To Host June 6 Faim Women %iton Eberly, s S Mrs Paul Hess '■ devotions voted donations mal Farm Youth J Meals for Mil voted to enter at the June 6th [rs Eberly show the 1958 Europ- teS were Mrs Taboo Miller and tray i the nation’s cash [ s banks handle rtllion m currency rery year, accord- Amencan Bank iion HOLLAND STONE —mew Holland-concrete-products,inc. new holuwx set Your Plants off to a Good Start BIGGER YIELDS on MATOES & TOBACCO Add to Your ORTHO-GRO (LIQUID FERTILIZER) TOX TRANSPLANTER SOLUTION THO-GRO is a proven organic liquid fertilizer giving plants extra push they need to "start," and protects them against isplanting shock. ISOTOX TRANSPLANTER is a Lindane solution that mixes readily with water and is designed especially for use in the transplanter. Gives low cost protection against wire wornjs, maggots and certain other soil insects. - Get Your Supply Now From Any of The Following Dealers :lle ls Hardware 'ALL Zimmerman Gregg iBIA lb >a Hardware LITITZ iethtown ,ss Hardware let 9er's Store •TA s Precher's Sons ,n ville Hoober r°URSE :»o"f 11 Lancaster Farming Reviews > ON MARCH 31, the invest ment of CCC in price-sup port urograms amounted to 88.965.598.000 Loans outst anding accounted for $3,912,- 462.000 of the total and the cost value of inventories $5,- 053,136,000. * * * THE USDA last week bou ght another 605,625 lbs of dried egg solids, equivalent of about 60,560 .gases of shell eggs. This brings t0'1,413,450 lbs, the anmount of dried egg solids purchased since April 29, when the new egg purchase program began. * * * ' AS OF APRIL 1, all stocks of leaf tobacco in the U. S. Phosphorus stimulates root growth—important to estab lishment of seedling plants. Later it helps in production of protein and seed Transplanter Water and LANCASTER Farmers Supply Co. ' 137 E. King St. Lan<lis Bros. 1305 Manheim Pike LINCOLN STRASBURG HollingeS's Farm-Market Weaver - S Farm Epuip . WILLOW STREET M , vurT M Aston's Variety Store MANHEIM 0 „ __ . 0 e Cope & Weaver Co. N. G. Hershey 8c Son Longenfecke*'s “Hdw. Eby's Mill. Inc. NEW HOLLAND Kauffman's Hardware r 40KETO' and Puerto Rico totaled 4,- 841 lbs, according to regu lar quarterly reports of deal ers and manufacturers, This was a drop of 3 E> per cent from April 1, 1958, and seven per cent less than for the seme date two years ago. ' FIGURES RELEASED May 6 show that dairy price-sup-' port purchases in April am ount to 20,046,504/ lbs of butter; 3,099,708 lbs. of ch eddar cheese, and 44,011,293 lbs of nonfat dry milk. In April a year ago, these pur chases totaled 12,582, 198 lbs of butter, 3,781,619 lbs. of cheese and 106,959, 332 lbs. of nonfat dry milk. LATEST CROP Reporting Board figures show that a total of 23,445,000 lbs. of po ultry were used in canning t.M S A(C OS PAT Off ORTHO ISOTOI RTHO NEW PROVIDENCE John J. Hess II SALUNGA S. H. Hiesiand & Co. WEST WILLOW WII’OW Farmers Assoc. Phone I one. EX 2-2659 Lancaster Farming, Saturday, May 16. 1959 7 and other processed foods in March, this year This was 28 per cent more than the a mount canned and otherwise processed in March 1958 Po ultry certified under Federal inspection during the month is reported at 304,862, 000 lbs, compared with 80,124,- 000 lbs. in March, 1958 DURING THE first three months of 1959, the U S. im ported a little more than 22 million lbs of meat from-Ca nada, a decrease of 28 per cent from 1958 All of the de crease was in beef and veal. Pork imports are reported to have increased 16 per cent to about 14 million lbs. dur ing the first quarter and are expected to remain high for the year. ♦ * * CASH RECEIPTS from farm marketings in the first quarter of 1959, at 7.3 bil lion dollars, were up two per cent from the first three months of 1958, according to the Farm Income Situation Report released April 22 by AMS The increase resulted from larger marketings with prices averaging slightly be low '5B levels. First-quarter livestock receipts, estimated at 4 4 billion dollars, were practically unchanged from 1958 as slightly lower than average prices offset a larger volume of sales. Crop receipts, at 2.9 bil- Ijohc/ydtk . - * ' -'-v*. : - .*i * 8 TO 16 WEEKS OF AGE Delivered Prices 8 WEEKS 95c 12 WEEKS $1.28 All pullets subject prior sale All Bessie pullets are fu 1 ’ fed on the best feeds available. They c" ' grown in con finement and are isolate- 'om older birds. BABCOCK HATCHERY, Inc. R. D. 3. LUITZ. T V ’NNA. Phone MAdisor- 5872 hon dollars, were up five per cent from, the first quar ter of 1958, mainly due to larger marketings of wheat and larger receipts of corn together with higher prices of corn, oranges and tobac co Receipts from potatoes and sorghum gram are shown to be smaller than in 1958. AI IRRIGATION Y/ATER report from the Western states indicates that water for most users served by i eservoirs will be adequate during the coming growing season The supply outlook is fair to good in the north ern states, but poor in the south and southwest For those regions served by the streams therefore, the snow melt in many sections may be insufficient for maximum production. * * PP&L has notified county farmers that if a valid and properly executed exemption certificate for the 3% per cent state on electric ser vice is filed with the comp any, farmers and dairymen may obtain exemption from tax on electric power used m their commercial farnrng op erations. For answers to questions on the subject, contact the nearest office of the Pennsyl vania Dept of Revenue, Bu reau of Sales and Use Tax. (Turn to page 14) Babcock Bessie
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