—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, Jan. 8, 1977 32 Milk prices announced ALEXANDRIA, Va. - Middle Atlantic Order Market Ad ministrator Joseph D. Shine has announced a February 1977 Class I milk price of $11.03 per hundredweight. Shme said this price is down one cent from January and is 83 cents below the February 1976 Class I price. Order No. 4 prices are an nounced for milk testing 3.5 percent butterfat, f.o.b. plants located within 55 miles of Philadelphia, Pa. and also within 75 miles from the nearer of Washington, D.C. or Baltimore, Md. There is also a six-cent direct-delivery differential applicable to producer milk received at plants located within 55 miles of Philadelphia. The Market Administrator also announced a Class II milk price for December 1976 of $8.33 per hundredweight and a butterfat differential of 10.04 cents for each tenth of a pound of fat. These class prices are based on the December 1976 Min nesota-Wisconsin manufacturing milk price of $8.25 per hundredweight for 3.5 percent milk. The USDA reported the wholesale Grade A blitter price at Chicago during December was 90.82 cents per pound and the nonfat dry milk price was 62.58 cents per pound, f.o.b. plants in the Chicago area. Meat production up HARRISBURG - Red meat production in Pennsylvania during November totaled 94 million pounds, 17 per cent more than November 1975, according to the Crop Reporting Service. Cattle slaughter at 92,000 head was up 15 per cent; calves slaughtered was 39,500 head, 36 per cent above last year; hog slaughter at 259,000 head was up 49 per cent; and sheep and lambs at 14,400 head were 48 per cent above a year earlier. Nationally, commercial STOP BY THE ZERO BOOTH PA FARM SHOW Booths 41M13 The ZERO CONCORD is a combination of a revolutionary pipeline milking machine and the ZERO Completely-Automated Vacuum Bulk Milk Cooler. It’s the only system that provides stable milking vacuum at the teat end—in parlor or stanchion bam—with a low or high, short or long, pipeline—and without injecting air into the milker units to move the milk. Only with stable vacuum and no air injection can you hope to reduce leucocyte counts up to 65 per cent—increase milk production as much as 20 per cent—and prevent off-flavor milk. A patented, scientific principle ... TWIN-VACUUM .. . whereby one vacuum milks the cows—and a dif ferent vacuum moves the milk through a separate pipeline into the bulk tank—is what makes safe, stable vacuum possible. Furthermore, ZERO’S patented SPATTER-SPRAY Automatic Washer—and a new, improved, more-compact, high-capacity, transparent milker unit—provide built-in, “push-button”, visible self-cleaning and sanitizing of the entire system— without disassembling. And there are many other superior features. Come in, Write or Phone for Full Information! W & J DAIRY SALES R.D.2, Oxford, PA 19363 Call Bill Guhl 717-529-2569 red meat production during November was up 16 per cent from a year ago. Cattle slaughter increased one per cent from a year ago; calf slaughter was down two per cent; hog slaughter in creased 40 per cent; sheep and lamb slaughter was less than one per cent greater than a year ago. Costs Money When a leisure time ac tivity begins to cost money it’s called a hobby A BINKLEY & HURST BROS. GEHL /DISTRIBUTORS FOR \ See this equipment on display at the PA FARM SHOW \ TWIN ROTARY saver” "flexible wheels" ATHENS ~ j) z-