10—Lancaster Farming, Friday, July 26, 1957 USDA Food Donations Up 40 Pet.; Sets Record for Fiscal Year Jfood donations by the U S De partment of Agnculture reached a record high in the fiscal year ended' June 30, under an active Department effort to dispose of surpluses A total of 2,818,400,000 pounds of food was donated dur ing the year to recipients here and abroad through the direct distri bution program conducted by USDA’s Agricultural Marketing Service. - Sharp increases were made in ■distribution to recipients both in, this country and abroad of foods USDA has acquired in-operation, of the price-support and surplus lemoval programs. Distribution domestically was increased to 1,043,000,000 pounds, up 32 per cent over the total for fiscal year 1956 ■ Foreign distribu tion rose to 1,775,400,000 pounds, an increase of 45 per cent over the same period a year ago. In this country, the biggest in creases were made in distribution of surplus commodities for use in school lunch programs A total of 426,300,000 pounds of food was distributed for this purpose dur ing the year, an increase of 61 per cent over the previous year. ■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■' SNEED quick! [ PASTURE S z ■ ■ SOW WINTER ■ 2 RYE NOW! ■ 2 ■ ■ Balboa for pasture J ■ Petkus for«| ■K grain, pasture, and* ■ , cover crops J 5 ■ J| Varieties of Alfalfa ■ ■ Available for Seeding ■ S i Cert. Dupuits Alfalfa^ ■ 1 Cert. Ranger Alfalfa ■ ■ 1 Cert. Buffalo Alfalfa* ■ Cert. Vernal Alfalfa ■ SMOKETOWN ■ _ J Phone Lancaster EX 2-2659 g SUPER SHOES SALES DAY SPECIALS 29c 49c 98c Table Piled High 100's of Pairs! Also Specials For Every Member of the Family at SUPER LOW PRICES OPEN Mon thru Sat. 9 to 9 Distribution to institutions total ed 148,600,000 pounds, a gain of 14 per cent. Distribution to needy persons in family units accounted for the largest quantity of food distributed domestically, with the total of 468,100,000 pounds up 18 per cent over a year ago. In addition to these uses, large quantities of surplus foods were ued during the fiscal year in the lehef of victims of natural disas ters. Top priority on foods avail able for distribution is given to such use Currently, the state distribution agency in Louisiana is using large quantities of foods from regular stocks donated for distribution to school lunches, institutions, and needy persons to help sup ply the mass feeding centers at Lake Charles and Cameron for victims of the hurricane in that area. Shipments already have in cluded 18,000 pounds of cheese 20,000 pounds ,of flour, 10,00 f pounds of rice, 20,000 pounds of cornmeal, 12,000 pounds of lard and sizable quantities of dry milk and dry beans. Similarly, nearly 24 million pounds of food was distributed for immediate relief of victims of tmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmw' S LOBC-RID ■ ■ STEEL BUILDINGS ■ ■ You Can’t Buy A ■ ■ Better Building 5 ■ Than ■ S LOK-RIB : ■ ■ ■ Extra Strength ■ ■ No Costly Framing ■ ■ Longer Life £ S Quicker Erection ■ ■ ■ ■ SEE OUR ■ I DISPLAY BUILDING J ■ Wilbur Graybill S ■ (Lititz Halfville Pa.) ■ ■ ■ 'lllllllll ■ ■ UpBBM 220 W. King St. Lancaster SUPER ODDS & ENDS Free Parking At Store No Walking! Farm Calendar July 27 Swine Producers Field Day 10 am at Stauffer Homestead Farm, Rl East Earl. July 30 Potato Growers Tour Lancas ter County growers will meet at 830 a m at Columbia Bridge. They will join York County Grow ers for the tour. July 31 Poultry Tour 7 45 am. at Mellmger’s Church, Route 30 Tour to go to Delawaie. Aug. 1 SPABC Cattle Show all day it SPABC grounds, Lancaster. International Harvester Field ~jay 10 a.m.'at John Cope farm Little Britain 4-H Clubs’ picnic Aug. 2 4-H Dairy Club Roundup IPABC, Iloute 230, Lancaster. Aug. 6 Vegetable Growers’ Assn. Tour noon, at Joseph Klock farm, R 2 iaston, on Route 115. Aug. 8 Ayrshire Field Day— all day Masonic Homes, Elizabethtown. last August’s hurricane in Puerto Rico Subsequently, Puerto Rico entered the continuing program of distribution to needy persons to aid in long-term rehabilitation after completion of the emer gency feeding Large quantities of foods were also used in emer gency feeding when spring floods and tornadoes including those in Kentucky and Virginia—drove persons from their homes and forced them to rely temporarily on community feeding In addition, surplus foods were, rushed to the aid of refugees from Hungary, following the Oc tober revolution. Thirty million pounds of food was made avail able to aid refugees in camps es tablished in Austria. In addition. some 175,000 pounds of food was used to aid Hungarian refugees after they arrived in this country, in centeis such as Camp Kilmer in New Jersey. Foods donated under the direct distribution program are current ly being used by over 12 million school children taking part in school lunch programs, and about 1.4 million persons in charitable institutions in this country. In ad dition, about 3 million needy per sons in family units are currently receiving donated commodities. June Heat Dropped Egg Numbers 11 