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Crop Service • Form Colendor
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Sees Kecord , ng WorkBhoPt Fam credit
Corn Production Tjilo ,
Record Corn Production j n g workshop, Salem EUB
Looms; Prospective com pro- Church n High 'St., Man
duetton is now estimated at a heim •
Whopping 80,080,000 bushels.
This is well over twice the Thursday, Sept. 21
small 1966 crop of 32,928,000 Solanco Fair
bushels and nearly one and a 10 :00 a.m. - Solanco Fair, coun
half times the 1 961-65. 5-year ty wide tractor driving con
average of 5".575000 bushels. test 4-H, FFA. and open.
The final out-irn depends on 1; oo p . m . - Judging Swine,
the frost date. Continued heavy 2:00 p.m.-Judging Baby Beef
rainfall and high humidity g:00 p.m.-“Sing Out, Lan
during August has resulted in caster.”
excellent development. Stalk « * i «■
growth is heavy and most g-30 p.m.-The Lancaster
stalks have good ears many County Bee Keepers will
two ears meet at the farm of Moses
Small Grains: Combining of Lapp, Gap HI. William Clark,
oats cent nues later than usual. specialist from Penn State,
Wet, humid weather kept far- will be the speaker.
m«rs from combining many
fields until quite late. Much of Friday, Sept. 23
the grain was over-ripe and Solanco Fair
some was flattened by storms 8:00 am.-Baby Parade
resulting in harvesting losses. 2:00 p.m.-Fat Hog and Baby
As a result, yield is now es- Beef Sale
tamated at 47 0 bushels per 630 p.m.-Parade
acre compared with 500 a 800 p.m.-Variety Show
month ago. This indicates a 900 p m. - Music by the De
productaon of 21.855,000 bush- fenders.
els compared with 17,000,000 “~
last year and a 5-year average A t C--
of 27,364,000 bushels. Wheat /\UgUSI E-gg
harvest which was late was . ■ r\ n .. m
completed during August with v/UtpUl L/OWII
good yields Barley and rye
yields completed earlier were WIIC 1 Cl belli
also quite good Soybeans for Egg production totaled 260
beans, grown mainly in the million in Pennsylvania during
southeast made good progress August, according to the Penn-
A record yield of 26 0 bushels sylvania Crop Reporting Serv
per acre is expected compared ice. A lower rate of lay more
with 19 0 bushels last year and than offset an increase in lay
a 5-year aierage of 19 6 bush- ers to drop egg production 1
els per acre percent below the previous
Hay and Pasture: Consider- month. A decline in number
able quantities of hay were cut of layers dropped production
during the month Quality va- i percent below a year earlier
ries considerably due to delays Poultrymen bad 2 percent
in cutting and showers during layers on hand during
curing. Production is now es- August than they had in July
timated at 3,977,000 tons but 4 percent fewer than dur
the largest crop since 1961. ing August 1966.
Tobacco: Cutting of Pennsyl- The September 1 rate of lay
vania seedleaf tobacco got into at 60.7 percent was down 2
full swing near the end of Au- percent from the month eaiii
gust The crop is estimated at er rate but up 3 percent from
41.800.000 pounds, up 4 per- the September 1, 1966 rate of
cent from the 1966 crop of lay. Rather pleasant weather
40.200.000 but 20 percent be- prevailed throughout the State
low the 5-year average of 52,- during August Temperatures
495.000 pounds remained comfortable without
Potato Yield Also Record: any unusually hot periods. The
Pennsylvania potatoes are ex- addition of pullets to tlhe iay
pected to yield at a record ing flocks may account for the
rate of 225 cwt per acre Pro- lower rate of lay as these new
Auction if realized at 8,775,000 birds begin to lay.
cwt would be largest since The average price received
1955, 39 percent more than by farmers for all eggs sold
last year and 17 percent above during August was 33 cents
the 1961-65, 5-year average per dozen, the same as in July
Fruit: August rainfall help- but 11 cents less than the Au
ed fruit sizing Pennsylvania gust 1966 price,
apple production is now esti- Pennsylvania hatcherymen
mated at 7,300,000 bushels; produced 16 5 million egg-type
peaches, 800,000 bushels; pears, chicks during January-July
100.000 bushels; and grapes 1967, 16 percent less than the
43.000 tons comparable period in 1966.
Soil Fertility Facts
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OS FARMED ARE WORLD LEADERS
IN MAWV WAVS vet TU6 •UTCH (JSC WtARLV
TIMES AC MJCH FERTILIZER FER ACRE
OAFtAHCSe AND WEST GERMAN FARMERS
FEmUZB AT TWICE THE U S RATE.
f*£iuKE w ui»A s*v£ plant 'pood c%pc*tcO'£aldnV with yj our oorroN,TOBACCO
COtH» INCREASE OUft PROOUOTIOW*PftC«NCY» ANO •OYRBANS* t>A*
>tember 16.1967
HOW COME *?
, I'M WAV AHEAD
BUT STILL
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Advanced Training Taken •(conlf'^mp.g.»
By Ag College Graduates vid J. Woods, state president.
* ° e . Local farmers will be invit-
Thirty-six percent of all stu- employment in fields of worK conference, especial
dents completing four year such as farming, forestry and . on fl,e opening night pre
programs in the College of horticulture. ceedings and the annual ban-
Agi'iculture at The Pennsyl- Agricultural business and in- t
vania State University during dustry claimed 10 percent of yu ’ the affail . i s *<xhis
the past year went directly the College of Agriculture o „*J en i* Vom . L and Amos
into graduate work after com- graduates, with starting in- Is „yX nresided at
pleting their bachelor’s degree, comes averaging $5BO per Funk, chairman, presided t
a survey shows. month. Seven percent went in- the meeting.
This indicates that high lev- to government employment and
els of training are required by three percent into Milk containing an unusual
the agricultural and forestry were kind of casein (a major prote
industries, says Jerome K. Pas- vey, another 14 pm cent were jn Qf j s being found by
to. associate director of resi- “ la^ S P y t h d researchers in different parts
dent education in agriculture, uncertain pians. of the world) reports the U. S.
Considering those who may Nine 0 f the 14 graduates of Department of Agriculture.
enter graduate school a few tb e two-year associate degree
years later, the proportion of program in forest technology
graduates continuing their ed- were em pi o yed in forest an- cultural business, 10 were em
ucation may rise to 50 percent, dustries with average 'starting ployed in agricultural business
Dr. Pasto comments. incomes of $470 a month. Five and industry with average
The next largest group of of these graduates went with starting salaries of $5OO a
graduates, 18 percent, went a. government agency. month. The others joined fam
into the armed forces. Twelve of 24 graduates with a two- ily businesses or had uncer
percent of the graduates found year associate degree in agri- tain plans.
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