Lancaster farming. (Lancaster, Pa., etc.) 1955-current, March 26, 1977, Image 1

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    Vol. 22 No. 19
L This Issue
■m Calendar 10
■oriil comments 10
■eon the farm 10
■nestead Notes 42
■nt lovers’ comer 44
Ko on the Range 45
K Notebook 50
■Thoughts 51
■nen’s Calendar 51
Kceßupp 52
Kheim Young Farmers 54
■dp* Swap 56
Ek4-H beef club 58
Kssifieds 62
Utry feature 64
IrksOHIA 91
inn feature 94
Kef referendum 96
Krks County FF A 101
inn Manor FF A 106
Banco FFA 108
■Avegetables 112
ibhc Sales Register 116
Be Reports 134
Strong JSmport shownpr Barleys
Public hearing 900 people
■ By DIETER KBIEG
■ULLERSVHiLE, "Ta.—
■miflg out 900 persons
Rung, with one of them -
Vos Funk - delivering a
Btition filled with more than
ROM signatures, concerned
■master Countians
Bmonstrated theirsapport
|r John and Abram Bailey,
po stand to have 58 acres of
Stir land taken by eminent
■main for a landfill.
|The occasion was a
paring on the matter by the
■anor Township super
iors, who in anticipation of
r large crowd, chose to
Pm the meeting in
imersville Stae College’s
pte Auditorium. At odds
rje the Barley Brothers
pd their attorneys at one
pd, and officials and hired
Pnsultants of the Lancaster
Warren Leininger
lonored for pork work
I Dr By £°ANNESPAHR
■.BLUE ball. Pa. -
■T® Leininger and the
■jancßster County Swine
■S7»n go back a long
Efi ogether - 1957 Max
Kc 11 " 1 Lancaster County
■tension agent, established
■wJ! r , Bamzation which
Leininger, a breeder
K,m^ bred spotty Poland
■™ a hogs, as its president
rern *®ed in that
Vosition for seven yean after
■ "as continued as a
■EJ* of the board of
Kr-ttofs, but last Friday
at the organization’s
heW to the
■hat k.•onooncement
End * ould retire with the
“wst recent term
Serving The Central and Southeastern Pennsylvania Areas - Also Maryland, New Jeisey and Delaware
Area
(LARAJ at a»otber.Tw(HJl
the three township 'super
visors-Edward Goodhart HI
and James Hither- sat id the
middle tb'hjsar both sides of
the controversy. The' third
Milk support hike causes dismay
By DIETER KIUEG
ONO, Pa.-The an
nouncement od Tuesday that
dairy support prices would
be raised to 83 per bent of
parity cSme as both a sur
prise and unwelcome news
to many dairyment At a
meeting here of the Lebanon
County local of Eastern Milk
Producers Cooperative, two
officials from the co-op
voiced their fears.
In honor of bis years of
service to the organization,
the Swine Producers
presented the 69-year-old
Denver resident and his wife
Sally a terrarium shaped
like a pig.
Prior to the presentation of
the gift. Smith enumerated
some of the highlights of
Leininger’s career. Along
with his work in the
organization, Leininger has
shown 25 grand champion
gift* at the Pennsylvania
Farm Show in his 32 years of
raising spotted Poland
Chinas, and for 25 of those 32
years has worked with youth
as a leader of the Lincoln 4-H
Pig Club.
To sum it all up, Smith
stated, “He’s been active in
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Lancaster Farming, Saturday, March 26,1977
«• -
member, Blaine Stricter,
excused himself on the
grounds pf possible conflicts
of interest anddidnot ap
pear at the hearing. Strickler
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Alfred Wanner, Lebanon
County dairyman, who
serves on Eastern’s board of
directors, warned “I hope
we’re not building ourselves
up for an even greater
problen in the future.” He
wonders how consumers will
react when the higher milk
prices are reflected at the
supermarket, and what will
happen if the surplus milk
problem is magnified. He
suspects that the latter is a
real possibility and has a lot
of company on that train of
thought Numerous officials
of several dairy
cooperatives, as well as
dairymen themselves and
Pennsylvania’s Secretary of
Agriculture, Kent
Shelbamer, have in the past
few months voiced con
siderable concern over
MCMP maps plans,
studies challenges
By JOYCE BUPP
York Co. Reporter
COCKEYSVILLE, Md. -
“Maryland Cooperative Milk
Producers, Inc. is en
tertaining a new era,”
believes Herbert W. Weasel,
Jr., president of the Board.
