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SHENK'S FARM SERVICE
R.D.4, LITITZ
rom 10,000 to 60,000 lbs.
ies
May Order 4 Milk
Price Set At $ 8.75
Minimum order prices for
payment to producers
supplying the Middle
Atlantic Order market
during May 1975 of 58.75 per
hundredweight for base milk
and $8.87 for excess milk
were announced last week by
the Market Administrator,
Joseph D. Shine. The
weighted average market
price for May is 58.49. The
base milk price was 58.82 in
April 1975 and 59.62 in May
1974. The butterfat dif
i ferential for milk testing
above or below 3.5 percent is
8.0 cents per point.
Reciepts from producers
during May totaled a record
432.7 million pounds, the
Administrator reported.
This represents an increase
of 10.1 million pounds or 2.4
percent from May 1974.
There were 7,659 producers
supplying the market in
May, and the average daily
delivery was 1,822 pounds
per producer, a gain of 96
pounds or 5.6 percent from a
Milk Production Up
Milk production in Penn
sylvania during May was 656
million pounds up 0.5 percent
from a year ago, according
to the Crop Reporting Ser
vice.
The number of milk cows
in the Commonwealth during
May was 687,000 -1,000 fewer
than last month, but the
same as May a year ago.
Milk produced per cow
averaged 955 pounds in May,
up 5 pounds from a year
earlier, and 25 pounds above
May 1973.
United States milk
production during May is
estimated at 10,789 million
pounds, down 0.5 percent
from a year earlier. U. S.
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year ago. Mr. Shine reported
that the gross value of May
producer milk was 536.8
million.
A total of 253.9 million
pounds of producer milk or
58.67 percent of total
producer deliveries was
utilized for Class I in May
1975 compared to 243.0
million pounds and 57.51
percent a year ago. There
was slightly less Class II
producer milk this May than
last year.
Base milk accounted for
86.1 percent of total producer
deliveries for the month
compared to 83.9 percent in
May 1974, Mr. Shine
reported.
Order No. 4 handlers
reported Gass I sales of 206.0
million pounds within the
marketing area during the
month, down 2.6 percent
from April (on a daily
average basis) but 2.6
percent above May 1974
sales.
average milk production per
cow was 968 pounds, up 1
pound from a year ago and 11
pounds above May 1973. Milk
cows on farms were
estimated at 11,150,000 head,
down 1 percent from a year
ago. Milk cows declined
26,000 from April, the largest
month-to-month drop since
January 1974.
COMPLETE
WE USE BRUNING QUALITY
PAINT AND IT
DOES STAY ON'!!
AERIAL LADDER
EQUIPMENT:
* Modern and Efficient Method
* Reasonable Prices
* Spray-On and Brush-In
Method
* Sandblasting if Necessary
FOR FREE ESTIMATES
WRITE:
DANIEL S. ESN
(C RALPH MILLER)
717 687 9155
SPRAY-ON AND
BRUSH-IN PAINTER
BUX 350 A
RONKS PA 17572
LARGE DISPERSAL
AT HEYER BROS. CIRCLE LANE FARM
Just off Rte. 6 at Wysox, Pa.
TUESDAY EVE., JULY IST AT 6:30 SHARP!!
201 GOOD HOLSTEINS - 4 COLORED ANIMALS
A good place to select replacements 140 cows (about Vz are just fresh,
40 dry cows, balance year-round freshening) - Herd sire - balance all-age
hfrs. Excess farm machinery such as tractors, chopper, s.u wagon,
elevators, etc. All dairy-related items including 60-cow pipeline DeLaval
milker complete, 2 barn cleaners (16" w-300' chain each), 550 gal Esco
tank, Crane concrete 24x60 silo, ‘‘Big Jim" 24’ unloader, many, many dairy
items. Owned by Heyer Bros., Circle Lane Farm For information or to have
full list mailed you, write Rumsey Sales, Bath, NY. (607-776-3478)
Lancaater Farming. Saturday, June 21.1975
Guernsey Cow
Has High Record
Naeflands Kebbie, a milking, according do The
thirteen-year-old Registered American Guernsey Cattle
Guernsey cow, owned by Gub.
Raymond 8c Louise Witmer, Guernsey milk is world
Penn-Del Farm, Willow famous for its high protein,
Street, PA, has completed an delicious flavor and golden
official DHIR actual yellow color.
production record of 14,170 The testing was supervised
pounds of milk and 70S by Pennsylvania State
pounds of butterfat, in 305 University, University Park,
days two times a day PA.
EVERY
WEDNESDAY IS
M* DAIRY
” DAY
AT NEW HOLLAND SALES STABLES, INC.
New Holland, PA
If you need 1 cow or a truck load, we have from
100 to 200 cows to sell every week at your price.
Mostly fresh and close springing Holstems.
Cows from local farmers and our regular
shippers including Marvin Eshleman, Glenn Fite,
Gordon Fritz, Blame Hoffer, Dale Hostetter, H. D.
Matz, and Jerry Miller
SALE STARTS 12:30 SHARP
Also Every Wednesday, Hay, Straw &
Ear Corn Sale 12:00 Noon.
For arrangements for special sales or herd
dispersals at our barn or on your farm, contact
Abram Diffenbach, Mgr.
717-354-4341
Norman Kolb
WO 717-397-5538 \^ V
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