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PennAg Suggests
PSU Rail Study
Speaking before the Ag
Advisory Council of Penn
sylvania State University’s
College of Agriculture,
Donald W. Parke, Executive
Vice President of Penn Ag
Industries Association,
suggested that a University
sponsored research project
on the community impact of
rail service loss would be
money well spent.
Park stated that much of
Penn Ag’s work in the past
year has concerned
railroads and the adverse
effects threatened aban
donments could have on
Pennsylvania’s agricultural
community and the state as
a whole. “In every way we
can,” Parke stated, “we are
trying to show the im
portance of rail service to
rural Pennsylvania. We are
not convinced that many
agricultural leaders ap
preciate the consequences of
no rail services; we are quite
certain the consequences are
not appreciated by rural
businessmen.”
The occasion for Parke’s
talk was the semi-annual
meeting of the Ag Advisory
Council. The Council in
cludes associations
representing all facets of the Christmas tree growers, etc.
agricultural community, Its object in an advisory
such as farmers, mushroom capacity to the College of
growers, agri business, Agriculture. It hears reports
New Fee Schedule
For Market Grading
The U.S. Department of
Agriculture (USDA) today
announced a new schedule of
fees for the voluntary
Federal meat grading
service, based on current
cost of performing the work.
The Agricultural
Marketing Act of 1946
requires collection of fees
approximately equal to the
cost of the service rendered.
Therefore, effective
November 3, the fee will be
$14.60 per hour for work
performed between 6 a.m.
and 6 p.m. Monday through
Friday; $17.60 per hour for
work on Saturday and
Sunday and between 6 p.m.
and 6 a.m. Monday through
Friday; and $29.20 per hour
for work on national
holidays. The basic hourly
fee will be increased by 80
cents.
Order 4
Milk Price
Rises 21°
In Sept.
The September uniform
price for base milk increased
21 cents from the previous
month. Excess milk showed
an increase of 26 cents ac
cording to Andrew A.
Marvin, Ephrata, local field
man for Inter-State Milk
Producers Cooperative. In
comparison to September
levels one year ago base
milk was up 1 cent and ex
cess down 22 cents per
hundredweight. The base
milk for Order 4 was priced
at $8.48, excess milk was
listed at $6.78, and the but
terfat differential was
$0,078.
The weighted average
price for the market was
decreased 10 cents, below
September 1973.
A total of 379.4 million
pounds of producer milk was
pooled in September of
which 63.34 percent was sold
as Class 1, showing an in
crease of 4.12 percent of
deliveries made in August,
and a 2.73 percent decrease
under September a year ago.
7731 Order No. 4 producers
provided 12.6 million pounds
per day to dealers during
September, averaging 1636
pounds per day per farm.
Total value of producer milk
was set at $31,192,994.16 for
the month.
According to Marvin Inter-
State Cooperative members
received a 28 cents per
hundred weight premium
over Order 4 price.
TRY A
CLASSIFIED
AD
Lancaster Farming, Saturday. Oct. 19.1974
According to USDA’s
Agricultural Marketing
Service (AMS), which ad
ministers the grading ser
vice, the changes are
necessary to reflect rising
salary and operating costs. A
salary increase becomes
effective October 13, under
Public Law 92-210. Ad
ditionally, costs for space
rental have increased as a
result of a change in
Government policy which
requires a direct rental
charge to Federal agencies
for federally-owned office
space previously provided
without charge.
Regulations governing the
meat grading service are
being amended to provide
for the new schedule of fees.
The amendment will be
published in the Federal
Register.
TWO BIOWERS 111 DIE
Compare this blower to conventional blowers.
The Gehl F 899 has staggered fan blades, six on
each side of the rotor. They actually give you
two blowers in one. The timed delivery
of material from alternate paddles provides
maximum use of available space in the nine inch
pipe. Result is increased capacity. Alternate
paddles provide a steadier flow of air and
material. Pressure and velocity is maintained
as material is blasted up the pipe. No gaps. No
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A. L HERR & BRO.
QUARRYVILLE
N. fi. HERSHEY & SON
MANHEIM
ZOOK’S FARM STORE
HONEY BROOK, PA
CHAS J. McCOMSEY & SONS
LANCASTER EQUIPMENT CENTER, INC.
on college enrollment, ex
tension activities and
research.
The Penn Ag executive, a
member of the Board of
Directors for the Council,
was speaking as part of a
new information program
for the Council meetings.
The object of the program is
to familiarize the college
staff and other members as
to what the different
associations do.
Parke stated the history of
Penn Ag, started 97 years
ago by Pennsylvania millers
to protest discriminatory
freight rates given by
railroads to western millers.
Parke stated ironically, “In
the 97 years which have
passed since that date,
things have progressed to
the point where today, not
only are we still fighting
railroads, but we are
spending more of our staff
time just trying to maintain
rail service. That’s real
progress!”
PennAg is a statewide
association that represents
agri-businessmen who sell to
and buy from farmers.
Amos Funk, of Lancaster,
President of the Advisory
Council, officiated over the
meeting which also included
talks given by Kenneth G.
Beachley of Beachley-Hardy
Seed Company, Camp Hill,
Pa., representing the
Pennsylvania Seedmen’s
Association and Henry
Geisinger, Harrisburg,
Executive Director of the
Pennsylvania Association of
Milk Dealers.
NISSLEY FARM SERVICE
WASHINGTON BORO
FARMERSVILLE
EQUIPMENT INC.
R D 2, EPHRATA, PA,
HICKORY HILL. PA
KINZER PA
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