Grange dissatisfied
Harrisburg-Clifford Tink
lepaugh. Chairman of the
dairy committee for the
Pennsylvania State Grange,
expressed dissatisfaction
with the bonding law
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requirements of milk
dealers saying the $200,000
maximum bond posted by
milk dealers is well below
the volume of business done
m a two-month period.
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with bonding laws
Tinklepaugh pointed out
that a $500,000 maximum
bond would be a more
realistic figure in his report
to the delegates at the State
Grange annual session last
month.
“There is a need for
change in the Milk
Marketing Law to more fully
guarantee dairy farmers
payment for all the milk they
have sold to dealers,” said
Tinklepaugh.
The Milk Producers
Security Fund proposes to
provide money to dairy
farmers should their dealers
default on payment or go
bankrupt. The money for the
Fund will be obtained from
producers who will be
assessed at the rate of one
cent per hundredweight of
milk shipped.
The farmer would be paid
within 30 days by the Milk
Marketing Board from the
-security fund. The Milk
Marketing Board would
collect on the dealer’s bond
to restore the money paid
out.
Any dairy farmer who
produces milk in the Com
monwealth of Pennsylvania
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would be eligible to receive
money from this fund except
those who are members of
and sell milk through a
Dairy Cooperative.
Tinklepaugh pointed out that
since cooperatives are run
according to the dictates of
their own member ship, they
should not be included in the
same fund.
The Dairy Committee of
the Grange suggested that
cooperatives set up a
security fund of their own.
This would protect their
members from the “ex
cessive losses a Cooperative
might sustain by failure of
receiving payment for milk
and dairy products they
have sold.”
“Many cooperatives have
gone to a ‘pay-as you-go’
assessment procedure each
month”, said Tinklepaugh,
“and we commend those
cooperatives that have gone
this route to eliminate ex
cessive assessments at any
onetime.”
The Committee further
recommended that when the
fund reached a two million
dollar level, no more
deductions would be made as
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long as the fund remained at
or above this level.
“In the event of an ex
cessive amount of money
accumulating in the fund,”
Tinklepaugh noted,“the
Pennsylvania Milk
Marketing Board could pay
a dividend to the producer on
a pro-rated basis.”
MOUNT JOY - An open
house will be held at the J.
Harold Musser place, Penn’s
Peaceful Meadow Farm,
Mount Joy, on November 16
and 17.
Operated by J. Jarold
Musser and his two sons,
Jeff and Jim, the open house
will focus on a new layer
house just completed, one of
two being built, each to
house 60,000 layer hens. The
house will feature reverse
cages, a new concept for
laying hens, according to
Jim Musser. He believes this
is one of the few houses
around the area that has this
new type of cages.
The Musser farm consists
of 130 acres with an ad-
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A new producer would pay
into the fund one cent per
hundredweight for the same
number of months the other
dairymen contributed when
the fund was initiated.
Each dairyman’s con
tribution would be returned
to him without interest at the
time he stops producing milk
in Pennsylvania.
dxtional 100 acres rented.
Besides the layers, the
Mussers maintain a 55 head
dairy herd with an additional
25 head of young stock. They
are also involved in
operating a grain elevator.
Omelets and refreshments
will be served and door
prizes will be awarded. The
farm will be open from 10
a.m. until 5 p.m. on both
days.
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