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%.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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<K V THE DOW CHIHiCAL COHMWT
- FREE SAMPLE AVAILABLE
' covers aas sq. nr- “ ,
EBY’S MILL, he.
35 NORTH CEDAR STREET
DEALERS FOR DOW, WEED, GRASS. AND BRUSH TfTT.r.E)
Ned Paes, Strasburg
was elected president o {.
Lancaster County, 4-H ,
shire - Guernsey Dairy q
during the club’s reorg ai
ing meeting this week
James Brubaker,
was elected vice-pios^j
Joyce Kreider, Drumore
] ,„was elected secretary^
Lucille Kreider, treasurer
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