6—Lancaster Farming, Friday, March 1,195 T . ■ LANCASTER FARMING Classifieds Ads Pay ST 6-2132 As part of your good poultry management, it is necessary that you buy the best chicks available. Honegger Layers have prov en the best in the nation dur ing 1956 by having top pen "(489 pens entered) all breeds, all contests. This winning pen .averaged-305 eggs in 350 days with 100% livability. Order your 1957 chix from breeders of the identical blood lines as these 1956 champions. Keep accurate records and your net profits will soar as egg production, size and in terior quality of Honegger lay ers are tops. Chalk white eggs, too. Come see our breeders on the new Hawkins slat floors you’ll be glad you did. P.S. Farm management ex perts predict a good egg year in 1957. Windle’s Hatchery COCHRANVILLE, PA. Phone—LYric 3-5941 OLIVER No. 241 DISC HAIIOW Works-An »*> • / y% - w* 4 * * »•* Watch it pulverize the hardest ground, smooth your roughest field into a mellow, level seedbed. See it roll over rocks and stumps with ease. A semiflexible frame and spring-cushioned gangs permit the No. 241 to climb over a stone like a cater pillar. No damage to blades or other parts. Your tractor doesn’t have to hoist and drag it-across an obstruction. Yet, it’s rigid enough, strong enough, heavy enough to cut the toughest surface. Buy an all-purpose Oliver and you’ll have full angle cutting, thorough shredding of trash, accurate depth control in any soil. You’ll cross water- ways, travel to and from fields easier. ■JJJfWWT You’ll get prelubricated, sealed-for-*' life disc and wheel hearings. Built I 1 in four sizes— to 13 feet. I I G. Hershey & Son Nauheim. ED. I N. Farmersville Equipment Co. Guhrata, R.D. 2 Chas. J. McComsey & Sons Indian River Buys Shenk Hatchery Breeding Stock LANCASTER Indian River- Poultry Farm, Inc., has acquired the breeding program of Shenk Hatchery, Harrisonburg, Va.. This includes the birds in pedigree pens, the supply flocks, and grow ing stock. _ The breeding farm itself is be ing leased by Indian River for the present time. The Shenk Hatch ery will be maintained by the Shenk family. The merger is ef fective immediately, with present Shenk pedigree stock being chan neled into the Indian River pro gram. George M. Ellis, president and founder of Indian River, also an nounces that Dr. A. B. Godfrey, geneticist for the Shenk organiza tion, has joined the Indian River staff to carry on his work with the new dominant white male line. Dr. Godfrey is expected to bring several of his former assistants to Lancaster as part of the ex panded breeding program.- In the development of this male bird. Dr. Godfrey has used 199 single-male pens, together with a laying-house capacity of more than 15,000 hens. Last year over 150,000 pedigreed chicks were produced. As a broiler chick sire, this new cockerel produces a virtually all-white offspring. The new male, to be known as the Indian River #5, will be put into immediate production, ac cording to Ellis, although volume will be limited and cockerel chicks pro-rated until this fall All-Purpose where... Perfect! .• • • •- 0 • • «« • * *9 • • •*«»* Hickory Hill. Pa. E. L. Herr Peach Bottom County PFA Supports Lower Farm Truck Fee Officers and board members of the Lancaster County Farmers’ Association this week announced their .support for legislation in Harrisburg which would reduce the license fee on farm trucks. William B. Jacobs of R. 2, Nar von, president of the County Farmers’ Association, said that the-proposed reduction of the farm truck fee would help con siderably in bolstering up net farm income by helping to reduce farm operating costs. He pointed to the fact that all states surrounding Pennsylvania now have a soecial reduced rate for farm trucks, as evidence that a similar reduction in Pennsyl vania is justified. . Only farm trucks, not used for hire, would be eligible for the re duced license. The proposed calls for a 50 per cent reduction on all farm truck fees, with the excep tion of the '“R” license, which would be reduced to the same rate as automobiles. " It has been shown, says the County association’s board of directors, that the average farm truck is used on the highways only about 6,000 miles per year. Commercial trucks run' over the highways at the rate of from 30,- 000 to 60,000 miles a year. “It seems to us,” said Jacobs, “that trucks which are used very little on the highways should not be charged the same rate aifcom memal trucks.” Philadelphian Guest Speaker Of Florist Assn. Guest speaker at the annual Carnation Night of the Lancaster County Florists Assn, was How ard Faulkenrod, carnation man ager of the S. S. Pennock Co., Philadelphia. His topic was "The Relation ship Between the Wholesaler and the Grower.” The meeting was held at the Farm Bureau Build ing, Dillerville Road. The meeting featured a com petitive exhibit of carnations. First place winners were; red, Aaron Wissler, Lancaster; white, William Simons, Whitford; dark pink, Clarence Groif, Strasburg; light pink, Howard Clark, Eden; yellow, Fred Hellberg, Bird-in- Hand; and varigated, Clarence Groff, Strasburg. Judges were Allen Pressell, Hanover; Elmer Lefever, 1300 East King St., Lancaster; and Herman Ruof, 640 Beaver St., Lancaster. 