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nsrey, Conestoga Feb. 21-Mar. 14 period were
was named pre- three per cent above 1958, as
. . Penn Manor were total settings.
,ity Club at a * * *
ion meeting at the Indicated placement of pul
let chicks for broiler industry
Hess, Washington supply flocks by leading pn
selected as vice rnary breeders of broiler re
-ith Kenneth New placement stock totaled 2,-
; aster R 6, as sec- 414,000 chicks during Feb-
Harold Sangrey, ruary, six per cent more than
tfeasuret. 1958.
lde rs for the year
;ar Porter, Wash- During 1958, fires did an
Bl; Mr. estimated $156 million worth
•fel, Conestoga-K* dama g e to f arn x property,
Washington .Boro mc i u( j in g buildings, livesto-
Walter 'Watte , machinery and crops, ac
-- _ , cording to economists of the
;aders are juay/ qjsllA Agricultural Research
lersville Ul; and _ Services
>rter, Washington This compares with losses
. estimated at $152 million in
; meeting, sene- igg7j $149 million i n 195 5 (
28 at ™ ° $l3l million in 1950 and 164
'ey, Washington ;uion in IMO
nil also include The economists explain
ion meeting o£ that the rising cost of prop-
Economics clu erty replacement has been a
*' * factor in the gradually rising
iber of turkey annual loss figure,
the 11 important ♦
iducing states in
iut 14 per cent fr
avious week to a
,058,000 birds. To
hatched during the
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ESSIE
LLETS
able Now
8 TO 16 WEEKS OF AGE
Delivered Prices
KS 95c 12 WEEKS sl.2s
All pullets subject to prior sale
Bessie pullets are full-fed on the best
available. They are grown in con
*nt and are isolated from older birds.
OCK HATCHERY, Lie.
R. D. 3, LITIT2, PENNA.
Phone MAdison 6-5872
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Palmateer Turkey Farm,
Elverson and Robert K. Shea
rer, Reinholds, are among 17
applicants for the fifth cent
ral random-sample turkey
meat production test of Pen
nsylvania, the State Bureau
of Markets has announced.
a
Palmateer has entered
white and bronze turkeys,
with Shearer -entering bronze
birds.
Eggs from the farms will
be collected between May 18
-and 20. They wHI be incuba
ted .and hatched at Johnson’s
.Hatchery, Ephrata„ Poults
will be taken off .and .sexed
on June 18. 'Afterwards, the
young birds will be delivered
to Milton Hershey Farm’s
Hatchery, Hershey, where
they will be raised to dress
ing .age of ,22 weeks for hens
and 26 weeks for toms.
Highest .305-day January
production-completion record
SIMPLICITY
Garden Tractors
Snavaly's Farm Service
NEW HOLLAND EL4-2314
Babcock Bessie
for Red Rose Dairy Herd
Improvement Association’s
member herds was taken by
a grade Holstein owned by
Bushong and Foulk, Quarry
ville RD 3. The champion
produced 17,668 lbs of milk
and 711 lbs of butterfat.
Second high was a registe
red Holstein owned by J
Mowery Frey, Jr, Lancas
ter RD 7, producing 14,444
lbs of milk and 705 Ibs.of
butterfat.
A quartet of county dairy
here's tied for the top in Jan
uary herd averages. These
were the herds of Frey
with 1353 lbs. of milk and!
54 lbs. of butterfat; Isaac M
Brubaker, Lititz RD 3, ■ —
1376 lbs of milk and 54 lbs.,
of bf.; Parke H. Ranck, Ron
ks, RD 1, 1415 lbs. of milk
and 54 lbs. of bf., and Ed
win J. Landis, Lancaster RD
7, 1318 lbs. of milk and 54
lbs of butterfat.
Second place in January
herd averages went to Ezra
M. Martin, Ephrata RD 1,
with an average of 1376 lbs.
of milk and 53 lbs. of but
terfat.
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Placement of broiler-type For the 22 important
chicks in Penna. for the we- broiler states, indicated num
,ek ending Marlh 14 were up ber of broilers for market m
15 per cent from previous about 10 weeps xs 33,875,000
week and up one per cent up 21 per cent front the
from-the same week of 1958. same week in 1958. Total
There were 160,000 broiler- hatchings of broiler chicks
types shipped out of state m the U. S. from Marh 14 -
and 106,000 shipped in dur- April 11 will be about 19
ing the week. per cent above 1958.
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Deliveries Made Over Two Tons
Trailer “Load ‘Prices, Bagged or Bulk
HAROLD B. ZOOK
2?0 Lampeter Road Lancaster, Pa.
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M. S. GRAYBILL & SON
Bareville
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Lancaster Farming, Saturday, March 28, 1959—7
Indicated number of Penna
broilers for market in about
10 weeks is 836,000, about
one per cent above the same
week of 1958.
Placement of ”]proiler-types
for the 22 important states
for the week ending March
14 were up three per cent
from the previous week.
Penna. was among five states
showing the greatet increase
Others were Geo, Ala., Ark.,
and La. Indicated broiler
numbers for market in about
nine weeks from now is 16
per cent above last year. To
tal broiler hatchings for the
period March 7- April 2 will
be about 22 per cent above
•last year.
* ♦
Broiler type chicks place
in Penna. for the week end
ing Mar. 21 at 787,000 were
down 18 per cent " from the
962,000 placed the previous
week and six per cent below
1958 .Indicated number of
Penna. broilers for market
in about 10 weeks in about
818,000, up one percent, from
1958.
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B. G. MELLINGER & SON
Willow Sited, H. D. 1
IRA B. LANDIS
779 Valley Rd., Lancaster JJ
Turkey poults hatched
during the week ending on
March 21 m 11 important
producing states total 2,208,-
000, up seven per cent from
the previous week Total
poults hatched m the last
three weeks were five per
cent above last year,.
Basing their figures on
lists which include 8,000
farmers within Lancaster
County, Internal Revenue
Service officials have started
a “crackdown” on an estima
ted 2,400 county farmers
who they claim have failed
to file income tax returns in
past years. Several farmers
have already been visited
and found not to have filed,
the Lancaster IRS office re
ports.
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