Lancaster Farming. Saturday. February 28.1970
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Dairymen Told To Promote Milk'
Milk drains have indicated
they don't cate about the piob
lenis of the daily fainm. i o the
daily man must take the initia
tive m piomolion to mcieasc
consumer demand for milk
These weie among eomnients
by Joe S Taylor. Penn Slate
daily .science section chan man.
at the Dislnct 7 meeting of the
Interstate Milk Pioduccis Co
opciativc Wednesday
Besides adopting good man
agement piaclices leading to
low-cost, high quality milk for
the dealers, the dairyman must
Bigger Wool Production
Helps Sheep Profits
One way to make the wool
bag the money bag for small
sheep flocks is to select a flock
sue that will inciease the
flock’s wool piocluction
Accoiding to J V White
mena, professor of Animal
Genetics at Oklahoma State
University, genetic hentability
for wool quality is very high
Use of a ram that will increase
the wool clip from his progeny
by two or three pounds can add
profits of $1 30 to $1 85 per ani
mal in the flock.
The USDA reports that aver
age fleece weights for the U S
approximate 8 5 pounds In
Pennsylvania they average 7 5
pounds, in Delaware 71, in
Maryland 7 1 and in New Jeisey
7.4 Wool clips for the various
breeds of stud rams commonly
used in these states are, Chevi
ots from 5 to 7 pounds, Hamp
shires from 7 to 8, Shropshires
10 pounds, Southdowns from 5
to 7, and Suffolks 6 to 7 After
five generations the genetic
make-up of the ewes m a flock
will be over 96% that of the
rams used.
A 50 ewe flock that had been
grossing $227 50 in wool pay
'inents, with a high wool pro
ducing ram such as a Shrop
shire could gross $325 from its
wool clip, a lot moie money for
the fee bins, the Penn-Mai
Shropshire Bieedeis Club re
-ports
piomole milk to make it com
pel it i\e with beverage pioducls,
accenting to Taylor.
Tayloi based his asset tion on
declining per capita consump
tion of Class I milk and upon re
cent revelations of milk dealers
at a healing in Memphis, Tenn.
Milk pioduceis weie rudely
shocked at the healing. Taylor
stated, when the milk dealers
said they could caie less about
pioblcms of the dairy farmer.
Dealeis, he said, told the
danymen that the companies
weie in the food business and
weie looking for any lower pac
ed supplies that would sell and
make money The dealers con
sider their only responsibility is
to the company stockholders
Dany fanners haven’t undei
stood what was happening to
them, accoiding to Taylor.
“Nothing will happen until the
co-ops sell milk It has always
been that way Non-members
won’t help Co-op membeis are
the only oiganized group that
can do the job ”
The speaker also said that
milk dealers were in trouble
The mam pioblem is getting the
product distubuted
Dairymen have a good pro
duct, he said, but they are being
outsold
Promotional eftorts have
shown that consumers can be
conditioned to buy milk and
any losses in sales caused by
puce increases can be counter
acted “We have proved we can
sell milk without reducing the
price ”
Taylor also said if dairymen I
are satisfied with making $3,-
000-$4,000 clear annually with
30-40 cows, then they should
forget automation and expan
sion.
If, however, the dairymen
Pofoto Growers Meet
The Annual Potato Growers
meeting was held Wednesday,
Februaiy 25 at the Centre Pras
ha, tenan Church one mile west
o£ New Park, Yoik County.
want to make more money, they
must consider expansion and
automation to handle large
herds of 100 cows or better,
coupled with good management.
Taylor said that no matter
how many animals you have,
the good dairyman will make
$lOO per cow. with some real
good managers making $l5O.
Since this per cow figure does
not change with the number of
cows, the farmer’s income is
based on the number of cows
Expansion icquires good
faim management, he said, and
a knowledge of how to use
money.
He said farmers must learn
Now Higher interest on
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YES, we have the new high protein HyLycine Corn!!
YES, we have a special on seed for the J.D. PLateless planters!!
YES, we pack the OLD-FASHIONED 56# bushels no “LITTLE” Bags here!!
LANCASTER COUNTY DEALERS
Daniel Brubaker . ~
Daniel Esh
Nelson Habecker
Ron Herr
Richard Leminger ..
T. A. DOEBLER & SON
R. D. #1
how to use borrowed money.
Taylor criticized the belief that
it is wrong to borrow the money
and purchasers shouldn't buy
unless they can pay for it at
once.
Taylor also urged dairymen
to use the tools Penn State of
fered such as computers, line
ar programming and analysis
equipment, which he said each
farmer couldn’t possibly own.
Also speaking at the meeting
was Wilbur Seipt, of Montgo
mery County, piesident of Inter
state He too urged dairymen to
sell the idea of promotion and
to encourage neighbors to join
with the cooperative.
"LET'S fin
ACQUAINTED"
We’re the Doeblers and our only business is
growing, processing and distributing
DOEBLER’S PENNSYLVANIA HYBRIDS over
most of Pennsylvania (245 dealers) Hybud corn
production stai ted here in the late 30’s and
last year reached 800 acres Theie are many
things going for us but one of the most impoitant
is that we breed our hybuds here in
Pennsylvania where they will be fanner
planted Also since we giow oiu own corn,
we aie in a position to grow the “tough to
pioduce” crosses that involve mbieds, split
planting, old-fashioned detasseling and selective
feitilization Even with all this exti a care and
effort, we can’t guai antee our hybrids will
always be better than the competition, but our
saxes have doubled since 1965, so let’s just
say they are usually better l !
Ephrata
Paradise
Lancaster
Holtwood
Elizabethtown
Ho particularly singled out
the need to have some kind of
control over the milk being pro
duced to influence the market
value.
Awards for 25 years of mem
bership in Inter-state also were
presented to two families at the
meeting.
The Rev. John A. Breneman,
of Willow Street Rl, accepted
the award for his family. Hi*
son now operates a GO head herd
of Guernsey*
Lloyd I. Lefever, of Conestoga
Rl, accepted the honor lor he
and his father, Lloyd S. Lefever.
They operate a 35-head of Hol
stein farm.
MR. FARMER
T. A. Doebler, Jr. and Sr.
Ira Nissley
Monroe Wasser
Lester M Weaver
Thomas Weidman
Roy Zimmeiman
Jersey Shore, Pa.
Morgantown
Marietta
New Holland
Manheim
Ephrata, Pa.