VOL 25 No. W 3%
A house containing 20,000 layers was toppled by high winds Wednesday
evening on the farm of Tom Grasse!, Conestoga. Grassel said the building was
built in 1974 and that it fell during the beginning of the storm. He said he was in
the other chicken house" on his property when the fierce winds hit and he saw
this building collapse. Friends and neighbors pitched in to help dean debris and
crawl through the roof to load the chickens Wednesday evening. Debris was
scattered over an adjoining field.
UDF asks shippers to forgo
75% of June milk check
BY CURT HAULER
PITTSBURGH - United
Dairy Fanners Cooperative
Corporation has asked its
shipper members to forgo
about 75 percent of their
June milk checks.
Pittsburgh National Batik
is calling a series of demand
notes which, at the call date,
totalled approximately
$865,000. Because of this
UDF was unable to meet the
first June milk check due
farmers, t
According to UDF
President Ernest Hayes,
shippers have agreed to
consider the money which
would be withheld from their
June checks as a loan to be
repaid over 18 months to two
years
But other indications are
the current financial dif
ficulties could result in
UDF’s bankmpcy if all does
Lebanon farmer gives up
as grain bin comes down
BY SHEILA MILLER
CAMPBELLTOWN - As a
result of receiving a letter of
complaint against him and
the location of his gram bm
on Tuesday, July 8, Harvey
W. Krall, a South Lon
donderry Township gram
farmer, decided to give in to
the powers of the local law
and the county planning
commission.
“I’m giving up, but they’ll
soon learn they can’t raise
food in a rule book,” Krall
said.
not go well since the
organization is not 100
percent a co-op, but a unique
mixture of co-op and
propnetaryiiandler.
The Pennsylvania Milk
Marketing Board considers
UDF a cooperative under
Pennsylvania law. It has
both farmer and consumer
members, located in
southwestern Pennsylvania.
Consumers pay dues to,
join the co-op and receive
patronage refunds on their
purchases, thereby saving
money under the PMMB
minimum price regulations.
It isn’t quite the same for
farmers. UDF is considered
a pool plant under Federal
Order 36, and not a
cooperative.
* UDF never became a
farmer cooperative under
Cajiper-Volstead Act
provisions and so is required
The official notice, issued
out of District Justice Lee
Lehman’s office, Palmyra,
informed Krall once again
that he was in violation of the
township’s zoning
regulations' by having his
gram bm located 40M> feet off
Hinkle Road.
The zoning requirement
for Krall’s farm, which was
zoned light industrial by the
township plannmg com
mission ip 1973, is that the
structure had to be 100 feet
from the road.
Lancaster Farming, Saturday, Ally 19,1950
to pay the minimum Federal
Order price for all milk
received just like any other
propriatary handler.
Any assessment against
the farmers’ milk checks
can not be considered a
reblend or co-op assessment,
but would result in a han
dler’s payment falling below
the Order 36 blend price, an
Order 36 official said.
According to Federal Milk
Marketing regulations, the
Mok Market Administrator
for Order 36 will have to take
action to correct the un
derpayment d UDF carries
through with any loan
scheme that' brings the
fanners’ payments below
Order 36 minimum June
payment. •
Officially, the Federal
Order had received no word
of the proposed loan by
dairymen to UDF But
Despite the fact that there
were silos located next to the
gram bin, about 80 feet from
the road and the grain bin
was located for ease of filling
and unloading into the silos,
and despite the fact that
Krall owns all of the ’
property on both sides of the
township road and there are
no close residences near the
grain bin, Krall was found in
violation of the ordinance by
Judge G. Thomas Gates on
March 17.
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Heat taking toll
in poultry houses
BY DICK ANGLESTEIN
LANCASTER COUNTY -
The unrelenting heat and
humidity that have plagued
farmers and their livestock
in the West and South
arrived in Lancaster County
this week and began to take
its toll in poultry houses.
Mortality rates began to
climb Tuesday, particularly
among the older andheavier
broilers and layers which
are more, susceptible to the
soaring thermometer
The operation of Leßoy
Esbenshade at R 7 Manheim
lost a couple hundred birds
about midweek when the
mercury climbed to about 92
numerous farmers had
called asking about the loan.
