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READ LANCASTER FARMING
FOR FULL MARKET REPORTS
STOLTZFUS WOODWORK
RD Gap, PA Box 183
1 Mile North Rt. 897
From Gap
STA-RITE Milking Equipment
Bob Engle (left), Farm System Salesman for Agway, Wilmer Hostetter (center), R 1 Oxford
and Wilmer's son, Bill, check on their Sta-Rite Pipeline. Mr. Hostetter had his first Sta-Rite
Pipeline installed in 1975.
Mr. Hostetter says, "I was so well pleased with the milking equipment and the service by
Agway, that when 1 wanted to buy a second pipeline in 1976 for another farm I again chose
Sta-Rite from Agway for my 60 stall dairy barn.
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designing a milking system to fit your operation.
AVONDALE SUPPLY CENTER LANCASTER SUPPLY
CHAPMAN STORE TEMPLE SUPPLY YORK WEST STORE
RD2, Wescosville, PA N. sth St. Highway 26 W. Market St.
215-395-3381 Temple, PA York, PA
215-929-5264 717-792-2674
NEW YORK, N.Y. -
Handlers of eggs who will
collect assessments from
producers under the Egg
Research and Promotion
Order are requested to
register with the Egg Board
as soon as possible.
A poultry official with the
U.S. Department of
Agriculture’s Agricultural
Marketing Service said the
Egg Board, which ad
ministers the order, has
notified some 5,000 egg
handlers that they must
register before the checkoff
begins Aug. 1. Any handler
who has not received a
notification by June 30
should contact the Egg
Board immediately at 205
Touhy Ave., Park Ridge, 111.
60068.
Under rules and
regulations - published in the
June 8 Federal Register - for
implementing the egg order,
shell egg packers and egg
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Junction US 1 & 41
Avondale, PA
215-268-8238
Egg handlers called to register
breakers are breakers are
considered collecting han
dlers. Additionally, any
producer who grades or
breaks eggs he produces
must remit the assessment
on those eggs must also
remit assessments to the
Egg Board. Ail of the above
collecting handlers must
register with the Egg Board
before Aug. 1.
The Egg Research and
Promotion Order enables the
egg industry to conduct a
coordinated nationwide
program of research,
producer and consumer
education, and promotion. In
a nationwide referendum
conducted in November 1975,
73 per cent of the egg
producers voting approved
the order. Funds for the
program will come from
assessments of five cents per
30 dozen eggs marketed,
collected from egg
1027 Dillerville Rd
Lancaster, PA
717-397-4761
producers by handlers and breeding hens whose
remitted to the Egg Board, production of eggs is
primarily used for the
Egg producers with 3,000 hatching of baby chicks are
or fewer layers and any flock exempt from assessments.
Pa. cherries
drop sharply
HARRISBURG - Penn
sylvania’s 1976 tart cherry
production is forecast at
4,100 tons, 29 per cent below
last year’s total crop of 5,770
tons, according to the
Pennsylvania Crop
Reporting Service.
Although the crop escaped
significant weather injury,
damage occurred when trees
bloomed early due to un
seasonably warm Spring
temperatures and freezes
followed. Development of the
reduced crop is about a week
ahead of last year with
harvest beginning about
June 28, while harvest in the
Erie County are should begin
around July 11.
Nationally, prospective
production of tart cherries is
forecast at a 30-year low.
The 1976 crop is forecast at
71,000 tons, down 42 per cent
from last year’s utilized
tonnage, 46 per cent below
the 1974 crop, and is the
smallest crop since 1945.
Sweet cherry production in
Pennsylvania is forecast at
500 tons, down 26 per cent
from 1975 production of 860
tons. Bloom was ap
proximately 18 days ahead of
1975. Harvest of early
varieties began around June
19 and is expected to be
completed about July 4.
This year’s U.S. sweet
cherry crop is projected at
147,950 tons, four per cent
below 1975’s utilized ton
nage, but three percent
higher than the 1974
production.
Udder jet
travelers
In ever increasing num
bers, cattle from the United
States are becoming full
fledged members of the jet
age. Latest figures reveal
that a record 24,000 cattle
were cleared by inspectors
for export to nearly 50
countries, and an estimated
70 to 90 per cent traveled by
air. These figures exclude
Canada and Mexico, Uncle
Sam’s biggest customers.
Many of the cattle are
transported in a stretched
version of the DC-8, refur
bished with built-in stalls or
portable wire-sided crates.
Special ramps are needed
for easy and quick loading
and unloading. Only 29 U.S.
airports are cleared for
embarkation of cattle. These
facilities require a trained
staff plus adequate quarters
to assemble and quarantine
animals.
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