10—Lancaster Farming, Friday, July 12, 1957
Increasing Soil Moisture Deficit
Causes Concern in Southern Counties
HARRISBURG An mcreas
jng soil moisture deficit in south
ern and southeastern Pennsy
vania counties was reported Wed
nesday by the State Department
of Agriculture following a Feder
Farmers Supply
PASTURGRO is special
ly formulated to meet
pasture needs. It supple
ments plant nutrients in
your soil. It gives the bal
ance of growth elements
needed to produce grass
and legumes with higher
feeding value and greater
carrying capacity.
Use Pasturgro During Sep
tember to improve your
grassfields.
Bleim Is a specially form
ulated plant food for wheat-
Oats - Barley ■ Rye; forti
fied with extra growth
elements to meet the soil
needs. Produces heavy
yields.
FIELD SEEDS
—Domestic Rye Grass
—Permanent Pasture
—Crimson Clover
—Red Clover
—N, W. Alfalfa
—Grimm Alfalfa
—Buffalo Alfalfa
—Timothy
—Sweet Sudan
—Hegari
—Atlas Sorgo
—Amber Cane
—9O Day Corn
WINTER RYE
—Tetra Petkus
—Balboa
SEED WHEAT
—Cert. Pennol
—Cert, Thorne
—Cert. Seneca
WINTER OATS
—Cert. Le Conte
—Cert. Du Bois
WINTER BARLEY
—Cert. Wong
—Cert. Kenbar
—Cert. Hudson
FARMERS
SUPPLY CO.
137 E. KING ST.
Open daily 8:30 Friday till 9
Monday 8:30 • 12:30
al-State crop and weather survey
for the next ended Monday.
Fanners m Lancaster County
claim stunted tobacco and potato
growth will greatly affect yields
unless “soaking” rams arrive soon
Continued lack of ram in the
county could reduce anticipated
crops of 1,500,000 bushels of pota
toes and 42 million pounds of
cigar leaf tobacco, observers said.
A light general ram through
out the county Monday night help
ed relieve the situataion some
what Rainfall ranged from nearly
an inch in the southern part of
the county to about half an inch
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Quarryville, Pa.
Quarryville-—STerling 6-2191
RUFUS N. BRUBAKER
R. D. 3, Manheim, Pa.
Ph. MO 5-8686
Grain Given Cattle
In Hurricane Area
To help livestock in the hurri
cane disaster areas of Louisiana,
the USDA has made available for
donation 35,000 bushels of corn.
The gram was made available to
feed an estimated 3,000 head of
cattle stranded in the wake of hur
ricane Audrey. State and Federal
agricultural officials are cooperat
ing in the emergency operation.
in the northern part.
This is the first measurable
rain that has fallen for several
weeks in the Deliver area.
Meanwhile, across the State,
showers and thunderstorms were
confined to the northern and west
ern counties where a maximum
of 15 inches of rainfall was re
ported.
Call
Mojonnier
Bulk
Milk
Cooler
July New York Milk Price S4OB,
16 Cents Higher than Year Ago
NEW YORK Dairy farmers
in the New York milkshed can
expect their July uniform milk
price to be 16 cents higher than
a year ago, according to a fore
cast made by Dr. C. J. Blanford,
Market Administrator of the New
York' metropolitan milk market
ing area. He estimated the price
for the current month at $4.08 per
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Conestoga Farm Service
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Sander Bros.
New Holland
Haverstick Bros.
Columbia Pike Lancaster Ph. EX 2-5733
Elizabethtown Farmers Supply Ina
hundredweight (46.5 quarts) as
compared with $3.92 in 1956. The
actual price for the month will ba
announced not later than Aug. 14.,
The Administrator’s estimate
was based on a July fluid (Class
1-A) milk price of $5 30 per hun
dredweight. The July, 1956, fluid
price was $5 22 per hundred
weight, or eight cents less than,
this year’s price.
DISC HARROW
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Ph. AN 7-6502
Ph. EL 4-8721
Ph. 7-1341
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