6—Lancaster Farming, Friday, May 23,1958 Farmers Supply Use BRIMM for CORN To help assure top yields and quality from corn crops, make sure that you have SWIFTS BRIMM plant food on hand when you are ready to plant. BERRY BOXES 1000 $27.45 100 $3.10 CLEARANCE Asparagus Roots 100 Roots, $2.00 2 Year Old Hybrid Corn Muncy Chief #H-780 Produced outstanding yields during last years drought conditions. Long season growing corn has stiff stalks, long ears that husk easy Has excellent stand ing ability Bushel $ll.OO. Muncy Chief #H-398 110 Day Maturity, Bu Sll 00 Muncy Chief »08-520 100 Day Maturity, Bu $llOO Muncy Chief #H-306 90 Day Maturity Bu Sll 00 U. S. 13 115 Day Maturity Bu $9 25 EARLY SILO BU. $ll.OO LATE SILO BU. §ll.OO Field Seeds Wabash Yellow Soy Beans Black Amber Sorghum Hegan Soighum Atlas Soigo Sorghum Sweet Sudan Cert Piper Sudan Domestic By e Gi ass Orchard Glass S 37 Orchard Grass Pasture Mixture Pasture Mixtuie with Ladmo Timothy Grow Better Tobacco Plants TRANSPLANTONE 1 LB. . . $4.00 Promotes root growth Makes stronger plants Put in water when transplanting. VHPF SO LB. CASE . $7.50 Insures rapid growth and better stands. ISOTOX . PINT $1.85 Transplanting solution. Use to control wireworms, cab bage magots and other in sects on tomatoes, celery and tobacco at transplanting time. NUTRILEAF “60” 5 LBS. .. $1.75 Feeds plants thru the leaves. Four applications during growing season. FARMERS SUPPLY CO. 137 E. KING ST. Open daily 8:30 to 5:30 Friday until 9:00 ♦ Philadelphia Plans to Revamp Billion Dollar Food Business More than a billion dollars worth of food moves in and out ot Philadelphia each year If all the food moved .through Phil adelphia were moved by tram, the cars would stretch for more than four miles each day, 365 days a year. Most of this food now is bot tlenecked through antiquated wholesale food distribution facili ties in Dock and Callowhiil St near the Delaware River. The facilities in this area are old, the buildings being several stones high, without rear en trances and direct rail connec tions. MANY LACK adequate refrig eration. Sanitation practices are scarce There are no established business hours. Traffic conges tion is acute However a change is coming As the result of a United States Department of Agriculture study started in 1954 at the request of The Greater Philadelphia Move ment, plans have been formed and in some instances are already being carried out toward the con struction of a new food center in the city THIS NEW CENTER is im portant to- the farmers of Lan caster County for several reas ons. j Perhaps the first is more moral than real, but it is a rare farmer that likes to see the produce that he has labored for a full season sit and rot on a crowded dock Not only does it not make good sense from a moral standpoint it also is a great waste from the standpoint of conservation of the natural resources of the land Secondly, and closer to the pocket'oook, spoilage and in creased, often unnecessary costs to the wholesaler mean a mar K-up in price to the consum er This is one of the things that make consumers assume that the farmer is getting rich at his ex pense THE DEPARTMENT of Agn SILAGE is a Farm Investment... PRESERVE AND IMPROVE YOURS WITH QAiimcttc LANCASTER Sweet Mix A BLEND OF MOLASSES CONVENIENT and ECONOMICAL AN IDEAL PRESERVATIVE! Lancaster Sweet Mix can be fed into chopper or blower, spread in silo or added in field as silage is loaded. Add at these rates; Chopped grasses—loo-150 Lbs. per ton Mixed Grass-Legumes—lso-200 Lbs. per ton Legumes—2oo-300 Lbs. per ton PRODUCE A BETTER SILAGE and MORE MILK PER POUND OF SILAGE FED Buy Sweet Mix from any of these Red Rose Feed Dealers MUSSER FARMS, INC. A.. L. HERR & BRO. R- D. 2, Columbia, Pa. QuarryviUe, Pa. R, W. BOLLINGER & SONS WEST WILLOW FARMERS INC. ASSOCIATION Manheim, Pa. West Willow, Pa. DAVID B. HURST BROWN & REA Bowmansville, Pa. Atglen, Pa. culture survey snowed that the total measurable marketing costs in 1953 that would be greatly af fected by improvements in mar keting facilities are estimated at more than 9 million dollars for all types of commodities handled. These costs include such things as porterage; cartage to whole ale stores; spoilage, detenora tion, breakage and shrinkage, rentals, and the cost of doing business in scattered and incon vement locations. The commodities* studied were .flesh fruits and vegetables, poul try and eggs, seafoods, meats and meat products, butter and cheese dry groceries ,and frozen goods AS MIGHT BE expected, the greatest losses were in the most perishable commodities fruits and vegetables, meats, poultry and eggs and seafood Here is what the city of Phils* delphia has done A 388 acre tract of unimproved land was found that could be pur chased at a reasonable cost souti of the city The tract is located near the Walt Whitman bridge, south of Packer Avenue and north of the Greenwich classifica tion yards of the Pennsylvania Railroad The land cost the Food Distn bution Center, a corporation created for the development of the food center in Philadelphia, $6,186,000, including fill, pur chases of several plots and recla mation . IT IS ESTIMATED that new buildings, rail lines and paving will cost another $3B 5 million These costs would be returned to the city over a period of years by taxes and rental fees Savings to the consumer would be great Using the 1953 price and cost figures, and taking rent als into account, it is estimated that the S3l million dollars a year could be saved over what is now lost due to the poor loca THIS DRAWING shows the location of the New Food Marketing Center in Philadelphia Notice that it is easily accessable to both highway and rail transporta tion. Provisions are also made for allied industnes, restaurants and the like. tion and other drawbacks of the Dock and Callowhill Street mar kets Pro'bably, after all this, you are wondering, what, if any bene fits will this have to me, the farmer here in Lancaster County, FARMERS WOULD benefit in several ways, the USDA says from satisfactory market facili ties m Philadelphia First with the products arriv ing in retail stores in more sat isfactory condition and with less handling expense within the mar ket, consumers might be expect ed to purchase larger quantities and somewhat increase the de mand for farm products Farmers also would benefit from the improvement in the Ford Forage Harvester Choice of easily changed pick-up, cutter bar or row crop attachments Choice of PTO or engine drive Controlled feeding, uniform cutting and pow erful delivery for top capacity Variable length of cut—to 4" Heavy duty cylinder cutter-plus high capacity delivery blower for top performance Built-in knife sharpener 7 sealed, anti-friction bearings Check on easy credit terms today! Haverstick Bros. Columbia Pike Conestoga Farm Service Park Ave.. Quarryville Ph. ST 6-2597 Allen H. Matz Denver ph. AN 7-6502 Elizabethtown Farmers Supply Inc. ' operation of the price making forces, not only on the volume which moves through Philadel phia but also on the considerable quantities that move dnectly from the farm to other points and are sold on the basis ol prices established m Philadel phia Farmers who bring their pio ducts to Philadelphia in their own trucks would benefit through being able to get to the whole sale stores promptly, unload, and return to their farms in less time than is now required. Tne return of some farmers for products sold in the market would improve as a result of eliminating deductions for cart age and similar services. Lancaster Ph. EX 2-5722 Sander Bros. New Holland Ph. EL. 4-«7ZI Ph. EM 7-1341
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