1959 Milk S (Continued from page one) •in any of the past 6 years Milk , production deci cased .slightly in 1958, after rising in each of the last five years, and only a small increase is expected in 1959 On the other ‘hand, with an expansion in consumer in comes in prospect, total consump 'tion of milk products will in ■ci ease fully as much as the popu lation Puces to larmers for manufac tunng milk and butterfat arc being supported at 75 per cent of parity this year, the lowest per mitted by present legislation The parity index has been essentially stable since last pnn? when the support level for this >ear was announced and if it continues so, iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimimmimiiiiiiiiiiiiiniiiiiiii 1 Mr. Poultryman!! £= Call Mt. Joy OL 3-2411 Today! WOLGEMUTH BROS., INC. 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New Holland Phone EL 4-8721 pply the legal minimum support for 1959 60 will be near that of this year The actual support level for the marketing yeai to start next April 1 will be announced be foie that lime With pioduction likely to continue above commei cial use, prices to farmers for manufacturing milk and butter fat are likely to continue around supports in 1959 Milk cow numbers dioppedS per cent in 1958, largely because of the rise in price of meat ani mals Except in 1948, when the decrease was 4 per cent, this was the largest decrease of the post war period The number of milk cows on fauns declined an aver- I prefer ... FLORIN I FEEDS I For High Quality | Eggs and Maximum | Production 1 ■ Disc type friction overload clutch ■ “No arch” design for easier loading, less plugging ■ Self-cleaning beater teeth and replaceable paddle widespread ■ Quick attaching “Snap-on" PTO coupling Haverstick Bros. Columbia Pike. Lancaster Phone EX 2-5722 Elizabethtown Farmers Supply Inc. Elizabethtown Phone EM 7-1341 age of less than 2 per cent per year from 1944 through 1957, with only one increase in 1953 The number of cows probably will decline further in 1959 but piobably not as much as in 1958, smej presumably the maioi ad justment to the sharply higher meat animal prices has taken place Milk cow numbers prob ably will continue to ttend down ward afW 1959 but the rate likely will be neaier the long term average of a little under 2 per cent per year The average cow in the Unit'd States prodnc a d nearlv 6 300 pounds ot milk in 1958 It first reached 5 000 pounds in 1947 Production per cow has been in creasing between 2 and 3 pm cent per vear on the average for more than a decade This has been accomplished bv of superior producing strains and feeding of laigei cmantities of concentrates, along with increased amounts and im proved quality roughages Rates of inciease in milk output per cow are not likely to fall off foi some time, judging fiom changes in rates for-some Slates with high averages and foreign dairy pro ducing countries Milk prices to farmeis declined slightly in 1958, following the The Lancaster Livestock Exchanqe Wishes to thank the following buyers who supported the Acme Markets Arbogast & Bastian S. Arena Dressed Beef Baums Bologna. Inc. Bayuk Phillies Cigar Coip. H. S. Bunting & Sons Cassel’s Mill, Inc. The CTialet Restaurant Consolidated Dressed Beef Co. Corkran, Hil! & Co. Cross Bros., Inc. Dagen’S Lanco Super Market Dauphin County 4-H Club Delaware Packing Co. Gimble’s Food Plan Goldberg Bros. Grove’s Meat Market Heinz Riverside Abattoir, Inc. H. F. Hildebrand S. W, Hipney R. F. Hollinger Kilheffer’s Food Market The Lancaster Live Stock Exchange congratulates the 4-H Club members in their achievements You, too, can help the 4-H Clubs by ASKING YOUR RESTAURANT AND MEAT MARKET TO SERVE YOU PRIME BEEF AND LAMB PRODUCED BY 4-H CLUB MEMBERS Lancaster Farming, Friday, November 14, 1958 lowering of puce supports on Apul 1 With little, if any in ciease in sales, cash icceipls de clined a little in 1958 but in 1959 probably will be close to the iccoid 4 6 billio ndollars leached in 1957 To tal consumption of the dif feiont dairy products (combined in terms ol milkfal), per poison show ed a slight rise from 1957 to 1958 but is about 14 per cent be low the eailv 1940 s The use in the per capita rate in 1958 ovoi 1957 reflects mcieased disinfla tion horn CCC holdings and laigcr distribution of milk in school milk progiams, consump tion of all pioducts combined from commcicial souices declined in 1958 So l.u this marketing year (which began April 1), CCC pur chases of butter and cheese com bmed have been only a little over half those of a year cailiei (on a milk equivalent, fat solids basis) Purchases of nonfat dry milk arc about as laige In the 12 months ended March 31 1958, the CCC bought the equivalent of 6 8 billion pounds of milk, fat solids basis In the cuirent marketing year pm chases will be fully 3 billion pounds oi about 2 5 per cent of production Purchases oi solids notfat in cheese and in nonlat dry milk, 4-H CLUB BABY BEEF & LAMB SALE held at the Lancaster Stock Yards November 6, 1958 Kunzler & Co„ Im. Lancaster Elks Club A. L. McElheny Meadow Valley Abattoir Mintners Store S. Musselman, Lancaster County National Bank, for Lancaster 4-H Cktib Banquet Musser Locker John Plank Renninger Meat Market, Inc. Schluderberg-Kurdle Co. Schwanger Bros. Sechrist Bros. Standard Packing Co. Stock Yard Inn Stoncy Brook Meat Market Leon Thomas Tri-Town Locker Yoik County 4-H Club Banquet C. B. Yost will account for around 7 per cent ol output Stocks owned by CCC cuitcntly are the lowest in 6 years lor cheese Butter and dry milk stocks, while also comparatively small, are a little above a year earlier Pi ices ol daily products from ther daily countries were sharply reduced in the past year, fur ther i educing expoit outlets for U S daily products, of which commercial movement at domes tic pi ice levels accounts foi less than one fifth total dairy product exports last jear Impoils of daily items by the United Slates were again at quota levels, little changed from other recent years 1 *DeS The Wo lit t New Sf Warfon Z s *t lak*atmcs L. H. Brubaker Lititz Hemufield Mills East Petersburg A. L. Herr & Bro. Quarry ville Musser Farms, Inc. Columbia Brown & Rea Atglen Jobbers Herr & Co. New Holland Supply Miller & Hartman 'O£G' J with a POWER INSURANCE GENERATOR When power -fails, use your tractor to gener ate standby power. 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