Egg Production Up
Eight Percent In May
HARRISBURG Penns.Uvan
ip’s lajmg flock produced an esti
mated 291 million eggs m May,
up 3 percent fiom a year ago.
The increase was attributed to a
6 percent increase in flock size
fiom May, 1968.
Average puce received by
farms for all eggs declined 6
cents from April, but was 2 cents
above a year ago. However, this
was the second month to show a
sizeable decrease in egg price,
according to the Pennsylvania
Crop Reporting Service.
Thin Vine Crops
Vine crops in the vegetable
garden do best if thinned to 2
or 3 plants in the hill or to stand
12 to 15 inches apart in the
row, reminds Robert F. Fletch
er, extension vegetable specia
list at The Pennsylvania State
University Pinch or cut off
plants to be discarded.
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USDA Reports Decline In
Farm Mortgage Loan Volume
Farmers borrowed less mort
gage money from major lending
groups in 1968 than in 1967, and
unless current high interest
rates and competition from ur
ban borrowers relax the down
trend will continue this year,
according to a report released
recently by the U.S. Department
of Agriculture.
Volume of new farm mort
gage money loaned by 19 life
insurance firms, Federal land
banks, and the Farmers Home
Administration dipped 8 per
cent in 1968 to $1.58 billion and
was 21 percent under the high
mark of 1965, USDA’s Economic
Research Service stated.
Interest rates for Federal
land banks and life insurance
farm mortgage loans climbed
higher in the last half of 1968
and reached an all time peak by
year’s end Most of the drop in
loan volume in 1968 came in the
second half of the year. The
$6lB million loaned from July
thiough December 1968 was 27
percent below the year earlier
period, the report noted.
The total 'of farm mortgage
loans outstanding December 31,
1968 was $l2 4 billion Although
this amount was about 6 percent
above a year earlier, it was only
2 percent more than six months
before. Rising interest rates
and urban demand for money
had reduced borrowing by farm
eis.
The report indicates the slack
ening in the volume of new
farm mortgage loans is expect
ed to continue through the first
half of this year. Advance com
mitments by life insurance com
panies in the second half of
1968 were for loans of $304
million, 37 percent below allo
cations in the comparable 1967
period and eqaul to the amount
in the tight money period of
late 1966.
In the last half of 1968, life
insurance firm loans averaged
$69,040, a 26 peicent rise over
that period of 1967. Average
loans made by land banks foi
second half 1968 were $25,410,
down about 6 percent
Summer Heat Hard On
Farm Equipment
While winter weather is
damaging, summer sun and heat
also shortens the life of farm
equipment, say extension agri
cultural engineers at The Penn
sylvama State University. As
equipment becomes more “so
phisticated” and expensive, it
pays even more to keep it under
cover when not in use.
The width of Africa is about
the same as its length
Lancaster Farming. Saturday. June 21,1969
SECOND SECTION
Milk Production Up
One Percent In May
HARRISBURG—MiIk pioduc
tion on Pennsylvania faims total
ed 664 million pounds in May. an p(nk consumptlon m 1963 , at
xnciease of one pei cent horn a pounds pei pcison m the
far earlier, but aown 4 peicent Umte * States f
was at its highest
fiom Ma>, 1967. point since 1959, according to
„ David E Noller, Sigourney, lowa,
The Pennsylvania Crop Re- retlimg chairman of the Pork
porting Service estimated the j ndustry Committee of the Na
mimber of cows in milking heids tlonal Live stock and Meat
at 726,000 or 3,000 below a year Board The committee met Mon
earlier Production per cow dur- d - n conjunction with the 46th
mg May at 915 pounds showed A al Mee t m g of the Meat
the usual seasonal advance, but Board
was up 15 pounds from the same
month in 1963. In an effort to keep eonsurap-
The average price received for in response to strong consumer
milk during May was estimated demand, the Pork Industry Com
at $5 85 per hundredweight, 31 mittee, in cooperation with the
cents above a year earliei (Continued on Page 20)
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