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Newspaper
Lancaster Farming
Location
Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Mar 29, 1957
Page
10
Beginning April 7 the USDA will launch an extra promotional push for meat. Eggs follow a week later with additional emphasis on milk and other dairy products, turkeys, potatoes, canned corn, dried prunes, peanuts and peanut butter, and rice.
Wholesale prices for broilers show excess supply across most classes in Philadelphia on March 27. Light type hens 14 15 cents, small sizes 12 cents. Rock pullets 38 cents to clear, White Rocks 33 36 cents with unsold lots. roosters 22 cents. cross fryers 25 cents. Turkeys demand light. Bronze and White Holland young hens 38 40 cents. total receipts 1040000 pounds with Delaware and Maryland shares.
A seasonal warning from the American Foundation for Animal Health notes winter dysentery in cattle rising each year, with peak outbreaks in the next two months. Dairy losses come from reduced milk. early diagnosis and prompt veterinary care can limit outbreaks to three to seven days with proper treatment.
Iowa State College animal husbandman Ralph Durham reports on 6006 pigs showing that for every tenth inch less backfat, feed per 100 pounds of gain drops about 4.5 pounds. Boars and barrows fed the same fattening ration yielded data linking backfat to feed conversion and rate of gain, suggesting selection for low backfat and rapid gain. All pigs weighed over 200 pounds at six months.
Parts of Wayne Pike and Monro e Counties will be sprayed by air this summer to combat gypsy moths. The program includes 2 540 000 acres in New York and five New Jersey counties at an estimated cost of 5 million dollars. The larvae target oaks poplars willows birch and apples. A Federal quarantine has limited spread in several New England states.
A Missouri woman contracted tularemia after a cat bite. The cat had become diseased by killing and eating infected rabbits, with no symptoms shown in the cat before the bite.
State Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation offices report 919000 acreage reserve agreements signed by March 15 placing 20354344 acres in the Soil Bank. By crop totals include 4497483 in corn 2985394 in cotton 178668 in rice 78102 in tobacco and 12614697 in wheat including water wheat. Preliminary Feb 15 signs show 338636 contracts for 3523287 acres in the conservation reserve part of the Soil Bank.
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