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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