1 Mr. and Mrs. Hellberg of Bird m-Hand were admitted to the or ganization as new members. They were formerlyof Chalfont. In other business, John Girvin, Leola, was named chairman of the Flower Show Committee, “Make-Up night” will be ob served on Mar. 14 at a dinner meeting at the Leola Memorial Building with Harold Fries as chairman. Matk Nolt, president, had charge of the meeting Thurs day night. Plow Contest To Be in U. S. For First Time Some 2,500 acres of level land near Peebles, Ohio, will be the scene of the sth World Plowing Contest on Sept. 19 and 20. This is the first time this world contest has been held in the Unit ed States, and it is being held this jear in conjunction with the Na tional Association of Soil Conser vation District Field Days which will begin at Peebles on Sept. 17. Up to the present time 13 coun tries have qualified to compete. They are Finland, Sweden, Nor way, Denmark, Holland, West Germany, Belgium, Frapce, Great Britain, Northern Ireland, Cana da, New Zealand, and the U. S. Contestants are scheduled to ar rive on or about Sept. 10, accord ing to General Secretary Alfred Hall of the World Plowing Or ganization. Tentative Test Program Adopted - By Red Rose DHIA Directors _ A six point program to solve problems due to the machine re cord keeping system to be in agurated in the dairy herd im proving testing program June 1 was adopted by the Red Hose DHIA board of directors Monday. However, the changes are ten tative and may be changed at the next meeting of the board in May. It is believed by the directors that more information on the change will be available by that time, and that it may be seen that modifications will be neces sary. The new program provides that: Herd owners and the tester will share any increase in cost due to the change on an equal basis. However, it was agreed ' that each tester may test in one day shall be unlimited, provided, that his work continues to be satis factory. _ - Additional owner - sampler work- shall be under the direc tion of the head tester and under the supervision of Assistant County Agent Victor Plastow. All DHIA records shall be m the mail not later than 34 hours after the tests are completed. * The tester shall make avail able to the herd owner's copy of the records sent to Penn State if £he herd owner so requests. For pay purposes, the herd size limit shall be increased from 40 to 70 head. The present 20 cents a work ing day withheld from each test er shall be continued and will be paid to the itestemat the end of each test year provided his calf book and life history sheets are in proper order. The program jwas formulated by the board after hearing a re port from a special committee • I. H. C. 300 Utility Tractor USED ONLY 300 HOURS NEW TRACTOR WARRANTY ★ 1952 Super “C” Tractor Super A Tractor Cub Tractor Above Tractors Carry Our Blue Ribbon Warranty j McCORMICK FARM EQUIP. STOKE H EPHRATA, PA. - Phone RE 3-2283 HUBBARD FARMS BROILER CHICKS WIN MAINE OFFICIAL GROWING TEST An average weight of 3.99 lbs. for the Hubbard Crosses at nine weeks of age placed them well ahead of all the 19 other entries. Feed Conversion was 2.26 lbs of feed for each pound of weight. We hope you will arrange a trial of Hubbard Farms chicks on your own farm. For top results, buy your chicks from Hubbard Farms. HUBBARD FARMS Manheim Pike Lancaster, Pa. Ph. Lancaster EX 2-2154 appointed last ' November to study the changes to be encount ered in the switch from manual to machine record keeping; The present cost for testing of $7.50 for the firsMO cows and 20 cents for each additional cow will be maintained. However, -the second day charge will begin at 70 head, rather than 40. '■ The loss in-pay to the tester is expected to be made up by al lowing unlimited .owner-sampl ing testing. The board also decided to in vestigafte a proposal that the Progressive DHIA, serving south ern Lancaster County and_part of Chester-County, be integrated with the Red Rose Association. _The new machine record keep ing system will be placed into effect on a state-wide basis. Each local association will be integrat ed into the system at the begin ning of the association teSt year. June 1 starts the test for the Red Rose association. FARMERS! 8 II Check your sprayer needs g now. We have all sizes w and types In stock. 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