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VOL. 32 No. 29
On The Road With Paradise Veterinarian
BY EVERETT NEWSWANGER
Managing Editor
AROUND LANCASTER
COUNTY Because the farmer
had stuffed straw chunks into the
cow gutter, the operating table was
ready. Not very sophisticated. But
satisfactory when the patient
needing surgery has four legs and
four stomachs, namely a Holstein
cow
In this case the legs were fine,
but that fourth stomach had filled
with digestive gas and floated up
out of place under the rib cage
somewhere. Farmers know the
problem as a twisted stomach.
Veterinarians call it left displaced
abomasun. And Dr. Curtis Zilhardt
and Dr. Britan Kilbourne decided
to do what they have done maybe a
thousand times before. Turn the
cow over with her back into the
Holiday Notice
The Lancaster Farming
editorial and advertising offices
will be closed on Monday, May
25, in observance of Memorial
Day.
Deadlines for the May 30
issue are as follows:
Mailbox Market Ads - noon
Tuesday.
Public Sale Ads - 5 p.m
Tuesday.
General News - 9 a.m.
Wednesday.
Classified Section B Ads - 5
p m. Wednesday.
All other Classified Ads - 9
a.m Thursday.
Late-breaking News - 8 a.m.
Friday.
First Dairy Of Distinction
Farms Reported
TOWANDA Viewing a
beautiful dairy farm it is a very
special and unique experience.
Dairy cattle serenely parade
behind attractive barns and homes
with landscaping including
flowers, shrubbery and newly
mowed lawns.
Ten northeastern Pennsylvania
dairy farms from District 17
(Bradford, Tioga, Lycoming and
Sullivan Counties) have been
chosen as Dairy of Distinction
winners.
These winners in the Northeast
Dairy Farm Beautification
Program are from: Lycoming
County - Max Paulhames, Linden
and Allan and Daryl Krotzer,
Liberty; Bradford County - Ray
and Shirley Norconk, New Albany:
Ron Kline, Troy; Gerald High,
Drover; Robert and Anita
Whipple, Towanda; and Ed Morse,
Lroy; Tioga County - Theodore
Schmelzle, Roaring Branch;
Verne and Pauline Bowen,
Wells boro; and Harold and Leona
Robson, of Mansfield.
These ten Dairy of Distinction
winners were chosen from among
applicants. Farms had applied
0n a self-nomination basis. Two
teams of judges spent two days on
®e roads to evaluate the dairy
straw in the stable gutter and her
feet straight up in the air; make a
small incision in the cow’s un
derside at about the point of the
Dr. Britan Kilbourne (left) and Dr. Zilhardt sew a displaced stomach in place.
Producers To Vote On Egg Marketing Order
BY JACK HURLEY
Memorial Day ’B7 promises to be
particularly memorable for the
nation’s egg producers, as the
industry’s egg marketing order
comes to a nationwide vote.
farms.
Dairy of Distinction winners will
receive a 18x24” Dairy of
Distinction sign to be placed on the
farmstead near the roadside. Signs
will be presented as part of the
activities at each county’s dairy
festival. Winners also will receive
a color photo of their farm which
will be presented to them an
Pennsylvania Ag Progress Days in
August.
These ten farms will be judged
every year to ensure they maintain
the excellent standards required
for the award. Farms not chosen
this year will be eligible to apply
again next year.
The goal of the Northeast Dairy
Farm Beautification Program is to
recognize dairy farms that are
attractively maintained. More
emphasis on maintaining at
tractive farmsteads will en
courage public support for the
dairy industry and stimulate milk
sales.
This is the first year that Penn
sylvania has participated in the
Northeast Farm Beautification
Program. New York has had much
success with the program. Three
hundred Dairy of Distinction
winners have been recognized
since 1984.
Lancaster Farming, Saturday, May 23,1987
tront extension of the milk veins;
reach in and pull the inflated
stomach down to where it belongs;
, sew the stomach in place with
After five years and $400,000 in
development costs, the egg in
dustry has agreed on the final draft
of a marketing order designed to
increase consumer demand for
eggs.
“This is strictly a promotion
order,” stresses Christine Bush
way, president of the United Egg
Producers’ Northeast division
headquartered in Durham, New
Hampshire. She points out that the
marketing order would fund ad
vertising and promotion, new
product development and nuti ition
research.
