PENNSYLVANIA EGG PRODUCTION UP 5% The Commonwealth's laying flock produced 287 million curs during March, 5 peuent moie than a year eariiei and 13 pei cent greater than the Fehuiary. More farmers each month prefer to buy their • EAR CORN • HAY • STRAW from us for better value and all around satisfaction. At farm or delivered, any quantity as your require ments may be. ESBENSHADE TURKEY FARM “America s YOUR HOME & GARDEN VALUE STORE Manheim Pike & Dillerviiie Rd. next to Nichols Parking Lot . . . Ph. 394-0541 TOUGH TAME ENOUGH FOR THE WIFE... TRACTOR FORD 70 LAWN TRACTOR Easiest way to get off your feet and into the seat . . . cuts lawn and yard time to a fraction. Get more done, have more fun Get motorized muscle in clearing 34-inch paths of snow, or catting a 34-inch swath on the lawn. 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NEBA Voting Delegates Meet m bicc\l ng be.iei Dauv Cattle through Ren,nth was the theme of the fifth Vn nual meeting of Delegates and Dnectoisol Noitheastein Hieed e’s Association at Tunkhannock on Apul 1, 1969 Di J. O AlmqUiSt. Dacctoi of the Penn State Univeisity Dany Cattle Bleeding Research Center, leviewed the many ex periments conducted at Penn Slate for the purpose of breed ing better Dairy Cattle This work has led to improved breed ing efficiency throughout the AI Industry and has enabled the service of many outstanding sres to be extended a thousand fold over normal possibilities. Thirty to fifty thousand cows are being bred in one year to the grestest production proved Sires through frozen semen and artificial insemination, 'due to research conquests Di. Almquist addiesce' 75 / ' <* s r -^\ ' ' s s ' < * Lancaster Farming, Saturday. April li). 1969 Delegates, Dnoctois. Staff mem bus and quests ol NEB \ at the ’iunkliannoek (Range Hall The attending Delegates le elected thiee Dncctois lot new llnee veai teims to conduct NEB Vs business in 50 counties in Penn sxlvania and New Jeisej. Re e'ected by vote of the Delegates piesent weie John Schwenk of Allentown, Distncl 11, Geoige Butler ot Wellsboio, District 111 and Edwaid Fhtcraft of Woodstown, New Jersey, Dis tract IV Following the Annual meeting of Voting Delegates, the NEBA Board of Directois reorganized for the 1969-1970 opeiating year and re-elected Ira Yodei of Sel insgrove, Pa , President Edward Fhtciaft of Woodstown New Jer sey, Vice Piesident, and John Epler of Northumberland, Pa., Tieasurer William Schaefer of Tunkhannock was reinstated as Secretary to the Board with Hugh Pfaff, Tunkannock and Henry Schraggei, Trenton, New Jersey as Assistants F P Shan non was renamed Assistant Trea surei F P Shannon, NEBA Gen eral Managei, told the Delegates tnat 1968 was our most success ful year, pei nutting NEBA to wipe out previous operating de ficits, and that the present year is the best ever He emphasized that today NEBA provides many services to patrons In addition to our own A I proven sires we also secure other sires for ■dairy men, sell nitrogen and refriger ated tanks, train Dairymen who Wish to do so to inseminate their own herds, and collect, process, and semen fiom Sires owned by members or patrons of the Co operative on a custom basis 'Mr Shannon President Ira Yoder and Edward Flitcraft des cubed Federation studies aimed at the possible amalgamation of thu teen Breeding Cooperatives into a Fedeiation Several bull sfuds would produce the semen for all member organizations. NEBA facilities would be high on the pnonty list of semen producing studs due to their modem barns and laboratory and to the possibilities for ex pansion at NEBA 19