wkr? p-n GET ’EM WHOLESALE The guest watched with amuse-1 ment as the young son of the house amused himself by driving nails into the furniture Recover ing a bit from the shock, he turn ed to his host and asked “Joe, isn’t that an expensive pastime your son has? How can you af ford it?” “Oh, it’s not bad,” answered the fafther “We get the nails wholesale.”’ , EVERYBODY HAPPY First voter I think it was. terribly mean when Congress stopped sending us free seeds Second Voter I think it was a waste for Congress to send us free seeds. They ought to plant the seeds and send us the vege tables. MAR-GRO Vitamin Supple ment Your cattle and hogs need * DUTCH BELL for Dairy BETTER BEEF for steers and TRIPLE- RICH for Hogs We also have the famous DAN PATCH HORSE POWDER Manufactured by Mar-Gro Mfg. Co., R 2 LANC. AARON S. MARTIN " DISTRIBUTOR R 1 EAST EARL ♦♦ «« a «♦ «« ♦♦ a ♦♦ ♦♦ ♦♦ ♦» ♦♦ ♦♦ ♦♦ n ♦♦ ♦♦ ATTENTION ALL FARMERS! «« 4* «4 s: ♦♦ ♦♦ « ♦♦ «• «• 4» n ♦♦ ** ♦♦ 44 «• I OXTX.'Sr S 3 I It „ 44 U a •44 •• 44 T* 4« ; jj li Join the thousands of ii :: • • -« i |j H farm families who get \\ I LANCASTER FARMING | I hy mail EVERY WEEK. § | ■ -* ' | p PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY... | H I; j: || |i Order Your Subscription Now! i\ I ~ I M « LANCASTER FARMING 1 year $2.00 52 Issues Please put my name on your list of new subscribers for a one year subscription. -Enclosed find check, cash, or money order for $2.1)0. -Bill me later. ■ Name .. ■ Address International Champion Angus Bull the 1956 International Grand Champion Aberdeen-Angus bull is Dor-Mac’s Bar doliermere 10th, shown by Heckmere’s Highlands, Valencia, Pa, At halter is Don Schmidt, cattle manager, and to his right is his wife. Others, from leff to right, are Herman Purdy of Pennsylvania State Uni versity who judged the Angus breed show 52 Weeks of -QUARRYVILLE, PA. (Please Print) at the International Livestock Exposition, Chicago, on Nov. 26 and 27; Woodroe Adams, herdsman of the farm; Earl Dug ger, Tulsa, Oklahoma, associate judge of the show; and Mrs. E. H. Heckett, owner of Heckmere’s Highlands. (Photo by Amer ican Angus Association). Curtains on Infrared Lamp Chick Brooders Cut Operator Cost by Half WASHINGTON (USDA) Cost of brooding chicks in in- su iated sashes and the others 6- frared-lamp broders can be cut p ane mova bi e sash windows in half if the brooders are fitted with side curtains, the U. S. De- and ln one 26 x 132 house wlth partment of Agriculture reports seven 12’ x 26’ pens separated by Cooperative reseaich by the Department’s Agricultural Re search Service and the Purdue University Agricultural Experi ment Station shows a saving of about two cents a chick, accord ing to USDA engineers John G Taylor and Ernest A. Johnson, who conducted the expeuments at Lafayette, Ind. Testing during the normal 11-week brooding period show ed no significant difference in gains and feed-efficiencies be tween chicks reared in brood ers with and without curtains. But brooders without side cur tains required almost 93 per cent more electrical energy than those fitted with curtains. The materials used for these energy-saving curtains white vinyl plastic; clear vinyl plastic, and 32-gauge aluminum sheeting all proved about equally effec tive in reducing production costs. Clear plastic curtains have the added advantage of visibility Use of curtains on chick brood ers is not new In the past, how ever, it has been customary to use makeshift materials, many of which created fire hazards The materials often used, such as bur lap sacking or discarded fabrics, did not reduce brooder operating costs significantly wiesahesn otnnwlspthte.rr- The lamp-controller systems used in the experiments were a proportional-time modulator, a commercial brooder “wafer” type, and a commercial high sensitivity thermostat. The proportional - time modulator type gave a slightly greater cost advantage amounting to 0.2 cents per chick than the commercial high - sensitivity regulator, and it was 0.9 cents per chick better than the waf er-type thermostat. The brooders used in the ex periment were of home-made ply-wood construction, fitted with four 250-watt laipps mount ed under a 4 x 4-foot plywood top. Thermostats controlling the lamps were set to maintain the same air temperatures under, all brooders in the tests. ~The~ tests were conducted in four 10’ x 12’ insulated colony, houses two having fixed, in-| Farm prices register a seasonal decline. •ni>t r n - ( Lancaster Farming, Friday, Dec. 7, 1956—13 wire partitions, THE HARD WAY LUCERNE VALLEY, Cal. Chaiflayne Stott was recently graduated from Victor Valley High School with a perfect four-year attendance mark m spite of the fact that she hid to travel 57,000 miles to school during that period. The'round tnp from her home to school, 70 miles per day on the bus, added up to 14,250 miles a year, or 57,000 miles for the four years. BOY SUFFOCATES SCRANTON, Pa A 20-foot high pile of cinders at a dump ing ground collapsed on two 7- yeai-old boys burying one of them and killing one The boy dug his way free The Best Broiler Cross at its Best Martin fuses the work of the no* tion's leading breeders to give yov top quality chicks that mature early for quick broiler, profits. ——— ; PLACE your order now MARTIN'S HATCHERY POULTRY FARMS, INC. Lancaster, Pa. Phone EX 2-2164 i
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