60—Uncattor Farmirg. Saturday. Nov. 8. 1975
NEPPCO choses Hcrahc
Penna. winners named;
meeting highlighted
HERSHEY. Pa. - Penn
sylvania proved a strong
attraction for hundreds of
poultry-oriented farmers
from more than a dozen
surrounding states last
month as visitors gathered
for the annual 44th annual
exposition of the Nor
theastern Poultry Producers
Council (NEPPCO) at the
Hcrshcy Convention Center.
The council had decided to
stage a return engagement
at the center Nov. 9 through
11 in 1976.
Dozens of Keystone
Staters were award winners
at the 14-state get-together,
which combined three days
of educational sessions with
youth, women's, social and
commercial events.
Harr* P. Metz, Belleville,
became the 12th individual in
NEPPCO’s 44 years to
receive an honorary life
membership, the council’s
highest honor. The former
NEPPCO president and 20-
year director was cited for
his unselfish leadership. He
has operated the family
poultry farm and hatchery
for many years.
Pennsylvania’s 4-H Club
poultry and egg judging
team took second-place
honors. The team consisted
of Graig Harnish, R 6,
Lancaster; Tim Grube, Elm,
and Jim Sauder and Judy
Stoltzfus, both of Mount Joy.
Harnish and Sauder took
Fertilizer situation evaluated
READING - According to
officials at the Reading Bone
Fertilizer Company, prices
of raw fetilizer materials are
described as "firm” for the
month of November. A
company news release states
that some prices have in
creased recently and more
increases are expected by
December 1.
The company describes
fetilizer sales as having been
slow in the Northeast, but
booming in the Midwest,
where harvesting weather
EVERY
WEDNESDAY IS
DAIRY
HAY
AT NEW HOLLAND SALES STABLES, INC.
New Holland, PA
If you need 1 cow or a truck load, we have from
100 to 200 cows to sell every week at your price
Mostly fresh and close springing Hoistems
Cows from local farmers and our regular
shippers including Marvin Eshleman, Glenn Fite,
Gordon Fritz, Blaine Hoffer, Dale Hostetter, H D
Itflatz and Jerry Miller
SALE STARTS 12:30 SHARP
Also Every Wednesday, Hay, Straw &
Ear Corn Sale 12.00 Noon.
For arrangements for special sales or herd
dispersals at our barn or on your farm, contact
Abram Diffenbach, Mgr
717-354-4341
Norman Kolb
717-397-5538
third and fifth place in
dividual honors, respec
tively.
A dozen large white eggs
from Hess Bros. Farm. Inc.,
Ephrata, bearing the Path
mark label, won second
place in the egg quality
competitions which drew
more than 200 entries. Its
99 85 score was edged by the
winner's sizzling 99.90 tally.
And the pnze-winning carton
design was entered by the
Don G. Cotner Farm in rural
Danville, whose eggs placed
high in the quality judging,
also.
Two Keystone Staters
were re-elected to continue
NEPPCO leadership roles.
Robert H. Horsburgh,
Doylestown, was re-named
treasurer of the board, and
George W. Robinson,
Kreamer, was re-elected a
director. New president of
the council is Richard Stark,
Walpole, NH, who replaces
Dr. John W. Dodge, Hamp
ton Falls, NH.
A top State Department
agricultural speaker at the
convention characterized the
hue and cry against “in
flationary” sale of gram to
Russia as “not valid”. If
anything, the once-critical
press “is now saying that
failure to export will in the
long run actually contribute
to inflation,” according to
Dr. Robert R. Spitzer,
has been very favorable and
the fertilizer spreaders are
moving in right behind the
combines.
Inventories at all levels
have been reduced sharply.
Export demand has also
picked up and some sizeable
overseas and commitments
have been made. Industrial
demand for notrogen has
also increased and some
plants are now running at 105
per cent capacity, according
to Reading Bone Fertilizer
Co.
OTi
coordinator. Food for Peace
program U S Department of
State
Past American Farm
Bureau Federation
President, Charles B
Shuman, told his audience
that over-regulation b> the
federal government and
union-imposed workrules
are straingUng a rail net
work which could function
effectively for the nation's
farmers and their suppliers
“Conrad is the best of the
alternatives available" for
both the nation’s farmers
and its consumers, he said,
•if farmers are forced to
rely for bulk-shipped sup
plies and feedstuffs on other
modes of transportation,
their costs would increase
markedly and many might
be forced out of business.
And consumers would also
be confronted with increased
food prices in the retail
stores."
A poultry industry in
which nearness to market
will assume more im
portance than other
traditional geographis ad
vantages was pictured by
one of themost successful
large-scale poultry
producers in the nation, Fred
Adams, Jr., president of Cal-
Mame Foods, Inc., Jackson,
Miss.
The lower labor and
construction cost ad
vantages of the southeast are
disappearing, he noted.
Events other than a dozen
educational sessions at
tracting visitors from
throughout the northeast
included full scale youth
competitions and women’s
programs, several social
ERTH-RITE
SOIL CONDITIONER
MAXICROP
LIQUID PLANT
FEEDING_
FEED-RITE
Vitamin & Mineral for livestock
ana poultry
ZOOK &
RANCK, INC.
RDI, Gap. PA 17527
Phone 717 442 4171
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events and NEWt's an
nua) exhibition of the latest
in poultry equipment,
products and sen ices
BALLY
CAMP HILL
ELLIOTTSBURG
HAMBURG
HONEY BROOK
KIRKWOOD
LEBANON
Trap
«>|M*n* Nov. 9
IVmuylvanlan# arc
reminded by the Game
c‘ominu»ion that the trap
pm# season (or foxes. rac
coons, skunks. weasels and
opossums will begin on
November 9. more than two
weeks earlier than had been
originally scheduled.
I’rrvlously. the season had
been slated to open on
November 27. and the latter
date is listed as being the
opener In the Digest of
Hunting and Trapping
See your PATZ Dealer today
LONGACRE ELECTRIC
845 2261
LLOYD SUI.TZBAUGH
737 4554
CARL BAER
582 2648
H DANIEL WENGER
488 6574
ZOOK S FARM STORE
273 9730
LANDIS & ESBENSHADE
786 4158
MARVIN HORST
272 0871
Regulations issued with each
hunting license.
There will be no change in
(he opening dote for trapping
mink and muskrat, which u
November 27. Also un
changed will be the dale for
closing the trapping season
(or foxca, raccoons, skunks
weasels and opossums!
which is February 28.
| r COW CLIPPER REPAIRS,”"
I AND SHARPENING SERVICE
I Also Used Clippers For Sale
* Don Lohr
RO6 Lancaster PA
717172-5503
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McfILLISTERVILLE
CLAIR SANER & SON
463 2234
MILLERSBURG
LEO LANDIS
692 4647
MILTON
LANDIS FARMSTEAD AUTOMATION
437-2375
NEWVILLE
FRED B McGILLURAY
776 7312
PIPERSVILLE
JOSEPH MOYEI
776 8675
oTREET MD
WALTER WEBS
452 8521
THOMASVILLE
KENNETH L. SF
225 1064