—Lancaster Fanping, Saturday, January 23, 1965 6 Crop & Livestock Round-Up PA. CATTLE ON FEED HOLDS STEADY The Pennsylvania Ciop Re porting Service finds that cat tle on feed in Pennsylvania as of the first of the year was 80,000 head. Although this was the same as a year ago, it was down 5 percent Jfiom the 1959- 63 aveiage. Cattle on feed less than three months on Jan. 1 totaled 48.000 head, down 2.000 from a year earlier The number of cattle on feed 3 6 months at 26.000 head was up 2,000 from a year earlier Cattle on feed moie than 6 nmnths on Jan 1 was unchanged at 8.000 head Thirty-three percent of the cattle on feed weie in the 700- 899 pound gioup, a 3 percent inciease over last yeai The 1,- 100 pounds and ovei class was down 5 pei cent Feeders ex pect to maiket 30,000 cattle this quartei, 2,000 more than weie marketed in the same period of 1964 The cattle situation on the national scene "showed that theie was 1 peicent moie cat tle on feed in the U S than a yeai earhei lowa, the leading cattle state in the North Cen tial area was up 1 peicent on cattle numbeis All of the East North Cential States, except Wisconsin, had fewei head on feed as of Jan 1, than a year ago All of the West North Central States, except No Dakota, showed increases in numbei of cattle on feed PORK DEMAND EXCEEDS SUPPLY Total pork consumption foi 1964 was again' ovei 12 billion pounds accoidmg to D Ivan Johannes, 'Secietaiy of the Pork Committee of the Na tional Live Stock and Meat Boaid Though the 1984 con sumption of poik was slightly below the 1963 figure of 12 4 billion pounds, which was the highest consumption of any peace-time yeai, it is still sig nificant that Amenca’s con sume! s aie eating all the poik we pioduce, Johannes stated at the Poik 'Committee meet ing held in Kansas City While pei capita consump tion of poik is down somewhat, total consumption is udmg a high plateau Johannes ob saved Total population is inci eas ing at the annual rale of 2 pci cent complied to the 16 pei cent decicase in total pio cluction of poik which oc cuned in 1984 Theietoie, the dcciease in consumption is due to a deciease in pioduc tion plus an inciease in popu lation and does not leflect a dioppmgoff of demand foi poik Johannes said Hog Pi ices to Increase Hog puces in 1965 should a' ei age $1 00 to S 2 00 highei than in 1964, accoidmg to Penn State Univeisity The pig ci op tan owed between June and Novemhei was 6 to 8 pei cent smallei than a yeai eaihei thus maiketings during the eaily pait of the yeai will be down If produceis follow thiough on intentions to fal low 13 pei cent fewei sows an the Decembei to Febuiary penod, hog slaughtei will be substantially lower in the sum mei of 1965 This would bung about the possibility of a stiong price inciease by mid summei Beef will continue to give poik stiong competition in the coming yeai and will tend to a educe hog puce inci eases EGG NUMBERS UP A total of 3,143,000,000 eggs weie pioduced in the state last year, approximately 300 million less than the 1958-62 average, according to the Penn sylvania Crop Reporting Serv ice. The 1964 total was 29 mil lion more than in the previ ous year. The average price received by farmeis for eggs in mid- December, 37 cents a dozen, was one cent below the price received in December 1963 U.S. CHICK PRODUCTION 2 PERCENT ABOVE 1963 Hatcheries produced 210.323,- 000 chicks in December 1964, compared with 208,722,000 in December 1963. Broiler chicks totaled 165,°.>6,000, up slightly fiom Dccembci last year and the hugest output of iccoid for Deccmbf Dm mg 1964, there weie 2,3, C '> 000 broiler chicks hatched, ’ pa rent more than in 1963 and the largest output duung any year of lecord Broilei-f'-pe eggs in incubatois on Janua’v 1 weie up 2 per cent lion January 1 last year Thei e ' r 24,387,000 egg-type chicks hatched m December 1964 5 peicent more than a yeai * ii°i The hatch of egg type i'g 1964 totaled 528 939 r p 3 percent fiom 1963 Tie* nvmber of egg-type eggs in p-a tors on Januai v 1, 1965 '*p 1 peicent ’ & HAY DOWN FEED SUPPL! Appio x inrtely 35 2 million bushe 1 ? i vn weie in stoi age on '-ylvania faims Januai, 1 al'out two million a ihana year earli ei but con bushels be- ~’3 average, ac low tl> cording > > isc State Crop Re porting r \ice of corn stored on ’"hon were esti -2,784 million bush -1 dlest since 1959 .ent less than a 'cioiding to,the - Iment of Agncul Supp’ faims c mated ,' els, the and 14 . year ea U S Dcp Uue The . ’ of corn on farms t. ted States is 230 1 I ’cls less than the rial lequuements m the million estima'' foi fee, tiy L<,s the na milLc hvesto'’ I’ves'ock and poul ' ’ll, USDA indicated , v ould use 3.014 I ,1s of coin for ’ nouhry feed in ■’ year the c In ' * -on, faimeis on ’ --I 14 per cent on hand than i hi addition to ■ nown 9 pei 'veie down Jamu less i a je. coi n cent 27 pc 1 the pie'nous Jmu.ci ' 1 Oi I aims weie <i veai eaih r itmn but the 1 of 2,073,- 5 Pei Pern - 000 than supph tons r " ''”'o lons moie The state was 374 000 the five yeai • JiO avei age UP cows diiry indus •3' oduetion rec *6 pounds of n l5 pounds ■ evious icc ifcoidmg to 3 Ilepoi ting Penn tiy set ord Id’ milk tnoie oid so' the Sei vice Avc for th timab 1964 Pi el cate > billion -ylvania last ’ i the 1963 pioclu yeai total Tin also < 000 MARKE! i" pei cow i n was es •’<”inds in - N mdi ' 11 seven "v weie 9ei vice ic 810,- v, rnsH- 1 11 f, PRODUCERS EFL DO i A IZV'. equ* . > Th. * prod * TL< inco A - do- If * R? 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