AT THE MT. JOY FARMERS CO-OP
hieeting are; (left to right) Henry E Gar
ber, Elizabethtown Rl, re-elected director;
Joe Taylor, Penn State Specialist and
[9 Dairymen
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Investments mean change for
the dairymen. He will eithei
quit or borrow moie money and
develop an economic unit to pay
for the imestment”
Twenty-five years ago Penn
sylvania had 60,000 daii.vmen
getting a blend puce of $3 54
per hundred for milk, today vm
have about 20,000 dan y men get
ting $6 00 per hundred. By 1980
Taylor said he would not oe
Surpused if total Pennsylvania
daily faims would be down to
10,000.
On the subject of milk pio-
Inotion, the Penn State Specia
list said few dairymen icalize
the milk marketing problem
“In November,” he said, “even
though the Class I milk price
Fertilizing in the fall can benefit you ing clone, you'll be among the first to
much more than just giving you a head plant come spring. And the eatly plant
start next spring. □ If you bioadcast cis get the greatest yields! □ Dui/ng the
UNIPELS on top of this yeai's ci op stub- heat of summer, your plant roots will be
ble and plow it all down, you'll have a feeding on the vital UN I PEL nuln'enls
fertilizer working for you all ycar'iound. down in the moistutc zone wheie roots
□ During the fall and winter months, aie most active. □ This is why wo call
thenutiients in UNIPELS will be help- UNIPELS "The All-Season Feitilizer."
ing bieak down crop icsi- t ■ mu* D Come see us soon and
due and picpaiing the soil learn howyoucanget moie
fot early null lent tclease in f■ n -i-515—» r-i un value fiom your feitilizer
the spring. □ Wiln letliliz- imestment with UNIPELS.
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Lewis E. Bixler, Marietta Rl, President.
Also re-elected director was Roy Alger,
Palmyra. L. F. Photo
was up, Pennsylvania daiiymen “Milk can be sold without dc
lost 4 cents pei hundredweight ci easing the puce It is a mer
in blend puces or $78,000 chandiseable product. But
nothing will ever happen unless
•The dealcis once sold the the faim co ops do lt ,» Tayloi
milk on the letdil loute Now S£)]( j
the housewife is going to the
stoie to get it,” he said “Eveiy- In the business meeting, two
'•here I go, they ask the ques dnectois were ic-elected They
lion, il the faimei makes the ai- e Heniy E Gaiber, Ehza
most money on a puce mcieasc bethtown HI and Roy Alger,
who should* promote the sale of Palmyia Lewis E Bixler, Mau
rmlk etta Rl, piesided
in veiy cold weather It’s the
plant’s way of conseiving mois-
What’s wiong with my ihodo- tuie duimg co ld weathei When
dendion or othei broadleat evei- waimei weathei letmns, these
greens when the leaves curl this cuiled leaves will expand and ic
lime of tne year’ This is a com- sn ™ thei * nol ™ al * ha P e and
mon question when temperatures ang e on tbe stem Deep snow
get neai zero but home owners fover on many evergreens is a
are reminded that there is noth- blessin S thls Wmter because
Rhododendron
mg to get concerned about, be- they aie well-pioteeted beneath
cause this is a normal situation the snow.
work for you
all year ’round?
Lancaster Farming. Saturday, January 31.1970
Two Women's Magazines Comment
On Egg Diets And Cholesterol
"Many of the nation’s diet con
scious homemakers may find
themselves stocking up on eggs
while discarding then old choles
terol fears this month,” icpoits
Howard Helmet, PENB’s eastern
leprcsentalivc “\nd. the moti
vation will be coming from the
January issues of two of the na
tion’s leading women’s magazin
es, both containing diets that fea
ture not only eggs but lavoiable
comment on cholesterol, 100 ”
The magazines aie McCall’s
and The Ladies’ Home .Journal,
which have a combined cu eola
tion of ovei 15% million Althou
gh neither aiticle was the woik
of the magazines’ food editois,
the Journal's Food Depaitment
did work out the snack meals in
their “Nibblei’s Diet” aiticle It
maintains that weight loss is
moie ceitam with five substan
tial snack meals instead of thiee
main, largei meals
The article also points to a
study which indicated that men
who ate five 01 moie meals a day
weie least overweight, had less
cholesterol, and less blood sugar
than men who ate thiee meals a
day The article then piesented a
senes of snack lecipes, 12 of
which weie egg dishes These in
cluded a quiche, omelet, egg
salads, egg Maximillian, plus
sci ambled, poached, and fued
eggs
The McCall’s magazine Diet of
the Month article presents com
ments on an egg and gtapefruit
diet sucessfully used by Martin
(label, the actoi dncctoi-pioduc*
ei husband of Ailcnc Fiances.
The article quotes Di Kobcil
C Atkins, internist, caidiologisl,
and favoicd New York diet ox
peil, when asked wncthei it has
been established that eggs uuso
the cholesterol count “Yes . , .
but not as much as people think.
A high intake of sugai ind other
eaibohydiates has been shown to
laise the cholesteiol level even
moie People who cut caibohy
diates can usually eat all tho
eggs they want and still end up
with a loweied cholesteiol
If the egg industiy had pur
chased the space in these maga
zines at adveiUsing tales, it
would have cost neaily 540,000.
Market Costs Reduce
Consumer Food Dollar
A good health} shaie of Ire
monev spent foi food goes for
maiketing costs But what ,3
maiketing 9 It’s all the steps in
volved in getting food fiom the
pioducei to the kitchen
Most food, as the pioducer
sells it, would be unwelcome ,n
kitchens today Maiketing costs
can vaiy consideiably among
food pioducts Costs aie not veiy
high to move a dozen eggs fiom
a Pennsylvania poultiy house to
a neaiby supeimaiket shelf com
paied to getting wheat from a
combine in Noith Dakota into a
loaf of biead and delivered to
the same supeimaiket as the
eggs.
During 1969, maiketing costs
accounted for 59 cents of the
food dollai and the pioducei got
41 cents The biggest part of
marketing costs goes for laboi.
Hourly earnings and fnnge bene
fits of food marketing employees
are expected to continue rising
this year
In addition, pi ices of most in
puts, materials and equipment,
lent and taxes that marketing
firms will pay £Ol are expected to
be higher in 1970 Maiketing’s
share of the consumer food dol
lai probably will average 60
cents
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