J 4 5 ♦p’* s **;' Carnation Genetics paid a vitational Sale in Mulaga Hill, N.J. The whopping $6OOO for this 17-month man who sold her was M. Robert open heifer last month at the Young, a Lancaster businessman who National Holstein Convention In- has a part-time heifer operation. June Base Milk Price Drops 69 c From May The June base milk price for Federal Market Order 4 was The weighted average price for the market was increased $8.99, the excess price was $6.23 and the butterfat differential $1.28 above June 1973. was 7-cents for each point above or below 3,5 percent, ac- A total of 382.8 million pounds of producer milk was pooled cording to Andrew A. Marvin, Ephrata, field representative in June of which percent was sold as Class I, showing a for the Inter-State Milk Producers Cooperative. decrease of 1.7 percent of deliveries made in May, and a 4.8 The June uniform price for base milk decreased 69 cents percent decrease under June a year ago. 7777 Order No. 4 from the previous month. Excess milk showed a decrease of producers provided 12.7 million pounds per day to dealers 61 cents. during June, averaging 1641 pounds per day per farm. Total In comparison to June levels one year ago base milk was value of producer milk was set at $32,954,975.94 for the un $1.46 and excess up 59 cents per cwt. month. r GT Tox-o-Wix | ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ CRAIN DRYER | WILL DRY CORN FOR PENNIES PER BUSHEL. ♦ tj/ TOX-0-WIK®CONTINUOUS RECIRCULATING GRAIN DRYERS I WORLDS LARGEST SELLING RECIRCULATING ♦ ♦ BATCH GRAIN DRYERS BECAUSE ♦ ♦ - Price is Lower MODELS AVAILABLE J ♦ - Costs Less to operate 270 - 250 BUS ▲ ♦ - Easier to operate 370 ' 350 ♦ ▼ - Dries more efficiently 570 - 500 BUS t J -Will dry 50 per cent moisture down to 12-15 per cent moisture ♦ ♦ ON DISPLAY AT I ♦ SHENK FARM SERVICE ! RD4, Lititz, Pa. Phone 626-4355 | ■*'4 , 1 ? Your Best Investment ■V V* -* r * can. He runs his operation in Area Heifer Goes for i n i Keener, an Elizabethtown $ 6OOO at National Sale R v„™™«edthatheh a <uo Wiat wm reportedly tte I*™' g t«* wi"h highest-priced open heifer Young saiane naa oougm hif nneration to sold at last month’s National the heifer only last August, hjs neiter operation 10 sola at last monin s wauonai it J olea<? d 6 wlt h Charles Myers of the Black Holstein Convention in- a™ was quite pieasea witn ' Holstein Sales vitational sale came from her showing at the sale. He and white ttoisiein aaies yitationai sale came irom that he deals onlv m Bam- M y ers helps Young M Robert heifers, and said that he tries select the animals to go into Young The 17-month old to find the best animals he the herd of dairy hopefuls. animal went to Carnation Genetics in Washington state, where she’ll become one of the cows in their ova transfer work. In ova transfer operations, fertilized eggs are removed from genetically superior cows and placed in the wombs of more ordinary animals. It’s theoretically possible to get 12 offspring from one mating with ova transfer, although a more usual number is three or less <•***■ •fa *~ Mid-Hill-Acres Kiev Joel is a daughter of Round Oak Rag Apple Elevation. Her seven nearest dams’ best records average 23,470 pounds of milk with 935 pounds of fat for a four TRY A CLASSIFIED AD MEMO HAY, STRAW and EAR CORN SALE EVERY MONDAY AT 11A.M. New Holland Sales Stables, Inc. Phone 717-354-4341 Lloyd H. Kreider, Auct. the pnrz ■ BARN CLEANER RUGGED, DE fENDABLE! under all operating conditions » 1 - < See your PATZ Dealer today CALL 717-272 0871 MARVIN J. HORST Dairy Equipment and Amana Appliances R.D. No. 1 (Iona) Lebanon, Pa. Located on Route 897 between Schaefferstown and Lebanon, over 30 years in business at same place V*' tcy Lancaster Farming, Saturday, July 27,1974 — 0 21
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