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A group of Filipino 4-H’ers viewed
the manure drying facility at Penn
field Corp.'s egg production operation
near Ephrata. The Filipinos are all in
Philippine 4-H’ers
Tour Farms Here
A group of 20 Philippine 4-
H’ers spent four days in
Lancaster County this week
touring farms and
agribusiness concerns as
part of a two-year
agricultural training
program organized by the
National 4-H Foundation in
Washington.
The Philippine
Agricultural Training
Program was created in
May of last year as part of a
long-term Philippine
government program to
increase food production in
that country. The coor
dinator for the program is
John Pederson, of the
National 4-H Foundation.
Pederson, who accompanies
the group on field trips, told
Lancaster Farming on
Monday, “This program is
similar to others which bring
in 4-H’ers from Korea, the
Republic of China and
Turkey. Everyone of the kids
who comes here has a farm
background. And when they
go back home, most of them
go into farming ”
The Filipinos, when they
get heme, will be able to
this country to take part in a two-year
program of training and work ex
perience.
obtain $19,000 loans to begin
a farm enterprise. “That
won’t buy any land,”
Pederson noted, “because in
the Philippines even sloping
land brings $l5OO an acre.
But the loans will get these
young fanners off to a good
start with equipment and
supplies. They will probably
buy land cooperatively.”
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Egg Producers Criticize
Urner-Barry Quotations
A largely hostile group of
eggmen queried John Carter
and Frank Urner on Thur
sday night about the egg
price which is published
daily by New York’s Umer-
Barry Corp. This egg price,
which goes by subscription
to egg brokers, packers,
producers and chain store
buyers, is the benchmark
which guides pnce setting in
much of the nation’s egg
market. In addition to their
regular subscribers. Carter
pointed out, there are also
Serving The Central and Southeastern Pennsylvania Areas
Lancaster Farming, Saturday, March 8. 1975
In This Issue
FARM CALENDAR 10
Markets ' 2-6
Sale Register 64
Fanners Almanac 8
Classified Ads 29
Editorials 10
Homestead Notes 42
Home on the Range 43
Organic Living 51
Junior Cooking Edition 46
Farm Women Calendar 47
Sale Reports 74
Thoughts in Passing 13
YorkDHIA 56
Chester DHIA 18
Future Homemakers 44
Letters 11
two newspapers in the U.S.
which carry the Umer-Barry
egg price. Lancaster Far
ming is one of those.
“Why don’t you set your
price so it shows what the
egg, producer is really get
ting?” one poultryman
asked. “I never get
anywhere near the price you
quote. Why is that?”
Ordinarily, the price to
producers is set by buyers at
a figure such as 12- to 14-
cents “under the market”,
or the Umer-Barry quote.
Ag Official Sounds
Off on Dairy Health
The Great Milk Mystery
(or Who’s Responsible for
What) was still something oi
a mystery when Mrs. Jane
Alexander ended her speech
to a crowd of farmers on
Tuesday at Lancaster
County Dairy Day. The title
of her speech, she noted, had
been chosen more by
whimsey than logic, but she
did have something to say
about milk. And when she sat
down, there was no doubt in
anyone’s mind that Mrs.
Alexander was very much
concerned about the dairy
health situation in the
county.
Mrs. Alexander is a York
County attorney and a for
mer member of the Penn
sylvania House of
Representatives, currently
serving as Pennsylvania’s
deputy secretary of
agriculture. She was the
leadoff speaker for the af
ternoon portion of the dairy
day program. “The
Department of Agriculture’s
animal indemnity funds are
going to be wiped out for the
remainder of the year
because we have to
depopulate several large
Pennsylvania herds,” Mrs.
Alexander told the group.
“That money goes pretty
fast when you have to put
down 180 cows in one herd
alone,” she said. “Because
of problems like this, we in
the Department of
Agriculture have decided -
and it was a tought decision
to make - that we’re not
going to depopulate herds
animal by animal m heavily
mfected areas. We’re gomg
to come in and clear out the
whole herd, and we’re going
to keep animals off the farm
for a year.
“We’re also considering
some new regulations. One
that we’ll probably adopt is
to not allow indemnity for
farmers who’ve added cows
Store door delivered eggs
may be priced at or just
under the market. This
pricing mechanism is used
almost universally in the
East and quite extensively
east of the Rockies. West
Coast eggs are commonly
quoted on the basis of a
USDA store door delivery
price.
Carter explained to the
questioner that the Umer-
Barry price was a base
quotation meant to be used
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to their herds after they’ve
been notified that they’re in
trouble.”
Some of the problem
herds, Mrs. Alexander said,
are in Lancaster County.
In her speech, Mrs.
Alexander also said the ag
department is considering
another hearing on the
seven-day milk dating rule.
This is the rule that says
milk must be removed from
food store shelves after
seven days. The law also
requires that the date of
removal be stamped on
individual milk containers.
“Since we’ve started the
seven-day rule, we’ve had
far fewer complaints about
milk quality,” Mrs.
Marcia Rohrer
Mt. Joy 4-H
Teen Leader
by: Melissa Piper
During the 4-H season, it
may be hard to find Marcia
Rohrer, a Manheim R 2 miss,
for activities keep her busy
all the time.
If she’s not at the barn
walking her steer or con
ditioning her sheep, a search
may fmd her in the kitchen
whipping up a batch of icing
for her next cake
decorating fete or sewmg the
finishing touches on a new
dress. And if all else fails,
you’ll probably find her
working as a teen leader m
the Mt. Joy Community 4-H
Club.
Marcia Rohrer, Manheim R 2, has been involved
with many 4-H activities. One project that she
especially enjoys- is cake decorating.
$3.00 Per Yeai
Alexander said. “We’v
found that retailers ar
taking better care of mill l
and consumers are mor
often getting a top qualit
product. But let’s face it
Milk lasts longer than sevei
days, and why should w
mandate the destruction of
good product? Especiall
when food is short. We hav
whipped some of th
problems, so we’ll be cor
sidering an increase in th
seven-day rule.”
Mrs. Alexander als.
touched on sanitation on th
dairy farm. “We urge ou
milk mspectors to work witi
farmers in solving thei.
problems. Usually, when w
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Marcia, who is th
daughter of Mr and Mrs
Jay Rohrer, is a sophomon
at Manheim Cental Higl
School and has been a activi
Lancaster County 4-1
member for the past fou.
years.
A member of the Red Rost
Baby Beef and Lamb club
Marcia has taken severa
steer projects and has alsi
raised market lambs
Marcia has shown her steen
and lambs at the Manheiir
Farm Fair and the Farm
Show.
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