14—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, September 22, 1973 Brown Swiss Show Added To All-American Agenda A new addition to the Penn sylvania All-American (PAA) Dairy Show will add glamour and hoopla to the judging ring. The 10th PAA opens Monday, Sep tember 24, at the Farm Show Building The new event is the designation of the Brown Swiss breed show as the approved Eastern National show of the Brown Swiss Cattle Breeders’ Association, Beloit, Wisconsin. This is just one of six breed shows in the PAA with the Holstein breed having been sanctioned the Eastern National for a number of years Because it is the Eastern National show, several things occur almost automatically. The amount of premiums offered jumps more than 10 percent to $lO,OOO and the number and quality of entries increase, resulting in keener competition Most of the glamour and hoopla will occur at the tail end of the judging in the Brown Swiss classes, Tuesday, September 25. The top two ribbon winners in each of the five cow classes along with the champion and reserve champion of Monday’s Junior Show, will enter the ring in a parade of champions Parade of Champions are not new to the Farm Show but this one should prove to be unique in that the champion cows will all be wearing neck bells and their BUY EARLY. • . and get the hybrid of your choice, with no price increase. This year buy your seed corn early and get the hybrids of your choice, not what’s left over after the order rush Also, if you act now you can cash in on a 8.5 percent DISCOUNT before September 29, 1973. CONTACT YOUR TROJAN DEALER JOHN W. ADAMS Route 1 New Bloomfield, Pa. 17068 Phone 717-582-2348 AMOS K. BLANK CLARENCE R. NEFF & SON Route 1 Route 1 Honey Brook, Pa 19344 Ronks, Pa 17572 Phone 215-273-3182 Phone 687-6406 CLIFFORD W. HOLLOWAY, JR. R.D.I Peach Bottom, Pa. 17563 Phone 717-548-2640 VERNON KEEFER Route 1 Millersburg, Pa. 17061 Phone 717-692-4334 MARK G. LANDIS Route 1 Box 147 Annville, Pa. 17003 Phone 717-867-7291 Eugene G. Hoover RD3, Lititz handlers will be dressed in traditional Swiss vests and hats. It is from this parade of champions that Judge James Armbruster, Eagle, Wisconsin, will select the Grand and Senior Champion Females and the Reserve Grand and Reserve Senior Champion Females. The final touch will be appropriate background music in an effort to transform the Farm Show Arena into a quaint little Alpine chalet and farmstead. All junior members of the Brown Swiss Association will be wearing distinctive jackets as they take their animals into competition. Junior members who place in the top three spots in their class have the option of entering the Eastern National without paying the entry fee. The Eastern National Brown Swiss Show will also bring with it a whole collection of new trophies each carrying the name of distinguished breeders who have contributed to the continuation of the breed in North America. The breeding classes of the PAA is what it’s all about. Following opening day youth events, Brown Swiss and Milking Shorthorns share the spotlight on Tuesday, Ayshires and Guernsey on Wednesday with Jersey and Holstein classes com mencing on Thursday. All judging activities start promptly at 9 a.m. m the Large Arena at the Farm Show Building. IRWIN W. MARTIN 1648 W. Mam St. Ephrata, Pa. 17522 Phone 717-733-7434 LEVI N. OBERHOLTZER Route 1 Richland, Pa. 17087 Phone 717-933-8336 MARLIN L. PAUL & SON R D Klmgerstown, Pa. Phone 717-425-3480 ROY B. STONER & SON Route 2 Lititz, Pa. 17543 Phone 717-626-8473 IRVIN N. ZIMMERMAN Route 2 Fleetwood, Pa 19522 Phone 215-944-9124 Sales Supervisor Phone 717-569-0756 TROJAN SEED CO. Coops See Need For Legislation The major problems bargaining associations face today are processors’ refusal to negotiate, weak membership cooperation, need for more members, inadequate financing, and insufficient bargaining legislation. Product oversupply also was mentioned at the time the problems were explored in a recent survey by the U. S. 5- FREE SAMPLE COPIES Copies of LANCASTER FARMING ore not always easy to find they are not sold on newsstands and perhjps some of your friends may not be acquainted with our weekly service. We'll be glad to send, without charge, several copies of LAN CASTER FARMING to your friends or business associates. Just write their names and addresses below (You'll be doing both them and us a favor!) Stieet Addiess &. R D City, State and Zip Code (You are not limited to two names. Use separate sheet for additional names.) □ CHECK here if you prefer to send a Yeai's (52 issues) GIFT subscription for $2 each to your friends listed above If so $ .. . . enclosed, or □ ( nECK here if you would like to subscribe to Lancaster Fat mmg □ Bill me later. Please mail this form to LANCASTER FARMING Department of (USDA). To help solve problems, the most popular proposal was legislation to encourage bargaining, that is, the actual negotiation of price and terms of trade between buyers and associations of farmers. The survey was conducted by USDA’s Farmer Cooperative Yom Name P.O. BOX 266. LITITZ. PA 17542 Service (FCA), and results are in a 28-page PCS booklet, “Bargaining Cooperatives-- Selected Agri-Industries.” The study shows something of the scope of agricultural bargaining throughout the country. In all, 53 bargaining associations responded by providing data on their activities. Dairy bargaining cooperatives were not included, because PCS considers their actions specialized enough to merit a separate study. Survey information is from 11 fruit, 8 vegetable, and 5 regional sugarbeet associations, plus a number of multi-commodity organizations, including the American Agricultural Marketing Association and the National Farmers Organization. Nearly all responses said members, nonmembers and processors benefit from association bargaining. They listed these bargaining results: better prices for members, more price stability, assured market for products, more orderly marketing, supervised grading and inspection, and reliable representation. Agriculture They indicated they will seek to increase membership and bargaining strength. A copy of FCS Information 90, “Bargaining Cooperatives-- Selected Agri-Industries,” is available free from Farmer Cooperative Information, U. S. Department of Agriculture, Room 1474 South Building, Washington, D. C. 20250. Plants with shallow roots-such as azaleas, rhododendrons, mountain laurel, and flowering dogwood need frequent waterings. And it’s a good idea to continue watering these plants on a regular basis until the ground freezes this fall, says J. Robert Nuss, Extension oranemntal horticulture specialist at The Pennsylvania State University. 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