Pet. HARRISBURG Excessively hot weather during the month of June held down egg produc tion, the State Department of Agucultura reported today. Pro duction was 275 million eggs in comparison with 307 million dur ing May Temperatures m the 90's an many areas were held responsible for keeping the average production per bird, far below the May out put of 19.03 eggs During June layers averaged 17 58 eggs For the same month a year ago pro duction averaged 17 34 eggs. Some deaths to birds in laying flocks also were attributed to high temperatures. In come lo calities temperatures reached 100 degrees on the farm. The number of layers on Penn sylvania farms in June declined seasonally by four per cent m comparison with June a year ago Egg production for the month was two per cent below June 1956. Prices received by farmers for poultry and poultry products on June 15 were nearly the same as those received May 15, but they were far below those received on June 15, a-year ago Feed was cheaper on June 15 than it was on May 15 Costs were 10 to 15 cents a hundred pounds under those paid June 15 of last year There are five poultry disease diagnostic laboratories in Penn sylvania 6perated by the State Department of Agriculture. Meat Packers Earnings in Past Year Rise 11 Pet. from 1955 Figures Meat packer earnings in 1956 improved over 1955 but were still well below those reported by other food processing and manu facturing industries, the Ameri can Meat Institute reported today. During 1956, the meat packing in dustry m America produced more meat than ever before. »» In its annual survey, the In stitute report showed net earn ings for the industry totaled an estimated 114 million dollers, a lain of 11 million over 1955. The otal figure is based on reports Tom 109 companies participating n the Institute’s annual survey. “Because of the extremely com letitive nature of the industry, he Tnargift for profit’ has re named quite narrow,’’ the report minted out. The industry’s 1956 warnings equalled only one cent >er dollar of sales, or 8.4 cents ier dollar of net worth, according o the survey. These ratios compared with last year’s earnings of all U.S manufacturing corporations whic manu f a c tunng corporations which averaged 5.3 cents on sales and 12 cents on net worth. Food processors, other than meat pack ers earned 3 6 cents on the sales dollar or 113 cents on net worth ll4 million dollars' sounds like a lot of money by many standards, this is actually quite modest for an industry v* hich ranks second in the United States in total sales," the Insti tute said. “One indication of this is the fact that in 1956 there were, 19 individual U.S. corporations each of which reported net earn ings that exceeded this figure.” The Institute calculated that the sales of those 19 companies) totaled five and one-half times greater but their total earnings were more than 50 times greater than all meat packing companies combined. For the first time the Institute examined the distribution of each company’s total earnings. It found, that two thirds of the 1956 income ♦♦ | ** I ♦♦ l H Cut Irrigation Costs with ♦♦ O ♦♦ ♦« H Skinner Sprinklers, ♦♦ H "Newrain" Couplers, ♦♦ I MYERS PUMPS I ♦♦ I ♦♦ c | “Buy the Best Buy MYERS” ♦♦ I | LESTER A. SINGER H I || Ronks, Pa, Ph. Strasburg OV 7-3226 j Buy Where Your Friends Buy More and more people are making us their first choice for . . . ★ ULTRA-LIFE MIXED POULTRY and DAIRY FEEDS ★ Fertilizer ★ Lime & Limestone Armour ★ Poultry Equipment Cramer’s ★ Spray Materials __ Baugh’s ★ Roofing ★ Field Seeds ★ Sand ★ Cement M. H. 30 for prevention of tobacco suckers. WEST WILLOW FARMERS ASSOCIATION WEST WILLOW Ph. Lane. EX 4-5019 FAMOUS FOR DELIVERY IN MINUTES . was retained in the business, and the remaining third was distrib uted to company owners. Further, 55 per cent of the companies re invested more than 80 per cent of their earnings. “These facts are highly signi ficant,” said the Institute, “be cause they show the effort which meat packing'companies are put ting forth to modernize and urn prove the operating facilities and products of the industry.” The year’s profit rise resulted from total sales amounting to $11,325,000,000, up 150 million dollars from the year preceding, he report stated Operating ex penses gained 239 milion dollars but raw material costs were ap proximately 100 million dollars lower for 1956 than in the year before “The factor chiefly responsible for the improved earnings was the record supplies of livestock for processing, and the resulting higher volume of operations by most companies,” the Institute said* It added: In the ten years, 1947 through 1956, operating expenses in the industry have soaied Wages and salaries, which constitute half the expense item, advanced 75 per cent in the decade Supplies and containers were up 77 per cent, transportation 83 per cent, and in terest 91 per cent. Depreciation was lifted 122 per cent. B We Have Concrete ■ SAKRETE ■ Groff's Hardware ■ 5 New Holland, Pa. J iniiiiKiimii
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