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VOL. 13 NO. 6
Cost Of Gain On Heavy Steers
Sixty-Six Percent Higher
<EU Note: This background
material is being issued in re
sponse to requests by cattle
industry representatives who
attended a meeting of leaders
or the livestock, poultry and
general farm organizations at
the U.S. Department of Agri
culture Dec. 7 to discuss ways
of averting a threatened over
expansion in production of
livestock products next year.)
* 'Plentiful supplies of feed
this winter will he translated
into- burdensome market sup
ples ’next year, if cattle feeders
respond as they have to similar
County Tobacco
Show To Be
Held Jan. 11
T!he Lancaster County Tobac
co 'Show will be held on Thurs
day afternoon, Jan 11, storting
at 12:30 pm., according to M
M Smith and Arnold G. Lueek,
agricultural extension agents.
The place will be the Baiyuk
Ogar..Company, 850 N. JKatec_
St, Lancaster {located just
south from Liberty St. near the
Armstrong Cork Company plant.
■Enter the building on the east
side of N. Water St. at the load
ing platform. The.FFA tobacco
show will be held at the same
time.
The classes that are being of
fered for this 'Show will be the
same as for the State Farm
Show and are as follows:
Class 76—Wrapper B’s Cl-a
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Regional Farm Tax
Meetings Planned
B. Wayne Kelly and Jesse G
Cooper Extension farm man
agemmit specialists at The Penn
sylvania State University, will
be featureil speakers at a re
gional Income Tax meeting Jan
uary P in EHilsburg. The meet
ing, deigned to assist income
tax practitioners 'and farmers
who prepare their own returns
or a©s : nt others, will be held in
the Restaurant from 9:30
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Coining Next Week
Or" special Farm Show is
sue v' - th a preview and the en
tire schedule of events.
Farm Calendar
Sature’ny, January 6 (today)
SJw.jiom 4-H steers distrib
uted at M. R. Good Farm,
Manheim R 1
Dlondr. -, January 8
8 p.r —Lancaster County Soil
& Walter Coniser. Dist. Dor.
meet County Courthouse.
Tuesday January 9
9:30 am—S.E. Pa. Regional
Barm Income Tax meet., Cha
fe -atmued on Page 3)
conditions in the past and feed
•to heavy weights
* Such feeding to heavy
weights usually is a false econ
omy for the cattlemen, and ere
ates price problems as well
" Cost of gains ’go up sharply
as livestock are fed to heavier
weights Many livestock feeders
are not aware of how much
Jjhese additional pounds reallj
cost them.
Both Feed and Other Costs In
crease for Larger Animals
Data published by the Com
mittee on Animal Nutrition of
the National Research Council
show a substantial drop in the
feed conversion efficiency for a
yearling steer in a feediot as the
weight r'ncreases past 1000
pound's In addition, the nonfeed
costs such as death loss, labor,
overhead, etc. averages marked
ly higher par pound of gain for
each additional pound of gain
put on heavier >amraails.
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Ag Outlook
Meeting
For Tuesday
An Agricultural Outlook
meeting has 'been scheduled for
7:30 ,p.m., next Tuesday, Jan 9
at the Farm Credit Building, ac
cording to M M. 'Smith, Lan
caster county agent
The dairy, livestock and feed
situation will be discussed
Featured speakers are: Wil
liam Johnstone and Lewis
Moore, agricultural economists
from Penn State.
The meeting is open to the
general public.
4-H CORN SHOW WINNER. Steven Ney, son of
Mr. and Mrs. Harold W. Ney, Marietta Rl, won top hon
ors in the 4-H Com Show. At right is the com judge,
Harry S. Sloat, retired Associate County Agent.
Lancaster Farming, Saturday, January 6, 1968
Mrs. Doris W. Thomas
Mrs. Thomas Is
Ejected To State
Economist Post
Mrs Doris W Thomas, Lan
caster County Extension Home
Economist, was elected first
vice president of the Pennsyl
vania Association of Extension
Home Economists for 1968 at
the recent annual meeting]
Other officers elected were'
Mrs. Eunice N. Tibbott, Ebens
burg, treasurer; Mrs. Jane B.
Marhefka, Mifflintown, presi
dent; Mrs. Betty Parks Strutin,
Scranton, president-elect, Mrs
Ethel Ann Diehl, RD 1, Sun
bury, secretary; and Mrs Bar
bara P Kinnan, RD 2, Tioga,
second vice president.
Among the Pennsylvania
home economists serving on
committees of the national or
ganization are. Mrs. Patricia L
Long, Greensburg, chairman of
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Countian Tours Russia;
Brings Moscow Farm News
“In spate of none too favor
able weather conditions our ag
riculture made a- big stride for
ward thus year Many republics,
territories and regions have ga
thered 'a good harvest of gram
and industrial crops and achiev
ed a further growth in animal
husbandry.” So stated the Mos
cow (weekly) News dated Sat
urday, November 25, 1967 and
brought hack from an extensive
tour of the Soviet Union by
Harold M Zimmerman, Ephra
ta Rl.
The Russian report under
4-H Tobacco &
Corn Show
Winners Named
The 4-H Tobacco and Corn
Show was held last Fndav at
the Bayuk Cigars Inc Ware
house
In the tobacco show Frances
and Philip Bixler, son and
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Lewis
E. Bixler, Marietta Rl, took The
top awards. Frances had the
best wrappers and Philip was
top in the filler class
The reserve championship in
wrappers went to Steven Ney,
Marietta R 1 and reserve in the
filler class went to J Richard
Thomas, Millersville HI.
In the corn show Ney had the
grand champion ears and Philip
Bixler had the reserve.
Judges for the tobacco ex
hibit were Richard Charles Jr,
and Paris Gruber, both of Bay
uk’s and A K. Mann Jr., Leaf
Tobacco dealer.
Retired Associate County
Agent Harry S. Sloat served as
judge of the corn competition.
TOBACCO SHOW WINNERS. Winners in the 4-H
Tobacco Show are Philip and Frances Bdxler, son and
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Lewis E. Bixler, Marietta Rl.
L. F. Photo
L, F. Photo
$2 Per Yea
the by-ime of Professor Nikolai
Kuznetsov, Doctor of Econom
ies, stated further, ‘The 23rd
party congress, held am the
spring of 1966, set as one of the
most important tasks, the
strengthening of the material
and technical base of Agricul
ture In the current 5-year pe
riod (1966-1970) it has been de
cided to make available nearly
1,800,000 tractors, over 1,500,000
autos and grain combines to
farms This will increase ma
chinery for use in the country
side 1.5 times ”
The newspaper 'also reported
a recent government cut in pric
es on farm machinery, spare
parts and electricity.
Zimmerman said Soviet ma
chinery (both farm and indus
triiai) is crude but it gets 'the
job done
The above mentioned article
was entitled Agriculture, More
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Dog Owners
Warned To Get
Licenses Now
Dog owners must obtain 1968
licenses for their pets ‘by Jan
uary 15, T 'Lube Toomey, Di
rector, Bureau of Dog Law En
forcement, State Department of
Agriculture, saiid (today. Penn
sylvania law require® that li
censes must be obtained on or
before that date.
Licenses are necessary for all
dogs six months of age or older.
They are on sale at the offices
of the county treasurers, or may
be ordered through any quali
fied .notary public, justice of the
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