6—Lancaster Farming, Friday, May 10, 1957 Grange Protests State Wheat Acreage Cut The Pennsylvania State Grange is bitterly protesting the action of the United States Department of Agriculture in reducing the wheat acreage allocated to Pen nsylvania farmers for the 1958 crop season by 13,000 acres it was announced here today by S, Ralph Wanner Master of the Lancaster County, Pomona Grange No. 71. “Pennsylvania farmers lost 20,000 acres under a similar ac tion of the Department for the 1957 crop, and the Grange feels it is high time that this policy be discontinued in as much as the national wheat acreage has not been reduced during these years by a single acre. “It is the feeling of the Grange that unused acreage slotted to Pennsylvania farmers should be assigned to other farmers in Pen nsylvania who are not now per mited to grow even the amount of wheat needed to feed their own livestock. “The Pennsylvania State Grange has written to Secretary Benson protesting this action and will carry its fight to every mem ber of Congress from Pennsyl vania if this poicy is not chang ed” Wanner said. 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KURTZ Elizabethtown EASTERN STATES SERVICE CENTER Quarryville Phone STerling 6-3647 EASTERN STATES SERVICE CENTER Lancaster Phone Express 4-3755 t««! SHOWER ACTIVITY continued' heaviest in Texas and in the extreme Southeastern United States this past week. For most of the rest of the nation, precipitation was light to unmeasurable. The high pressure system that pushed _ STEPHEN M. KURTZ Joanna & Conestoga JOHN S. MARTIN * Bareville JOHN MELHORN Mount Joy WILSON SCOTT Willow Street LESTER SCHULTZ Willow Street MARTIN WANNER Gap DAVID H. WEAVER New Holland 'Dairy ifeifers fed a. variety of ugh-quahty forage rations in a limited milk and gram feeding orogram, need no more than 560 pounds of concentrates to attain lormal growth from birth to first calving, reports the U. S. