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
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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.
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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
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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 _
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