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Vol. 17 No. 3
Action by 11. S. Secretary of flg Sought:
Poultry men Warned of 'Devastating 7 Newcastle
Potentially far more
destruction than Merek’s
disease.
Pretty as a picture is the old but well-kept farmstead
of John B. Groff at Mount Joy RDI. The beauty is partly
natural and partly functional. The pond, for instance, was
installed primarily as a source of water for the farm’s
USDA Urges 5-Cent Promotion In Federal Order
The U.S, Department of
Agriculture recently recom
mended amending the Middle
Atlantic Federal milk marketing
order to establish an advertising
and promotion program for milk
products.
USDA’s Consumer and
Marketing Service said the
recommendation is based on
evidence from a public hearing
held at Baltimore, Md., in Sep
tember, requested by dairy
cooperatives representing a
majority of producers supplying
milk to the order.
This was the first such hearing
on adoption in a Federal milk
order of this kind of a program,
as authorized by a 1971 amend
ment of the Agricultural
Marketing Agreement Act.
The program would be funded
by an assessment of 5 cents a
hundredweight on all milk that
producers deliver to the market
each month, before returns are
paid out to producers through the
marketwide pool. Quarterly
refunds would be made, however,
Farm Calendar
Monday, December 13
Deer Season, does only,
December 13-14.
Tuesday, December 14
7:30 p.m. Garden Spot Young
Farmer meeting, vocational
agriculture department,
Garden Spot High School.
7:30 p.m! Ephrata Young
Farmer family Christmas
party, Ephrata Area Junior
High School auditorium.
8 p.m. Farm and Home
Foundation board of directors
meeting, Farm and Home
Center.
Wednesday, December 15
National Farmers Convention,
Kansas City, Mo., December
15-17.
The disease 9 Newcastle
It’s a new form of Newcastle
beginning to appear in the U S
to any producers not wishing to
participate in the program.
The recommendations were
scheduled to be published in the
Federal Register December 1,
and comments may be filed up to
December 21. Four copies should
Young John Holloway of Chester County
receives a trophy Wednesday for his grand
champion animal at the Southeast District
4-H Baby Beef Show at the Lancaster
Union Stock Yards. Presenting the trophy
Lancaster Farming, Saturday, December 11,1971
trom many foreign countries
Poultry producers used to
suffering relatively modest
animaU waste irrigation system. (For details on the
animal waste issue in general and how Groff and other
farmers are handling the problem, see page 14.)
be sent to the Hearing Clerk, 112-
U.S. Department of Agriculture,
Washington, D.C. 20250, where
they will be available for public
inspection.
Copies of the decision may be
obtained from Market Ad
setbacks from Newcastle are
getting a sharp warning
This foreign Newcastle is far,
mimstrator Edward L. St. Clair,
710 S. Washington St., Alexan
dria, Va. 22314, or from the Dairy
Division, Consumer and
Marketing Service, U.S.
Department of Agriculture,
Washington, D.C. 20250.
is Dennis Cox, representing the New
Holland Divison of Sperry Rand Corp. The
1,100 animal was bought later in the day by
Whitford Sales Co., near Exton, for 97 cents
a pound.
$2.00 Per Year
far more “devastating” than
anything which has been known
in this country
Flocks his by the foreign
Newcastle disease can be vir
tually wiped out in a few days
Mortality rates of 20 to 95 per
cent can be expected, according
to Jay W Irwin, associate
Lancaster County ag agent
Producers with a 10,000 flock can
expect to see as many as 500 birds
a day die, if the disease strikes,
Irwin warned
In a recent joint report by Irwin
and Dr Floyd Hicks, Penn State
University poultry Extension
specialist, it was stated
“The foreign form of
Newcastle disease is capable of
causing devastation to our
poultry populations Extremely
high death losses were ex
perienced in two large or
namental flocks m New York and
Florida In a five farm outbreak
in Texas and New Mexico nearly
one-quarter million chickens
died This represented a 21 per
cent mortality rate in birds that
had been triply vaccinated
“The signs usually seen in
Newcastle outbreaks are
respiratory distress (sneezing,
coughing), decreased egg
production and nervous system
disturbance (twisted neck,
paralysis).
“Any ailing or sick birds should
be taken to the State Diagnstic
Laboratories for analysis A flock
history should be taken to the lab
with the birds There is no charge
for the service of diagnosis Labs
are located at Summerdale near
Harrisburg and the new Bolton
Center east of London Grove ”
In a letter prepared by the
Lancaster County Poultry
Association this week and being
sent out under the signature of
Vernon Leininger, president, and
John Huber Jr, vfce president,
local poultrymen were told
“ Seventeen foreign countries
have near epidemic situations
with this exotic Newcastle
disease in poultry flocks and
ornamental birds The
guarantine loopholes in federal
importation regulations for or
namental birds and the heavy
importation of exotic fowl into the
United States from these coun
tries infected with the disease
have brought about this
situation ”
The Lancaster County
(Continued on Page 3)
In This Issue
Classified Ads 26,27
Editor’s Desk 16
Egg Bust Warning 23
4-H Beef Show 1
Market Reports 2,3,4
McSparran Feature 18
Pa Poultry Banquet 17
Tax Report 8
Washington Report 7
Women’s News 19,20, 21
Also, see special report this
week on page 14 on the animal
waste problem and what some
local farmers are doing about it.
The new REAP funding is ex
plained.
The McSparran feature this
week involves the well-known
Aaron Stauffer family. See page
18.
Alert to all poultrymen! Read
our page one story on the foreign
Newcastle disease.