Good Farm Records A Must for Census
Comprehensive new in
formation about agriculture
in the United States will be
gathered in the 1974 Census
of Agriculture by the Bureau
of the Census, part of the U.
S. Department of Com
merce’s Social and
Economic Statistics Ad
ministration.
Data will be collected
early in 1975 covering farm
and ranch operations during
1974, and the Bureau
reminds the Nation’s far
mers to keep records that
will help them furnish the
information requested on the
forms they will receive in the
mail next January.
Much of the 1974 data
gathered will be similar to
that of 1969 and earlier years
and will be published for
each county. It will include:
Total number of farms,
acres in farms, average
value of land and buildings
per farm, cropland har
A recent study by Penn State showed that of 12,000 calves started,
more than 18% died in their first 12 months. Beacon’s Complete Calf
Feeding Program is designed to help you minimize such losses by
increasing calf livability.
- Be-Co-Nurse milk replacer is one cornerstone of this program. It
provides a high level of digestible energy in the form of easily digested
lactose (milk sugar) and a high.content (20%) of stabilized animal fat.
Beacon Golden Calf Starter is the second foundation stone of the
program. It is fortified with vitamins A and D, plus Aureomycin. Partially
pelleted, Beacon Golden Calf Starter is a highly palatable grain ration
that calves leva,
Beacon Calf Power and Beacon Scour Stop-R offer a scour prevention
and control program that is highly effective. Calf Power is recommended
for calves under undue stress. Scour Stop-R provides a “Feed and Treat”
method of combating scours when they actually occur. H
Used in your calf rearing program, these Beacon products can help
increase your calf livability. Why not call your Beacon Dealer or Beacon
Advisor today?
H. Jacob Hoober
Intercourse, Pa
H. M. Stauffer &
Sons, Inc.
vested, acreage devoted to
major crops, and numbers of
major kinds of livestock on
farms.
Further items will be the
number of farm operators by
age, days of off-farm work
by farm operators, value of
all farm products sold,
recreation income, number
of autos, trucks, tractors,
combines, and mower
conditioners.
Expenditure questions
include purchase of feed,
fertilizer, pesticides, lime,
gasoline and other farm
fuels, machine hire, farm
labor, and livestock and
poultry purchases.
As in earlier farm cen
suses, data to be published
for States include charac
teristics of farms grouped in
income categories by type;
cattle and calves by size of
herd; hogs and pigs by
number on farms; sheep and
lambs by size of flock; and
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chickens over 3 months old
by size of flock.
■ Like the 1969 census this
will be a mail census.
Farmers will be mailed their
report forms and asked to fill
them out and mail them
back. In 1964 and earlier
farm censuses, Census
enumerators called on all
farm operators to obtain the
information.
The 1974 report forms will
be mailed out the last week
of December 1974. The mail
method ' allows farm
operators to complete the
forms'in complete privacy at
their convenience, within a
reasonable period of time,
and to refer to their records
as needed.
All information reported
by the farm operator is
confidential by law and can
be seen only by sworn
O. Kenneth McCracken
&Son
Earl Sauder, Inc.
New Holland, Pa
Census employees who are
subject to fine arid im
prisonment for revealing
any such information.
Nothing can be published
that might disclose in
formation about an in
dividual farm operator.
Supermarket Goddess?
Who is the American home
maker? She’s not the affluent, vi
brant, supermarket goddess most
color ads and TV commercials de
pict More realistically, the "aver
age” homemaker is over 35 years
old; her husband’s income is be
tween $7,000 and $lO,OOO annual
ly; and according to one study,
she’s apt to be bored, lonely and
frustrated, feeling trapped by
home and family. She may not be
married: there are more than 11
millions widowed or divorced
American women.
Lis Vegas
My friend just got back from
three weeks in Las Vegas where
he underwent a rather* strange
operation He had his wallet re
moved'
Manheim, Pa,
Lancaster Farming, Saturday, Mar. 2,1974
Auction Date Set
For Performance
Tested Beef Sires
The Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture will hold the
first sale of performance tested beef bulls, Friday, March 29,
from its Meat Animal Evaluation Center (MAEC) at Penn
sylvania State University.
A group of 68 pure-bred bulls ranging in age from six
months to a year were started on a carefully monitored
feeding program last fall. The auction will put the highest
scoring 75 percent on the block, approximately 50, to be sold
to Pennsylvania livestockmen as herd sires.
This program is a departure from the previous progeny
testing program which took up to four years before a bull
could be evaluated as a potential beef sire. In progeny testing
it was necessary to wait at least a year until the bull matured
enough for breeding. Then another nine months/wait until his
calves were born and still another 18 to 24 months went by
until the calves were ready for slaughter and an evaluation of
their carcasses.
With live bull testing an evaluation of the potential young
sire can be determined before his second birthday. The
MAEC carefully weighs and records the gain every 28 days
for a period of 140 days and at the conclusion of the test will
measure the loin-eye area and fat thickness with an
ultrasonic device.
Performance testing is based on a study-proven concept
that a-feeder calf will have the same weight-gaining
characteristics and other physical attributes as its sire.
Breeders who enrolled their bull calves at the MABC have
been paying for feed and normal veterinary service on a pro
rata basis. The proceeds from the sale of each bull after
deducting normal auction and advertising costs will go to the
breeder. Those animals not consigned to the sale will be
returned to their original owners.
The original group of bulls included 25 Charolais, 24 Black
Angus, seven Simmental, six Polled Hereford, three
Chianina and one each of Horned Hereford, Red Angus and
Shorthorn.
Previously beef sires were always sold privately, one at a
time, from breeder to breeder. This will be the first public
auction of beef sires ever held in Pennsylvania. Further
information regarding the sale can be obtained from the
Bureau of Animal Industry, Pennsylvania Department of
Agriculture, Harrisburg or any of the state breed
associations.
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