VOL 23 No. 22 Bergen delights poultry crowd By JOANNE SPAHR LANCASTER - “life has beeil pretty good,” 75-year old Edgar Bergen told his audience. “It’s the best thing I’ve run across,” he added with a wry twist of his mouth and a turn of Ms head. The famous ventriloquist was the featured en tertainment for the Penn sylvania Poultry Federation’s annual fund raising dinner theater. He drew both laughter and long tucked-away memories from Reasons presented for dairy woes By DIETER KRIEG STOUCHSBURQ -:J Dairymen in tfie Northeast,-, h&ye two options to solve ' their-jnarfcefirig ' says Ralph Smith, (director coeducation for the Nor- 1 thrtst Cooperatives '• The j choices are to eitherproduce- - 1 less or sell more. 1 Speaking at a meeting near this western Berks ' County town. Smith said that ' 1000 ormore dairymen in the ' Northeast have received ! notices from' their dairy so Surveys can improve roadside marketing GETTYSBURG - Owners of roadside markets can improve sales and service by improving parking facilities, posting store hours, providing seasonal in formation, and offering samples, says Ohio State’s marketing specialist Ed Watkins. In southcentral Penn sylvania for the annual Pennsylvania - Maryland Roadside Marketing Con ference, held earlier this In this issue Farm Calendar 10 Editorial 10 ELCOFFA 28 Milk Utilization 37 IH tractor tour 42 Classifieds 50 Homestead Notes 82 Home on the Range 86 Farm Women Calendar 87 Ida’s Notebook 87 Kendy’sKollumn 89 Jr. Cooking Edition 90 Doris Thomas 91 Berks County FFA 90 Joyce Bupp' 92 the 1350 poultrymen and allied industrymen who gathered at the Host Farm Cabaret room to support the Federation on Thursday evening. -Doing stand-up comedy and reciting fractured Shakespeare were both part of this veteran showman’s .routine, but perhaps his most heartwarming per formance came through his conversations with Jus little wooden buddies"- Mortimer (Turn to Page 26) far this year telling them tbattbey (thfdwfta)canno “Yojf cull, cows, imd the'dairies cull producers,’’ Smith explained bluntly. Reasons for dairies cutting many shippers off the sMpper lists - are because of a cost-price squeeze coupled with an oversupply of milk. Milk has been and con tinues to be produced in excess of marketing needs because of the government’s support program in the price (Turn to Page 36) year, Watkins came prepared with marketing strategy studies which have not yet been attempted in Pennsylvania. At his suggestion, Pennsylvania State University may at tempt similar research, providing roadside marketers are willing to help with the distribution of questionnaires. According to the Ohio State statistics, consumers who frequent roadside (Turn to Page 19) Kiddie Page • 94 Vegetable meeting 97 Fruitgrowing 98 AG leaders push market development 103 Nat’l. 4-H Conference 106 LCF A meeting 107 Foxhunting 112 Lamb feature 118 Elmer, the watchgoose 119 York DMA 122 Ag Safety Council 126 Earl Butz on bureaucracylSO Conrad Weiser FFA 139 Poultry, rabbit seminar 140 Lancaster Farming, Saturday, April 1,1978 Wet fields don’t bother flying farmer By DIETER KRIEG SWAMPY FURROWS - A few spots in Pennsylvania are now fit to field work, but that’s not the case for most areas where record amounts of snow and several inches of rainfall have left the ground thoroughly soaked. Plowing and planting will be behind schedule for most farmers in the area. As much as the wet field conditions are causing a lot of grief for anxious sodbusters, one innovative and resourceful Pennsylvania farmer isn’t letting the muddy fields bother him too much. v ' ' Hans Hubschrauber, (that’s him, flying the helicopter, above) is getting the jump on his neighbors by attacking his field woik with his own air force. Having 1050 acres to prepare for com, soybeans, spaghetti, and cotton, the 37- year old former Air Force pilot is wasting no time to get his work done. , Hans Hubschrauber has taken to the air to get his field work done. Using a slightly modified Augusta-Bell 204 helicopter, Hubschrauber has found his “aerial tractor” to be ideal for a number of jobs, including manure spreading. During an interview today (April 1> Hubschrauber told Lancaster Farming that he likes the aerial application of manure procedure because there is no chance of a tailwind splattering him with the home-made fertilizer. ■ The blades of the big chopper force the manure down, allowing for better penetration of the soil and faster availability of plant nutrients to hungry weeds. Then when the weeds are off to a good start, Hubschrauber hops into his helicopter again. This time he’s armed with herbicides. The weeds die and provide good organic material for a better soil texture. Seeding is the next step, and as you may have guessed, it’s also done by helicopter. Depth of planting, says Hubschrauber, is controlled by* (Turn to Page 26) $6.00 Per Year Lancaster Farming photo by Dieter Krieg
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