Crop & Livestock Round-Up
cattle xumhkus UP
Significant increases in the
number of cattle on teed
April 1 have been reported
Ini both the state and nation,
according to the Pennsylvan
ia Crop Reporting Service.
Cattle and calves being fed
for slaughter in the state
totaled 77,000, an increase
of 15 percent from a year
earlier. The total in the na
tion was 9.1556,000 head, 13
percent more than a year
earlier.
Marketing' of 'fed cattle in
the first quarter of this year
w'as up 7 percent from a year
earlier in Pa., and up 6 per
cent nationally.
Pennsylvania cattlemen ex
pert to market 40,000 fed
cattle m the Apml-June quar
ter, 15 percent nfore than in
the same quarter last year.
In the nation, tihe total is
expected to be 4,752,000
head, approximately 12 per
cent more than in the Apnl-
Jnne period of ID6'5.
NUT TREES - NUT TREES
HURRY - - PLANT TWO - PLANT TWO
STILL TIME
ENG. WALNUTS, hardy, grafted, heavy
10-12 ft. each $15.00
12-15 ft. each $25.00
Select Seedlings $l.OO to $5.50
CHINESE CHESTNUT 10-12 ft. ea. $12.00
BLACK WALNUTS, grafted, easy cracking
? 8-10 ft. ea. $lO.OO
BUTTERNUTS, grafted 8-10 ft. ea. $ 8.00
FILBERTS 12-15 ft. ea. $15.00
PERSIMMONS, fine vars. 4-5 ft. np ea. $3.25 to $lO.OO
HURRY, Open any day. Sats. 8-4 P.M. closed noon
Get your share before too late.
NUT tree NURSERY
Off 322, Vk mi. above Guthrieville
4% miles Northwest of Downingtown
Phone 717-269-3296
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Must your appliances wait their turn?
imi(( WHK.IT CROP
PROMPHOTS UP
'Soil moisture on Pennsyl
vania farms is “generally
more favorable than it has
been in the past several
years,” according to the State
Crop Reporting Service.
Fine weather in March per
mitted extensive plowing and
preparation of soil for spring
crops, especially in southern
counties. Good progress was
reported in sowing of oats.
The 1966 wheat crop came
through the winter in “un
usually good condition” with
very little damage. Early in
dications point to a yield of
about 31 bushels per acre,
slightly less than last year’s
record 32 2 bushels.
WAGES THEM) HIGHER
Farmers, however, face the
prospect of paying higher
wages to hired help this year,
the Crop Reporting Service
noted. The average March
rate was reorted as $1 22 an
hour, seven cents more than
in March a year ago.
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If they do, it’s time to have your Housepower increased by installing
a bigger service entrance, more branch circuits and receptacles.
Then you’ll be able to use all your work-saving appliances at once
without worrying about blown fuses. And now there’s no need
to put off your electrical improvements any longer, thanks to
PP&L’s “Wire-On-Time” plan. Under the plan you can finance
up to $3OO, with no down payment, 6So true annual interest
and monthly payments as low as $l.OO.
It’s easy and inexpensive to modernize your home wiring system . . .
just see your electrical contractor tpday or stop in
at your nearest PP&L office.
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PA. WHEAT SIGN L I’S
A total of 13,989 Pennsyl
rania farmer* have signed up
for participation in the 1996
Federal Wheat Program, ac
cording to a report of the
U.S. Department of Agricul
ture.
This represents slightly
less than 20 percent of the
71,136 farms in the state on
which wheat is grown, and
involves 127.54iG acres.
MILK PROJH’CTIOX
SETS MARCH RECORD
■Milk production per cow in
Pennsylvania soared to a rec
ord 830 pounds in March, 30
pounds higher than the previ
ous March record, according
to the State Ciop Reporting
Service
It was the second time
March production per cow
topped the 800-pound mark,
and only the fifth 800-pound
oi-Jbebter month in Pennsyl
vania history. Thirty years
ago', March production per
cow was only 429 pounds.
The numlber of milk cows
on Pennsylvania farms was
estimated at 762,000 in
March, down 4,000 from the
previous month, and 37,000
less than in March a year
ago.
Milk production for the
month totaled 632 million,
pounds, seven million pounds
less than a year earlier.
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SHOES
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Lancaster
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Lancaster Farming, Saturday, April 23, 1966
• Grange Votes
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carry out the duties of the
County Extension Office. They
also favored Senate Joint
Resolution #lO3, the amend
ment to the U. S. Constitu
tion that will permit the peo
ple to decide how their
State Legislatures shall he
apportioned.
The Pitth Degree will be
conferred October To at Ful
ton Grange Hall and will he
in charge ot: Loran Brinton,
Mrs, Joseph Hess, Chester
Eby, Mrs. Allied Wanner,
Thomas Galbreath and Mis.
Gyles Brown.
The Lecturer, Miss Helen
Wanner, opened the progiam
with group singing tollowed
by a reading, “I Am The
Grange.” Miss Wanner and
Mrs. Charles McSparran con
ducted a ceremony building
the Grange Emblem, giving
the life history of the seven
founders of the Grange or
ganization Mis. Charles Da
vis, Chestei County, chairman
ot the Pennsylvania State
Grange Home Economics
X UMBERS BOWS,
KGG
PRICKS HOLD HIGHER
A total of 267,000,000
eggs were pioduced in the
state in March, 8 percent
less than m Mai eh 1965.
There were approximately
14.3 million layers in Penn-
sylvama dunng the month,
comtpared to 15 1 million a
year eailier, and production
per layer was down- 2 percent.
Prices leceived by farmers
for eggs averaged 44 cents,
up 11 cents from last year.
Even The Strongest Backs
Can’t Stand Carelessness.
LANCASTER COUNTY
CHIROPRACTIC SOCIETY
Committee, gave u inlk out
lining the DrolcetH and (mi
tosis oiten to Grange woiii"ti
in the state. Charles Davis
spoke about Delaware Valiev
Milk Ordei #l. William Dar
lington, Master of Pomona
Grange #3 ol Chester and
Delaware Counties hi ought
greetings. Airs atanlev Slaul'-
ter Jr. conducted a toll call
“What 1 Would Like to See
Inuproved or Developed m
Lancaster County." She also
conducted games
Col era in Orange #10(57
will he host to the Lancas
ter Count} Pomona Giange
picnic July 16, 7 pm at the
Quail'} Mile Menional Talk.
Resolution Com'niittee tor
that meeting will be Alfred
Wannei, Richard Ala ale and
Gyles Hi own.
'Salisbury Giange will pre
sent the ptogtam at the meet
ing ot Fulton Grange Apul
25, and the odiceis of Cole
rain Grange will fill the of
ficers’ chans.
• Land Judging
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Other placings weie G —-
Daiyl Bollingei, Cloistei, 7 —-
Glenn Redcay, Solanco, 8 —»
Bairy Millei, llanheiin; '•—
Delbeit K'aulz, Manheim; 10
—Robeit Haddon, Solanco,
and Amos Riett, Giassland
■Sixty-file youths, lepiesent
uig se\\en Lancaster County
and six York County chap
ters, weie enteied in the
contest Eight vouths trom.
Lancaster and one tiom York
■will conupete in the state con
test during PEA Week at.
Penn State University
Judging the event was At
Young, county conservation
ist lor York County. T. M.
yiahn, area supervisor, and
Clan Zenbv, agriculture
teacher at Wanvick High.
School, assisted
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