Ida's
: Notebook
I've been thinking this
week as I gather the harvest
from my garden that in a
way it is similar to having
children grown up and be
independent, productive
citizens.
In a garden you have
weeks and months of hard
and sometimes unpleasant
work. The correct seed must
be planted at the right time
and cultivated carefully and
5 Piece Beverage Serving Set
with each 100 pounds of
BEACON MILK REPLACER.
You'll find dozens
of uses for this
attractive, practical
beverage serving set.
And your calves
will have all the
advantages of the
growth and
energy-producing
nutrients in
Beacon's highly
palatable Milk
Replacer.
Offer expires
October 11, 1975
H. JACOB HOOBER
intercourse, PA
W. L MUMMERT CO.
Hanover, PA
McCRACKEN’S
FEED MILL, INC.
Manheim, PA
THARPE & GREEN MILL
Churchville, MD
NEW FREEDOM FARM & GARDEN CO.
R. E. RUDISILL RICHARD B. KENDIG CHESTER WEIST
Phone 717-854-2281 Phone 302 478 3058 Phone 717-741-2600
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protected from the elements.
Then comes the day when
the crops mature and you
can reap your harvest.
With children, one
somehow lives through years
of messy eating habits,
many trips out of bed during
the night, squabbles and
arguments, problems at
school and many worries.
Then comes the day when
the child is grown up and
CLARK DAIRY SUPPLY
EARL S* DER, INC.
New Freedom, Pa,
BEACON REPS
BEAC^EEDS
Feeds, York, PA Phone 717-843-9033
takes uls place In the
medical world, the business
world and in agriculture or
whatever pursuit he has
chosen and the parent has an
opportunity to sit back and
be proud of his part in the
accomplishments of a young
adult. However, it seems wc
don't attain anything without
some work.
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The other Sunday we
traveled to Clinton County
for a Field Day. It was my
first visit to this area and
newly opened highways
made the trip easy. But, for
pure enjoyment I like the
less traveled routes as they
wind through woods and past
small country homes and old
mills.
I was keen-eyed enough to
spy seven deer grazing in
two different groups at the
edge of a field also.
Before we left the county, I
H. M. STAUFFER
SONS, INC.
VTrtmer, PA
Rising Sun, Md
VAN-MAR FEEDS
leesport, PA
New Holland, PA
was introduced to a friendly
lady who said, "I always
read your article first when
ILancaster Farming comes to
our house." Now of course
those arc sweet words every
time I hear them.
What really amazes me is
the wide area which this, no
longer small paper covers,
not only in many counties in
Pa. but many other states as
well.
Tourist
guide
published
For many small farmers
in recent years the spare
rooms in the farmhouse have
provided more bountiful
harvests than the old south
forty, and all signs indicate
that trend will continue.
Hundreds of farm and
ranch families have turned
their spare rooms, cabins
and even extra farmhouses
into income-producing
vacation havens for city
dwellers, according to Pat
Dickerman, editor and
publisher of the Farm,
Ranch & Countryside Guide
which for 27 years has been
bringing urban vacationers
and rural hosts together.
Miss Dickerman anticipates
the Bicentennial tourist crop
to the American countryside
will be a bumper one ex
ceeding all previous years.
Harvesting vactioners -
that is, providing lodging
and either cooking facilities
or else family-style meals - is
a business that allows rural
fannies to put to good use
their talents for hospitality
and homemaking, and to use
more completely the total
resources of the farm or
ranch for expanding mcome.
1-row Super picker
low cost way to
harvest your corn
Hour after hour, acre after acre you’ll get non
stop plug-free picking, in all kinds of corn with a
1-row Superpicker
The big, hungry gathering unit picks clean, even
in down and tangled corn Flexi-Fmger presser
wheels on the long, 6-roll husking bed keep ears
moving fast, even in the heaviest yields, and
deliver clean, whole ears to your wagon
Before you buy, take a good look at this
Superpicker it combines the capacity you
want with the non-stop performance you need
for fast, clean, profitable corn harvesting
YORK COUNTY
AIRVILLE FARM SERVICE
Airville Pa
717-862 3358
ANDERSON BROTHERS
New Park Pa
717-382 4272
Lancaster Farming. Saturday. Sept, 27.1975
USDA sees milk
production
WASHINGTON - Milk
production, which turned
down from year - earlier
levels during the spring,
likely will show small in
creases from a year ago by
late 1975. For the entire year,
production is expected to
total close to the 115.4 billion
pounds of 1974. Farm milk
prices are likely to rise
seasonally during the
remainder of the year and
remain well above a year
ago.
