Broiler Pullet
Hatch Lower
hatcherymen
placed 2.1 million egg type
chicks during June, according
to a report from the state
Crop .Reporting Service. This
number represents an increase
•f nine per cent over place
ments in June of 1961, hut
Hollowing the noi raal seasonal
decline, was the lowest month
iy output this year.
Output of broiler type clucks
5a the state totaled 4 3 million
in June, a decrease of eight
pef cent from last j ear.
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The total production of 6.5
million chicks in the state
was three per cent below
June of last year and four
per cent below average.
The U. **B output of egg
tjpe chicks was up nine per
cent over June of 1961, but
the national production of
broiler type chicks was down
four per cent. Total product
ion during the month was
down two per cent from the
same month last year.
Domestic placement of pul
let chicks for hatchery sup
ply flocks was 29 pel cent
below the placements m June
1961 and 41 per cent below
June of 1960. Placements
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of pullet chicks by leading
primary breeders in the United
States for the first six months
of the year were 13 per cent
below the same period a year
earlier.
• County Youths
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Fanner Cooperatives,
Participants were selected
through a unilorm proceduie
thioughout the state, repoits
Glen G Caiter, executive soc
ietal y ol the PAPC. Local
councils made their own selec
tions aftei conducting quizzes,
studying activity lepoits, hold
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Lancaster Farming, Saturday, July 21, 1962—'
mg interviews., evaluating per
sonalities, interest m coopera
tives, speaking ability, etc.
Emphasis at the Institute
was on jouth participation.
Xot only did young delegates
share with adults the speaking
program, they also chaired the
sessions and introduced all
speakeis.
The joung people governed
themselves thiough a council
composed of one lepiesentative
pieiiously selected by each lo
cal coopeiatne council This
couin 1 1 met July 1 j to piovide
chan men tor the genet a I ses-
tomatoes.'
attai
iseases
sions and make regulations
tor the week.
All meetings, meals, and
lodging weie at the State Col
lege. Adult chaperones weie
on hand, but the Institute
proved that these young ima!
leaders effectively police their
own conduct, asseits Eli Wi_-
gins, a director ot the Penn
sylvania Association ot Fann
er Coopeiatives
Keynote speaker was J.
Kenneth Stein, p i e s i d e n t,
American Institute ot Coopeia
tion, Washington, D. C
Stem detailed how coopeia-
tues have helped Anieiicaus,
including ciedit at Kites so
low that they die the emy
ot tdimi'i') m mam other
countiiee Although Ameiuau
coopeiatives piovide pioduc
tion and capital impioiemeut
ciedit in the fa per cent lange,
tauneib in many countues pay
25 to 50 per cent mteie&t, he
asbeited
He noted that one of the
eailiest American coopeiatuea
was, a chuich sponsoicd in
surance company to take caie
of the families of n ?sionsr
les killed by the Indians An
other was started by Benjannu
Franklin
Theie is nothing wrong with
competition in business, Stem
said, but “if you think some
one else sets up a business to
take care of you. you have not
learned yom economic lessons
veiy well Faun coopeiatues
weie bom out of a need for
mutual self help.”
Chan man of the Sunday
exening session xvas .1 Liu.
Hubei, daiiymaii and piesident
ot Intei-State Milk Pioduceis,
Philadelphia.
Miss Ella Daub ert, 19'U
Pennsylvania youth delegate to
the Ameiican Institute of Co
opeiation, addiessed the group
buetly on Why We Are Heie.
Retelling to the attendees aa
the “ci earn of the crop”, she
exhoited them to “giasp all
mtoi matiou you can. so you
will be able to impioxe co
opeiatrves in your own com
munities Without coopeia-
Lues, we can not experience
oui pnvileges as Ameiicans.”
she said.
Leafhopper
Damage Noted
Repot ts ol altalfa le.i C
hoppci damage Ua\o been com
ing m tiom aiound the touu
tm Arnold Lueck, assista it
couut> agent said this week.
In most cases of second
nop alfalfa, the plants aie too
fat adtauced to be helped by
spiaving now, ho said. Tie
lecoramended that farmeis
make suie that it is leafhopper
damage and not some other
factor causing jollownig of die
legume plants.
The best wav to deteimme
it leafhoppers are piesent is
to walk thiough the held and
watch for the pale \ellowish
gieen insects to lump out
ahead Leathoppeis should
not be confused with the
adult spittlebng, sometnn n
called “tiog hoppeis’ 01 the
little biack tlc a beetles com
mon on potato plants
It leilhoppi is <ii e pusi’ir,
the laimei has to decide it r
iiop will pa\ toi ihvi
cost ot bin .n 1114
Matonal apc ommouded it
the giowei -decides lo spi >
is Met how c hloi at the iai3
oi tlnee pints pei aoe ot the
21 pei cent emulnion m a
minnuuni ot JO gallons ‘>i
watei S]ii<i\ should be <i i
plied when plants aie torn to
bi\ inche& high, and at
se\en da\s should he allowed
between spiayms and hane^t.
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