During its development phase
the order called for egg production
controls and the removal of sur
plus laying hens, but neither of
these provisions survived the
drafting process.
State Beef And Veal Promotion In Gear
HARRISBURG - Six beef and
veal promotion and advertising
contracts were recently awarded
to individuals and firms, beginning
the main thrust of Pennsylvania’s
extensive promotion and ad
vertising programs designed to
increase sales of beef and veal.
Earlier this year, the Penn
sylvania Beef Council (PBC)
Board of Directors approved 17
separate promotion, advertising
and educational programs from
funds generated from the 1986
federally legislated Beef Check-Off
program.
Invitations to bid were sent to 23
qualified firms and individuals
The state’s program will sup
plement national programs
featuring television, radio and
magazine advertising along with
catgut and close up the incision.
And that’s what these doctors did
Monday afternoon.
Earlier in the day when this
Beginning Monday and con
tinuing through June 19, owners of
10.000 or more laying hens will
have the opportunity to vote for or
against a one-half-cent-per-dozen
assessment on eggs that will
produce an estimate $23 million
annually to boost egg consumption.
Egg producers with less than
10.000 hens are exempt from the
assessment and will not receive a
ballot.
The current voluntary 5-cent
per-case assessment nets the in
dustry only about $4 million a
year; not enough to mount an
effective television advertising
campaign, says Bushway.
The marketing order is an at
tempt to halt a more or less steady
decline in egg consumption that
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m-store pomt-of-purchase (P-O-P)
materials and educational videos
all designed to increase consumer
demand for beef and veal.
“Emphasis in the Pennsylvania
program will be placed on
promoting beef and veal in the
retail stores—supermarkets where
shoppers make the decision on
whether to buy our products, or not
to buy,” according to Paul Heff
ner, PBC Chairman and Adams
County beef feeder
The Pennsylvania Grocers’
Association (PGA) was contracted
to place special P-OP advertising
with mobiles, meat case strips and
informational cards in the smaller
grocery store chains and in
dependent stores, along with the
PBC’s new Beef/Veal Nutnfacts
brochure This brochure cites the
Four Sections
Editor caught up with Dr. Zilhardt
to spend a day on the road, the vet
who operates out of his home in
Paradise was already headed out
on the second case of milk fever.
“We go out in the morning to see
what died over night,” he joked.
His sense of humor brought back
memories of some 20 years ago
when Zilhardt and his predecessor
Dr. Everett Denlmger had worked
on the editor’s herd. Zilhardt
remembered the tune the Editor’s
cows started to die seemingly
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July 10 Set As
Target Date For
Over-Order Prices
BY GINGER SECRIST MYERS
Adams Co. Correspondent
SHIPPENSBURG - Time is
running out for dairy farmers in
the Northeast to sign up with the
Regional Cooperative Marketing
Agency if they plan to participate
in the Agency’s program to
bargain for higher milk prices.
At a news conference held here
Tuesday, RCMA Executive
Director Edward Anna announced
that dairymen have less than 60
days, until July 10, to sign-up with
RCMA. On that day, the Agency’s
board of directors will hopefully
set the first over-order premium
price, to be effective with August
milk production.
Anna stressed that it is im
perative to sign-up as soon as
possible to insure board approval
by July 10. The August price will be
reflected m milk checks arriving in
late September and October only
for those members listed and
approved lO
Although the RCMA has signed
up over 90 percent of the pool of
29,000 dairymen in its 11 Nor
theastern states region, sign-up
still lags in Pennsylvania with just
over 80 percent membership. Anna
explained that while that’s enough
participation to do the job, it does
limit how much premium can be
paid.
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good nutritional value of beef and
veal along with tempting recipes
for diet and health-conscious
shoppers. The PGA will install a
minimum of 600 kits throughout
Pennsylvania beginning May 18. A
second series of P-O-P kits will be
installed again in Oc
tober/November and third senes
in February/March 1988
At the same tune, professional
groups will install more than 1,500
of the P-O-P kits in larger Penn
sylvania supermarkets. These
installations are being paid for
through Pennsylvania generated
funds distributed to the Beef In
dustry Council on the national
level Beef/Veal Nutnfacts
brochures will also be placed in
these larger markets
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$8.50 Per Year