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VOL. 15 NO. 10
Farmers Hear
Specialists On
Milk Production
& Weed Control
“We have been feeding large
amounts of feed at milking
time,” said Dr Poiter, Agwav
Specialist. "This doesn’t give the
highest efficiency in feed convei
sion.”
Speaking at the Datiymen’s
Day at the Farm and Home Cen
ter Wednesday, Poiter said re
search shows that a complete
tjpe ration that includes all the
g.am and hay and silage together
-made gains in milk pioduction
‘ One of the most impoi tant tools
\\c can use to make improvement
i- feed efficiency in the futuie is
tms type of ration,” he said
In answering questions from
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An n ua I
Meeting Set. Feb. 10
The annual meeting of the
Lancaster County Agricultural
and Home Economics Extension
Association is 'scheduled for
Tuesday, evening, February 10,
in th& Auditorium of the Farm
and Some Center Activities
will start with a roast beef din
ner at 6:45 p.m.
Tickets are now available foi
this dinner from any membei
of the Extension Board of Direc
tors, or from the Extension Of
fice, in the Farm and Home
Center. You should get youi
ticket befoie Friday, Febiuary
6
Guest speaker will be Dr Wil
liam H. Duncan, Pi esident, Mill
ei sville State College His sub
ject will be, “Communicating
with Today’s Youth ” The Coun
tv Society of Faim Wonrm’ c
Choi us will piesent seveial
selections. A bnef business
meeting of the association will
include the election of five
directors fdr a three-yeai teim
Farit) Calendar
Monday, Feb. 2
2 4—Fruit Groweis Meeting, Ho
tel Yorktowne, Yoik
8 00 p.m. Southern Lancastei
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Dairymen Must Increase
Cows In Herd To Compete
“The little danyman who foes
out ol business fast is the guy
vho buys enough equipment to
milk 300 cows and then nv.iu
only 20,” said Joe Tayloi, Penn
State Dairy Specialist
Speaking to the Mt Jov
Faimen's Coopeialive As,ocn
tion annual meeting Thuisdav
ai lei noon at Hostettei’s Ban
quet Hall, Tayloi said if you
make the capital investment
you must have enough cows to
pav for it.
Quoting research figmes
fiom Penn State’s Management
Records on. Pennsylvania dany
LINDA and KAREN HIGH, with Herman their new
4-H steer. The girls are daughters of Mr. and Mrs. Harvey
High, Leola. L. F Photo
A Visit With Karen High;
Leola 4-H Steer Enthusiast
“Some people semn to think
othe’ things aie moie interest
ing,” said Miss Xaien High Le
olr 1H enthusiast ‘but foi me,
I like fanning ”
And to piove it Kaien has had
t’ght 4H steeis, along with ca
pons, floweis and grden’ng pio
jects ovei the last seven yeais of
4 H woik
A membei ol the Red Rose
Baby Beef Club and the New
Holland Baby Beef Club. Miss
High has a gentle touch with her
steeis that could be seen Tues
day afternoon when a pictuie
was wanted of hei new' steer
faims,-he said the aveiage 30
cow heid has $44,000 invested
and has $4 000 annual income
These Immois don’t I,„ve much
money bon owed The 100 cow
l.ei d has 000 in' esied b it
makes $2O 000 i >en end has
mcie Uian half the money boi
io\ved
“Not cvei ’one (\.n aia :age the
huge m\ as* mem. ’ he cautioned
“Just wo, king a mw extra hoi is
will not do it You must know’
how to use money
“Dauying as a way of Lfe is
losing giound fast The added
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Lancaster Farming, Saturday, January 31,1970
Tv.’o black steeis, (getting icady
101 the 1970 fall shows! weie in
the exe'icise lot, but Kaien and
hei 9 yeai-old sistei Linda, who
has hei Hist steei thisyeai, walk
ed out and put a haltei on the
ore steei without any tiouble
He was a veiy tame steei, to say
the least.
Miss High was a member of the
winning State 4-H Judging team
in 1969 and credits hei expei
lence in 4H with helping her in
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SPEAKERS at the Lancaster County
Poultry Association’s information meet-
ing, Thursday night are: Cleft to right)
Ray Delano, Manager, Northeastern Egg
I Program For Egg Price
Stability Given Poultrymen
Three national poultry indus
try leaders, one representing
the Northeastern Egg Market
ing Association and two repre
senting the United Egg Produc
ers, told 100 local egg produc
Cities Carrying Pork
Advertising Show
56% Sales Increase
Sales of non-brand fresh poik
paralleled improved consumei
attitudes about poik as measur
ed m a six-month advertising-ie
search project completed recent
ly by the National Pork Council
Reseaich summaries reported
that cities carrying the Pork
Council advertising measmed a
sales increase of a whopping 56
pei cent Because fresh poik
sales enjoyed a “natural in
crease” in the “control” cities
v.here no advertising was car
ried, the net relative sales in
crease credited to the advertis
ing was computed at 26 per cent.
Media used in- the research
project was limited to newspaper
and radio with an expenditure at
the rate of 13 cents per capita in
the cities of Eugene, Oregon and
Portland, Maine Erie, Pa.- and
Fresno, Calif were measmed as
control cities
A compi ehensive “before and
after” study of consumer atti
ludes in the four cities measured
attitude improvements ranging
fi om thi ee to as much as twenty
pei cent on such image factors
as convenience in poik cookeiy,
safety and nututional values, di- :
gestibility and fat content
The adveiUsing themes sties ;
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New Local Grain Report 1
Stalling this week on the mar
ket pages of Lancaster Fainiing ;
you will find the local grain pric- ,
es. This report is the average of ]
the prices quoted by six local (
grain and feed concerns who are .
cooperating with this project, j
Watch for it each week.
ers of a new concept in price
control that is being tried in
their organizations
Speaking at the Lancaster
County Poultiy Association’s
first information meeting,
Thursday night at the Farm
and Home Center, these experts
told of then objectives at mar
ket reliability and stability.
What they are really doing is
gathering information on the
egg situation in all regions of
the nation, putting this infor
mation together and dispensing
it to their members The end
result is a producer information
service that shows if eggs are
priced realistically
On a voluntary basis, their
members are diverting surplus
eggs to the breakers when this
surplus would pull down the
shell egg market and so they
take less for five peicent of
their production but gain more
in the other 95 percent. The
• end result has been that the
‘ breakers bid for the surplus
eggs and in many instances, the
producer does not lose money
on any of his eggs
It was pointed out that during
the past 10 yeais egg pi educ
tion has varied only fi om 316 to
326 eggs per capita but the
fluctuation in puce has been
fantastic. With this orderly mar
keting system, it is believed a
more stable mdustiy can result.
It is believed that any or
ganization who will have an ef
fect on the maiket must have
paiticipation in pi icing, suffi
cient pioducei backing and
policies and piogiams to sup
poit then position in the maikefc
puce
The piogiam as outlined by
the guest speakeis was called
the most significant develop
ment in ag maiketmg in Ameri
can history Eggman have gone
from letting the dealeis set
the puce to helping puce their
own pioduct
Marketing Assn , Maurice M Stem, Pre
sident. Main Egg Farms, and Richard 01-
son. Assistant Manager, United Egg Pro
ducers. L. F. Photo
$2.00 Per Year