VOL 18 No. 21
H. Louis Moore, Penn State agricultural
economist, told a cattle feeders meeting
last Tuesday that 1973 would be a good
year for farmers.
Economist Predicts
A Beautiful Year
“Hogs are more than
beautiful,” Louis Moore told area
farmers during a Cattle Feeders
Day last Tuesday at the Farm
and Home Center. Moore is an
agricultural economist at Penn
State, and a popular speaker with
local audiences.
Not only did he paint a bright
Jaycees
Honor
Students
Kenneth Mummau was
recognized as Elizabethtown
High Schools most outstanding
vo-ag student by the E-Town
Jaycees at their annual banquet
last Saturday night. Mummau is
a senior and is the son of Mr. and
Mrs. Paul R. Mummau, E-Town
RDI.
Each year at their banquet in
observance of National Jaycee
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Robert Mummau, standing left, was named E-Town High
School’s most outstanding FFA student last Saturday night
by the E-Town Jaycees. Galen Kopp, right presented the first
place plaque to Mummau. Other students awarded cer
tificates were, left to right, James Gruber, Robert Gruber
and Marlin Gruber.
ItancMter Purmtaf Phots
picture of 1973 for hog producers,
he said all of agriculture is going
to have a good year. And he said
that 1972 was one of the best
years on record, at least for the
majority of American farmers.
“Last year was the best year
for farming since 1947,” Moore
said. “Net farm income for the
year has been estimated at $18.5
billion, and could go as high as
$l9 billion. That’s 14 percent over
1971.
“Farm equipment sales have
always been a pretty reliable
indicator of farming conditions.
In 1972, equipment sales were up
as much as 30 to 40 percent some
months. I must admit, though,
that Agnes held Pennsylvania
back somewhat.”
Moore said hog producers right
now and for the past several
months have been enjoying the
best profits on record. He expects
all of ’73 will be profitable, but
pointed out that soaring feed
costs will hurt. During the first
half of this year, Moore expects
hog prices to remain higher than
the same period last year, partly
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Lancaster Farming, Saturday, February 3,1973
j:j There were a number of late-breaking
j:j news stories this week as LANCASTER
FARMING was going to press. Another
ijj outbreak of hog cholera was discovered, a
|j: milk price hearing was announced on short
:i notice and without much publicity, and the
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? CHOLERA OUTBREAK REPORTED ;?
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*|: A herd of 22 breeding swine was
destroyed Tuesday m Richland Township,
Berks County, two days after a positive
diagnosis of hog cholera was made. All
gl farms within a five-mile radius of the farm
|| have been quarantined.
$ Dr Everett Denlinger, director of the
(Pennsylvania Bureau of Animal Industries,
said Friday morning that federal and state
investigators were working to determine
the source of the infection. He expects the
$ investigation to be completed within a
$ matter of days
Ij*; This outbreak brings to four the number
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MILK REFERENDUM $
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Jg In a state-wide referendum ending
% January 26, dairymen defeated a Penn
|£i sylvama Department of Agriculture
proposal for a five-cents per hun-
S dredweight check-off program for milk
I advertising.
As of Friday morning, a tally committee in
charge of counting the ballots was working
on a report of the voting. That committee’s
findings will be reported in next week’s
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g MILK PRICE HEARING $
The Pennsylvania Milk Marketing Board
g announced Thursday, February 1, that it
would hold a milk price hearing on
Tuesday, February 6, in Harrisburg. Ac
jij cording to board chairman Herbert
•j: Kapleau, the board will be accepting
§ testimony only from dairy farmers.
The hearing will begma 110:00 a.m. and
will be held in Room 309 of the Penn
sylvama Department of Agriculture
Buldmg, across from the Farm Show
S complex.
Farm Calendar
Saturday, February 3
6:45 p.m. - Ephrata Young
Farmers, 4th annual banquet,
Mt. Airy Fire Hall.
Monday, February 5
7:00 p.m. - Manheim Young
Farmers dinner meeting,
Corn Production meeting.
8:00 p.m. - Lancaster County
Poultry Association meeting,
Farm and Home Center
8:00 p.m. - Solanco FFA Chapter
meeting, Solanco High School,
Vo-Ag room.
State Project Book Contest.
Tuesday, February 6
9:30 a.m. - 3:30p.m. - Bth annual
Southeastern Dairy Con
ference, David Houck,
speaker, Guernsey Barn.
Snow Date Feb. 7
7 00 pm - Gourmet Cooking
Workshop, Farm and Home
Center.
7 30 p.m. - Central 4-H tractor
club meeting, Landis Bros.,
Manheim Pike, Lancaster.
Wednesday, February 7
7.30 pm. - Lancaster County
Conservation District
meeting, Farm and Home
Bulletins:
4-H Beefy Lamb
Winners Honored
County farm youths who won
awards at the 1973 Pennsylvania
Farm Show and the Southeast
District Show were honored
Thursday at the annual Red Rose
4-H Baby Beef and Lamb club
banquet at the Farm and Home
Center
Linda Good, of Lititz R 2, was
the top award winner in the beef
division A daughter of Mr. and
Mrs Paul T. Good, she had the
reserve champion crossbred
steer at the Farm Show and the
county champion steer.
A sophomore at Manheim
Central High School, Miss Good,
15, received a serving tray and
wrist watch. She also received a
silver bread tray for being one of
the three girls whose steers made
up the Champion Crossbred Trio
LAMB AWARD
Receiving the top award in the
lamb division was Steve
Donough, 15, of Manheim R 4
Donough had the Grand
milk referendum results were announced :$
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at presstime More details should be:-:
available in upcoming issues of this g
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of cholera cases reported in the Com- ;ij
monwealth in recent weeks. Earlier, a stop
movement order on all hog shipments had g
been issued by the Pennsylvania Depart
ment of Agriculture No such order is*:*
contemplated in connection with this most;*:
recent outbreak, according to Dr
Denlinger. §
On Thursday, the quarantine had been
lifted from an area in Lehigh and Berks
Counties which had been infected during :ji
the earlier cases. The site of the latest :*:
outbreak is 10 miles away from that other :*|
area.
LANCASTER FARMING, along with i-i
comments about the results from dairy $
spokesmen. $
One department of agriculture §
spokesman conjectured that the proposal $
was defeated in large measure because of §
the current feed price situation. Had the $
referendum been held at a more favorable $
time, he noted, it might have been passed. $
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Individual dairy farmers and dairy i-j;
cooperative representatives are expected
to present testimony on the current $
relationship between milk prices and feed £
costs in every one of the eight milk :S
marketing areas throughout the state.
The hurry-up nature of the meeting is
due at least in part to the urgent pleas for
such a hearing addressed to both the $
board and to Governor Shapp. The f*
requests came both from individual far- £
mers and cooperatives.
Champion Pen and the Grand
Champion Lamb, a Suffolk, at the
Farm Show
Donough, son of Mr and Mrs
Paul R Donough, received a
trophy. He is a ninth grade
student at Manheim Central High
School.
Susan Herr, 14, of 840 Penn
Grant Road, picked up three
awards for her crossbred steer. A
ninth grade student at Lampeter-
Strasburg, Miss Herr had the
reserve county champion steer
and was also judged the cham
pion beef showman at the Farm
Show
Miss Herr’s animal was also
part of the champion crossbred
trio, with Miss Good and Nancy
Wenger, 14, of Stevens Rl. For
her efforts Miss Herr received a
trophy, serving tray and bread
tray She is a daughter of Mr and
Mrs Carl B Herr
Miss Wenger, a_ ninth grade
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