6—Lancaster Farming, Friday, March 22, 1957
FARMERS
SUPPLY
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100 lbs.
DRIED BLOOD
CERTIFIED
TOBACCO SEED
Tobacco Muslin
2 or 3 yd. widths
with brass eyelets
* BRIMM *
FOR POTATOES
VEGETABLES CORN
Brimm is a specialized crop maker
offered particularly (or truck crops
in this area It is made specifi
cally (or your soil It is formu
lated so that the combination o(
your soil and the recommended
application o( Brimm will pro
vide the crop with all o( the
nutrients required (tom soil (or
the best results.
PASTURGRO
FERTILIZER FOR
ALFALFA FIELDS
OR PASTURE
Futurgro, Swift’s premium paa
tare plant food, is specially formu
lated for grasses and legumes.
This specialized pasture/maker is
more than ordinary plant food. It
contains extra growth elements
that produce mineral-rich forage
more meat or milk per acre.
Vonr pasture or hay land, plus
Pasture© gives von a complete
combination of growth factors for
fast-growing nutritions high-pro
tein grass Put on '’asturgro this
spring stref">> your grazing sea
son at both ends.
FARMERS
SUPPLY CO.
137 E. KING ST.
Egg Month
Bringing Record
Returns: PENB
ST. CHARLES, 111. Midway
n March Egg Month the flood
gates of publicity on eggs were
being kept wide open in the 48
.tates and thousands of sales
messages about eggs were filling
:onsumer channels to record
levels, the Poultry and Egg Na
tional Board reports.
The' number of consumer-publi
ity cooperators in March Egg
lonth continues to grow. Here
me a few that are doing an out
jtanding job in publicizing PENB
gg recipes or other egg mess
iges nationally this month.
Magazines Family Weekly,
irculation over 4 million, 2-page
olor spread in March 3 issue,
'arade, circ. 7 million, Salzburg
er Nockerln'egg feature. Seven
teen, circ. 1-million, egg break
’ast feature. Everywoman’s, arc.
I million, editorial feature.
Newspaper Syndicates King
features, circ. 10 million, Danish
Cgg Casserole, General Features,
■ire. 3 million, Checkered Egg
'.andwich. Newspaper Enterprises
associates, 75 0 newspapers,
‘Cackleburgs.” Internalxonal
\ T ews Service, 800 newspapers,
Shamrock Egg Salad. Christian
Science Monitor, Smoked Eggs.
Some other notable cooperators
are Cooperative G. L. F. Ex
change, Inc., 50,000 promotion
and advertising effort for poul
try, and eggs in New Tork State
in March, Columbia Broadcasting
System, the Garry Moor? TV
Show; National Association of
Food Chains, Washington", D. C.;
Conrad Hilton and Sheraton ho
tels, featuring eggs on menus;
De Kalb Agricultural Association,
radio sales messages on eggs over
400 stations; Allied Mills, Inc.,
two PENB broadcasts on Egg
Month to five million American
farmers; U. S. Department of
Agriculture, nationwide publicity
and promotion; Armour & Co.;
First National Stores; McCrory
Stores; American Stores; Federat
ed Egg and Poultry Sales, Inc.
(Cleveland) to mention a few.
Five separate PENB recipe
photo releases featuring eggs are
appearing in March issues of
large newspapers across the na
tion. They were mailed to five
lists totaling 300 newspapers.
They feature such subjects as
“Full Meal Egg Sandwich,”
“Colonial Potato Salad,” and egg
rich cakes, custards and cream
puffs.
$4.85
TV food program directors and
radio food editors all over Am
erica have been using PENS re
cipe-photo material featuring
Stuffed Eggs Delmonico. Radio
farm directors in all the states
also have been cooperating in
spotting PENB news briefs on
eggs.
There has been tremendous co
operation from state PENB com
mittees in getting eggs publicized
by means of material furnished
by PENB and by special creative
effort of their own. Governors,
mayors and other dignitaries have
cooperated with the industry on
a grand scale. The state groups
have held numerous egg break
fasts and, luncheons.
PENB staff members have been
appearing on TV and radio pro
grams from coast to coast.
Concentrate Rations
Fed Cows Sets Record
The March 12 issue of the
Milk Production report by the
Crop Reporting Board contains a
special 12-page section on con
centrate rations fed to milk cows
in 1956.
Amount of these fed to cows
on farms last year averaged
1,825 pounds, almost four per
cent above the previous high re
cord of 1,758 pounds set in 1955.
About half the grain and con
centrates were home grown by
dairymen who fed them. Average
value per 100 pounds was $3, the
lowest since 1945.
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A TWO STORY extension was decided best
when B. Snavely Garber, R 2 Willow Street,
decided to remodel his milking bam. At a
meeting of dairy producers at the Garber
farm Tuesday, the extension was called
“very practical” by John Walker, Penn
State agricultural engineer. Inside, it fea
tures a single circuit feeding arrangement
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Lancaster. Pa.
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so that all animals may be fed with just
one trip-of the feed cart. The milking
herd is kept in the addition, while box
stalls have been installed in the old barn
for dry cows and young stock. Approxim
ately 60 farmers attended two dairy barn
■meetings held this week. (LF Photo)
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