LAGOON
LIQUID MANURE
DEMONSTRATION
MONDAY MARCH 22
AT DONALD McCULLOUGH FARM
Directions: Take Rt. 81 - off at Newville Exit
north on Rt. 233 - approx. 4 miles on right.
Pate 968 silo unloadar
150 cattla faadar
400cattlofaodor
162 A circular faadar
101 Tapar-Pan Faadar
S/fti unloading - Feed handling - Manure handling
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ALEXANDRIA
MAXISENBERG
669-4027
lALLY
LONGACRE ELECTRIC
145-2261
CAMP HILL
LLOYD SULTZBAUGH
737-4554
EAST EARL
ZIMMERMAN EQUIPMENT
ELLIOTTSBURG
1 P.M.
162 A conveyor
155 A conveyor
166 overhead feeder
101 conveyor
Contact your nearest Rate dealer listed below.
HAMBURG
HONEY BROOK
KIRKWOOD
LEBANON
445-6409
McALLISTERVILLE
CARL BAER
512-2648
Dairy situation brightens
WASHINGTON, D.C.
Farm milk prices are now
averaging about 10 to 15
percent higher than a year
ago, according to USDA
figures released this past
Monday. But they add that
they’re still below last
December’s peak.
The report predicts that
the milk-feed price ration
will continue to be favorable
and per capita consumption
of dairy products is up.
Dairy imports were down
and cash receipts from
dairying were up last year.
166 conveyor
400 gutter cleaner mynmy pu»"p
400 manure ataekar 2® Swingingslide
Modal 100 mechanical J"
manure pump 280 llquldvator
181 manure spreader
H. DANIEL WENGER
418-6574
ZOOK’S FARM STORE
273-9730
P , PERSV , LLE
MARVIN HORST
272-0871
CLAIR SANER A SON
463-2234
Farmers received an
average of $lO.OO per -
hundredweight for milk in
February*, That’s up $1.72
from a year earlier, but still
30 cents below December’s
record high ... Milk-feed
ratio, which improved
greatly last year, will likely
continue to encourage
heavier concentrate feeding.
Percapita consumption of
dairy products, at 546 pounds
last year, up slightly from
1974 - only the second in
crease in recent years. Per
apita butter consumption
Model 200
MILLERSBURG
LANDIS LABOR SAVERS
692-4647
MILTON
LANDIS FARMSTEAD AUTOMATION
437-2375
NEWVILLE
776-7312
766-1675
STREET MD
WALTER WEBSTER
4521521
THOMASVILLE
KENNETH L.SPAHR
225-1064
Lancaster Farming, Saturday, March 20,1976
was up for the first time
since 1968, while cheese
consumption declined for the
first time in more than a
decade.
U.S. butter production
continued off during
January, but January output
of American cheese was up
sharply, USDA reported.
The 94.3 million pounds of
butter output was the highest
since last May. But, it was
off three percent from a year
earlier and the 9th straight
month it has been below that
of a corresponding month a
year earlier.
Reason for the January
cutback: Sharply reduced
production in Minnesota.
Wisconsin’s output, at 21.3
million pounds, was up 9
Forestry incentives
program announced
WASHINGTON - The
U.S. Department of
Agriculture announced 1976
funding for the Forestry
Incentives Program (FIP)
at the $l5 million level
authorized by Congress. The
FIP is a continuing program
designed to increase the
production of timber
products on small, private
timber tracts.
In its third year of
operation, FIP will again be
available in most states in
specifically - designated
counties with high resource
potential for increased
timber production. Both
annual and long-term
agreements will be offered to
eligible owners of non-
industrial private forest
lands. Federal cost-sharing
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percent from a year earlier;
and California’s production,
at 13.7 million pounds, was
up 25 percent from Jan. 1975.
But, Minnesota’s production,
at 16.8 million pounds, was
off 22 percent from a year
earlier. The three States
accounted for 55 percent of
the national total.
Meanwhile, American
cheese production totaled
149.3 million lbs. for the
month, up 14 percent from a
year earlier. Higher output
in both Wisconsin’s
production, at 67.0 million
pounds, was up 18 percent
from a year earlier; Min
nesota’s output, at 26.6
million pounds, was up 23
percent from Jan. 1975. The
two States accounted for 62
pet. of the national total.
under these agreements will
range from 50 to 75 percent
of the cost of carrying out
tree planting and timber
stand improvement prac
tices. All FIP agreements
must' be based on forest
management plans
developed by the local
forester in cooperation with
the landowner.
FIP is administered by the
Agricultural Stabilization
and Conservation Service, in
consultation with the U.S.
Forest Service and State
Foresters.
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