Servin&rfieSenfral and Southeastern
VOL 23 No. 20
Congress has idle acreage program
fiONGTON, D.C. -
p. Senate is speeding
|h procedures to offer
po economically
fesed farmers. The bill
moved ahead on,the
Mamed outstanding cooperator was Don Trimble, Peach Bottom R 2, seen
■ted with his wife, Carol, son Scott, and daughter, Cindy. Presenting the
Bard was J. Everett Kreider, Lancaster Co, Conservation District Director.
Lancaster County Conservation
District honors farmer
fey KENDACE BORRY
Lancaster ~ Don
imble and his family were
pored as the outstanding
Operator at the Lancaster
>unty Conservation
strict Cooperators 28th
inual meeting and
nquet. The' Peach Bottom
1 farmer won the award for
( achievements in con-
Dairy cooperatives
scramble for equity
By DIETER KRIEG
LANCASTER - Pressured
>y lending institutions, and
ealizmg that dead equity
unding is causing financial
nstabihty, several dairy
•ooperatives in the Nor
heast are now actively
'ngaged in building capital
unds. Compounding the
iituation is a continued in
crease in milk production,
vhich has burdened many
narketing outlets for the
•astyear.
The scramble to build
agenda on Monday, March
13. Final action op tiie bill,
however; willmot '.jJie until
after a vote has been
reached on the Panama
Canal Treaty.
servation practices on his
dairy operation.
For a more complete
glimpse of the Don Trimbles,
see the article included next
week in the Lancaster
Farming.
Another award given by
the district was for out
standing service. Given to
Arthur Brown, Nottingham
equity comes in several
forms.
At Dairylea, for example,
members are being
requested to contribute
financial clout in the amount
of $1.20 per hundredweight
for all the milk they shipped
during 1977. Creditors are
looking for permanent
membership equity -
ownership in the
cooperative.
Eastern Milk Producers is
assessing its members five
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Pennsylvania Areas -
Lancaster Farming, Saturday, March 10,1970
- The bill, known as 5.2690,
was introduced into
Congress 10 days ago by
Senators Herman Taltpadge
of Georgia and Robert Dole
of Kansas. It’s aid* is to
Rl, he was honored for
serving as the first chairman
of the Lancaster County Soil
Conservation District when
it was formed in 1950. In
volved with conservation
practices on his farm for the
past 40 years, he and his wife
were awarded with an aerial
photograph of his farm.
Winners at the plowing
contests held as part of the
Lancaster County Soil
Conservation Day last
Summer were given trophies
for their achievements.
Frank Burkhart, Lancaster,
and Richard Binkley,
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In this issue
Farm Calendar 10
Editorial io
Ephrata FFA 20
Manheim FFA 47-
Penn Manor FFA 49
Classifieds 51
Homestead Notes 82
Kendy’s Kollumn 83
Farm Women Calendar 84
Home on the Range 86
Doris Thomas 87
Joyce Bupp 91
boost farm income by paying
fanners to keep portions of
their land idle.
“Fanners are caught up in
a savage squeeze between
falling prices, rising
Vet school in trouble
By JOANNE SPAHR
PHILDELPHIA - The
School *of Veterinary
Medicine of the University of
Pennsylvania, like many
other state-aided, state- >
related, and state-owned
colleges and universities, Is
in serious trouble. And,
trouble within that school
can spell hardship for the
farmer as well as all animal
owners, in general.
Due to a budget reduction
from the state of $1.2 million
late last year (from a
proposed $3.8 million to $2.6
million), the state-aided
veterinary scjiool- was
plunged ' into a
; the majbr
problem at that point was
the, timing - the cuts came
' halfway through" the fiscal ;
year when the school had
already made its financial
commitments.
The critical source 'of
concern at the present time
stems from Governor
Shapp’s budget recom
mendation for 1978-1979
which proposes no increase
in appropriations for next
year. In other words, the
veterinary school will be
forced to operate for another
year under its present
already-too-low level.
“We won’t be able- to
survive,’.’ says a -concerned
Dr. Robert Marshak, dean of •
the School of Veterinary
Medicine. “We’re already on
an austere budget, and with
this cut, we’re going to be in
serious trouble.”'
According to Marshak, if a
more reasonable ap
propriation is not made to
the college, one of two things
will happen either the
quality of the school will go
down or it will go out of
existence entirely.
There is very little op
position to Marshak’s
claims. The University of
Pennsylvania is recognized
as having one of the top three
vet schools in the nation
along with Cornell in New
Jr. Cooking Edition &.
Ida’s Notebook , 93
Chinese cooking 95
Pennfield dairy awards 101
American Pork Congress 102
Grassland FF A 106
MyThoughts ill
Dairy sire data 122
Lebanon PHI A l? 3
York4-H\Vod: 129
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Also Maryland, New Jersey and Delaware
production costs and huge
over-hanging surpluses,”
the Georgia senator said at a
recent news conference
when be introduced the bill.
The Talmadge-Dole bill
Or, Robert Marshak
York and California
University, Davis.
Penn turns out about 100
graduates a year and has
educated about 70 per cent of
Hog industry faces
tuberculosis incidents
By DIETER KRIEG
LANCASTER - Swine
tuberculosis which on
national average is found in
about .05 per cent of
slaughtered hogs, is oc
curring at 10 times that rate
in some Pennsylvania
packing houses. Some of the
hog buyers are dunking
about pulling away from
Pennsylvania markets for
that reason, and at least one
packer has already limited
buying in Lancaster County. -
At stake is the continued
boom in Lancaster County’s
and surrounding areas’ hog
production.
Poultry disease hits
100,000 more chickens
LANCASTER
Laryngotracheitis continues
to spread in Lancaster
County and has reached
what is now termed “almost
epidemic levels.” Just
within the .past week, two
more large poultry flocks
contracted the disease,
•bringing the total number of
infected chickens to over
half a million.
Poultry' specialists are
expressing deep concern for
recent developments. This
news story - the fourth such
story since November, and
the second in thrge weeks -
reflects'- the/poultry in
dustry’s concern.
$6.00 Per Year
would require the Secretary
.of Agriculture to implement
immediately a land
retirement program under
which farmers will be paid to
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the veterinarians practicing
in the Commonwealth,
today.
Along with its reputation
for excellence, the
veterinary school is also
recognized as having the
lowest amount of state
support of the top three
institutions. With its current
allotted budget' of - $2.6
million, it falls-far behind
California University,
Davis, which receives $9
.million annually. Davis,
which has approximately 366
students, also has a student
body that is smaller than
Penn’s 420 students.
Cornell, which is one-third
smaller in student body, is
supported' with $7 to $8
million annually.
“So, you see, we’re
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Hog producers in the state,
and
southeastern Pennsylvania
are becoming increasingly
concerned and are stepping
up efforts to bring the
situation,under control. But
it won’t be easy and it’ll take
plenty of cooperation on the
part of producers, livestock
markets, packers, and the
Pennsylvania Department of
Agriculture.
Spearheading the drive
-against the tuberculosis
incidents, are local pork
producers and some of the
area’s packers. Livestock
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Although some of the
larger flocks in Lancaster
County are involved in the
outbreaks, poultry officials
are stressing precautionary
measures to “backyard”
flocks as well. They urge
each owner of “backyard”
flocks to be on the lookout for
the disease and encourage
vaccination programs.
The two most recent
outbreaks occurred in large
poultry houses in the
Manheim-Mount Joy area.
In atleast one of those cases,
it’s strongly suspected that
the disease was introduced
because of carelessness on
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