6—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, October 17, 1964 Miles Fry shows the growth contrast between the waist-high, one-year old hybrid poplar seedlings and the 10 to 15 foot, two-year old trees in the background. L. F. Photo Vent-Temp Cental Wm Ait Blooding System Keeps Birds Heelthiet. .. Reduces Costs! The Anderson central warm air heating system is the answer to your brooding problems because tresh, clean outside air is warmed to the proper temperature then conveyed to the brooders when needed. Even when out door temperature drops below zero this Anderson heat ing system keeps birds warm. One user writes, .. to us it is the finest heating system to date for the purpose of brooding .” Check these important features: I • Keeps litter in top condition • Assists in the control of respiratory diseases • Gives higher feed conversion • Better feathering • Better finished birds • Better ventilation with outside Brooders ra , se out of way air properly warmed by suspended winch system 30 Branch Stores Coast to Coast TJi V' ' '/- if k «m. ; mi |ask '* L» Ytrj V 'j»* •%,.-• ML THC POULTRY INDUSTRY Anderson Box Company, Inc., Home Office —P. 0. Box 1052, Indianapolis, Ind, • Hybrid (Continued from-Page 1) that with good forestry man agement the hybrid poplars will produce at least 40 cords of wood per acre in 15 years (10 cords from thinning be tween the eighth and tenth years, and 30 cords at 15 years) Pioperly thinned stands not cut at 15 years would pioduce logs for veneer or lumber in 20-25 years, accord mg to Schiemer’s article Fry put it just a little differently when he said that a farmer can harvest a timber crop fiom a hybrid poplar wood lot in about one'-third the time it would take for some of the hardwoods. What can this timber be used for’ According ’to -Fry it can be used for any general This little hybrid poplar was planted last Spring purpose where yeHow poplar as a 12 to 18 inch, rooted cutting. With less than One can be used trim, rafters, full year’s growth it has tripledin height in spite of the etc.; anything but sub-Joormg course s haley ground of an old iron mine barren hear construction. Warwick. L. F. Photo To see how the wood would, take a finish, Fry hacL.a six., to "also, have an important banks, not even, weeds in most inch tree cut and run- through, place in the future of con- eases, a planing mill. .At the base 1 servation and reclamation of n t>1 _ it gave a finished four v land. It is highly adaptable .. ste ., -Grace wine. 20.- log. He had standard to a wide range of conditions. cutting* -were" applied to each surface" seal- If properly planted, plain un- , . d in ini er and white paint;-.sealer rooted cuttings will take hold Sf C tX‘ afte? alone; and sealer and stain, nearly 100% of the time even lMtin<r , and .latest sur- He quoted the man who did under severe conditions. The a 50 nS cent the job as saying that he. had species will tolerate a phe- never before seen a wood m nomenal range of soil pH, u J der these ccmdltians . which the gram could be so from about 3.0 to 89. Schuylkill County, in the w?h °Z Fry has experimental plots heart of the coal area, the coat of white pamt With the Qn seveial “ spoil banks” m local Vocational Agriculture ?it a gram wL% S eiTattrSive eastern Pennsylvania Nothing class. made plantings starting , , , else will grow on these spoil The hybud poplar appeals HOFFMAN SEED MAN OFFERS YOUR FUNK'S-G... THE HYBRID WITH MORE CAPACITY TO PRODUCE ; “A, JH. HOFFMAN SEEDS, INC., LANDISVILLE, PENNA. * ‘ - , Serving farmers with finest qualify seeds since 1899 V • “ T '* /. •/ * r • ———————— i - (Continued on Page 7) T “ YOU
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