P3B—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, June 7, i 960 Up and Down Again Dairy farmers shipping milk to Order 2 handlers increased their milk production over the same month of the previous year for the 23rd consecutive time to an 18 year April high of 930 million pounds. That’s 32 million pounds or 3.6 per cent more than last April, and 8 million pounds more than last month. Eight million pounds may not sound like much but there were 30 days in April and 31 in March. So figured on an average daily production, you jumped 4.4 per cent in one month. That’s about the same increase, figured on average daily production, that you have had each month since November. In addition to your in creased production last month, you had a drop in Class I sales partly because of Easter holiday school vacations. That made a difference of 21 million pounds of fluid milk and an average daily loss of 2.3 per cent that you didn’t need. This produced a Class I utilization of 40.6 per cent that was 2.7 per cent less than March. With the ex ception of last Spring’s Teamster Union strike in New York, it was the lowest in 20 years. So, while production was going up, your blend prices was going down as it has been the last six months. The difference in your Class prices for April over March (two cents on Class I and five cents on Class II) weren’t nearly enough to make up for the lower Class I utilization and a ten cent increase in your Louisville Plan take out. 5<4 % \ftcatM) $1 to $2O we maturing May simple intere: deposit to da Come aboard NEW HOLLAND. SMOKETOWN. INTERCOURSE« EDEN RD. LANCASTER MEMBER FD!C Getting down to the nitty gritty, your April blend price was |11.96 at die 201-210 mile zone for 3.5 milk and that was 12 cents less than March Nh Picking In an effort to find some good news for you to balance a 29 cent drop in the uniform price since December, I did a little nit picking with your Louisville Plan payments to see how the market was really treating you. There’s no question that your increasing milk production has kept your blend prices down, but only the man with his hand on die teat (and one on the feed scoop) can do anything about that. If you consider your Louisville Plan take outs of 20 cents in March and 30 cents in April, your blend price has stayed within three cents of your December price these last five months. However, you can’t say the same for your Class prices. During the same period your Class I price increased 12 cents and your Class II price 22 cents. These in creases you gave away with higher milk productioir and lower Class I utilization and settled for nearly the same blend price each month since December. Looking ahead for the next month, you know you’re going to get nine cents more in June thanks to increases in the Minnesota-Wisconsin pnce production by the dairy price support program. Your Class II price should also show some improvement from the price support program. Then you’ll have to balance those increases against another 10 cent higher take out for the NewHotland FannersNational Bank SI HARRISBURG - A few years ago a wood fire was little more than a luxury. But today, the spiralling prices of oil, gas and elec tricity, many homes have come to use firewood as an alternative heating source or supplement. Firewood comes in a wide variety of cuts, types of wood and heating efficiencies, which means the firewood user should shop around and get the most for his money. State Agriculture Secretary Penrose Hallowell says the Bureau of Standard Weights and Measures is making a determined effort to educate both firewood dealers and consumers to the legalities of firewood sales. Too often, according to Hallowell, consumers buy firewood under illegal conditions which he says “may cost the consumer extra money needlessly.” Bureau Director Fred Thomas said the many dealers in the state are advertising and selling firewood by the face cord, home cord, or truckload, all illegal transaction. “In some reported in stances,” Thomas said, “dealer are selling truckloads of firewood using one size truck to demon strate and delivering a smaller truck full of wood.” Louisville Plan to 40 cents a hundred in June and more four per cent increases in milk production. Put them all together and I’m saying they spell a bare bones market price of $12.25 for your milk in Order 2 this Snnng. But remember, you can’t spend it all now because some of it you won’t see until next Fall. How’s that for nit picking? Buying firewood according to the rules Hallowell said the sure compliance with the other than cords or fraction!)? firewood consumer should law to protect firewood of a cord should be reporter ask for the firewood by the consumers. to the Bureau of standard cord or fraction of a jcord, Hallowell said the com- Weights and Measures at the and get a receipt from the plaints about sales or Department’s seven dealer for the amount sold. quantities of wood in any lots regional offices. 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