LEWESTOWN - The “Mystery Tipper,’’ who slips unknowingly throughout Mifflin County promoting dairy products, struck for the first time last week. And, a waitress at Leora’s Restaurant in Lewistown received a 15.00 extra tip because she suggested milk with the meal ordered by the Mystery Tipper. The Mystery Tipper program is just one promotion of the newly formed Mifflin County Dairy Promotion Council, which has as its single goal to get milk and other dairy products on and over the lips of more Mifflin Countians. Each week, the Council's Mystery Tipper will eat at a restaurant in Mifflin County and if the waiter or waitress suggests milk with the meal, an extra $5.00 is left. If the extra tip goes unearned in a week, the next week’s tip becomes $lO.OO and so on. “The Council's Promotion Committee has been concentrating on restaurants,” explains Jim Hostetter, R 2 McVeytown dairy FASTER GAINS ON LESS FEED • Rugged 14-gauge type 304 stainless steel throughout entire feeder makes the Farmer Boy Liquid Feeder as tough as they come • Hogs lick the platter clean when water and feed are combined in trough This contributes to a 10% to 15% improvement in feed efficiency. Hogs go to mar ket 10 days to two weeks faster on wet feed compared to dry feed • You get reduced feed wastage Hogs get their water and feed at the same place No need to carry feed on snout or mouth to waferer, where it is sloughed off into holding pit Hogs feed faster, too, making it possible to supply more pigs with fewer feed holes Pen square footage per pig can also be reduced • Get little pigs off to fast start Young pigs will drink before they eat When you combine feed and water at the same source you give those little pigs fast, healthy starts Also Available: • Farmer Boy Farrowing Crate Feeders FARMER BOY AG. INC. 410 E. LINCOLN AVE. MYERSTOWN, PA. 17067 PH. 717-866-7565 Mystery Tipper promotes dairy farmer, who is chairman of the Council. “We want to make milk and other dairy products more available in restaurants and the Mystery Tipper is one method to keep milk on the minds of restaurant people.” The Mystery Tipper program will continue for a year and then be evaluated by the Council. All family-style restaurants and all parts of Mifflin County are being covered. The Council’s Promotion 'Committee is also working with super markets to update and get better exposure for dairy displays. “We want to get the dairy displays out of being stuck back in a comer,” Hostetter said. '•s*. SWINE SYSTEMS SPECIALISTS And, the committee is pushing more milk vending machines. The Mifflin County Dairy Promotion Council was formed last year and started laying the ground work of promotional ef forts." Ag groups and businesses participating in the effort include Stainless Steel Hog Feeder Could Be The Last Hog Feeder YouMI Ever Buy! . <*** • Farmer Boy Pre-Nursery & Nursery Feeders dairy co-ops Inter-State, Dairy Lea, Eastern, Lehigh Valley and Nedco, Sire Power, AgWay, two county granges, Mifflin County Farmers Association, the County Holstein Association and Ex tension. “We’ve been averaging about 25 people or so at our meetings,” explains Hostetter. “It includes farm people, agribusiness, non-farm people and former farmers no longer actively in agriculture who just want to get involved and help out. “Voluntary contributions have carried the effort so far and we haven’t even needed a fund drive so far.” Another Council committee is concerned' with the Dairy Pageant. "But we’ve been having some difficulty getting contestants,” Hostetter said. “We want to have a pageant but need some contestants to come forward.” Hostetler also expressed another need. “We know there are other /iX-*, OSF.-* Umartw Fanning, Saturday, May 21,1953-Al9 in Mifflin County 0 Due to my involvement in the Dairy Industry I would have enjoyed my meal much more had you suggested milk and other dairy products. Mifflin County Dairy Promotion Council promotion groups at work in other parts of the state,” he said. "We’d like to learn what they’re doing. “What we need is to swap and exchange ideas so that eveyone can do a better job of promoting dajry products.” Anyone wishing to contact the Mifflin County Dairy Promotion Council can do so by reaching: I was instructed to give you a $ tip if you would have suggested MILK with our meal. Mifflin County Daily Promotion Council REAL DAIRY PRODUCTS Janies Hostetler, chairman, Box 161, R2McVeytown, 37051. Carl E. Krepps, Promotion Committee,AgWay, R 1 Mc- Veytoym, 17051 Margaret Earskine, secretary, R 1 Reedsville, 17084. Lester Yoder, treasurer, RD Belleville, 17004. Dorothy Kenepp, Pageant Committee, R 1 McVeytown, 1705 1. I’m terribly sorry!
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