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ORGANIC PLANT FOOD CO.
Grofftown Road P.O. Box 132
Lancaster, Pa.
392-4963 or 392-0374
YOUR COMPLETE SERVICE COMPANY
BABCOCK HATCHERY, INC.
BOX 285, LITITZ, PA.
Where in the World is Babcock? . * • Wherever eggs are produced at a profit!
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FERTILIZER
Scattered Cases Of
Sheep' Scab Reported
Stale Agriculture Department
loprcsentatives aie checking
sheep flocks in Pennsylvania
alter scatteied cases of sheep
scab weie reported in six coun
ties
Dr Homei S Foiney, of the
Depaitment’s Bureau of Animal
Indusliy, said 246 animals weie
found o be infested and 320
otheis exposed to the disease
He said all of those animals had
been dipped, under state or fed
c-ial supei vision, to destioy
mites that cause skin scab
He mged sheep glowers to
nvoid bunging any infested or
exposed animals onto their
faims Sheep scab, he added,
damages hide and wool and ser
iously loweis the maiket value
of animals infested by the
disease
Six yeais ago, Pennsylvania
had gained scab free status aftei
intensive campaign to eliminate
tne disease from sheep flocks in
the state Theie aie more than
200,000 sheep on Pennsylvania
larms, and more than 30,000
have been inspected since the
fust of the yeai, Dr Foiney
said
The six counties m which
cases of scab have been reported
aie Chester, Dauphin, Franklin,
Juniata, Lehigh and Mifflin
WE
tfON
BABCOCK POULTRY
FARM, INC.
Ithaca,
New York
According to results published in
the U. S. D. A. 2-year combined
summary of Random Sample Egg
Production Tests, 1966-67 and
1967 - 68, Babcock Beat All Com-
petition In Income Over Feed and
Chick Costs.
PH. 626-8561
Lancaster Farming. Saturday, February 15.1969
Counting Farmers’ Noses To Be
Done By Mail In ’69 Ag Census
The census taker won’t be
paying farmers a visit next year
Instead, the 1969 Census of
Agucultuie will be taken by a
questionnane, mailed—not this
January—but in January 1970
Faimers are lequired by law to
complete and mail back the ques
tionnaire within a icasonable
time Followup procedures will
be used to obtain missing ie
poits
This “mail out, mail in” tech
nique should piove cheapei than
the “knock-on dooi” method us
ed in 1964 and earliei yeais
Formerly, paid enumeiators
called on all farm opeiators to
help them complete the question
nan es
Next year, though, faimers
and ranchers will be on their
own when it comes to filling out
and returning the forms. It’s
assumed they have faim recoids
to serve as a guide
Some statistical items will be
rtported in 1969 only for faims
with sales of $2,500 or more
Typical items aie acies of crops
n ngated, number of wheel-type
vei sus crawler-type tractors,
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.icies of alfalfa hat vested,
number of icgular hired work
tis, tons of diy and liquid fer
lilzer used, acres of ma)oi ciops
fcililized, acies limed, mventoiy
numbers of cattle, hogs, and
sneep by age-sex classes, and
number of giain-fed cattle sold.
In most lespects, howevei. the
1&69 Census and what it covers
will be comparable to 1964 and
cailici censuses
The definition of a faim has
not been changed Places of less
than 10 acies will be counted as
farms if 1969 sales of agncul
tmal pioducts are at least $250
Places of 10 acres oi moie will
also qualify as faims if sales
amount to at least $5O
Principal data items foi all
farms aie total numbei of
farms, acres in farms, aveiage
value of land and buildings per
faim, ciopland harvested, total
land irngated, acreage devoted
to seven major ciops, and num
bers of major kinds of livestock
on the farm
And all farmers m all counties
vvil! be asked again to give their
age, value of all farm products
sold (including foiest products),
days of off-farm work, recrea
tion income, numbei of autos,
trucks, tarctois, combines, and
corn pickers (including corn
heads foi combines)
Expenditure questions will in
clude, as usual, pm chases of
feed, feitilizer, pesticides, lime,
gaiolme and other faim fuels,
machine hue, farm labor, and
livestock and poultiy purchases.
In Januaiy 1971 there will be
a followup census of major pro
duction tiends on the specialized
faiming operations which pro
duce most of our Nation’s food
and fiber
Plans for these supplemental
census surveys are still on the
di awing board, but they might
go something like this
Dairymen who repozt dairy
sales of $lO,OOO 01 more in 1969
might be asked Was any feed
gunding or mixing done on your
farm’ What type of milking
pailor did you have’ What did
you spend on health products’
Other specialized pioduction
foi which this soit of additional
imput 01 output data may be as
sembled aie fiuit, vegetables,
livestock, poultiy, cash gram,
tobacco, othei field crops, field
seeds, hay, and miscellaneous
items (including horticultuie).
Of comse, faimeis and eveiy
one esle will be paiticipatmg in
the Census of Population and
Housing, to be taken as of April
1, 1970 This census will be the
pi unary source of data on chai
cctenstics of farm and nonfaun
people and housing Occupation
in 1970 veisus 1965, education,
and net faimjncome after oper
anng expenses aie some of the
facts to be lecoided
The U S Office of Education
is downgiadmg Vo-Ag education
by ieducing it to a paittime job
at the Washington level, cutting
out jobs, kicking the Future
Fanners of America out of its
quarters i n a Fedeial office
building Under a “reoigamza
lion” announced Dec 27, 1968,
the Chief of Agncultural Ser
vices has been i educed to a pro
gram officer, and has been al
located only part-time respon
sibilities for agricultural edu
cation The agncultmal staff
v, as relegated to regional offices,
and its personnel no longer
designated as piogram officers.
The office of the executive
secretary of the Futuie Farmers
of America is now a part-time
operation The Office of Educa
tion says it will provide ser
vices of an employee to serve
as advisor to FFA “on request.”
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