Farm Sales and Receipts Pennsylvania farms with sales of 120,000 or more nearly doubled from 12 per cent of total farms in 1964 to 23 per cent in 1969, an economist of The Penn sylvania State University reported recently. Concentration of * farm receipts in large operations increased from 54 per cent of total receipts in 1964 to 75 per cent in 1969, declared Neil B. Gingrich, instructor in agricultural economics with the College of Agriculture. Farm receipts included product sales, custom work, recreational payments for use of campgrounds and similar facilities, and government payments. The findings were taken from the 1969 Census of Agriculture. Farms with sales of $20,000 or more in 1969 were still largely operated by in dividuals and families, Gingrich pointed out. In fact, of farms with sales of $2,500 or more, 88 per cent were family operated. Part nerships made up 10 per cent of these sales while less than 1 per cent were corporate enterprises. These various farm enterprises received 97 per cent of farm receipts in 1969, he stated. Individual or family farms predominate in the 10 types of farms tabulated. Part nerships were more prevalent in dairy operations and livestock production, primarily hogs. Dairying contained the largest number of corporate en terprises, 65, of all the more clearly defined types. This Trojan TO* . . . hybrids from TROJAN, with yield potential help you to higher corn profits. Power hybrids with ripe ears on green stalks. Quality hybrids you can count on to perform in YOUR fields. SEED AVAILABLE AT YOUR LOCAL TROJAN DEALER NOW!! More Concentrated number, however, was less than 1 per cent of the total dairy farms. The trend toward larger economic operating units is likely to continue, Gingrich observed, influenced not only by inflationary pressures but by anticipated operating efficiencies as well. In this respect, agriculture is following the tendencies of industrial and commercial sectors. At this point all that is evident in Pennsylvania, he noted, is that, management decisions probably will be largely in the hands of family owned and operated farm enterprises seeking an Penn State University’s Correspondence Course on Sheep Husbandry has been revised and updated and includes the latest developments from research and experience. The single volume course, consisting of eight lessons, contains all the necessary information to successfully raise and manage the farm flock. Many farmers might find it 'to their advantage to consider the raising of sheep as a spare time farming operation. Sheep secure about 90 percent of their food in the form of forage pasture in the summer, hay and silage in winter. Buildings of rough con struction provide adequate shelter. Mature ewes need from 12 to 20 square feet of floor space per head. A barn 30 x 40 feet has room for 70 ewes. With the exception of the short lambing season, a minimum of labor is required to care for the flock. However, ewes need some special feed and care m the pre-lambing period. JOHN W. ADAMS Route 1 New Bloomfield Pa 17068 Phone 717 582-2348 AMOSK BLANK Route 1 Honey Brook Pa 19344 Phone 215 273 3182 r>i icrnon ui uni'i nuvnv id VERNON KEEFER MARK G. LANDIS CLIFFORD W. HOLLOWAY, JR. Route j Ro(Jte j Box 14? n loud ncco Millersburg Pa 17061 Annville Pa 17003 Bottom. Pa 17563 Phone 717 692-4334 Phone 717 867 7291 Phone 717 548 2640 aunc H HIIRCT PAUL E KELLER MARTIN AMOSH.HURST Routel 1648 W Mam St ROU ?hL?^ E 445 8551 Shoemakersville Pa 19555 D E P h rata Pa 17522 Phone 215 445 6551 Phone 215 926 2938 Phone 717 733 7434 EUGENE G. HOOVER Sales Supervisor Phone 717-569 0756 RD3, Lititz organizational structure which improves the overall efficiency of operations and resources. Data to be gathered in the forthcoming 1974 Census of Agriculture will be useful in determining if the trends evident in the five-year in terval, 1964-69, are stabilizing, accelerating, or declining. Mr. Gingrich’s analysis of data from the 1969 Census of Agriculture was published recently in Farm Economics, a monthly newsletter of the Cooperative Extension Service at Penn State. Sheep Course The birth and care of lambs take individual and im mediate attention. A good shepherd practically lives with his flock during the lambing season. If you are interested in securing more information on sheep, study the Penn State Course. To enroll, send your name and address with four dollars and fifty cents to Sheep, Box 5,000, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802. Make checks payable to The Pennsylvania State University. There are no other charges and a course copy comes to you by return mail. M I /// m rm fl [eioog. In the Middle Ages, b.it blood was considered a good depil atory What a hany idea 1 in Pa. rf! Lancaster Farming, Saturday, April 20,1974 Milk Shortage Predicted By Grange Master compared to 1972 - down 55 million quarts. Total 1973 production compared to that of 1970 - down 194 million quarts. “The situation,” he said, “is the result of a continuing decline in the number of milk cows and the tapering off of amount of milk produced per cow.” Since 1970, he explained*, the number of cows has been reduced by more than half a million in the nation and about 30,000 in the state. Production per cow in Pennsylvania last year was about 25 quarts lower than it was in 1970, Readinger said. The U. S. average last year was about 175 quarts more per cow than in 1970, but about 65 quarts less than in 1972. American consumers could be facing a serious milk shortage if existing production trends continue, the master of the Penn sylvania State Grange warned today. A. Wayne Readinger, of Fleetwood, who heads the 58,000-member State Grange, said milk produc tion in the United States in the first three months of this year was 391 million quarts less than it was in the first three months of last year. Total U.S. milk production in 1973, he pointed out, was approximately 2.1 billion quarts less than in 1972 and 620 million quarts less than in 1970. In Pennsylvania, the fifth largest milk producing state in the nation, he said, milk production trends were: First three months of 1974 compared to first three months of 1973 - down 20 million quarts. Total 1973 production H E CLARENCE R NEFF & SON Route 1 Ronks Pa 17572 Phone 687 6406 LEVIN OBERHOLTZER Route 1 Richland Pa 17087 Phone 717 933 8336 MARLIN L. PAUL & SON RD Klmgerstown Pa Phone 717 425 3480 LESTER R. SCHANTZ Macungie Pa Phone 215-967 2010 Trojan Seed Co. “Consumers must be made aware of these trends,” Readinger declared, “and warned that these present trends can only lead to less milk and higher prices in future years.” m ’t ROY B. STONER & SON Route 2 Lititz Pa 17543 Phone 717 626 8473 IVANR YOST Route 1 Christiana Pa 17509 Phone 215 593 5326 IRVIN N ZIMMERMAN Route 2 Fleetwood Pa 19522 Phone 215 944 9124 9 to
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