A44-lancaster .Farming, Saturday, October 48 1881
Increase
UNIVERSITY
PARK (Centre Co.)
The Penn State
Cooperative Extension
has completed a second
annual survey on the
use of newspapers as
animal bedding.
The surveys show
that between 1990 and
1991 Pennsylvania far
mers increased their use
of newspaper for bed
ding by 28 percent. The
results also indicate that
29 newspaper
publishers were
involved in providing or
encouraging the use of
newsprint for livestock
bedding.
The 53 Penn State
Cooperative Extension
agents who responded
to the 1991 survey esti
mated that 733 herds
with a total of 58,383
head of cattle were
using newsprint. The
agents indicated that
beef cattle, horses,
sheep and hogs also
were bedded with
newsprint.
The agents estimated
that 68 percent of the
fanners used their own
chopping or shredding
equipment. This may
indicate that farmers are
willing to chop or shred
their own newspaper
bedding in areas with
out centralized facilities
to provide it
Three main methods
are being used to get old
newsprint from curb
side collection to the
bam in a useable form.
In the central part of
the state many farmers
now place a small truck,
cart, or shed at the end
of their lane. Neighbors
and townspeople place
their paper in the facili
ty. The farmers feel that
by taking the newsprint
from their neighbors or
Mends they are doing a
good deed, while the
neighbors and Mends
feel they are helping the
farmers out. This
appears to be a good
example of “farm-city”
cooperation. In Union
County the number of
carts, sheds, and trucks
has doubled in the past
year.
Lebanon County
used another innovative
method. On a desig
nated Saturday each
month people bring
their newspapers to a
recycling site on the
county courthouse
parking lot. Coopera
tive Extension agent
Ken Winebark, via
meetings and newslet
ters, invites farmers
who use newspaper for
bedding to bring their
truck or wagon to the
site. County prison
workers help to transfer
the newsprint from
recycling trucks to
handle any paper the
farmers don’t take, then
offers its customers the
excess paper.
In the northern part
of the state, the North
ern Tier Solid Waste
Authority provides
Use Of Newspaper Bedding
waste collection ser
vices to Bradford, Tio
ga and Sullivan Coun
ties. Newspaper col
lected by the authority
Maryland
WASHINGTON COUNTY
HERD
NAME
LYNN STRITE
DWAYNE & MIRIAM BELL
OWEN E MARTIN
DWAYNE & MIRIAM BELL
KENLIN MARTIN
SUNRISE VIEW FARMS
AFTON SPRING DAIRY
GILSON R. MARTIN
EDGAR PAUL PRYOR
JOHN & CINDY BURTNER
BARNHART BROTHERS
MARSH-HAVEN FARM
CURTIS W AUSHERMAN
ARJUBELL FARM
ROY J. BYERS
EARL GROVE JR
CREEK BOUND FARM
MARTIN, TRUMAN
ARTHUR RHODERICK
TALBOT COUNTY
HERD
NAME
H W SNOW JR & SON
POTOMAC VALLEY ASSOC.
HERD
NAME
CALVIN P. DAYTON
BROOKEDALE HOLSTEINS
CESSNA BROS.
BINS & AUGERS
Authorised
FLYWAY BUSINESS PARK 15)
■STHHnH 1 39 A West Airport Rd VV / j“i J 7
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(717) 569-2702
is chopped and baled at
two facilities in the
areas, then sold to area
farmers. Manager Dave
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HERD COWS IN
BREED HERD T
HERD
BREED
HERD
BREED
Master Distributor
Terrill indicates that he
can’t supply all the
chopped paper farmers
want
DHIA
MILK AVG
FCM T
H 54
H 33
H 10
Br. 48
H 54
H 100
H 67
H 44
H 95
H 35
H 56
H 93
H 140
H 131
H 33
H 118
H 86
H 108
H 205
MILK AVG
FCM T
COWS IN
HERD T
63.6
MILK AVG
FCM T
COWS IN
HERD T
70.0
69.1
60.5
67
79
50
STORE HOURS
Moa-FrL
7:30-4:30
SIL 7:30-11:30
QUEEN ANNES COUNTY
HERD
NAME
THOMAS & SHIRLEY JACKSON
PINTAIL POINT FARM
HARRY L SCHRADER&SONS
CHARLES R PATTERSON
BOONE BROTHERS
MCFARLAND DONNIE & WAYNE
L J & W E PALMATARY
DONALD W. SKINNER
All
Simplicity Lawn & Garden
Products at Factory Invoices
You May bo Paying Too much I"
48 Quail Road, Intercourse • 717-768-8799
HERD COWS In MILK AVG
BREED HERD T FCM T
76.7
71.1
67.9
66.5
62.0
61.7
61.2
60.4