Serving JheTCentral and Southeastern Pennsylvania Areas - Also Maryland. New Jersey and Delaware VOL 22 No. 33 (62 million produced [IETER KRIEG (ASTER • Despite a BO farms and nearly cres of farmland, ier County tanners d to increase their ivity by nearly $3O In 1976, as compared Most of the increase rom livestock far wtsbly the dairy weef vote begins soon IVERSITY PARK - roting for the proposed ■1 beef check-off n begins this coining ty, only a small Itage of the total r of cattle and en will be taking he reason is a poor for the mandatory' ition, which was held U. York quM Eastern ACUSE, N.Y.-Arden mry, President of rn Milk Producers ative, has announced ippmg down of John C. is general manager of rganization, effective t 31, 1977. York, who ten with Eastern for ist thirty years, sub- oung Cooperators chosen ■ By JOYCE BUPP ■ and SALLY BAIR ■CKEYSVILLE, Md. - A Vaster county dairy farm Be has been named one Riree top winners in Betition sponsored by ■dual cooperatives of B’ennmarva Dairymen's ■ration. Inc. Judging First state food day held By JOANNE SPAHR ■RRISBURG, Pa. - Wy supporting the ef ■ of National Food Day, m believing that more Bive action can be taken Be state level, Governor Bn J. Shapp signed a Bwiation, Wednesday, Bring June 29 as Penn- Bnia Food Day. The Barley harvest satisfactory By DIETER KRIEG ANCASTER-The barley vest is almost over and >rly everyone involved h the harvest is saying t yields and quality are ter than expected. The 6r age yields reputed in "caster County hovered 'ttnd 50 bushels per acre, b a few as high as 100 tals per acre and a able number of yields ttmg 70 bushels per acre. Total value of Lancaster County’s 1976 agricultural products is pegged at $362,169,300 by the Penn sylvania Crop Reporting Service, hi 1975 it stood at $335,180,200 and in the preceding year it was valued at While tnme of that in creased value is due to in flation, a significant part of at county ARCS offices across the country. hi Pennsylvania, only 3800 signed up out of a potential eligibility list of 52,000. Lancaster County, which ranks .as the - Keystone State’s top beef producing county, signed up 332 people out of an estimated 5000 who might have been eligible. mitted to Eastern’s Bo at an Executive Committee meeting in the' coop'd Syracuse, N.Y. office on June 28, 1977. In a statement released today, Tewsbury informed that York’s resignation had been accepted by the Board took place during., a Federation sponsored meeting on June 23 at the Hunt Valley Inn. Susan and Robert Kauff man, Jr., Peach Bottom R 2, were selected die 1977 Young Cooperator couple by In terstate Milk Producers ceremony took place in the presence of Kent D. Shelhamer, Pennsylvania secretary of agriculture, and some 200 representatives of farm, church, consuiper, and aging organizations who attended the Com monwealth’s first state food day program. Prior to this, Pennsylvania Test weights averaged between 43 and 46 pounds per bushel, according to Lan caster County grain han dlers. Some of the first wheat is coming in too, with early yields ranging around 60 bushels per acre in the Elizabethtown area. For the most part, however, wheat is not yet being combined in Lancaster Comty. Custom combine operators expect to Lancaster Farming, Saturday. July 2,1977 it can be credited to better production in the fields and barns within the Garden Spot. According to U.S. Labor Department statistics, the inflation rate for the U.S. was only 5.2 per cent from January 1976 to January 1977, leaving ample room for credit to farm production itself. Fur- IContinual on Pift 22] Similar low turnouts were noted in Adams County where beef production ranks fourth in the state. Only 132 fanners signed up there. In Chester County it was even less, with 103 signing up for the vote. Registration for the referendum ended on June 17. (Continued on Fagt 25] with deep regret, and praised the cooperative leader for hla three decades of ~ dedicated- and distinguished service to' the dairy industry. He further stated that Howard E. McDonald of Auburn, N.Y. has been appointed as [GonttniMd on Page 21] Cooperative, Inc., Southampton, Pa. Kauffman, who has been dairying for 11 years, did not grow up with a farm background. As a teenager, he worked on a dairy farm part-time, where his love of farming took root. After five [Continued on Pm 341 had been the leader in for mulating the first conference in 1973, and h comprised the larg> delegation to the World F< Conference In Rome in 19ys. Since that |ime, the Com monwealth has continued support of a national ob servance. (Continued on Pap 26] get into the wheat fields this weekend if the weather bolds up. Rain is predicted, however, and a bit of con cern is being expressed by some grain handlen already about maintaining a good quality harvest So far no one is com plaining. Every grain handler revealed nothing but praise for the barley har vest, which is now being [Claimed m Pap 2«j Kirsten Zug, 6, and Brad Peffer, aren’t finding much shade at the edge of this wheat field.' Soon their hail playing area will be expanded as combines arc ex- - pected to begin *harvesting the crop next week. The two youngsters are the children of Mr. and Mrs. Jon Zug and Mr. and Mrs. John Peffer, respectively. Both live near Rothsville. Kendace Borry joins staff LITITZ - Kendace C. Borry, Mount Joy, R 2, has been named as a new associate editor of the staff of Lancaster Farming. Living on a SO acre farm located north of Mount Joy with her mother, Mrs. H. Kenneth Borry, and her brother, Barrett, Kendace has been involved with ln this issue Farm Calendar 10 Editorials 10 Letters 10 Food Conference 32 Loan rates a Homestead Notes a Women’s Calendar 40 Recipe Swap 40 Pint lovers’comer 41 fanning and livestock most of her Ufe. While still in 4-H, she was involved in capon, beef, horse, community, and sewing dubs. She had the reserve champion Shorthorn steer at the 1967 Penn sylvania Farm Show, showed grand champion capons In her 4-H dub, and competed at district level Ida’s Notebook 41 Jf. Cooking Edition 44 Classifieds 46 Joyce Bupp 78 Children’spage 78 Beekeepers 82 Adams dairy princess S 3 $4.00 Per Year with her horse projects. She is now a leader of the Saddle Cinches 4-H Horse Club. She also worked two Summers as a crop .enumerator for the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Beef sheep, and horses are now taised on the Bony farm with the main crops {Continued on Pace 19] York dairy princess 86 Small grains 88 Schuylkill dairy princess 91 Prison farm 92 My Thoughts 95 Home on the Range 96 Freezing foods 99 Public Saleßegister 106 Sale Reports 106
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