I—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, April 18, 1964 Crop Summary Wet Weather Slows Spring Plowing HARRISBURG Cool, wet weather has delayed spring planting and new growth on Pennsylvania farms but grow ers regard the contract from the past two years of drought With a decided air of optimism. The March farm report issu ed today by the Pennsylvania Crop Reporting Service in the State Department of Agricul ture noted also that winter grams and grasses are greening up and generally are in good condition. Maple sugar camps continued active in early April. Wheat has benefited from a Our Customers Are Our Best Salesmen Keystone Hatchery 2556 Creek Hill Rd. LANCASTER rh. Leola 01/6-7851 —also ideal for Pige and other small animals C'v'/' i■- , y j * f ||f FOWL’S FEED SERVICE MILLERSVELLE R. D. 1, Qnarryville SUPPLY CO. R. D. 2, Peach Bottom Millersrille C. E. SAUDER & SONS DUTCHMAN FEED MILLS, INC. R. D. 1. Stevens R. D. 1, East Earl MOUNTVILLE FEED SERVICE R. D. 2, Columbia generous winter snow cover and is expected to average 29 bushels per acre. Corn on hand totaled nearly 20 million bush els, or 2 million under a year earlier. Barley stocks were off, but oats, totaling 12,634,000 bushels, topped the correspond ing 1963 figure by 41 per cent. Farm wage rates continued to advance. With room and board they averaged $147 a month, up $7 from a year ago. With-house rates averaged $204, up $3. Hourly rates without room and board were up 3 cents to $ll3. It was in Pennsylvania that the first shot of the French and Indian War was fired—by the order of 21-year-old Col. George Washington! The Most Famous Name In Corn Pfister Associated Growers Phone 636-8808 J. K. STAUFFER & SON Laun sinrt Hollmrc HERSHEY BROS. Rcmholds GRUBB SUPPLY CO. Elizabethtown ROHRER’S MILL R. D. 1, Ronks H. M. STAUFFER & SONS, INC. Witmer - Ronks - Leola Lititz, Pa. Hen Numbers Show Decrease HARRISBURG Layers in Pennsylvania poultry flocks at the end of March were down to 14 5 million, lowest number on hand for the month shut 1941, according to the Crop Reporting Service in the State Department of Agriculture. Cullings were down'to 3 per cent, and pullet replacements totaled only 2 per cent or about half the usual rate. But pullets 3 months to laying age account ed for 7 6 per -cent of com mercial flocks, or well above average. Average rate of lay, at 19.16 eggs per bird, was 3 per cent above a year earlier and the highest for March since 1959. Eggs produced in March to taled 279 million, same as a year ago, but 10 per cent above Febiuary. In spite of Easter demands, the average price received for eggs in the state slipped down SPRAYING Service Dairy Barns Poultry Houses CARBOLA Disinfecting White Paint • Dries White • Disinfects Against Disease • Kills Flies; 90% Dess Cobwebs 8 to 10 Mo. DISINFECT POULTRY HOUSES 6 Witmer Rd., R 4, Lane. Maynard Beitzel Phone 392-7227 Quality at a NEW LOW PRICE! John Deere 36 h.p. 1010 Alan Beyer Christiana hY 3-5887 A. B. C. Groff, Inc. Xew Holland 854-8001 Landis Bros. Inc. Shotzberger's Lancaster 393-3906 Elm 665-2141 a penny to 37 cents a dozen. Frequent Soil Tests Needed With feed prices remaining ci-ops are continually vno, tha eg £ feed ratio drawing plant nutrients f IO J fell to 9.9. the lowest March the soil which means there* ratio since 1957. a lowering of available maitu Wait Awhile ents For thlS reaSOn - Mil _ u, * Awnue should be tested at , least Don’t let a few warm days in a rotatlon lf the rotaho push you into the garden while takes lace eve ,the soil is too wet to work, yea rs, points out James W. s> a warns Lynn Smith, The Penn- €xte nsion agronomist at sylvama State University ex- The Pennsylvania State Unive nSSSS? 1 ? Slty - may even 1)6 pract *i ft and when tes t sol is every one <h dried out, it stays hard all sum- tWQ he says _ mer. ’■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■l LOOK to FOR THE ANSWER TO YOVR INDUSTRIAL ... COMMERCIAL BUILDING NEEDS •Sturdy, Clear Span Framing •Attractive . . . Colorful •Reasonable Package Prices CALL US ... WE WILL GLADLY DISCUSS YOUR NEEDS ... NO OBLIGATION CALEB M. WENGER B. D. 1 Dnunore Center KI 8-2116 QUARRYVILLE, PA. «■■■■■■■■=■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■ Row-Crop Utility See Us For A Demonstration Wenger Implement Co. Buck BU 4-4467 H. S. Newcomer & Son Mt. Joy 653-3361 M. S. Yearsley & Sons West Chester 806-2990 'Exclusive Trim Feature 'Simple Te Erect Special ,S 3»
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