Pa. Broiler Placements Drop 4 pet. Placements of broiler chicks in the Commonwealth during the week ending December 16, 1972 were 1,182,000, according to a report this week from the Penn sylvania Crop Reporting Service. The placements were 4 percent WHO SAYS DEKALB LAYERS We’ve never claimed to have the highest peaking layer in the industry. But, it’s hard to overlook what today’s DEKALB layer is doing. Obviously she is capable of both high peaks and a long, sustained high rate of production. And, when you add excel lent livability, strong shells and a great feed conver sion you can see why we call her the balanced bird. It’s hard to argue with the facts. THESE "NEW" DEKALB 171 PULLETS ARE NOW AVAILABLE FROM INBURY PULLETS - CONTACT TOM MUMMA JOHN MELHORN Elizabethtown, Pa. Mt. Joy, Pa. DeKalb Agßesearch Phone: 717-367-2683 Phone: 717-653-1102 Phone: 717-755-5611 below the corresponding week a year earlier, and 14 percent below the previous week. Average placements during the past 10 weeks were 7 percent below a year earlier. Setting for broiler chicks were DON'T PEAK? 1,788,000 - 1 percent below the previous week but 7 percent above the comparable period a year earlier. The current 3-week total of eggs set is 5 percent above the same period a year ago. Inshipments of broiler-type chicks during the past 10 weeks averaged 24,000 compared with 21,000 a year ago. Outshipments averaged 205,000 during the past 10 weeks, 6 percent below a year earlier. ABSOLUTE AUCTION C-Merriken Fertilizer, Inc. Manufacturer of Hot Mix Fertilizer Chestertown, Md. SAT. JAN. 20 at ll:OOa.m. Real Estate plus 14 trucks, portable storage tanks, 5 farm tractors, applicators, John Blue equipment, JD 6-row no till planter, storage tanks & mixing tanks, pumps, shop & office equipment. Call or write for free Brochure & catalog from HARRY RUDNICK & SONS, INC. GALENA, MD. 21635 Phone (301) 648-5100 LES VETTER Lancaster Farming, Saturday, January 6,1973 Mail Box Market For Sale - 3 bred Holstein Heifers to freshen in April. Jonathan B. King, Gap RD 1, 1 mile South of Millwood Church, IV2 mile North of Gap. For Sale - Split locust posts, seasoned. Samuel Shirk, East Earl RD 2, Phone 215-445-5430 For Sale - Springing Heifer by Lucky Mose from 800 fat, 4.3 percent Dam. Also 2 Kingpin cows due later on, all Registered. Carl Diller, Phone 464-2233 CUSTOM BUTCHERING Hogs Processed the old fashioned way. Sausage, pudding, scrapple. Hams and Bacon cured Beef cut, wrapped and frozen. Dried beef and bologna. WE ALSO SPECIALIZE IN U.S.D.A. GRADED SIDES AND QUARTERS. CALL PAUL A. HESS 464-3711 or 464-3127 *5 LETS TALK JOHN D. STONER Feed Programming Consultant EARL L UMBLE Feed Programming Consultant CASSEL C. MUMMAU Feed Programming Consultant Vice President Nutritionist Come in and see us in Booth 696-697 at the Farm Show. If you don’t have feed program problems, come in and say hello anyway! yo«ing 9 is 9 Inc. nutritional Mipplemcnts for livestock “Direct service for a bonus of freshness in every bag ” Mail Box Market For Sale - New wagon 7 x 18 bed with sides; Grain Din like new; John Deere Harrow. Phone 717- .442-4510 Call after 6 p.m For Sale - Five year old standard bred carriage horse with papers J Daniel Esh, Paradise, Pa., Mt Pleasant Road, 17562 For Sale - Suffolk Ram, 3 years old. Phone 215-267-5796 Ralph V. Pannebecker, Black Horse Road, Reinholds, Pa For Sale >2 Mustang auto wheels 14” practically new at an at tractive price Phone 285-5534 Registered Holstein Bulls, ser vice age, home bred with records on all Dams, large selection Phone 717-786-3591 For Sale - Registered Pomeranian pup Call 768-8408 between 7 A.M. and 5 PM. (Continued On Page 32) *73 a problem year... GERALD HESS ROARING SPRING PA 31 (iV«Jasuw^auws»*
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