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Policy Resolutions Voted on at New policy relating to agriculture, education, legislation, and a wide variety of other subjects was established by the Pennsylvania State Grange with the adoption of more than fifty resolutions at the final session of its recent 100th con vention at Williamsport, ac cording to A. Wayne Readinger, master. Delegates asked for retention of the Milk Marketing Board, and enforcement of present milk laws rather than their abolition. They renewed a year-old request to the State Department of Agriculture for a milk referendum of a checkoff for promotion and research They would let juggers market only the milk produced by their respective herds. The department was commended for completion of the program making Pennsylvania a brucellosis and T B. free state. Added funds to hire more milk inspectors were advocated as a check on milk quality. LANCASTER LABORATORIES, INC. ANALYTICAL SERVICES DIVISION Feeds, Flour, Forages, Foods Dairy Products, Water, Waste Water Bacteriological, Physical, Chemcial 2425 New Holland Pike Lancaster, Pa. 17601 Telephone (717)656-9043 or (717)656-9868 Top priority for preservation of good farm land was urged along with these related proposals: State inspection of meat and other foods at retail; continuance of Penn Central service between Williamsport and Elmira, N.Y.; support for farm and en vironmental research at Penn State University; a National Agriculture Day annually on the fourth Monday of March, con tinued U.S. investment credit, and REAP (Rural En vironmental Assistance Program) under the U.S. Department of Agriculture, with the release of its full ap propriation. Added federal farm flood damage indemnity and extension of the emergency livestock feed program beyond May 15 were requested. Early enactment of a con stitutional amendment for preferential taxation of open space land, replacement of local real estate tax with an increase in a graduated income tax were Join Commonwealth’s 1973 Christmas Club now, and take home this attractive scented candle and wreath for just $l.OO, tax included. (It’s worth much more.) You’ll brighten your Christmas Lancaster • Centerville • Lancaster East • Landisville • Lititz • Manheim Township Millersville • Rohrerstown • Elizabethtown • Plus 21 additional offices in central Pennsylvania Brighten this Christmas -and next Commonwealth ii National Bank advocated. In education, the convention endorsed a recommendation by State Master Readinger that property levies for schools be replaced by some other form of tax, and that consideration be given to year-round instruction, standardized school building plans, and public referendums on school building projects. Renewed opposition was taken against diversion of federal high way monies for other uses, along with a recommendation for creation of a transportation trust fund to finance mass transit Approval was given to the following Farm labor relations bill (HB-13891) in Congress to prevent boycotts and to let farm workers decide unionization issues by secret ballot Ban X-rated movies from broadcasting channels Restore Armistice Day observance to November 11. State ban on planting Multiflora Rose on agricultural land Identical federal and state regulations for small meat processors, inspections by one person, and that meat inspection, recently taken over by the federal government, be returned to the State Department of Agriculture Bounty on raccoons m counties where they cause farm crop damage Low interest state loans for college students, these to be repaid later v \7\ . . . or a friend’s. 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Member FOIC Lancaster Farming, Saturday, November 11.1972 101st Grange Meeting Bible reading by astronauts on moon mission Repeal of Teacher Tenure Act. now outdated by right to unionize Modified no-fault insurance plan Stricter building codes for mobile homes, and more careful inspection of them by the manufacturer Improved U S mail service— faster delivery and with post mark of point of origin Stricter legislation against illicit traffic in narcotics and other harmful drugs Changes in state income tax law to eliminate discrimination against self-employed persons by taxing all of their income, whereas employed persons receiving fringe benefits that are not taxed Break wall to preserve Presque Isle Peninsula at Erie Mail order drugs, but fall prosecution for abusing privilege Studded auto tires from Oc tober 1 to May 1 Constitutional revision requiring confirmation by the State Senate of interim ap pointments soon after it con venes Dominick amendment to State Senate bill 1861 on minimum wage legislation Cooperation with state and local officials in developing larm pollution control programs Life imprisonment without parole if courts rule out death penaltv for any crime tor which this penalty could be applied and referendum on capital punish ment The following were opposed Holding State Farm Show on Sunday Moving Farm Show away fiom Harrisburg Combining U S Department ol Agriculture with an\ othei federal department School busing solelv toi maintaining racial balance Reduction in size Legislature Liquor sales on Sundav especially to young people Pending further studv action was deferred on a resolution from Eagle Grange \’o 1 at Mon tgomery, opposing a solid w.'Mt land fill on lederal orison properly at Mlenwood Pi’son Camp in L\coming eount\ First Born Pigs Are Heavier, Stronger First-born pigs are usually heavier and more vigorous than the rest of a swine litter, ac cording to research b> University of Illinois animal scientists Of 75 litters studied, 52 were Irom second litter sow’s, and 22 from first litter gilts The 685 pigs produced from the 75 litters were tattooed according to birth order Litter size ranged from J to 14 live pigs, with a 92 4 per cent survivial to weaning at 28 days Arranging the pigs in the order ot their birth produced significant correlations between birth order and birth weight with first-born pigs weighing more High correlations between birth order and the percentage of survival to 28 days were also observed w ith a larger percentage of survival in the first-born pigs sustain top production with the BABCOCK B-300 Keeping production up., costs down... is the profit key m poultry operations. 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