I vi " » i 'I iVr( iff ht?' LANCASTER FARMING Classifieds Ads Pay HEAnHYj^k IS^ We would like to an nounce a new set of ads to appear m this paper. Be tween me (Babcock Bessie) and Monroe Babcock we hope to have a different ad in this paper each issue until Mr . Babcock runs out of wind. "‘■'<4 These ads will be of in terest and we hope of value to you >as a poultryman. They won’t necessarily be accurate as some of thejji will be de batable and they are all a matter of opinion Therefore, it is up to you to use your own judgment as to whether you wish to follow the re commendations made in these ads or not. This Year Raise Babcock Bessies - American’s Reallv Fine Layer in All Sections of the U. S. I sincerely believe you’ll find that Bab cock Bessies combine these ten factors better than any commercial egg layer ever developed. 1. ESSSpraonar livability as chicks and as layers 2 High rate of lay. 3. Large early egg size. Also nice uniform size eggs. 4. Chalk white shells 5. Per sistency. Lay heavily for 12 to 15 months. Also good se cond year layers. 6. Good freedom from cannibalism if properly managed. 7. Easy birds to handle 8 Good shells and interior egg quali ty. 9. Just the right size bird J:o, give _you ;gpod feed con version and yet give you tt - big egg without getting all tired out doing it. 10. A really fine cage layer Babcock Bessies are a White Leghorn strain cross produced by mating a fine “top-cross” male we have been breeding for several years onto our pure Babcock Barbara strain females we have been breeding for 18 years. Send for our 1957 catalog which is one of the most in structive poultry catalogs ever published. Russell Mease Route 4 Manheim, Pa. Local Representative Phone Manheim MO 5-4795 Babcock Poultry Farm, tnc. Route #3l -mi# Ithaca, New Fork ■ ■ HamsuH-smi \ 150 McCUi 0-44 Dir Chain Saws to be given away free! Absolutely nothing to buy! See Us Today For Details of the exciting McCULLOCH SAW-DRAW CONESTOGA ‘FARMf SERVICE B Quarryville Ph. 282 Lancaster Ph. EX 2429111 t•* > t -f' *• i -• n? 3 *u*ri r '** wvn r- < 4UA State Crops Yield Higher; Values Gain HARRISBURG Higher yields of corn, hay, tobacco and potatoes, coupled with impiovad prices for potatoes, advanced the total vatue of all 1956 Pennsyl vania farm ciops by approxi mately $2l million over last year, the State Department of Agriculture announced today. In a year-end summary of crop production, the Pennsyl vania Crop Reporting Service said the farm value of princi pal crops and fruits totals $311,915,000 for 1956. This compares with $290,525,000 for last year, an advance of seven per cent. The higher yields of field crops offset declines in fruit. The corn crop of bumper proportions m cential and south eastern areas led the advance with af gain' of $14,426,000 for a total of $lO4 Yield per acre at 56 bushels (shelled basis) was an all-time record for PennsyS vama The total crop of 71,736,- 000 bushels was second only to the record of 72,726,000 bushels in 1919. All fruits except grapes show ed declines in production and value this year compared with 1955 Value of the 1956 fruit Drorb'ction at $18,877,000 was down 15* per cent' , m>m cne 335,000 tota9 a year earlier Potatoes set record yields per acre, summer varieties av eraging 170 bags of 100 lbs each with fall potatoes aver aging 165 bags per acre. The estimated 1700 pounds of cigar leaf tobacco per acre also is record' high. Quality of the crop is the best in years. Av erage yield, of, wheat at 27 bushels per acre was the sec ond highest of record, exceed ed only by the 28-bushel aver age in 1954. Commercial apple production, hard hit by May freezes, came to 4,5 90,000 bushels, sharply be low the 10-year average of six million bushels and 1955 produc tion of 6,500,000 bushels. Peaches, pears and cherries also dropped below 1955 production Pennsylvania's acreage of crops harvested in 1956 declined sharply from 1955. Corn acreage was down four per cent, wheat six per cent, oats four per cent, barley nine per cent, buckwheat 27 per cent and all potatoes 12 per cent. Increases were hay, 14,000 acres; tobacco, 500 acres and rye, 2000 acres. Buckwheat and potato acreage is now only one-tenth as great as in 1920. Saw and Knife ■ Service ■ MAST 605 Marietta ave. ,rtvmfT w ( / h > /n/^< r ~’ % >« f ‘ % V r ' r. ** < " John H. Kitch J. H. Kitch Appointed Resident Forester PORT KENNEDY—Tne Penn sylvania Department of Forests and Waters announces the ap pointment of John H Kitch as resident Service Forester in Lan castei County Kitch was born and laised in this county near Lancaster, grad uated from West Earl High School in Brownstown After graduation Kitch earned out his military duty with the 90th Inf Division in Geimany He returned to enioll m the Pennsylvania State Foiest School at Mont Alto for one year He spent the next three years finish ing his foiestry studies at Penn State University Since then he has been associated with Ward Bottle Gas as Manager and New Holland Machine Company. Kitch lives near Reinhold I The 30b of Service Forester m this h elpmg far mers and other woodland to properly manage their timbei This is carried out in two ways by educational talks and m-the woods training sessions of farm groups such as the Grange and young people’s classes and by ac tually measuring, evaluating and marking trees for ha 1 vest and stand improvement If