—Lancaster Saturday.' Jan' *4* *1975
8
Keeping Warm Al ACost That's Cool
"Osgood l Just turn your side of the blanket on and get
back where you belong l ''
Warn to reduce the cost of
heating your home this win
ter' 7 Of course you do' Earl\
this year the cost of home
heating reached heights un
dreamed of in the affluent
Sixties and for the cold
season ahead they re certain
to be ev en higher So the
practical homemaker will
make a list NOW of ways to
keep those costs down
The first step is to make
sure your house is properly
insulated Next, close off any
room that’s not in use Then
check to see that storm doors
and windows are in good
order Carpets also keep the
house warmer, and by lower
ing your thermostat from 73
to 68 degrees you 11 effect a
fuel reduction and savings of
15%
You can further reduce
those fuel bills by using an
automatic electric blanket by
Fieldcrest Yes, an automatic
blanket Its reliable warmth
will let you turn your home
heating unit all the way down
to 60 degrees during winter
nights thus saving 13%
more fuel during an average
eight hours of sleeping time
(The average cost of electric
ity used by an automatic
blanket is less than three
cents a night 1
Furthermore, it provides a
comfortable, convenient kind
of warmth - which is whv
over 30 million people in the
U S use them thermo
static heat control responds
to changes in room temper
ature, thus automatically reg
ulatmg the blanket to give
vou the amount of warmth
vou want all night long
Because the automatic
blanket is lightweight vou
can use it all vear around
representing a considerable
saving in monetary outlav
to sav nothing of closet
space' Plus an automatic is
made from svnthetic fibers
which makes them completelv
machine washable as well as
moth and mildew proof, and
all automatics made by Field
crest are listed bv Under
Agriculture 1975
I Continued from Page 71
sell their own birds He secs
a very good year for that
kind of operation
Fertilizer - Pesticide
Outlook
William Brubaker,
president of the Penn
sylvania Inland Fertilizer
Association, told us that
fertilizer supplies will
continue tight, especially
nitrogen “I wouldn't be
surprised to see nitrogen
writers Laboratories
Ml but twin sires are
a\ailable with dual controls
for individual settings No
more bedroom battles be
tween wives who like to
cuddle up m cozy warmth and
husbands who prefer to
sleep cool And toda> auto
matics can be bought in a
broad range of high-fashion
decorator colors too
It's been almost 30 tears
since automatic blankets were
put on the market by Field
crest and the\ ve grown in
popularity ever since Now
adays. there s no smarter wav
to save energy and keep
warm at night than bv using
an automatic blanket
Thousands of h\es even
\ear are lost because there
aren t enough donors of kid
ne> s or other organs A do
nated organ successfull> trans
planted is literalK the gift of
life For more info-mation write
to Kidne\ Foundation of N\
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.selling for 45- to 50-cents a
pound in the spring,” said
Brubaker, who is also
president of Lancaster's
Organic Plant Foods ‘The
top on liquid nitrogen last
>ear was .10 cents f.o b the
storage tank Just a few
jears ago, the same
material sold for 12 to 18-
cents, and that was applied."
Brubaker said farmers
would be well-advised to talk
their needs over with their
supplier as early as possible
Prices for phosphorous and
potash should continue firm
at their present levels, which
are up over the preceding
year’s prices, but Brubaker
expects the tight supply
situation for these materials
to ease up somewhat.
There will be some
shortages of better in
secticides, especially those
for rootworm control,
Brubaker predicted. “And
the market isn’t exactly
flooded with the better corn
herbicides,” he added.
Seed Supplies Adequate
“We’re optimistic that
seed prices will only be
slightly higher than last
year,” we were told by Floyd
Imes, Manheun. Imes is
president of the Penn
sylvania Foundation Seed
Cooperative, and seed plant
manager for Agway’s
Manheun operation.
“Dealers should be able to
give farmers as much seed
as they need, but they might
not have the selection of
varieties that some buyers
would want. We have a good
supply of seed oats. jThe
wheat and barley seed or
ders have already been
filled, of course, and we
experienced a good supply
situation there.”
It Pays to Know
Your Banker
'Lenders will continue to
take care of their present
farm customers,” we were
told by Hubert B. cher,
Commonwealth National
Bank’s farm loan officer.
"But there’s not going to be
much of a scramble after
new business in l'J75 ”
Bucher expects interest
rates for short term farm
loans to continue around the
10 percent mark, but he
doesn't see them going any
higher There’s no sign of
interest rates going back
down to six percent, he said.
Not ever
Lower Farm F.quipment
Prices’’
"Farmers might have
trouble early in the year
getting equipment orders
filled, but after that things
should loosen up a little.
Prices might even start
going down, possibly in the
spring,” said Robert Hart
ford, executive director of
the Pennsylvania Farm and
Power Equipment
Association, Phoenixville
Harford said the supply
situation will continue tight
however, on larger tractors
mostly because manufac
turers can t get component
parts.
Used prices should stay
up even though new
equipment will be easier to
get, „ Hartford said
“Dealers are pretty well sold
out of used equipment
because that’s all they had to
sell this year. So I don’s
expect used pnces to come
down ’’
Parts availability has been
a big problem for many
dealers in the past year. “I
hope our problems with
parts are over,” Hartford
said. “Some parts will be
plentiful, some won’t be. But
all parts this year should be
easier to get.”
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