A26—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, March 21,1981 BY SHEILA MILLER WILLOW STREET - Members of Inter-State Milk Producers’ Cooperative District 5 met here Thursday at the Willow Valley Restaurant to honor 25-year members, elect officers, and hear the latest on legislation, insurance, and management affecting milk producers Receiving their 25-year plaques and pins were H.H Haverstick, Raymond and Alice Metz, Harold Landis, John and Gladys Landis, and Lester and Robert Hoover Officers elected for the three Locals in District 5 included Millersville Local - J Robert Kindig, president, David H Mc- Michael, vice president, Wilmer L Shertzer, secretary-treasurer, Glenn E Burkholder and Nelson Habecker, delegates, Glenn R Binkley and David Garber, alternates; and Melvin L Shert zer, hauling committee member West Lampeter Local - James D Shertzer, president, Arthur L Breneman, vice president; Robert H Gochenaur, Jr, secretary treasurer, Philip B Beiler and Donald Bare, delegates, James L High and J Mowrey Frey, Jr, alternates Witmer Local - J Robert Esbenshade, president; John J Landis, vice president; Harvey E Now...one trip feeds and weeds your corn ground We apply the dry bulk fertilizer blend of your choice impregnated with Sutan + or Eradicane 9 herbicide to speed spring work for you. For broad-spectrum grass and broad leaf weed control in corn, we’ll mix field proven Sutan + with atrazine or Bladex* in your dry fertilizer. For control of the toughest weeds in corn, such as heavy infestations of John songrass, quackgrass, nutgrass and velvetleaf, we’ll mix field-proven Eradicane or Eradicane with atrazine or Bladex in your dry fertilizer. Try our complete weed and feed ser vice. Stop by or call us today. * Reg T M of Shell Chemical Company Sutan and Sutan + are registered in the U S Patent and Trademark Office MSutaivt MEradiean*- Blend fertilizer impregnated with an herbicide is available on a custom-mix order basis at some Agway stores. Please contact your Agway for information on availability and terms of delivery. I-S District 5 Heller, secretary-treasurer, Harvey E Heller and Jeffrey L Landis, delegates, David B King and Benuel S. Smucker, Jr, alternates. Speaking to the producers on the need to have adequate product liability insurance was Bernard Morrissey, representative of Agway Insurance He pointed out most farm liability policies cover product liability, but not all do Morrissey emphasized in surance coverage is for accidental ‘spoiling’ of a tanker or silo of milk only not for intentional acts He said Agway insurance will cover a milk producer’s neighbors loss, but not loss incurred by the producer whose milk spoiled the tanker To date, he stated, there have been two claims paid in the in dustry for milk contamination by antibiotics one amounting to $42,000 and the other $38,000 Morrissey concluded by stressing the need to prevent barn fires “Today’s economy breeds fires,” he observed Director J Wade Groff brought the producers up-to-date on the status of Senate Bill 509 which limits or cancels the quarterly price adjustment of milk, starting April 1 (Turn to Page A 39) members receive awards Inter-State District 5 Cooperative members receiving 25-year awards included: from left, Lester Hoover, Lancaster, a retired dairy producer; Raymond and Alice Metz, Lampeter, who’ve seen their Holstein herd increase from 25 head to their present 46 head of registered cows; and John and f?iadvc I andis. Leola. who OPEN HOUSE FIELD DEMONSTRATION •••••••••••••••••••#•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••« VISTA FLEETWOOD, PA MARCH 24,10-3 p.m. SEE ... The New MARTIN EQUALIZER LOADER by HEDLUND MARTIN INC. 841 Kutztown Rd., Myerstown, Pa. SEE...The MARTIN SCAVENGER & V-MODEL SPREADER... RED WING FARMS R.D. 1378, Fleetwood. Pa. 19522 215-944 0791 SEE ... the MANURE STORAGE SYSTEM by D.E. STOLTZFUS CONSTRUCTION SEE ... the VPI DESIGN HEIFER BUILDING by HOWARD L. STOLTZFUS CONST. CO. NO RAIN DATE! FOR INFORMATION CALL 215-944-0791 **s&« started out with 18 Holsteins and now have 65 registered ‘Black and Whites'. Said Gladys, the only thing she’d have done differently would have been buying more good stock earlier. Also receiving a 25-year award was H.H - Haverstick and Harold Landis, not pictured. AND GRANDE FARM REFRESHMENTS Rt. 222, Fleetwood, Pa 215-944-0404 R.D. 2, Douglassville, Pa. 19518 215-689-5408 215-689-5947
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