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HATCHING EGG PRODUCERS!
Here are Dome results from four leghorn .breeder flock owners on
our EARLY BIRD program which came to our attention.
The data are complete thru February 1963:
Number of Flocks
Total Number of Birds
Average number of
months in lay
Flock Depletion to dote
Average Number
Cockerels per
100 pullets
Feed per dozen eggs to
date
% Production to date on
hen'housed basis 74.9%
Projected eggs per hen
housed for 12 month
period
Average % of hatchability
to date
Good Management
EARLY BIRD Breeder Program
to BEST results at LOWEST cost for hatching egg producers of
both light and heavy breeds.
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- Lancaster Farming, Saturday, April 13, 1963—5
Milk Production
Above Last Year
Milk cows on Pennsylvania
farms produced an estimated
666 million pounds of in,lk
in March, 5 percent more than
was produced a year earlier
according to the Pennsylvania
Crop Reporting Service.
March production showed a
slightly greater than normal
seasonal increase from Febru
ary, due principally to the
favorable weather the last half
of March.
The increase in total milk
production was due entirely to
higher production per cow as
average number of milk ccws
on farms during March was
865,000, same as a month
earlier and 12,000 below March
1962. Production per cow dur
ing March averaged 770 lbs.
This was the highest of record
loi the month and 7 percent
greater than in March a year
ago. On a daily 'basis produc
tion per cow averaged 24.8 lbs.
Pennsylvania f aimers con
tinued to feed grain and con
centrates at record amounts
per cow. The average feeling
rate leported was 110 pounds
per cow per day. This com
pared with 10 8 pounds in
February and 10.4 pounds in
March a year ago Tins was
not only a record high for the
month but tor any month.
The value of ration ted to
milk cows remained unchanged
from February and at $3.45
per cwt, was 3 percent above
March 1962. At the same time
wholesale milk prices received
by dairymen continue to de
cline with the average price
for March estimated at $4 50
20 cents below last year and
35 cents below average. Witn
the decline in milk prices and.
ration values holding steady
the milk-feed price ratio dropp
ed to 1.30 the lowest March
ratio since 1955.
United States milk produc
tion in March was 10,007 mil
lion pounds. Production was
about 1 percent less than a
year earlier but 1 5 peieeut
more than the 1957-61 avei
age for the month.
March was the fourth con
secutive month with milk pro
duction beiow a year eaiher
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They say,
“Talk is cheap!”
Our Hens
Haven’t said a word in
years!
But Lay?
OH! MY GOODNESS!!
"HONEGGER
LAYERS"
J. HOWARD MOORE
R. D. #1
MTITZ, PENNA.
Phone; 626-5408
Windle's Hatchery
COCHRANVILLE. PA.
Phone: Atglen LY 3-5941
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sales potential of other com
modifies in order to do it.
He cited the National Sheep
and Lamb association which
has a campaign to increase the
consumption of lamb. Every
time they convince a consumer
to eat a meal of lamb, the beef
producers lose a sale, and
vice-versa. The producers of
corn and soybean oil, in pro
moting: the sale of their pro
duct sometimes take away pot
ential sales of milk products.
Owen said one of the most
pressing needs today is to edu
cate the consumer to realize
that food is not expensive in
relation to the other things she
buys.
Housewives are conditioned
to think of all the items in her
shopping cart at the supennai
ket as food when in reality a
large portion of the items are
cleaning supplies, paper pro
ducts, cosmetics, notions, ph
armaceuticals, clothing, hard
ware, and even minor electn
cal appliances.
Owen told of an incident
When a women shopper said,
“We could live pretty good if
we didn’t have to eat.” After
looking at the airay of non
food items in her shopping
cart, he explained that he sold
broilers for 28 cents a pound
and eggs for 50 cents a dozen
in 1939 “What else can you
buy today for less than you
paid in 1939?” he asked.
“When all the other commod
ities you buy come under the
prewar price, I will agree (that
food prices are too high,” he
said.
Farmers can tell their stoiy
to the consumer in three ways.
Publicity is relatively easy to
get and costs very little, but
you can not control it. Advei
tusmg is an excellent method,
and you can control the con
tent of advertising, but you
have to be piepared to pay tor
it.
It is the responsibility of ev
ery farmer to tell his own st
ory to the consumer at eveiy
opportunity, Owen said Farm
eis as a group tend not to be
very public-relations conscious.
As a result, a gieat mass
of misinformation about tarm
ing has collected in the minds
of the city consumer We must
all help re-educate the useis
ot farm products and dispell
some of the mistaken ideas in
the minds ol city dwelleis.
As an example of how fiee
publicity can sometimes do
more harm than good, Owen
cited the case of the weed
spray-on-cranberries scaie ot a
few yeais ago, the repoited
link between egg and milk fats
and heart disease, and the
mote lecent repoits of radio
activitv in milk It has since
been proven that all tlnee of
these incidents weie grossly
exaggeiated, but the damage
was aheady done The inci
dents certainly brought the
products into the public eye,
but not in a manner the farmer
would have liked.
Wayne Freeman, state YFA
vice president 'from Region
four brought greetings from
the state association.
He warned the young farm
ers to be on guard against cut
backs in agriculture education
personnel He said the Cran
| berland-Perry Area Supervisor,
George Smith, who died recen
tly has not been replaced, and
perhaps will not be replaced.
He said the Green Park Young
Farmers Association (Perry
County), of which he is a mem
ber may have to turn to poli
tics in order to have the super
visory post filled (The YFA is
organized as an educational or
ganization and does not norm-
ally engage in political activ
ity )
Vincent Becker, Lititz Rl,
president of the Manheim YFA
1 was toastmaster.