—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, November 19,1977 108 Goodling inspects Holly Milk Congressman William F. Good ling, 19th District, (right) inspects the new Holly Milk Co-op plant with Ivo V. Otto Jr., president of Holly. The plant, located near Mt. Holly Springs, Pa., will receive up to two million pounds of milk daily for manufacture of powdered milk and butter. The plant is expected to be com pleted in time for the Spring flush. Holly Milk Co-op was formed earlier this year by Inter-State Milk Producers' Cooperative and Maryland Cooperative Milk Producers at a cost of more than $8.2 million. Produce reporting method changed NEW YORK - Beginning January 1, the U.S. Department of Agriculture will report the volume of fresh fruit and vegetables moving through marketing channels by weight instead of rail carlot equivalents. The change ends a 50-year tradition of converting truckload quanitites of produce to the size of rail car loadings. Clay Ritter, USDA marketing official, said changing transportation modes and the reduction or withdrawal of rail service at shipping and receiving points prompted the change. With trucks hauling nearly 75 per cent of all fresh fruits and vegetables marketed today, the use of carlot The Way It Is When you think about it, did you ever get a busy sig nal when you dialed a wrong number 9 Household ,4 w p*K|[ Baking Molasses Table Syrup Blackstrap Molasses PT’s QT’s 5 Gals. 55 Gals. Gals. Ot terms has declined significantly within produce trade circles, he said. Daily and weekly reports will produce shipments in units of 10,000 pounds as proposed in the June 9 Federal Register. Yearly totals will appear in units of 1000 hundredweights in annual reports. This method, Ritter said, makes it possible to- include low volume items like artichokes and blueberries in daily reports and to simplify the consolidation of data for use in annual reports. The market news program of USDA’s Agricultural Marketing Service currently covers fresh fruit and vegetable market activities in 25 major U.S. metropolitan areas. Key agricultural production and shipping centers are also covered. The daily and weekly market reports are immediately made available to news media through Molasses Zook Molasses Co. (215) 273-3776 Box 160, Honey Brook, Pa. USDA’s nationwide telecommunications net work and mailed reports. A notice confirming the volume reporting method change appeared in the Oct. 17 Federal Register. Copies may be obtained from the Fruit and Vegetable Division, Agricultural Marketing Service, USDA, Washington, D.C. 20250. ——— MEMO HAY, STRAW and EAR CORN SALE EVERY MONDAY AT 11AM. EVERY WEDNESDAY 12 00 NOON NEW HOLLAND SALES STABLES. INC Phone 717 354-4341 Lloyd H Kreider Auct Livestock Molasses Cows Horses Sheep-Goat Hogs - Chi Liquid feeding cane molasses Honey Brook Brand dried molasses Z Brand dried molasses Know Where the Activities Will Be? Read the Farm Women Calendar. Feed Companies all across the U.S. are puzzeled at the rate their customers are switching to VIGORTONE FEEDS!! They are even more puzzeled at how hard it is to get even one of them to switch back!! To find out some of the reasons why, contact your local VIGORTONE PRE MIXES serviceman soon!! You will find him to have 100 PER CENT IN TEREST in your livestock needs, and your increased profits! Over 150 Servicemen in PA alone!! Better rations cost less... with Vigortone. VWORIONE PRE-NIXES Especially Now! PENNA. LEON B. HERSHEY Box 166 Paradise, PA 717-442-4807 RON L. HERSHEY R 2 Gap, PA 717-442-8573 JASON E. MILLER 169 Strasburg Pike Lancaster, PA WM. J. YODER 23 N Bridge St. Christiana, PA 215-593-2101 RAYE. HILLARD, JR. RD 1, Box 220 A Milroy, PA 717-667-2421 ALVIN ESH Box 72 Intercourse, PA 717-768-3128 H. MELVIN CHARLES R 1 Washington Boro, PA 717-684-5783 PETE CALDWELL R 1 Windsor, PA 717-246-1046 RALPH E. BRUNGART Loganton, PA 717-725-2355 ELAMG. HOOVER Rl New Holland, PA 717-354-0432 PHILIP A. HAYES Oxford RD2 215-932 8736 CHRISTIAN L. STOLTZFUS R 2 Box 409 Elverson, PA 215-286 5995 PUZZLED? ? 50 warehouses—over 5400 servicemen 3 manufacturing plants CHESTER SOLTYS, JR. Spring City, PA 215-948-3647 JAMES STUTZMAN SONS R 3 Kutztown, PA 215-683-7198 215-682-2624 SHERWOOD A. WITMER Box 138 Berrys burg, PA 717-362-8823 PAUL L. KREIDER R 2 PA 717 964-3791 WILMER J. WEAVER Rl Fredericksburg, PA 717-865-6710 C. GEORGE BOOK RD2, BoxSOMiffhntown, PA 717-527-2228 \\ THE R rE?D V L° T 1/J V "«"B IB RUSSELA.FRY 22 W Locust St. Enola, PA PAUL BITTNER Germansville, PA 215-767-7140 CLIFFORD GRUBE RD 1 Womelsdorf, PA 717-933-8763 THOMAS R. WORTHINGTON RD3 Muncy, PA 717-546-2313 DELMARVA ERICW. FOGG Rehobeth, Del 302-227-3361 NEW JERSEY ED FOGG Malvern, PA 215-647-6818 C. OWEN FRANKLIN R 3 Bridgeton, NJ 609-451-5919 JOHN KLEMIUK Box 368 Hammonton, NJ 609-561-0982 RAYMOND CANT! RD3 Box 354 Phillipsburg, N' 201-859-1314 NEDSHIMP Woodstown, NJ 609-769-3481
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