PENNSYLVANIA EGG
PRODUCTION UP 5%
The Commonwealth's laying
flock produced 287 million curs
during March, 5 peuent moie
than a year eariiei and 13 pei
cent greater than the Fehuiary.
More farmers each
month prefer to buy
their
• EAR CORN
• HAY • STRAW
from us for better value and all around satisfaction.
At farm or delivered, any quantity as your require
ments may be.
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Maneuvering for work around hedges, trees,
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V-belt idler clutch with brake pedal. Rugged
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1969 production. Rate of lay is
a record high for the month, and
is 2 percent higher than the
same month last year. Most of
the pei centage changes in
monthly production leflcct the
vanable number of days in the
lespective months
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ENOUGH m the TASK
The number of layers in the
State decreased only slightly
from Fcbiuary, but is 3 pci cent
larger than a year ago.
The avciagc pi ice received by
r armeis foi all eggs dunng
Muich is estimated at 43 cents
9 cents higher than a yeai eaiher
and up 1 cent fiom the aveiage
pi ice in Fcbi uaiy
The Fcbiuaiy, 1969 egg type
hatch was 1.976,000, up 2 per
cent from Febiuary, 1968 and
15 percent more than the Jan
uaiy hatch. This increase fiom
the January hatch is seasonal.
Stocks of all eggs in cold
storage February 28, 1969 were
1,474,000 cases, 29 percent less
than the February 29, 1968
holdings.
The oases of deseit areas in
tropical lands are usually the
most intensively cultivated
areas in the woild
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out being told seem to diaw the
biggest check
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NEBA Voting Delegates Meet
m bicc\l ng be.iei
Dauv Cattle through Ren,nth
was the theme of the fifth Vn
nual meeting of Delegates and
Dnectoisol Noitheastein Hieed
e’s Association at Tunkhannock
on Apul 1, 1969
Di J. O AlmqUiSt. Dacctoi
of the Penn State Univeisity
Dany Cattle Bleeding Research
Center, leviewed the many ex
periments conducted at Penn
Slate for the purpose of breed
ing better Dairy Cattle This
work has led to improved breed
ing efficiency throughout the
AI Industry and has enabled
the service of many outstanding
sres to be extended a thousand
fold over normal possibilities.
Thirty to fifty thousand cows
are being bred in one year to
the grestest production proved
Sires through frozen semen and
artificial insemination, 'due to
research conquests
Di. Almquist addiesce' 75
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Lancaster Farming, Saturday. April li). 1969
Delegates, Dnoctois. Staff mem
bus and quests ol NEB \ at the
’iunkliannoek (Range Hall The
attending Delegates le elected
thiee Dncctois lot new llnee
veai teims to conduct NEB Vs
business in 50 counties in Penn
sxlvania and New Jeisej. Re
e'ected by vote of the Delegates
piesent weie John Schwenk of
Allentown, Distncl 11, Geoige
Butler ot Wellsboio, District
111 and Edwaid Fhtcraft of
Woodstown, New Jersey, Dis
tract IV
Following the Annual meeting
of Voting Delegates, the NEBA
Board of Directois reorganized
for the 1969-1970 opeiating year
and re-elected Ira Yodei of Sel
insgrove, Pa , President Edward
Fhtciaft of Woodstown New Jer
sey, Vice Piesident, and John
Epler of Northumberland, Pa.,
Tieasurer William Schaefer of
Tunkhannock was reinstated as
Secretary to the Board with
Hugh Pfaff, Tunkannock and
Henry Schraggei, Trenton, New
Jersey as Assistants F P Shan
non was renamed Assistant Trea
surei
F P Shannon, NEBA Gen
eral Managei, told the Delegates
tnat 1968 was our most success
ful year, pei nutting NEBA to
wipe out previous operating de
ficits, and that the present year
is the best ever He emphasized
that today NEBA provides many
services to patrons In addition
to our own A I proven sires we
also secure other sires for ■dairy
men, sell nitrogen and refriger
ated tanks, train Dairymen who
Wish to do so to inseminate their
own herds, and collect, process,
and semen fiom Sires owned by
members or patrons of the Co
operative on a custom basis
'Mr Shannon President Ira
Yoder and Edward Flitcraft des
cubed Federation studies aimed
at the possible amalgamation of
thu teen Breeding Cooperatives
into a Fedeiation Several bull
sfuds would produce the semen
for all member organizations.
NEBA facilities would be high
on the pnonty list of semen
producing studs due to their
modem barns and laboratory
and to the possibilities for ex
pansion at NEBA
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