Plant A Wise Investment DEKALB hybrids are a wise investment when it comes to growing a top corn crop. You need to start with the built-in yield potential that DEKALB hybrids offer. And, when you plant DEKALB, you have the bred-in qualities that make growing corn a little easier. Order yours today. NAME raWSYLVANIA (Adams County) Theron Bair Kent Golden Robert Hay Melvin Starner Art Wolf (Berks County) Albright's Mill Jim Batz F M Brown’s & Sons, Inc Harvey Brubicker Ernest Miller Ira Nissley Joe Ruth (Bucks County! I G’s Af Sales Dick Schmalz (Chester County) Nevm Myer Robert Stoitzfus Norwood Wilson (Cumberland County) Ronald Deitch Eugene Henry Knisely's Agricultural Center (Dauphin County) JohnAlwme M G Henmnger t Sons (Franklin County) Sam Campbell Paul Martin Mercersburg Elevator John Mummau Albert Zeger (Lancaster County) P.L Rohrerg Bro., Inc (Lebanon County) Arnold Acres (Lehigh County) Stanley Fox John Johnson g Sons Marsteller Gram, Inc Phillips Feed Service, Inc (Lycoming County) Tom Dunlap Emery Jarrett Wayne Vandme (Northampton County) Fulmer Brothers Phillips Feed Service, Inc. (Northumberland County) Roy Adams Clifford Herb Titus Snader Daniel W Snyder (Schuylkill County) Kiefer's Mill (York County) Bahn'sMill Inc William Daugherty Vance Fisher Clarence Godfrey Harold Good Jacobs g Stambaugh Charles Keeney Sterling Keeney Luckenbaugh Farms, Inc Robert Morris Vernon Sielmg Art Sigler Stewartstown Milling NEW JERSEY (Hunterdon County) Mane Litton (Salem County) South Jersey Farmers Exchange Woodstown, NJ DEPEND ON DEKALB DEKALB is a registered brand name Numbers designate hybrids ADDRESS Littlestown, Pa York Springs, Pa Gettysburg, Pa New Oxford, Pa New Oxford, Pa Kempton, Pa Richland, Pa Sinking Springs, Pa Richland, Pa Hamburg, Pa Morgantown, Pa Fleetwood, Pa Silverdate, Pa Doylestown, Pa Chester Springs, Pa Cochranviile, Pa Oxford, Pa Carlisle, Pa Newville, Pa Carlisle, Pa Middletown, Pa Berrysburg, Pa Dry Run, Pa Chambersburg, Pa Mercersburg, Pa Shippensburg. Pa Greencastle, Pa Smoketown, Pa. Lebanon, Pa Palm, Pa Orefield. Pa Trexlertown. Pa Germansville, Pa Jersey Shore, Pa Linden, Pa Muncy, Pa Nazareth, Pa Bath, Pa Sunbury, Pa Pitman, Pa Milton, Pa Rebuck, Pa Hegms, Pa Windsor, Pa Felton, Pa Etters, Pa Glen Rock, Pa Airville, Pa Dover, Pa York, Pa York, Pa Spring Grove, Pa Fawn Grove, Pa New Freedom, Pa York, Pa Stewartstown Pa Phillipsburg, NJ n Seed Cor PHONE 359-5891 528-4343 334-1588 624-8683 624-8664 756-4421 933-8168 678-4567 866 6635 562 8254 286 9328 944 7571 257 5135 794 7259 827-7414 593-5982 932 8285 249-3898 776-5308 243 2233 944-6270 362-8188 349-2549 264-4269 328-2411 532-8022 597-3494 299-2571 272-9973 679-9682 395-1823 or 395-2927 395-2462 767-3819 753-3196 398-0408 546-2564 759-3504 or 759-4365 837-6061 286-9698 684-3092 437-2714 425-2333 682-3672 244-5928 246-8557 938-2762 428-2430 927-6147 292-2564 741-1426 755-1173 225-3179 382-4592 235-4041 755 8760 993-2055 859-1485 769-0062 Pa. farm labor force down HARRISBURG - Penn sylvania’s farm labor force during the survey week of January 8 to 14, 1978 was estimated at 100,000, seven per cent less than the 107,000 farm workers m the com parable survey week in 1977, according to the Penn sylvania Crop Reporting Service. Farm family workers totaled 78,000 compared to 76,000 a year earlier, a three per cent mcrease. Hired farm workers were estimated at 22,000 down, 29 per cent from the 31,000 lured in January 1977. Field and livestock workers comprised 15,000 of the total hired workers this January. Last year the field and livestock workers accounted for 23,000 of the 31,000 workers. Field workers decreased 18.000 from October 1977 to 5.000 while livestock workers increased