VOL 22
■OO dairymen
■ faced with
Want closing
■ By KENDACE SORRY
■BAREVILLE - Ap-
Hoximately 300 farmers in
He Lancaster County area
Hceived the unwelcome
Bros recently that the New
Holland Farms, Inc. would
Hop taking milk after
Hovember 12, and be
Rscontinuing services.
Hconomic reasons were
Hated for the notice.
■The cut-off was made to all
Hnners using the services of
Hew Holland Farms, Inc.
Recording to some farmers
Hvolved with the company,
■us involves about 275,000'
ounds of milk which had
een processed daily at the
lant.
A meeting of the dairy
irmers involved was held
Ictober 24 at the Bareville
I'ire Hall in Lancaster
lounty. Representatives
rom the Eastern Milk
’reducers Co-op attended
he meeting and spoke of
ilternatives and plans to
lelp the farmers affected by
he closing of the plant.
Arden Tewksbury,
president of Eastern Co-op
spoke to the approximately
225 people present at the
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Resolutions
adopted by
Grangers
DANVILLE - The Penn
sylvania State Grange, in a
senes of resolutions ap
proved by delegates to the
105th annual convention,
held here this week, opposed
the dumping of sewage
sludge on open land, mined
areas and farmland until it
can be proven that “this
sludge is harmless to the
environment.”
Citing proposals to dispose
of sewage sludge, especially
that from cities, in this
manner, pointed out that the
material “may contain
elements and minerals
detrimental to the en
vironment, and to air and
water.
A second resolution called
tor continuation of “valuable
sludge treatment research
at Pennsylvania State
University” with periodic
reports of the work to the
Department of En
vironmental Resources.
A third resolution opposing
the dumping of sewage
sludge as long as un
lesirable materials at un
safe levels, recommended
hat:
“Companies dumping
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and Soufheastern Pennsylvania AreaS*- Also Maryland, New Jersey and Delaware
Farm Calendar 10
Editorials 10
Grange convention 17
Medicine&Mgmt. 18
Lancaster Famine, Saturday, October 29,1977
A walk in the crisp Autumn air along country roads offers
scenes not viewed in any other season. The rustic fence
along a sleeping pond pleases the eye as wett as the souL
New farm bill 20-21
'* err 5 r Webb 22
Outstanding farmer 25
4-H Round-ups 29,34,36
Chester Holstein dub 33
In this issue
Homestead Notes 4243
Jr. Cooking Edition 48
Kiddie Page 52
Joyceßupp 54
Ida’s Notebook 54
Lancaster Farming photo by Dieter Rrieg
Farm Women Calendar 57
Classifieds 58
LebanonDHlA 86
Farm Labor 95
Lifeonthefarm 112
$6.00 Per Year
Ag interests
may change
at USDA
PARK RIDGE, 111. -Allan
Grant, president of the
American Farm Bureau
Federation, has called upon
Agriculture Secretary Bob
Bergland to withdraw or
effectively modify his
proposed reorganization of
some USDA functions. Grant
noted specifically the
changes proposed for the
Packers and Stockyards
Administration, the
Agricultural Extension
Service, and Department’s
Office of Communications.
Noting that the P&SA has
a good record of en
forcement actions since
becoming an independent
agency, Grant said that it
should remain a separate
agency responsible directly
to one of the assistant
secretaries of Agriculture.
“We believe,” Grant said,
“that putting the Packers
and Stockyards Ad
ministration under the
Administrator of the
Agricultural Marketing
Service would diminish its
effectiveness.”
Noting that the proposed
reorganization of the
Department included the
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Surpluses
squeezing
area dairymen
By DIETER KRIEG
NEW PARK - Members of
Maryland Cooperative Milk
Producers meeting here
Thursday night were told
that the most difficult
problem facing dairy far
mers throughout the country
- especially in the Middle
Atlantic States - is the
“tremendous increase in
milk production which oc
curred during 1976 and 1977
and coupled with flat fluid
milk sales.”
It’s been a really
significant problem for the
Baltimore based dairy
cooperative due to the
closing of the Koontz Dairy
in that city. That left MCMP,
which las approximately
1000 dairy farmer members
in three states, holding
thousands of extra gallons of
milk, in the one hand, and an
empty bag in the other. The
proverbial empty bag came
when Koontz went bankrupt
and creditors, including
MCMP, are now sharing in
losses, as well as proceeds
from the sale of Koontz
property. “It would be
foolish to speculate when
partial and final settlement
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