A 34—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, December 5,19*1 Spent hen signup tope 7 million HARRISBURG - The cooperative spent hen signup program being conducted by the Pennsylvania Poultry Federation Egg Council and the Pennsylvania Fanners’ Association now tops seven million birds. The new total was reported by Joe Buck, of the PFA staff, and John Hoffman, executive secretary of the Poultry Federation. Coupled with the 2.1 million buds previously in the program, PACMA’s spent fowl marketing cooperative now numbers well over nine million of the state’s 17 million spent hens. Under a one-year triai program to attempt to improve the pnce that egg producers receive for their spent hens, the Poultry Federation has cooperated with PFA to increase the producer signup, particualacly among agri business firms involved in the egg producing industry. The birds are marketed through PACMA’s agent, FACTS - Far mers Agricultural Cooperative Trading Society. FACTS is the marketing affiliate of the Massachusetts Farm Bureau Federation and markets spent hens for producers m Massachusetts, Maine, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New Hamp shire, Vermont, New York and New Jersey. BREAKING MILK RECORDS! Lancaster Farming Carries DMA Reports Each Month! t{l s ,»»»»»»»»»)»»)> ) »)))»))»»»))))j»yj. \ S 5 a ss 5 «J A V v A V V a X <*> RENT-A-BOBCAT and DO YOUR OWN THINGS! You’ll get tons of work out of a rental BOBCAT .. like mov ing dirt or sand, digging a trench, transplanting a tree or wrecking a building Rental available by the hour, day, week or month Call us today 2 2 2 2 A A SWOPE & BASHORE, INC. RD #l, Myerstown, Pa. (Frystown) Phone 717-933-4138 CIfIRK rr