12—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, September 30. 1961 £ Crop Summary " (From page 11) Best Food Buys Fall Harvests Near Completion Supplies from nearby growing areas , continue to hold retail produce prices down while providing food shoppers with a big variety of popular items This sit uation can be changed over night and at.any. time, re-, ports Tom Piper,- 1 Penn St ate Extension Marketing A gent Next week' marks the beginning of October so we can expect a killing frost to reduce, local .produce sup plies over night.. Plentiful .yegetables con sidered good .buys' this week include potatoes, 'beans, cab bage, celery, peppers, egg plant, endive, escarole, ra dishes, squash,-,' pumpkins, sweet potatoes and carrots Local Feed Firm Adds Salesman Miller and Byshong, Inc Rohrerstown t have announ ced the addition of John L Renshaw to the firm’s sales and service staff Renshaw, who resides at 2273 Lititz Pike, Lancaster, is a graduate of the Umver- JOHN L EENSHAW sity of Connecticut where he majored in Poultry Hus bandry He has been an in dividual poultry grower and has spent the past, five years with a national feed manu facturer Eenshaw is a veteran of Woild War II and the Ko rean Conflict and was sepa rattd from Naval Aviation Service with the rank of Lieutenant Commander. -He is marned and the fa ther of two children He be gan his new duties Septem ber 18 Calves Average Over 2 lbs. Daily Gain During First 6 Weeks with ~. On!/ $7,10 • 50-lb, bo* Tomatoes and sweet corn are available but quality should be determined Lettuce, cu cumbers, cauliflower, pars ley and turnips are rather high in price because of sup ply conditions. Small *and medium size eggs continue as an econo mical source of protein Che ese is another good food buy since total production is running 12 per cent above last year. MOUNTED PICKERS for today’s 100-150 bushel yields Here’s your best chojce of two-row mounted com pickers. Long, eager snapping rolls with spacing you can adjust from the tractor seat. Roller-type gather ing chains cut upkeep costs...are twice as strong, last three times as long as pressed steel or pintle types. Side and wagon elevators are bigger...handle your big ears and bumper crop yields. Long, live' snapping roll points lift the down and leaning stalks ...bring in more com every year...in every field condition. You get more safety in an Oliver Model 4, too. Safety clearing of the snapping rolls ...safety clutches on all main assem- TpHPTJj blies... safety roominess on the plat form. If you own an Oliver row-crop 1 ' I tractor, be sure you see the Oliver } mounted before you buy a picker. CHAS J. McCOMSEY & SONS Hickory Hill, Pa. ÜBWI Peebles’ Groom identical to whole milk for all veal calves Now, for the first time, you can profitably raise veal calves in only 6 weeks. And you can be assured of a sleek fat finish that commands choice market grading. New Peebles’ Groom safely and completely replaces all whole milk after colostrum. Upon being reconstituted it offers the same fat content as whole milk and a high level of protein. It’s extra palatable,., easy to mix.., stays in suspension. WESTERN CONDENSING COMPANY • Appleton, Wisconsin up as silo filling came to near completion. Digging of fall potatoes was m full swing last week throughout Pennsylvania, ac' cording to the weekly- crop and weather summary is sued this week by the State Crop Reporting Service. Kepstone State farmers look advantage of continuing good weather to bring field work up to date Some de lay in fall plowing and seed ing was reported from the southern and central areas by lack of soil moisture. OLIVER N. G. HERSHEY & SON Manheim, R. D. 1 BUY PEEBLES’ GROOM NOW FROM: Morgantown Feed & Grain, Inc. MORGANTOWN, PA. Distributor Russell James, Elverson, Pa. Paul Hurst & Son, East Earl, Pa. Earl Sauder, Inc., New Holland, Pa. C. P. Wenger & Son, Ephrata, Pa. Henry Hoover, Ephrata, Pa, Apples are ripening, sizing FARMERSVILLE EQUIPMENT CO. Ephrala, R. D. 2 well and free of insect and this week., Cabbage is still disease damage. Mclntosh, being cut and the crop' is of Cortlands and Jonathans good yield, size and quality, were being picked last week Snap beans and sweet corn Some Red and Golden deli- harvest is about finished. cious will be ready for pick- A large portion of the ing this week. Only a few corn crop has reached ma late varities of peaches re- tunty in the southeast. Little mam to be hai vested The damage has been reported grape crop is progressing to the crop by the dry wea very well and Concords are ther in southern and central about three do four weeks areas from maturity. With most of the tomato Mishandling of live ani crop harvested, processing mals results in dark colored plants will probably close beef FLORIN LAYING FEEDS ARE DESIGNED FOR YOU. THE COMMERCIAL POULTRYMEN WHO ARE STRIVING FOR: 1. High' Consistent Production 2. Superior Egg Quality 3. Excellent Feed Conversion 4. Low Cost Put Your Laying Flock On — FLORIN LA-MOR FLORIN EGG-PRODUCER Call Mount Joy GL 3-2411 TODAY AND GET THE FULL DETAILS. Wolgemuth Bros., Inc. Two typical calves weighing 100 pounds at 4 days of age gained 85 pounds by the end of six weeks for an average gain of 2 pounds per day. They were graded by a local meat packer as choice veal at 35c a pound for a net profit on each calf of $25.43. Their diet consisted only of , Peebles’ Groom Milk Replacer. OR FLORIN, PENNA.
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