TOBACCO SUBSTITUTE expected to be completed ~|i A U.S. firm has an- and in operation by 1975. It bounced-expansion plans will initially supply a which will locate a plant in tobacco substitute for fur the United States to com- tber development by two ,merdaUy produce a new U.K. cigarette firms, tobacco substitute made of a Commercial production of chemical fiber. The plant, cigarettes with the tobacco with an initial capacity of 9 . substitute is not seen prior to .million tons annually, is 1976. ROCKWELL'S LIVESTOCK DAIRY CATTLE AUCTION LOCATION: On the farm. 3 miles West of Troy, Pa. THURSDAY EVE., JULY 11,1974 AT 7:30 O’CLOCK : 62 HEAD REGISTERED and GRADE HOLSTEIN DAIRY CATTLE 62 32 Registered 30 Grades SIRE POWER—CANADIAN BLOODLINES Consisting of fresh cows and dose springers August-freshening. SAMPLE SOMESELLING Forest Lee Rockette Centurion dtr., due sale date to Elevation. BDI Master Olaf dtr., fresh by sale date with 16,209 Mas 2 yr. did. • lime Hollow Burkgov Superb dtr. with 14,567 M as 2 yr. did. Collins-Crest Traveler dtr., with 14,701 M as 2 yr. old. ' Simpson Farm Tidy Gent dtr., with 14,266 M, 4.1 Tas 3 yr. old. Woodbine Ivanboe Dandy dtr., 2 yr. old due to Merry King July 15 with 20,313 M dam. - Many more of this' same dass of cattle selling, several classified. SPECIAL: Reg. Red & White: Elmcroft Pontiac Chieftain dtr., 2 yr. old, due July 24, weighs 1400 hd. dam with 14,061 Mas 2 yr. old*-r granddam v- 20,123 M. Choice Grade Cows with good DHIA records. INTERSTATE TESTED- - CATALOGUES , CHARTS SALE EVENING ' r For a show cow, young cows to bulge the pipeline or a good commerdalfirst calf milking heifer, . -plan, to attend this auction. TERMS: CASH ORGOOD CHECK D. O. ROCKWELL, Owner Troy, Pa. 717-297-3460 VICTOR KENT & WILLIAM KENT. Auctioneers JEFF WARNER.CIefk . A A A A A CHARLESTOWN RD. - PROSPECT RD. Washington Boro, Pa. 717-285-4844 NEW EQUIPMENT Better-Bilt 1500 gal. Vacuum Spreader 9 1 /z ft. Flexible Harrow 10 ft. Offset Harrow 4 bottom Auto. Reset Plow 3 bottom Mounted Plow 150-bu. Grain-O-Vater Box 200 bu. Gravity - Flo Bin w-8 ton gear 8 & 10 ton A.C. running gears Farmhand Wheel Rakes Little Giant Elevator - Little Giant Drag Elevator Woods Rotary Mower for A.C. G Poulan Chain Saws - $99.88 up LARGE INVENTORY OF PARTS A A A tlosk A A A NISSLEY A FARM SERVICE SEE US FOR GOOD USED COMBINES DEPENDABLE Sales & Service A A A A A A A AAA A A CHINA TRADE PROSPECTS. .; Because of bumper 1973 crops and if reasonably good weather prevails through 1974, agricultural imports in 1974- 75 by the People's Republic of China could decline from the record levels of fiscal 1973 and 1974, and farm imports from the United States could be cut back somewhat from the $1,218 million foreseen for fiscal 1974. < Since U.S.-Chinese trade resumed in fall 1972 after a 29-year lapse, the U.S. has been a major supplier of farm products to the Mainland. During the past year, however, China has signed 3-year purchase contracts for grains, primarily wheat, with Canada, Australia, and Argentina. It is possible that the United States may become one of many sup pliers for China in normal times ' but an important source'of farm imports in difficult years. U. S. - CHINESE AGRICULTURAL CON TRASTS ... Grain output in the United States and the People’s Republic of China is about the same, but China emphasizes grain for human consumption rather than for use as a livestock feed. In China, 55 percent of total grain area is planted to food grains, while in the U.S. 65 percent is in feed grains. Diets differ accordingly. Starches account for almost 80 percent of the average daily caloric intake in China but for only 23 percent here. U.S. crop yields are generally twice as high as yields in China the dif ference between > a technological agriculture and a labor-intensive system. China, with half as many cattle, uses them primarily as draft animals instead of meat. But China has nearly three times more hogs and sheep than the U.S., despite the low levels of feed grain production. - WHAT’S WITH W00L... U.S. raw-wool supplies are very limited in 1974 and prices are expected to remain near the Wool Act. Incentive of 72 cents a pound. Continued relatively tight supplies and high prices are also expected for manmade fibers, despite a slowing in mill activity. A A AAA A A A USED EQUIPMENT 2 bottom Trail Plow A.C. 80 R Mower I.H. 7 ft Side Bar Mower Ferguson 30. Tractor w-Loader (Good Cond.) N.H. Flail Spreader CALL DICK MILLER 717-653-4286 717-285-4844 PRODUCTION PAR TICULARS .. .There were? percent fewer stock sheep on farms and ranches at the start of 1974, meaning less wool will be shorn this year than last. Production in 1973, at 146 million pounds, grease basis, was down moderately from the year before as fewer sheep were shorn and average fleece weights declined. REVIEWING 1913 ... Last year’s wool markets were affected by a host of different conditions: the energy shortage and its effect on industry activity and costs, a realignment of world monetary exchange rates, transportation problems, and a resurgence of consumer demand for