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
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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
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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
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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*
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$6.00 Per Year
Lancaster Farming photo by Dieter Krieg