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Rutledges Earn
National SCC Award
STATE COLLEGE (Centre They have a rolling herd aver-
Co.) Recently one of our own age of 22,641 with 828 pounds of
here at Pa.DHIA was awarded the fat and 7254 pounds of protein
national dairy quality award for the The average SCC for the last 12
Northeast region. months was 57,000.
Art and Barbara Rutledge of When asked what he does to
Damascus, in Wayne County, maintain such a low level of
received this prestigious award somatic cells Art said, We don t
this past July do anything special, just pre-dip
Art and Barbara have a milk- the . cows with a 50 percent
mg herd of 55 Holstein cows, iodine solution and then dry
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paper towel. We then post dip
with a 50 percent iodine solu
tion. Milking units are sanitized
in a chlorine solution after sus
pect cows are milked."
From the left, David Slusser Pa.DHIA general manager congratulates
Barb and Art Rutledge on receiving the award.
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Disaster
Aid
HARRISBURG
(Dauphin Co ) - Gov
Tom Ridge this week
announced that farm
ers in five additional
counties will be eligi
ble to receive disaster
aid for damage to their
farms from excessive
ram and flooding in
May and June
Family farmers in
Potter and Tioga coun
ties now eligible
because the counties
are contiguous to 10
New York counties
named as primary dis
aster areas
Family farmers in
Crawford, Erie and
Mercer counties now
are eligible because
the counties are con
tiguous to Ohio coun
ties which sustained
damage
Farmers in these
counties join those in
27 other Pennsylvania
counties that wory
declared eligible at the
request of Gov Ridge
because of severe
storms, tornadoes and
flooding
Eligible family
farmers can apply for
Farm Service Agency
emergency loans
The eligible coun
ties in Pennsylvania
previously announced
were; Allegheny,
Beaver; Berks; Pike,
Somerset,
Susquehanna; ■ and
Wyoming The con
tiguous counties that
also were named to
receive some assis-
tance i were;
Armstrong; Bedford;
Bradford; Butler;
Cambria; Chester;
Fayette; Lackawanna;
Lancaster; Lawrence;
Lebanon; Lehigh;
Luzerne; Monroe;
Montgomery;
Schuylkill; Sullivan;
Washington; Wayne;
and Westmoreland.
Emergency loan
applications will be
accepted through Feb.
8 for physical and pro
ductive losses.
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