periodical* Division W 209 Pat too Library Ponm. State University . • i University, Pa«JJifilOfr» Vol. 20 No. 11 Triplet calves, hard to photograph and even harder to hold, were born last Sunday night on the farm of Mr. and Mrs. Wiimer Shertzer, Columbia Inter-State District 3 Holds Annual Meeting “We have been demanding and getting a higher price than the government minimum for our members’ milk,” Dr. Paul Hand told a group of Lancaster County dairy farmers on Thursday. “But now we’ve got to watch out that the government doesn’t consider our prac tices monopolistic. We don’t consider ourselves a Patti Yamell Chester Patti Yarneli, Oxford RDI, holds one of the many ribbons she has won during horse show competitions. RDI. Shertzer is shown here with his three-year-old daughter. Beth, as he tried for a group portrait of the two bulls and a heifer. monopoly. We’re just trying to get our members a fair return for their labor and investment.” Hand was talking to members of District 3, Inters State Milk Producers Cooperative during their annual meeting in Quarryville. He is the economist for the cooperative as well as the County’s Avid Equestrienne Serving The Central and Southeastern Pennsylvania Areas Lancaster Farming, Saturday, January 25, 1975 assistant general manager. Looking ahead to the day when the Feds may come rapping on the coop’s door, Hand said they are now surveying members to get a fix on actual milk production costs. “About half our members have already said they’d cooperate in the survey,” Hand said. “I hope [Continued on Page 23] Patti Yamell is a young lady who has been active in many youth organizations for tiie past several years. She has won hundreds of awards not only in 4-H and Grange work but in high school competions as well. However, her most favojite project throughout the past six years has been working with, riding and training horses. Patti is an accomplished equestrinne and has ridden horses since she was five years-old. This past sum mer, Patti was chosen as a representative to the National Pony Club com petition in Georgia where she competed for honors in the three day events contest. To be invited to such a competition is not an overnight action for it takes 120 from Lebanon Co._._.. Farmers Give Calves To Feed the Hungry In a move to counter much of the adverse publicity farmers have garnered from shooting calves and dumping them into holes in the ground, a group of Lebanon County farmers on Monday trucked 120 calves to three slaughtering houses and donated the meat to be used for hungry people. The action was begun and coordinated by the Lebanon County Farmers Association. Eugene Hoff man, Newmanstown, president of the association, said, “We wanted to let the general public know about the farmer’s economic plight, and this was one of the best ways we could think of to do it. But we didn’t want all that meat to go to waste, so it was donated to the Mennonite Central Com mittee. They’ll send it overseas where it will be used to feed hungry people. “People don’t realize,” Hoffman said, “that In This Issue FARM CALENDAR 10 Markets 2-4 Sale Register 54 Farmers Almanac 8 Classified Ads 25 Editorials 10 Homestead Notes 34 Home on the Range 36 Organic Living 41 Junior Cooking Edition 38 Farm Women Calendar 37 Sales Reports 59 Lebanon DHIA 44 Lancaster DHIA 12 York DHIA 50 many years of practice and competiting before a young person has both the knowledge and skill to perform at such an event. Patti started working with horses when she was young and joined a 4-H Horse Club and the Gum Tree Pony Club to leam more about the animals as well as riding English. During her years as a member of the organizations, she competed in many area shows as well as at prestigious shows in Pa. and Maryland often entering the working hunter and open jumping classes capturing first place. Although Patti explained that she had taken a real interest in competition at 16- years-old, she has a myriad of trophies, ribbons, plaques I Continued on Page 9] manufacturers can raise their prices when their costs go up. Farmers can’t do that, though. We have to take what we can get, and lately we haven’t been getting enough.” Most of the calves that were donated by about 70 farmers were young Holsteins, although one farmer who didn’t have any calves donated a 1000-pound steer. Robert Lentz, Frystown, a member of the Farmers Association dairy committee, detailed some of his reasons for donating the Rohrer Honored by Conservation Group Robert K. Rohrer was honored as Pennsylvania’s top land improvement contractor of the year last week during the annual' convention of the Penn sylvania Land Improvement Contractors Association (PLICA) in Harrisburg. The award was presented to Rohrer on Friday evening at the banquet which wound up the three-day conference. PLICA is the state arm of the Land Improvement Contractors of America. Rohrer now becomes eligible for the national contractor Robert Rohrer, Spring Valley Road, Quarryviile, was named Pennsylvania's top land improvement con tractor of the year last week at an annual contractor convention in Harrisburg. $2.00 Per Year calves which might have been sold in better times. “Last year I could have sold calves for $6O. This year they’re only bringing $l5. It doesn’t pay us to keep that calves because we can’t afford to feed them. And it doesn’t pay us to sell them either, because we still lose money. So we might as well give them away. “We had pretty good press coverage,” Lentz said a few day after the donations were made. “Our story was [Continued on Page" 22] award, which will be presented at the upcoming national convention in Texas. He had previously been cited as Lancaster County’s top land contractor for the year by the Penn sylvania Association of Conservation District Directors. Eohrer was cited for his active participation in soil conservation work. He is credited with constructing approximately 22,100 feet of sod waterways and 7,500 feet of cropland terraces as well [Continued on Pace 23j
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