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[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
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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
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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’
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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
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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