House Looks at Loans For Cattle Producers (ConikiMd from Pip 1) that silo's empty, I’m going to stop feeding/* Although livestock producers have much cause for bitterness, these days, things are at least looking up a little bit in the live market, FARMERS For Increased Yield and Protein in Your Alfalfa, Apply SURE CROP Plant Food 7-14-7 With Trace Elements with Your Weevil Spray Program. FOR MORE INFORMATION Call 717—469-2864 or write P.O. Box 129, Hershey, Pa. 17033 Representatives Needed. ||| Are You fined), imopf Your HOLLAND Quarryville, Pa. Phone:7B6-2895 according to William G. McCoy, president of the Lancaster Livestock Ex change. “Hogs were up $l5 in an 11-day period, and- cattle are up about $lO more than they were two weeks ago,” McCoy said on Friday. “But . you can’t tell if this is a trend I\EWHOLLAI\D New concept in silage handling I WHIRL-A-FEED*BLOWIRS The exclusive .whirling table on Models 25 and 27 give the material a "running start" into the blower fan. This means less drag on the fan, more efficient use of horsepower and high capa city. We have these blowers in stock now... in a size to fit your needs. Drop in soon to see Modets.2s and 27. C. E. WILEY or not “I've talked to people who’ve been in this business for 40 or SO years, and they tell me they’ve never seen prices move the way they’ve been going lately. There was a time when I could look at a farmer's feeders, and give him a reasonable estimate of what those animals would sell for In a few months. You just can’t do that anymore because you don’t know which way the market is going to go.” McCoy said he thought the government loan program might help bail out some of the hardest bit producers. “If a farmer has been feeding steers for eight or nine months, and he’s losing • De Laval MILKERS sales & service • Topline Transfer System • Full line Cleaning Detergents • Installation Pipelines & Parlors CALL FOR FREE ESTIMATE J. B. 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When it comes -to capacity, horsepower efficiency and chopping ability. New Holland "770" forage harvesters stand out above the rest. They give you uniform ' silage with or without a recutter screen. Lancaster Farming, Saturday. July 6.1974 a good price.” Several things could help boost live prices in the near future, McCoy said. Government reports show cattle on feed in May down 40 percent from a year ago, and for the quarter the figure is down 18 percent. Retail prices, of course, are a big question mark in the marketing picture. If in store prices continue to hover around historic highs, consumer resistance will continue and possibly develop into entrenched buying habits. Chain stores have come in for a lot of criticism in the past few .months for refusing to lower retail prices in keeping with the drops in liveweight costs. While much of this criticism may be justified, Chris Kunzler, president of Kunzler and Co., a Lancaster packing firm, said the chains have had to take their share of increased costs, too. “I know our costs here have gone up considerably in the past year,” Kunzler said. “We’re paying more for labor, packaging, materials, gasoline. I’m sure these things are a factor in the retailers’ pricing, too. Buyers I’ve talked to from the chains have all told me last year was a bad profit year for them. “I think the cause of our prices lately is really a hard thing to pinpoint. Our costs go up, the retailers’ costs go up, and they have to be passed along to someone, and that someone ia the consumer. Oar end of the business is really com petitive, and we have to keep our prices in line with the market or we Just don’t get the business.” Holstein Anniversary Sale The Black and White Holstein Farm located west of Lancaster on the Flory Mill Road, will hold an Anniversary sale on Friday evening, July 19, beginning at 7:00 p.m. One hundred registered Holsteins by popular sires including Elevation, Astronaut, Fond Matt, Marquis and Prestige will be offered for sale. Featured cows will be 8 excellent Holsteins and 25 very good. With the first calf heifer by Winfarm Rag Apple Magic Chief. Also there will be 21 head of Red and White purebred Holsteins. This is a herd dispersal of a selected group. 20 are milking age, the balance heifers. NOW FOR THE/T>v prarawiTrevn IN AND AROUND LOUISVILLE, KENTUCKY, HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS BY THEMSELVES LAST SPRING RAISED OVER $50,000.00 TO HELP A TEEN AGER PARALYZED FROM THE HIPS DOWN IN-AN ACCIDENT. 25
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