State Milk Flow Continues At All-Time High November milk production in Pennsylvania reached an estimated 487 million poun ds to cotmue the record set ting pace for every month of this year, a four per cent in crease over 1957’s product ion of 5,932 million pounds' for the first 11 months November’s record of 523 lbs per cow resulted in re cord total milk yiields for the month, in spite of the lowest milk cow numbers in four years according to the Penna Crop Reporting Service High Ntv . Wirfui L. H. Brubaker Lititz Hempfield Mills East Petersburg A. L. Herr & Bro. Quarryville Musser Farms, Inc. Columbia Brown Sc Rea Atglen Jobbers Herr & Co. New Holland Supply Miller & Hartman BABY CHICKS MUSSER Leghorn Chicks bred for the business poullryman who’s looking for dependability' We don’t claim our birds are the best . we don’t say they’ll all live to 15 months of age ... we don’t say they’ll all lay 300 or more eggs, we do say they are pleasing hundreds of commercial poultrymen and arc a good buy at a fair price. Try them this year' BABY CHICKS beef priices have contributed to reduction of dairy animal numbers. Pastures wore better and later than normal this year, with many farmers grazing herds as late as the latter part of November Average pounds of concentrates fed, per cow during the month to taled 8 9 lbs. per day, com pared with 90 lbs during November 1957. Dairymen’s milk price feed ratio improved slight ly, to reach 163 Milk cows averaged $2BO per head, but terfat, 52 cents per lb, and wholesale nvlk, $5 45 per cwt in Pennsylvania. In the nation, milkers av eraged $222 per head, butter fat, 58y 2 cents per pound, and wholesale milk, $4.50 per cwt The national milk-feed ra,- tio lbs. concentrate equal m value t o one pound o f whole milk, was 1 58. Prices paid in Penna. as of the 15th of November ave raged. 16 per cent mixed da„ry feed $3.65; 20 per cent—s3.Bs, and 29 per cent’ $4 30. Cottonseed meal— s 4 40, Soybean meal —$4 20 Bian —s3 00; Middlings $3.15, Alfalfa hay, per ton, — $35, and other hay —s2B. In the nation- 16 per cent mixed dairy feed—s3.s7; 20 per cent —$3.83; and 29 per cent —s4 35. Cotton seed meal—s 3 82; Soybean meal, $4 05, Bran —$ 76; Mid dlings—s2.B7; Alfalfa hay, per ton —$29. and other hay $27. ★ Survey Group (From page 8) until late March. Thus, mak ketmgs through May will be correspondingly larger than in 1958. Unusual broiler mortality and relatively high red meat R. D. I, Mount Joy, Pa. BABY CHICKS R. D. I, Mount Joy, P<. Test Reveals, No Sound Reason To Feed Dynafac' Although early growth of calves may be speeded up by feeding them Dynafac, there is still no good reason for feeding it to them, according to experiment results releas ed at the University of Min nesota. ' J In the tests, average gain of calves getting fresh skim milk and the additive was 0 99 lbs. per day, from birth to 42 days of age. Calves not getting the additive averaged 085 lb per day during the same number of days However, during the sec ond 42 days of the experi ments, calves getting the Dynafac gained 159 lbs while those not getting it av eraged 1 86 lbs gam For the entire 85-day trial, the group of calves not getting Dynafac averaged 138 lbs per day, while those fed the additive averaged 1 29 lbs. gam. prices are believed to have given a two cents per pound boost to early 1958 broiler l prices Factors contributing to the high broiler mortality are unlikely to be repeated and supplies of red meats will be 4 per cent larger dur ing early 1959 Breeder hens now available indicate abundant’ broiler chick supplies during the first half of 1959 Substantially ro duced chick and hatching egg prices, compared to the same period in 1958, may increase the rate of liquidation of hatchery supply flocks by mid-summer. r - _ ii°_ l9 ~ l l 5 ii u _ p I? No 10A—75 bu 4 wheel Look at N£3£ Is££ spreaders before you buy Finest you can buy yet cost no more New Idea engineering, with set ere field telling and latent de signing, has made possible tho finest quality e\cr, jet has sue (.ceded in keeping costs down First in performance the spreaders that do the job best. L< t us proto a to jou First in value longest life full jear gnaianlce belter trade in prices First in sales tarvnois buy more New Idea spteadcis than any other make Come in and look at l\etv Idea before you buy Y.ur NEK dealer _ A. B. C. GROFF New Holland SHOTZBERGER’S Elm H. S. NEWCOMER & SON A. L. HERR & BRO. Mount Joy Quarryville ALLEN H. MATZ J, H. REITZ & SON, Inc. Denver Lititz, R. D. 4 CHAS. J. McCOMSEY & SONS Hickory Hill. Pa. Lancaster Farming, Saturday, December 20, 1958 Foreign Bans on U.S. Pork Easing STATES PROHIBITING' USE Pennsylvania is listed as one of the 30 states which the American Meat Institute claims is missing an opportunity to share in a potential pork business of'•more than 90 mil lion pounds annually, because of existing stale regulations on hog cholera vaccine. As a lesult of negotiations started two years ago by AMI representatives, the United Kingdom, a potentiaT*yearly pork market of 60 million pounds, recently has agreed to a limited reopening of its market for U. S pork pro ducts Other nations are ex pected to follow m the near future, according to Gaston Escoube of the AMI foreign trade staff Several European countri es enacted trade restrictions prohibiting poik imports from the U S shortly after World War 11, thus closing a profitable market to Am erican pork producers. This, reports AMI, was un- Our Customers Are Our Best Salesmen Pa US Approved Pullorum-Typhoid Clean KEYSTONE HATCHERY Rep: Daniel R. Myers Ph. Leola OL 6-2243 Hatchery: Ph. Leola OL6-7851 Farm: Ph. Ephrata RE 3-6179 No. 200—95 bu PTO No 18—70 bu. fo 17— 1 LANDIS BROS. Lancaster J. PAUL NOLT Gap doubtedly due to outbreaks of hog cholera which occured in several JSuropean countri es during the occupation yea rs when hogs were fed gar bage rom U S military cam ps. Veterinary authorities in Europe contended the d’seasd was transmitted through me at scraps from pork products imported * from the U S. which came from animals which had been inoculated against cholera with live vir us, Escoube reports Bntian now has agreed to accept U ,S pork products from states which require the use of modified hog chol era vaccine These are. Ala bama, Arkansas. Conn , Flo rida, Geo , 111, Ken , Louis iana. Mich - Miss , Montana, Nevada, New Mex , N Dak , S Car, Tenn, Utah, and Wisconsin - I Here’s Top | j Breeding j 1 From Hubbard I ♦m i % v V x I r "* a-- v UuBBARD FARMS cMi V 1 " " -Kl M BERCHIK K-137 MO! WHITE El . I PROFITS V. Hubbard’s Kimberchik K-137 has proved its outstanding superiority as a white egg producer. Under the most difficult commercial condi tions the Hubbard Kimberchik continues to be the poultryman’s profitable answer for top quality white eggs. The 1 * K-137 produces eggs with an excellent firm albu men content...the land of eggs the consumer demands... not too large —not too small—but just right. Every trait of the K-137 points to profit Large egg size early means, an early return on your flock in-, vestment High egg average per, year means more eggs and more) profit The smaller body size means 'lower feed costs. You, too, will find' the Kimberchik K-137 produced by, Hubbard the best all-around bird you ever had Make your next flock Hubbard Kimberchik and cash in cn this top white egg producer. HUBBARD PROFIT-BRED EGO STRAINS Manheim Pike LANCASTER, PA. Phone EX 2-2155 9
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