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With more than 20 public officials seated behind him, and several hundred
concerned Lancaster County citizens before him, Lancaster County Agent Max
Smith stresses the importance of Lancaster County agriculture. He was one of
more than a score of concerned individuals to speak out on behalf of wise land
Farmers rally to stop garbage dump
By DIETER KRIEG
WASHINGTON BORO,
Pa. - An estimated 300 far
mers ‘ and more ‘ thyi 25
public officials, including
the Pennsylvania House
Agriculture Committee,
came to the John and Abram
Barley farm near here on
Wednesday to express op
position to a plan by the
Lancaster Refuse Authority
(LARA), which would turn
58 acres of prime farmland
into a garbage dump. House
Dairy industry facing increasing pressures
LANCASTER - Hie past
six months have been the
most turbulent in the 20-year
career economist Dr. Paul
Hand has had at Inter-State
104 York dairymen faced with market loss
By JOYCE BUPP
York County Reporter
YORK, Pa. - Over one
Hundred dairymen from
York, Adams and Cum-
berland counties received
Le-Hi members review progress and problems
By SALLY BAIR
Feature Writer
NEW HOLLAND, Pa. -
Members of the Lancfaester
weal of the Valley
Farmers Cooperative
re cehred an appraisal of the
Serving The Central and Southeastern Pennsylvania Areas - Also Maryland, New Jersey and Delaware
Ag Committee chairman
Paul Yahner of Cambria
' County asked the gathering
before him: “Do you want
this to be the Garden Spot of
Lancaster County, or the
garbage spot of Lancaster
County?”
The answer was obvious
and the crowd erupted with
vigorous applause and
shouts of approval. One
official after another came
to the microphone to express
disapproval of LARA’s
Milk Producers. A bout with
nuclear fallout publicity
came first, then the most
severe Winter in memory.
followed closely by an
energy crisis. Now it’s
unwelcome news when they
picked up their mail last
Saturday.
The certified letters
carried the message that, on
April 5, the milk trucks that
improving financial picture
of their cooperative at their
annual meeting held here
Thursday at the Liberty Fire
HalL
President Robert P.
Barry, reported that the
Lancaster Farming, Saturday, March 12,1977
actions. Most speakers also
expressed optimism that the
battle was being won and
I m THIS ISSUE 1
Farm Calendar 10
Editorials 10
Life on the farm 29
Homestead Notes 50
Plant lovers’corner 51
Joyce Bupp 52
Womens’ Calendar 54.
Jr. Cooking Edition 55
Ida’s Notebook 57
supermarket strikes within
the cooperative’s primp milk
marketing area.
Dr. Hand, who wears two
bats at Inter-State - as
economist and assistant
haul their production to New
Holland Farms Inc., New
Holland, would be stopping
at the bams for the last time,
The cut-off was made on all
farms shipping to the milk
cooperative will lose slightly
less than $300,000 as com-
P*™* to H-* million last
year and $3.2 million two
years ago. However, Barry
said, “Our performance this
year is less than satisfac
use. The scene of the speech was the Barley Brothers’ dairy farm, adjacent to
the Creswell garbage dump, southwest of Lancaster. The Lancaster Area
Refuse Authority has seized 58 acrees of prime farmland. A campaign is un
derway to reverse the decision.
that the Barleys could retain
their land.
But Lancaster City
Home on the Range 60
Youth feature 65
My Thoughts 67
CbesterDHlA 98
Historic feature 102
Twin Valley FFA 108
Little Dutchmen FFA 112
PFU resolutions 115
Public Sales Register 123
general manager - ad
dressed Lancaster County
dairymen here on Thursday
at the annual meeting of
District 5 of IMPCO.
While the economist ex
firm from areas west of the
Susquehanna River. Rapidly
increasing hauling charges
being paid by New Holland
on the 110,000 pounds of milk
picked up daily was dted as
tory. Operationally it has not
been as good as will appear
on the final audited financial
report.” The reason for this
is *n interest forgiveness of
$900,000 given fay Le-Hl’s
banking institutions.
representative' Marvin
Miller Jr. wasn’t optimistic
and neither was the Barleys’
attorney, James F. Heinley.
Both urged more support
from the public and a
vigorous campaign to keep
pressure on LARA and the
county commissioners who
are responsible for LARA’s
actions. Miller urged die
crowd to send letters to the
county commissioners of
fice.
Farmers from the area
pressed concern over the
present situation, he was
quick to point out that milk is
moving with a minimum
impact on the individual
producer. As many as nine
the reason for the cutoffs.
Until December, 1975,
many of the 104 fanners had
been selling their milk to
Graybills, Inc., a pickup
plant just west of Yofk. The
Barry blamed part of the
failure to do better on
spending too much attention
solving the previous year’s
problems. However be said.
“The fluid milk plants at
Lansdale and Schuylkill
$4.00 Per Year
were swarming to the Barley
farm by mid-mominng and
kept coming until close to 11
a.m. Last to arrive was a bus
chartered by the House Ag
Committee.
Representative Paul
Yahner, chairman of the
House Ag Committee, was
first to speak, announcing
that this was not a political
issue, but a people issue.
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or ten truckloads of milk are
currently being sent to
western Pennsylvania and
Ohio due to the supermarket
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Graybills station was closed
because of Department of
Environmental Resources
upgrading, and
New HniianH Farms ab
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Haven each made a profit.
"while the cheese operation
was "less dramatically
draining than previously,
While working on those
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