yf PROGRESSES REPORT No. 69 Pennsylvania Agricultural Experiment Station, The Penn sylvania State University, Uni - .verity Park, Pennsylvania DISEASE RESEARCH Park, Pa. New research facilities to combat farm anijnal and poultry diseases in Pennsylvania will soon be in full operation at the State University here. Farm animal and poultry disease losses in the Keystone State amount to oyer $5O million annually. Just completed is a new ani mal disease research building containing 17 isolation pens, seven laboratories, four offices, sterilization room, feed room. cleanup area and locker rooms. A poultry disease research building, opened in 1954, has been used for studies of both poultry and livestock diseases With com pletion of the new building, there will be separate facilities for poultry and livestock disease re search, thus permitting expansion of research in both fields. . Spring will see the completion of an additional 5 isolation pens, an autopsy room, and an inciner ator with a capacity of 300 pounds per hour for destroying carcass es. Each of the 22 pens is a com pletely closed room with spfr ' cial ventilation to avoid air born transmission of disease. Each pen has an entry room with space for changing clothes and a wash stand for cleaning up on entering and leaving. To insure further sanitation, animals will be brought into a cleanup aiea for washing and general cleanup before going in to isolation pens. At the conclu sion,of experiments, animals will be taken to the autopsy room through enclosed corridors, also to avoid contamination. Thege facilities will be operated by seven research scientists with Dr. A. L Bortree, head of the Department of Veterinary Sci ence, dn charge. A service staff Will include a clerk, seven tech nical assistants, and four animal caretakers. PROGRESS REPORT No. 66 Pennsylvania Agricultural Ex periment Station, The Pennsylvania State University University Park, Pennsylvania The Northeastern part of the United States can economically use more grassland than is now produced, declared a Pennsyl vania State University agronomist recentlly at the West Virginia meeting of the Soil Conservation Society of America. John B. Washko, professor of agronomy at Penn State, said about four acres of pastureland and two acres of hayland are new used to carry each of the five million animal units on Northeast farms. He pointed out that with good manage ment, farmers can support one animal on one acre of pasture land and one-half acre of hay land except in periods of severe drought. “Our grasslands will have ito Carry more livestock than they do now if the Northeast is to carry its share of the burden in feeding the 200 million people anticipated in the US. by 1975,” Dr. Washko stated at the Jack con’s Mill Conference. “By 1975 the Northeast will have to carry about 8 million animals if we are to property feed the increased population,” he added. “This means that each animal 'unit will have to be sup ported on 2% acres of pasture '-and 1.2 acres of hayland instead of four and two as done now.” He reported the livestock pop ulation in the Northeast is on the increase. In Pennsylvania the highest number of milk cows on farms in 27 years was lepertedVthis p*st summer. BEPOBTS The cow population in the state increased by .6P,000 ip the past five years. - > grasslands in the Northeast wall have to be upgraded if the potential feed producing pouter of the area is "to be realised, he noted. The goal should not only be high production but increased efficiency in. using the forage produced. Upgrading of grass lands will require liming and fertilization, renovation, exten sion of the grazing season with smaU grain, {providing suijple mentary pastures for mid-summer grazing, and improved grazing practices. Cash Dividends Up More Thdn One Billion The Commerce Department re ports that cash dividend pay ments by corporations are run ning more .than a billion dollars higher than in 1955. Concerns issuing public re ports paid out about $8,725,000,- 000 in the first ten months of this year compared with $7,722,- 000,000 in the corresponding per iod a year ago. , , -r-rr^r. S ]K Tmm i,t , ~ *> ■> nr» — -v- r(n- ? « )"yr > v <• 4 ©ML@ggm§sS^[§^ ■ uor ,, ;gu AKSOTHER ; buy now-pa* taisß- durinj ' * if > ' ' V ">). HBSyOUR CHANCE OF A LIFETIME TO SAVE AND ENJOY THE MIRACLE OF SAVE NOW AND SAVE ON FUEL FROM L H. BRUBAKER , Farm Equipment - Home Appliances ’ J vj \ 'V { f r '"'i” J * Vfc-j’,, 1 > Germair Scientist supervision of the Victoria De partment of Agriculture, the new soil conditioning compounds. in creased the waterholding capac ity of the soil by 200 per cent. There were no harmful ef fects ,tp plants, animals of hu mans. said that in his .vis its ,tp Lancaster County- farms he was impressed with the use of modern techniques of agri culture. He said, “The correct use of modern techniques of-agricul ture improves life for the far mer and increases his profit. The farmer must now be as educated as an engineer or a chemist.” In comparing Lancaster coun ty farming with the farming in Germany he said that in his re gion (Cologne) of Germany the farms are much smaller. This does not allow the farmer profit enough to afford to buy tractors or other agricultural] equipment. Some exchange students from Germany, he said, are very disap pointed when they come back to Germany and attempt to use Am erican farming methods. Milk production in Lancaster County and the United States - «%£k ' rf„B& with an all new as a whole was highly compli mented by Stembach. The barns, he said, are very clean, the milk production is good, and the or ganizations set up to inspect the milk are the best in the woilld. “The United States has the best organization for public health 5 n the world,” he said. “Here one can drink milk without worry.” t*' , Lancaster Forming, Jan. 4, 1957—5 H. J. Stcinbach RY NOW ON!! HURRY! DON’T MESS OUT! In speaking further of conditioner, Steinbach said that manure, compost, lime, chalk, marl and gypsum have been used for many years as soil condition ers. However they do not have a lasting effect. ■He said that in a 70 week test of intensive wetting and drying of test plots in Australia, there was no noticeable breakdown of the soil treated with his com pounds, although the check plots lost practically all their texture. He said that tha new com pounds can be applied as a liqu id and that the manufacturing cost should not be piohibitive to the average farmer He was accompanied .on a tour of Lancaster farms by Mr W. J. Killough, 920 State' St, Lancas-- ter. - v Building Takes Drop In November Period Construction during November showed a 14 per cent seasonal drop from October and stood at the lowest level for November since 1951, according to the La bor Department ■at <• ' V s V K ' 350 STRASBURG PIK^ Phone : Lancaster EX3-760? t Strasburg OV7-2305 Li tic MA 6-7766 * Jr " T~ ■ Q :& MORE HEAT LESS FUEL MONEY BACK RAMIE
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