10—Lancaster Fanning, Saturday, March 14, 1959 Lancaster Farming Reviews January production of red meat in Penna. totaled 75 million lbs. dressed weight, . down four per' certt from De cember, and nine, per cent fr, m Jan. 1958. Veal and • p .rk showed Dec.-Jan. de-' creases of 11 and nine per cant respectively. Beef was up one per cent, and lamb and mutton up five per cent.' Compared with January 1958 all classes showed los ses; beef, 10%; veal, 25%; pork, 7%; and- lamb and mutton 5%. A * Ohio Experiment Station trials show'that tom turkeys will gain faster while rough ing it on range than indoors. Toms raised on Ladino clov er range consistantly weigh ed more at 24 weeks than tho se reared in confinement. Range-reared Bronze toms averaged nearly two lbs. mo re than.confined birds; while Large Whites '■averaged a little over a lb. more than the toms raised in shelter. Rate-of-gain for females, however, was the same in doors or out, although range reared females of- both var ieties required .a’little less feed per lb. of gain. .The average cost of rais ing' a dairy, heifer- in New Jersey is s33B,7'‘according to a study made ‘ on 50 farins by Rutgers economists. - Ther IS cost farms” raised heifers for An average of $3BO compared with $298 Resea rch at the Ohio Agri for the lowest cost farms. cußura i Experiment Station Average feed cost for the indicates that the, price 'tag 1,536 heifers was $2lB or 61 on a bag of poultry feed may per cent of the total, with not be the best way to judge calves valued at $3O at birth, the value of the feed contain * * *__ j ed for egg, production. India’s 1958-59 rice crop in the Ohio tests a mash is now forecast at a record that cost only $3 per cwt. 30,500,000 long tons of mil- maintained egg production led rice. This compares with just as well as a more potent the 1958 “drought-year” cr- ration that cost $4 per cwt. op of 24,821,000 tons and Thus the cost of producing with the previous record eggs was only 11.6 cents a crop of 28,282,000 tons in dozen compared to 13.2 cents 1956-57. for the v more potent higher protein ration. * * A total of 23,176,000 lbs. - Op a-ration extremely low of poultry, ready-to-cook in protein and energy, cost weight, were used during, ing only $2.50 per cwt, re- January in canning ond other searchers found that more processed foods. This was se- than five lbs; were -needed ven per cent less than a year" to produce a dozen eggs, ago, according to the USDA. compared to less than • four The current report also in- lbs. of the $3 feed, which dicates that the quantity of means the cost was higher poultry certified under fed- when the low energy ration # EASTERN STATES SEED DC3ES MORE We have complete stocks of High Gemination Seed Grasses... Legumes... Spring & Fall Grains ?AWOW XTAm FABMEPS' WCMkMGH Quarryvilie Service Center „ Ph. ST 6-3647 Lancaster Service Center Ph. EX 4-3755 or your local representative eral inspSwJlibn in. Jan. ,total ed 289,163,000 lbs., compar ed with 104,462,000 lbs." in Jan. 1958, resulting from'the newly imposed Regulations for inspection of all poultry moving’ into 'interstate trade. , cost ’ ♦ * * ' was "Used. ♦ * * The USDA Crop Report ing Service has released a tabulation which shows by states ,the estimated number of farms in operaton in 1958 as compared with 1957. The total number of farms in operation in 1958 is esti mated at 4,749,000, two per cent less than m 1957 and 18 per cent fewer than were in operation 10 years earlier. Preliminary estimates of the Service indicate that about 4,645,000 farms will be in operation in 1959. Kenneth L Tyson, $ O , erly assistant superintend of French Creek State has been employed fo r J staff of Lancaster County; il Conservation Service S . Tyson, a Penn State foresj In February of this wear, graduate,jvill be with the dairy price support purchas- cal SCS unit primarily ltl es amounted to 15,284,533 lb trainee capacity learning i of butter; 1,950,065 lbs. of develop farm conserve Cheddar cheese, and 69,529, plans, preluding future gj 016 lbs. of nonfat dry milk, assignments. • * (Turn to page 12) WIPE OUT QUACK and NUT GRASS WITH DOWPON* Keep grass from creeping into your best land. Simply sprinkle -or spray DOWPON on your thickest grass and , watch it wither away. Kills roots tool *nUCtU