by 3,000 during the three month period to 10,000. The average workweek: for Pennsylvania farm operators during the survey week was 34.2 hours, 12.2 hours less than last October and 6.1 hours less than January 1977. Other unpaid family workers averaged 30.0 hours and hired workers averaged 42.0 hours during the survey week. Pennsylvania farm wage rates for all methods of pay converted to an hourly rate .averaged $2.94 during the survey week. The average was $2.94 a year ago. Field and livestock workers averaged $2.63 per hour, down five cents from the previous January. The U.S. farm labor force during the survey week was estimated at 2,999,500, down "230,000 from the 3,299,700 farm workers last January. Farm family workers totaled 2,235,200 compared to 2,412,400 in the previous January survey period. Hired farm workers in the U.S. totaled 764,300, down 53,000 over last year. The average workweek for U.S. farm operators during the survey week was 27.6 hours, up one hour per week from January 1977. Other Lancaster Farming, Saturday, March 11,1978 unpaid family workers average 31.7 hours and hired workers averaged 34.6 hours during the week. Farm wages for all methods of pay converted to an hourly rate averaged $3.18 during the week of January 8-14, 1978, The Potatoes- down HARRISBURG - Potatoes held m storage by Penn sylvania growers, local dealers and processors on February 1 are estimated at 2,400,000 cwt., according to the Pennsylvania Crop Reporting Service. The stocks are 17 per cent less than the February 1, 1977 figure. Stocks on hand represent 38 per cent of the state’s revised Fall potato production estimate, compared to last year when February 1 stocks amounted to 41 per cent of fall 1976 production. Pennsylvania Fall potato Market milk course offered UNIVERSITY PARK - Various milk marketing companies are appointing “taste panels” or “scoring bees” to periodically compare their milk products with those of their com petition. The key persons on the panel provide a quality control wluch gives them more insight into some of the problems with which the company has to deal in a competitive market and also makes plant personnel more quality conscious. Manfred Kroger, associate professor of Food Service at Penn State, points out other techniques available to progressive plant managers in a Penn State Know Where the Activities Will Be? Read the Farm Women Calendar. average was $2.96 per hour a year ago. Hourly workers receiving only cash wages averaged $3.18 per hour compared to $2.86 a year earlier. Field and hvestock workers averaged $2.90 per hour, up 22 cents from the previous January figure of $2.68. production is now estimated at 6,375,000 cwt., 11 per cent below 1976. Potato growers harvested 25,500 acres with an average yield of 250 cwt. per acre. Stocks of potatoes for all uses held in storage by growers, local dealers and processors in the U.S. fall production areas totaled 149.3 million cwt. on February 1. This is four per cent above a year earlier and 13 per cent more than 1976. Stocks m the eight eastern states on February 1 totaled 23.8 million cwt., up 14 per cent from a year ago. Correspondence Course on Market Milk. Market Milk also covers commercial handling and processing of milk from the farm to the consumer from the viewpoint of the milk processor or dealer. Lessons include information on the sanitary- aspects of production, transportation, receiving station, processing plant methods, pasteurization, special products, and a brief look at distribution. To order this course, one should write MILK, Box 5000, University Park, Pa., 16802. Make one’s check for $B.OO payable to Penn State. 61
Significant historical Pennsylvania newspapers