He emphasized that fact in
the opening of his report to
several hundred members
gathered aft the Hunt Vaßey
Inn in CockeysviDe, Md., last
Legal defense fund established
By DIETER KIUEf?
MILLSHSVILLE, , Pa-
Three pßminent Lancaster
Countians announced'
Tuesday night that a legal
defense fund for the Barfly
Brothers has been
present milk production
trends. In a nutshell,
production is soaring, and
the higher prices are likely
to compound the situation.
Freeburn Love, another
Eastern official and dairy
farmer member, admitted
that the new parity prices
sounded good. “But it’s a
woU in sheep’s clothing, as
far is I’m concerned;
production is too high,” he
warned.
“I know you can go to other
areas where dairymen are
complaining. But I hasten to
tell you, there is no in
dication that there will be a
wholesale exodus of
producers,” Love continued.
Love’s comments took into
consideration the requests of
some farmer organizations
which are calling for milk
Saturday for the
cooperative’s annual
meeting.
Discussion on two major
items facing the cooperative
consumed most of the
morning business meeting.
Wessel spoke first to the
formation of a new joint
business venture with the
Interstate Milk Producers,
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famished . Irhe three- well
known citizensare:
- Amos Funk, 'Manor
Township farmer and
conservationist who has
waged.a campaign of bis
own |o bring the Barley farm
support prices of upwards of
90 per cent of parity. Those
requests, however, are
generally considered to be
unrealistic and a sure way to
disaster. Most producers in
the mid-Atlantic area
Federal Order 4 marketing
area would have been happy
with an 80 per cent parity
level. It’s estimated that it
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Cholesterol issue
easing for eggmen
By JOANNE SPAHR
LANCASTER, Pa. - Ac
cording to Hendrick Wen
tink, present chairman of the
National Commission on Egg
Nutrition, the cholesterol
battle is slowly easing for the
poultry industry, but there is
still a long way to go before
the controversy comes to an
end.
Wentink made these
comments in an address to a
group of industrymen
assembled for the third in a
series of educational poultry
seminars held last week at
the Farm and Home Center
by the Lancaster County
Poultry Association.
“We are now getting both
sides exposed,” Wentink
remarked, “and we have
nothing to fear as long as
they don’t hammer us down
without a chance for
$4.00 Per Year
Asking to have a point
of testimony clarified are,
left to right, James
Heinly, attorney for the
Barley Brothers, Tom
Goodman, Manor
Township solicitor;
James Huber, and
Edward Goodhart, Manor
Township supervisors.
The central issue
involved during the 6 Vz
hour long hearing at
Millersville’s Lyte
auditorium was whether
or not prime farmland
can or should be taken
for use by a garbage
dump. An estimated 900
persons were attracted
to the meeting,
issue before the public and
officials. Funk is also a
„ board member of the Lan
' caster County Conservation
District.
Charles Rohrer, last
year’s Pennsylvania
Jaycees Outstanding Young
Farmer, who operates a.
dairy, hog and poultry farm
near Paradise.
Dennis Cox, Lancaster, an
accountant and treasurer of
the Lancaster County
Republican Committee. All
three will act as trustees to
the fund.
Donations to the campaign
which is officially called the
“Save Our Farms Fund,’’
may be made by mailing a
check to Commonwealth
National Bank, (Main office
28 Penn Square, Lancaster,
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rebuttal,” he stated. “When
you give a housewife the
facts,” he continued, “she
will settle for what suits her
tastes and pocketbook.”
He also pointed out that
medical opinion is slowly
turning away from the
hardline belief that eggs and
cholesterol are closely linked
to heart attacks. Medical
literature is now dealing
more and more with the
cholesterol diet and its affect
on tbebeart
“Many researchers and
medical men who were
against us before, now say
that they are not sure if they
were right about eggs and
cholesterol. And, just a year
ago they were absolutely
sure of themselves,” he
declared.
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