Neema Northeast Egg Marketing Association’s role in helping to chart a course for the national egg industry will come in for a lot of attention when Neema producers gather for their annual meeting at Newton, Mass, on November 18. Signals flying at the national level are calling for a special session of the director of United Egg Producers to assess industry outlook in mid-December, while all across the country, poultrymen are gearing up to support a major fund-raising drive of which American Egg Board will be the beneficiary. P. L ROHRER & BRO., INC. Smoketown, Pa. at the Friendly First on 4 year Certificate of Deposit STRASBURG EAST KING STREET WILLOW STREET BUCK 687-8611 LANCASTER 464-3421 284-4175 397-4732 Federal law and regulation prohibit the payment of a time deposit prior to maturity unless/three months of the interest thereon is forfeited and interest on the amount withdrawn is reduced to the passbook rate. Slates Nov . Members and officials of Neema sec it as particularly timely that Gerald Bookeu of Seattle, Washington, president of UEP, will be the honored guest of Neema at the session on the 16th. He is expected to bring the group a message that will mesh in with these major happenings on the national scene. The cross-section of New England and North Atlantic egg producers expected at Newton will have a prime opportunity to put regional concerns and thinking before the national leader. As in the past, Neema is in- 7U% $lOOO minimum amount THE BANK WITH NO-SERVICE-CHARGE CHECKING ACCOUNTS 397-3539 HKje First JTWw v a'ging-«sc rm,m>je-»'Jf i 16 Meet viting to the gathering friends from allied industry and the state universities. Following a morning meeting of the association’s board of directors, the entire afternoon will be devoted to a business program, opening with reports from Emanuel Hirth, general manager Raymond Delano and members of the Neema staff. A panel discussion centering on the activities of Neema’s standing committees, covering promotion, legislation, marketing and membership topics will be chaired by director Bob Park, of Valencia, Pa. Panel participants will be Norman Hecht, New York, Jerry Kil, Connecticut, Walter Lamkin, Maine, and Sam Kofkoff, Con necticut. Pennsylvania members of the Neema advisory committees include, John Snader, Elizabethtown, Clayton Det weiler, Souderton, A 1 Wenger, Rheems, and Bill Constantine, Smock Election of new directors and the naming of officers for 1974, will be handled during the af ternoon. President Bookey will be featured speaker at the evening banquet. Donald Horn, of York, Pa., the first vice-president of Neema will act as master of ceremonies. Guernsey Assc. Sets Annual Banquet Date The annual meeting and banquet of the Lancaster County Guernsey Breeders Association will be held on Friday, Nov. 16, at Rhoad’s Restaurant in Quarryville beginning at 7:00 p.m. The tickets will be $4.00 each. To make your reservatins contact one of the banquet committee members by Nov. 10: Robert Wagner, chairman, 529- 2813; Elam Mull, 786-2036; Vaughn Moore 529-6216. A report by president Robert Breneman and various awards will be given, followed by the election of new directors. Jesse Balmer will present slides taken on the People to People tour of the Orient last year. MEMBER FO 1C Lancaster Farming, Saturday, November 10,1973 Why Dry Poultry Manure For seven years researchers at The Pennsylvania State University have been finding new ways to dry poultry manure inside the poultry house. What advantages does in-house drying offer us in manure han dling. First it stops the reproduction of insects such as flies if manure is dried below 30 percent moisture. Drying manure reduces the production of toxic gases and repulsive odors. Drying manure also reduces the total weight of manure to one third its original level. Dried manure * is no longer a con taminant because it has useful aerobic bacteria rather than unwanted anerobic bacteria in it. Drying converts the manure to a useful fertilizer or soil sup plement. Dried poultry manure can be spread in one third the time that wet or liquid manure can be handled. Dried poultry Aerial Ladder Equipped FARM PAINTING We Spray it on and Brush It In! FOR FREE ESTIMATES CALL COLLECT 717-393-6530 OR WRITE HENRY K. FISHER 2322 Old Phila. Pike Lancaster, Pa. 17602 manure improves soil fertility, reduces the cost of growing grain and hay, improves pasture for beef, and farm help enjoy handling it better than wet manure. Dried manure is much safer to handle because it is less bulky and the liquid nature tends to be hard to pull up the hills in the spreader, harder to hold going down hills and upsets the spreader more easily. A spill of dry manure is hardly noticed by neighbors. People who use phase I and phase II drying find they have fewer complaints from neigh bors, the health department does not cite them for contamination or as a nuisance. The people who handle wet manure usually get all the law suits. So, there are at least a dozen reasons to use dry rather than the wet system of handling manure on the poultry farm. 17