LANCASTER FARMING Classifieds Ads Pay ) IX DOESN’T PAY TO CULL If you have a healthy, well bred flock, it doesn’t pay to cull until your grown pullets, are ready to replace, them Pullets that are now over a year old may show some pause or neck moult If they are healthy, they will come back into lay in three or four weeks and lay until next fall If you cull, you will save about 35 cents per bird on feed, but if she will come back in and lay well for six to nine months you are way ahead to keep her. If you have a poor-laying strain of birds, it may pay to cull every week until you can sell the_ whole flock Undeveloped pullets are us ually the result of crowding or they are shy. House these pullets in a separate pen They will develop and lay very well If you house these slow devel oping pullets with the main flock, it is true they won’t do as well. If given good care and plenty of room your Babcock Bessies will develop into a fine uniform flock. For literature and prices write Babcock Poultry Farm, Inc. Route #S Ithaca, New York Russell Mease Route 4 Manheim, Pa. Local Representative Phorle Manheim MO 5-4705 MT. JOY HOME FOR SALE Single, Stucco Home, in Mt. Joy, Pa, in a residential neighborhood. This home is almost brand new (4% years old) and in excellent condition. There is a large living-dinihg room, beautiful kitchen with knotty-pine cabinets, tiled bath with shower, 2 large bed rooms, and plenty of closets—all on a one-floor plan. Has a full basement, and a garage with a porch attached. Some Outstanding Features: J Oil-Hot Water Kcct with Hook-Up / Beautex Colored Plaster Walls and Ceilings / Ceramic Tile Window Sills y Paved Driveway y Venetian Blinds y Fireplace Can be seen at 208 Park Avenue, Mt. Joy, or call Mt. Joy 3-6772 for inspection. Price $15,500.00 BARGAIN DAY Sausage and Coffee DOOR GIFTS Tuesday, February 26 10 A. M. UNTIL 9 P. M. This is your invitation to our introduction of the 1957 FARMALLS IHTCftMATIONAI N*IV(ST(I Angus Conference at Michigan State To Discuss Performance Testing Michigan State University at East Lansing, and Angus breed ers of the Wolverine State will be hosts to cattlemen from throughout the United States and Canada the second week in March when the National Angus Con ference convenes there. The dated for the event are Maich 10, 11, and 12. A major attraction at this, the third annual Conference, will be the opportunity for Angus breed ers to discuss the advantages of progeny and performance testing. Giving his views on this and lead ing the discussion will be A. D. "Dad” Weber, Dean of Agricul tuie at Kansas State College and world famous cattle judge and educator. Dean Weber will be the first speaker on the program, Monday morning, March 11, following a welcome by Dr. John A. Hannah, president of Michigan State Uni versity, and the response by John C. Gill, Upperville, Va., president of the American Angus Assn. Labeled “A Blueprint for Aber deen-Angus Progress,” the Con ference is planed around four maj'or points of vital interest to cattlemen One: Progreny and Performance Testing, Two: Herd Type Classification, Three: Dwarfism Research, and Four: Carcass Evaluation. Those parti cipating will have the opportunity to hear many well-known agricul tural educators and experienced Angus breeders express their views on these subjects. The Monday morning session, which will take place in Anthony Hall on the University campus, as well as at the Livestock Pavilion, will also feature a talk by Man ager Robert W. Williams of Great Oaks Stock Farms, Rochester, Mich., continuing Dean Weber’s challenge with the subject, “How Does Type Fit Into This Pro gram?” After the group has mov ed to the Pavilion, it' will see a demonstration of live grades of slaughter steers by Dr. R, J. Deans of the University staff, and Free Pancakes, PRIZES MOVIES FOR THE KIDDIES Everybody Welcome ! KAUFFMAN BROS. MOUNTVILLE, PENNA. ARTHUR D WEBER Dean of Agriculture Kansas State College will watch the judging of a car cass steer show on the hoot by Dr. Deans and Dr. D of Kansas State College On Monday afternoon, type classification will- enter the pic ture with a lecture by H H. Kil dee, Dean Emeritus, lowa State College, on the subject, and a discussion of “Virginia’s Improve ment Program for Beef Cattle” by Dr Thomas J. Marlowe of Vir ginia Polytechnic Institute, Blacksburg. At the livestock pavilion, demonstrations of the Virginia pi ogram in operation by Dr Mar lowe, of type classification by a trio of experts, and of dwarfs, will be observed. Those partici pating in the second demonstra tion will be Professor Herman Purdy, Pennsylvania State Uni versity, Lewis B Pierce, Angus breeder of Creston 111: and Dr. Dan Roberts, manager of 77 Ranch, Wichita Falls, Texas. Tuesday morning’s session will open with a report from the Uni versity of Missouri on Dwarfism Research, given by Dr. John Las ley. Dr. L N. Hazel, lowa State College, will speak on the “Pre sent Status of Dwarfism Re search,” and participants will have an oppoitunity, as through out the conference, for a ques tion and answer session The last major subject on the program, carcass evaluation, >ill also be reviewed on Tuesday morning, with Dr. Deane speak ing on “A Blueprint for Carcass Evaluation ” Dr. Deans and Dr. Good will give results of the car cass test and Insulin test demon strations. A banquet, scheduled for Mon day evening at Kellogg