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PAGE 6—The Newberry Sun, Newberry, S. C., Thursday, June 20, 1968 R Wright Cannon confers with Scout Executive James D. Wilson at Camp Old Indian, where a number of local scouts are attending camp. Mr. Wilson expressed appre ciation to Mr. Cannon for the many years of service to boys in Scouting. year in Newberry County. Our county’s dairy farmers have an investment of over 10 million dollars in their dairy farm op erations. In spite of unstable milk pri ces and other difficulties of re cent years, our Newberry Coun ty dairy farmers have met the challenge. Their present produc tion of almost 10 per cent of South Carolina’s milk supply is a record of which they can be justly proud. During June Dairy Month, we’re proud to salute the 58 3rade A dairy farmers and the almost equal number of Borden dairy producers of Newberry County. Their efforts and their accomplishments benefit us all. HAVE VARIETY for tasty summertime sandwiches Dairy Industry is saluted during June DAIRY QUIZ Do you remember? I. When most people kept milk in a spring-house or in the well bucket at the bottom of the well? 2. When everyone except rich folks kept their own milk cow ? 3. When your cow went dry, you sometimes bought, but mostly borrowed milk from your neighbor until the cow freshened again? 4. When there was no mar garine—everybody used butter? 5. When there was an ice cream parlor with a sawdust floor in every town? 6. When there were no sup ermarkets and very few groc ery stores sold milk and butt er? If you remember most of these events, don’t feel that you may be growing old. Be thankful you’ve lived during such a wonderful period. For you have lived to see more changes come about than dur ing any similar period in the history of mankind. From those days of keeping your own cow, until now, a great change has indeed come about. Most of this great change in the dairy business has happened since World Wai II. For untold ages dairy farm ing was a task of mostly hard constant labor. Not until the 1940’s did milking machines come into general use in our area. Even then the milk was strained from the milking pail into a 10 gallon can and hauled to market. Ten years ago there were few pipe-line milking barns and bulk milk tanks ir Newberry county. A 50 cow dairy herd was quite a large dairy farm operation just these few r short years ago. If you haven’t visited a dairy farm recently you’d be amazed at our modern dairy operations in Newberry County. We now have 3 dairy’ farms of over 200 milking cows and a dozen or more of over 100 milking cow’s. There are now’ only a few dairy farms of less than 50 milking cows. Sparkling glass and gleam ing stanless steel abounds on every dairy farm of today. Pipeline milking equipment and bulk milk tanks insure that your milk supply is untouched by human hands. Tow’ering silos, with automat ic unloaders that can fill a hun dred foot long feed trough at the flick of a switch. Acres of concrete and individual comfort stalls. All these expensive con veniences have helped da'iry farmers greatly increase their production and efficiency. Milk production per cow has nearly doubled on some dairy farms during the past 12 to 15 years. On today’s dairy farm, even the cow’s must have an annual health checkup. Countless other regulations of sanitation and equipment must be nut to in sure your daily milk supply to be the most wholesome and per fectly safe food available any where in the world. After all, food that may be for our babies must be of highest possible quality. We wouldn’t want it any other way. Today, Newberry County’s dairy farming is modern, ef ficient and contributes might ily to our economic well being. Income from dairying now a- mounts to 3 million dollars per Mealtime, snack time, any time ... serve cheese Packed with flavor and energy . .. building proteins too! Try our tempting variety of fine cheeses... so easy to prepare and so very good. Order now for parties, for meals or just for fun. Heller’s Service Station and GROCERY STORE MAIN STREET EXTENSION NEWBERRY, S. C. THE TOTAL-ELECTRIC DAIRY FARMER... m H 0 FARM UTTER With his ability to keep in step with progress... Uses modern, automated equip ment powered by electricity... and. his own special skills...to FARM BETTER ELECTRICALLY... LIVE BETTER ELECTRICALLY. B The future is here now iox today’s dairy farmer. He uses electricity forall his dairy needs—lighting, milking, refrigeration, storing, plenty of hot water, and comfort heating and cooling. His home is total-electric, too, with modern elec tric appliances, water heater, and electric heating and cooling. Electric power adequately meets the needs of thedairyfarmer, making it possible forhim to Live Better Electrically ...FARM BETTER ELECTRICALLY. NEWBERRY ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE v' I NC OBPCS A 1 ( f) « HOME OWNED BY THOSE IT SEPVE.S