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—Lancaster Farming, Saturday. August 12. 1972
Disease Threat Seen
Hindering Poultry Shows
Exhibits of poultry at Penn
sylvania fairs this year will be
restricted because of the
nationwide threat of exotic
Newcastle disease, according to
Secretary of Agriculture Jim
McHale.
McHale said his department
will follow the resolution adopted
by the National Poultry Im
provement Plan at its July
conference whereby poultry
exhibits will be limited to
specimens “which have been
under the direct ownership of the
exhibitor for at least six mon
ths.” The organization also
recommended that “no poultry
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Broiler producers in Penn
sylvania turned July into an up
and-down month with widely
disparate marketing goals.
Only 1,042,000 chicks were
started on feed last week, a
decline of 24 percent from the
previous week. The extremely
low total was also off 10 percent
from the same week in 1971. The
slow week also brought down the
10 week average to a new low,
eight percent off from a year
earlier.
While Pennsylvania ranks
third in egg production, its
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be accepted for exhibition from
out of state.”
In complying with NPIP’s
resolution McHale asked that
people attending fairs this year
refrain from bringing poultry for
exhibits.
“I hope that all citizens
cooperate by containing their
poultry from possible contact
with infected breeds,” said
McHale.
The disease has wiped out large
flocks of poultry in California and
is generally regarded by
veterinarians as a threat in all
regions of the country.
broiler-layer output is no better
than 12th.
A good portion of the daily
hatch of broiler-type chicks
continues to be shipped out of
Pennsylvania. The weekly
average is now up to 265,000,
about 17 percent higher than last
year.
A recent survey of U.S.
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State Provides
Two hundred and fifty jobs
state-wide are now available as a
result of a joint effort through
Secretary Smith of Labor and
Industry and Secretary McHale
of the Pennsylvania Department
of Agriculture. Anyone 18 years
of age or over with some
agriculture experience or
background is eligible to par-
Daily Peach
Prices to be
Broadcast
The Pennsylvania Department
of Agriculture has begun sup
plying daily price reports on
peaches during the peach harvest
season, it was announced Mon
day by Secretary of Agriculture
James A. McHale.
Truckload FOB prices will be
given daily over radio stations
WGET, Gettysburg, WORK,
York, and WCHA, Chambersburg
for the counties of Franklin,
Adams, York, Lancaster,
Cumberland and Fulton.
“This is the first year such a
price service has been made
available,” Secretary McHale
said. “The purpose is to enable
Pennsylvania growers,
especially small growers, to get
the best possible prices.”
The Service will supplement
terminal market prices supplied
by the Federal market news
service. The prices will be
collected daily from growers who
sell direct to buyers who come to
the farm and from area shippers.
The price information service
will continue through September
8. Plans call for expanding into
other peach growing areas in the
future
XXX
What’s a dairy farmer doing in
a town like Hershey, Penn, where
the major industry is the
manufacture of chocolate 9 The
answer is simply—’“milk
chocolating”. Hershey uses the
milk supplied by 50,000 cows
every day to produce their
famous milk chocolate, the most
popular form of eating chocolate.
XXX
The Protein Advisory Group of
the United Nations say “Drink
Milk ” Their report, Statement
No. 17, says that “milk is con
sidered virtually a complete food
and in the developing areas of the
world.. the use of milk for child
feeding programs is strongly
advocated by all nutrition ex
perts.”
Workers to Aid
ticipate in this eight-week work
program beginning the week of
August 14, 1972.
Farmers and rural home
owners who qualify for this
service will be provided free
labor to rebuild fences, to repair
soil erosion and stream bank
damage, debris removal, and
general cleanup and repair of
buildings that were damaged as a
result of the June flood.
Secretary Jim McHale said: “We
have been searching vainly for a
way to help rural Pennsylvanians
out of their plight as a result of
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