€—Lancaster Farming. Saturday, January 21, 1967
Specialists See Many Changes
In Future Of Milk Production
The Inline success of dany- age up to 14,000 pounds of
men will depend on then abil- milk a year compared to the
it.\ to mechanize, automate. current average of only 8300
and adjust (o change That's pounds. lie said dairymen
what dany faimeis weie told will have to test, cull and
aecentlv by two Unneisity of use top A 1 siies to accom-
Delawaie ag l icultuial expe: ts plish this.
W T McAllisdei. extension On the retail level, the dany
faun mmigement spe-iuh-'t specialist said theie will be
said the teim “mechanize to much less dooi to-dooi milk
sun ue will be the watch- selling and fevvei letaileis in
v\ oid of dm.mien danng the the next few yeais All milk
next feiv yeais W R Hessel- wall be sold in gallon and half
tine extension dam man. told gallon containers He laised
the dany faine,s they will the question of a new milk
have to get moie milk fiom maiketing technique—jugging
fewer cows if they intend to With this system dairy faimeis
compete pioduce, pasteunze, bottle and
McAllister pointed out that sell their own pioduct
it is alieadv possible to almost Hesseltme expects the 1967
completely automate the ivhole farm milk puces to aveiage
cow milking piocess Using around $5 90 pei hundred
electionic and mechanical gad- weight, up 15c over the 1966
gets, a cow can be guided into aveiage. ' !
a milking stall, fed milked,
and othenvise caied foi and pa. POTATO STOCKS
tinned out again without in- 9c f BELOW LAST YEAR
volvmg human hands With
such a system, the amount of Stocks of Pennsylvania po
nnlk pioduced would be tatoes in the hands of giow
weighed and lecoided, and the eis, local dealers, and chip
futuie lee d late computed Peis vveie estimated to be 3,-
based on the previous w r eek’s 100,COO cwt on Januaiy 1,
pioduction Aftei all cows are 1967. accoiding to the Penn
milked, equipment would be syhama Ciop Reporting Seiv
w ashed and steulized. and ice This was 9 percent below
made leady foi the next m.lk- Januaiy 1 stocks a year ago
mg and 14 peicent below the 1960-
McAllister also pointed to a 64 aveiage Stocks held by
whole new system of haymak- chippeis and proeessois in ex
ing that will cut standing foi- cess of noimal supplies for
age dry it in a minute with cuuent opeiations weie in
atomnc eneigy, and pelletize it eluded in the estimate
in one operation Othei inno- Disappearance (sales, home
vations that daaiymen can look use, etc ) during Decembei to
foiward to include electionical- taled 900,000 cwt compared
ly manipulated tractois mon- with disappeaiance duung De
itoied by television, and bleed- cembei a yeai ago of 1,100,000
ing techniques that will per- cwt Disappearance fiom time
mit a top pioducmg cow to of haivest to January 1, 1967,
“give bath to hteially him- was 2,774,000 cwt compared
dieds of offspring thiough a with 3,540,000 cwt a year ago
svstem of tiansplanting fei- Cailot unloads of Pennsylvan
tilized ova into i&ceivei am- ia potatoes in 41 cities for this
nials ” maiketmg season thiough De-
According to Hesseltine,
the 1975 U. S, population of
230 million people will need
140 billion pounds of milk.
It will be produced on half
as many farms as it is now,
by fewer cows that will aver
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4 PERCENT LESS CATTLE
ON FEED IN PENNA.
Pennsylvania cattle feeders
had 82,000 eattle and calves
on feed foi slaughter maiket
on Jammiy 1. 1967, according
to the Pennsylvania Crop Re
peating Service This was four
percent less than the 85 000
on feed foi slaughter a yeai
eaiher and about two peicent
below the 5-yeai aveiage of
84,000 Fed cattle marketed
during the past quaitei totaled
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28,000 up 33 percent from a
year earlier Placements dur
ing the quarter totaled 54,000,
down 13 percent fiom a year
earlier. Cattle on feed less than
three months on Januaiy 1
numbered 52,000, three to six
months. 22,000, and moie than
six months, 8,000 Expected
marketings for the Januaij-
Maich quartet at 23.000, if
lealized, would be eight pei
cent above the 26,000 mai
keted dining the same peuod
in 1966
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U.S. CATTLE ON FI
UP SEVEN PERCEN'
Cattle and calves on
slaughter market in 31
states totaled 11,279,01
as of January 1, 1957
crease of seven perce:
a year earlier
The 32 major feeding
had 11,136,000 head o:
for slaughter maikel coi
with 10,436.000 head or
aiv 1, 1966
Pa.
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