Vol. 20 No. 3
Pennsylvania Senator Hugh Scott
was among the dignitaries who spoke
to some 2000 dairymen on Tuesday in
1975 Outlook Reveals . . .
Adequate Fertilizer
But Prices High
by: Melissa Piper
The fertilizer situation will
be rather bleak for 1975 with
just adequate supplies and
high prices to add to the
fanner’s woes, according to
two authorities on the sub
ject.
Speaking before the 15th
Annual Pa. Forage Con
ference held in Hershey on
Monday and Tuesday, Dr.
C.W. White, vice-president of
the Fertilizer Institute and
K. S. Tomlinson of the
Lebanon Chemical Cor
poration, told the audience
that a greater world wide
demand of fertilizer in the
coming year combined with
low beginning stockpiles will
make fertilizer harder to
obtain and more expensive
for 1975.
White explained that there
are three main pressure
points which will keep the
Washington, in more ways than one,
the Senator stood behind the
dairymen’s plea for help.
amount of fertilizer low this
year. One main concern is
the rising amount of acreage
being used for agriculture
production. It is expected
that 3-4 percent more land
will go into production this
coming year which will
greatly increase the demand
for fertilizer in this county
alone. And as other
developing countries see the
need for more food
production the total demand
of fertilizer will probably
exceed the amount
produced.
Another problem that
White sees as hindering the
amount of fertilizer that will
be available is that the
beginning stockpiles are low.
White explained that the
raw materials needed for
making fertilizer have been
difficult to obtain making
reserves of the commodity
inadequate.
Serving The Central and Southeastern Pennsylvania Areas
Lancaster Farming, Saturday, November Jo, 1974
“It takes natural gas to
make ammonia,” he ex
plained” and we are limited
in that particular natural
resource.”
Dairymen Take
Story to Washington
by Dick Wanner
Choking back sobs,
blinking back tears, Mrs.
Dorothy White told an
audience of more than 2500
what it’s like to be the wife of
a dairy fanner today, and
the mother of two sons bent
on dairy careers. She and
her husband operate a 200-
cow herd near Baltimore.
“In the past ten years,
we’ve put together an out
standing dairy bloodline. We
sell breeding stock and
replacement heifers for $250
to $4OO apiece in normal
times. We used to sell
slaughter stock for $6O a
head. Now, we have no
market for breeding stock,
and the slaughter prices
have gone down to $2O a
bead.
“I have two sons,” she
said, her voice cracking,
“and they want to farm. How
can my husband and I en
courage them to go into
dairying when they can’t
make a decent living
because the price of milk is
too low? What can I tell them
to do?”
When she finished her
speech, the assembled
dairymen spoke their ap
proval with warm applause.
Mrs. White was one of a
handful to speak Tuesday
morning in the cavernous
meeting room of the Parke-
Sheraton in Washington,
In This Issue
FARM CALENDAR 10
Markets 2-4
Sale Register 50
Fanners Almanac 6
Classified Ads 24
Editorials 10
Homestead Notes 34
Home on the Range 37
Organic Living 41
Farm Women Calendar 38
Thoughts in Passing 21
Junior Cooking Edition 36
Chester Co. DHIA 22
Lebanon Co. DHIA 44
D.C., but everyone there had
a story to tell. The story was
of soaring costs and
diminishing returns.
The trip to Washington
was inspired by New Jersey
Secretary of Agriculture
Phil Alampi, who just weeks
ago told the annual Inter-
State Milk Producers
Cooperative meeting in
Philadelphia that if they
wanted Washington to take
the economic shackles off
dairymen, they’d have to go
Berks Co, DHIA
Annual Meet
Berks County Dairy Herd
Improvement Association
members, 225 of them,
jammed the Grange Hall in
Kutztown last Friday night
for their annual meeting.
During the meeting, they
heard from Berks County
Agricultural Agent James
Haldeman, Berks County
DHIA president Burd
Scbantz, Ray Webber, public
relations director for the
National Dairy Council in
Southampton, Pa., and Mr.
and Mrs. Harold Stieff,
Robesonia, a husband and
wife team who produce slide
shows about nature.
Cherri Gochnaiier
Silver Spurs Club
Member and Leader
by: Melissa Piper
There are a number of 4-H
Horse Clubs within Lan
caster County and to keep
them running smoothly it
takes the dedication and
time of the leaders and teen
leaders who supervise
younger members and their
projects.
Cherri Gochnauer is one of
those young people who have
the responsibility of helping
the younger members of thei
Silver Spurs 4-H Horse Club
learn about the care and
health of their animals as
well as mastering proper
riding techniques.
Cherri, who is a 15 year-old
sophomore at Hempfield
High School, has been a
member of the Silver Spurs
Horse Club for the past three
years and has been involved
with 4-H work for the past six
years.
Cherri Gochnauer, Centerville Road, Lancaster,
shown working with her quarter horse which she
rides in the western pleasure division of many area
shows.
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Their
to Washington to tell them.
And if they went to
Washington, Alampi said
he’d lead the way.
Alampi’s speech struck
sparks in the Inter-State
membership, and they did
organize a drive on
Washington. Fifty busloads,
and many, many cars filled
with dairymen converged on
the Parke-Sheraton Tuesday
morning where they heard
from Congressmen and
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Four awards were
presented to members with
outstanding production
records for the past year.
The award for high herd In
fat production went to
Norman Nott, Muddy Creek
Farm, Myerstown Rl.
Notts’s 36.8 cows averaged
675 pounds of fat and 16,628
pounds of milk. The high
herd for milk award went to
Charles Plushanski,
Kutztown R 3, whose 94.1
cows produced an average of
16,806 pounds of milk and 652
of fat.
Harold and George
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Cherri explained her
responsibility as a teen
leader by stating “I am
expected to help the younger
members of our dub and I
get involved in checking
their project work and
serving on committees for
programs.”
Along with her work as a
teen leader in the club she
also served as news reporter
this year and has been the
treasurer of the club also.
Cherri was kept busy this
past summer as she was a
member of the first Lan
caster County 4-H Horse
Bowl Team. The horse bowl
team competes much in the
same manner as did the
college bowl teams on
television. The team, con
sisting of four people, is
quizzed on various aspects of
horses and horsemanship. In
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