50—Lancaster Farming. Saturday. April 20.1968
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Farm Situation Data
Wheat Satisfactory: Wheat atari In the fall. A yield of 34.0
prospects are now quite satis- bushel* J? ol '
factory, accordion to the Penn- cast. This co "JPf r s*
evlvania Crop Reporting Scr- bushel* per acre for the 1967
vice. Much of the acreage had and a 8-year' forages of
Mile or no snow cover during 31.1 huiliols. s cstl-
February and March. Tempera- mated at 14,076.000 “uahels,
turcs were low and there were down more than 3 million
strong drying winds. With bushels and 19 percent from a
warmer weather fields greened year ago.
up surprisingly well. There was Rccord mgh Corn s toc k s:
some winter-kill but this was orn j n s t ora g e on Pennsylvania
i.icsliy limited to late planted f arms was a recorc j high level
fields which got off to a poor for April j At 49,439,000 bush
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Recency completed records by 2
Lancaster County Poultrymsn
272 eggs per bird
3,87 feed conversion
433 dajs*
(90% Giade A eggs last pickup)
Cage Operation
Floor Operation 264 eggs per bird
3.77 feed conversion
352 days*
Records started at 20 wks of age
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oil the quantity 1* about normal In «ome oroai will dried out totaled 273,000,000 tggi during
for January I corn holdlngi. enough to permit manure March. On a dally baiii egg pro-
Barley itocki on forma are alio spreading and icnrto early plow- duction wai over 1 Percent
at a record high and wheat Ing. Fall icodod graini ihowcd more than the February 1008
itocki the hlghcit for the date conilderablc Improvement ai a production and illghtly higher
In many yoari. Onti on farms remit of warmer weather. than the March 1007 figure. A
totaled 7.808,000 bu.. about one- The daily rate of feeding dC *
fifth higher than a year ago but grain and concentrntci wai 18.5 c ‘ ine ,n numbcr of l°y cr »-
alio one-fifth ihort of average, poundi per cow In March. .2 Pennsylvania poultrymon had
Farm Wage Rates Up: .Farm pound more than February and over 1 percent fewer layers on
wage rates arc up in all cate- ,1 pound more than March 1007, hand during March 1068 com
gorics. Competition with Indus- The amount of grain fed to pro- pared with the year earlier fi
try for available manpower cap- duce 1000 pounds of milk de- gure. The number of layers on
able of handling modern farm creased .4 pound from February hand during March declined 1
equipment is responsible. but was 2.5 pounds more than a percent from the previous
Production Slump Continues year earlier. month. The April 1 rate of lay
For the seventh consecutive Preliminary estimates indi- was 1.5 percent more than a
month. Pennsylvania milk pro- cate that there were 733,000 month earlier but only half a
duction per cow has fallen be- milk cows on Pennsylvania percent more than for April 1
low year ago levels. Although farms during March, 17,000 less last year.
daily production per cow aver- than a year earlier. The rate of Th averace Drice rece ived by
aged more than a pound higher decline in cow numbers has p ennsv]vania f armers # or a ll
in March than in February, slowed down sharply from the £ L d during March was 34
monthly output per cow for the‘high rate of previous years. Cow diaS 2 cent? less
month was 50 pounds less than numbers declined bv 40,000 or 5.. t . p ’ IQfi o
a year earlier Many reporters percent from March 1965 to iS" 1968 dnd the
indicate that they have fed all March 1966. The March 1966- Iwmcn iyo ' puce
their good hay and are now 1967 decline of 27,000 was ap- Pennsylvania hatch erymen
forced to feed hay of poorer proximately Z x k percent, while produced 3.3 million egg-type
quality Total milk production the decline of 17,000 from chicks during January-Febru
of 579 million pounds was 8 March 1967-1968 was only 2 per- ary. 25 pei cent less than the
percent below a year ago, with cent. Abundant feed and im- comparable hatch in 1967 The
2 percent fewer cows. proved milk prices are primari- United States egg-type hatch
Weather conditions during ly responsible for the leveling during January-February 1968
March continued cold and windy off of cow numbers. was 71.6 million egg -1 yp e
for the first part of the month. 273 Million Eggs chicks, down 18 percent from
with the last week very mild Pennsylvania egg production 1967.
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