—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, October 29,1977
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‘‘Look out, pheasant, here I corhe,” I exclaimed
gloriously to myself and to an imaginary cockbird
as I barged clumsily through the row of corn, trying
desperately to keep up with the big strides of the
hunters to my right.
I was stalking that illusive quarry - the nngneck
pheasant - with my father and his hunting friends
just as I always had done from the time I was able
to walk along the end row to flush out the game.
But, this year was different -1 was carrying a gun
for the first time in my whole life
Herbert Wessel, president of Maryland
Cooperative Milk Producers, expresses confidence
in MCMP’s membership being able to cope with
current “opportunities.”
Surplus milk is the number one problem for
dairymen right now, says Ralph Strock, general
manager of Maryland Cooperative Milk Producers.
Heavy surpluses
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conditions next year,
will be made to creditors,” The general outlook for
said MCMP general dairy farmers for the
manager Ralph Strock. remainder of this year is
Although the surplus milk mixed. Feed prices are low,
and Koontz insolvency and the milk price - feed cost
situations have blemished ratio is at its best level since
the cooperative’s financial late 1972. This has spurred
situation, it nevertheless milk production nationwide,
reports a higher income for Maryland Co-op is not alone
1977 than it had in 1976, and in its quest to find outlets for
My Thoughts
And welcome to them
Exhilarated as I was, I recalled conversations at
target piactice between my brother and myself
that went something like this*
“Jo, what are you aiming at?” says big brother
“What do you think I’m aiming at - I’m aiming at
the target,” I reply, aggravated. .
“Are you sure 7 ” he asks incredulously, smirking
nastily
"Yes, I’m sure ”
"Then how come you haven’t hit it yet 7
No reply.
surplus milk. The surplus
situation, in short, will
continue to be a burden for
middle Atlantic dairymen
through at least 1977.
With reference to the
surplus situation, Strock and
other officials of Maryland
Co-op remarked that their
Holly Milk Plant, now under
construction near Carlisle, is
coming a year too late. Built
to be the most modern plant
of its kind in the world,
MCMP holds half interest in
the facility along with Inter-
State MUk Producers of
Philadelphia. Dairymen
belonging to the two
cooperatives are lookng
forward to the opening of the
plant to alleviate the surplus
problem. Construction of the
Holly plant is said to be
behind schedule in some
respects, but ahead in
others. Overall, the plant is
still expected to be in
operation next May.
The plant is designed to
handle 2 million pounds of
milk daily. Being built at a
cost of over $8 million, the
plant features the latest
automated equipment and
technology. Included in the
facilities are nine silos,
several of which stand 75
feet high.
There is plenty of milk
available for the new plant,
the 124 York County
members of MCMP were
told. During the first eight
months of this year, MCMP
marketed 237 million pounds
of milk in excess of the needs
of Class I buyers to eight
processing plants. This
represents and increase of 67
million pounds over 1976 and
112 million pounds more than
was marketed through
manufacturing channels in
1975, explained Strock.
Between MCMP and Inter-
State, the plant could have
been utilized to peak
capacity beginning in April
of this year.
The subject of handling
surplus milk dominated the
meeting. It was noted that
much of the surplus milk
from MCMP has been
handled through the
Allentown cheese plant
owned by the Lehigh Valley
Milk Producers Cooperative.
MCMP management ex
pressed gratitude and ap
preciation for these ar
rangements, pointing out
that such cooperation is
particularly noteworthy
since the entire marketing
area is flooded with milk.
The arrangment with
Le-Hi is part of an
agreement formed nearly a
By JOANNE SPAHR
Assistant Editor
year ago which brought
several dairy cooperatives
from this area under one
umbrella. Known as the
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Well, maybe I never hit anything at target
practice, but when the real live bird flew out, I
knew I’d be sure to get a hit.
Then it happened. Suddenly, out of the crisp,
cool Autumn air, a majestic, seemingly frantic,
pheasant careened above the corn stalks, beating
its wings on invisible drums in the air.
Heart pounding, I fumbled with the gun in my
hands when, bang, a report that sent a heart
stopping shock through my body also caught the
pheasant, and held it in a statuesque pose at the
height' of its ascent, and then rapidly felled it to the
ground
“It’s yours, Jo, it’s yours," someone yelled. “Go
get it"
Mindlessly, I began hurdling through the fallen,
entangled corn, hunting for the bird. When I found
it, I proudly handed the prize to my dad who
stuffed it into his hunting coat with a smile.
l never did hit any other birds that day, but it
didn’t matter. When we went in, I thought over the
morning’s activities It had been a pretty good
hunt. I’d carried my gun for the first time, and had
a pheasant to call my own in Dad’s jacket But,
most of all, I shared a secret with one of those
hunters out there which 1 knew I'd never forget I
hadn’t fired a shot all day.
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