64—Lancaatar Farming. Saturday, March 15, 1975
Butter Prices Dip
No, the unique flavor of
butter hasn’t changed. But
the price has dropped below
that of premium margarines
and many people arc eating
butter for the first time,
unfortunately. This includes
reporters who write feature
stories noting the different
taste of butter that buffs
know as flavor.
“Some Midwestern
grocery chains are featuring
butter specials as low as 69
cents a pound, about 15 cents
or more below prices a week
ago. In some areas, butter is
selling for the first time at
prices below some grades of
margarine, which are as
high as 90 cents a pound...”
Wall Street Journal,
December 23, 1974.
PUBLIC SALE
BROWN SWISS DAIRY HERD
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 26, 1975
AT 12:30 P.M.
Located approx. 3 x h miles from the Brogue off Rt. 74 towards Muddy
Creek Forks, along Frosty Hill Road. [Watch for signs at top of Muddy
Creek Hill], in Chanceford Twp., York Co., PA.
Brown Swiss Dairy Herd
Approx. 18 head of top grade Brown Swiss Dairy
Cows in all stages of lactation. Some first & second calf
hfrs. & some springing and others in full flow of milk.
These cattle are a nice size and have nice udders.
They are milking very good w-approx. 40 lbs. a day per
cow ave. & a creamery test of 4.2 to 4.3 average. Tested
& health charts furnished day of sale.
Terms: Cash of Approved Check.
Mr. & Mrs. Robert Manifold
RDI, Airville, PA
Robert L Sechrist, Auctioneer
Phone 382-4379
John Hope Anderson, Clerk
Not Responsible for Accidents.
PUBLIC AUCTION
OF FARM EQUIPMENT
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 26,1975
AT 12:00 NOON
Location: 5 Miles East of Hershey on Route 322 at East end of
Campbelltown turn South onto Route 117 “Colebrook Road”.
Continue 3 miles on Colebrook Road to Patrick Road turn right 1 mile
to farm on right. Watch for sale arrows. South Londonderry
Township, Lebanon Co., PA.
OLIVER 1855 DIESEL WITH CAB
Wide Front End, Excellent Condition
OLIVER 1800 DIESEL
Hydra-Power, Wide Front End
John Deere 2020 with No. 47 Loader
Massey Ferguson Super 90 Diesel
Multi-Power and Wide Front End
Cockshutt 40 Tractor
JOHN DEERE NO. 1300 6-ROW PLATELESS
CORNPLANTER WITH INSECTICIDE AP
PLICATORS AND MONITOR, used 1 season; John
Deere 1209 Haybine, used for only 18 acres; Brillion 12-
Foot Cultimulcher, used one season; New Holland No.
350 Grinder Mixer; 8-Row Trailer Type Field Sprayer
with Poly Tank, used 1 season; Oliver 5-Bottom 16-inch
Cushion Trip Semi-mount Plow; Ford Disc Harrow
with 32 Discs on Transport; John Deere 14-T Baler with
Thrower; Hydraulic Dump Wagon with Hay and Com
Racks; 2 Flatbed Wagons with High Side Hay Racks; 3
McCurdy Gravity Bins on Chassis; New Idea Four Bar
Side Rake; 10-Foot Utility Trailer; Silage Trailer;
Lilliston Leader 3-Point Rotary Mower; Dearborn 2-
Row 3-Point Cultivator; 3-Point Blade.
A.M.F. Snowmobile, Like New
Craftsman Drill Press; Electric Hack Saw; Electric
Motors; 25 Milk Cans: 15.5x38 Used Tractor Tires;
18.4x38 Traqtor Chains; Two lIL-15 Flotation Tires on
Rims; Heat Houser for J.D. 70; Some Household Items
and several other items.
NOTICE There will he very few small items.
Equipment will be sold soon after sale begins.
Sale time, 12:00 Noon. Sale by:
DAVID M. GISH
RD2, PALMYRA, PA (717) 838-4718
Sale Conducted by:
John E. & Paul E. Martin, Auctioneers
(717) 733-3511 (717) 733-3305
Lunch by Group 14 Farm Women
Butter flavor may be
better, but a “lost
generation” may have
missed It because the price
spread between butter and
margarine was too great.
Not anymore. Food fads
fade and diet concerns
diminish as butter becomes
No. 2 in price and margarine
assumes the mantle of the
“high price spread.”
Evidently price is the
consumers’ main concern
when shopping. In the last
six months of 1974, per capita
butter sales increased 15
percent while margarine
sales leveled off at their 1973
rate. Butter sales will
continue to increase as the
prices of margarines soar to
soybean heights.
