you afford to pay double for your truck license fee?
• Can you afford to lose your farm to “open-space” schemes?
• Can you afford to let your farm be managed from Washington by so-Called
“Agricultural Experts?”
• Can you afford another year $l.lO per bushel wheat?
• Can you afford the threat of imitation milk products?
• Can you afford government regulations prohibiting your sons to work on
your farm?
9 Can you afford to employ union labor on your farm?
■" These are just a few of the proposed legislation that Lancaster
Co. Farmers Assn, members were able to stop in 1968.
But many of these threats still face us in the State General
Assembly and Congress.
AGAIN WE ASK:
CAN YOU AFFORD NOT TO BE A LCFA MEMBER?
LCFA HAS A COMPLETE PROGRAM TO FULFILL ITS
FARMER-MEMBER NEEDS!
SERVICE TO MEMBER PROGRAMS INCLUDE:
• Legislative Program, 9 Full line of insurance;
• Marketing & Bargaining Programs; • $l,OOO Life & Dismemberment Policy
9 Farm Management Business Analysis with each membership;
Seivice; 9 Information and Education Program
9 Tires, Batteries & Baler Twine Director;
Program,
IF YOU ARE PLANNING TO FARM IN 1960
YOU CAN’T AFFORD NOT TO BE
A LCFA MEMBER!
LANCASTER COUNTY DIRECTORS
Pies. CLYDE E. WIVELL JAMES G. KREIDER
R D 1, Columbia R D. I, Quarrvville
Vice Pres. - JAMES M. GARBER EARL E. MARTIN
R D. 2, Mt Joy R D.'l, Eohrata
Sec. - Treas - JAMES L. MARTIN ELLIS K. MENTZER,
567 Delp Rd, Lane , R. D r; 2, New Holland*
CLYDE M. BUCREN 1 DONALD E. NETG *
• R D 3, Manheim R D 1, Marietta
ROBERT C. GROFF LEROY PFAUTZ
R. D 3. Quarryville R. D. 1, Stevens .
ROBERT G. HARNISH JAMES* R. WOOD ,
R. D. 2, Conestoga R. D. 2, Nottingham' . ' -
10% increase in Life & Dismemberment Policy with dues paid by January <1 to
Lancaster County Farmers Assn.