16—Lancaster Farming. Saturday, April 9,1960 Farm Calendar April 9 930 a. m. - Nut tree grafting demonstra tion at the farm of John S. Brenneman, Route 324 near New Danville. April 11 7.30 p.m. - New Holland Community 4-H club meets in the New Hol land Farmers National Bank. 7-30 p.m. - Ay shire- Jersey 4-H club holds organiza tional meeting at the Southeastern Penna. Arti ficial Breeders Building at Landisville. 7:45 p. m. - County Soil Conservation District Di rectors meet in the Lanca ster Court House. April 12 9:00 a.m —Lan caster County Dairy Day at the Guernsey Sale Pa vilion, Lincoln Highway, East of Lancaster. April 12 7:30 pm. Blue Ball fire hall, East ern States Membership meeting, R. J. Becker, ex tension Farm Manage ment specialist, PSU. April 12 —7.30 pm. - Eliza bethtown Watershed meet ing m the High School. 7.30 pm. - Elizabethtown- Donegal 4-H club meeting in the Elizabethtown High School. April 13 7 30 - Guernsey 4-H club reorgamzational meeting m the Solanco High School, Quarryville. April 14 7 30 pm. Eastern States Member ship meeting, Pequea Val ley H. S, speaker Wally Dunlap, Area Manager fr om York. April 14 7.30 p m. - Lititz - Manheim community 4-H club meets in the Fair land school. April 15 7:30 p.m. - Coun ty 4-H electric club to tour the General Motors assem bly plant at Wilmington, Del. April 18 7:30 p.m.— Eastern States Member ship meeting, Hostetters in Mount Joy. April 19 7:30 pm. Eastern States Memb'er . ship meeting, Penryn fire hall. March 28 —7:30 pm. Or ganizational meeting of the Elm-Penryn Commun ity 4-H Club at the Pen ryn fire hall. Farm Sells For $726 Per Acre The 119 acre farm offered for sale at public auction Tuesday, April 5, by Jonas Zook of New Holland R 2, was bought by John Yost, Narvon R 2, for $86,394 or $726 per acre Three cows in the 50 cow Zook herd topped the $5OO figure One grade cow and calf brought $540 00 Seven cows brought $4OO or over. The average on thirty three cows was $386 00 Other farm items sold by Carl Diller, anctioneer, in cluded an elevator, $lB5 ; corn picker, $3OO, forage harvester, $1,660; • hay fan, $390; pair of horses, $467 50 Four other horses averaged over $2OO each, and a grain drill, $3lO. You Raise Broilers .. ♦ if it’s THE RIGHT COMBINATION THAT COUNTS! CHICK QUALITY • MANAGEMENT Here are a lew of our customers broiler records which came to our atten tion in the last several weeks. GOOD? Of course it's good and it shows what can be accomplished when a grower manages to combine ALL of the necessary factors which go into producing GOOD birds at a LOW COST. May we help you do better with EARLY BIRD Service? (finest Poultry Service anywhere.) Contact your Miller & Bushong Service Repre sentative or call us direct at Lancaster EXpress 2-2145. \\\>lf/// . . Here are the highlights of Crop Acreage Is that comparison: f - 1. The land placed in the Larosst Part Ot Conservation Reserve con a tained a substantially higher C~ j I D an L I ana percentage of acres devoted ooii DanK Lana to oats barley grain gor . What kind of land are ghum, and flaxseed than the farmers retiring from use percentage of all U. S. crop and putting into the Conser- land devoted to those crops, vation Reserve? What was 2. The Conservation Re it being used for before it serve j an( j v/as about equal went into the Reserve? Is it to the u s ave rage percent typical U. S. farmland? a g e 0 f conl) wheat, soybean To get at the answers to vegetable and peanut ac such questions as these, th* reage. U. S. Department of Agri- g The Reserve was sub culture’s Soil Bank Divis- s ta n tially below the national ion has made a study of for- avera g e j n its percentages of mer use of Conservation Re- cr opland hay, rotation pas serve cropland as compared ■■ with the use of' all U. S. ge55555555565568|i cropland reported in the 1954 Census, "latest available If interested in a natural program of farming it will pay you to investigate and use New Jersey Green Sand and Calphos Any quantify available Bag or Bulk Ton or carload lots. You are cordially invit ed to attend the illustrat ed lecture on “The Agri cultural Problem” by Dr. WiPiam A. Albrecht, Pro fessor of Soils, University of Missouri, since 1916 April 11. at 7:00 P. M. Manheim Township Jr. High School Auditorium at Neffsville. BROOKLAWN FARM 118 Kreider Avenue Ph. LO 3-1580 H. MERVIN McMICHAEL Lane., R. 6 Ph. TR 2-4377 or your local dealer • WEATHER • EFFICIENT FEED No. Birds 18,000 11,000 3,500 12,000 AND A LOT OF OTHER FACTORS ARE INVOLVED. Ago Wks. Days 9-3 9-5 9-2 9-2 Miller & Bushong,^ ROHRERSTGWN. PA. Manufacturers of Poultry and Livestock Feed Sinc & SPECIAL Tractor Tire Sale NOW IN PROGRESS See us before you buy tractor tires COPE & WEAVER WILLOW STREET Ph. Lane, EX 3-2824 Weight 3.72 3.91 3.84 3.99 Ph. Lancaster EXpress 2-21^ ture, and idle and fa, land. 111 For example, whii e are grown on -only abowj of all U. S. cropland, J than 14 percent of the J age that will be under S serv&tlon Reserve conw in 1960 was formerly i n ‘ Sixteen percent of the ] serve acreage” was f or J in corn—within 1 pereenj point of the national age.. On hand, most one g j' land is in hay and W pasture, but only of the Conservation formerly devoted to uses. Conversion. 2.37 2.43 2.23 2.25
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