Cattle Slaughter
Up 9 Per Cent
The total number of beef
cattle slaughtered during April
was S per cent more than April
IM>3, according to the Penn
sylvania Crop Reporting Serv
ice.
Hog slaughter was 4 per cent
above a year ago. Calf slaugh
ter was down 5 per jcent and
lamb and sheep down 32 per
Cent. The January-April total
lor cattle and hogs was 3 per
cent and 1 per cent respective
ly, above a year earlier Calf
and lamb and sheep slaughter
for January-Apnl was 6 per
cent and 44 per cent respec
tively, below a year ago.
U. S. Red Meat
Commercial pi oduction of
red meat dunng April in the
48 States was 2,713 million
pounds—up 10 per cent fiom a
year earlier and 5 per cent
more than the previous month.
Commercial meat pi oduction
includes slaughter in federally
inspected and other commercial
plants but excludes farm
slaughter. !
There were 10,512 million
pounds of red meat produced
during the first four months of
1964, an increase of 8 pei cent
from the corresponding period
of 1963. Of the January-Apnl
total, beef was up 13 per cent
from a year earlier; veal down
1 per cent, poik up 4 per cent;
and lamb and mutton down 5
per cent.
Beef production during April
was 1,514 million pounds—up
16 per cent from April 1963
and 7 per cent greater than
March 1964 The number of
cattle slaughteied during April
was 15 per cent greater than
a year earlier and 8 per cent
more than a month earlier. The
average live weignt of cattle
slaughtered in April was 1,042
pounds per head, 12 pounds
heavier than April 1963, but 10
pounds lighter than March
1964
There were 67 million pounds
of veal produced dunng April,
3 per cent moie than a year
earliei,* but 1 per cent less
than a month eailier Calves
slaughtered duung Apul was
2 per cent above April 1963,
but 5 per cent below March
1964 Calves slaughtered dur
ing April averaged 214 pounds
per head live weight, 3 pounds
heavier than last year and 8
pounds heavier than last month.
There were 60 million pounds
David Unger
To USDA
David G Unger, Soil Con
servation Director for the
Pennsylvania Department of
Agriculture foi the past eight
years, has been assigned to the
post of Assistant Executive
Secretary of the National As
sociation of Soil and Water
Conservation Districts.
Unger, before coming with
the Penna. Department of Ag
riculture, served as executive
secretary of the Upper Sus
quehanna Watershed Associa
tion, with the Brandywine Val
ley Association and the Ohio
Geological Survey He is a na
tive of Michigan and holds de
grees from Antioch College m
Ohio, and from the University
of Pennsylvania He is a past
president of the Keystone
State chapter of the Soil Con
servation Society of America.
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of lamb and mutton produced more than March 1964, Sheep
during April, down 3 per cent and lambs slaughtered during
from a year earlier, but 2 per April averaged 102 pounds per
cent above a month earlier. hMd - ]ive weighti 3 pounds
The number of sheep and heavier than a year earlier,
lambs slaughtered during the but the same as last month.
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So Bucknell University
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to Susquehanna University to Millersville Slate Colleg# to Bucknell University
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to Lehigh University
These Central Eastern Pennsylvania young people will bs
entei mg area colleges and universities this fall with the aid
of PP&L grants, offered under two separate scholarship
programs. Each PP&Lprogramrecognizesthediverscneeds
of society for coliege-tiained young men and women.
INDEPENDENT COLLEGE
SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM
This program offers 10 scholarships for study at any of
15 colleges and universities located in PP&L’s service
area. Winners of these scholarships may pursue any course
of study leading to a baccalaureate degree. Part of the
grant is paid to the institution on behalf of the student.
The remainder is paid unconditionally to the school to be
used for any educational objective.
High school students who will he seniors this MI an’tß*
vited to enter the competition for the 1964 grant*
school guidance counselors will have the detail*
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to Dickinson College
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BARBARA A. CROCKETT
NEW CUMBERLAND
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STATE COLLEGE
SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM
There are five scholarships offered under this pros;,
attendance at any of four State colleges in PP&L s
area. This program is directed principally tow aid
growing need for highly qualified teachers. llo\\£' el
plicants are not limited to this field. Grants aie P f
rcctly to the colleges on behalf of the winncis.
WHY SUPPORT EDUCATION?
PP&L’s scholarship programs are the result of a 1(
progress is a product of education and that tltf l
needs the M potential of its capable young people
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