Serving TneXe?sfra/ and Southeastern Pennsylvania Areas - Also Maryland , New Jersey and Delaware VOL 23 No. 12 A foot of snow fell on Pennsylvania Thursday, leaving the countryside pretty as a bride. This farm scene is near Lititz. Dairy officials worried by surplus ByDEETER KRIEG QUARRYVILLE - Of ficials at Inter-State Milk Producers Cooperative see some clouds on the horizon Stoltzfus herd tops Chester DHIA By DIETER KRIEG GUTHRIESVILLE - Despite an ongoing snow this issue Farm Calendar 10 Editorials 10 Letters 10 Medicine &Mgmt. 16 Homestead Notes 42 Ida’s Notebook 43 Kendy’sKollumn 44 Jr. Cooking Edition 47 Joyce Bupp 48 Classifieds 62 Lancaster DHtA 90 Facts for dairymen 96 Labor law dangers 102 YorkDHIA 104 Farm strike history ,106 due to the increasing buildup of surplus stocks. The situation' has forced the Philadelphia-based cooperative to dig into its storm that dumped as much as eight inches of the fluffy white stuff on southeastern Cull cow prices rising By JOANNE SPAHR LITITZ - Slaughter cows were selling for as high as $33 at Lancaster County auctions this week, a price seven to 10 cents higher than the market six weeks ago. At Thursday’s New Holland Auction a few No. 1 t« No. 3 utility and com merical cows sold for 34, in Lancaster Farming, Saturday, January 21,197 ft coffers to meet excess marketing costs. At a meeting of dairymen here on Thursday, Inter State’s director for member Pennsylvania, Chester County dairymen gathered here on Thursday night for comparison to 24.00 to 26.50 six weeks ago, with a few selling as high at that time as 26.60 to 27.75. This week No. 1 to No. 2 cutters went for 31.50-33.00, in compairson to 22.10 to 24.50 six weeks ago at the Lancaster Stockyards. Vintage showed the same upward fluctuation with No. 1 to No. 3 utility and com and public relations, Boyd Gartley, told the dairymen that IMPCO members mil be faced with a 60 cents per hundredweight deduction on their annual DHIA dinner. More than 200 people were in attendance for the event, merical animals selling for 29.75-33.00. Where as six weeks ago they ranged from 25.00 to 28.35 with a few at 28.50 to 29.50. A few canner and low cutters sold for 20.00 to 23.50 on November 29. Where as on Tuesday of this week at Vintage that same type animal went for as high as 33.75. This seven to 10 cent surplus milk for December. Termed a temporary arrangement, the measure is needed in order to con tinue to meet the extra which has been held on a snowy night for the past three years now. spread in price over the past week has dairy farmers smiling and small butcher shops worrying. “If the prices are this high, now, when they are culling their herds. I’m concerned where they are going to get cows in the Spring,” states Krall Hostetter, owner of (Turn to Page 32) $6.00 Per Year marketing costs incurred when production in Order 4 is miming six per cent of where it was last year. (Turn to Page 2.0) The leading herd in the Chester County DHIA (Turn to Page 9) Notice The heavy accumulation of snow which descended on Pennsylvania since Thur sday afternoon brought with it a list cf cancellations and postponements. The snow storm has left us without several market reports due to businesses not being able to open or being short staffed. We may incur a later than normal press time due to the weather and some deliveries may therefore also be late.
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