Best Food Buys Holiday Shopping Takes Planning
Food markets become busy this weekend as Memorial Day approaches. Tom Piper notes plentiful supplies and outdoor cookery season creating strong merchandising potential. Broilers, hot dogs, hamburgers, pork picnics, forequarter beef, and duck roasts are highlighted as economical picks for picnics or indoor meals.
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Tom Piper
Penn State Extension
Burling's Chicks For Quality Eggs and Meat
Burling's Chicks offers top quality eggs and meat with choices including Mer ryknoll Sex-Links and Golden Sex-Links. Breeds shown include Harco Reds crossed with Andrews White Rock females for Brown egg options.
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Burling's
Merryknoll
Andrews
Wantress
Cobb
Garrison
Cobbs White Rock
Burling
New Hampshires
Barred Rocks
Fresh Produce Prices Highlight Tomatoes and Greens
A listing notes favorable prices for bunched greens onions cabbage cucumbers peppers radishes carrots and leafy greens. It says tomatoes are in plentiful supply, reasonably priced, and of good quality being firm, plump, smooth, and free from blemishes.
Poultry Record Keeping System Expands in Maine
NEPPCO reports progress on a poultry record keeping and data processing program developed over 18 months with Maine Experiment Station. Pilot work runs in Maine with 80 cooperating poultrymen. current data cover egg production and feed use. Future plans call for full bookkeeping, two more years, and daily feed records urged for early trouble clues.
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van Wagenen
Maine
Oakley M. Ray
American Feed Millers Association
Carroll Dunham
Neppco
County Ageent
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Farm Bill
Hugh Scott
Senate
Washington, D. C
Joseph S. Clark, JR
Lancaster
Chester Counties
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Berks County
George M. Rhodes
Lebanon
Dauphin Counties
John C. Kunkel
York County
George A. Goodling
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