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Conservation Corner
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“When water jaywalks across fields the soil follows! ’’
San Diego
Eggmen Aim
At 25c Cost
Egg producers aim for a pio
duction cost of 25 cents per doz
en, according to Bob Adolph,
San-Diego County farm advisor
Producers who co-operated in
a 1968 production cost study by
Adolph, try to match the follow
ing cost guidelines
1. Layer feed (4,4 pounds per
dozen at $3.08 per 100 lbs.)
13.5*.
2, Net replacement cost (in
cludes income fiom culls as a
ci edit toward chick cost and all
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■ Box-96. Ephrata, Pa. ' Ph: 733-6525
Richard Ruoss John Weaver Mervin Miller
717356-7524 717-733-6004 717-626-5204
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posts of labor, feed, chicks etc,
of replacement pullets) —50 c
3 Labor for layers only—l.sc
4 Othei cash costs for layers
-10 c
5 Interest and depreciation
2 0c
6. Management —2.0 c.
Accoidmg to Adolph, the aver
age producer in his 1968 study
had a pei dozen production cost
of 24 8c This would indicate that
some producers were turning out
eggs at a cost of 23 to 24c
DID YOU KNOW The me
dullary rays of a tree, located in
the sapwood, conduct food and
water radially and seive as a
food storage area.
Management Study Recommends
ADA And NDC Remain Separate
A six months study by the A. • The organizational plans of
T. Kearney & Co, management ADA and NDC should be revised
consulting firm, to determine the somewhat for the national and
feasibility of consolidating the affiliate organizations
American Dairy Association and # mterorganization commun
the National Dairy Council, rec- j catlons mus t be improved,
omraends that each Organiza
tion retain its individual identity. After a day long discussion of
John Moser, chairman of the the report (Chicago. 111., Sept.
Special ADA-N'DC Joint Study 2). the Special Study Committee
Committee said this week. Re- unanimously adopted the follow
commendations of the study, ing resolution. "That the Study
which has been distributed to Committee recommend in pnn
members of both Boards of Di- ciple to the Boards of Directors
rectors are 1 that a board be cieated made
• ADA'and NDC should be «P A of representatives of NDC.
maintained as separate organiza- ADA and othei large conti ibu
t tors to be responsible for
' . , ... . . „ , financial policy, that is' to say,
• Steps should be taken to tQ raise funds for all thiee 01 .
sti engthen the professional sta- ganizatlons _ NDCi ADA , and
tuie of NDC in the future Daily Research, Inc, to make
up budgets, to account for all
monies, and to carry on common
duties, coordination and such
other policies as this top-level
• Plans for funding NDC
activities should be levised and
coordinated with ADA funding
concepts
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board might perform, in a legal
foim which will be appropriate
to enable it to carry out its funo*
tions of policy determination*,
cluection and funding."
Moser noted that the Special
Joint Study Committee made its
report to the NDC Board of Dl
icctors in Chicago, 111. Sept. 3-di
and will report to the ADA
Board of Directors at the organs
ization’s Fall Board Meeting is
New Orleans, La., Sept. 3®
Oct. 1. “This will be the fired
opportunity for the ADA Board,
to discuss the study,” he said
INC.