Delaware Century Farm Recipients Honored DOVER, DE —lh&3td-annual Century Farm Awards presenta tion will be hosted by the Dela ware Department of Agriculture Tuesday, Feb. 28, beginning at 11 a.m. in the Delaware Agriculture Museum in Dover. Eight new honorees will be added to the list of 29 farm fami lies that have previously earned Century Farm distinctions. The Century Farm program rec ognizes families that have owned and operated the same farm for 100 years or more. Homesteads must be at least 10 acres in size and actively farmed in order to be eligible for the awards. Farms that are less than 10 acres must gen erate at least $lO,OOO in annual sales to qualify. Award recipients receive a pewter plate and certificate to commemorate the honor. Century Farm signs suitable for outdoor display also are available to reci pients, as well as shirts and jackets with the Century Farm logo imprinted on them. Five honorees also will receive Historic Structure awards. To qualify for an Historic Structure Award, the family must have four structures on the farm that Are at least SO years old and that have That’s Built to Last. Combination Farrowing (Airplane) Slats. Qualit YOUR DISTRIBUTOR For QUALITY CONCRETE SLATS For Hogs not been significantly altered. A luncheon for recipients will follow the awards ceremony. Michael McGrath, program coordinator and manager of the Department of Agriculture’s Aglands Preservation Section, said he is sure many more Dela ware families could qualify for Century Farm status if they took the time to research and document their farm’s history. He encour aged anyone interested in the Cen tury Farm program to contact his office at 1-800-282-8685. 1989 Century Farm Award Recipients, (The following list includes the farm owners), generation, loca tion and principal operation.) Bennett Farms Inc., Fred A. Bennett II and Fred A. Bennett 111 (owners, father and son), 7th gen eration, Milford, grain and poultry operation; also receives Historic Structures Award. Albert D. Warren, Sr. (own er), 6th generation, Felton, grain operation. Cooch’s Bridge Farm, Edward W. Cooch, Jr. (owner), 7th gener ation, Newark, grain operation; also receives Historic Structures Award, MORE THAN Middlespace Farm, David F. Richards and A. Katharine Richards (owners, brother and sis ter), 6th generation. Greenwood, grain operation; also receives His toric Structures Award. Locust Grove Farm, Mary Loockerman (owner), 6th genera tion, Greenwood, grain and com operation. Cedarcrest Farm, Captain William Lowe Jr. and Grace-War rington Lowe (husband and wife), Dairy Farmers Will Receive $12.95 NEW YORK, NY Daily far mers who supplied milk plants regulated under the New York- New Jersey marketing orders dur ing January 1989 will be paid on the basis of a uniform price of $12.95 per hundredweight (27.8 cents per quart); the price for the corresponding month last year was $12.03 per hundredweight Market Administrator Thomas A. Wilson also stated that the price was $13.07 in December 1988. The uniform price is a marketwide weighted average of the value of NAME gff Standard Gang Slats. :43a Performance And Economy. 4’xs’, 4’x6’, 4’xB’ or 4’xlo’ II*9OtVVT CONFINEMENT SYSTEMS INC. 608 E. EVERGREEN RD. LEBANON, PA. 17042 PH. 717-274-3488 4th generation, Georgetown, grains, com, soybeans and timber operation. Cedar Crest Farm Home Place, Frederick Thaddeus War rington 111 (owner), 4th genera tion, Georgetown, raises Welsh ponies; also receives Historic Structures Award. (Frederick and Grace Warrington inherited Cedar Crest Farm from their father, whose will divided it into the two existing properties in 1986. For January Milk farm milk used for fluid and man ufactured dairy products. The, seasonal incentive plan does not affect the uniform price for the month of January. A total of 13,635 dairy farmers supplied the New York-New Jersey Milk Marketing Area with 964,063,607 pounds of milk dur ing January 1989. This was an increase of 2.9 percent (about 28 million pounds) from last year. The gross value to dairy farmers for milk deliveries was $128,763,931.63. This included Lancaster Farming, Saturday, February 25,1989-A29 Brecknock Farm, Elizabeth Howell Goggin (owner), 4th gen eration, Camden, no current crops; also receives Historic Structures Award. Mrs. Goggin recently offered her historic property to Kent County to be used as park land. Mrs. Goggin will retain total ownership of the farm and lease the property to the county until her death, whereby it will become the county’s property and be turned into an historic park. differentials required to be paid to dairy farmers but not voluntary premiums or deductions author ized by the farmer. Regulated milk dealers (hand lers) used 397,162,529 pounds of milk for Class I, 41.2 percent of the total. This milk is used for fluid milk products such as homo genized, flavored, low test, and skim milks. For January 1989, handlers paid $14.78 per hundred weight (31.8 cents per quart) for Class I milk compared with $13.89 a year ago. The balance (566,901,078 pounds or 58.8 percent) was used to manufacture Class II products including butter, cheese, ice cream, and yogurt. Handlers paid $11.93 per hundredweight for this milk. The uniform price is based on milk containing 3.5 percent but terfat. For January 1989, there was a price differential of 15.1 cents for each one-tenth of one percent that the milk tested above or below the 3.5 percent standard. All prices quoted are for bulk tank milk received from farms in the 201-210 mile zone from New York City. 0 ATTENTION TOBACCO GROWERS Golden Leaf Tobacco Co. will close our receiving station Tuesday, Feb. 28 at 5 p.m. If you still have 609 tobacco for sale, please contact us for delivery by that date. For those of you who can not finish stripping by that date - we will not leave you without a place to sell your tobacco. You can call our buyer Eugene Bare at 717-656-9306 for more details. We would like to thank each of our many customers for your business this year and we are looking forward to a good market in 1989! Mac Bailey Golden Leaf Tobacco . Company PO Box 218, Intercourse, PA 17534 717-768-3074
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