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Library uc' J o 7 A£riculturo 107 Ir.tlwc U.iiv r-i ty Ir.r 1 :, In.. ICLO2 Vo I. 20 No. 17 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.” | Continued on Page 40| 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 I Continued on Page 25| 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 [Continued on Page 27| 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. [Continued on Page 14]