14— Lancaster Farming. Saturday. April 4.1970 Eastern Milk Official Urges School Program Continuance of the special milk program. formerly known as the "School Milk Program," is not only essential to the maintenance of good nutrition among youngsters of school age, but impoit.ml to prevent a financial blow to dairy farm ers throughout the country, a dairy leader cautioned legisla tors in Washington D. C. re cently. 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Box 96, Ephrata, Pa duceis Association pointed out to the legislators that milk not given to children under the Houscplants may need large Special Milk Program eventual- contameis when roots appear on ly ends up as a surplus product the soil surface and pioliudc or products which the Federal out drainage holes Government is required to buy j nveU thc p i an ts. tap the eon under the price support pro- tamers on the edge of a bench B ram * and remove the plants with soil Mr York stated on behalf of from the pots If the soil is cov the 8500 members of Eastern, ered with a netwoik of roots, including 21 affiliated coopera- tiansfer thc plants lives, that the elimination of According to a Pennsylvania the Special Milk Program would state University correspondence result in much greater losses to course on houseplants, icpotting all dairy farmers than the net C an b e done any season A good cost to the federal government, time is when plants begin active "It must be borne in mind growth as in early spung. that, first, the Federal Govern- Begonias, ferns and other ment only pays part of the cost plants giown for then foilage of the milk distributed to chi. need repotting eveiy twooi thiee dien approximately 3 4 cents years. Select containers with dia per half pint with the school meters one thud to one-half the or child paying the remainder plants’ height A begonia 12 inch “ Secondly, dairy farmers re- es tall needs a pot fom to six ceive a higher price when milk inches in diameter. is distributed for fluid consump- Provide di ainage in the bot tion than when it is converted toms of the containers A pot into manufactured dairy pro- SIX inches in diameter needs one ducts. ir .ch of broken crockeiy or grav- en dollars and cents, milk el When lepottmg oiclnds and distributed under the Special cacti, fill the pots one third full Milk Program returned an aver- of drainage matenal befoie put age of $6 75 per hundred ting in the soil pounds to farmers m 1969. Learn more about houseplant When sold for surplus uses, it caie Send your name and ad returned only §4 28 diess to Houseplants, Box 5000, "The difference of $2 47 Umersity Paik, Pa 16802 Make means a total loss of 40 million checks payable to Penn State dollars to our nations dairy There are no other chaiges and farmers In the five northeast- a complete couise copy comes to ern markets to which Eastern you by mail. Milk Produceis ships milk, the loss would be $9 million ” For fiscal year 196 9-1970, the mg that, “Eastern strongly Federal Government reduced urges that the Special Milk Pio the appropriation for the Spec- gram be continued after June lal Milk Program from $lO4 30, 1970, and that adequate million to $B4 million funds be made available for its Mr. York concluded by say- 1 operation To allow for the growth of the program, the ap propriation should be $125 mil ton for the next fiscal year Selective Heibicide glass, iall pamcuni, foxtails, Johnsongrass seedlings, goosegrass, shatteicane and others that i educe youi yields Liquid Sutan is easy to handle and apply Mix Sutan in the soil as you make youi seedbed There’s no need to depend on unpiedictable rainfall to move the heibicide into the weed seed zone Sutan will be waiting to contiol weeds as they sprout Used at recommended rates, Sutan conti ols weeds without leaving harm ful residues in the soil Fiee youi self fiom work and worry see us now toi Sutan. 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