textiles, especially natural fibers. With demand usually running ahead of available supplies, raw wool prices reached their highest levels in 20 years. In the United States the average producer price for shorn wool was 82.7 cents a pound, grease basis, compared with 35.0 cents a year earlier. CROPLAND COUNT ... Rapid urbanization has had little impact on the total amount of U.S. cropland, - according to USDA economists, even though more than 3.5 million cropland acres were lost to urban areas in the last 10 years. For every acre so taken, five or six times as much crop area was shifted to lower intensity agricultural or forestry uses, or was idled simply because cropping was not profitable. Irrigation, drainage, and clearing added three times as much land annually to the cropland base as ur banization abosrbed. WHERE THE SHIFTS ARE ... Cropland has been abandoned or shifted to grass or woods on a large scale in the Northeast, Appalachia, and parts of‘the Southeast. Thus, cities there da not compete as directly with agriculture, and have had little effect on total agricultural activity. Development of new cropland in Florida, the Lower Mississippi, and (he Corn Belt, Mountain, and ' Pacific regions has tended to obscure losses of land to cities. However, USDA economists feel urbanization probably has had a sizable impact on these regions’ fann production. PROCESSED VEGET ABLE VEIGNETE... This year promises at least partial relief from the tight supply situation that has marked the vegetable industry for the past 2 years. The prospective planted acreage of eight leading processing vegetables is 7 percent larger than a year ago and 14 percent more than in 1972. These vegetables account for more ' than 90 percent of the U.S. processing vegetable ton nage. THE SUPPLY SCENE ... Canners and freezers should generally be able to contract for sufficient acreage to relieve much of the pressure on supplies of processed vegetables. Furthermore, the industry has apparently been able to secure the largest .gains where the tonnage is needed. For example, canned snap bean and sweet com acreage are being emphasized more this year, while freezing acreage is expected to be less. PRICE PICTURE .. . Although supplies' may be .substantially larger beginning this fall, higher wholesale and retail prices Lancaster Farming, Saturday, July 6,1974—37 An 18th century English pugilist was so insensitive to pain that, for a small sum, he would allow anyone to strike him on the side of the face with all his force. are expected. The cost ot obtaining the added acreage has come high in 1974. Contract prices to growers, sharply higher in all cases, must reflect higher fuel, seed, and other production costs. Furthermore, farmers in fhe mijor vegetable processing area have been offered several attractive crop alternatives this season. For example, in California cotton has proved attractive to San Joaquin Valley growers while in the Pacific Northwest record high wheat and dry bean MR. DAIRYMAN Mf LEASE DAIRY CATTLE 1 FIND OUT ABOUT THE ADVANTAGES OF OUR WT'&i LEASE PURCHASE PLAN. WE HAVE BEEN T HELPING DAIRYMEN LIKE YOU GROW AND PROSPER FOR OVER 11 YEARS. -SELECT QUALITY CATTLE - DEATH LOSS REPLACEMENT -CULLING PRIVILEGES - REPRESENTATIVE IN YOUR AREA -CANADIAN CATTLE AVAILABLE To Find Out More About These and Other Features, Write or Call: DAIRY COWS Flying Fanners Bldg. Wichita. Kansas 67209 Phone: 13161942-1468 DAIRY HEIFER AUCTION FRIDAY NIGHT, JULY 12 At7:3OP.M. AT JIM ADRIANCE FARM Location: 6 miles West of Montrose, Pennsylvania, Susquehanna County. Take New Milford Exit off Route II then 706 to Montrose. 100 HEAD We have an exceptionally fine set of 65 springing holstein heifers for this side. They are all due to freshen from July to September. We have picked these 65 from a total group of 110 head for size and dairy character. AI Sired, lots of condition, dehorned and interstate charts. Also we have many consignments of other bred and open heifers and cows. Jim Adriance, Auctioneer Montrose 717-278-1574 26TH ANMUAL KEYSTONE STUD RAM AND EWE SHOW and SALE Farm Show Building, Harrisburg, Pa. Selling Approx. 350 Head Purebred Stock .Breeds representated - Cheviot, Corriedale, Dorset, Hamp shire, Shropshire, Southdown, Suffolk. Show - July 11.8; 30 A.M. Sale July 12.9:30 A.M. Banquet, July 11,7:30 P.M. Shiydlers Restaurant, Camp Hill, Pa. Following the sale of the purebred sheep approx. 25 Wether Lambs will be sold suitable for 4-H and FFA club work. Weight range 35 lbs. and up. James Diamond, Ottsville, Pa., chairman of Wether Sale. All breeds will have lambs and yearlings available. Judge - Dr. David Ames, Kansas State, " Manhattan, Kansas. Auctioneer: Col. Hobart Farthing, FindlayTDhio Catalogs available from MILTON K. MORGAN 1916 New Holland Pike Lancaster, Pa. 17601 Phone: 393-2327 prices have driven up the cost of securing cropland fot processing vegetables. HAY & STRAW SALE EVERY WEDNESDAY AT 12 NOON PAUL Z. MARTIN SALESSTABLES 2 miles East of Intercourse Sale managed by Harvey Z. Martin T T fr I
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