ft LancnMer Farming, Saturday, June 20.1070
Local Egg Man Concerned
About Market, Sees Hope
Despite the gloomy egg mar
ket pictine which the egg typo
chick hatch pi ejects, Tom Smith
of I. M Shcaffei, Ephiata.
teims the oveiall situation at
this time "awful muddx."
While the laycis hatched in
.lanuaiy should be coming on
the maiket this month. Smith
said the actual situation shows
“nothing good" available any
wheie in the countiy in 20 to 22
week old pullets, the icady to
lay age
He attubutes this lack of new
laveis to a high incidence of
Marek’s disease, while 10 to
12 week old pullets now aie
plentiful and of good quality,
he noted that it's noimally an
othei six weeks befoie Maiek’s
will begin to take its toll on
these buds "Many of the pul
lets now available aie so full of
disease nobody wants them,”
Smith said
But Smith conceded that if
these later buds do come into
pioduction without significant
reduction in numbeis thiough
some means, such as Maiek’s
it could put majoi downwaid
piessuie on the egg market in
July and August
He also noted a heavy inci
dence of moulting in some
areas and continuation of the
trend towaid iccoid egg type
chick hatch in many paits of
the country in May
On the other hand, the fu
:ures maiket for eggs has been
stiong in the past 10 days and
"bieakcrs arc looking for eggs,"
both favoiable signs Bt caking
stock is reported low. lower
than a year ago
Overall. Smith secs a steadv
market which actually may go
higher in the next few weeks,
but with the market beyond
that point highly unceitain
Under prices prevailing this
week. Smith says the more effi
cient operators are making a
profit: the huge egg maiket is
actually a little higher than a
year ago But medium and
small egg prices aie considei
ably lower than a year ago and
opeiatois with eggs in these
categones aie losing money, he
said
Guernsey Sales
The Penns\han'a Golden
Cuemse> News June edition ic
poits the following =a’es which
niaj be of mtei est to local dauj
men
June 25 12 30 pin, 273 id gut tne tobacco looks good
Special Sale. Lancastei Sales t j ld j has been planted. Smith
Pavilion SFlc)
Jul> 16 —l2 30 pm, Busv ‘ ln fact> • tne CO in mop looks
Brook Faims Guemsej Dispel- %eiy good al thls po int —a!
sal, Leroj G Blouch, Jonestown, though di> woathei can still hint
ovvnei, at the Association Sales glowing season has
Pavilion. Lancastei, managed bv ‘ been vei . f aVo iable to agncul
thePGßA tine"
Julj 23 12 30 pm, Foiest The fj rs t cut 0 f b a> and alfalfa
Pieston 11, Oxfoid, Pa , Guemsej bave h een made and the second
Dispei sal, at the Association clop | s “ CO mmg along rapidlj,”
Sales Pavilion, Lancaster, man- b said
aged by the P B G A
July 25 11 00 am. Lake the farm managed jointly bv the
Louise Faim Dispersal, Raj mond PGBA and the Merrjman Co.
Goennger. owner, Dallas, Pa . at Sparks, Md
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In Atlanta To Hit Egg Bust
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should take steps to make sure
they me slaughtcied instead of
ie-sold for foice-molting else
where.
Regional Coopei alive membeis
of UEP have pledged fuit sup
port in informing their member
pioduceis about the program.
In a sepaiate booklet “Action
Wet Weather Stalling
Tobacco; Crops Growing
Lancastei Countv tobacco
planting is still limning behind
schedule and is only one-half to
two thuds finished
But one week of good, di >
v eathei and "we’ll be back on
schedule’’ accoiding to Max
Smith, Lancastei Countv agu
cultmal agent Tobacco planting
is noimallj completed bv Julv 4
Smith said the implanted to
bacco plants have been growing
iapidl> and aie “icall.v too b;,2 ”
Now," the UEP projects that Assumptions on which tha
total indusliy profit and losses UEP projections rest include: •
for the next 18 months, if no ac- U S population of 200 million
tion is taken, will be 5513.000.000 and a growth rate of per cent
versus a profit of 5342.000.000 if annually: the cost of 28 cent*
the guidelines are followed. FOB farms; a continued drop
It is also noted that the UEP IP per capita egg consumption a|
cost pi ejection of 28 cents per best offset by population growth,
dozen is broken down as follows: leaving no significant change in
14 cents for feed. 4 75 cents for demand: a decrease of five per
labor and contract: 25 cents for cen t ; n e gg production should
medication: 12 cent for samta- pio( j lice a 2O per cent increase la
tion. 6 5 cents for bird amortiza- r . . .. A
tion. and 238 cents for oveihead, e =S puces, or a four to one ratio
intei est and miscellaneous. between production and price.
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Fit the feed to the forage you have available.
Fit the feed and forage to cow performance by deter
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Fit the entire feeding program to your management
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Lititz Bowmansville
Brown & Rea, Inc. G. R. Mitckell, Inc; *
Atglen Refton, Pa.
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Henry E. Garber Musser Farms, Inc.
R D 1, Elizabethtown, Pa Columbia
L. T. Geib Estate Musser's Mill
Manheim The Buck
I. B. Graybill & Son Chas. E. Sauder & Sorts 1
Strasburg Terre Hill
E. Musser Heisey & Son Ammon E. Shelly
, R D Mt Joy, Pa Lititz
Heistond Bros.
Elizabethtown
Red Rose Farm H. M. Stauffer & Sons>
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