|Mt. Joy Twp.
■code adopted
■to save farms
■ ByKENDACEBORRY
I ELIZABE’THTOWN - In
lan effort to discourage large
housing developments on
farmland, the Mount Joy
Township supervisors ap
proved a revised zoning
ordinance this past Tuesday.
Aired at an open hearing
attended by over 50 farmers,
developers, and other in
terested people, the proposal
was accepted by an
unanimous vote of the three
supervisors.
The revised 65 page or
dinance • establishes an
agricultural district in the
Lancaster County township
east of the Route 283 and in
part of the township which
lies west of that route and
south of Cloverleaf Road.
There development is
restricted. On a tract of land
tin size between one and
S seven acres, one 20,000
square foot lot _ would be
allowed. On 380 acres of land
or more, ten lots would be
allowed.
To satisfy builders and
developers, large pieces of
land near Elizabethtown and
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Strawberries
here, crop
looks good
ByKENDACEBORRY
LITITZ - The first
strawberries in the Lan
caster Farming area have
been picked and growers are
more optimistic about the
season than a few weeks ago.
While then they has been
worried about a reduced
crop due to the weather con
ditions and the late Spring,
Mother Nature has so far
cooperated to bring about a
much better than an
ticipated harvest.
Although the season is
much later than that of last
year’s, Peter Alexih, from
Herr Fruit Farms, Lan
caster, thought that the crop
was “coming along nicely.”.
“I’m very encouraged,”
be related. “We picked the
first ones Thursday before
noon, and they’re good
strawberries. Local
strawberries should start to
be on the market this
weekend in the area. The
peak of the season should
come in about ten days. ’ ’
Alexih has two mam
concerns right now over his
strawberries - ram and the
birds. “We could use some
rain this weekend yet, that
would help the crop nicely,”
he explained. “But we don’t
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Serving and Southeastern Pennsylvania AreoS - Also Maryland, New Jersey and Delaware
VOL. 23 No. 31
Greg Shaffer, Jason Garman, John Schell, and Megan Wade are all eager to
tell what they know about milk and cows. All of them, as well as their classmates,
are Kindergarteners and live in the Lititz area.
Eager to delve into the dairy issue of Lancaster Farming is this Jersey calf
photographed at the farm of Mark Deaven, Fredericksburg,
ANNUAL DAIRY ISSUE
Once again, we salute the area’s dairy industry with our
first issue of June - Dairy Month, Readers will find stories
and features of interest throughout this edition. Articles
depict dairymen, dairy farm wives, A-H’ers and FFA-ers.
Stories relate to management, andnew technology. Other
articles feature dairy princess contestants and people who
work closely with die dairyman to keep die milk flowing.
Regular features may be found on the following pages :
Farm Calendar 10 -
Editorials 10
Classifieds 60
Homestead Notes 90
Joyce Bupp 91
Doris Thomas 92
Farm Women Calendar 92
Jr. Cooking Edition 93
Lancaster Farming, Saturday, June 3,1978
Home on the Range 04
Children’s page 98
Kendy’sKollumn 123
Ida’s Notebook 123
Chester DHIA 125
York DHIA 134
Lancaster DHIA 140
Facts for dairymen 142^
Lancaster Farmmg photo by Joanne Spahr
Strong milk sales
give good outlook
By DIETER KRIEG
LANCASTER - After
months of burdensome
surplus production, the U.S.
diary industry has scored a
reversal and is now in what’s
considered a favorable
marketing situation. The
dramatic turnaround came
largely as a result of
unexpectedly high sales and
a drop in cow numbers which
was triggered by a com
bination of dairy surpluses
and attractive prices for cull
cows. Now, just a few weeks
after the sour headlines
appeared, it’s a different
ball game for dairymen and
their marketing
organizations.
Dr. Paul Hand, economist
for Inter-State Milk
‘Daddy cows’ give more
than ‘mommy cows’
By DIETER KRIEG
LITITZ - Dairy fanners
may be interested to know
that if thej r ’d milk their
daddy cows, iiistead of
mommy cows, they’d get
about four times as much
milk per animal. So says one
cheerful little Kin-
dergartener at the Lititz
Elementary School. Megan
Wade, 6, claims that a
mommy cow gives about a
quart of milk per day, while
her male counterpart will
put a whole gallon into the
bucket.
Jason Douple, another 6-
year old, disagrees in part.
According to him, mommy
cows give more milk than
daddy cows. Chris Woyurka
Shelhamer plans new
farm equipment expo
HARRISBURG - Penn
sylvania’s Agriculture
Secretary Kent Shelhamer
has announced plans for the
First Pennsylvania Farm
Equipment Expo to be held,
March 8-10,1979 at the Farm
Show Complex in
Harrisburg. Shelhamer said
that the show, even at its
inception, should be one of
the major farm equipment
shows in the nation.
The entire 14-acre
building, some 350,000
square feet of exhibit space,
will be turned over to the
farm equipment dealers for
the show, for displays of both
new and- reconditioned
equipment. Shelhamer noted
that the show would ac
comodate at least 200
exhibitors who have not been
able to find space at the
January Farm Show.
$6.00 Per Year
Producers, goes as far as to
predict $lO per hun
dredweight for Class n milk
by the end of the year. While
it’s highly unlikely that the
government will raise
support prices to that level in
October, Dr. Hand reasons
that demand for milk will
outstrip supplies enough so
that handles will pay the $lO
font.
Ralph Strock, general
manager for Maryland
Cooperative Milk Producers,
is equally optmistic, as are
spokesmen for Lehigh
Valley Cooperative Farmers
and Eastern Milk
Producers.
Strock noted in a telephone
interview on Thursday that
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disagrees' altogether, ex
claiming: “Bulls don’t give
milk!”
Nevertheless, if anyone
reading this article is
wondering how you can tell
the difference between
mommy and daddy cows,
Scott Martin explains.
“Daddy cows have horns,
and they get bigger than
mommy cows.”
The above comments
came during a 90-minute
interview with enthusiastic,
well-bqhaved, bright young
children in the Lititz Kin
dergarten classes of Mrs.
Doris Stryker, Mrs. Shirley
Bell, and Mrs. Cathy
Dietrich. Eager to talk and
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The Pennsylvania Farm
Equipment Expo is more
than an equipment display,
however. Shelhamer said
that a full range of features
is planned around the show
to make it a farm com
munity event. “The show
will conclude on Saturday
with a major sale, the
Pennsylvania Farm
Equipment Consignment
Sale of used equipment,” he
said. “The sale will be the
first of its kind and will
provide our farmers with a
good means to pick up farm
equipment at reasonable
prices.”
Evenings during the show
will see action in the large
arena of the complex.
Thursday mght will feature
the 1979 National Horse
Pulling Contest with teams
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