fi_l amvmter Farming. Saturday. May 12. 1973
THE OLD - ■
Repair pleasure boats now . . . Christopher Columbus died
May 20, 1506 . . . Full Flower Moon May 16 . . . The nickel
was born 1866 ... Average length of days for week, 14 hours,
42 minutes . . . Armed Forces Day May 19 . . . School at
tendance compulsory May 18, 1852 . . . Woodpeckers and
wrens are back . . Great St. Louis fire destroyed 30 steam
boats May 17, 1848 . . . Nothing is certain except the un
expected
Old Farmer’s Riddle: What does a ship weigh before moving?
(Answer below.)
and operated machinery of
various kinds by walking on
a tread-mill. We have seen circular saws and grist-mills
operated in this manner. It is probable that'a horse-driven
tread-mill operated paddle-wheels in this boat.
Horn* Hints; For a better shine, rub children’s scuffed shoes with a
raw potato before polishing . . . Cover a steel-wool scouring pad with
cloth for a pincushion that keeps needles sharp . . . Riddle aneieer Its
anchor.
OLD FARMER’S WEATHER FORECASTS
New England: Cloudy to start, then scattered showers; end of
week clear and very warm.
Greater New York-New Jersey: First half of week cloudy and
cool; rain and very cool latter part.
Middle Atlanic Coastal: Week begins cloudy and warm, then
rain; rain continuing to end of week and cool.
Southeast Coastal-Piedmont: Cloudy and cool to start, then
rain; clear and mild latter part.
Florida: Most of week cloudy and hot, then rain latter part;
clear and cool on weekend.
Upstate & Western N.Y.-Toronto & Montreal; Cloudy and warm
most of week; rain and cooler latter part.
Greater Ohio Valley: Bain and hot first part of week; rain
continuing to end of week and cooler.
Deep South: Cloudy and cool to start, then heavy ram; clear
by end of week.
Chicago and Southern Great Lakes: Rain all week; tempera
tures cool to start, then warm on weekend.
Northern Great Plains-Great Lakes: Rain and cool most of
week; cloudy and cool on weekend.
Central Great Plains: Rain, heavy to start, and cool; rain
continuing to end of week.
Texas-Oklahoma: Week begins clear and very hot, then rain
'at midweek; clear and hot latter part.
Rocky Mountain Region: Light ram and cool to start, then
clear and very warm to end of week.
Southwest Desert: First part of week cloudy and cool; latter
part clear and very hot.
Pacific Northwest; Moderately heavy rain to start, then clear
at midweek; light ram and warm latter part.
California: Rain and cool at first, then clear and warm;
showers end of week.
(All RichU IvMerved, Yankee, Inc.. Dublin, N.H. 03444)
Shopping for Specials
Stores offer specials for a
number of reasons. Extension
specialists at The Pennsylvania
State University say super
markets use specials to compete
with other stores, to increase
store traffic by attracting
MAY 14-20
May is picking violets on a bill.
Ask the Old Fanner: Will you
please tell me what a “horse
boat” is? V. R., Alexandria,
La.
It’s a new one on ut. Per
haps it has something to do
with “horsepower.” That is,
horses used to haul loads
customers to the store, and to sell
other food items as well as the
specialized items. Wise shoppers
keep their eyes open for the
specials as well as keeping their
shopping lists flexible enough to '
take advantage of other buys.
Order 4 Milk Prices. .
March Order 4 (Phila.)+ Milk
'Prices
Base milk price
Excess price
Butterfat differential s.o74++
+Producers shipping to plants
located within 55 miles of
receive an ad
ditional .06 per hundredweight.
++Butterfat differential is .074
cents per point above or below
3.5 percent.
The March uniform price for
base milk decreased 8 cents from
the previous month. Excess milk
showed an increase of 3 cents.
In comparison to March levels
one year ago, base milk was up 51
cents and, excess up 56 cents.
The weighted average price for
the market was , ,$7.27 - an in
crease of 50 cents over March
1972.
A total of 401 million pounds of
producer milk was pooled in
March of which 66.28 percent was
sold as Class I, showing a
decrease of 1.13 percent of
deliveries made in February, and
1.48 percent increase over March
a year ago. 8210 Order No. 4
producers provided 12.9 million
pounds per day todealers during
March, averaging' 1576 pounds
per day per farm. Total value of
producer milk was set at
$29,272,743.03 for the month.
Of the $l7l billion spent
for social welfare in fiscal
1971 by federal, state and
local governments, more than
half, or $92 billion, came from
federal taxes.
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