3 A —Lancaster Farming. Saturday, Feb. 5, 1977 Farm Calendar [Continued from Page 101 Wednesday, Feb. 9 Dauphin County dairy barn meeting, Howard Kopp Farm, Colebrook Rd., Middletown, 1-3 p.m. Subject, mastitis. Purina Dairy business management meeting, Lancaster, 10:30 a m. to 3 p.m. Harvest Drive Restaurant. Farm-City Breakfast slated for Lehigh County. Don Ace, Penn State dairy scientist, will discuss “The Incredible Food Producing Machine” at a 7-30 a.m. meeting at the City Vu Restaurant, MacArthur Road, Allentown. The program is sponsored by the Agriculture Committee of the Allentown-Lehigh Chamber of Commerce. National columnist John McManus, author of “The Birch Log,” speaks at the Farm and Home Center, Lancaster, 8 p.m., on “Choosing the American Way." Thursday, Feb. 10 Adult welding class at New Holland High School, 7-9 p.m. Lancaster County Extension Service holds meeting on commercial pesticide certification, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Farm and Home Center. York County potato growers meeting. Centre Northern farms I Continued from Page lj Jefferson and Lewis counties in northern New York being buried under tons of snow from blizzard conditions, continued York In some areas, milk tank trucks have been unable to transport milk off the farms in nearly a week, York commented. However, cows must be milked twice a day, he stated. Dairy farmers who have reached their holding capacity are having to dump thousands of gallons of milk, he remarked Federal assistance is imperative to help these dairymen who have come to the end of their rope, stressed York. “We can’t shut the mdk faucets off and Presbyterian Church, New Park, 10 a.m. Purina Dairy business management meeting, Gettysburg, 10-30 a.m. to 3 p.m, Friday, Feb. 11 Seminar on Estate Planning and retirement programs, Cumberland County Extension Ser vice, to be held at the Embers Quality Inn, Carlisle, 9 30 a.m. to 3.30 p m. Advance registration requested at the Cumberland County Extension office by Feb. Wenger Implement, Inc., at the Buck, holds Open House, 9:30 a.m. to 3. Virginville Grange youth hold Sweetheart Ball, 8- 11 p.m., admission two dollars. Pennsylvania Egg Marketing Association meets at the Sheraton Conestoga, Lancaster, 7 p.m. Purina Dairy business management meeting, Knoxville, 10.30 a.m. to 3 p.m Saturday, Feb. 12 Chester County Beekeepers Association holds seminar on beekeeping, 9 a.m. - 3 p.m. at the Turner-Harris Home Economics Center, Cheyney State College, Cheyney, Pa. we can’t stand by idly and watch these people succumb to nature’s fury,” he said Under these conditions it is only logical that the federal government offset these losses, explained York. No one in the dairy industry can stand such losses, least of which, the individual farmer or his co-op, he said. Moreover, both New York and Pennsylvania pay large sums in federal taxes and receive a disproportionate share of return on taxes paid, informed York Eastern Milk Producers Cooperative, alone, could lose in the neighborhood of one half million dollars when the final figures are in on the blizzard of 'll , the co-op leader projected Dairy situation 1 Continued from Pagei)) conversation with Lancaster Farming. He pointed out that changes since mid-week have been mostly for the better. The milder weather has allowed roads to be opened up and energy legislation is keeping ag industry supplied. Shelhamer initiated a program early in the week to aid the state’s farmers. “It takes a lot of gas to turn powder into milk,” Sumner said, expressing gratitude over Shelhamer’s actions to put dairy manufacturing plants high on the energy priority list. The result has been that Pennsylvania’s dairy in dustry has been hit with only Eggs counted HARRISBURG - Penn- 100 layers during December sylvania layers produced 258 totaled 2,021 eggs, up three million eggs during per cent from the previous December 1976, up four per month but one per cent below cent from the previous a year ago. month but twelve per cent The nation’s laying flocks below a year earlier, ac- produced 5.5 billion eggs cording to the Pennsylvania during December, four per Crop Reporting Service. cent above the previous The December average of month and one per cent 12.8 million layers is up above a year ago. Layers on about one per cent from the hand during December previous month but eleven averaged 281 million com per cent below a year pared with 280 million a year earlier. Egg production per earlier. HOG PRODUCERS! Get Top Price for Your Hogs at /■>■! New Holland Sold in sorted lots the auction way. See them weighed and sold and pick up your check SALE EVERY MONDAY 8:00 A.M. HEW HOLLAND SALES STABLES, INC. Phone 717-354-4341 Daily Market Report Phone 717-354-7288 Abe Diffenbach Manager ROHRER’S CARRY A COMPLETE LINE OF FARM AND GARDEN SEEDS AGRICULTURAL CHEMICALS ORTHO UNIPEL FERTILIZER Catalog mailed free upon request covering full line of vegetable and farm seeds. SMOKETOWN, PA Phone Lane. 717-299-2571 a minimum of problems. That’s not to say, however, that there weren’t any. Although Inter-State did not notice a drop in production on their final tally sheets at headquarters, individual accounts throughout the state (especially western coun ties) indicate that cows’ production was affected. A newspaper article appearing in Thursday morning’s Morrison’s Cove Herald in Blair County, tells of numerous difficulties dairymen had in that area. Manure on one farm was reported to have been piled up to a depth of 13 feet. There have been no reports of milk having to be dumped, Jim Sumner although that very well may have happened. So far milk has been able to move to markets, in spite of cutbacks at processing plants and lost sales to schools. Sumner observed all Tour HUSKEE-BILT MAN! Also Ask About Our CONTROLLED ENVIRONMENT BUILDING A Thrive Center controlled environment building means heavier healthier animals, reduced labor and feed costs and almost no manure handling or odor They pay for themselves in no time! M YOUR HUSKEE-BILT MAN V MERVIN MILLER RD2, Keener Road, KH Phone (717) 626-5204 that one of the advantages a dairyman has by marketing his milk through a cooperative is that the co-op has a number of buyers it can turn to if and when a problem develops. “It 1 protects the market against a potential crisis situation,” he said. In explaining the school milk program as it affects Inter-State, Sumner noted that five per cent of the cooperatives milk supply enters that market. That works out to 1.5 million pounds of milk per week. Although some relief in the weather was seen for the past several days, more cold weather is being forecasted. So far, according to Shelhamer and Sumner, things have worked out pretty well considering the circumstances. Efforts are continuing to keep agriculture from' running out of gas and freezing.
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