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After signing proclamation designating June
as Pennsylvania Dairy Month, Gov. Dick
Thornburgh introduces himself to Milky the
Robot Just behind him. State Ag Secretary
Penny Hallowed toasts their meeting with a
mug of milk. Representatives of the dairy
Dairylea agrees to $1 million settlement
PEARL RIVER, N.Y. -
Dairylea Cooperative announced
last Sunday tint it has entered into
a settlement agreement with New
York Attorney Robert Abrams to
resolve certain legal actions.
According to Attorney Abrams,
Dairylea is one of eight major milk
companies recently indicted for
alleged price-fixing in the New
York milk industry. The
Cooperative has agreed to a $1
million settlement which will
provide consumers a 10 cents per
carton discount on milk.
Under the terms of the
agreement, which the Attorney
General announced last Sunday
during an appearance on WCB&-
TV’s “Newsmakers,” Dairylea
will circulate approximately 25
million coupons over the next four
years which consumers may
redeem for 10 cents off the pnce of
Inside
This
Week’s...
Lancaster County introduces dairy princess contestants A 33
Nat'l champ Jersey finds home at Walebe Farms A 24
Pmey Lane Guernsey uses DHIA to get to top 62
State dairy princess shares experiences of reign. C2O
Milk haulers drive in truck rodeo Dl9 -
Relax with our Dairy Crossword puzzle Dl4
Shirley, a sweet-tooth Holstein makes a complete ration out of junk food D 8
1981 Fair Schedule can be found on E2l
Take our foldout of the 1981 Fly Control and Drug Withdrawal guides out to
the barn.. El 5-18
industry present for the proclamation signing
on Monday at the state capitol look on. Plans
for the coming year of the Middle Atlantic
Advertising and Promotion Agency are found
onPageA2o.
quart and half gallon containers of
Dairylea milk. The coupons will be
printed directly on a side panel of
Dairylea milk containers, and the
program will be in effect until the
total cost to Dairylea reaches
$750,000.
Dairylea will also pay $250,00 to
the Attorney General which will be
placed in a fund for eventual
distribution to governmental in
stitutions and other larger pur
chasers of milk, as well as con
sumers. These cash payments will
be made over the next five years..
. $25,000 at the end of the first four
years and $15,000 at the end of the
fifth and final year.
In addition, in signing the
agreement, Dairylea committed
its employees to full cooperation
with the Attorney General’s
prosecution and ongoing in
vestigation of price-fixing m the
Lancaster Farming, Saturday, June 6,19tl
State’s milk industry. Abram’s
office also will have access to all
relevant documents and records in
Dairylea’s possession.
Finally, Dairylea has agreed to
an injunction barring it from
Maryland soon to welcome
National Holstein Assn, delegates
BY DEBBIE KOONTZ
LANCASTER—The 96th Annual
Convention of the Holstein
Association of America, in
preparation for nearly two years
according to Maryland Holstein
Association Convention Chairman
Marlin Hoff, is slated for June 28 •
July 2 in Baltimore. And, adds
John Moms, secretary for the
Association, “Things are coming
along real good. We have a lot of
activities planned.”
The National Holstein Sale and
the annual business meeting will
be held in Balitmore’s award
winning Convention Center.
The five-day convention will
include proposed details of the 1981
farm hill. Association policy
revisions, new cow indexes, future
Association activities, the con-
COLUMNS
Editorials, A 10; Now is the tune,
A 10; Joyce Bupp’s column, CIO;
Ladies have you heard? Cll; Ida’s
Notebook, Cl 2; Farm talk, E 4.
HOME AND YOUTH
Homestead Notes, C 2; Home on
the range, C 6; Farm Women
Societies, 04; Kid’s Korner, Cl 4; 4-
Hnews, Cl 4; FFA, C 26.
Eastern proposes
dues rate change
SYRACUSE, N. Y. - A change in
the rate of membership dues,
replacing the present 10 cents per
hundredweight with a flat monthly
rate plus a cents per hun
dredweight increment, will be
considered- at the annual meeting
of Eastern Milk Producers
Cooperative next week.
The proposed change in by-laws,
which will be considered at the
delegate meeting on Tuesday, is
designed to help stabilize mem
bership in the cooperative and hold
on to the larger producers as
members.
The possible new schedule of
dues may include a flat monthly
rate of $25, plus an increment of
about 7 to 7.4 cents per hun
dredweight
The current 10 cents per hun
dredweight dues rate has been in
effect for approximately the past
four years.
It was explained that the flat
rate is being proposed because
there are fixed basic charges and
services that apply to all producers
violating federal and state an
titrust laws, and the Attorney
General will have broad authority
to closely monitor Dairylea’s
system of milk distribution over
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vention sale and activities for
junior members.
Since the hosting state
traditionally plans the event, the
Maryland Association is looking
forward to presenting its visitors
Everyone entering
dairy photo contest
LANCASTER Everyone,
including “Bossie,” is submitting a
favorite photo in ljm^«p r Far
ming’s Dairy Month Photo Con
test.
$7.50 Per Year
regardless of the volume of milk
they ship. These include receipt of
the Eastern magazine, a
guaranteed market,
hospitalization if it is elected and
quality control work.
Total revenue to be gamed from
the new schedule of dues is ex
pected to be about the same as is
currently received, but individual
pioducers, depending on their
volume of milk, will be affected.
The expected break-even point
for a shipper, where the proposed
schedule is about equal to the
present dues rate, is said to be
about 40,000 pounds of milk per
month.
The average producer in
Eastern is reported to be shipping
about a ton a milk a day, or 60,000
pounds a month. Thus, the
proposed dues rate would amount
to a savings for these producers
who are shipping more than 40,000
pounds a month.
It is expected that most
producers in the Lancaster,
Lebanon and Dauphin counties
area would have a lower dues rate.
But small producers, such as a
contingent of Amish dairy farmers
in the Dover, Del. area who still
ship in cans, would be the most
affected by a higher dues rate.
Also expected to be discussed
and receive possible action are a
number of resolutions to be in
troduced and the Leprmo cheese
plant situation.
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with crab feasts at Baltimore’s
Inner Harbor, a trip to Washington
D.C. and Annapolis and other
social activities scheduled for
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Well, actually that’s stretching it
a bit, but the photos are arriving
daily in the mail.
Thus far, we’ve received entries
from four states - Pennsylvania,
New York, Maryland and Ohio.
And, believe it or not, one of the
photos was taken as far away as
Connemara County, Galway,
Ireland.
The submitted photos range
from those just recently snapped to
some as much as a half-century
old.
Quite a few of the entries are
those once-in-a-lifetime photos,
which could only be taken by
someone living on a dairy farm,
who just happens to be at the right
place at the right time.
And, that’s the kind of photos we
want. It just shows that our
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