—Lancifttvr Farming, Saturday, Fab. 7. 1976
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Heating fuel use charted
with degree-days count
day* - and your beating bills -
go up. As an example, last
month, with so many con
secutive cold days, there
were 1,100 degree days
compared to 918 degrees
days for January 1975. This
means higher fuel use for
heating.
K you want to start
keeping track of degree
days, here's how you can do
it. First, add the low tem
perature reading for the day
to the high and divide the
total by two to get an
average. Then subtract that
average from 65 degrees.
The number you arrive at is
the degree days. To get the
total degree days for the
month, simply add up all the
degree days for each day in
that month. The high and low
temperatures for the day are
usually printed in your local
newspapers. When tem
peratures go down, degree
Price index gained
HARRISBURG - The index
of Prices Received by
Pennsylvania farmers as of
Jan. 15 was two percent
higher than the previous
month and 13 percent above
a year ago, according to the
Crop Reporting Service.
Lower prices received for
hogs, steers and heifers,
sheep, milk, turkeys, and
broilers were more than
offset by higher prices
received for most other
commodities.
The Purchasing Power of
prices received - computed
by dividing the index of
prices received by the index
of prices paid by farmers -
DRIED
BEET PULP
CRUDE PROTEIN, not less than
CRUDE FAT, not less than
CRUDE FIBER, not more than
Composed only of RESIDUE of SUGAR BEETS Dried after
extraction of sugar.
$119.80 PER TON
1) 2-Ton Minimum Purchase
2) CASH Purchase Price Quoted Above Is For Mill Pickup
3) Add *5 per Ton for local Delivery
4) Charged Purchases at Regular Prices and Terms
5) Quantity is Limited
WALKER
An easier way to get the
same information is to call
your local office of the
National Weather Service
and they'll give the degree
days to you free of charge.
Armed with the month’s
total you can then compare
it with the total for same
month the previous year.
was one percent above
December and eight percent
higher than a year ago.
Nationally, the index of
prices received declined
slightly from a month ago
but was eight percent higher
than a year earlier. Con
tributing most to the decline
were lower prices for
cattle, eggs, apples and
lemons. Higher prices for
potatoes, com and soybeans
were partially offsetting.
The Purchasing Power at
the U.S. level declined two
percent from December but
was two percent higher than
a year ago.
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Beef Grades
The changing of the
Federal beef gradea
acheculed for February 23 la
attracting considerable
rhetoric from both producer
and consumer. To the
average housewife and
family I doubt if it will make
much difference in the
supply or quality of available
meat; most consumers have
been shying away from fat
meat In recent years; the
proposed grades will not
require as much fat or finish
(marbling) and should
please most consumers. The
producer will be able to
make grade with less grain
or feed costs; no doubt more
forage crops will be used to
produce beef In the future;
however, grain can still be
used locally to bring cattle to
the desired grades. At this
point, I*m not sure just who
will benefit the most from
this proposed change;
perhaps it should be given a
trial period before severe
evaluation.
I’ve seen boys on my
baseball team go into slumps
and never come out of them,
and I’ve seen others snap
right out and come back
better than ever. I guess
more players lick them
selves than are ever licked
by an opposing team. The
first thing any man has to
know is how to handle
himself.
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Walker sets $lOO limit
LANCASTER - Robert S.
“Bob” Walker, candidate for
the Republican nomination
to Congress from the 16th
District, announced he will
accept no contribution in
excess of $lOO.OO for the April
primary election.
Walker made th* an
nouncement in remarks
delivered to campaign
volunteers at his Park City
campaign headquarters.
Citing the awesome power
wielded by special interest
groups such as labor unions
and big oil companies with
vast financial resources
Walker said:
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“It's influence they’ve
bought contributing big
money to congressional
candidates. The result Is that
special interests are
powerful enough to keep
Congress from doing Its Job
of protecting the public in
terest.
“The only way to assure
that the back is broken on
special Interest power is to
cut off their ability to buy
influence and that’s why our
campaign will accept no
contribution from any in
dividual or organization of
more than one hundred
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