Lancaster Farming Saturday. December . 31.1960 12 Per Capita Food in 1960 Your Share Was 1,488 Pounds Food consumption in the United States averaged 1,488 pounds per person during 1960, according to the U. S Department of Agriculture. Estimates are based on retail weights of all the food pro ducts of farms, ranches, and Consumption of dairy pro ducts led, with 414 pounds per person—the equivalent of about 250 quarts of milk. This total includes 'fluid milk and all other forms of food made from milk, except but ter. Butter is included with the fats and oils total v/_ „l_ r A nnt\/ The fruit and vegetable T OIK vOUIII y group (excluding -potatoes) _ a was a dose runnerup at 409 Farmers Are pounds per person. One hun dred and eight pounds of po- Champs tatoes were consumed in ad- University Park, Pa., Dec. jy[ consumed per person 30th Pennsylvania corn wag 178 poundSj third larg champions for 60 are * ggt f oO d group. This average ward Lanins and Son t included poultry and fish as aid E.), York, R 3, acco ding we u as the red meats —beef, to Frank G. Bamer. chmr- pork and lamb man of agronomy extern p er ea pjta consumption of the Pennsylvania State - ot h er groups of food was 146 versity. They averaged • pounds D f flour and cereal bushels of shelled corn per p r(K j uc t S( 108 pounds of sug ocre. ar and syrup, 67 pounds of Bamer, chairman also of fats and oils, 41 pounds of the Pennsylvania Corn Club, eggs (about 26 dozen), and 17 said the Laniuses had the pounds of coffee, tea and co - highest yield in the 13-year coa , history of the club, and that Estimates of consumption they are the second three- per person are based on the time champions, having won disappearance of food pro in 1953 and 1954. ducts. The quantity of each Their 206 6 bushel yield group is divided by total was 20.3 bushels over the population, previous high mark set by a hard-working 200- Paul Slagenweit, New Enter- pounder, of course, eats prise, Bedford county in ’5B. more of the foods than in- He had 186.3 bushels per fants, invalids, and old peo acre. pie, yet they all count equal- All yields were computed ly in figuring per capita con by the extension service in sumption. 56-pound bushels of shelled corn-at TsVfc per cent moist- ... , ure The Lanius yield was yff 63111(10 AqG checked Nov. 9 by John T. Smith and A. C. Hug, York QqOC Wnt Affect county agents. The Laniuses AAIICtI won in 1953 with 141.6 bush. I am L els, and in 1954 with 159 7 VJlOWill bushels. Their 1960 com At the Dixon Springs Ex grew on the 1953 champion- periment Station of the Uni ship plot. versity of Illinois, animal , i » —■# ■■ ■- - J ■ At harvest time the L.ani- scientists found that lambs uses had a plant population 0 f six weeks of age may be of 19,600 per acre. They weaned, and do as well as planted large round kernels if they- were weaned at nine May 24 at a depth of two in weeks of age. ches, in 40-inch rows and Animal scientists Hinds, aimed at 7-inch spacing of Mansfield and Lewis tried it kernels in the row They ou t with four lots of lambs, used post-emergent chemical each containing 10 single weed control and cultivated lambs and 10 twin lambs. three times. At harvest their -field was free of weeds, ac cording to Cpunty Agent Smith. ' Last spring they plowed a three-year-old alfalfa-orchard grass sod and used disc and cultipacker to prepare the seedbed. They plowed down twenty tons of manure per acre—same as applied the year previously and 600 pounds of 10-10-10. At seed ing, 400 pounds of 5-1010 went through the planter. Increase your egg profits— ORDER H&N MARK II LEGHORN PULLETS From FLORIN FARMS companion to the famous H&N Nick Chick Leghorn .... America’s all-time profit Champion. * LARGE WHITE EGGS at an early age, plus famous H&N Breeding for high production, high livabilfty and superior egg quality—Vitally im portant now to qualify for USDA’s “Fresh Fancy” pro grams. Free descriptive circular. Write or phone now. FLORIN FARMS, me POULTRY FARM & HATCHERY MOUNT JOY. R. D. -1 OL 3-9891 fishienes, All the lambs in each lot had a weaning age in com mon, it being either six or nine weeks. All lambs were fed a ra tion which was figured to supply to' excess all the nu trients__assumed to be re quired at 6 weeks. The lambs weaned at six weeks took care of themsel ves very wtell. The average daily gain ’and the feed re quired for a pound of gain was quite alike with all lots In Broiler Production ... as in other phases of the poultry industry SANITATION PAYS! One of our customers from Lebanon County, a grower with an excellent reputation, had increasingly poor results in one of his broiler flocks. TROUBLES GALORE ... ... SICKNESS Couldn't understand it, and for some time we could not either. Finally some of the trouble was identified as being carried over from flock to Rock by some dust left above the rafters and behind the insulation in his poultry house. It took 300 MAN HOURS to perfectly clean this 201,000 capa city house. Everything gleamed as if brand new. DID IT PAY? Before the house cleaning: (20,000 bird Rock) Age Weight Conversion Mortality Rejects 9.2 3.14 2.57 11% 1153 head 10.0 3.66 2.46 6% 724 head After house deeming: \ ■ Age Weight Conversion Mortality* 1 Condemnation 1 deducted B.l 2*2B - 88 lbs* Moral of this story: Good Sanitation (old fashioned cleanliness) and Profits in Mass Poultry Meat Production go Hand in Hand! For the Finest Poultry Service Anywhere— Contact your Miller & Bushong Ser vice Representative of call us direct at Lancaster EXpress 2-2145. Miller & Bushong, inc. -> Manufacturers of Poultry and Livestock Feed Since 1875 ... AIRSAC . . . CONDEMNATIONS, ETC., ETC. JUDGE FOR YOURSELF I * some chick mortality due to epidemic tremors. Rohrerstown. Pa. Ph. Lancaster EX 2*2145 \© fey
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