Milk production is August
was almost 1 percent below
1974, chiefly the result of
lower output per cow
stemming from reduced
concentrate feeding. Milk
cow numbers continued
down from year - earlier
levels by only about half a
percent, the slowest rate of
decline in about two decades.
Slaughter cow prices have
eased downward from the
spring highs and likely will
It also provides an op
portunity to show and tell the
story of American
agriculture to urban visitors
- its problems and its
enormous successes.
The Bicentennial edition of
the Farm, Ranch & Coun
tryside Guide, now being
prepared for press, will list
more than 500 recommended
ranches, farms and rural
lodges in each region of the
country. Now is the time for
rural hosts interested in
being listed in it and cashing
in one next year’s crop of
tourists to write to Farm &
Ranch Vacations, Inc., 36
East 57th Street, New York,
NY 10022 for the free
brochure. How to Harvest
Vacationers.
GEORGE N GROSS, INC
RD2 Dover Pa
717 292 1673
CLAIR J MYERS
RDI
Thomasville Pa
717 259 0453
recovering
remain at low levels this fa
and winter. The larg
number of dair,
replacements on farms d
midyear and the lack (i
significant improvement 1
economic alternatives (c
dairymen also will help t
limit declines in milk cou
numbers through the rest of
1975.
Hot, dry weather durin,;
July and August m th<
western Corn Belt ani
strengthening world demani
for grain indicate highe
feed costs in late 1975 and
early 1976 than earlier ex
pected. However, rising mill,
prices likely will lead ti.
much more attractive
feeding relationships than :i
year ago and somewhat
heavier feeding of grain.
Milk production per cow
may recover and start ap
proaching more normal
gains by late 1975.
Farm milk prices rose
sharply in late summer,
reaching $8.47 per 100 pounds
in August, up 53 cents from
the June low and 73 cents
above a year ago
Manufacturing milk prices
also rose sharply and were
more than $1 above year
earlier levels m August.
Cash receipts from
dairying were up about 5
percent from a year ago this
summer after being down
sharply earlier this year
Groff dairy income likely
will remain above year
earlier levels during the rest
of the year and probably will
exceed S9V2 billion for all of
1975. The 2 percent gain from
1974 reflects slightly higher
milk prices as milk
marketings may be close to a
year ago. Although feed
costs were down about a
tenth from August 1974,
other costs have continued to
rise.
Sparked by declining
production, low seasonal
stocks, and strong sales,
wholesale butter prices have
risen about 16 cents per
pound since early June.
American cheese prices rose
about 15 cents from early
May. Even nonfat dry milk
prices, which had been at
support purchase prices
since mid-1974, moved up
ward 5 cents in late August
and early September.
Retail dairy prices in July
were down about IVz percent
from their peak in February
wholesale price rises are
starting to be reflected in
retail stores.
Farm Women
Calendar
Thursday, October 2
Society 17 meeting at 1:00
p.m. at Orpha Weaver’s.
Program will be a dried
flower exhibit.
Society 20 meeting at 1:30
p.m.
Saturday, October 4
Society 1 meeting at Landis
Valley for an Apple
Butter Making Day.
Society 10 meeting at 1:30
p.m. for an auction.
Society 6 meeting at 2:00
p.m. at the home of Mrs.
Emory Wogelmuth.
Plant Perennials
Many perennials can be
planted in early fall, remind
Extension floriculturists at
The Pennsylvania State
University.
Iris, peonies, daylilies
hardy bulbs, and phlox are
among those which can b(
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