uS“bSS6 &M Egg production down from ’76 Inter-state blend price produced 260 million eggs dropped by 2 cents/ cwt.SSoi a Jl^^£ * previous month but 10 per excess price was 58.23 per cen t below a year earlier, hundredweight. The but- according to the Crop lerfat differential was 10.4 Reporting Service, cents for each point above or The January average of below 3.5 per cent. The base 12.8 million layers is un pnce is up .01 per him- changed from the previous dredweight from the month but nine per cent previous month and down.6B below a year earlier. Egg per hundredweight from a production per 100 layers year ago. The excess price is during January totaled 2034 down .11 per hundredweight eggs, up nearly one percent from the previous month and from the previous month but down .73 per hundredweight one per cent below a year from a year ago. ago A total of 465 million pounds of Federal Order 4 producer milk was pooled in January of which 62 per cent was sold as Gass I, com pared to 63 per cent for the previous month and 68 per cent a year ago. A total of 7,979 Order No. 4 producers provided 15 million pounds per day to dealers during January averaging 1,880 pounds per farm per day. Total value of producer milk was set at $46 million for the month SOUTHAMPTON, Pa - Area dairy farmers who are members of Inter-State Milk Producers’ Cooperative received $10.04 per hun dredweight for milk they produced during January. This price, known as the weighted average price, is the actual average price all Federal Order 4 dairymen receive for milk containing 3 5 per cent butterfat. It is adjusted accordingly for higher or lower butterfat content. The January weighted average blend price is equivalent to 22 cents per quart. The January price compares to $10.06 per hundredweight for the previous month and $lO.BO per hundredweight for a year ago. Quart equivalent prices were 22 cents for the previous month and 23 cents for a year ago. The farm base milk price for January was $10.34 per hundredweight while the READ LANCASTER FARMING FOR FULL MARKET REPORTS JOHN J. HESS 11, INC. PROTEIN vs AMINO ACIDS There always seems to be confusion about the value of specific protein levels in poultry rations. A nutritionist used this analogy recently. Protein in feeding a chicken has about the same value as a dollar bill does in “feeding” a parking meter. The dollar bill has to be broken down into individual coins to feed the meter. Further, not every coin is useful and some give us more “time on the meter" than others. The same is true for protein in a poultry ration. To be beneficial, it must be broken down into individual amino acids. Some of these amino acids are not very useful while others are required for the specific per formance we want to achieve. In feeding the meter, it wouldn't make any difference whether we had a 5,10, or 20 dollar bill, it’s the in dividual coins that count. In feeding laying hens, it doesn’t make any difference whether we have a 15,17 or 20 per cent protein ration, it’s the individual amino acids that makes the performance difference. 810 LAYENA 1 Bio Layena 100 Bio Layena 107 Bk) Layena 114 Bio Layena 121 Bio Layena 128 The numbers after the Bio Layena rations indicate the Purina Bio-Rating. Each subsequent ration contains 7 per cent extra amino acid, vitamin and mineral fortification over the previous one. For example, Bio Layena 114 contains 7 per cent more fortification than Bio Layena 107 and 14 per cent more than Bio Layena 100. '’Values are guides only since feed use varies due to wastage, strains, etc. Use local judgment as when to change rations. “Serving The Needs of the Agricultural Community” fAfj.— 810 LAYENA INTAKE GUIDES PRE PEAK 2 (18-28 wte) POST PEAK 2 (28 wks.+) In House Daily Feed Intake Maximum Temperature Lbs/100 Hens/Day The nation’s laying flock produced 5.5. billion eggs during January, down one per cent from both the previous month and a year ago. The number of layers during January averaged 279.8 million compared with 280.6 million a year earlier. The average rate of lay during the month was one per cent below January 1976. Below 60°F 60-70°F 70-80°F 80-90°F Above 90°F [ifiMf THM/r id A -7 BA&W<riS I Edward II originated shoe sizes in 1324. He decreed three barleycorns, placed end to end, equaled one n IN STOCK NOW A FULL LINE OF GARDEN SEEDS AND SUPPLIES ORDERS TAKEN FOR SEED POTATOES •S-K TOOLS ' GARDEN HOSE * KNAPSAC SPRAYERS (ALL SIZES) ■ DUST BAG KITS * SHOVELS - HOES - RAKES * CATTLE & HOG MINERALS ' CUSTOM CANVASS WORK PLAN NOW TO ATTEND OUR OPEN HOUSE WED. & THURS.. MARCH 16 & 17 AARON S. GROFF & SON FARM & DAIRY STORE RD3, Epbrata, PA 17522 (Hmklefown) Phone (717) 354 463 Store Hours 7AM fo9PM Closed lues .Wed & Sat at 5 30 PM Over 25.0 23.4 to 25.0 21.7 to 23.3 20.0 to 21.6 Under 20.0 lbs. m IXi
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