6—Lancaster Fanning, Satan
Dairy Supports Remain at '5B Level
The U, S. Department of
Agriculture has announced
current dollars-and-cents sup
port prices for manufactur
ing milk and butterfat will
be continued through th,e
1959-60 marketing year
which begins on April 1.
The support prices are be
ing continued at- $3.06 per
hundredweight for manufac
turing milk and 56.6 cents
per , pound for butterfat.
In carrying out the pro
gram to support prices of
milk and butterfat sold by
farmers, USDA as in the
past will offer to purchase
butter, Cheddar cheese, and
nonfat dry milk in carlot
quontities from processors.
The l 1959 support rates
are about 77 per cent of both
the parity equivalent price
Keep her in the good health
needed for maximum production!
Disease affects a cow’s productive capacity, often
Keeps her out of the milking line.
That’s why so many dairy farmers are now using
feeds containing aureomycin®. This broad-spec
trum antibiotic helps provide the good health cows
need to reach thei_r maximum milking potential.
aureomycin, in feeds, effectively aids in the con
trol of three costly diseases: Respiratory disease
(rhinotracheitis-shipping fever complex), foot rot
and bacterial diarrhea.
lay. March 28, 1959
for manufacturing milk and
the parity price for butterfat
based on March parity prices
as announced Feb. 27.
In making the announce
ment, Secretary of Agricul
ture Ezra Taft Benson said;
“By law, the Secretary of
Agriculture must before the
beginning of the marketing
year (presently April 1) set
a level of price support that
will ’assure an adequate
supply’,
“During 1958, milk pro
duction was reduced by some
700 pounds. Milk cow num
bers as of Jan. 1, 1959 were
down 2.a per cent from a
year earlier. The number of
milk cows on farms is ex
pected to decline still fur
ther in 1959 but not-as rapid
a rate as in 1958.
“With a rise m our popu-
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Ptesearch and practical A cow produces about as
experience prove cows' are much heat as an electric
more comfortable, are heal-, iron or a chick brooder, and
thier, and produce bfetter in every 24 hours gives off
well-ventilated barns says ne gfi y 2 gallons of water,
County Agent Max Smith. mo stly as vapor. Ventilating
Cows give off heat and mois- the stable by opening win
ture, - and unless these condi- dows, doors, and silo chutes
tions are corrected in con- may create harmful drafts,
trolled ventilation the stable Fans, Smith continues, are
air soon becomes warm and dot expensive and are easy
saturated. 1 to install They require lit-
* tie maintenance and give
lation and a significant in- forced air circulation. They
crease in cheese consumption bring in fresh, clean air from
and little per capita change the outside, promote air
m the use of other products, movement in all areas of
total commercial use of milk the barn without drafts, and
products increased in 1958 remove stale, ,damp inside
over 1957. As a result and air.
since milk output declined, Fans of proper sizi
CCC outlays for price sup- vide 200 cubic feet
port purchases of dairy pro- per minute for each
ducts are down substantial- pounds of animal
ly.” This is adequate fo
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CALVES, too, need attrbomycin ! Milk replacers and
starter feeds containing AUREOMYCIN get calves
off to a good start, reduce scouring, promote up
to 35% faster growth.
Ask your feed manufacturer or your feed dealer
for dairy feeds containing AUREOMYCIN. Keep herds
in better health! American Cyanamid Company,
Agricultural Division, New York 20, New York.
©aureomycin is American Cyanamid Company’s trademark
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