Nearly 80 percent of
margarines use soybean oil,
which has increased so
markedly in cost that the
price of many margarines is
higher than butter in some
markets.
According to the Bureau of
Labor Statistics, the retail
price of butter dropped five
cents a pound from
December 1973 through
December 1974, while the
retail price of margarine
went up more than 25 cents,
an actual price spread
decrease of 30.7 cents per
pound.
From this corner, as a
butter buff, I’m delighted
that I can enjoy it more for
less. Butter is part of our
national heritage from
“buttercups” to “knowing
which side your bread is
buttered on” to “buttering
up the boss.” No one says
“Pass the oleo, please,” as a
family might forget when
company is served butter.
And baking Christmas
cookies with margarine
seems almost un-American.
In the dairy business, we
have advertised that “it’s
better with butter,” and that
“butter is what margarine
would like to be.” If
imitation really is the sin
cerest form of flattery,
butter is flattered. But
margarines continue to
imitate the real flavor of
butter and claim that con
sumers can’t tell the taste
difference. Nor do most
margarine eaters know that
the imitation spread has the
same caloric content as
butter.
Today’s consumers have
an advantage. Now they can
stop buying the new “high
price spread” and enjoy the
sweet goodness of butter for
a lower price. Why not make
it a table fact in your home
that butter is butter,
margarine is margarine,
and never the spreads should
meet?
Ask yourself why more
people are buying butter
when its prices are better?
JOHN B. HOSIER
HOLSTEIN DAIRY HERD
& DAIRY EQUIPMENT
DISPERSAL
THURSDAY, MARCH 20,1975
12:30 P-M.
Located in Cumberland Co., 6 miles Southeast of Carlisle, PA; turn
South off Route 74 on Stought road. Just West of intersection of
Routes 74 and 174.
35 Registered & Grade Holsteins
30 DAY HEALTH TESTS
PREGNANCY EXAMINED
O.S. RECORDS
22 Cows in milk, some fresh or close; others in
various stages; 2 Bred Heifers; 3 Open Yearlings.
1 Service age bull; 1 Bull near service age.
6 Heifers from 1 year down.
Herd is mostly sired by and bred to Atlantic
Breeders Co-op.
DAIRY EQUIPMENT
Esco 350 gal. S.S. milk tank; DeLaval No. 73 vacuum
pump; No. 25 DeLaval vacuum pump; 2 DeLaval
magnetic milker units; milker unit to run off tractor;
30 gal. Loy Boy glasslined water heater; S.S. double
tubs; S.S. wash bowl; double tubs; S.S. strainers and
buckets; 12 milk cans - 3 with drop handles.
Pipe and stallcocks for 24 cows; Sunbeam clippers;
14 water bowls; cow chains; silage cart; Acorn gutter
cleaner; feed boxes; etc.
FEED
CORN SILAGE ALFALFA
MIXED HAY— STRAW
LUNCH CATALOGS
John B. Hosier, owner
R.D.6, CARLISLE, PA 17013
Phone 258-3501
, DEApT'SHULL, Auct.
WM. OTTO, Clerk
FRED NAUGLE, Pedigrees
Horticulture Perlite
Widely Used
According to latest figures addition, perlite particles
published by the Bureau of. are strong and will not
Mines of the U.S. Depart- break-down in the soil. Of
ment of the Interior, a sharp
increase in usuage of hor
ticulture perlite was
recorded in 1973. In 1972, 3
percent of domestic ex
panded perlite respresenting
12,600 tons went to this
growing market while the
figure leaped to 5 percent or
20,900 tons in 1973 • an in
crease of over 65 percent.
According to Robert
Milanese, Managing
Director of the Perlite In
stitute, “an increase in
perlite usage in this market
is also expected for 1974.
When the final figures are in,
they will probably be in
excess of 25,000 tons - up
significantly from 1973’s
record figures. Increased
usage may be attributed to
several factors including
greater reliance on the home
garden for food production in
'a tight economy, need for
more intensive crop
production because of
shortage of fertile soil,
changing American lifestyle
in that there is a movement
‘back to the soil’ and greater
leisure time as a result of
shorter work weeks, earlier
retirement, longer vacations
and more holidays.”
Serving a multifaceted
role, horticultural perlite is
effective as a soil conditioner
in vegetable and flower
gardens, lawns and potting
soils. Horticultural perlite
aerates soil and promotes
drainage while retaining
moisture and nutrients
where plants can get them
when they are needed. In
Wouldn’t it be more logical
for oleo lovers to pay more
for the “high price spread” if
they truly believed its
marketing claims?
PUBLIC SALE
FARM EQUIPMENT, HOUSEHOLD
& ANTIQUES
SATURDAY, MARCH 22,1975
10:00 A.M.
