26—Lancaster Farming. Saturday. May 10. 1960 GUERNSEY by Cynthia Rainier, Club Reporter mg and fitting demonstration The Lancaster County Guern- given by Debra Crider, Jesse, sey 4-H Club met Tuesday, May Cynthia, and Cheryl Balmer. 6, 1969 at the home of Margaret Shope. Joyce Stoltzfus gave a NEW HOLLAND COMMUNITY report on her experience at Penn State with the judging Lillie Lapp team Vic Plastow told who The New Holland 4-H Com- START NOW!... Start your spring fertilizing program —- • Top dress small grains with 30 - 60 lbs. of Nitrogen, NOW! • Top dress pastures with 60 -100 lbs. of Nitrogen, NOW! • Prepare alfalfa seedbeds by plowing down phosphorus and potash, NOW! • Plan your corn program around ANHYDROUS AMMONIA, the most economical nitrogen, and Master Farmer BULK BLENDS. For Complete Field Service Call Your FULL SERVICE COMPANY ORGANIC PLANT FOOD CO. Grofftown Road P. O. Box 132 Lancaster, Pa. for pre-emergence weed control in corn... UIBOX plus ATRAZINE This combination gives you the best from both. We recommend it I Smoketown, Pa. Phone 397-3539 the winners were on the judg ing team. Rodney and Curvin Dcnlingcr gave n demonstration on Summer Feeding. The next meeting will be hold June 3. 1969 at the home of Jesse, Cynthia and Cheryl Balmer. There will be a show- 392-4963 or 392-0374 inunily Club met recently nt the home of Mrs. Woodrow Good to elect officers. Elected were - Dixie Good, President; El vin Lapp, Vice President; Mary Fisher, Secretary; Jo Leen Sin clair, Treasurer; Rodney Den lingcr and Becker Sadler, Game Leaders: Curvin Dcnlingcr, Song Leader; Mary Fisher and Rodney Denlinger, County Council; Lillie Lapp, News Re porter, The club meets the third Monday of every month. LITITZ MANHEIM The Lititz-Manheim Commun ity 4H Club held its second meet ing of the year at the Farm and Home Center on April 10th, 1969. The business meeting was led by •he Vice President, Dale Shenk. It was decided that the club will sell french fries at horse shows on April 19th and May 11th. After the business meeting a movie about family camping was shown by Mr. Plastow. The Executive Committee also met at the home of the Presi dent, John Fisher, to discuss future meetings and their activ ities. People who speak lovingly of the ties of friendship never re ceived some of the birthday pre sents hanging in our closet PUT A HOLE IN YOUR SILO y New speed... New muscle New John Deere 50 Side-Mounted Mower The 1,800 strokes-per-minute cutting speed of the John Deere 50 Side- Mounted Mower really drops hay in a hurry. The 50 is strong, too. Parts are considerably heavier than those in other side-mounted mowers. The pitmanless balanced drive keeps the mower running smoothly . . . quietly. You’ll find the 50 an easy mower to maintain, too. See us for details on this addition to The Long Green Line. Ask aßout our Credit Plan. ' Shotzberger's 665-2141 Elm Wenger Implement, Inc. Tte Buck 2844141 • Role Of Corporate Fnrm Prices Dcc,ired (Continued from Pago 17) one-third of the corporate farms and two-thirds of the land in corporate units was in Florida and Texas. Regionally, corpora tion holdings ranged fiom less than 0 5 percent of the commer cial farms and 2-3 percent of the land in farms in Appalachia and the Southern Plains, to 2 percent ol the units and 11 percent of the acreage in the Southeast, Corporations generally control a greater share of the land they operate than do other commer cial farms —more than three fouiths of the corporations own ed all the land they farmed Corporations owned by individ uals were dominant in full own ership operations. About one-third of the corpora tions had estimated sales of less than $40,000 and one-tenth had sales of $500,000 or more. The leport states slightly over half the corporate units m this latter category were family controlled The earlier study found about 40 percent of the corporations had gross sales of undei $40,000 and 6 percent with at least $500,000. Corporation-run farms have increased in number fn recent years because a changing tech nology and marketing system demands greater capital mvest- Jamesway Big Jim silage distributor-unloader for 24* and 30’ diameter silos delivers big-herd volume down hole in middle of silage into con* veyor below. ;*v3fe: You get lowest storage cost per ton, unsup* passed surface-level distribution, automatic rais* ing, and quick change-over from filling to feeding. You can change from filling to feeding out (and vice versa) in about one minute. It’s simple! *1 v You also get a choice of bottom conveyor-* either double chain conveyor or Jumbo auger con* veyor. LANDIS BROS., INC. 1305 Manheim Pike, Lancaster, Pa. 17601 M. S. Yearsley;& Sons/*' Landis Bros. Inc. West Chester' ’ 609-2&90 " Lancaster 393-3906 Prices received by Pennsyl vania farmers declined two per cent in April the Crop Reporting Service has announced The average price rece.ved tor eggs in April was 38 tents a dozen, five cents below the March price. Other price changes were milk, down 15 cents a hundredweight 1 hogs down 20 cents a cwt.; U-oilers down 15 cents a poui’d- and wheat, down one cent a oushel. Milk cow prices, however, reached a record high ->f $350 per head in April, up 5-5 from March. The price for these ani mals has been increasing .-'eadily during the last four yeai U S farmer prices we = down three-fourths of one . ercent. Higher beef cattle prices par tially offset price declr es for eggs, milk, lettuce and o .mges. ment The corpoiate s r .ucture offers business advantages un available in sole proprietorship or partnerships. While nearly half of all farm corporations in the 25 States were m business before 1960, according to the survey, 42 percent be-an be tween 1960-66, and nine percent during 1967 and the fiist half of 1868, Phone 393-3906 A. B. C. Groff, Inc. New Holland 354-4191
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