Mt. Joy co-op [Continued from Page I| milk through the Allentown based Lehigh Valley Cooperative, which is recording significant in creases in sales and production. Bill Stoudt, representing Lehigh, was on hand to report that 637 million pounds of milk were marketed by Lehigh in 1975. Last year that figure jumped to 763 million pounds, and this year the goal is to market 808 million pounds. Stoudt remarked that the cooperative is in a good position to market its milk ERTH-RITE SOIL CONDITIONER MAXICROP LIQUID PLANT FEEDING FEED-RITE Vitamin & Mineral for livestock and poultry ZOOK & RANCK, INC. RDI, Gap, PA 17527 Phone 717-442-4171 Save with John Deere Long Green Dvdends This coupon is worth money. cial financing on certain tools You can apply it at your John Offer runs from 15 January to 15 Deere dealer's to any item in four June 1977 Clip Long Green classes of machines (one cou- Dividend coupons, stop in and pon only to any one machine) save Ask your dealer about the spe □ $5O Coupon □ $125 Coupon □ $75 Coupon □ $2OO Coupon Name Address Machine *5O Dividend • 205 307 509 Rotary Cutters • 45 78 88 Rear Blades •965 1065 A Wagons • 33 35 Bale Elevators • 1750 W 3000 W Portable Alternators • HD TH LH Series Spring Tooth Harrow Sections 5125 Dividend • 143 145 146 148 158 Loaders • 220 335 535 550 Sprayers • 308 398 Auger Elevators • 15 kW 25 kW Alternators This Long Green Dividend coupon has the redemption value checked when applied against the purchase price of specified equipment offered by a participating John Deere dealer who sets his own retail prices If yourdealerdoes not have equipment in stock that is included in the Long Green Dividend Program the machine you want can be ordered from John Deere and the value of the coupon will be deducted from the purchase price Only one coupon can be applied against the purchase of any given machine Use of the coupon is limited to products which can be delivered as determined by dealer s orders and machine availability NOTE (1) You must pay any sales tax on the total purchase price—excluding the Long Green Dividend. (2) this coupon is void where prohibited, restricted, or taxed Offer expires June 15,1977 Landis Bros. Inc. Lancaster 717-393-3906 and that supplies are adequate within its own pool. No outside purchases of milk are expected to take place this year. Production throughout the country is on the increase, noted Stoudt. He attributed the increase to the relatively good milk prices, but added the present drop in prices is largely due to a decline in Class I sales. A perennial part of the annual meeting is the recognition of member dairy farmers who have excelled in production or achieved placement on the bacteria honor roll for the year. Honored for having had the highest USPH score, and leading the bacteria honor roll were Mr. and Mrs. Harold Witmer. Paul Kreider topped a list of 11 dairymen for high production. Paul Hostetter, manager of the Mount Joy Farmers Cooperative, noted that last year 21 members were on the bacteria honor roll, compared to 16 in 1975. Attorney David Putney was on hand to offer brief remarks about the new cooperative law, known as the “Shelhamer amend- Adamstown Equipment Inc. Agway, Inc. Mohnton,Ro2. PA 19540 (near Adamstown) 215-454-4391 Evergreen Tractor Co. Lebanon, PA 717-272-2616 f A, A V 1 Lancaster County Dairy Princess Debra Kreider on Wednesday. Looking on is Roy Alger, president introduced “her family” - the nutrients of milk -to of the cooperative, members of the Mount Joy Farmers Cooperative ment.” In Putney’s judgement, the revised law does little more than com plicate matters of business. He said the protection that the amendments offer had «75 Dividend • 609 709 Rotary Cutters •115 155 Rear Blades • 1075 1275 Wagons ■ 37 Loader • 51 Post Driver • 306 396 Auger Elevators • 990 Bale Loader • 4000 W 5000 W Portable Alternators «200 Dividend • 737 1508 Rotary Cutlers • 700 750 Gnnder/Mixers • 428 Flight Elevator • 40 kW 55 kW Alternators Chapman Equipment Center Chapman, PA 215-391-2553 Johnson Bros. Kregsvile, PA 215-611-4766 /* ' ' already been in existence ding the more binding effect under general law, while is that, according to the law, now they are written into the membership meetings would cooperative law. An have to be held to approve illustration he used regar- transactions such as the sale - HARRISBURG, Pa. - The Pennsylvania Farmers Association held a CNE (County Newsletter Editor) and CID (County Information Director) Conference on January 25 and 26 at the Holiday Inn Town, here. Among the 37 present were Mrs. Joan Rohrer (CNE) and Mrs. Thelma Hess (CID) representing Lancaster County Farmers Association. Eugene McDowell, Region I organization director spoke to the group on “Do you blow the Organization.” American Farm Bureau, which is the national organization, has 2,600,000 members. The Pennsylvania Farmers Association has 21,000 members while the local Lancaster County Far mers Association has around 1350 members. The association was formed to analyze and solve the problems of agriculture. Workshops on writing news articles were available to the CID members while CNE members attended workshops on writing the Newsletter. Leaders of the workshops included Richard L. Prettier, information director of the Penn sylvania Farmers Association, Wilson Smeltz, director of Pennsylvania Farmers Association and Marlin Miller, Field Service director of the Pennsylvania Farmers Association. The group toured WHP-TV and radio station and the Harrisburg Patriot-News office. The speaker at the evening dinner was Nicholas L. Goble, public relations director of the Pennsylvania School Boards Association. Charles R. Ord, PFA administrative secretary, spoke at the luncheon meeting. ' p * V PFA briefed on news media incaster Farming, Saturi Jan. 29.1977— of an old office typewriter or desk. The attorney gave brief point-by-point descriptions of the new amendments, declaring for the most part that cooperative farmers gained little from the legislation. Treasurer of the cooperative, Henry E. Garber, presented the financial report verbally, while copies of the statement were available to each member in printed form as well. Member dairy farmers marketed $5,249,039.53 worth of milk during the fiscal year ended Oct. 31, 1976. With added revenues for supplies sold, the cooperative had total earnings of $5,253,804.73. Membership is distributed primarily in southern Lebanon and north western Lancaster counties. Also on hand for the annual meeting were County Agent Alan Bair and Lancaster County Dairy Princess Debra Kreider. Miss Kreider recently developed a new skit for milk promotion and offered the presentation to the approximately 175 members and guests in attendance. 31
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