—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, March 25,1972
6
Agricultural Report
Editor’s Note: Amos Hively,
former Lancaster County
resident, has been corresponding
with Lancaster Farming readers
from time to time, sharing the
conditions and experiences he
and his family find as Australian
residents. His most recent letter •
was mailed March 16.
It must be at least a year since
I last wrote to you from “the land
down-under”. Many things have
happened since then and I shall
relate some of them.
I quit my job selling feed as of
June 1,1971, and am spending a
good part of my time managing a
small export business which I
think I made mention of in my
last letter. The business is known
as the Queensland Serum
Company and we purchase, from
various meat works, the blood
from the unborn calves which we
Milk is the best of
calcium available. Calcium is a
mineral that helps form bones
and teeth and keeps them strong.
Two eight-ounce glasses of whole
milk supply nearly three-fourths
of the calcium recommended
daily for an adult.
Carl Brandt
ffershey. Pa,
"I couldn't
have
expanded
into a 500
head per
year hog
operation
without
Harvestores
and
automated
feeding...
I had all I could do just grind
ing feed for dairy cows. Now
I can handle more land, more
cows, plus the hogs. My hogs
are finishing sooner and my
dairy butterfat test is at least
.2% better than on dry corn
They carry a 3.8% test even
through hot weather and go
as high as 4.2%. There's no
other way to handle corn."
PENN-JERSEY
HARVESTORE
SYSTEMS, INC.
New Holland, Pa
Pnone - (717)354-5171
1971 HARVESTORE
DEALER OF THE YEAR
process and make our serum
from.
Our business is jointly owned
by a Lancaster County firm and a
large firm with headquarters
near Washington, D.C. We ship
all our serum to a branch of this
large firm in Scotland, and we
haven’t been able to supply near
the quantity they are needing.
Much of this serum is used for 1
Cancer Reaserch as well as other
biological uses.
We expect to open another
laboratory to process serum in
Northern Queensland very soon.
They only kill cattle during the
fall and winter months up there,
so their season is just starting.
The kill here in Southern
Queensland is somewhat
seasonal but they do keep the
meat works operating all year|
around.
We have had an excellent
summer season, with good rains,
and modest heat, so the crops are
above average.
The fall harvest has started
and sorghum (milo) is yielding
about two tons per acre average.
Sunflowers and millet crops also
look good.
Our hay crop at the farm has
been a “bumper” one also. We
must have had 12,000 bales so far.
We are nearly finished with the
fifth cutting and may get a light
sixth cutting. I have the barn full
(about 700 bales) and have sold
the balance. The price of hay has
only been about $2O a ton but it
should go higher during the
winter. i
There were good dry periods
between the rains and most of the
hay was made without any rain
damage. Last year it rained
almost continually, for about
three months, and much of the.
hay was heavily damaged.
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I have 18 first-cross Charolais
calves, the oldest of which is six 1
months, and most of them are
growing well. There are 10
heifers and eight bulls.
There are a few Charolais
being brought in from New)
Zealand and selling at ratherl
high prices at auctions. A three- 1
fourths Charolais bull brought
$3,500 at a sale I attended a few)
weeks ago. Half breed heifers,
bred back to pure-bred Charolais
were selling from $6OO to $l,OOO
The beef market has been quite
bouyant here, and Japan is in
creasing its purchases of meat
very sharply this year.
It has just been announced that
the U.S. will increase its meat
purchases from Australia this
year by 7.2 per cent.
In recent months wool prices
have shown some improvement,
but the sheep men are still in
great financial trouble.
Large sheep properties are (
selling for about half the pricej
they would have sold for 10 years
ago. Within about 100 miles of
Toowoomba there is almost no
sheep raising, so prices of land
here are depressed but not nearly
as bad as in the far West sheep
country.
I heard on the news yesterday
that the applications of hundreds
of Americans wanting to migrate
to Australia are being refused. It
said that only those that already
have jobs here will be given
assisted passage.
Even those who are willing to
pay their own passage are being
discouraged coming unless they
have assurance of employment.
Our unemployment rate is still
only about 1.5 per cent but this is
higher than it has been for'many
years. ' -
Wages are going up but at a
AND GET A
Gordonville, Pa. 17529 Phone 717-768-8796
LANCASTER COUNTY’S ONLY STOCKING DEALER FOR CARDINAL EQUIPMENT
much slower rate than in the U.S.
Sixty dollars a week here is
considered quite high wages.
I have never been very happy
with any of the Australians I have
had working my farm and if I
could be absolutely certain of
getting a good farmer from
Lancaster, York or Chester
County, I think I would be willing
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to offer them a job if they desire
to migrate to Australia. It could
take considerable correspon
dence to work out the
arrangements, but I would be
open to some applicants.
Amos Hively
26 Leslie St.
Toowoomba,
Queensland
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