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(kirn Populations
Must Be High
Don’t Jet low corn plant popu
lation rob you of corn, warns As
sociate County Agent Joseph H.
Way of Chester County. Re
search work conducted by the
Agronomy Department, of the
Pennsylvania State University,'in
dicates that best corn yields are
obtained when the plant popula
tion at husking time is 14,000 to
18,000 plants per acre.
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Beef Breeding Herd in Winter
Cattlemen build the winter
feeding program for the beef
breeding herd around the rough
age supply with emphasis on
economy according to Joseph H.
Way, associate agent in Chester
County. The expense of wintering
cattle should be no greater than
the minimum needed to insure a
reasonable degree of comfort and
to keep them vigorous and
healthy.
In herds of average size it will
pay, Ways says, to keep dry cows
separate from cows nursing
calves Cows nursing calves re-
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quire half again as much feed as
dry cows. For this reason calves
dropped in the spring usually are
raised much cheaper than calves
diopped late in the year.
The dry beef cow in average
flesh needs about two per cent of
her hve weight in diy roughage
oi average quality per day 200
pounds for a cow weighing 100
pounds. Thiee to three and one
half pounds of silage, depending
upon the moisture content, will
equal one pound ot hay in feed
ing value.
Five or six pounds of good
leafy legume hay a day will sup
ply ample protein for a dry cow.
Unless the supply of good' hay is
plentiful, some filler such as corn
stover, oat straw, or some other
low grade roughage can be fed
free-choice to satisty the appetite
and meet the energy require
ments.
Feed cows nursing calves four
to six pounds ot gram daily. If an
abundant supply of corn silage is
available, grain feeding of nurs
ing cows is seldom necessary.
Feed heifer calves and year
lings separately trom the brood
cows, Way adds, for while dry
cows can be wintered on rough
age alone, heifers raised for re
placements need quality rough
ago and three or four pounds of
gram daily to insure good growth
Fresh water, minerals, and salt
are just as important during the
winter as any other season
Research Man
Stresses Quality,
Management
•The year round demand for a
supply of high quality eggs has
caused growers to start chicks the
year round, said Dr. L A. Wil
helm, director of research for the
Ful-O-Pep experimental farm at
Libertyville, 111, at a meeting
held Tuesday at the Lancaster
Poultry Center
Dr Wilhelm also noted that
layer numbers are down about
three per cent, but added that
this meant little because average
production per hen has. been in
creased by about the same
amount.
“In poultry production,” Dr.
Wilhelm said, “good* management
is the one thing that the poultry
man can control. Prices, feed cost
and cost of chicks are beyond his
control, but good management
and attention to detail is one
thing that he can control and this
often is the margin between
profit and loss ”
A new recommendation on
starting chicks made by Dr. Wil
helm was to start the young birds
on mash, rather than cracked
corn as has been done.
“Cracked corn starting,” he'
said, “was done because of the di
gestive upsets and “sticking up”
caused by Pullorum.”
He said that with Pullorum
free chicks and the availability of
antibiotic feeds, there is ho need
for cracked, corn starting.
He also feels that all mash
feeding is the coming thing for
both chickens and livestock. He
said that good results have been
had with swine fed an all mash
ration at the experimental farm
■ The meeting was sponsored by
Lancaster and Chester County
Ful-O-Pep dealers
Dairy Cow Clipping
In Winter Profitable
Winter clipping of dairy cows
reduce the amount of labor neces
sary to care for - the animals,
makes it easier to prepare cows
for milking, helps control cattle
lice and improves appearance of
the herd.
Clipping is required by most
milk sheds to lower the bacteria
count of the milk.
In clipping cows, start with the
tail and tailhead, then clip the
udder, belly, hocks, and finally
the flanks
If lice control is a problem,
clip along the backbone
Clipping helps fit animals for
shows and enables dairymen to
present- cattle to advantage to
prospective buyers.
Hosarians to Go
To Flower Show
Mrs. Mary W Sheaffer, 434
South Market St., Elizabethtown,
is chartering a bus to attend the
Philadelphia Flower Show on
Tuesday, March 26. Reservation
should be made early by calling
Mrs. Shaeffer.
The Elizabethtown Rose So
ciety met Jan. 24 in the Educa
tional Room of the Bank building
in Elizabethtown. Notes from the
meeting included a notice to all
losarians, friends and new mem
bers to plan their gardens now
and order early from their rose
catalogues.
Also, a suggestion for a Valen
tine gift, the Rose “Love Song”
was given.
The next meeting of the so
ciety will be held Feb. 28, with
Mrs. Fred Glaes of the Reading
Rose Society as guest speaker
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Cliester-Delaware
Fruit Growers Meeting
To Be Held Feb. 7 ~~
Spray programs for 1957 will
be the mam topic of a meeting
of the Chester-Delaware Fruit
Glowers meeting to be held at
(he Municipal Building in West
phester, Feb. 7
v Speakers will be Dr O D.
Burks, extension plant patholo
gist, and Dr. Henry Nenusan, Jr,
extension entomologist
The morning progiara will in
clude the association meeting at
10 and a discussion of the spray
program tor cheenes, pears and
other minor fruits at 11.
The 1957 spray program for ap
ples and peaches will be discus
sed in the afternoon session start
ing at 1 30.
The 1957 spray schedules will
be distributed at the meeting
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