Annual Dairy Day Is Set Tuesday
A panel discussion on milk
marketing will be among
highlights of the annual Lan
caster County Dairy Day
program at the Farm and Home
Center Tuesday, March 7 from 9
a.m. till 3 p.m.
Panel moderator will be Joe S.
Taylor, Penn State University
chairman of dairy extension. The
panel will begin at 11 a.m. and
run till the noon lunch period.
Members of the panel, entitled
“State Milk Marketing Board,”
will include: Henry R. Geisinger,
Pennsylvania Milk Dealers
Association; Daniel L. Martin,
director, Inter-State Milk
Producers’ Cooperative; and
Maurice Martin, secretary,
Pennsylvania Milk Marketing
Board.
Master of ceremonies of the
Dairy Day program is N. Alan
Bair, assistant Lancaster County
ag agent.
Some 17 agri-business firms
will have exhibits with up-to-date
equipment and ideas for viewing
by local diarymen. All interested
fanners and agri-businessmen
are invited to attend.
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(with or without
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DAIRY DAY
MARCH 7
9 A.M. to 3 P.M.
FARM & HOME CENTER
GLENN M. HOOVER
Leola RD No. 1
Phone 656-8020
DAIRY DAY
FARM AND HOME CENTER
MARCH 7
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Inspection of the exhibits is
scheduled for 9 a.m. and during
the lunch period from 12 noon till
1:30 p.m.
Lunch will be available at a
cost of $1.25 per person. Milk, ice
cream and cheese will be donated
by milk distributors and
manufacturers of dairy products.
The program will begin at 9:30
a.m. with a dairy promotion film
by the Atlantic Dairy
Association.
At 10 a.m. W. Wayne Hinish,
Penn State University agronomy
Extension specialist, will present
“Manure Values and Handling”
followed at 10:30 a.m. by “Care
and Economics of Dairy
Equipment” by Stephen B.
Spencer, Penn State dairy Ex
tension specialist.
Following the luncheon recess,
the program will resume at 1:30
p.m. with Dr. Richard S. Adams,
Penn State dairy extension
specialist, on “Dairy Feeding to
Prevent Breeding Problems.” At
2:15 p.m. Dr. Samuel Guss, Penn
State Extension veterinarian will
present “Antibiotics and the
Dairyman”.
The 1972 Dairy Day committee
members and die organizations
represented are: Max Smith,
Lancaster County ag agent,
chairman; James Barnett, Inter-
State Milk Cooperative; Arthur
Breneman, Lancaster County
Guernsey Breeders Association;
Robert Bushong, Lancaster
County Agricultural Extension
Service; Donald S. Eby, Red
Rose Dairy Herd Improvement
Association (DHIA).
James Esbenshade, Lancaster
County Ayrshire Breeders
Association; John Flora, Zausner
Foods Corporation; J. Wade
Groff, Lancaster County
Agricultural Extension Service;
Simeon Horton, Mounty Joy Milk
REMODELING?
" YOURS FOR BETTER DAIRYING”
John E. Kreider
to 3
9 A. Mo
Cooperative; William Deisley,
Moore Dairy.
William Killough, Penn -
Dairies, Inc.; Robert Keen,
Difference Between
Marketing spreads—which
rose an average 1.4 per cent
annually during the 1960’s—in
1970 recorded an unusually large
7 per cent gain over 1969, ac
cording to a report issued
recently by the U. S. Department
of Agriculture.
USDA’s Economic Research
Service has published details on
farm-retail spreads for a market
basket of farm foods periodically
Single Car Accidents
Cut 50% by Lane Lines
Secondary roads which are
marked according to Federal
Highway Administration
standards successfully im
prove safety ratios, according
to a recent study of traffic
accidents sponsored by Pot
ters Industries, Inc. of Carl
stadt, N. J.
“Test areas marked with
double yellow center lines,
white skip lines indicating
passing zones and white edge
lines, showed a 50 per cent
reduction in single car acci
dents where the road was
previously unmarked,” John
P. Manley, executive vice
president of Potters, reported.
“Where the road was pre
viously marked with only a
single white center line and
edgelines, we found a 32 per
cent reduction.” Control roads
which were not marked
showed an increase of 38 per
cent in single car accidents,
he said. The test was made in
West Milford, N. J. from May
through August, 1971.
P. M.
Ph. 299-2536
Lancaster Farming, Saturday, March 4.1972
Queen Dairy, Inc.; Jay E.
Landis, Lancaster County
Holstein Breeders Association;
Amos Rutt, Lancaster County
Farm and Retail Prices Up Sharply
since 1941. In the current report,
which updates past publications,
new data and procedures have
been used to caluculate farm
retail price spreads to improve
accuracy.
The report presents revised
farm-retail spreads for a
“market basket” of domestic
farm-originated foods and 46
individual foods. It also includes
analysis of these statistics and a
detailed description and
evaluation of the data and
techniques employed in their
development.
The big jump in the marketing
spread—the difference between
returns to farmers and price
{consumers pay—during 1970
(accompanied substantial in
creases in wages and other costs
pf doing business during the
inflationary period of the late
1960’5. Marketing costs and price
spreads, with the exception of
slight dips in 1965, climbed every
year during the past decade.
Marketing spreads generally
account for most of the rise in the
Agricultural Extension Service,
and Dr. H. G. Wohnseidler,
Sealtest Supplee Dairy.
retail cost of a market basket of
farm foods.
A copy of “Farm-Retail
Spreads for Food Products,”
MP74I, is available free on
postcard (please include your
zipcode) or telephone (388-7255)
request to the Office of In
formation, U. S. Department of
Agriculture, Washington, D. C.
20250.
II you like shish kebabs, Irish
stew, or lamb in any other way,
you’ll want the new booklet,
“How to Buy Lamb,” just
released by the U S. Department
of Agriculture’s Consumer and
Marketing Service Illustrated
1 with photos of popular retail cuts
and a chart of the cuts from a side
ol lamb, the booklet is a gold
mine ol information for the
consumer For a Iree single copy,
drop a postcard to - Information
Division, C&MS, U S Dept of
Agriculture, 26 Federal Plaza
(Rm 1653), New York, NY 10007.
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