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Newspaper
News
Location
Frederick, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Dec 10, 1963
Page
12
Federal milk orders set terms for how milk is purchased from farmers by handlers in defined areas. They aim for orderly marketing with a uniform pricing system while not guaranteeing farmers a market or fixed prices. Public hearings shape each order and the federal role is to evaluate proposals, resolve differences, and enforce the orders.
Evergreen trees suffer winter injury when roots cannot draw moisture from dry soil. Anti transpiration sprays with plastic or rubber bases reduce moisture loss, with a mid winter follow up. Winter injury stems from moisture loss, not cold, and coating sloughs off in spring. Also in 1962 Maryland farmers applied 291,405 tons of lime to croplands, up from 279,781 tons in 1961.
Maryland fruit growers plan their 66th winter meeting at Hotel Alexander Hagerstown January 9 and 10 under the Maryland State Horticultural Society. Topics include chemical thinning CA storage fertilizer problems fruit price reporting new Maryland peach elections insect and disease control and spur and dwarf apple trees with speakers from Stark Bros Hill Top Nurseries Cornell University Delaware and Maryland. Milk production figures for two prize cows owned by David R. Grossnickle Union Bridge are also noted.
County Agricultural Agent invites readers to a December 11 meeting in the county agent’s office with two sessions at 10 a.m. and 1 p.m. to discuss interpretation of data. Feed relative prices remain unchanged from last week and will be updated promptly if changes occur.
Bulletin Review discusses age sex and quality effects on gain and selling price of steers and heifers and methods to estimate purchase price for all age and sex groups. Extension Office Maryland Agricultural Economics Series No 22 October 1963. Hekoryvale Trustee Rockett 4499128 a four year old registered Holstein cow owned by Ira D Ifert Middletown produced 13800 lbs of milk 593 lbs of butterfat and 1168 lbs solid not fat in 353 days
Noah E. Kefauver Jr. Maryland Farm Bureau president travels to the American Farm Bureau Federation convention in Chicago as one of two Maryland voting delegates. Attendees include Mr. and Mrs. William Browning Sr. and others from Sykesville Westminster Manchester West Friendship and Sharpsburg. Bushey will represent Maryland in the National Talk Meets held with the convention.
Attended meet members of the Knott and Geisbert machinery dealers firm in Urbana who recently returned from the Minneapolis Show Of The Century of new farm equipment. Hood Geisbert Jr. Hood Geis bert ITI Lewis Hipkins and Harvey Breedon accompanied them. Also noted is Woodcamp Hortense Typic 4696032 a three year old owned by E. R. Hough Mt. Airy produced 15013 lbs milk and 567 lbs butterfat in 365 days.
Harold M Free reelected chairman of the Frederick County Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Committee at the November meeting. Other committee members elected include Lester Grossnickle Pascal Renn D Charles Flook and Robert B Ogle. Ogle and Flook serve as alternates. The group administers ASCS programs. Richvale records show several dairy cows with milk yields and butterfat Proud owner listed as C Richard Ahalt Richvale Farm Middletown.
In Frederick County farmers increasingly rely on trench silos due to hay shortages from dry summers. The piece surveys trench and upright options, highlighting reinforced concrete and roadbed silos, self feeding racks, hydraulic scoops, Harvestore systems, and automatic unloaders. Strong opinions exist on efficiency, cost, and practicality amid the year’s feed squeeze.
U S grain stocks on October 1 1968 fell 12 percent from a year earlier with all crops except flaxseed declining. Wheat 6 percent lower Rye 31 percent Old corn 21 percent Oats 4 percent Barley 6 percent Soybeans 75 percent Sorghum 1 percent Flaxseed 34 percent higher.
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