In Maryland, buyers and sellers
gather in huge tobacco warehouses
when it's time to market the crop.
This was a scene from one of the
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Striking evidence of a
solid sire program.
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Flash ... April 18th, 1975
Round Oak Rag Apple Elevation now Classified
Excellent 95 Points
Round Oak Apollo Virginian raised from 86 to 88
points
Round Oak Rockman raised to Excellent 91 points
Grand Champion Female at Md. State B & W Show
was an Elevation Daughter
Consider Round Oak breeding in Your Herd Today.
MARKET REPORTS
St. Croixco VMdiction RON
GLENDELL Arlmda Chief
Paulina TOP SPOT
Round Oak Rag Apple ELEVATION
Md. Gaywinds MERRY KING
Knob Lick GO
Lima Hollow BURKGQV Roburke
Long Haven SEVENS Winter*'
Leebar Drummer Kingpin MICAH
Shady vale Pearl PRIDE
TOP TEN AVERAGE
Holtex Record ATLAS
UK SUPREME
E-Z Acres Orlo SKYDEAN
Woodbine Pearl COMET
Kin-Vale TIDY Champ
Plorendel Ivanhoe LOREN
Long-Haven RUMPUS
Ctanyard Rag Apple TRI-VIC
Semog Diane DYNAMO
Edeal Pinonia Matt TIPPY
TOP TWENTY AVERAGE
B-Y-U Performer CATSUP
Round Oak Apollo VIRGINIAN
Round OAK Rockman
Double Ned Harveycrest WALKWAY
N-Del-Oee DUTCHMAN
Paclamar Triune COSMO
Lime Hollow Burkgov TRIUMPH
Walhowdon Vernon M VENUS
Elevation Victory EDSON
Long Haven Fayne KING Winter
TOP THIRTY AVERAGE
E-Z Acres DAGAN J Sears
Md. Gaywinds WHIRLPIN
St. Croixco Pioneer MAJOR
Hardy Starward Ivanhoe WILLY
Round Oak Rag Apple ELATION
Country Benedict Hartog FALCON
Rocby Ivanhoe Dina CHARM
Ecraso WORTHY MASTER
Ber-Cre-Farm Flying CLOUD
Collins-Crest ROYAL J
HOLSTEIN AVERAGE
auctions in Upper Marboro,
Maryland, last week in the second
week of the marketing season.
+ 605 -.01
+ 598 +ll
+ 596 00
+ 571 -07
+ 528 +.02
+ 496 +.02
+ 468 - 10
+ 459 - 18
+ 453 -02
+ 372 00
+ 807
Box 46, RD2, Cochranviile, PA 19330
FIELDMAN: DICK BROWN, 717-656-8626
+39 +127
+36 + 96
+3O + 90
+4O + 96
+26 + 82
+32 + 85
+39 + 87
+35 + 82
+2B + 75
+l5 + 63
+3B + 90.50
■'•1781 -.16
H 249 -.06
1-1217 • ,09
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+1125 -.10
+lOO6 • .05
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+lOO9 • .01
+ 983 - .05
+ 938 -.13
+1162
+ 890 -.13
+ 869 - .05
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+ 862 +.ll
+ 825 - .03
+ 821 +.03
+ 817 -09
+ 776 -.11
+lOO4
+l3 + 58
+24 + 66
+l7 + 60
+24 + 66
+2B + 69
+4B +B5
+26 + 65
+34 + 72
+l6 + 57
+l2 + 52
+32 + 78.00
+ 766 -.10
+ 734 - .05
+ 729 +.02
+ 711 -.04
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+ 661 -24
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+ 904
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+2O + 54
+24 + 57
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+ 9 +44
-12 +26
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+2B + 69.86
+2O + 49 25
+3B + 63 129
+2l + 49 60
+ll + 40 24
+22 + 46 115
+2l +44 19
+ 3 + 28 5358
-9 +lB 1660
+l3 + 35 31
+l3 +3O 25
+22 + 61.40
COUNSEL
Comparing Pa.
Md. Tobacco Prices
(Continued from Pip I|
comparison therefore
becomes impossible. $l.lO
would be a very good price
flit 1 the Pennsylvania 609
tobacco, but the crop
wouldn’t compare in quality
to that produced in
Maryland. 70-cents would be
a bad price for the Maryland
crop because it has less
moisture and involves more
handling than the Penn
sylvania produced type 609.
But the nagging question
remains - could Lancaster
County growers of Type 609
tobacco get more for their
crop if they’d hold it for sale
when the Maryland auctions
open in the spring?
We posed that question to a
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Lancaiter Farming, Saturday. May 3.1975
couple of growers, who were
happy to talk but who didn't
want their names used. Both
are from the New Holland
area, as are most of the 609
producers.
The first grower said he
felt returns from his three
acres of 609 were about the
same as if he’d planted
Penndel. “Penndel weighs a
little more, but the price is
lower,” he said. ‘‘The
Maryland tobacco is a little
easier to put away, but it’s
not quite as easy to get ready
to sell. We have to take the
top leaves off separately.”
We asked if the fanner
thought sorting 609 would
pay. “They give the same
price for everything, the
same as Pennbel. Which is
all right with me. I don’t care
too much for sorting.”
Would it pay to sort, we
then asked, if he could take
his tobacco to Maryland
auctions and get $l.lO a
pound. “It might be wor
thwhile,” he said. “But you’d
have to get a load together.
And I don’t think I’d want to
do that with my whole crop.
But it might be interesting to
do it with some of the
tobacco we grow here.”
The second farmer we
called wiD be growing 609 for
the third season this year,
and plans to put in 12 acres.
We asked him what he
though about the price dif
ferential between 609 as it is
sold here off the farms and
as it’s sold on the Maryland
auctions.
“I feel we’ve* been getting
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and
a very fair price for our
tobacco here,” he said.
“Down there, they handle
the tobacco a lot more. They
work with it all during the
winter. After it dries down a
little, they take the leaves off
the laths and tie them into
hands. Then they put the
hands back on the laths and
wait until they’re bone dry
before they do to the auction.
“Really, that tobacco
brings a higher price on the
auction, but it takes a lot
more work, too, and it’s not
as heavy as the tobacco we
sell. I have no complaints
with the 70- to 75-cents we got
for our crop last year.”
FFA
Officers
Elected
Members of the Garden
Spot Chapter of FFA
representing Lampeter-
Strasburg High School
recently elected officers for
the coming school year.
Those youths chosen for
leadership positions were:
Curt Hess, president;
Dwight Esbelman, vice
president; Art Meliingev,
secretary; Robert C. Wit
mer, treasurer; Robert A.
Witmer, reporter; Robert
Duvall and Chuck Groff,
chaplain.
Robert A. Witmer
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If you have fat
cattle or
need feeders . . .
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