The Order would consider
any such move an un
, derpayment to producers
and it is Order 36*s
responsibility to see area
farmers get their minimum
price.
“A promise to pay is not
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Goat owners lack rev on Advisory Board
Title 7 ruling affects goats
BY PAT KAUFFMAN
HARRISBURG - Dairy
goat owners across the state
will need to comply with the
Bureau of Animal Industry’s
new Title 7 regulations on
the importation to Penn
sylvania from ‘ other 'states
and Canada of any goats
beginning October 15 this
year. Those most affected by
the new rulings, will be
owners who purchase from
small out of state herds
which are not on whole herd
TB and Brucellosis testing
programs.
Additionally, it appears
that goat owners in the state
were not represented on the
Secretary of Agriculture’s
Animal Health Advisory
Board when the new Title 7
regulations were adopted in
December, _
Title 7 regulations stiffen
existing regulations
on Brucellosis and Tuber
culosis testmg for cattle,
goats, and buffalo entering
the state. Where previously
animals were required to be
degrees in the 60,000-layer
house. These were hens in
their fifth period about two
weeks from being taken out
of the house.
In the Mount, Joy area
John H. Wolgemuth
sustained - larger losses
Some 1,300 birds were lost in
a 60,000-bird house. Again,
these losses were inflicted on
older hens.
“They were at the stage
that they just couldn’t
withstand the heat,”
Wolgemuth said.
“Our broilers, which were
about four weeks old, didn’t
seem to mind it at all.”
A representative of the
Pennfield Corporation in
volved in the broiler
operation confirmed that the
older birds, those about six
to seven weeks old, were
primarily affected. The
younger'and lighter birds
were fairing much better.
He estimated that overall
losses among growers may
be running about two per
cent • higher than normal
among these older and
heavier birds.
He cited one case where
some 2,400 were lost from a
flock of 34,000.
In the South Central U.S.
losses have been running
much higher. Particularly in
the areas of the Mississippi
River, extraordinary
individually - tested and
certified free of the diseases,
animals entering the .state
must now originate from
herds on a whole herd test
program for Brucellosis.
Only animals imported for
immediate slaughter are
exempt.
Roberta Molaro, editor of
the Pennsylvania Dairy
Goat Association’s
newsletter, Keystone, said
that for her herd and many
others in the state, the new
regulations will only make
mandatory those
precautions they already
practice with their herds.
hi This Issue
SECTION A: Editorials, 10; Letters to editor, 16;
Controlling feed costs, 19; Sheila’s Shorts, 30; York
livestock, 35; Llama farm, 37.
SECTION B: Doubling dinitros, 2; Nix Besser sheep,
3: Keystone ram, ewe sale, 6; Swiss farm life, 12.
SECTION C: Homestead hotels, 2; Home on Range,
6; Joyce Bupp, 8; Berks DHIA, 16; Cumberland DHIA,
18; Farm Talk, 24; Ghost farm, 28; Tucquan Vineyard,
30.
$7.50 Par Year
damages have ben reported
to flocks.
Generally, mortality has
been running four to six
percent, along with five
percent drops in production
and decreases in egg size.
Jay Irwin, of the Lan
caster County Extension
staff, said that the most
important thing is to get air
moving over the birds.
He recommended the use
of auxiliary fans when the
heat and humidity climb to
the danger level.
The movement of 500 cubic
feet of air per minute can
cool birds, or livestock, by as
much as 10 degrees, he said.
“By moving the air,
growers can utilize the chill
factor in moderating the
effects of the heat,” he said.
In addition to losses, the
heat is also having a
material effect on produc
tion in the poultry houses.
The continuing toll of the
heat and - humidify as it
spread from the Texas area
through the South and into
the Northeast was reflected
in this week’s New York Egg
Market. Most prices in
creased dramatically,
particularly in the larger
sizes.
The prices were up more
than 10 cents a dozen in some
sizes.
The effects of the weather
were also being felt in the
future’s grain markets.
She said, most goat owners
with herds in the state are
currently on whole herd test
programs and must get
proper certification on
animals from other states.
Roberta said that some
states, possibly New York,
handle their testing
programs somewhat dif
ferently than Pennsylvania
and there may be some
inconveniences when pur
chasing animals from those
states. According to Dr.
John Dick, Bureau of Animal
Industry, there have not
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