A34—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, December 6,1980 Letters To The Editor Dear Editor I attended a graded feeder steer sale on November 14, 1980 at which time I pur chased 50 head of supposedly country fresh feeder steers I have pumped more medicine into those steers than the previous 500 steers I have purchased As I was bidding on a group of supposedly country fresh cattle a broker leans down over the ring and asked, “Are they country fresh’” “No”, replies the ring man, “they are put together cattle from several states ” So, I ask, why in the hell didn’t you say so’ On several occasions I purchased groups of graded medium no 1 steers and after I trucked them home found several bulls among them On many occasions, some lots are not even sold, the broker bids them up and seeps them until the next sale or whatever Now, boys, it is to be a feeder sale not an appraisal sale. When 1 come to graded feeder sales 1 don’t expect to sit there watching you boys run your bulls and junk through They should be sold at the end of the sale or at your next regular sale If some of you brokers misrepresent the cattle like you do, why would the far mer with good farm fresh cattle consign them to you, when the buyer expects jockey cattle on some or most occasions’ I like the new sign in the sale ring which states that the cattle purchased are yours to pay for even if they drop dead or are stolen before you load them Now come fellows, who are you trying to kid ’ Some farmers or buyers may wonder what reasons some brokers are not presenting the cattle to the ROPE IN SOME EXTRA CASH! Advertise With A Lancaster Farming CLASSIFIED AD... Phone; 717-394-3047 or 717-626-1164 - HEAVY m breeder > fk CONTRACT „ S AVAILABLE W Jf 10,000-12,000 sq. ft. JJ house needed for beginning of February Contact TfCoyvtt CHICKS, INC. Quakertown, PA 18951 215-536-3155 buyers truthfully I wonder if those reasons could be fraud and greed Herman Espy Spruce Creek Dear Editor Your paper gives an inside view of many farm groups You cover many subjects and give objective accounts of what is happening in our diverse farming community Sometimes we wonder what is going on m some people’s mind. Right now we definitely have an overproduction of milk, about four percent here in Pennsy' mia. What can we do’ The attitude of the Farmers Union to ask for 100 percent of parity is ab surd to say the least With 80 percent of parity we already have too much milk They are opposed to an advertisement checkoff but provide no other alternative for selling more milk Here the government is trying to help us, the dairy farmers, to be united in promoting our lifeblood, milk and other dairy products Great ad vancements have been made through the efforts of many many farmwives and the Dairy Princesses Endless hours of volunteer work has been done to show that milk is an essential food with more nutritional value and other benefits than all the soft drinks together It is beyond my com prehension as to why some farmers refuse to spend a few pennies everyday to fight the battle against soft drinks and artificial dairy products At the present time the only acceptable solution against sagging milk consumption is an increase in effective dairy advertisement K. Dieter Linde R 1 Oxford .. I# \J| A' “THIS FIDELITY YELLOW JACKET ALTERN SAVED OUR NECKS THE AFTER WE BOUGHT I Stan Reinford Dairy Operations Manager Edns Dairy Farm Ml Holly Springs Pa ■P' JET One moment we had power then everything stopped just minutes before milking time Only another dairyman can appreciate the potential problems here with 195 cows to be milked The power outage hit our automatic feeding system water pumps milking machines cooler and more Well in a matter of minutes our day-old 35 KW Yellow Jacket gave us all the power we needed I m sold on this baby l But emergencies are only pad of the story Owner Lloyd Edns used the Yellow Jacket to power a welder and complete a field repair 10b on a corn planter At other times he uses the unit to operate electrical equipment in one of his older unwired buildings AUTHORIZED DISTRIBUTORS AGRi POWER & EQUIPMENT DIST. 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