Center, will feature a Meat Cutting Demonstration by Augie R Ring, Director of Merchandising for the National Livestock and Meat Board. Guests will also be entertained with a Smorgasbord given by the Michigan Aberdeen-Angus Assn, at Kellogg Center on Sunday evening, March 10, following registration at the conference. The conference will be sponsor ed by the American Angus As sociation and the Michigan An gus Association m cooperation with Michigan State University. Growers Approve Market Quotas Preliminary results announced by the USDA show approval of marketing quotas on 1957-1959 crops of cigar-binder tobacco and cigar-filler and binder tobacco. The referendums were held Feb. 13. The national returns show that 98 per cent of the 1,846 ballots reported approved quotas on cigar-binder tobacco. Quotas on cigar-filler and binder tobacco were approved by 94.1 per cent of the 3,766 growers voting. Final re sults are not expected to vary much from the preliminary tab ulation. In. the referendum on cigar filler and binder (types 42-44 and 53-55) tobacco, Pennsylvania growers voted 71.4 per cent in favor of the marketing quotas. 14 growers voted. Lancaster Farming, Friday, Feb. 22, 1957 Insect Control, Bloat Research Needed, Crop Committee Says feeding quality of forages and of the needs for supplementary feeds under different conditions In the field of utluation ic search, the committee emphasis ed the need for the following In creases studies on forage-crop constituents and how they affect the health and growth of live stock‘and poultry, as a basis for developing new and imnroved processes and feed products Ex pand research on the preserva tion of nutnents in foiages Widen work to produce addi tional protein and growth factors to enhance the value of giain by fermentation. Among top-priority research needs in the field of marketing, the committee cited the follow ing: Expand research on the con trol of insects that infest stored grains. Initiate studies on the fea sibihy and value of grades and standards for feed molasses. Be gin investigations on loss and de terioration of grain duung stor age. Better control of injects that attack forage crops and pests that infest stored grains, expansion of work on ruminant bloat, and more basic studies on the com position of forage ciops as a basis for improving processes and feed products are among the high-priority needs of .research cited by the U S Department of Agriculture’s Feed and Forage Research and Marketing Advi sory Committee. These and other research, pro posals were considered by the commitete at its annual meeting •n Washington, D C„ Feb. 11-13. The commitete is composed of persons outside USDA selected to review the Department’s research program on feeds and forage and to advise the Secretary of Agri culture on research needs in this field The group elected as its chair mariT E G. Cherbonnier, feed con sultant, St. Louis, who succeeds Elwod L. Chase, Buffalo, N. Y. R. M. Bethke, vice president of Ralston Purina Co., St Louis, was elected vice chairman. Important lines of work were cited by the commitee in the fields of production, utilization, and marketing icsearch In the field of production re search, the commitee considered proposals under two categories Feed and Forage -Production, and Feeding Livestock and Poultry. Under the category of Feed and Forage Production, high-priority recommendations included the following Expand research on in sect physiology and toxicology, in cluding work on the nature and action of insecticides, repellents, and attractants, and studies on why some insects develop resis tance to insecticides. Increase re search on range practices, includ ing grazing and soil water man agement. Expand studies on the genetic stability of seeds grown in different areas from seed pro duced in other regions In the category of Feeding Livestock and Poultry, top-priority pro posals include these Expand basic investigations on ruminant bloat, with emphasis on the study of animals bloating under natural or field conditions for correla tion with studies in the labora tories. Initiate studies on the amino acid requirements of poul try particularly laying hens. Increase studies to valuate the ofPPy/W CS&PS/ Elmer Brill Elizabethtown 7-5441 Frank H. Bucher Lititz MA 6-9124 C. B. Erb Landisville TW 8-2531 Lester Erb Landisville TW 8-3216 Martin R. Kraybill Elizabethtown 7-2696 A. H. HOFFMAN, INC., The committee urged expan sion of USDA marketing services, including-statistical service on grass silage and grazing. It also called for more USDA foreign marketing senices, and indorsed educational work of cooperative Extension Seivice* WEAVER'S CHICKS Order your fall broilers, winter and spring chicks, NOW, to be sure of choice delivery dates. WE HAVE White Vantress Cross Broil ers. White Meat Packers Cross White Cornish Cross FOR BROWN EGGS New Hampshire R. I. Red Cross If you want heavy egg pro duction and large white eggs ed first generation chicks, order Mt Hope new improv- High speed layers for 12 -15 months We are Penna. U. S. ap proved pullorum clean. Weaver & Son Hatchery ANNVILLE, PA. Phone 7-3161 Jason H. Mellinger Strasburg OV 7-2383 E. C. Seldomridge Quai ryville ST 6-2951 Jonathan S. Shirk Intercourse SO 8 3111 Levi M. Stoltzfus Moigantown 6 4359 Edgar C. Umble Gap HI 2 4525 LANDISVILLE, PA. 11
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