HI MHHBi ■ il»li,fl iNfv :gMMaM*llgMmJ '•< *i^SCECSjiff* 1 -'"r“^& a fTj if| Him! I! r Ttmr l~if * lll| ii ""f if ServJn^^^^^^^r&^^^SSulHeasT^^rent^ylvdfffa/QHfae* - Also Maryland, New Jersey and Delaware VOL 22 No. 34 Summerftlterenky on the RmteUSauder farm near Manheim Mces paid to farmers drop sharply SHINGTON, D. C. - Index of Prices vedby Farmers, which noved up steadily for night months, dipped Survey of ag weather needs to be conducted 7 DIETER KRIEG ITZ . Taken for ** whenever its »nnal, weather is in the •8m this week for two n,: First, severe Wheat yields surprising, prices disappointing RASTER. The wheat n,v !l ? southeastern is coming off •SUWlfi Lancaster Co. canning center opens next week £. E TTA, p a ... lethal thing, to fool Settling Pm «c2S *f°® d with,” rtated Maxine director •^■to-be-opening sbatlw during the month ended June 15. At 184 (per cent of its Jan. - Dec. 1967 average), the index was down 10 points (five per thunderstorms sliced through sections of Lebanon and Lancaster Counties, injuring people and damaging property. In cluded in the tragedies was the jmee. Within Lancaster County, millers are paying an average of $2.29 per bushel of wheat delivered to the farm. Quotes reported to the Lancaster Farming this community fming center in Marietta. In the beginning of next week, the center, boused in the basement of the Marrietta borough hall, wfll be opening its doors to the public, of Tancaster County and Ms. Kress and Lancaster Farming, Saturday, July 9,1977 ■ Farm Calendar 10 • Editorial Comments io I Medicine & Mgmt. 16 • Homestead Notes 38 ; My Thoughts 38 : Ida’s Notebook 39 • Home on the Range 40 cent) from a month earlier, 11 points (six per cent) below a year earlier. The decline was the sharpest montb-to-month an incident in southern Lancaster County in which two children were struck by lightening. The second reason for weather making the news week rad|fed from a low of $2.10 to a high of S2J6. In the huge wheat producing areas of file Midwest, the crop is bringing $1.79 per bushel With transportation costs her four assistants have worked out a system which they believe is “safe, sanitary, and friendly,” for everyone taking part. The canning center is the Brat of its kind in Lancaster County, although a prototype ... In this issue • Womens’ Calendar 42 Jr. Cooking Edition 43 Recipe Themes 44 life on the farm 50 Classifieds 53 Flying fanners 78 YorkDHIA 80 » / cutback since that of October - November 1975, when the index alsoTnoved down from 194 to 184. The reason for the again is the the UJS. General Accounting Office is mailing out questionnaires to determine agircultural weather needs. Reports of efforts being made by the knocked*"off, prices drop even lower. Coupled with the low prices are carryovers which are the highest since 1963. An international and national wheat glut is bad been set up two years ago in Lebanon County. According to Judy Stover, chief of the division of Consumer Services with the Pennsylvania Bureau of i Rural Affairs, the Lebanon Center was implemented on i Future fruit trees 84 j Berks communicators 86 • Plant lovers’comer 89 : Berks DHIA 91 : Joyce Bupp 95 • Sale Reports 99 ; Public Sales Register 100 : downtum isgenerally lower prices across the board. Soybeans, cattle, corn, wheat, vegetables, and fruit are all lower. At $B.lB per US. government to upgrade weather reporting services for farmers were first reported in Lancaster Farming last Fall. Since then, subsequent articles responsible for*** the depressing figures. The harvest itself, however, is coming along well Badly needed rains during file last few days have an experimental basis to see if canning could be done on a community level. That center was the first to ever be introduced into Penn sylvania, aud from its in ception, two centers have sprung up this year-tbe Lancaster Faming photo by Dielar Kitac bushel soyßobs weredown $1.03 from a month earlier; at $2.09 per bushel com was off 16 cents; Beef cattle (Continued on Pap 24)- have reported on the progress of the govern ment’s 'efforts to improve meteorological data as it applies to the farming [Continued on Pip 26) brought combining-fo a bait, but few fanners (if any) are complaining about it. The rain hasn’t hurt the wheat so far, and other crops are [ConflaMd an Pap 14) Marietta facility and one i n Nanticdke, Luzerne County. Lancaster County’s center, according to Ms. Stover, is a follow-up project of the facility that began two years ago. Much of. the ICnnlnwd on Pap 30) $4.00 Per Year
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