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not to the capacity once quoted.
While the plant can handle the 2
million pounds daily that it was
designed to process, that peak
capacity was intended only for
periods of about two weeks
maximum, jiot months at a time.
Holly’s capacity is being
stretched beyond the planned
limits, with over 45 million pounds
of milk run through monthly. But
the planned-capacity figures
overlooked the time needed to shut
down processing every several
hours for clean-up and main
tenance, a crucial operation if all
systems are to be kept in peak
running order and efficiently, as
well as meet stringent cleanliness
requirements.
According to Strock, one bot
tleneck is in the compatability of
two key systems: the evaporator,
which removes water from the
milk; and the dryer, which then
powders the fluid by spraying it
into a fine mist that drys inside a
furnace-like enclosure.
Evaporator lines can handle
milk faster than the dryer can
process it into powder. But if the
evaporation system is slowed to
accommodate dryer limitations,
milk deposits build up on the
equipment.
“We must find a way to make
those two systems more com
patible,” Strock observes. “Maybe
we just need a better way of
handling it. If we could operate
full-blast at all times, and hold
condensed ahead, possibly we
could increase the capacity.”
James Honan, Inter-State
general manager, concurs on the
maintenance problems that
sometimes slow up the milk
processing.
“The plant’s now four and a half
years old,” Honan says. “We’re
running into routine replacement
of equipment like motors and
pumps. We are on target for
modifications to the sewer system
and should finish in July.”
Holly has been plagued almost
from its inception with problems in
the sewage disposal facility.
Modifications are being made on
the treatment plant, but some of
the necessary equipment to
complete the system has not yet
been delivered.
Monthly reports froin the state’s
Department of Environmental
Resources showed phosphorus was
the only element not meeting
regulatory limitations, an item
limited only by DER, and not the
federal guidelines of the En
vironmental Protection Agency,
“We’re meeting the
requirements easily," affirms
Strock. “Modifications are con
tinuing and the warmer weather is
helpful.”
While the facility can’t begin to
process all of the area’s milk glut,
it’s also doing steady business as a
reloading station for large tankers
hauling the excess to available
Local erosion enforcement eyed
LANCASTER The Lancaster
Conservation District has applied
for the option to take over local
enforcement of erosion and other
conservation-related violations.
Thomas Johnston, District
administrator, said application for
the local enforcement has been
made to the State Department of
Environmental Resources, which
has been handling any
prosecutions under its Bureau of
Soil and Water Conservation.
Approval is expected in July for
the local handling.
Johnston said that a few com
mercial and residential developers
had been prosecuted last year for
erosion violations. But the cases
had been dismissed by -district
magistrates due to small
technicalities.
He explained that handling of
Holly Hill
manufacturing plants, sometimes
hallway across the country.
Ironically, Inter-State’s
president, Robert McSparran of
Peach Bottom, says he recently
attended a raflk marketing con
ference that affirmed the/Nor
theast is actually a dairy deficit
area, unable to supply the volumes
of dairy products consumed.
But the supply gap is in
processed dairy products, like
cheese and butter, not fluid milk,
and there are simply not enough
manufacturing plants in the
Northeast turning out those par
ticular products being bought by
consumers.
The processing plants that do
have the capacity to handle
more milk are in states like
Wisconsin and lowa, and to get
milk sent that far costs at least
$3.50 per hundredweight.
So, while dairy products in this
area continue to increa ro the
poundage on their milk ink
measuring shps, they’re paying for
it in skyrocketing hauling costs
incurred in selling the product.
Both Inter-State and MCMP
leveled assessments for April milk
shipped over base.
Inter-State, with over 2,000
members, with held $1.64 for each
hundredweight of milk shipped
over a producer’s base. MCMP
deducted $2.00 per hundred from
any of the 1,000 plus shippers
sending over their base allotment.
Members of both Cooperatives
apparently understand the
necessity of the assessments and
have stoicly accepted the price
cuts.
Assessments are likely to con
tinue through May and June milk
payments.
“If current volumes continue,
we’ll have to do something about
surpluses,” says Honan. “We
can’t continue to haul milk these
long distances.”
Strock echoes that sentiment,
adding, “We simply can't go on
producing this much milk. And"
we’re not going to advertise our
way out of this problem.”
Neither can farmers rely on
Class I fluid milk sales in the
future to bail them out of the milk
glut, according to Honan. He says
that Inter-State’s head economist,
Paul Hand, recently noted figures
showing population losses of up to
15 percent in the high-density
urban areas of the Philadelphia-
Baltimore-Washington market.
“And as the people are moving
out, those Class I sales figures are
dropping, ’ ’ he emphasizes.
Ultimately, what dairy farmers
do or don’t do about production
problems will show up on the
bottom line of the bankbook.
“May was worse than April.
June will likely be worse than
May,” concludes Strock. “We’ve
been preaching over-production
for over two years. Price will
eventually dictate production.”
prosecutions, if situations reach
that stage, are expected to be
better at the local level, rather
than involve the state, which can
affect magistrates’ consideration
in a case against a local developer
or farmer.
The administrator explained
that more cooperation is generally
obtained from farmers than from
developers.
•“The biggest problem in
agricultural areas is the growing
amount of farmland that is being
rented,” Johnston said.
“Some estimates range from 10
to 30 percent of the farmland in
Lancaster County now being
rented.
“On rented land, generally there
are no provisions for proper soil
and water paractices worked out
2 weeks left in photo contest
LANCASTER Don’t wait until
the last minute; less than two
weeks remain for you to submit
your favorite photo in Lancaster
Fanning’s Daily Month Photo
Contest.
Deadline for receipt of entries in
- our office is Friday, June 26.
Thus far, the cute or comic
category has been the most
popular.
