Farm Prices
Dip 2 Per Cent
In December
HARRISBURG Prices re
ceived by commonwealth farm
ers in mid-December dropped
2 per cent from a month ear
lier and 3 per cent from last
year, according to the Penn
sylvania Crop Repoiting Ser
vice
Livestock and livestock pro
ducts weie responsible for
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New Holland, Pa.
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Experience and Know How
Check With Your Neighbor
FEEDS
D. E. HORN & COJNC. york, pa. pa 2-mi
mosiT'of tire~decllrio7 according
to the PCRS.
HbfeS, Wfeftaglnfe' ‘515.10 per
hundredweight, were 90 cents
below mid-November prices and
$2 30 lower than those of a
year earlier. Steers and heif
ers, at $2O per hundredweight,
were off $l.lO from a month
earlier and doVvn $4 40 from
December 1962
Broilers averaged 13.5 cents
per pound, down three cents
from mid-November and 'hiee
cents below the previous Dec
ember price. Egg prices were
In Feed Manufacturing
Who Is Feeding HORNCO
"Service Makes The Difference"
J. H. REITZ & SON, INC. R. D. 4, Lititz, Pa.
the lowest for any December
since 1957, averaging 38 cents
a dozen, two cents less than a
month earlier.
Sheep and lamb prices ad
vanced slightly and prices re
ceived tor field crops showed
little change from mid-Novem
ber.
Prices paid for alfalfa hay
rose $1 50 to $49 pel ton, the
highest Decembei price on re
cord.
The index of prices received,
a measure ot the trend and
change of prices iecei\ed b>
CONTACT
S. O. TRUPE East Earl, Pa.
Phone - A. C. 215-445-6128
JOHN HERR JR. Annyille, Pa.
Phone - UN 7-2244
NED SITLER JR. WrigKtsville, Pa.
Phone - Wrightsville 255-3391
Phone 626-6850
Lapcastep.ygfming, Saturday, January 25, 1964—5
farmers for their products, was
226 per cent ot the 1910-14
base ot 100 per cent. It was
230 a month earlier and 233 a
year ago
The index of prices received
in the nation declined 2 pel
cent trom a month eailier,
while the index of puces paid
declined a thud ot one pel
cent
Plan Clinic For
Cattle Feeders
A Cooperative Extension Ser
vice livestock clinic for cattle
feeders will be held Jan 30,
Feb G and 13 in the Rohieis
town elementary school,
Rohierstown, according to an
announcement made today by
County Agent M M Smith
Each clinic will consist of
three evening classes, schedul
ed to start promptly at 7.30
p m , at weekly intervals.
SPRAYING Service
Dairy Barns
Poultry Houses
CARBOLA
Disinfecting White Paint
0 Dries White
0 Disinfects Against
Disease
0 Kills Mies; 90% Less
Cobwebs 8 to 10 Mo.
DISINFECT
POULTRY HOUSES
6 Witmer Rd., R 4, Lane.
Maynard Beitrel
Phone 392-7327
Census Bureau
Asks Farmers To
Keep Records
Every farmer and rancher
will have need tor records on
his business in 19 64 in order
to pronde accuiate answers for
the do-it-yourselt questionnaire
he will receive near the end
ot the year as part of the 1964
Census of Aguculture, accord
ing to the Bureau of the Cen
sus, US Depaitment ot Com
mei ce
Each farmer or rancher will
receive a census torm by mail
in October or earlier, and will
be asked to fill it out A cen
sus taker will visit the farm
dumig November or early Dec
ember to review the filled-out
form, make sure that all ques
tions are answered, and send
the torm to Census headquart
ei s
The “do-it-yourself” plan is
evpected to save several mil
lion dollars compared with the
method used in earlier farm
censuses in which a census
taker asked all the questions
and wrote the answers on the
census form
For the first time, the 1964
Census of Agriculture will in
clude questions about income
received from recreation ser*
vices, such as hunting 01 fish
ing privileges, board and room
■provided to sportsmen: and
questions about chemical
sprays or dusts used during
the year to control pests and
diseases of any kind The bulk
ot questions will deal with
crops and livestock produced
and sold, use of farm land
and amounts of farm expendi
tures
“The most significant farm
census since 1940” is the de
scription by Ray Hurley, who
has directed the Censuses of
Agriculture at tive-year inter
vals over the past quaiter cen
tal y. “American agncultiue
has been undergoing wide
spread and massive changes
and the Census provides the
only accurate measuies ot
those changes, Hi Huiley
said
The 19G4 Ccn c is ot Agncul
ture "ill piovde the first
count ol the nation’s farms
since the Census of Agncul
tuie 11 1959 and the first
co' ill ot people hung on
i .!' s since the Oensus of
Population in 1960 The num
bei of farms in the nation de
ceased from its high point of
G 8 million in 1935 to 3 7
million in 1959 The number
ot people living on faims drop
ped from more than 30 mil
lion in 1940 to less than 14
million persons in 1960.
EXCLUSIVE
FRANCHISE
AVAILABLE
An opportunity to partici
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tractive profit making li
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write, phone
Eugene A. Reichard,
Sales mgr.
ROBERTA. REICHARD,
Inc.
19th & Lawrence Sts.
Allentown, Pa.