—Uncatter Farming. Saturday, Oct. 18,1975 14 Caution for quality continues By Dieter Krieg NEW PARK - Class I milk sales in Federal Order 4 are •'booming" - up 18 per cent over the previous year, members of Maryland Cooperative Milk Producers were told here last Tuesday. R. L. Strock, manager of the 1021-member cooperative, which was established in 1918, made the announcement at the annual dinner meeting for District 7 MCMP members. A number of topics were brought up in speeches, including grain sales to Russia, dairy imports, MCMP business statistics, cooperative memberships and dealings, as well as current and future milk prices. The grain exporting ban, following a promise on the part of the government that markets would be guaranteed if farmers went all out for production, was criticized by several speakers and cited as a reason for a growing public mistrust of government. With the market for milk booming, Strock reminded YorkASCS offering repair deal YORK - The York ASCS office is offering help to farmers who suffered losses due to the heavy rainstorms which swept through the area several weeks ago. According to County Agent John Smith, the ASCS office will cover up to 80 per cent of the costs of repair in certain situations. He reminds farmers that if they want to participate in this program they must be signed up no later than 30 days after the damage occurred. Pesticide users are reminded that by October 1 of next year they will have to 't « On October 25 1775 Dr Isaac Sen ter Surgeon of the American forces enroute to Canada described the hard ships of the journey He wrote in his diary Our bill of fare last night and this morning con sisted of the jaw bone of a swine des titute of any cov ering This we boiled in a quan tity of water with a little thickening (of flour) A faucet dripping in a con tinuous stream wastes 100 gallons of water per day. Class I sales booming his audience that quality control assurances cannot be relaxed. In fact, there has been a trend for more stringent regulations regarding antibiotics, water, bacteria, or somatic cells in milk. He explained why a cooperative must be on the lookout for such problems: "Sometimes ... there Is a feeling that your cooperative is a policeman. It isn’t. It simply is trying to keep you out of the kind of trouble that results in a lost market for you and your fellow mem bers. Recently, one of the major Baltimore dealers, in an effort to be the ‘good guy’ for all its producer suppliers who were not members of a cooperative, made the mistake of not following up on high counts, not pointing out violating conditions on the farm, not checking for antibiotics, not properly supervising the sampling of milk at the farm. The result was a non-passing score on a U.S. Public Health Service inspection. They came within a technicality of doing those farmers out of a be licensed. 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We would be doing you a great disservice if we ab dicated our responsibilities for the good guy role and you failed to obtain a passing USPHS score.” Elaborating on the subject briefly, fieldman Tom Moore announced that each load of milk is routinely checked for antibiotics. He asked that farmers also be careful about keeping their milk house records posted and up to date, and that a sanitizing solution be made available for dippers. Concluding his remarks, he stressed the need for mastitis control and prevention, adding that it will translate into more of that “white gold." MCMP, which operates its own hauling fleet, claimed it has been able to resist trucking rate increases m the past, but may have to raise fees in the future if fuel prices continue to go up as they have. Strock observed that a five cent increase in the price of a gallon of fuel figures out to be about a xk cent per hundredweight increase in hauling. In a related matter, Herbert Wessel, president of MCMP, noted that the cooperatives truck garages and service center may have to be relocated because of zoning difficulties in their present locality. He pointed out that the facilities arc in need of remodeling. Also speaking at the meeting, which had two dairy princesses present and a number of guests, was Emory Kilgore, District 7 director. A dairyman from Airville, he has served in that capacity for several terms and was re-elected again on Tuesday. Two MCMP members were honored during the event because of 25-year membership records. Merle Bowman was cited as a 25- year individual membership member, while Ellis Crowl received a similar honor for the family membership category. A total of 106 persons at tended the dinner-meeting, held at the Centre Presbyterian Church. 4 aHhe Richard pumpkin S n,ield ° n R ° Ute 304,1 i 0n d Co 9 p 1 A 97 c 5 o m F e r a m nS e t d hls F. 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