And we’ve been literally amazed
at some of the unusual or funny
situations in which dairy animals
can get themselves.
So, keep those comic or cute
(oiling in.
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was a prune farmland area in
which funds were needed to help
control agriculturally related
pollution.
“I’m sure this will be a fun
damental consideration by both
the state and federal officials -
providing money to clean up
surface water pollution in an area
in which is proposed a hazardous
waste dump, which could possibly
have an effect on subsurface water
supplies.
“My personal initial position is
one of objection unless absolute
assurances are provided that
there won’t be any problems with
effluent from these toxic wastes
and possible pollution.
“And are such absolute
assurances even possible? ’ ’
Funk said he favored the position
taken by East Earl Township
supervisors this week in which the
board decided to make a thorough
engineering study of the dump
location proposal.
Some 400 people attended
Tuesday night’s meeting of the
East Earl supervisors at which
they authorized the study.
Those attending the two-hour
session expressed solid opposition
to the dump location as they have
at previous meetings in Caer
narvon and Salisbury townships.
The 450-acre site of the Narvon
Mine is located where the borders
of the three townships meet in
eastern Lancaster County.
The East Earl .study of the
dumping proposal will be made by
the Huth Engineering firm, of
Lancaster, the township's con
sulting engineers. Township
solicitor Charles B. Grove Jr., was
also authorized to hire such other
experts as necessary to make the
thorough investigation.
Clyde Martin, chairman of the
East Earl supervisors, said that
concerns to be studied will include
transportation of toxic wastes in
the area, water pollution and
general welfare of the community.
Purchase of the mine and
proposed use as a hazardous waste
dump is being sought by IU Con
version System, Inc. of Horsham
The firm has submitted ap-
between the owner of the land and
the person renting it.”
He explained that m working
with fanners there is more op
portunity to devise conservation
plans to correct any improper
practices. But usually a developer
must do something immediately
and a faster response is necessary.
Violations under Clean Stream
laws can carry fines up to $lOO a
day.
We’ve quite a few entries in the
other' two categories, too. These
are the posed photos of dairy
animals with people and scenic
photos with dairy animals in them.
The two main requirements for
photos are that they must have
been taken by an amateur
photographer and they must have
dairy animals in them.
Three cash awards are planned
in each of the three categories -
$5O for first, $3O for second and $2O
for honorable mention.
But we need your photos for you
to have a crack at one of these nine
cash prizes.
Hazardous waste dump
plications to the townships for a
special exception to zoning
regulations to locate a hazardous
waste landfill.
Also attending Tuesday’s
meeting was State Rep. Noah
Wenger, whose district includes
East Earl Twp. He told the group
that when application for location
is made to the Pa. Department of
Environmental Resources, he
will not be alone for long according
to Brackett. The procedure has,
been done to six other cows with
one receiving two eggs. _
dues by
SYRACUSE, N.Y. - Delegates
to the annual meeting of Eastern
Milk Producers Cooperative
decided on a four-cent per hun
dredweight increase in mem
bership dues rather than a
proposed flat monthly rate plus a
hundredweight increment this
week.
The proposal to amend by-laws
and go to a $25 monthly rate for all
shippers regardless-of size plus a
hundredweight charge of about 7
cents was voted down by the
delegates.
Instead, beginning July 1,
membership dues will be hiked
from the present 10 cents to 14
cents per hundredweight.
The flat monthly rate had been
proposed in an attempt to hang on
to larger shippers, but the
delegates felt that the proposal
would not help accomplish this
purpose. Also, it could be con
sidered discriminatory against
smaller shippers.
The annual meeting also saw two
changes in the roster of officers of
the co-op
Franklin Wagner Sr., of R 2
Hummelstown, secretary, stepped
down, because he has purchased a
dairy farm in Huntingdon County.
Although he will also be main
taining residence at the Hum
melstown area farm, he thought it
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The photos can be either black &
white or color and must be at least
snapshot size. If you want it
returned, send along a stamped,
self-addressed envelope.
Each entry should be ac
companied with your name, ad
dress, telephone number -and a
Lancaster Farming mailing label.
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transparencies or slides.
Sends your dairy photos to:
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would request that a local
be held in the Narvon area.
DER is one of the state agencies
that assigned high priority to the
same area for the federal pollution
control project.
Citizens from the three-township
area are joining together into a
Red Rose Alliance to take part in
what they expect to be a long and
costly fight against the proposed
hazardous waste dump.
Calf
The research has been supported
by Child Health and Human
Development and the Canadian
Medical Research Council.
4 cents
best to step down, Wagner said.
Wagner was replaced as
secretary by Earl Forwood, of Hop
Bottom. "
Also, Daniel W. Fox, of Rl
Ephrata, was elected director
from District 8 in southeastern
Pennsylavania to replace Wagner.
Clyde Wilson, of Rushville,
retired as assistant secretary
treasurer. He was replaced by
Charles Shoop, of Halifax.
Other officers, including Stanley
Korona, R 4, Amsterdam, N.Y.,
president; David Clements Jr., Rl,
Frankfort, N.Y., vice-president;
and George Fuller, Houghton,
N.Y., treasurer, were re-elected.
Elected directors on the
executive committee include Leo
J. Connor,-Brigport, Vt.; George
Haddad, Bainbridge, N.Y.; and
Noah Prior, Evans Mills, N. Y.
A resolution was passed for the
president of the association to
become more involved in keeping
track of the activities of the
directors. The move was seen as
an attempt to curtail activities of
certain directors and keep a
tighter rein on expenses.
Another resolution was passed
for the co-op to become more
active in trying to help shape the
national farm bill, particularly in
determining the rate of parity at a
level above 75 percent.