W. 21 No. 10 Honan sees improved milk prices Br DIETER KHDSG CHESTNUT LEVEL - Dr. James E. Honan, general manager and lecrctary of Inter-State IfiQc Producers Cooperative, poke at District 3’s annual inner meeting here, on taesday, and predicted that Hass I and II prices will rise or January and February nd then drop $l.OO *r |L3O y this summer. He escribed the market as icing “considerably un loved” since last summer nd suggested that any drops ipericnced later this year rouldnotfae near as large as icjr were during the post wo years. The primary easons for fids ate that here- is -an increased emand for _ milk and ecause oftfaeincrease in loot prices which were pproved last October. The increase in demand or milk has left Inter-State ith the unique situation of aving to buy milk from a eigfaboring cooperative to leet Its needs. “You have ales which you can’t meet,” tonan told the gathering, we’ve got the market for ou.” He encouraged those roducers who could in rease production conomically to go ahead nd do so. The Philadelphia-based ooperative is currently eeking new members, bnan revealed, because of be great demand for milk md the market which is vailable. ha addition, Inter tate is seeking a contract nth Maryland Cooperative lilk Producers Cooperative I Baltimore to have them apply 9-million pounds of iQk per months on a regular asis. Inter-State has been uying this quantity lately to leet the expanding Class I larket in the Philadelphia rea. Class I sales are 10 percent (Continued on Page 13) Lew Ayres !iane McSparran, seated, daughter of Mr. and-Mrs. Robert McSparran, Peach Bot tom, is the state's new Guernsey Queen. Runner-up in the contest which was held at the Farm Show, was Debra Crider, Heifer program detailed By MELISSA PIPER LANCASTER - Every month - beyond two years of age - that a heifer does not join the milking string in a dairy herd, costs a producer about $6O according to Dr. Chester DHIA year concluded GUTHRIESVILLE Chester County dairymen met here at the East Brandywine Fire Hall this past Thursday evening for their annual DHIA meeting Ephrata Jaycees bestow honors Distinguished Service Award EPHRATA ~ The Ephrata Area Jaycees named Lewis C. Ayres and Thomas L. Zartman as their Distinguished Service Award winner and Outstanding Young Farmer, respectively, at an awards banquet held last Monday night. Ayres is a teacher of Awarded the Honorary American Fanner Degree at the National FFA Con- vention last November In Kansas City, Ayres has headed the Ephrata vocational ag. program since it was initiated 15 years Serving The Central and Southeastern Pennsylvania Areas Lancaster Farming, Saturday. Jan. 24.1976 Gilbert Porter, director of Research and Development for Agway, Inc. Dr. Porter offered his remarks on herd replacement programs during Agway’s Dairymen’s and awards banquet, with 286 people ha attendance. Special recognition was given to 16 herds in the County which finished with butterfat averages of 600 ago and since that time I*** had three students who themselves have woo flie American Fanner Degree. Forty of his students have received the Keystone - Farmer Degree and 21 ■■ center, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Crider, Nottingham. Oebbießeinsel, left, and Peggy McKann, from the western part of the state, complete the court Day meeting held at the Holiday Inn here on Tuesday. Explaining that between $6O-70was lost per month per cow both by production and feeding, the research official pounds or better. With 156 herds on test during the past DHIA year, this amounted to about 10 percent of tile herds. A milestone was reached in 1975 in that it was the first Outstanding Young Fanner vocational agriculture at Ephrata High School and has been instrumental in furthering FFA and community programs. Zartman started farming on his own five years ago and now operates a total of 250 acres near Mt. Airy. youths in bis program hare participated in national FFA judging teams. Besides that, die 37-year-old Aypes in troduced “tent city,” vocational, and 4-H exhibits to the Ephrata Faßr, and was instrumental in starting the stressed the importance of including heifers as early as possible after 24 months. “There is a possible profit potential being lost when these heifers cannot join the [Continued on race 19] time ever that the County’s DHIA milk production average topped 13,000 pounds of milk, it had hung [Continued on Page 15] Lancaster County Swine Show. Ayres also began the work experience program for seniors at the High School and expanded the vo-ag {Continued on Page 14] $3.00 Per Year Baseballer urges pride for farmers By DIETER KRIEG MOUNT JOY “The price is op, production is op, and acme cooperatives may be experiencing problems this Spring in trying to figure oat where aB this milk is going to go,” said 80l Stoodt, representative from Lehigh Cooperative Mak Producers which boys mQk from the Mount Joy Fanners Cooperative. The latter met here Thursday afternoon for their animal meeting which was attended by ap proximately 160 people. The three-hour meeting, which included a hot lunch, was highlighted by talks given by Stoodt; Robert Barry, president of Lehigh; Pad Hostetter, manager of the Mount Joy Farmers Cooperative, Roy Alger, president of Mount Joy ..Fanners Cooperative; Jim Greider, 4-H grand cham pion steer exhibitor; and Gene Garbsr of the Philadelphia Phillies. Garber, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Garber, Elizabethtown, was raised on his parents’ dairy farm and expressed a sincere attachment to life on the farm. He urged farmers to be proud of being a farmer - “act like it, talk like it” - and added “When I get done I’ll probably farm.” He did not , leave the podium, however, without giving baseball fans (Continued on Pap 22] In This Issue Farm Calendar 10 Farm Commentary 10 Buckwalter Farm 16 Grassland FFA 16 Growers Conference 17 Homestead Notes 42 Country Corner 42 Home on the Range 45 Flower feature 46 Chester DHIA SO LancasterDHlA 59 Public Sale Register 66 Sales Report 71 Tom Zartman
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