Poultry products show no radiation HARRISBURG -At the monitored and sampled even Drug Administration and the request of the Pennsylvania though government officials Pennsylvania Department of Poultry Federation, poultry did not think it was Agriculture sampled poultry products have been necessary. The Food and products in stores, farms, For many needs on the farm! Morton Buildings are designed with the modern farm and farmer in mind! No matter what the need; a repair shop, livestock confinement, garage, equipment storage, office or even grain storage... Morton Buildings has just Serving Central Pa. and Maryland RD4, Box 34A Gettysburg, PA 17325 Ph: 717-334-2168 Serving North Central Pa. Area P.O. Box 937, State College, PA 16801 Serving Eastern Pa and New Jersey Box 126, Phillipsburg, NJ 08865 Ph: 201-454-7900 the right building for your specific need. Now, FREE, an attractive weather vane* with every Morton Building purchased. If added efficiency is your aim, contact the nearest Morton Sales office (listed below) today! tmmmmmmmmmmmmmm | □ Send information on MORTON BUILDINGS |_p _ □ Have your salesman phone for an appointment I □ Garages Shops □ Hog Confinement ■ □ Machine Sheds □ Cattle Confinement □ Horse Barns □ Free Stall Barns □ Gram Storage □ Livestock BaiTis | Name I Address Telephone No and processing plants All were negative for radiation contamination. Poultry products are the least susceptible agricultural products to radiation due to their closed environment housing and closed feeding systems, says the Pennsylvania Poultry Federation. Some 32 food commodities were examined by FDA including apple pie, doughnuts, spaghetti, chocolate wafers, etc., and all were negative. Several poultry and egg processing plants did sampling on their own at private laboratories and all samples were negative. Milk is the most suscep tible product to radiation contamination. That is why it was constantly being monitored. Even so, milk is safe and only a few samples showed radiation iodine present. Levels were so low that consumers need not be concerned. All agricultural commodities are safe beyond a reasonable doubt. Weathering An Australian and a Scotsman were discussing the weather in their coun tries "When does summer come in your land 2” the Scotsman asked “January, February and March,” the Australian scad. "What about Scotland 2 ” "Last year it wa* on a Tuesday,” was the terse reply -ii v Lancaster Farming, Saturday,. April 7,1979 Woodland to visit China CORNING, lowa - DeVon Woodland, president of the National Farmers Organization, will be visiting the Peoples Republic of China in mid-April at the invitation of the Chinese government. Woodland, scheduled to leave the United States on April 15, will be a member of a trade delegation named by members of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations. The trade delegation is being sponsored by the Foreign Trade Institute of the Chinese government. The trade delegation will be combining its activities, wherever possible, with a Congressional delegation from the Senate Committee Pa, broiler placements up HARRISBURG - Placements of broiler chicks in the commonwealth during the week ending March 31 were up seven per cent from the same week a year ago, according to the Penn sylvania Crop Reporting Service. The placements were at 2,286,000, three per cent below the previous week. Average placements, during the past nine weeks were 13 per cent above a year earlier. Placements of broiler THE KIL Pra dair her from ® ffi SWEETLIX Blocks with Rabon Oral Larvicide —the efficient way to control flies while the cows’ appetities and supplying with a high level of available phosphorus.- Simply unwrap Sweetlix Rabon Blocks, set them out and let “The Killer” go to work. To put The Killer to work for you, contact: YOUR LOCAL FARM SUPPLIER Rabon is the registered trademark of Shell Chemical Company 151 on Foreign Relations - at the unprecedented request of the Chinese. Together with the Congressional delegation, Woodland and other trade delegates will meet with the Chinese Minister of Foreign Trade Li Quiang and other Chinese trade officials, visit agricultural and con struction projects, and at tend several official banquets. Woodland, accompanied by his wife Dean, will visit the Chinese cities of Shanghai. Peking and Canton. Along with the meetings and banquets, the Woodlands will visit the Great Wall of China, the Canton Trade Fair, and various other Chinese lan dmarks and activities. chicks in the key 21 poultry producing states were 80,797,000, about the same as ■the previous week but ten per cent above the same week a year earlier. Average placements in the 21 states during the past nine weeks were nine per cent above a year ago. The number of broiler fryers slaughtered in Pennsylvania under Federal Inspection during the week ending March 21 was 2,023,000, with an average weight of 4.02 pounds.
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