B—Lancaiter Farming, Saturday. Nov. 30. 1974
Dairymen Take
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Senator!, dairy induitry
leaden, and Just plain
dairymen.
At the head table were the
secretaries of agriculture
from Delaware and
Maryland. The New Jersey,
Virginia and West Virginia
departments of agriculture
were also represented. Phil
Alampi himself wasn’t there
because he was sick in bed.
Notably absent was the
secretary of agriculture
from the nation’s fifth
largest dairying state -
Pennsylvania. “I was sur
prised and disappointed that
no one from Secretary
McHale’s office was there,”
we were told by Boyd
Gartley, Inter-State director
of public relations. “We had
a thousand people from
Pennsylvania there, but not
one of them came from
McHale’s office.”
Had be attended, James A.
McHale would have heard
dairymen like Kenneth Rutt,
fron. Quarryville in Lan
caster County, telling about
the economic losses they
must bear because milk
prices today are below what
they were a year ago. “Even
though I’m getting less for
my milk, I’m paying 97 cents
more this year to produce a
hundred pounds of milk. The
dairy farmer is simply not
getting his fair share. The
government has used
dairymen as a political
football for too long. We
must get what we need to
stay in business. We must
stand up and be counted,”
Rutt said.
While there was nothing
but gloom to be heard from
the Boor where the dairymen
Mowry Prince Corinne, a Bedford
County Holstein, shattered the
world's milk production record on
October 25 in her 319th day of lac
tation. Corinne is on her way to a
Bedford Co. Cow Is
New World Champion
Mowry Prince Corinne,
EX (92) 2E, a nine-year-old
registered Holstein-Friesian
cow, owned by Mowry
Farms, Roaring Spring,
Pennsylvania, has set a -
world’s record for milk
production for all breeds.
Thp former r* 1 ' "cord
Patsy Bar Pontiac, EX (91)
2E, whose production at 8
years, 6 months, for 365
days, was 45.280 M, 4.9
spoke, there were some rays
of hope emanating from the
speaker’s dais. Penn
sylvania Republican Senator
Hugh Scott said, “We must
convince the Administration
and the Congress that the
dairy industr is near collapse
because of grain prices and
other costs which it cannot
control. I am here today on
behalf of the Pennsylvania
farmer and the Penn
sylvania consumer.
“My goal is to secure
adequate and fairly priced
supplies for the market at a
price which sustains the
livelihood of the Penn
sylvania dairy farmer. We
are asking for a small in
crease in the federal milk
marketing order. I promise
you we will not rest until this
goal is accomplished.”
In a joint letter to hear
ings that followed the Parke-
Sheraton meeting at the U.S.
Department of Agriculture,
Scott and Senator Richard
Schweiker said they took
“strong exception to the
recommended decision
dated November 13, 1974.
denying an increase in fluid
milk prices paid farmers.”
That proposed action “will
have a significant impact in
Pennsylvania,” the Senators
said, “because Pennsylvania
has 16,000 dairy farmers.”
“If milk marketing orders
which force the farmer into
an intolerable cost-price
squeeze are permitted to
stand, the consumer may
well be deprived of quality
dairy products at any price -
because the American
farmer cannot be expected
to survive in today’s
economy in a deficit
situation,” they said.
In bis remarks, Scott also
percent and 2.1948 F. Patsy
captured the record in the
summer of 1974.
With Connne’s record still
in progress, she has passed
the former record holder’s
365-day milk production in
only 319 days. Her credits to
date are at 9 years, 9 months,
in 305 days; 44.144 M and
1,3608 F, and in 319 days, she
has 45.736 M and 1.4058 F,
thus moving her into first
place. She has 46 more days
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Thousands of men and women from dairy farms
in a five-state area jammed a cavernous meeting
hall in Washington’s Parke-Sheraton on Tuesday
promised that he would
arrange a meeting with a
Mr. Seedsman, one of
President Ford’s economic
advisors and a member of
the Council of Economic
Advisors. That meeting will
take place on December 4,
and will likely include Inter-
State top management, Mr.
Seedsman and Senator Scott.
Another important
message came from
Congressman Ed Jones, a
Tennessee Democrat who is
chairman of the Dairy and
Poultry Subcommittee of the
House Agriculture Com
mittee. He- pledged to do
everything be could to help
the dairymen get what they
needed.
Congressman Bud
Shuster, a Bradford County
dairyman who represents
Pennsylvania’s Ninth
50,000-pound year, and on December
11, her 365th day, she'll be guest of
honor at the biggest party ever
thrown for a cow. She’s owned by
Mowry Farms of Roaring Spring, Pa.
before completing her of
ficial 365-day record, and is
currently producing 107
pounds of milk per day. This
gives her an opportunity of
topping 50,000 pounds of
milk.
A celebration to honor
Corinne has been planned at
Mowry Farms on December
11,1974, upon the completion
of her 365-day record.
Congressional District,
spoke passionately about the
need to preserve the dairy
industry in Pennsylvania.
As the morning hours
waned and drew on into the
early afternoon, the crowd at
the hotel thinned out,
boarded buses and headed
crosstown for the USDA
building. There, they had a
chance to speak for the
record. In a very unusual
move, the USDA officials
agreed to hear more
testimony relating to the
October milk price hearing
in Chicago. It was there that
dairymen and dairy groups
from all over the country
asked the USDA to place a
floor under the Minnesota-
Wisconsin milk price series
which determines the price
of-milk in all 61 federal milk
marketing orders. The
USDA turned down those
requests, at move which
resulted in Tuesday’s
peacable, orderly gathering
of dairymen at the doorstep
to the department of
agriculture building.
The hearing judge, John
Campbell, and John
Knebbel, a USDA lawyer,
listened attentively while
one-by-one, dairymen
walked to the microphones to
speak their pieces.
Reactions to the meeting
from one Inter-State official
were of guarded optimism.
“I’m glad we got both
parties there - we got both
Senator Scott and
Congressman Jones,” Boyd
Gartley said. “And I’m
especially glad that we got
all those people there to tell
their story without a single
incident of disorder. It was a
quiet and peaceful day, and
for that I’m thankful. I’m
also glad that we got the
USDA to reopen the hearing
record. We can’t do anything
more now. We just have to
wait.”
Viewpoints
I am convinced that the
office of the President ts not
such a very difficult one to
fill, his duties being mainly
to execute the laws of Con
gress.
Admiral George Dewey
morning to tell their woes to the nation’s press, and
to hear promises of help from a number of
Congressional leaders.
Kenneth Rutt, a Lancaster County dairyman from
Quarryviile, told the people in Washington that
dairymen had to stand up and be counted.
As she related her own, intensely personal message
about the cost price squeeze on her Maryland dairy
farm, Mrs. Dorothy White had to stop several times as
she verged on the point of tears.