—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, July 3,1971 12 Pa. Marketers Discuss At the recent meeting of the Pennsylvania Egg Marketing Association, President Sam Berenson, who had just return ed from Italy, reported that some response had been receiv ed from Congressmen from Pennsylvania and all indicated that there is no chance of an extension on the provisions of the Egg Products Act that goes into effect July 1, 1971. He stated that a strong hard ship will fall upon many in shell egg .marketing because there will only be six plants in operation in Pennsylvania He said that preparations should be made in advance regarding the shell egg provisions due to go into effect July 1, 1972 “We must not wait until the last minute if we wish to protect our industry,” he said Earl Hess appointed a com- Allison Joins Pennfield Alvin C. Allison has joined Pennfield Corporation as Vice President of Marketing and Dis tribution, a new corporate office. He is lesponsible for all mar keting and distribution activities of the company, as well as for devloping new areas of business and acquisitions Prior to joining Pennfield, he was Corporate Vice President and General Manager of Fair mount Foods, Inc., a large food firm. Pennfield manufactures agricultural and food products which are distributed in the northeast United States, Allison is a native of Min neapolis where he attended the University of Minnesota He and Mrs Allison will reside in Lan caster Annual Forest Flights Begin District Forester, Patrick Lantz, Forest District 17 Bureau of Forestry, recently announced that the annual insect and disease surveillance flights have begun over the forested areas of Berks, Bucks, Chester, Dela ware, Lancaster and Montgo mery Counties. The aerial flights are de signed to cover all the forested areas of the District. Outbreaks of disease and insect infesta tions are located and mapped. PROTECT YOUR BARN AGAI DETE LET US P THIS You can sa tracting wi barn. Ne' equipment ( scaffolding, tion paintin; addition t« Send postcj free estim; SEAL R.D.2 EP] Phone 7. mittee to study the U. S. Stand ards as they will apply in 1972 The committee is made up of Sam Berenson, chairman, Varna Carpenter, Ray Sauder and Tom Smith. Regis Puhl, recently appoint ed chairman of the member ship committee, stated that he has a number of ideas which he will develop with the help of other members and announce them at the September meet ing. Presently he feels that each member should plan to get an other member by September. A report on the egg sandwich contest indicated that thus far 59 requests have been received for the winning recipe. There is some indication that national check-off legislation may come with the possibility of controls later. Also a report that U. S. nutri tions were about to recommend Alvin C. Allison Later, each mapped area is checked on the ground by for esters assigned to the counties in which the damage is located. The information is forwarded to the entomology section in the Harrisburg office for fur ther action. “Forest insects and diseases account for a greater mortality and destruction of trees, in number and value, than do for est fires. It is extremely im portant that we do our best to keep these pests under control,” Lantz said. Egg Act and Money Management only three eggs a week as a good diet level, but this has been denied. The P.E.M.A. vot°d to furnish $2OO to match $2OO from the Federation to provide a bro chure to go with the Flip-Chart Program of promotion. Tom Smith was appointed by Earl Hess to represent the P.E.M.A. when working with the Depart ment on the program. FinanceJManagement Kermit Birth presented an excellent explanation of Finan cial Management.cge said, “In recent year?”management per sonnel have been aware of the need for improved methods of evaluating the economic worth of investments. Management is concerned with the question of how well alternative courses of action affect profits. “But before management can use various techniques the crucial problem in business planning is to predict or fore cast how costs and revenue will Banmnd Paitamnnoa New Van Dale “1230 Series II” Silo Unioader Customer- Certified to outperform, outlast any make its size. You're in command. Push the bi the new Van Dale “1230 Series I Unloader go into action—give you output, feed more head—withou booster or added electricity. Our say so? 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They do, however, re quire the same analysis of changes in costs and yield on investment techniques require. Birth pointed out that both the present value and the yield of investment techniques con sider the time value of money. It considers the compounding of interest annually. He concluded by emphasiz ing the necessity of carefully evaluating how costs and reve nues would change for the al ternative investments and using net present value or yield of investment techniques to de termine contribution to pro fits.” Egg Clearing House Frank Urner and his associ ate, Mr. Brown, gave a complete explanation of the Computer Egg Clearing House system of buying and selling eggs. The program is expected to get un der way in July. Should anyone desire infor mation on this program they may contact Frank Urner in New York, or Egg Clearing house Inc., A.I.G. Building, 150 Weldon Parkway, Maryland Heights, Missouri 63043, phone 314-432-8853. 1 I E. J. Lawless Jr