RAY and LOIS HARBOLD Here's the Record - Look How She's Come Up Over the Years The Harbold’s Management and Miller & Bushong’s Green Pastures # 503 coarse textured dairy ration is a combination which gets results. </ ‘^ r srocK On The Splendid Record of their Cow FOBES MARIE HARTOG Start of Lactation Period 3- 2-1 4- 5- 6- 7-3 Lifetime to date For A Profitable Dairy Program and "Finest Servke Anywhere" TO OF MT. JOY, R. D. #l, PA. Lbs. of Milk 10,489 11,118 14,543 18,060 21,885 25,269 101,364 M MILLER & BUSHONG, Inc. Percent 3.6 3.7 3.8 3.8 3.9 4.0 3,902 F JUST CALL 717-392-2145 Rohrerstown, Pa. Lbs. Fat 379 416 550 695 851 1,011 Saturday, March 30,1968—7 Lancaster Farming, February Milk Earns Dairy Farmers $5.21 Dairy farmers will receive a uniform farm price of $5.21 per hundredweight (46 5 quarts) for February milk deliveries to pool handlers in the New York - New Jersey milkshed, it was recent ly announced This was the same price paid in January: $5 05 was paid in February. 1967. The producer butterfat differ ential was computed at six cents for each tenth of a pound of fat above or below the 3 5 percent standard. Receipts from producers to taled 791,696,070 pounds, a drop of 70,521,561 pounds, or 8 2 per cent, from the same month last year, A J Pollard, market ad ministrator, reported. Sales of fuhd milk (Class I) were down 11,737,149 pounds, or 2 7 per cent, to 419,936,064 pounds. Class I milk accounted for 53 percent of the pool, compared to 50 1 percent in February, 1967, Dr Pollard said Handlers paid $6 11 per hundredweight for milk received in the 201-210 mile zone and sold as fluid The administrator pointed out that there were 3,952 fewer pio ducers than last year but the number with bulk tanks increas ed by 363 Receipts from 30,592 dairymen were pooled, of whom 13,476 had tanks Average deliveries per day per producer increased by one pound to 892 pounds, he said. The number of handlers’ reports used dropped by 35 to 208. Receipts at bulk tank units in creased 13,911,966 pounds to 495,605,141 pounds, Dr Pollard said Tank milk comprised 62 6 percent of the pool, the per centage last year was 55 9 There were 46 fewer units than last year, or a total of 270 The number of plants dropped by 61 to 231. The farm value of February "s milk was $41,767,035 82. Dr Pol lard explained that this figure does not include all the differ entials paid to dairy farmers. The uniform farm price of $5.21 per hundredweight will be paid for milk testing 3 5 percent butterfat and received within 201-210 miles of New York City. iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiuiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiim Transfer Milk Efficiently From Cow to Bulk Cooler The “Sputnick” MILK-PORTER is the cleanest, most efficient method for transferring milk from cow to bulk cooler. • Manufactured from heavy gauge stainless steel. • Lid seals tightly to keep milk germ free. • Passes through openings 23’* and over. • Moves quiet and easily on rubber-tired, ball bearing wheels. • Does away with long, ex pensive pipe lines, milk pumps and releaser. • Two sizes. • Low-cost sanitizing. ' Inquire About Our Lease Plan Approved for City of Philadelphia Amos H. Rutt R. D. 2, Quarryville, Penna. 386-3897 ' IllllllllllllllilllililllllllllllllllllllliU
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