V01.21N0.19 [Fork honors awarded ■ By MELISSA PIPER ■ BLUE BALL Pork ■reducers from the Berks - ■»high Area and in Lan ■ister County recently Bamed the winners of their Spring carcass contest which S' <r,held at the Hatfield Backing Co. ■ Otto Schick, Kutztown R 2, Sxbibited the grand Sh«mpion animal in the Berks - Lehigh contest. The ■tampion crossbred barrow I ‘Homeless * milk possible I By DIETER KRIEG ■ NEW HOLLAND - Reports about there being so - Buch milk around this Spring that some will have to Be dumped are erroneous. Reports Lisle Dutton, PR Sian for Eastern Milk, ■reducers Cooperative, the ■rgest such organization in ft: Northeast" and' within Pennsylvania. Bat there TOkbe some “homeless” mround, as he called itr pR> steadily Increasing prediction which could leave ■me independent producers without a market He seesno ■ ■Candidates speak up I By DIETER KRIEG ' ■ LANCASTER Ten' Republican congressional Candidates addressed ■hemsehres to the Lancaster County Farmers’ Association a • week ago Airing a “Meet the Can- Pdates Night” here at the Vann and Home Center. Casting for more than three ■ours, the affair allowed Cub candidate to present a paximum length of five ■jputes talk; answer seven questions; and one Jpficafly for him. Anlltfa anoidate was also present Mhe surprise of the other Sice-seekers as well as the whence. He was Martin los s. a self-proclaimed ommunist, who is Winning O the Labor Party ticket The event was marked by ever al outbursts of Jud Y Mitchell weighed 195 pounds and recorded statistics of .8 inch backfat, 5.26 inches of loineye, 33.6 percent ham - loin percentage with a length of 30.6 inches. Reserve champion honors went to a crossbred animal exhibited by Herbert Schick of Kutztown R 2. Schick’s reserve animal weighed in at 230 pounds with the following statistics: one inch backfat; 5.8 inches loineye; 32 percent such problem for dairymen who belong . to' dairy coopieratives and adds that “Eastern assures a con . tinuous market and-/ guaranteed milk check never in 54 years have ; , members, been without a , market.”" - The Eastern executive,' speaking here before a group of dairymen, also cautioned membew^FedorsiOrde^^, within* that marketing prder. He explained* that there has been by dissatisfaction, particularly by... State Representative Marvin Miller, who thought the last question was unfair. Headvised that such “cheap' shots” be omitted- from further political engagements because “every cheap shot that a candidate takes here tonight isa cheap shot the Democrat is going to give, us in November.” Several other candidates also expressed dissatisfaction. No apologies were made by the LCFA, sponsors of the - event. We present each of the 10 Republican candidates running' for retiring Ed Eshleman’s seat in alphabetical order, and then Ross, the Labor Party candidate. Each segment begins with that respective candidate’s five-minute or less talk, followed by an swers to the above seven questions, an answer to a specific question, and finally a closing statement The complete story begins on page 50. Meet our Berks correspondent Lancaster Farming’s new Berks County correspon dent, Judy Mitchell, lives in Stony Run, Pennsylvania, with her husband Stan and children David and Wendy. The Mitchells moved to Pa. a couple of years ago from their native South-Central New Jersey when Stan decided to take a job offered Serving The Central and Southeastern Pennsylvania Areas Lancaster Farming, Saturday, March 27,1976 ham-loin percentage and a length of 31.6 inches. Other top breeders in cluded Mike Moore, Reading R 2 and Paul Gansinger, Kutztown R 2. Both men exhibited top placing animals. Winners in the Lancaster spring show were announced at a banquet held last Friday evening at the Fire Hall , [Continued on Page 14] I NEDCO, Dairylea, some , milk handlers, and the NFO that the Order be amended. Eastern opposes all, of the claiming that such a move would result in milk prices 23 to 25 cents below those obtained .otherwise. Singling'out the proposals made by the NFO, Dutton said: “The NFO proposals' would have been (Continued an fag* 15] Eugene Blevins, York County peach grower, points out how blossoms on his trees havead vanced. There had been some fear of frost-kill, but a feeling of optimism is now prevalent It won’t be safe until mid-April however. him by Confer-Smith, Hamburg. Judy claims that the tiny village where they live now is the closest the family has ever come to living in a town, but adds that they love this part of Pennsylvania because it seems so much more like “country” than their homeland did. Although they Lancaster County Pork Producers recently honored for their exhibits in the carcass contest were (clockwise) John Strawbridge - Fall champion; lived in rural New Jersey, she saysthat the farms were rapidly disappearing and you could feel civilization crowding in on all sides. Judy says that the question she is asked most often by people she comes in contact with on her job is how she (Continued on Page 16] Dale Nolt - Spring champion; George Getz - Fail reserve champion and Gehman’s Mill - Spring reserve charnpion. Weather favorable to ' 'vr M ' ** area peach growers By DIETER KRIEG , STEWARTSTOWN “There’s still plenty of time' for, ’em to freeze, but so far we’re still counting on a 90 per cent crop,”* the Blevins Brothers of Blevins’ Or chard, here, exclaimed happily. William and Eugene Blevins, life-long fruit growers in southern York County, expressed some Free markets wanted - CHICAGO, HI. An in ' temational food policy which encourages the production and movement of food without political manipulation is the only way the world can fecd itself in the opinion of Allan Grant, president of the American Farm Bureau Federation. Speaking here on Wed nesday to a joint meeting of the United States - Japan Trade Council and the Chicago Association of In this issue Farm Calendar 10 Youth feature 12 Poultry management 14 Sealtest closing 16 Cooperatives 19 Homestead Notes 42 Country Corner 42 Home on the Range 44 Berks farm ladies - 52 SolancoFFA 55 $3.00 Per Year concern, however, over the pleasant weather we’ve been having. It’s pushed the peach blossoms out about two weeks ahead of schedule and could result in disaster if temperatures drop into the teens some night. “We’ve had killing frosts as late as May 10, and we normally don’t consider things ’safe’ - [Continued on Page 11] Commerce and Industry, Grant said, “Our past ex periences in America of the government trying to manage food supplies should convince any reasoning person that political control of food supplies is not only a failure, but actually contains the seeds of disaster.” Noting that the problems of feeding the world’s hungry are infinitely more complex [Continued on Page 13] Lebanon DHIA 63 Berks FFA 71 York DHIA 72 Berks DHIA 78 OSHA standards 82 Rose feature 83 Conservation 87 Sour colostrum 91 Public Sale Reports 95 Sale Reports 106
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