10—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, July 19,1969
Varied Reactions Expressed
At Harrisburg Milk Hearing
W,!k producois varied rear- the milk marketing plan should njoney deducted from their
(Tuesday) at a public hear- it be voted on favorably bv Penn- m '** checks, by cooperatives, to
In* ,n Harrisburg to discuss a s\ Ivania milk farmers, should be promote the sale and use of milk
proposed marketing program to composed entirely of milk pro- fcw f anners pay j n t 0 var
laisc funds to promote the sale ducers The proposed plan rec- iou ‘ funds for advertising while
and use of milk ommends that at least 10 of the others sit back and reap from
State Agriculture Secretary be milk producers their neighbors’energy and mon
“/I 3 ccreiary and the remainder may be repre- „ v .. , airf Howard Gelsineer Ro-
LeUnd H Bull said he would re- sentat : ves 0 r milk coooeratives t*' d H°w«rd t»eisinger. ko
view the testimony offered at senlatlVCS or m,lk cooperatives. besoniat Berks County, repre
the meeting as well as written The president of the Pennsyl- sentmg Conrad Weiser Young
testimony from those unable to vania Milk Juggers Association. Adult Farmcrs '
attend before deciding on calling Charles x Dodd Corry RD 2 .
a referendum in which milk pro- A neighbor says the only time
thiceis would vote whether or said he thou S ht three milk jugg- hU teen % ge so * js at ho * me is
■not they favored a milk market- ers should be on the advisory brief moment he stops by
fcir.g progiam and the accom- board. for his allowance.
self-assessment plan.
Farming the program which
would assess farmeis one half of
one percent of the gross value of
their milk, less hauling costs,
weie coopeiatives such as Dairy
men's Cooperative Sales Asso
eift-on, Daymen's League and
-No’.theast Da.iT Cooperative As
taxation.
A. Wavne Readmger, mastei
of the PennsvKama State Giange
t?id the Grange favoied the
plan.
“If we are going to keep daiiv
sng as one of the state's leading
industnes. dauv farmers must
make a united effort in pi emot
ing milk and finding new uses
for milk pioducts,” Readmgei
ilLd
William H Juzi. Camp Mill
general managei of the Pennsyl
vania Guemsey Bleeders Asso
ciation, said the association
‘Heels its high time pioduceis
put up money for promotion
Lester Martin, a dany farmei
from Willow Hill. Fianklin Coun
ty. said farmeis have been sitt
ing on their tractors too long, ex
pecting someone, like the gov
ernment, to do their promotional
work for them.”
Among those expressing oppo
sition to the plan was J. Thomas
Cribb, dairy farmer from Pleas
tant Mount, RD 1, Wayne County,
who said he disliked the propos
ed program “because it’s com
pulsory and compulsory pro
-ams remove a man’s rights ”
Chester Weaver, dairy farmer
from Carlisle, RD 4, said “farm
ers will pay and get no benefits
Too many people will get jobs
out of the program ”
A gioup of faimers maintain
ed that the 15-man advisoiy
board, which would supeivise
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