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Pa. Cows
Producing Less
Pennsylvania’s milk cows
produced 586 million pounds
during March, according to the
Crop Reporting Service. This was
four percent less than March 1972
milk production. The milking
herd in March consisted of 670,000
cows, compared with 687,000 a
year ago. Average production per
cow during March was 875
pounds compared with 885
pounds last year.
April 1 reports indicate Penn
sylvania dairymen are feeding
14 3 pounds of grain and other
concentrates daily per cow in
their herds. A year ago the
figure reported was 14.1 pounds.
U.S. milk production during
March is estimated at 10 3 billion
pounds, two percent less than
March a year ago. Daily average
production was three percent
above February, compared with
a four percent increase during
the corresponding period last
year. Production during the first
quarter of this year is 2.1 percent
less than a year earlier. March
output provided 1.58 pounds of
milk per person daily for all uses
compared with 1.62 last year and
1.54 pounds in February.
Milk production per cow was
894 pounds, nearly unchanged
from last year’s 893 pounds The
March rate was at a record high
in 20 of the 33 states with monthly
estimates During March there
were 11,549,000 milk cows on
farms, down 2 percent from that
month last year
Feeding of gram and con
centrates averaged 13 8 pounds
on April 1, a record high for the
date and slightly above the
previous record of 13 6 pounds a
year ago. Feeding rates were
above a year earlier in nearly all
states.
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Roses grow best where they
have full sunshine all day. They
will grow satisfactorily, however,
if they have at least 6 hours of full
sun a day, says a US. Depart
ment of Agriculture Bulletin on
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Record Enrollment Reported
On 1973 Feed
For the third year in a row, the
number of farms enrolled in the
feed grain program has set a
record, according to the final
signup report issued by the U.S.
Department of Agriculture. The
final report, which covers the
Feb. 5-March 16 signup period,
shows 1,852,274 farms enrolled.
This compares with 1,773,888
signups in 1972 and 1,759,315
farms enrolled in 1971.
Base acreage on enrolled
farms also reached a new high
for 1973, totaling 113 million
acres, about 4V 2 percent more
than the previous record of 108
million acres set last year.
Enrolled farms represent 62
percent of the 2,990,199 eligible
feed grain producing farms, and
87 percent of 129,966,672 acres of
total feed grain base.
Of the 113,035,453 acres of feed
grain base on enrolled farms,
76,431,863 acres are corn base,
21,460,829 acres represent grain
sorghum, and 15,142,761 acres are
barley base, all of which are new
record enrollments. The 1973
bases compare with the previous
record levels set in 1972 of
73,040,194 acres for corn,
21,227,619 acres for grain
sorghum, and 14,010,796 acres for
barley.
Enrolled farms signed up for
full compliance, for which the
set-aside requirement is 10
percent of base acreage, total
1,507,767 farms or about 81
percent of total enrollment. The
Grain Program
remaining 344,507 farms Elected
to participate under a program
representing less than full
compliance, for which no set
aside is required. Base acreage
on enrolled farms electing full
compliance totals 91,268,605
acres, indicating a set-aside of
about 9.1 million acres.
Pennsylvania figures show
31,876 farms signed up.
E-town Donegal
Club Reorganizes
The Elizabethtown-Donegal 4-
H Community Club held its
organizational meeting for the
year. The Club has a new tobacco
and field corn leader, Herb Frey.
The Club also elected officers.
They are as follows; Linda
Stoltzfus, president;Jeff Swarr,
vice-president; Gerry
Kauffman, secretary; Judy
Stoltzfus, assistant secretary;
Darwin Nissley, treasurer; Phil
Garber, assistant treasurer;
Ron Nolt and Keith Wolgemuth,
game leaders; Barbara Miller
and Chris Erb, song leaders;
Jijdy Stoltzfus, news reporter;
Richard Yuninger and Chris Erb,
County Council members.
The next meeting will be held
at the Wilbur I. Beahm Junior
High School.