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DETWEILER SILOS
Rd 2 Box 267-0
Newville, PA 17241
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717-532-3039
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U.S. Pigskin Council formed
DES MOINES, la. - The
National Pork Producers
Council has joined with 13
other industry groups m
formation of the U.S. Pigskin
Council developed to en
courage new markets for
Produce firm has
license suspended
WARWICK, R.I. - The
produce trading license of
Dino Produce, Inc., of
Warwick, R. 1., was
suspended by the U.S.
Department of Agriculture
after the firm failed to pay a
reparation award of $4609.
The department’s
Agricultural Marketing
Service set the award m
favor of a Florida shipper for
a truckload and a carlot of
watermelons shipped in
June 1978.
The firm filed to answer to
the charges m which it
denied the charges; based on
the evidence, however,
USDA ordered payment of
the amount claimed.
Dmo Produce, Inc. is not
eligible to operate in the
pigskin here and abroad.
The NPPC’s Orville K.
Sweet says one of the first
areas of work will be an
assessment of potential
foreign market for pigskin,
produce business under the
Perishable Agricultural
Commodities Act until the
award is paid. In addition,
the firm’s officer, director
and sole stockholder—
Anthony D. Dino-may not be
employed by or affiliated
with any PACA licensee
without the department’s
approval.
All interstate traders in
fresh and frozen vegetables
must be licensed under
PACA, which establishes a
code of good business con
duct for the produce in
dustry.
The department is
authorized to suspend or
revoke a trader’s license for
violating the Act.
Lancaster Farming, Saturday, February 16,1980— PS
adding that the potential is
there for marketing of 40
million skins annually.
Current marketings now
reach 3 million skins a year,
he said, with adequate
existing markets for this
amount of skins.
Will Rapp, Tanners’
Council of America, has
been named organizational
chairman of the group with
membership open to those
providing funding of $l,OOO
for organizational purposes.
Initial work is now underway
in development of the
Council’s program of work
and by-laws. Formal
organization is to be com
pleted by spring.
Referring to the potential
foreign markets assessment,
Sweet said that the Foreign
Agricultural Service is now
preparing a proposal for a
cooperative program to
study possible European
market expansion.
There is, he said, currently
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The number of leucocytes
in the teats containing the
loops should be sufficient to
prevent the mastitis bacteria
from becoming established.
Tests, in which bacteria are
infused into the teats, are
now being conducted.
Further studies showed
that the loop did not affect
milk yield, solids-not-fat,
percent protein, or percent
of fat in the milk.
The loop had no apparent
effect on the overall milk
leucocyte count. The in
crease in leucocytes was
evident only in the first 20
milliliters of milk. This is
normally stripped off before
miUdng.
the problem that pigskin is
marketed merely as a
substitute for other leathers
while in reality, pigskin
offers several superior
qualities not immediately
recognized.
One domestic market
presently expressing in
creased interest in pigskins,
he said, is the sports world
viewing pigskin for use in
athletic shoes.
Other members of the
newly formed Council in
clude Farmland Foods,
Hormel’s Wolverine
Worldwide, Plains
Processing, TX; Dreher
Leather, Newark, NJ;
Inland Ohio Hides;
Hollander and Company,
New York; Martin and
Stewart, Canada; Irving
Tanning, Hartland, ME;
A.F. Gallun and Sons,
Milwaukee; Southwestern
Trading, Houston; Wells
Lament, Chicago and Amdur
Leather, New York.
Mastitis
Large-scale tests under
dairy farm conditions are
being conducted in
California by Kortum, in
cooperation with Veterinary
Extension, University of
California, Davis.
Paape is continuing his
mastitis research in France
for a year conducting tests
on dairy cattle. He plans to
use loops in two teats of each
of 20 cows.
These cows will then be
infused with mastitis
causing bacteria and the
results studied.
These tests are needed
before these loops can be
recommended for mastitis
prevention and made
available to dairy producers.