1994: (Continued (ram Page All) United States Deparmcnt of Com merce, Bumea of the Census, the United State’s population increased by 2.6 million last year, with one third of that gain coming from immigrants from other nations. From July 1993 to July 1994, the Mid Atlantic region saw and overall increase of about 80,000 people, based on the balance of 560.000 births. 373,000 deaths. 256.000 people leaving, and 149.000 people immigrating horn other nations. Pressure from immigrants, including refugees Qegal and illeg al) from around die world, has created a great cause of concern for historic residents and communities as they watch their schools become crowded, living conditions worsen, established community services such as courts, prisons and police overwhelmed, and no compatible increase in funds to pay for the increased needs. California made news this year in an attempt to ban illegal immi grants from receiving government benefits, such as free schooling and health care, services consid ered by many to be a privilege reserved for tax-paying citizens. The issue can be expected to be long-lasting and controversial throughout, as communities change in makeup and intensity. Dairy Changes In the dairy industry, farm num bers and cattle numbers in the state continue a slow decline, while milk production was relatively flat. A new form of a disease called bovine virus diarrhea (BVD) was discovered in some herds across the state, mostly in the northwest ern region. The new form appa rently was controlled only by com plete vaccinations, and officials quickly recommended new rules for health standards for showing cattle at county fairs and breed shows. 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Other rules changes pending in the dairy industry concern the test ing of milk by the National Dairy Herd Improvement Association. The gist of the rules changes is to maintain a high quality testing program, but to shift responsibility for verification of how the record data was achieved to the end user of the information supplied through the testing and records processing service. Specifics are still being worked out, but should be announced late winter. At the same time, uncertainty stills describes the situation among individual DHIA testing centers and records processing centers. Mergers have continued to occur throughout the nation, and experi ments between organizations have been tried in an attempt to deter mine the most affordable, efficient and reliable service to the dairy cattle and goat producer. Throughout the industry, mer gers have occured as changing commodity prices and diminished memberships have pressured cer tain groups to combine. Other groups have merged to strengthen market positioning. One such ttuyor merger was between milk promotion efforts, with the creation of the Dairy Marketing Inc., a group which oversees die expenditures of funds from both the still-existing Nation al Dairy Promotion and Research Board (NDB) and the United Dairy Industry Assocation. ' The directors of the DMI are drawn from members of both the NDB and UDIA boards. For Pennsylvania’s Dairy Promotion Program, it’s own affil iation with the Mid-East promo tion group makes it,a member of the DMI and entitles it to access to marketing information that indivi dually; it would not be able to afford. While the legality of the forma- I CONESTOGA VALLEY ENTERPRISES HI-MAG JIG LIME HI-CAL Cash Discount Savings on Delivery For your convenience calls received Mon.-Sat. until 9:00 pm 1-800-724-3277 Serving PA, MD, Dalmarva & NJ 3 NEED YOUR FARM BUILDINGS PAINTED? Let us give you a price! Write: % Daniel’s Painting 637-A Georgetown Rd. 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