with federal suit farms were licensed to sell pasteurized milk on the farm; 103 had permission to sell raw milk, and nine had permits for the sale of goats’, milk. A Chester County dairy farm is currently being reviewed for a permit to sell its own pasteurized jugged milk. Foust revealed that when the Federal Order first expanded into the area, his office received a number of calls and complaints. Many were on the subject of having to file reports and or pay assessments. His office has nothing to do with either. Countering Click’s fear of possibly being forced out of business, Shine asserts that Order 4 has provisions to allow dairy farmers to sell their own product and that be has never heard of anyone wanting to change it. The administrator declined to speculate on Feltner’s comment, however Feltner, who left office' when the Carter Administration arrived in Washington, could not be readied for an ex planation of his gloomy forecast for juggers. Click is a strong beliver in free enterprise and direct marketing. The in fringement by the federal government is something he believes the “average consumer ought to know about and tell his NEW FINANCE PLAN®* *15% DOWN PAYMENT I ★5 YEARS ON BALANCE | ★7% INTEREST | DON’T BUY UNTIL YOU SEE THE BEST LET US SHOW YOU AN ECONOMICAL GRAIN DRYING SYSTEM BY BUTLER WHO'S IN BUSINESS TO STAY GLENN M.STAHLMAN R.R. 41, Cash Valley Road Cumberland, Md. 21502 Phone 301-777-0582 - SUNNY MEAD SALES t 1 '.Mi, 80. <O9 TAP ENTERPRISES INC. Altoona, Pa. 16601 R.O. »3, Box 256 A Phone 814-944-6045 Fleetwood, Pa. 19522 congressman.” He belongs to the Maryland- Pennsylvania Direct Marketing Association and warns that if direct marketing of milk is done away with, other areas will follow. On the subject of direct marketing, Click questions why “the housewife should be compelled to pay more for milk to have it trucked to Philadelphia at union costs and processed by union labor when I have a cheaper and better product right here.” He retails his milk for $1.28 per gallon. He and his family milk' 100 Holsteins at their “Maplehofe Farms Dairy,” south of Quarryville. Weekly sales amount to about 3000 gallons to an estimated 4000 customers. Irritated by federal auditors who have visited his store, Click is quick to point out he has nothing against inspectors. But be vigorously opposes- the searching of such items as checkbooks, inlcuding those of children and wives. Click charges ‘ ihat such procedures have taken place at some jugging operations in the past. York County jugger Roger Perry told Lancaster Far ming in a telephone in terview last Summer that he believes some of the dif ficulties arising for juggers may be due to the com TAM AGRi CORPORATION R.D.# 1, Mountain Road Dasbun, Pa. 17019 Phone 717-432-3376 petition they generate for dairy cooperatives. Click shares that view and is suspicious of cooperatives maneuvering in the market to squeeze out small dairies, including juggers. Cooperatives, on the other hand, are faced with marketing problems each time a daily goes out of business. Neither cooperative officials nor Federal Order ad ministrators view juggers as significant competition since they make up just a small portion of the market. Furthermore, there is no way juggers can be expected to supply milk to central urban areas, where co-ops market the bulk of their milk. The Federal Order people find it essential, however, to require the filing of reports so that the dairy retail market is spread evenly among all producers in a given area. Their argument is that if a jugger were allowed to buy all the milk he wanted above 10,000 lbs. per month, his retailing area could theoretically expand substantially and thereby offer unfair competition to dairymen who are not selling their milk directly. Previous violations of the 10,000 pound purchase quota assessments for some juggers. When in violation. BUTLER WHAT YOU SEE IS WHAT YOU GET YOU DESIGN YOUR SYSTEM!! SEE YOUR LOCAL AGRI-BUILDER TEMCO PARTS CO. INC. C.H. WALTZ SONS INC. Route 213 and 544 Cogan Station, Pa. 17728 Chestertown. Md. 21620 Phone 717-435-2921 Phone 301-778-4454 TRI STATE MARINE DIST. INC. Route 256 Deale. Md. 20751 Phone 301-867-1447 An estimated 3000 gallons of milk 4000 customers. Jan Wagner, above, are sold weekly at the Maplehofe is just one of them. She's accepting Dairy Store. Owner Aaron Click her change from clerk Linda Fisher, claims he has in the neighborhood of they’re assessed for all the milk on the farm, not just what is bought. In some cases that assessment was rung up to more than $50,000. Ironically, most juggers believe the 10,000 pound per month provision is adequate in most cases, according to Perry. That loophole exists because juggers aren’t expected to adjust their daily production to daily sales. It can’t be done, say juggers, like Click, and the Federal Order people recognize that. Some juggers speculate on the worth of Federal Orders to dairy cooperatives, claiming that they’re BEFORE YOU BUY ANY KIND OF A GRAIN BIN, LET US SHOW YOU A BIN BY BUTLER MARKANTHONY &SONS R.0.tl Rochester Mils, Pa 15771 Phone 412 286 9250 Lancaster Farming, Saturday. May 14,1977—21 overpricing milk with their contracts. They also question the validity of political contributions, some of which have brought a number of cooperative of ficials before the courts. An independent lot, some, juggers picture themselves as free businessmen in an ideal sense. They, like Click, believe they can do as they please with their awn milk, so long as it meets quality standards. According to officials at milk cooperatives and at the office of the Market Administrator, no one wants to deny a dairyman’s right to sell his GRAIN roniiMjß DRYER LSUIW® P. E. Hess, Butler Mfg. Co. Box 337, Oxford, PA 19363 I'm interested in more information on Butler products. □ Buildings □ Bins □ Dryers □ Bulk-O-Matics Name Address County. Phone own milk. But they do want to protect other producers and other dairies from market infringements. Glick acknowledges, for example, that when he opened his retail store in 1974, other marketing outlets in the area were definitely hurt. He markets about 80 per cent of his milk through his store, while the balance is sold at prevailing Class II prices to Dietrich’s Dairy in Reading. That, like all other production and marketing phases of his operation is entirely within the law, Glick [Continued on Page 36] BUTLER AGRI-BUILDER State
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