—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, July 16, 1977 104 Pa. ranks second in HARRISBURG, Pa. - Pennsylvania remained in second place in ice cream production and third in the production of ice milk and milk sherbert in 1976, ac cording to the Pennsylvania Crop Reporting Service. Pennsylvania manufac turers produced 70.7 million gallons of ice cream in 1976 a decrease of three per cent from 1975’s 73.0 million gallons. Six per cent of the ice cream was of the soft frozen type. Ice milk production in 1976 totaled 16.1 million gallons, a decrease of four per cent from 1975. However, milk sherbert production at 3.0 million gallons rose two per cent over last year’s levels. Other frozen products manufactured totaled 696 thousand gallons, a drop of twelve per cent from 1975. Pennsylvania now ranks Creamery butter second to California’s 86.8 production dipped four per million gallons of ice cream cent to 23.4 million pounds in - Support needed for library center QUARRYVILLE, Pa. - “The Friends of the Southern Lancaster County Library Center” has recently been established to provide on going support for the library center located in Quaxryville. Currently, a membership campaign is being conducted by the Friends to enlist ice cream production and third in ice milk and milk sherbert, behind California and Ohio. community support for the newly erected facility. The Friends will be responsible for the con tinuation and maintenance of the center beginning in October of 1977. Included in this continuation is an initial yearly budget of ap proximately $BOOO to cover the cost of utilities, main tenance, and the salary of the part-time coordinator. The Center was opened in November of 1976 by the Lancaster County Library under a state grant which guaranteed the first year of operation and provided the building. Membership in the Friends is one way of providing the operating funds which will be necessary in October, the month which marks the end of the grant and the need for the community to provide operating funds. Several membership categories have been established to help raise these necessary funds. The categories are; student (ages 14-18) - $1.00; in dividual - $2.00 or more; patron - $25.00 or more; organizational (clubs, civic groups, churches, municipalities) - $lOO.OO or more. Membership information is available at the Southern Lancaster County Library Center, 304 St. Catherine St., Quarryville, or from the Membership Secretary, Mrs. Richard Spence, 786-3155. the commonwealth in 1976. Creamed cottage cheese production at 47.8 million pounds was down two per cent, while low-fat cottage cheese production at 13.3 million pounds was ten per cent. Pennsylvania’s total production of cheese in 1976, excluding cottage cheese, totaled 87.7 million pounds, a jump of 29 per cent from the previous year. Mozzarella production was up 33 per cent to 17.2 million pounds while other types of Italian cheese with 12.0 , million pounds produced showed an increase of 54 per cent. Production of dry,, con densed and evaporated milk in 1976 and the changes from 1975 were: condensed whole sweetened, 37.3 million pounds, down three per cent; condensed skim un sweetened, 50.1 million pounds, up 14 per cent; evaporated and condensed whole milk, 99.1 million pounds, up 27 per cent; non fat dry milk for human food, 9.7 million pounds, down 34 per cent. I SPRAY PAINTING I BARNS Will do the job like you want it done with the latest equipment. More reasonable rates due to being self em ployed. Let me look into your needs before the out-of state dealers come into' make a quick dollar. PHARES S. HURST RDI, I Narvon, Pa. 17555 | 215-445-6186 During 1976 a total of 2,723 million pounds of whole milk equivalent was used in manufactured dairy products. Of this total, 39 per cent was used for frozen products, 18 per cent for butter, 24 per cent for cheese, and 19 per cent for evaporated, condensed and other milk products. Total United States cheese production, excluding cot tage cheese, increased to a record 3,337 million pounds, 14 per cent above the 1974 record of 2,937 million pounds and 19 per cent above the previous year. Frozen dairy products totaled 1,187 million gallons in 1976, three per cent below the 1975 record production of 1,225 million gallons.' Manufactured dairy products utilized 55 per cent of the nation’s 1976 milk production.
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