State iivestock Numbers Show
Little Change From Year Ago
HARRISBURG I n v e n tory
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one per cent from a year earlier,
but better than the 10-year 1946-
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55 average, the State Department
of Agriculture reports.
While numbers of horses and
hogs declined during 1956, the
numbs of cows and heifers two
years old and older kept for milk
production was the highest in 90
years, according to federal-state
surveys. The total of 1,049,000
head was 10,000 above Jan. 1,
1956. Their value increased from
$l9l million to a -Jan. 1, 1957
total of 208 million.
Beef steers over one year old
totaled 165,000 head, up 10,000
from a year earlier. Bulls over
one year leveled off at 31,000
head.
Total value of. all cattle, horses,
hogs and sheep on Pennsylvania
farms this January-was placed at
5302.7 million and compares with
$306.3 million a year earlier and
the average of $319 million.
All cattle and calves now total
1.915.000 head compared with
1.196.000 head on Jan. 1, and the
average of 1,773,000 head. The all
time high cattle numbers occur
red in 1880 when 1,975,000 head
were on Pennsylvania farms.
Giving way to increasing num
bers of tractors' and trucks, horses
and mules continued the decreas
ing trend of work stock numbers,
The combinedtotal of 58,000 head
compares with 63,000 last year an
the average of 132,000 head. The
total value is $5 million.
Hogs totaled 603,000 head, six
per cent below a year previous
and 11 per cent below average
of 679,000 head. Current numbers
have a value of $14.4 million.
The department said more than
75 per cent of all Pennsylvania
farm cash income is from live
stock and poultry, including milk
and eggs. The current investment
in all livestock and poultry comes
to 338 million, a drop of 4 million
farms on Jan. 1, 1946. Present from Jan. 1, 1956.
The 1957 sheep and lamb inven
tory of 262,000 head was one per.
cent larger than the preceding
year, 10 per cent above average,
and the largest total since, the
264,000 head on Pennsylvania
ASSOC.
CocalicoFFA Demonstrates Business Procedure
Members of the Cocalico chapter of FFA demonstrate correct
business meeting procedure and conduct embracing the 18 most
commonly used parliamentary practices at the Denver Lions Club
Agricultural Night. The chapter undertook this project in observ
ance of National FFA week. Those participating from left to right
kre Marvin Bennetch, president and G. R. Drumn, advisor. In the
front row is Harold Noll, secretary, and Barry Noll, reporter. Back
row, Robert Good, vice president, and Theodore Buohl, sentinel Also
on the program was Ronald Fahrenbach, winner of the Cocalico FFA
Public Speaking Contest with a speech on “Small Game Conserva
tion ” (Cocalico FFA Photo)
numbers have a value ot $3 5 mil
lion
Excluding commercial broilers,
chickens on Pennsylvania farms
this Jan 1 totaled 23.5 million
birds, up one per cent from a
year earlier while the value de
creased two per cent to 34 mil
lion. Turkey numbers increased
three p&r cent tolBo,ooo head but
value at $1 million was two per
cent below Jan. 1, 1956.
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Lancaster Farming, Friday, March 1, 1957
See. Benson
Tells Consumers
Of Egg Values
Secretary of Agriculture Ezra
Taft Benson Sunday urged con
sumers to take advantage of cur
rent plentiful supplies of eggs by
buying and serving them often.
“This spring, while supplies are
particularly generous, consumers
have an opportunity to help them
selves, as well as to help the poul
try industry, by making full use
of eggs in their family meals,” the
Secietary said. Eggs provide im
portant nutritive value for the
family, and can be served in a
great vanety of attractive ways.”
Egg production throughout the
last half of 1956 made more eggs
available to consumers than ever
before, the Secretary noted High
levels of production are expected
( to continue during the first six
months of this year.
The Nation’s laying flock
showed a 3 per cent inciease over
last year in USDA’s Feb 14 re
port of livestock and poultry in
ventories. Egg production per
bird this year also will be higher
than in 1956 as a result of steadily
increasing efficiency in produc
tion techniques.
The poultry industry has de
veloped an intensive merchandis
ing and promotional campaign to
sell more eggs through regular
marketing channels. Calling the
drive “March Is Egg Month,” they
seek increased demand to absorb
current large egg supplies.
Sec. Benson praised poultry
men for the excellent job they
have done in making abundant
supplies of high-quality eggs
.available to consumers, and for
Stheir efforts to expand their mar
kets through merchandising and
'pi emotional activities.
“This kind of program helps
put America’s abundance where
it belongs on America’s table,”
declared Secretary Benson. “The
department is happy to support
the poultry industry in its efforts
to put plentiful suphes to their
best possible use.”
USDA will conduct a Special
Plentiful Foods Program on eggs
during March, in support of the
poultry industry’s “March Is Egg
Month” drive. Under the special
program, the Department will in
tensify its work with the food
trades, enlisting their merchan
dising support for eggs. USDA’s
informational and educational
services are carrying the story of
the campaign to newspapers, ra
dio, television and other public in
formation media, seeking their
cooperation in passing it along to
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