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Newspaper
Lancaster Farming
Location
Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Feb 14, 1970
Page
2
U S livestock and poultry inventories show higher cattle and calves and poultry counts while hogs and pigs and sheep decline. January 1 1970 cattle total 112.3 million, hogs 56.7 million down 6 percent from 1969, all sheep and lambs 20.4 million down 4 percent.
Farm and Home Foundation reorganization meeting at Farm and Home Center. Penn State Agriculture Research Program session. Chester County Dairy Day at Sadsburyville Faire Hall. Atlantic District annual meeting at Quarryville United Methodist. Ephrata and Manheim Young Farmers meetings. Cattle feeders education at Farm and Home Center. Pioneer Corn Seminar. Garden Spot Young Farmers banquet at Blue Ball Fire Hall. Pa Egg Marketing Assn. meeting at Schrafft’s Denver.
The 1969 corn crop reached 76,188,000 bushels up 34 percent from 1968 but 6 percent below the 1967 peak. Corn silage totaled 4,890,000 tons, second highest on record. Oats output fell 15 percent to 22,644,000 bushels with record low acreage. Barley production declined below 1967–68 levels at 9,741,000 bushels. Hay harvested acreage was a record low while production reached 4,146,000 tons the largest since 1924. Cattle numbers January 1 were down 1 percent. sheep down 3 percent. Chickens up 1 percent. turkeys down 4 percent. Hog on-farm December 1 rose 12 percent from a year earlier.
January 1 1970 cattle and calves on Pennsylvania farms totaled 1 781 000, down 1 percent from 1 789 000 a year earlier. Milk cows two years old and older fell to 807 000 from 815 000, with replacement heifers and milk heifer calves also down 1 percent. Other cattle remained steady at about 512 000. Total value of cattle and calves rose to 445 250 000 from 420 966 000.
The American Cancer Society urges men to quit smoking as cancer death tolls rise. Experts label tobacco use the leading cause of cancer deaths among American men and stress cessation for prevention.
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