ANNAPOLIS, Md. - Maryland Secretary of Agriculture, Wayne A. Cawley, Jr., met last week with Governor Harry Hughes, members of the Southern Maryland delegation to the General Assembly and Farm Bureau of ficials concerning this year’s chaotic tobacco market conditions. “We are faced with an ex traordinary problem due to last year’s drought on one hand and supply and demand factors on the other”, Cawley reported to the group. The combination of these problems bearing down at one time may be more than individual farmers in Southern Maryland can deal with on their own this year”, he said. A possible marketing alternative designed to improve the situation was suggested by Cawley. It would consist primarily of a self-help program operated by the industry itself in which tobacco not sold in the market would be placed in a pool for marketing at a later date. The program would be presided over by a group representing producers who would take charge of tobacco which fanners did not sell because of low bids or lack of bids on the auction floor. Managers of the program, in cooperation with warehousemen and tobacco packers located in the state would implement a system for placing certain grades of tobacco into a pool which would work in the following manner. Tobacco passed over by buyers or receiving bids deemed too low could then be placed in the pool holding area of the warehouse. At the time a farmer voluntarily consigns his tobacco to the pool he would surrender outright control of it. Here’s What You Get For Less Than 15' A Week! ■ H i / «55SLr 4 I ****VZ2~'-'~'~ 9s i **’*^ I THURSDAY, £*■ * I mm KyS j ARTICLES OF INTEREST on the latest trends in farming and feature stories about your farming friends and neighbors! A WHOLE SECTION OF HOME NEWS and features, recipes and columns written just for our readers! 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The program's topic is "Dairy Goal Nutrition, Current Research and Practical Applications,” which will be given by George F. Haelein of the University of Delaware. A question and answer period and refreshments will follow The Goalherders next meeting is scheduled for April 18, at 7.30 p.m., ai the Berks County Agricultural Center. Berks County extension agent Clyde Myers will provide an update on mastils Upcoming events include pai ucipalion m Ag Day, an annual event held on Fenn Square, planned for Aug 30 and 31 The event is sponsored by the Farm- City Council, with Clyde Myers as secretary Goalherders membeh Mary Lllen Spoils was invited to attend the committee's March 2b J farming Md. tobacco pool suggested Goatherders plan events At LANCASTER FARMING, we think we do a good job of keeping you in formed... and we have over 40,000 paid subscribers who think so too! fered for sale with anyone eligible to find qualified buyers in the United States or abroad. Tenders from would-be buyers would be brought to the managing group which would consider them and accept or reject them. As tobacco was sold from the pool, farmers with leaf in the pool would be pf’’' 1 on a pro basis. meeting, along with Myeis Members are asked to present any ideas concerning the type of display which the club should use during the April meeting. Spoils also planned to allend a meeting March JO with lepresenlalives from the Berks, Montgomery, Lehigh and Bucks ■ t ~, ...1111 in e < enlei s Potato stocks decrease HARRISBURG Total stocks of potatoes stored in Pennsylvania on March 1 were 1,350,000 hun dredweight (cwt.), 36 percent less than a year ago, according to the Pennsylvania Crop Reporting Service. Of this amoung, 825,000 cwt. was stored in processors’ facilites, representing 61 percent of the total stocks. Stocks are defined as the quantity remaining in storage for all purposes and uses, including shrinkage and waste and other losses that occur after the date of each report. Stocks may also in clude potatoes produced in other states. Sales of fall potatoes for all purposes generally account for about 90 percent of the total fall production. Shrinkage, loss and £egtoresl P.O. Box 366, Lititz, PA 17543 Phone 717-626-1164 or 394-3047 All efforts would be made to keep overhead expenses involved in receiving, grading, packing and storing at low levels, helped, perhaps, by the volume involved. Interested parties are requested to consider this suggestion and communicate their views to five Southern Maryland Farm Bureau nrociH»rit