—Lancaster Farming. Saturday, May 21. 1977
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$lO milk price
announced
ALEXANDRIA,Va. -
Market Administrator
Joseph D. Shine recently
announced an April base
milk price of $lO.OO per
hundredweight for the
Middle Atlantic
Marketing Order and an
excess milk price of $8.46.
Hie weighted average April
price is $0.82 and the but
terfat differential for the
month is 11.5 cents. The
April 1977 base milk price is
down two cents from March
and is 18 cents below last
April’s price. Order No. 4
prices are announced for 3.5
per cent milk f.o.b. plant
location within 55 miles of
Philadelphia, Pa. and also
within 75 miles from the
4-H goat club news posted
PHOENIXVILLE, Pa. -
The Che-Del-Be 4-H Dairy
Goat Club, a club formed
between the three counties of
Chester, Delaware, and
Berks, held its reor
gamzational meeting during
March at the home of Alison
Scheib, Phoenixville.
Elections took place with the
following results: Stacy
Seybold, Linfield, president;
Jonathan- Weinstock,
Phoenixville, vice president;
Lisa Meeker, Pottstown,
secretary; Michael
Weinstock, Phoenixville,
treasurer; Charles Scott,
Pottstown, historian; and
Alison Scheib, Phoenixville,
and Jon Seber, Linfield,
news reporters.
The April meeting was
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nearer of Washington, D.C.
or Baltimore, Md. Hiere is a
6-cent direct-delivery dif
ferential applicable to
producer milk received at
plants located within 55
miles of Philadelphia.
Shine reported that April
producer receipts totaled
484.2 million pounds, an
increase of 3.0 per cent from
March, on an average daily
basis, and 7.2 per cent above
a year ago. Class I producer
milk accounted for 55.54 per
cent of total April deliveries,
compared to 60.08 per cent in
March and 60.91 per cent last
year. Base milk represented
_ 88.43 per cent of total April
production. A total of 8,060
dairymen supplied Middle
held at the home of Loren
Andrien, Downingtown.
Thomas Mitchell, Chester
County assistant extension
agent, spoke on the various
activities available to a 4-H
member on both the local
and state levels.
A member, Lisa Meeker,
gave a demonstration, on
kidding.
This April, Stacy Seybold
of the Che-Del-Be club took
part in a televised show
entitled, “Farm, Home, and
Garden,” for the KYW TV,
Philadelphia, station. The
first show centered around
goat care and grooming, and
the second installment told
about feeding and milking of
the dairy animal.
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York Co. 4-H Council announces coming events
BAIR, Pa. - The annual
York County 4-H Chicken
Bar-B-Que will be held on
Atlantic Order handlers
during the month and the
average daily delivery per
producer was a record high
2,003 pounds, 158 pounds or
8.6 per cent above the April
1976 daily average. This was
the second consecutive
month that a new high was
established in the average
daily delivery per producer.
Middle Atlantic Order pool
handlers reported Class I in
area milk sales - of 7.79
million pounds per day
during April. When ad
justment for variation in
calendar composition is
made, April fluid sales were
2.7 per cent below March and
1.1 per cent below April 1976.
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handling systems.
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• June 18 at the 4-H Center * Other important Congress at Penn State from
near Bair. Serving will take refnember are:- Rural life June 20-23. Training is of
place between 4 and 8 p.m. Sunday, May 17; Blue forms fared in County 4-H reporter,
Carryouts are available or due, May 20; next council -congress delegates,
they may be eaten at the 4-H meeting June lat the 4-H leadership school, and street
Center. To order'tickets, Chapter; and Leadership camping leadership,
contact any 4-H member or
the 4-H office before June 1.
This information was
made public at the recent
meeting of the York County
4-H Council. At that time, all
York County members were
encouraged to begin now to
prepare a demonstration in a
project area for
Demonstration Day to be
helckon June 30.
Applications for Five
County Camp are-due at the
4-H office before June 1. The
camp will be at Hidden
Valley in Perry County on
June 15-18.
All members and leaders
are needed on May 23 at 7
p.m. for the Spring cleaning
of the 4-H center
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