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