10 —Lancaster Farming, Saturday, November 28, 1964 w*i_ - - T T I Witmer owns and operates a Winner Honored 130-acre, 90-bead Guernsey n„ cattle breeding farm, and milks By Pennsylvania about 49 head at the present time. His herd has consistently \JflTaSSianCl VxIUD ranked among the top produc- Raymond P. Witmer, RD 1 ers through ** y ears - W*ow Street, was one of five Preliminary evaluation of the state, tamers to receive the Witmer farm qualified him for OKtataading Grassland Farm- participation in the grassland ar award at the Pennsylvania competition. This was made Grassland Conference held at last summer by Arnold G. Peon State this week. Lueck, Associate County Agent Dairymen everywhere are getting more Ful-O-Pep |S?L Dairy Feed Too Can Increase with You Your 100 lbs. Passmore Supply Co. Cochranville, Fa. Millport Roller Mills S. H. Hiestand & Co., Inc. cvvv\x\vcvx\\\\v^v^v@vvvvx\\\v^\\\\vvv«» FARM BUREAU’S A PRE-SEASON DISCOUNTS ON “QUALITY” TWINE • strong, smooth, uniform \/L~, • knotless and free-running * won't snarl or kink ORDER EARLY AND SAVE $ 10,000 ft. bale, tensile strength 290 lbs. "OFF C R" PRICES FOP. NOVEMBER-DECEMBER D LANCASTER COUNTY FARM BUREAU LANCASTER 394-0541 "ANY ONE MAY BUY FROM FARM BUREAU" Herd’s Production 200 lbs. Per Day. • Based On Actual Local Field Results Millport Salunga CALL TO-DAY FOR OUR SPECIAL NEW HOLLAND 354-2146 and John Yocum, Supervisor of Penn State’s Southeastern Field Research Scoring was based on the'en tire farm operation, not on individual fields. In the evaluation all phases 9 MtISSCr (Continued from Page 1) sidered. forage production, myjgj- conservation prac- stwage; and. Prac- jj e j la( j built elaborate tlces related to the utilization and grades; had a of forage m milk production, stream -flowing through the Each year the Pennsylvania Grassland Council selects- the five outstanding grasstytnidh farmers at the Conference- at 300 lbs. * Grubb Supply Co. Elizabethtown Kirkwood Feed & Groin Kirkwood H. M. Stauffer & Sons, Inc. Witmer “hay there" . • • • TIE-IN WITH A REAL TIME SAVER BALER TWINE 9,000 ft. bole, tensile strength 325 lbs. 8,000 ft. bale, tensile strength 290 lbs. Laboratory. milk CVICE TO FARMERS F A ELIVERY QUARRYVILLE 786-2126 Penn State University. These winners are awarded a plague and automatically become mem bers of-the Pennsylvania Grass- - land Club. farm -and showed - how to .handle that problem; he show /djfjrpw; to'handle run-off water with diversion ditches and a , vegetated waterway; he had a farm pond for irrigation; he I showed contour planting and strip cropping; then for con trast, he included one comer of the farm that was not yet under conservation, with slop ing ground which showed the gullied effect of advanced soil erosion. Judging was on the Danish system and each of the other six contestants qualified for either a blue or red ribbon $179. L H. BRUBAKER 350 Strasburg Pike, Lancaster Phone: Lane. 397-5179 Strasburg GB7-6002 Lititz 626-7766 Other blue ribbon winners were Carl Campbell, New •’Hol land, who depicted a grass land waterway; John Campbell, New Holland, who demonstrat ed the variation in organic matter in soils from woodland, from barren land, and from a cultivated field; Robert Fisher, R. D. 1 East Earl,' who com pared the water-holding capa city of soils with and without organic 'matter. " Winners of the red ribbons were; Jay Marlin Beliiliger, R. D. 2 Denver, showing soil types and moisture effects; Eugene Bollinger, R. D. i Ben ver, who compared the water holding ability of soil samples from an uncultivated fence rov? and from a cultivated field; David Zimmeiman, R, B. 1 Reinholds, who contrasted the settling rate of soil from a grass field with soil from a cultivated field.
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