—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, August 11, 1973
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Pa. Broiler
Placements
Up 21 pet.
Placements of broiler chicks in
the Commonwealth during the
week ending August 4, 1973 were
1,332,000. The placements were 21
percent above the corresponding
week a year earlier, and 5 per
cent above the previous week.
Average placements during the
past 10 weeks were 10 percent
above a year earlier.
Settings for broiler chicks were
2,025,000 - 3 percent below the
previous week and 15 percent
above the comparable period a
year earlier The current 3-week
total of eggs set is 14 percent
above the same period a year
ago.
Inshipments of broiler-type
chicks during the past 10 weeks
averaged 1,000 compared with
40,000 a year ago. Outshipments
averaged 290,000 during the past
10 weeks, 7 percent above a year
earlier.
Placements in the 21 States
were 56,956,000 - 1 percent above
the previous week and 6 percent
below the same week a year
earlier. Average placements
during the past 10 weeks were 4
percent below a year ago.
Settings were 71,835,000 - 1
percent below the previous week
and 1 percent below a year
earlier. The current 3-week total
of eggs set is 2 percent below the
comparable period a year ago.
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It’s a great feeling to know that you are the master of
your farmlands . . . that when you treat your soil right,
it will treat you right. Liming is one of the most impor
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FHA Makes All-Time Record
Loans To American Farmers
Family farmers borrowed
more than $1.4 billion from the
Farmers Home Administration
(FHA) during fiscal year 1973,
enabling them to buy, improve
and operate farms, and to restore
farming operations disrupted by
natural disaster, Secretary of
Agriculture Earl L. Butz an
nounced.
A total of 195,972 loans were
made to farm families, more
than double the number served a
year ago. The $1.4 billion of loans
is a 73 percent increase for fiscal
’73 over the previous record
amount of $831.8 million ad
vanced in fiscal 1972.
Loans made in cooperation
with private lenders also greatly
increased. In this program, FHA
enlists the assistance of local
commercial lenders to make part
of a loan for buying, developing
or operating a farm. The Far
mers Home Administration lends
the balance necessary to com
plete the transaction.
During fiscal year 1973, private
lenders provided nearly $3OO
million to supplement FHA farm
ownership loans and about $lBB
million to supplement operating
loans. By using outside credit
in this manner, FHA was able to
assist many more farmers than
otherwise would have been
possible. The net effect of this
industry-government
cooperation has been to make
supplementary credit of nearly $2
billion available to family far
mers in fiscal 1973.
The need for emergency
assistance was at an all-time high
because of tropical storm
“Agnes,” lingering drought in the
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southwest, flooding in the
Mississippi Valley, and other
natural disasters. Lending for
emergency loans in fiscal 1973
totaled $557.7 million--more than
four times the amount loaned in
any previous year. This money
was used to help restore
operations for more than 128,000
farmer-borrowers throughout the
country.
Original budget figures
allocated $350 million for the
PHA operating loan program. In
order to assist in efforts to bring
more land into productivity, and
partially to offset problems
arising from natural disasters,
additional funds were made
available for operating purposes.
With these funds, Farmers Home
made loans of more than $454.6
million to over 50,000 family
farmeis. Previously the largest
amount loaned in any year was
$337 million in fiscal 1972.
These operating loans
represent short term credit and
are used to purchase farm
equipment, livestock, seed,
fertilizer and other items
necessary to keep the farm
running.
Under the farm ownership
program, $350 million had been
allocated. Additional funds were
put into this program also,
enabling Farmers Home to make
a total of $4OB million in loans to
15,492 families. These funds are
used by borrowers to buy or
improve farms, including farm
buildings, refinance debts and
increase income by developing
non-farm enterprises. Fiscal 1973
saw the all-time high amount
loaned m this program which has
been in existence since 1938. The
previous record was established
in fiscal 1972, when $355 million
was loaned.
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For Sale - Home Grown Burpee
Hybrid cantaloupes. Merv
Nissley Farm, Holtwood, Pa.
Phone 284-4538
For Sale - Redcoat seed wheat
from certified stock. Also
Blueboy wheat. Cleaned and
treated. Order now. Daniel E.
Lapp, 1250 Penn Grant Road,
Lane. I mile west of Strasburg on
Lime Valley Road.
For Sale - 3 year old Patz bam
cleaner, 2 metal corn cribs, 50 20
foot long 3x6 tobacco rails. Phone
665-3103 after 6 P.M.
For Sale - 20 Crossbred range
Ewes, strong, healthy, young,
$16.00 each. Most have had twins.
Phone 717-548-2156
For Sale - Seed Rye. Phone 626-
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