Dairy Profits Increase
With Outlook Favorable
Dairy farmers have come paid to farmers for milk have
upon bettei times. While prices increased about one-fourth since
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1965, costs for feed and other
items have gone up less, accord
ing to William Pierce, profes
sor of agricultural economics at
The Pennsylvania State Univer
sity.
The result is an abrupt turn
around in the financial condi
tion of dairy farmers within the
past five years, Dr. Pierce sajs
in the Fall issue of "Science in
Agriculture,” the quarterly
magazine of the Agricultural
Experiment Station at Penn
State. Until 1964 and 1965,
prices farmers received for milk
declined slowly while feed costs
were steady or moved gradually
upward.
Dr. Pierce indicates that the
farm price for milk improved
because milk production went
down. This change to less milk
production was influenced by
good prices for cull dairy cows
and unusually good opportuni
ties for nonfarm employment
He says these conditions aie
continuing.
In tho. United States, the gam
in the farm price for milk went
up from $4 23 per hundred
pounds in 1965 to $5 25 in 1968.
an increase of $lO2 or nearly
one-fourth In Pennsylvania, the
average price for milk sold to
dealers rose $ll5 per hundred
weight, also an increase of near
ly one-fourth Prices have con
tinued upward in 1969 but the
gam over last year is slowing
down.
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ALL THE MILK YOU SHOULD?
How much milk SHOULD you get from your herd?
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will answer both questions. Stop in and we will show
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S ELMER M. SHREINER
Trading as Good’s Feed Mill
Specializing in DAIRY & HOG FEEDS
New Providence, Pa.
■iNceiß7« Phone 786-2500
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Lancaster Farming. Saturday, November 29, 1969
Hunters Advised On
Hog Cholera Spread
Hunters, fishermen and other
outdoor spoitsmen are urged to
help prevent spread of Hog
Cholera virus.
The virus, which does not af
fect humans, is highly conta
gious and destructive to swine.
It can be carried on shoes, cloth
ing, auto tires, and on animals,
such as hunting dogs
The disease is a serious threat
to the state’s large and economi
cally important swine industry.
Since July, 72 swine herds, total
ling 13,000 head, valued at more
than a half-million dollars, have
been destroyed
Cold weather has no effect on
the virus, and persons or ani
mals moving thru a farm or
other area wheie the virus is
can readily spread it over a
wide area
Maryland Livestock Sanitary
Service director, Dr. T A Lad
son, says it is vital that the fol
lowing precautions be observed:
Do not hunt on or allow dogs
near hogs or hot lots
Avoid farms that have swine
and keep away from fields or
any areas where swine are seen.
Report any dead swine yon
see to the Game Warden or any
vetei manan
The lower portion of the East
ern Shore, an area popular with
outdoorsmen, has been especial
ly hard hit by the swine disease.
A quarantine on swine is still in
force in parts of Wicomico,
Worcester and Somerset Coun
ties
Paimeis and those involved
in the swine industiy aie aware
of the pioblem and aie coopeia
ting fully in the effect to con
trol the disease
“But now we have an entire
ly new group of people many
of them fiom uiban and subur
ban areas moving into the
countryside completely unaware
of the situation,” Dr Ladson
points out
“I hope we can make people
understand the threat, and help
us prevent any spread of this
veiy destructive swine disease."
Dr Ladson emphasizes that
hog cholera has no effect on hu
mans, and that “it does not in
any way have any effect whatso
ever on pork or pork products
for humgn consumption ”
Pork-Barrel Legislation
By “pork-barrel legislation” is
meant bills enacted to provide
appropriations for political pur
poses to a special gioup or re-
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