Miller & Rex have Schuylkill Co.’s 1980 top I)HT record
FREIDENSBURG - The
Miller & Rex herd, Rl,
Andreas, retained the
Schuylkill County Dairy
Herd Improvement
Association plaque for
having the top county herd
based on milkfat production
in 1980.
The registered and grade
Holstein herd finished the
year with an average
production of 18,118 pounds
of milk and 748 pounds of
milkfat from 34.4 cows. This
is the third consecutive year
that the Miller and Rex herd
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has finished first in the
county.
Also winning a blue nbbon
for nulkfat production in
excess of 700 pounds average
per cow was the Heisler
Brothers herd, Rl,
Tamaqua.
Herds winning gold rib
bons for nulkfat production
between 600 and 699 pounds
average per cow during the
1980 test year were; Suntrail
Dairy Farm, Rl, Pitman,
17,707 lbs. milk, 681 lbs.
nulkfat; Carl A. Farms, Rl,
Pitman, 16,668 lbs. milk, 658
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COCALICO EQUIPMENT CO.
DRAINAGE & EXCAVATING
RD I3, DENVER, PA 17517
lbs. nulkfat; Wilbert Moyer,
Rl, Schuylkill Haven, 16,889
lbs. milk, 639 lbs. nulkfat;
Paul & Ken Wagner, Rl,
Tamaqua, 16,214 lbs. milk,
631 lbs. nulkfat; William R.
Daubert, R 2, Pine Grove,
15,462 lbs. milk, 626 lbs
WASHINGTON, DC. -
Light snowfall and a
smaher-than-normal snow
pack in several areas of the
West may lead to inadequate
water supplies later in the
year, the U.S. Department of
Agriculture and the National
Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration recently
reported.
Soil Conservation Ser
vices’s first snowpack
surveys of the season in
dicate dry fall weather and
poor snowpack may result in
below normal runoff for a
large area of the West.
USDA reports the upper
portion of the Columbia
basin in Canada has the best
snowpack in the region, up to
125 percent of normal
However, the Columbia
River is expected to flow at
97 percent of its average
rate Most tributaries m the
United States will contribute
less than normal amounts of
water. Some water supply
shortages may develop in
the southern and western
sections of the basin.
As 1981 began, the
Southwest had poor
snowpack. In Arizona, the
Typical
Annual Return
. .21-46%
.. 3-23%
. . 11%
... 7.4%
... .6.1%
Even with the conservative fig
ures shown here, it's obvious that
land drainage should top farmers'
lists of investment priorities.
★ We Stock Heavy Grade Tubing which
Exceeds SCS Specifications. In sizes 4",
6". 8" f 10" and 12".
★ Also Pipe And Fittings For Tile Outlet
Terraces.
West may suffer
COMPARE
NOW AVAILABLE
15" A 18” Tubing
nulkfat; John Leatherman,
Rl, Tamaqua, 16,742 lbs.
milk, 603 lbs. milkfat;
Franklin Troxell, Rl, An
dreas, 14,981 lbs. milk, 602
lbs. nulkfat.
Bruce Leatherman, Rl,
meager early-season
snowpack has gradually
melted away during an
unusually di7 and warm
winter. Runoff m the major
rivers in the Southwest is
forecast to be about 50
percent of normal.
Elsewhere in the West,
most snowpack so far is 70
percent of normal or less
Runoff forecasts are for 60 to
85 percent of normal m most
of the region.
Reservoir storage
generally is good and should
help avert major water
supply deficiencies. But
water users in areas of low
runoff who depend on direct
diversion may face mid- and
late-season shortages.
The USDA agency surveys
snowpack and monitors
snowmelt at about 16()0 sites
throughout the West and
Alaska each month from
January through May.
USDA specialists, in
cooperation with the
National Weather Service of
the National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Ad
ministration, US. Depart
ment of Commerce, analyze
the data and issue monthly
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Lancaster Farming, Saturday, January 31,1981-B5
Tamaqua, received the cow went to Miller & Rex.
trophy for the top milk “Lucy” completed the test
producing cow. “Lady” year with a record of 25,579
produced 27,855 pounds of pounds of milk and 1,111
milk and 1,027 pounds of pounds milkfat.
milkfat during 1980. The annual meeting and
The trophy for top milkfat was held Tuesday,
production for an individual anuar y 20-
water shortages
forecasts of runoff and water winter and spring provides
supplies. about 75 percent of the
c , , . , western water supply during
Snow accumulated during me year.
Grazing fees set
on U.S. acres
WASHINGTON, DC ~
Fees for grazing livestock
will go down on national
forests and up on national
grasslands in the West this
year.
In total, farmers and
ranchers will pay about >lB
million in 1981 to graze
livestock on these lands $4
million less than they did
last year.
The grazing fees on
national forests in 16 western
states will be >2.31 per
animal unit month, a
decrease of 10 cents from the
1980 average fee of >2.41 An
animal unit month is grazing
for one month by one bull,
cow or horse or five sheep or
goats.
The formula considers the
diffemce between total costs
of public and private
grazing, the value of forage,
beef cattle prices and the
price ranchers pay for items
such as fencing, tran-
spoliation, and veterinary
services for producing
cattle. The act limits the
amount the fee can increase
or decrease in any single
year to 25 percent of the
previous year’s fee.
The same process is used
by the Bureau of Land
Management of the U.S.
Department of the Interior
to determine fees for grazing
on most lands administered
by that agency in the
western United States.-For
the first time since the law
was passed, the national
forests and the BLM
admmistered lands in the
West will have a uniform fee
of (2 31 per unit month.
As a result of higher
forage values and beef cattle
price indexes in these states,
average fees for grazing on
national grasslands m 1981
will increase 11 cents from
their 1980 level to $3.62 per
animal unit month.