20—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, August 25, 1962 No Premium For Livestock Grown Locally Do you receive a premium for your livestock 9 Are you going to expand your live stock operation because you have been told that sizable piemiunis were paid foi Penn sylvania Livestock 9 It so, Louis Moore, Penn State marketing specnlis*, suggests that you considei the information he has gathered on cost of transportation and market ditfeientials He be lieves many false impressions have developed concerning pre miums for Fenns>lvama live- stock Costs of ti unsporting live stock or meat tiom the Mid- West to Pennsyli am.. range tiom f 90-$2 00 pei hundied x\ eight depending on the point ot ougm, destination and me thod ot ti anspoi tation Be cause of this cost it is easy to conclude that Pennsylvania producers aie automatidallj paid a premium at least equal to the cost ot ti anspoi ting ani mals tiom the Mid-West. Beef Mooie repoits beef prices at Chicago and Lancastei were compared during the second and third weeks of each mon th ot 19 G 1 to determine the extent of pienmuns paid for local livestock. Duiing three ot the 24 penods the price of Choice giade beef was lower at Lancaster than Chicago During only six of the 24 periods did the piennum for local beef approach the cost of li anspoi ting beef from the Mid-West As 19G1 was a period of high beet prices 1957 was also checked, for that was a yeai ot low beef prices During 1957 the price at Lancaster was higher than Chicago dur ing only tixe ot the 24 periods A bigger premium is paid dm mg periods of high prices. Most beef producers here should not assume-they haie the advantage of a premium juice o\er Mid-West competi tion HONEGGER LAYERS Lay Longer —- Live Better Are You Hunting Good Pullets? 1000 Kmc Honegger Pullet l * 15 Week 1 - Old Sec JUOli E. KKILPII Kotiks, U. I). 1 (Neal Intcuouisc) J. HOW \RD MOORE K. I>. *1 EiTi r/, pens a. Phone M Vlisou G-5108 Windle's Hatchery COCHRANVIELE, PA. Pltone: Atglen LY S-5941 Hogs Hog prices were analyzed during the same weeks at the same maikets. Hog prices are consistently higher at Lancas ter. The premium ranged from S7l to $329 per hundred weight during the weeks check ed in 19G1 In most cases the difference in price exceeded the cost of transporting hogs from Indiana or Illinois points. Since 19 G 1 was a period of relatively high hog prices a penod from August 1955 through July 195 G was check ed since thi,s was a period of low hog puces Even during this penod the price at Lan caster was consistently above Chicago, but by a smaller mai- gm Dunng only 10 of the 21 Take Guesswork Out of Dairy Feeding... The amazing new electronic COWculator eliminates profit loss from over feeding or under feeding. . . helps you obtain the greatest possible income over feed cost. 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September meeting plans were discussed at a recent meeting of Society of Faun Women 9 at the home of Mrs Kenneth Eshelman, Elizabeth town HI, Society members will be guests of Farm Women in the CHARLES McCRABB, one of nine FIELDMEN employed by Lancaster Co. Farm Bureau, works out of our Quarryville Branch. -CHARLES is anxious to help you feed more efficiently for greater profits. If a Farm Bureau FIELDMAN is not calling on you, please call Lancaster EX 4-0541 collect, and the FIELDMAN assigned to your area will con-, tact you promptly. Our FEED SPECIALIST, Allen Mackey, will gladly visit your farm with your FIELDMAN when requested. DO IT NOW, take advantage of the services that are yours Call Farm Bureau for details of our scientific plan for profitable dairy farm- ing. Qualified FIELDMEN are anxious to designing a PROFITABLE DAIRY For Prompt, Courteous Service, In Bags or Bulk, Call . . . Lancaster EX 4-0541 New Holland ELgin 4-2146 Maytown area at a meeting at 2 pm. on Saturday, Sept ember 22 in St. John’s Luth eran Church, Maytown. On September 20, members will visit the County Home. Members voted a contrib ution to the County Agricul tural Center. Guest Speaker was Glenn Porter, Washington Boro Rl, who told of his experiences as an International Farm Youth Exxchange student in Nepal. Co-hostess was Mrs. Charles Fink. The average American likes American cheese better than ever He ate 5.6 pounds of it during 1961, an all-time high. He also ate plenty of other kinds of cheese, totalling 8 5 pounds in all varieties for the year. m serve and FEEDING Manheim 665-2466 Quarryville STerling 6-2126 The Andes of South Anns?, ica are the world’s secoju highest mountains. Subscribe today—watch, pay! , Read The Want Ads j ■PaRfMMIIMi H THE ■ I>l if Jlßlllnfflll’rfl ■ tiM. 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