Along Gunhart Road, 2 blocks off Route 568, x h mile Wesl of Route
10, Robeson Twp., Berks Co.
WD Alii* Chalmers tractor, 2 bottom plow,
cultivator, sub-soiler; Allis Chalmers C tractor with
Horn 505 loader; snow plow; MC 3 bottom plow on
rubber; Co-op corn picker (as is); 3 horse plow; hoco
plow; Sears corn sheller; hammermill; windmill;
weeder; blacksmith forge; air compressor; grind
stone; hammers; bars; chains; all kinds of small
tools; scrap iron; Globe milker; milk cans; MC cream
separator; butter churns; sauer kraut cutter; chairs;
blanket chest; flour chest; wash stands; old locks;
glass; bottles; books; trunk; pt., qt., and gal. jars with
glass tops; cherry seeder; jugs; crocks; broad axe;
lanterns; sleigh bells; 50 gal. Copper kettles; rope bed;
bicycle; hand wagon with body and hay ladders; china
closets; old fashioned rocker; wood mantel clocks; 12
ga. Win Model 12 pump gun; 410 ga. single; 16 ga.
single; 22 cal. rifle; Frazer Western saddle and
equipment and other articles.
Farm tools and equipment sold first.
Sold for:
Mabel Gundy
HARLAN GUNDY, Auctioneer
SPRINGLEA Registered Holsteins
COMPLETE DISPERSAL
IKS., MUCH 11, 197!
AT 11:00 A.M.
Located 16 miles east of Lancaster, RDI Kinzers, Pa. Take Rt. 340
East to Spring Garden, 4 mi. east of Intercourse. Turn left on Snake
Lane, first farm on left. From Morgantown interchange of turnpike
take Rt. 10 south to Rt. 340, west to Spring Garden.
80 REGISTERED HOLSIEINS - Atlantic Bred
Tested for interstate shipment, for
pregnancy and mastitis, in all stages of lactation.
Selling: 21 daughters of Hilltop Apollo Ivanhoe; 10
daughters of Penstate Ivanhoe Star; 9 daughters of
Harrisburg Gay Ideal; 7 daughters of Penn-Octo
Kenny.
Service sires: Gay Rocket, Ivanhoe Star, Apollo.
Featuring Queameade Tangie Ivanhoe
10-05 365 d 2X 24,078 4.3 percent 1046
7-01 326 d 2X 21,712 4.3 percent 939
6-01 319 d 2X 18,297 4.4 percent 807
Her 14 decendents, rich in Ivanhoe blood include 2
daughters by Hector with records to 799 and 974 of fat.
Also two daughters of Ivanhoe Star, one with 2 yr.
record of 12,962 and 536.
Outstanding Apollo daughters selling:
Springlea Apollo Moe - Twin - 84
5- 326 d 2X 18452 4.6 percent 841
Springlea Maiden Apollo - VG 85
6- 338 d 2X 18784 4.0 percent 748
Springlea Apollo Lucille - Twin
Springlea Apollo Lucenda - Twin
Both with good two yr. old records and bred to
Lowcrest Marvex
Springlea Apollo Brenda - VG 86
5-05 365 d 2X 25196 3.6 percent 90 908
Sells with daughters by Harrisburg Gay Ideal
Springlea Apollo Jane - VG 85
5-02 352 d 2X 18,878, 3.4 percent 636
Springlea Apollo Judi - VG 86
2-0 329 d 2X 13.645 4.2 percent 571
Springlea Apollo Cleo - VG 88
1-11 353 d 2X 14,584 4.3 percent 636
Also a VG 86 Daughter of Apollo with 23,610 at two
years.
Fresh in December - milking over 100 lb,
This herd has been one of the top producing herds in
Lancaster County with the current rolling herd avera
ge of 640 fat and 15,600 milk.
Herd Average: 1974 -15,684 M 637 F; 1973 -14,571 M
623 F; 1972 -16,080 M 673 F (Top in County); 1971 -15,363
M 656 F; 1970 -14,697 M 612 F.
Be sure to reserve Tuesday, March 18 and attend this
dispersal of an outstanding herd for type and
production. **
Terms by
JOHN S. and RHODA YOST
Phone: 717-768-8993
Auctioneer:
Ivan R. Yost - 215-593-5326
Pedigrees:
Robert H. Kauffman ■ 717-367-3550
Assisted by Martin Auctioneers
Heated Tent Lunch Provided
particular interest to the
organic gardener is the fact
that perlite is neutral and
chemically inert. When
produced, perlite is heated
above 1600 degrees which
sterilizes it thereby
eliminating introduction of
disease into the soil.