6—Lancaster Fanning, Saturday, December 7, 1963 Farm Prices Remain Steady Price*, received by Common wealth tanners, in mid-Novem ber loi their agricultural pio ducts icniamed about the same as a month eaiher but 1 peicent below a year ago, ac coi cling to the Pennsylvania Ci op Repoitmg Seiviee Ott settmg lower prices leceived tor meat animals were higher puces tor most field ciops and wholesale milk Hog prices lontmued their decline for the fourth consecu tive month with cattle prices showing a decline foi the fifth consecutive month The price ot cows tor slaughter at |l2 70 pei cwt was the low r est tor any month since November 10 5 7 Paitially offsetting lower hog and cattle puces were a sti engthenmg of lamb and sheep prices during the month ■\\holesaTfe milk puce aiei amng 'm 10 pei cwt. dining November w r as up 5 cents tiom a month eaihei and a yeai ago Puces recened for poultiv and eggs lemamed about the same but were 5 peicent be low a yeai ago Puces i ecea ed for field crops showed impi o\ement trom a month earlier with the excep tion ot corn which was oft 6 cents a bushel Generally, most field ci op pi ices weie above last yeai s lei el with the ex ception ot wheat, rye, and oats Hav prices advanced $1 50 per ton and aie well aboie last November’s prices The Index of Recoi led, which is a measure of the Milk taken within 72 hours after PENT A CIN treatment must not be used for food See Your Rockland Dealer ROCKLAND CHEMICAL CO. Passaic Ave W Caldwell N J SAVE NOW By Ordering Your Michigan Peat “Singing Hills Brand” For Dec. Delivery 10 to 19 100 lb. bags $1.70 each 20 bags or more $1.65 each less 2% if paid by Jan. 15 \o o\(ia diar!>o for drli\c*rj SMOKETOWK I’ll. Jjano. 597-3530 trend and change of prices re ceived by fanners, was 230 percent of its 1910-14 100 base. This compares with 229 a month earlier and 233 a year ago V. S. Prices Received During the month ended Novembei 15, the Index of Puces Received by United Sta tes Fanners lemamed unchan ged at 241 percent ol its 1910- 14 aveiage._ Lower prices tor cattle and hogs weie offset by pi ice increases for toma toes, oranges, and lettuce The November 15 index was 1 per cent below a year earhei. With the indexes of both pri ces received and prices paid by fanners unchanged from October, the Panty Ratio re mained at 77 This was, how evei, the lowest for the month since 1933. During the busy holiday sea son your family’s apt to skip meals Keep nounshnig snack foods handy to supplement re gular meals Sandwiches pie pared with enriched or whole giain breads and spread with piotem-nch fillings of meat, tish, cheese, eggs oi peanut butter are populai, quick-to eat and highly nutritious choices HORNCO Expands Again - To Serve Business Farmers! A Home For This modern elevator makes it possible to unload grain at the rate of a ton per minute. This newly constructed 150,000 bu. grain local farmers. Eventually this grain will be could say this elevator benefits the local business former in two very important ways. FEEDS D. E. HORN & CO., INC. yowc,pa. Pk. 2-786? Test Is Found For Hog. Cholera A rapid, accurate diagnostic test tor hog cholera, a disease that costs producers $5O mil lion a year, has been developed by U S Department of Agn culture scientists at the Na tional Animal Disease Labora toi>, Ames, lowa This relatively inexpensive and easily pei formed test, which must now be proved un dei practical conditions, may be of great help to hog chol era research programs and the Fedeial-State hog cholera era dication program The new 1-day test was de veloped by Dr William L Mengeling, Dr Eugene C. Pir tle, and Dr. James P. Torrey of USDA’s Agricultural Re search Service Here, briefly, is how it woi ks A culture containing tissue trom a sus pect hog is treated with a combination of fluoiescent dye and anti-hog-cholera serum Infected cells letam the dye serum and are readily distin guished fiom uninfected cells Sjmptoms ot hog cholera vaiy, depending on the stage and acuteness of the disease, so it may be confused with certain other hog diseases such as influenza, anthrax, necrotic *5 N % enteritis, pneumonia, or erysi pelas. Positive diagnosis there fore frequently requires sever al diagnostic aids, as well as the study of clinical symp toms by veterinarians At present, the most relia ble single test for hog cholera is made by inoculating heal thy young pigs, some suscep tible and some immune to hog cholera, with a sample of blood or tissue taken from hogs suspected of having the disease It hog cholera virus is present in the sample, the immune pigs will remain heal thy, but the susceptible pigs will either sicken and die or lecover and be immune to fu ture exposures to virulent hog cholera virus The inoculation test is ex pensive and may take several w-eeks to complete. These mar ked disadvantages preclude its widespread use in the nation wide eradication program. In contrast, the new dye serum test takes less than a day Using this test, the ARS scientists were able to detect hog cholera 'virus in samples of blood, serum, or spleen extracts obtained from 51 ex perimentally infected hogs. Lesson From The Pm Its to protect the soil from winter head keeps it from going too erosion and add organic matter far Local Grain! Hornco Worker is seen operating the elec tronic panel board that controls this mod.- ern elevator. elevator will store grain produced by our used to produce Hornco Feeds. Thus we It allows the customer of Hornco feeds to buy at more competive prices by avoiding costly freight on out of state grain. It assures the local grain producer of a sound. local market for his product. "Service Makes The Difference" Meat Production Is On Increase HARRISBURG Meat pro duction in the commonwealtn is rising sharply and may reach a record volume this year, according to the Penn sylvania Crop Reporting Ser vice. Livestock slaughter in tie first 10 months totaled 1,498 million pounds liveweight, 71 million pounds more than m the same period last year, the PCRS said The January-Gct ober total is up almost 5 per cent from last year and 11 per cent above the 1957-61 average for that period. Hogs accounted for the big gest increase, 64 2 million pounds, with beef cattle up 19 G million pounds Sheep and lamb volume was down 9 7 million pounds, and calves were down 3 1 million .pounds. October slaughter volume of 174 million pounds liveweight was 7 per cent ahead of last year. After you’re cleaned up your vegetable garden, sow a cover crop of ryegrass, oats or wheat next spring,
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