any woodland owner desires this free service he should write the District FOl ester, Pennsyl vania of Forests and Waters, Poit Kennedy Nearly 18% of Lancaster County is most suitable for grow ing timber, according to Forest Service statistics The Service Forester provides an excellent opportunity for the woodland owner to get professional advice on making the most of his tim ber which means greater protec tion and money in the owner’s pocket USD A Requests Bids To Process Grains WASHINGTON The U S Department of Agriculture today announced that bids have been requested to process Commodity Credit Corporation-owned wheat and corn into 35,221,400 pounds of flour and ctrnmeal for dona tion through domestic and for eign outlets The quantity to be processed includes 21,535,850 pounds of flour and 10,205,550 pounds of cornmeal for domestic donation through schoofl lunch programs, institutions and welfare agencies, and 150,000 pounds of degermed cornmeal and 3,330,000 pounds of flour for foreign ' donation through U S private welfare agencies for welfare use abroad. The flour for domestic dona tion includes 17,335,850 pounds of all-purpose wheat flour, 3,- 669,000 pounds of bread flour, and 531,000 pounds of whole wheat flour. The flour for for eign donation includes 1,430,000 pounds of all-purpose wheat flour, _ 800,000 pounds of bread flour and 1,100,000 pounds of whole wheat flour. Since August when the expand ed donation program for flour and commeal began, 266,056,610 pounds of four have been con tracted for processing from ap proximately 7 million bushels of CCC-owned wheat and 213,500 - 250 pounds of cornrrteal from 59 million bushels of CdC-owned corn. . nAn-fi .zvAnmM —<* Lancaster Farming, Friday, Jan. 4, 1957—7 Aluminum Industry Predicts Growth Of Existing, New Markets in 1957 PITTSBURGH Continued giowth of existing and new mar kets for aluminum was foreseen today by Aluminum Company of America as it appiaised the out look for 1957. Vigoious sales promotion in all markets, technics 1 . advances thiough icsearch and develop ment, and a plentiful supply of metal are expected to provide additional impetus to the pres ently tremendous acceptance of aluminum. Confident of the fututie, Al coa, in 1956, announced a pro gram for progiess involving pos sible capital' expenditures of about $6OO million over a five vear period extending through 1960 Building construction outstrip ped the transportation-field for the second consecutive year as the largest maiket outlet for Al coa and foi the industry The metal curtain-wall buifdmg, which Alcoa pioneered a few years ago, is gaining greater ac ceptance each month Aluminum uses also are advancing rapidly in the virtuallv untapped field of residential construction Alcoa’s many l years of devel- First in Parade To Be State of Delaware Delaware, the fust State to United States Con fr? shortened stitulion wTi hesrepCL o/jp f\r presidential inaugural pai -r January 21 Four years, ago, the Delawaie delegation was supplanted at the head of the line by Kansas, boy hood home of Piesident Elsen hower, and. by California, home of Vice President Nixon. How ever, this year State delegations wiW be in the parade “in older of their entry into the union ” Stretch Your with Sugared Schum Its an Livestock Feed for DAIRY & BEEF CATTLE HOGS, SHEEP & HORSES YOU’LL LIKE YOUR FEEDING RESULTS when you feed Quaker Sugared Schumacher Feed to your livestock—either as the entire grain ration or in combination with other grains. You see, it’s a blend of grain products plus molasses, added proteins and minerals including important trace minerals. It’s nutri tious, palatable and digestible. And it’s priced right... foe economical feeding. See or callus today hr Sugared Schumacher l. C. Snavely & Sons, Inc. Landisville, Pa. George Rutt Stevens R. D. 1. Pa. J. C. Walker & Son Gap, J>a Ross C. Ulrich Peach Bottom. B.D. Ra opment work on automotive ap plications likewise to read is reflected in aluminum’s increas ed utilization in automobile, truck-trailers and buses Some 1957 passenger cars utilize nearly 200 ponds of the light metal and average individual usage in creases substantially from year to year on the new models Similarly, the potential looms large in such established fields as consumer duiable goods and electrical machinery and equip ment Intensive meichandising effort is being directed to such relatively new areas as highway construction applica tions, oil field and irrigation pipe, pole barns and farm gates, heating * and ventilating equip ment, packaging and containeis and a host of other promising outlets •„ WEAVER’S CHICKS! Order > our fall broilers, winter and spring chiefs, NOW, to be sure of choice del'tcn dates WE HAVE: While Vantress Cross Broilers White Meat Packer Cross White Cornish Cross FOR BROWN EGGS New Hampshire R. 1. Red Cross If you Want heavy egg produc hite egss rmßrbved first "generation chicks High speed layers for 12 15 months. We are Penna - U S approv ed pullorum clean Weaver & Son | Hatchery 1 ANNVILLE, PA. Phone 7-2161 GRAIN PRODUCTS frem tern, eats wheat, barley MOLASSES V V ADDED MINERALS , Including - .. trace minerals 'addjp^roh Grubb Supply Elizabethtown, Pa. Millport Boiler Mills Lititz, R-D.4, Pa. Paul M. Ressler & Son> Paradise, Pa. D. W. Hoover East Earl, JR. D. 1, Pa-« Contains:
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