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Vol. 17 No. 29
“We need the Board, but ... ”
Avalong Fights Milk Board Action
“We’re going to fight the Milk Board all
the way to the Supreme Court if we have
to,” Clyde Long, vice-president of Avalong
Farms, York, told Lancaster Farming this
week in an exclusive interview. He was
referring to a May 19 Commonwealth
Court injunction restraining Avalong
Farms from selling milk below minimum
prices. The injunction was obtained by the
Pennsylvania Milk Marketing Board.
“What we’re doing, we’re doing on
purpose," Long said. “We run a jugging
operation. The law says we’re allowed to
sell no more than two gallons of milk a day
to any one customer.”
“We’re fighting that law. The best way 1
knew to fight it was to violate it. Now, I
respect the law, and I’m not saying that
laws should be broken whenever anybody -
feels they want to change things. But in
this case, I just couldn't see any other
way.”
Avalong Farms began the fight with a
sign tn the window advertising milk at 99-
cents a gallon with no limit on the number
of gallons that could be bought. A local
newspaper spotted the sign and printed a
picture of it along with a story. Shortly
Substantial Rise Reported in
Conestoga Creek Sedimentation
Sedimentation in the Conestoga
Creek has doubled in the past ten
years, it was revealed Wed
nesday night at the regular
meeting of the Lancaster County
Conservation District. A U.S.
Geological Survey report shows
that in the early 60’s, the
Poultry Queen
Contest Entries
Due June 20
Know any girl-type chicks
who’d make good candidates for
the title of Lancaster County
Poultry Queen? If so, there’s not
much time left to get your
favorite candidate into the
running, according to John
Melhorne. Melhorne is on the
board of directors for the Lan
caster County Poultry
Association, and is in charge of
this year’s Poultry Queen con
test.
Potential candidates can
contact Melhorne by phone at 653-
1102, Mount Joy. The deadline for
entering is June 20.
Candidates must reside in
Lancaster County, be single and
between the ages of 17 and 23.
They must also be an employee
of, or related to (daughter, sister,
niece, or in-law) an employee of
the poultry or allied industries, or
of a producer of eggs, turkeys,
broilers, or other poultry
products. » » • • * • ■ • ’ •
Conestoga was carrying about
half its present sedimentation
load level of 530 tons per square
mile per year.
District directors heard these
and other facts in a lengthy
report from Craig Kachel, a
student at Franklin and Mar
shall. Kachel is doing in
dependent study under a federal
grant to determine the extent of
pollution in the Conestoga water
basin. The Conestoga, he said,
drams an area of about 500
square miles.
Eleven sampling stations have
been established in the Conestoga
and its tributaries, Kachel said.
Three are in the Conestoga itself.
The other eight are at the mouths
of Muddy Creek, Little Muddy
Creek, Cocalico Creek, Hammer
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Farm Calendar
Monday, June 12
Fulton Grange meeting, ice
cream festival, Oakryn.
Tuesday, June 13
8 p.m. Farm and Home
Foundation board of directors
meeting, Farm and Home
Center.
Wednesday, June 14
7:30a.m. - 3 p.m. Berks County
Wool Pool, Reading Fair
Grounds.
Thursday, June 15
6 p.m. Pennsylvania Poultry
Federation annual meeting,
Sheraton Inn, Harrisburg.
Lancaster County Dairy Princess
Contest, Farm and Home
Center.
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Lancaster Farming, Saturday, June 10,1972
The Golden Egg Award of Excellence,
“for consistently preparing and serving
fine quality eggs," was presented to Lester
Bingeman, owner of Bingeman's
Restaurant, by the the Pennsylvania Egg
Marketing Association. Shown above
Pennsylvania Price Index Up 3 Points
The index of prices received by
Pennsylvania farmers increased,
three points during the month
ended May 15, to 280 per cent of
its 1910-14 average. Higher prices
for steers, heifers and hogs more
than offset lower prices for milk
and eggs. The mid-May 1972
index was 5 points above the
comparable index of 1971, ac
, cording to a report released this
thereafter, a Milk Board agent caf..e into
the store and bought three gallons of milk.
And then the injunction was served.
Explaining the injunction, Milk Board
chairman Harry E. Kapleau said, “Avalong
Farms was operating as a milk dealer
without a license and selling milk below
minimum prices. Farmers are permitted to
sell a maximum of two gallons of milk to a
consumer in any one day without being
subject to the minimum prices of the Act.
This exemption is given to farmers who
process and sell only that milk produced on
their own farms.”
Avalong in the past sold milk under the
farmers exemption, Kapleau said. When
they began to sell milk in excess of
allowable quantities they were, in the view
of the Board, subjecting area milk dealers
to unfair competition.
“Until the Milk Marketing Law is
changed, the Board must enforce all
provisions as they affect farmers, dealers
and consumers,” Kapleau concluded.
Clyde Long said that Avalong is now
selling milk, but they are keeping within
the prescribed limits. “But this still doesn't
week by the Pennsylvania Crop
Reporting Service.
For the country as a whole, the
index increased 4 points to 123 per
cent of the January-December
1967 average for the month ended
May 15. Higher prices for hogs,
beef cattle, cotton, cantaloupes
and watermelons contributed
most to the increase.
. , Lower prices for milk, lettuce
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during the presentation are (left to right)
Russell H. Keith, making the award,
Bingeman, Raymond Sauder, all of Lititz,
and E. J. Lawless, Jr, Harrisburg, a
member of the Pennsylvania Department
of Agriculture and PEMA secretary.
and sweet corn were only par
tially offsetting. The index was 10
per cent above a year earlier.
The index of prices paid by
farmers for commodities and
services, including interest,
taxes and farm wage rates, for
May 15 was 125, unchanged from,
a month earlier. Lower prices for <
motor supplies offset higher
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