Cattle Slaughter Up 9 Per Cent The total number of beef cattle slaughtered during April was S per cent more than April IM>3, according to the Penn sylvania Crop Reporting Serv ice. Hog slaughter was 4 per cent above a year ago. Calf slaugh ter was down 5 per jcent and lamb and sheep down 32 per Cent. The January-April total lor cattle and hogs was 3 per cent and 1 per cent respective ly, above a year earlier Calf and lamb and sheep slaughter for January-Apnl was 6 per cent and 44 per cent respec tively, below a year ago. U. S. Red Meat Commercial pi oduction of red meat dunng April in the 48 States was 2,713 million pounds—up 10 per cent fiom a year earlier and 5 per cent more than the previous month. Commercial meat pi oduction includes slaughter in federally inspected and other commercial plants but excludes farm slaughter. ! There were 10,512 million pounds of red meat produced during the first four months of 1964, an increase of 8 pei cent from the corresponding period of 1963. Of the January-Apnl total, beef was up 13 per cent from a year earlier; veal down 1 per cent, poik up 4 per cent; and lamb and mutton down 5 per cent. Beef production during April was 1,514 million pounds—up 16 per cent from April 1963 and 7 per cent greater than March 1964 The number of cattle slaughteied during April was 15 per cent greater than a year earlier and 8 per cent more than a month earlier. The average live weignt of cattle slaughtered in April was 1,042 pounds per head, 12 pounds heavier than April 1963, but 10 pounds lighter than March 1964 There were 67 million pounds of veal produced dunng April, 3 per cent moie than a year earliei,* but 1 per cent less than a month eailier Calves slaughtered duung Apul was 2 per cent above April 1963, but 5 per cent below March 1964 Calves slaughtered dur ing April averaged 214 pounds per head live weight, 3 pounds heavier than last year and 8 pounds heavier than last month. There were 60 million pounds David Unger To USDA David G Unger, Soil Con servation Director for the Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture foi the past eight years, has been assigned to the post of Assistant Executive Secretary of the National As sociation of Soil and Water Conservation Districts. Unger, before coming with the Penna. Department of Ag riculture, served as executive secretary of the Upper Sus quehanna Watershed Associa tion, with the Brandywine Val ley Association and the Ohio Geological Survey He is a na tive of Michigan and holds de grees from Antioch College m Ohio, and from the University of Pennsylvania He is a past president of the Keystone State chapter of the Soil Con servation Society of America. Purchase price of the new $75 E Bond, now on sale, is $56 25 Bond fills out the small er-denonnnation bond line and bears the likeness of the late President Kennedy. Why not get yours today? of lamb and mutton produced more than March 1964, Sheep during April, down 3 per cent and lambs slaughtered during from a year earlier, but 2 per April averaged 102 pounds per cent above a month earlier. hMd - ]ive weighti 3 pounds The number of sheep and heavier than a year earlier, lambs slaughtered during the but the same as last month. SHAVINGS & PEANUT SHELLS Shavings Coarse or Fine Bagged, Paper or Burlap Trailer Load Prices Bagged or Bulk HAROLD B. ZOOK Phone 394-5412 Lancaster 220 Lampeter Road AIMIN'J. IURKC, JR. ARCHBALD So Bucknell University " M ARILVN H. MORITZ PATRICK A, GRAHAM JOSEPH F. HUMENIK DUftYEA MANHEIM HOKENDAUQUA to Susquehanna University to Millersville Slate Colleg# to Bucknell University 3EIHU.YD.IOWB LOCK HAVEN to Lehigh University These Central Eastern Pennsylvania young people will bs entei mg area colleges and universities this fall with the aid of PP&L grants, offered under two separate scholarship programs. Each PP&Lprogramrecognizesthediverscneeds of society for coliege-tiained young men and women. INDEPENDENT COLLEGE SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM This program offers 10 scholarships for study at any of 15 colleges and universities located in PP&L’s service area. Winners of these scholarships may pursue any course of study leading to a baccalaureate degree. Part of the grant is paid to the institution on behalf of the student. The remainder is paid unconditionally to the school to be used for any educational objective. High school students who will he seniors this MI an’tß* vited to enter the competition for the 1964 grant* school guidance counselors will have the detail* S 'V-.v ** *sr BOXNin I. OISIOT CARLISLE to Dickinson College 11# jmSten BARBARA A. CROCKETT NEW CUMBERLAND to Buoknell University 1964 Winners of PP&L’s 15 Scholarships • 9 • J Poured Concrete Silos - Grain & Industi DANE R. DEIRIUC JA>ET L. S\\ INEHART PALL 4V. ( At M\ MUNCV PITMAN CRESSO .4 to Franklin S Marshall College to Elizabethtown College to Lehigh U,u s n EILCnX K. BACK PATRICK A. HAYDX CARY A. S 1 ROM LEHIGHTON MOUNTAINTOP HERNOOjJ to Millersville State College to Wilkes College to Bloomsburg Stats S STATE COLLEGE SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM There are five scholarships offered under this pros;, attendance at any of four State colleges in PP&L s area. This program is directed principally tow aid growing need for highly qualified teachers. llo\\£' el plicants are not limited to this field. Grants aie P f rcctly to the colleges on behalf of the winncis. WHY SUPPORT EDUCATION? PP&L’s scholarship programs are the result of a 1( progress is a product of education and that tltf l needs the M potential of its capable young people "Hitch YourSihf To A Star " Weaver Star Silo Co. R. D. #l, Myerstown 866-5708 * Jhs. - % Vi ‘ *” W* BRENDA J. 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