A22—Lancaster Famdai, Saturday, March 8,1980 Record com crop leads Pennsylvania output HARRISBURG - Production of the four small grains, wheat, rye, oats and barley slightly declined to 32,411,000 bushels from the 1978 production level of 32,492,000. The 1979 output was down five percent from the 1977 total. Sorghum estimates begin m 1979 with 7000 acres harvested for gram and a total production of 523,000 bushels, for a value of 31,208,000. The Keystone state wit nessed another record high com crop in 1979, two per cent over last year’s record crop. Production totaled 115.4 million bushels from slightly more than 1.2 million acres harvested for gram. Yield was estimated at 95 bushels per acre, the same yield as the preceeding year. Com for grain value was $340.5 million. Com for silage areage harvested at Part-time Farmers seminar to be held LANCASTER - A Part time Fanner’s Seminar will be held Saturday, March 15, 9:00 a.m. at the Farm and Home Center. Since employment off the' farm does not permit atten dance at many of the regular educational events, the Lan caster Extension staff has prepared a program of special interest to both part time farmers and rural non farm residents who own just a few head of livestock or poultry or own just a few acres of land. A general session will lead off the morning with estate planning, pest control pasture management and rural living. Following the general ses sion, there will be two 45- mmute workshops. Each workshop will be run twice, so that participants will have the opportunity to select a total of two areas of interest. Workshops to be held are Crops and Soils, Dairy and Goats, Livestock, and Poultry and Rabbits. ATTENTION FARMERS... FREE ESTIMATES ON RODENT CONTROL RODENTS carry diseases which can endanger the health of your flocks. Your business is raising the flocks. Ours is protecting them. ' / , ;> 'if , Since 1928 Pest control is too important to trust to anyone else 410,000 acres, yield at 15.0 tons, resulted in total production of 6,150,000 tons. Tobacco production declined to 22.1 million pounds compared to last year’s 25.2 million pounds. Yield decreased to 1700 pounds per acre, 240 pounds less than 1978 yield. Har vested acres remained the same as the 1978 crop at 13,000 acres. Soybeans for beans production increased to 2,624,000 bushels, a 34 per cent increase over last year’s production of 1,953,000 bushels. This increase in production was due mainly to an increase in harvested acreage. Yield increased again this year to 32.0 bushes per acre, however, this is only a 0.3 bushel increase over the 1978 yield. Total crop value in creased to almost $15.0 million from the previous year’s value of $12.9 million. Registration may be made with the form below, or by calling the Lancaster Extension Office (717) 394- 6851. PRE-REGISTRATION Part-Time Farmers Seminar NAME PHONE NO ADDRESS Please indicate the two work shops that you wish to attend □ #1) Crops and Soils CH #2) Dairy and Goats □ #3) Livestock D #4) Poultry and Rabbits Please return to Agricultural Extension Service 1383 Arcadia Road Room 1 Lan caster PA 17601 Pre registration can also be made by calling 394 6851 1278 Loop Rd. Lancaster, Pa. 17604 717-397-3721 All hay showed an in creased from last year in area harvested to 1.96 million acres. Yield declined to 2.19 tons per acre resulting in total production of 4.29 million tons. At $53.50 per ton, the total crop value decreased 14 percent to $229.7 million. Production of alfalfa hay totaled 2.3 million tons from 850,000 acres while production of all other hay totaled 2.0 million tons harvested from 1.1 million acres. Pennsylvania tanners harvested 8000 acres of red clover seed this year. The 1979 crop of 560,000 pounds is down 38 percent from the 900,000 pounds produced last year. Yield decreased seven percent to 70 pounds per acre. Total value of production is |336,000 compared with $585,000 last year. Mushroom production totaled 213.8 million pounds for the crop year ending June 30, 1979, 3 percent below the previous year’s crop. This year’s total crop value was $152.9 million. Apple production in 1979 totaled 505 million pounds, The case of Farmer Jones and the 5$ orange. Farmer Jones had finished his shopping in town. Returning along Main Street with two dusty nickels in his overalls pocket, his eye caught a hand-scrawled sidewalk sign: “ORANGES ON SALE - 50 EACH!” Feeling thirsty, it being a sizzling hot day, Farmer Jones plucked an orange from the makeshift stand... paid his nickel and continued whistling on his way. As his fingernail bit into the rind, Farmer Jones’ mouth watered at the succulent treat within. But at the very first taste his mouth turned dry. The orange was sour and flat. He suddenly didn’t like whistling again. Too late for he was down to his last sj£ he remembered Ben’s Country Store. Ben’s oranges were the best in town. Plump, juicy, fresh. He’d built WE TAKE PRIDE IN SATISFYING CUSTOMERS - CALL KEN BURKHART RD 4 Ephrata, PA 717-354-4271 Hours: Mon., lues., Wed., Frl. - 7:30 to 5:30; Thurs. til 9; Sat. til 3 up 26 percent trom a year ago. With a two percent higher unit price from last year’s nine cents per pound, value of production at $46.0 million was up 29 percent from a year ago. Total pioduction of all pears in 1979 was 2,800 tons, 15 percent below last year’s crop and 40 percent less than the 1977 crop. Value of utilized production totaled $823,000. Tart cherry production (6.3 million pounds) in creased two percent from the previous year. A record pnee of 49.6 cents per pound resulted in a record crop value of $3.1 million. The 1979 sweet cherry crop also recorded a record high value of $1,066,000; production totaled 950 tons. Pennsylvania’s peach crop totaled 90 million pounds for 1979. This year’s crop was up 6 percent from 1978. The total crop value at $13.3 million was slightly below last year’s record. Total production of grapes for 1979 was 55,500 tons. The total value of this year’s crop was $12.1 million, this was 10 percent below the previous year, but 77 percent greater than the crop value of 1977. WeVe looking for work. UKUBOTH FARMERSVIUE EQUIPMENT A total of 1000 acres of year- The 1979 production of strawberries were harvested 33,000 cwt. resulted in a total m 1979. Yield at 33 cwt. per crop value of $2.2 million, acre increased by seven Maple syrup production percent from the previous totaled 57,000 gallons with a year. The increased acreage total value of $775,000. This harvested along with a compares with 1978 higher yield produced an 18 production of 42,000 gallons percent larger crop than last and a value of $504,000. MILLER DIESEL INC. 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