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.
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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"
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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.
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