AMI Calls For More Research
To Aid Expansion Of Hog Industry
The hog business has the ’Meat Institute, said recently at
greatest unrealized potential the Annual Meeting of the Ag
for improved production ef- ricultuTal Research Institute,
fioiency among all 'livestock BeGnaff said that expansion
enterprises, Herrell -DeGraff, of the hog industry is being
'president ,of .the American (Continued on Page 16)
Lower Egg Prices
Predicted For 1967
More eggs produced lower
egg prices. Fewer eggs —high
er prices. These facts are ob
vious to most poultrymen. A
favorable situation soon brings
on an unfavorable or at least
(Continued on Page 17)
(ancaster Farming, Saturday, October 29, 1966
SECOND SECTION
Irrigation May Provide Drought
Insurance; Survey Will Be Made
HARRISBURG A survey
on irrigation, with a view to
its possible expansion as
drought insurance, was initiat
ed this week by the State De
partment of Agriculture.
Slate Agriculture Secretary.
Leland H. Bull said, basic data
will be collected by the Crop
Reporting Service in his de
partment as a guide for coule
es of action that may be de
veloped.
Little exact information is
now available, he stated, on
the extent ito which irriga
tion has been adopted on
farms in 'the state and on fu
ture needs. More data is need
ed on the source of water
used, amounts used, kinds of
systems being operated, kinds
of crops watered, and on it*
economic feasibility.
Bull said demands for water
for various uses are increasing
rapidly, and that if agriculture
is to have a fair share its
needs must be determined
quickly
The survey was requested
by irrigation experts, waiter
c onservationists, farmer's, and
representatives of various gov
ernmental agencies at a meet
ing called by the Department
of Agriculture.
Parmer representatives said
irrigation, during the past five
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Twenty More Pa,
Counties Okayed
For Drought Aid
Federal approval for live
stock feed assistance went to
twenty more counties last
week, according to James W.
White, chain man of the State
Agricultural Stabilization and
Conservation Committee Thins
brings the total number of
Pennsylvania counties approved
for aid to 30 To date, 52
drought-stricken counties have
applied for federal assistance
in the form of government
owned feed grain at reduced
prices.
Although Lancaster was
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