- CUSTOMRATISFORSEUCTED farming operations lok CORN PLANTING: Without fertilizer With fertilizer DRILLING SMALL GRAIN; Without fertilizer With fertilizer With fertilizer and cloverseed drilling soybeans PLANTING POTATOES - ... ~ SEEDING ALFALFA, CLOVER; ETC. . BROADCAST SEEDING (on grain fields) CLEANING GRAIN SEED: Without treatment With treatment GROUND APPLICATION: Spraykj&.fop v;eed control* Spraying, other herbicides* SPRAYING FORCORN BORER; ' Including material Excluding-material ' SPRAYING FOR SPITTLEBUG . OR ALFALFA WEEVIL; . Including material Excluding material SPRAYING POTATOES: Including material Excluding material SPREADING BULK FERTILIZER: Dry Liquid Side dressing GRINDING FEED: Corn, oats or barley Corn and cobs Cobs Additional charge for mixing MACHINE TILING (No tile) BACK HOE SAWING WOOD, Chain saw POST HOLE DIGGING MANURE LOADING ■ MANURE SPREADING BULL DOZING Machinery Custom Rates (Continued from Page 16) of a chemical weed killer, was * .... on a. x * also reported at $2.75 per acre, erage of $9.80. A few of the oth- er models reported and the range A number of reporters speci of the rates charged included: fled hourly rates for field work D-2, $6 to $7; D-6, $9.50 to $12.50; where the questionnaire includ- D-7, $l5 to $l6; D-8, $l2 to $18; only rates ner acre This TD 6,18 to $10; and TD 9, 89 to iouS S * ’ are becoming more common, al- One custom operator-reported though an hourly rate without applying MH-30, for tobacco the size of equipment doesn’t sucker control for $2O per acre, furnish an adequate picture. A Corn- planting, with application few of - the hourly rates which • f . /> you knbw how much milk our cows can really give? Ad you ever hear of a poultryman who ;hered his eggs and then decided how -h feed to give his hens? Or of a hog in ,who weighed his pigs and then ided how much feed they ought to next day? lut how many dairymen do you know ' weigh Bossy's milk, then decide how h feed to give her? doesn’t make sense, does it? Wayne's New Concept Dairy Feeding •gram doesl It leads Bossy into high •duction with high grain feeding FIRST. HEISEY FARM SERVICE .awn Ph. 653-5718 H. M. STAUFFER .& SONS, INC. - ■ - Witmer H. JACOB HOOBER . • Intercourse, Pa. :_C. E.SAUDER & SONS I, East Earl Buis of Mountain Valley The Charge Section Section State PLANTING AND DRILLING 2.55 2.40 2.45 2.95 2.90 2.90 Acre Acre Acre 2.55 2.35 2.45 Acre 2.80 2.80 2.80 Acre 2.85 3.00 2.05 PLANTING AND DRILLING (Cont.) $ 2.65 4.90 2.65 1.30 Acre Acre Acre Acre Bushel Bushel .15 .21 SPRAYING Acre Acre 2.05 1.80 1.85 1.80 Acre Acre 3.50 3.40 2.15 1.75 Acre Acre 4.20 4.35 2.00 1.85 Acre Acre 5.00 5.50 2.50 2.25 MISCELLANEOUS Acre Acre Acre 1.85 1.60 1.95 1.50 2.30 1.50 Cwt. Cwt. Cwt. Cwt. Rod Hour Hour Hole Hour Hour ' Hour were reported included: CORN PICKING (1) 2 row, $lO per hour. (2) $8 per hour. (3) with 2 unloading wagons, $l2 per hour. CORN. FIELD SHELLING (1) $l5 per hour. (2) $l2 per hour. (3) $l3 per hour. COM BINING SMALL GRAINS (D 10 foot self-propelled combine $l2 per hour. (2) self-propelled $lO per hour. (3) $l4 per hour. (4) $l3 per hour. PLOWING, (1) 4-bottom $lO per hour. (2) $3.90 per hour. A sampling of the other cus tom rates volunteered by report- MOUNTVILLE FEED SERVICE E. D. 2, Columbia HERSHEY BROS. BOHRER’S MILL GRUBB SUPPLY CO. MILLERSVILLE DUTCHMAN FEED SUPPLY CO. MILLS, INC. Millersville R. D. 1, Stevens $ 2.70 5.10 2.45 1.55 $ 2.85 5.20 2.30 1.65 .19 .20 .23 .08 2.20 7.90 4.45 .27 4.80 4.05 10.60 Then you adjust to. the most profitable level, after you’ve learned how much milk Bossy can really give. More daftymen every day are discover ing the advantages of Wayne’s New Concept Dairy Feeding Program, how Wayne's high-quality, multi-sourced In gredients pay off in the milk pail. It works for them •—lt can work for YOU. Come in and talk it over. WHITE OAK MILL R. D. 4, Manheim Reinholds ■R. D. 1. Ronks USDA Sets Hearing July 30 On Delaware Valley Milk Order The U.S. Department of Agri culture will hold a public hear ing July 30 in Philadelphia, Pa., to consider proposed amend ments to the Delaware Valley Federal milk marketing order. USDA’s Consumer and Mar keting Service officials said the hearing will begin at 9:30 a.m.. in the Carlton Room of the Syl vanltf Hotel, Locust Street at Juniper, Philadelphia. It was re quested by Lehigh Valley Coop erative Farmers, and proposals also have been submitted by In ter-State Milk Producers’ Coop erative, Northeast Dairy Cooper ative Federation, Inc., and Dairy men’s League Cooperative Asso ciation. 1.90 1.80 3.45 1.85 Proposals for the hearing con cern the location adjustments made in prices at milk plants outside the base pricing zone, to 4.30 1.90 5.40 2.25 ers included: SILO FILLING (1) $5 to $6 per foot. (2) 12 feet diameter $4 per foot, 10 feet di ameter $3 per foot. (3) 2-row forage harvester, 2 tractors, 3 self-unloading wagons, blower; $l6 per hour plus $1 per foot for 10 feet diameter silo, $1.50 per foot for 12 feet diameter silo, $2 per foot for 14 feet diameter silo, $2.50 per foot for 16 feet di ameter silo. CORN FIELD SHELLING 10c per bushel. DRY ING GRAIN (1) 10c per bushel from 25% to 15%, or about 1c per point of moisture removed with minimum of 10c per bushel. (2) 10c per bushel. (3) 10c per bushel minimum or l%c per 1% of moisture removed. MOWING AND CRUSHING HAY (1) $4 per acre. (2) $3 per acre SPREADING FERTILIZER (1) dry $5 per ton. (2) dry $5 50 per ton. (3) liquid nitrogen 12c per unit. THRESHING WITH SEP ARATOR wheat 11c per bushel, oats B%c per bushel, barley 9V2C per bushel. HARVESTING PO TATOES 2 row harvester, trac tor, and 1 man $5O per acre. COMBINE, CUT, and HAUL cannery peas $6O per acre. 1.70 1.70 2.10 FOWL’S FEED SERVICE R. D. 1, Quarryville R. D. 2, Peach Bottom PARADISE SUPPLY Paradise Elizabethtown Lancaster Farming, Saturday, July 27,1968 help offset the cost of transport ing milk from production to con suming centers. The hearing proposals, vari ously, would enlarge the inner market base zone where the lo cation price adjustments are not made, and revise the rates of dif ferentials to be applied to prices at plants outside the base zone. The inner market base zone now comprises an area 45 miles from the nearest of three pricing points Philadelphia, Trenton, or Atlantic City, C&MS officials said. After considering the evidence presented at the hearing, USDA will decide whether the order should be amended in any of the ways proposed. Everyone inter ested would then have an op portunity to submit exceptions or comments on this decision. Any exceptions or comments would be considered by USDA before issuance of a final deci sion to be submitted to dairy farmers for approval. Copies of the hearing notice may be obtained from Market Administrator L. S. Iverson, 15* Walnut St., Philadelphia, Pa. 19102; or from the Dairy Divi sion, Consumer and Marketing Service, U S. Department of Ag riculture, Washington D.C. 20250. The deepest mine shaft direct from surface in the Western Hemisphere will be Internation al Nickel’s Creighton No. 9 m the Sudbury District of Ontario —now being sunk to a depth of almost a mile and a half. Deepest Mine 17
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