Farm
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VFUckmger will speak on
feeding hay and silage.
Delaware Vegetable- and
Potato Conference,
Sheraton Inn, Dover,
continues . through
January 30.
State Horticulture meetings,
Convention Center,
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□ Please send me literature on Silo-Matic Feeding Systems.
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SMUCKER'S SALES & SERVICE
• Good used diesel
engines
Install a blower fan
for better diesel &
refrigeration cooling.
Longer life on diesel.
LET ME BREATHE!
FOR PROMPT SERVICE CALL
717-354-4158 OR IF NO ANSWER
CALL 717-354-4374.
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Calendar
Hershey, continues
through January 31.
Sewing with Plaids clinic,
9:30 a.m., Hunterdon Co.
Extension Center.
Dauphin Co. COWAMP
meeting, 7 p.m., Swatara
Twp. Building.
Garden Spot Young Fanners
meeting, 7:30 p.m.. Union
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Grove School, topic will
be ventillatmg bams with
ducts.
Wednesday, January 30
York Co. workshop, “The
Incredible Crepe”, 10
a.m., Pleasant Acres
Meeting Room.
Thursday, January 31
Sewage disposal seminar, 7
p.m., Penn State Fruit
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STATE ZIP.
• New Sputnik wheels
and parts
We mount diesels
on balers, crimpers,
cornpickers, etc.
For lower cost per
hour power, rely on
isferj
DIESEL POWER
Research Lab, Bigler
ville.
Town Meeting, 11:30 a.m.,
Encks, Baron, Stiegel
Family Restaurant,
Manheim.
Farm and Home Foundation
Meeting, 6:30 p.m.,
Lancaster Co. Farm and
Home Center.
Enterprising dairy far
mers who are planning to
operate an off-the-farm jug
milk store in Pennsylvania
need to acquaint themselves
with the Commonwealth’s
Milk Marketing Law.
This regulation has a great
bearing on whether it pays to
expand and open new stores
on land away from the home
farm, or whether the
business will have to stay
confined within its boun
daries.
The entire law, Act No.
294, amended July 31, 1968,
fills 63 pages of a cream
colored Commonwealth
paperback. The original act
was passed by the state’s
General Assembly in 1937.
Along with the law, there
is a milk marketing board.
This board was set up to see
that Pa. dairy farmers have
an equal chance to market
their milk, along with
payment securities through
bonding of milk dealers (a
rather controversial subject
at present).
This board is also in
terested in the consumer,
and makes sure that the milk
sold m the state is pure and
wholesome, and is at a fair
price.
All this seems to fall in line
with the jug milk producer
until Section 402. This sec
tion spells out which milk
dealers or handlers can get
exemptions and which ones
can’t.
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Farm finance meeting
TERRE HILL - The
Adult Farmer Program,
Eastern Lancaster County
School District will sponsor a
Farm Finance Meeting on
Wednesday evening,
Brief answers
to short questions
Sheila's
Shorts
By Sheila Miller
Exemptions to what?-The
state licensing
requirements. In Sect. 402 it
states, “That in cash sales of
milk to consumers, if he
shall have produced all the
milk on the farm where sold
and such milk has at no time
left the producers’ farm
prior to its sale to the con
sumer and he shall have
neither purchased, handled,
or received any milk from
other producers or handlers
for cash sale or any other
purpose and his total sales to
consumers do not exceed two
gallons to any one consumer
in any one day, the producer
so selling milk shall be
exempt from the provisions
of this act.”
In other words, the dairy
fanner who puts up a jug
milk store on his own farm,
with the cows and the
processing plant, is not
required to be licensed with
PMMB. Any deviations, and
the exemption is lost.
Another section of the Act
that gets involved with the
jug milk opration is section
802, on prices. In small type,
the law is defined to allow
the milk marketing board to
fix the minimum and
maximum wholesale and
retail prices to be charged
for milk sold by any dealer in
the state... “except for
cc.isumption at the store
where sold.”
This means that a jug milk
operation located entirely on
February 6 at the Union
Grove School.
The meeting will discuss
many areas of farm finance
and farm management as
related to todays money
market including; the short
money supply, higher in
terest rates, tiie problems
the higher rates are
creating, hedging as a
management tool to insure a
profit, where does leasing fit
the money management
system today and the use of
Market Reports in farm
management.
Speakers for the evening
will include: Ronald Bard,
Federal Land Bank;
Richard Hess, Commodity
Broker, Shearson, Loeb,
Rhodes; Fred Greenfield,
Telmark Inc. Leasing; and
Les Houck, Agri-
Broadcasting System.
All interested persons are
invited to attend the Farm
Finance Meeting to be held
at 7:30 p.m. on Wednesday
evening February 6 in the
Union Grove School.
For more information
contact Bob Anderson at
215/445-5041.
one farm, from cows to
cartons, is not governed by
PMMB’s maximum and
minimum price regulations.
Here again, though, any
deviations and the special
provisions are washed down
the drain.
This exemption business is
important for every jug
milker to keep in mind when
expansion thoughts start
cropping up. It’s best to have
all the information and
angles, and know the con
sequences before makingtoo
many financial and
emotional commitments.
And, if you run out of in
door things to do on a snowy
winter day, curl up with a
copy of the Pa. Milk
Marketing Law paperback.
With any luck, you'll learn
something you weren’t sure
of before you started
reading, and it will help you
get to sleep.