jpi. • P■ ,f_ year ago and were also -th#.,low>- ; ocks-.were 4 0.-percent less- than
=\j<PWll - dtOCKS -estmlTrce rsstt ‘ la yritor
■ rv - ™ -■ .fj ■ ~</-Oat.stock« in all u positions on inigs ‘3 ‘ iferd'ent'" smaller
Arft L/OWtl Isy "April- 1 of 9.5 million bushels whale-’oats stocks 'Were prae’ti
n. q , were lowest since 1953. The 19 cally the same. Stocks of all
i 01* Cent (percent decrease of on-farms wheat were helow last year and
holdings offset the slight in- the smallest since 1958.
Total stocks of all grain in crease of off-farms stocks. All wheat stocks of 1,503 mill
ithe state stored in on-tfarm and With the 1962 wheat crop ion bushels stored in all posi
off-farm positions on April 1, the lowest on record, total st- tiond were 8 percent below a
totaled 41.9 million ocks remained well below a year earlier tout 6 percent more
according-to the year earlier, and the lowest on than the 1957-61 average. St-
Crop Reporting Service. This record. On "farm holdings were ocks were the smallest for the
total was 25 percent less than 36 percent below a year earlier, date since 1958. More than 80
the amount on hand April 1, and also a record low. percent of the total stocks
1962, and 38 percent below the, Nation’s "grain stocas on were either owned by the Gov-
January 1, 1963 total. April 1, 1963 were smaller eminent or were under Gover-
Total stocks of corn at 26 1 with total stocks of feed grains nment loan.
(million bushels were the lowest and all wheat each 8 percent ®y e stocks erf 15 4 million
since 1958. On-fann holdings less, and soybean holdings 3 bushels were 5 percent larger
totaling' 22.1 million bushels- percent less than a year ago. than on Apul 1 a year earlier
dropped 29 percent from a For the feed grams, corn st- but 4 percent less than average
for the April 1 date. Commei
cial positions held 51 percent
of the total and farm storages
48 percent.
Corn held in all storage pos
itions on April 1 totaled 3 040
million bushels 10 percent
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less than a year earlier. Farm Keen Pastures Free
stocks of 2,002 million bush- ,£ , . ,w, ,
els, about two-thirds of the all Ot Debris Olid VTCCdS
stocks total, were 7 percent Keeping pastures free of de
smaller than the record high brlg and poiso nous weeds and
° f 2,1 n» milll0 “ busttiels last keeping fenC es in good repair
year. Oft-farm stocks of 1,038 aro steps m salfe _
million bushels were 16 per- guarding the , health of hve
cent less than on April 1 last stock> tbe Pennsylvania Veterl«
year. More than four fifths of n Medical Association said
the off-farm stocks were owned ,
or under loan to CCC and more Associatwn said that
than two-fifths of the tarm st- lQose we lenceB can causo
ocks were under Government needlebs injury to llves toclc.
■f° an * . . Scrap metal left near fence re-
Oats stored in all posi ions u . areas be swa nowecl
on April 1, totaled 494 million £ cattle.
bushels, approximately the J
same as last April but 11 per
cent 'below the 5-year average. A feed stole is one place
April 1 stocks on-farms totaled you can get a chicken dinner
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