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ALEXANDRIA, Va. -
Middle Atlantic Order
Market Administrator
Joseph D. Shine today an
nounced a February 1980
base milk pnce of $13.05 per
hundredweight and an ex
cess milk pnce of $11.32.
The weighted average
February price was $12.83
and the butterfat differential
for the month was 15.0 cents.
The February base milk
price was up two cents from
January 1980 and was 72
cents higher than last
February.
Order No. 4 prices are
When the manure hits the fan of a new Martin
Scavenger you know you ve seen all the spreading
equipment you 11 ever need You get up to a 50 foot
pattern of the most even manure coverage ever to
fertilize a farm And that s regardless ol the kind of
manure you load into it Liquids semi-solids
solids everything Even frozen
The Scavenger s large specially-designed auger
Easy to load with any kind ot manure,
from box stall to storage Shown with
Martin's Equalizer
THE SCAVENGER
WILL BE
DEMONSTRATED
ON:
Order 4 base price at $13.05 for February
announced for 3.5 percent
milk f.o.b. plant location
within 55 miles of
Philadelphia, and also
within 75 miles from the
nearer of Washington, DC or
Baltimore, MD.
There is a six cent direct
delivery differential ap
plicable to producer milk
received at plants located
within 55 miles of
Philadelphia.
Shine said producer
receipts totaled 436.6 million
pounds during February, an
increase of 1.5 percent from
the previous month, and 2.7
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Farm & Home Center,
► Lancaster, PA
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 19
12 30 ROBERT L KAUFFMAN FARM. Peach Bottom Picket fence
earthen bank unit stores manure from tie stall barn free stall barn
and feed lot Liquids dram into a second earthen bank unit From Rt
272 about 5 miles south of Buck, turn west onto Prowls Hollow Road
and go to the first farm
THE EQUALIZER WILL BE DEMONSTRATED ON THE KAUFFMAN FARM
percent above last
February, on a daily basis.
Class I producer milk
totaled 238.2 million pounds
and accounted for 54.56
percent of total producer
milk receipts during the
month, down from 55.80
percent in January and
below the 57.41 Class I
utilization percentage last
February. Base milk ac
counted for 88.03 percent of
total producer milk receipts
in January, compared to
88,84 percent in January and
89.65 percent last February.
There were 7159 producers
pulsates and spirals any kind of manure throwing it
against a. unique 30-inch-wide expeller reel This
technique enables the Scavengei to spread more
kinds ot manure in greater volume with less horse
power
It s time you get all your manure together in the
one spreader that s more effective than any two of
the high-pnced spreaders The Martin Scavenger
See The
SCAVENGER
And The
EQUALIZER
On Display At The
DAIRY MANURE
MANAGEMENT
SEMINAR
MONDAY, MARCH 17
supplying Order 4 handlers
during the month and the
average daily delivery per
producer of 2,103 pounds was
up 1.45 percent from
January and 3.9 percent
above last year. The average
butterfat test of producer
Baker takes first place
NEW ENTERPRISE
The National Com Growers
Association has named John
R. Baker of Bakers 3 Inc.,
New Enterprise a first place
winner in Pennsylvania’s
annual Corn Growers
Contest.
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An even pattern up to 50 feet wide At a rate of up to 3 tons per minute
Lancaster Farming, Saturday, March 15,1980—€
milk of 3.82 percent was
down from 3.85 percent last
February.
Middle Atlantic Order pool
handlers reported Class I in
area milk sales of 7.1 million
Baker won in the Class A
Non-Imgated Com Yield
category with a 143.10 bushel
per acre yield produced with
Pioneed 3780.
Contests sponsored in 1979
by state Com Growers
Association chapters were
Any way you look at it—return on investment
economy of operation—Scavenger measures up It
does the work of two spreaders for the price of one
Ask your Martin dealer about it today
Martin Manufacturing, Inc.
841 Kulztown Road• Myerstown PA 17067«(717) 933-4151
Martin Measures Up
THURSDAY, MARCH 20
11 30 MOSES GOOD, Mount Joy Strawy stall barn manure is
dropped onto a concrete pad and pushes down into a simple in
expensive earthen bank facility with picket fence and concrete ramp
Liquids flow into an earthen bank pond From Prospect Rd 2 mile
south of the Landisville Salunga exit of Rt 283 turn west on Garheld
Rd Go ** mile turn left onto Pinkerton Rd and to the first farm
CONDITIONS PERMimmi
pounds per day during
February, a decrease of 3.6
percent from January and a
drop of 6.2 percent from
February 1979, after ad
justment to eliminate
variation due to calendar
composition.
held in 37 states. Com
petition categories were:
Irrigated Corn Yield, Class
A Non-Imgated Com Yield.
A Pioneer grower in
Alabama was named first
place National Champion for
Class A Non-Irrigated Com.
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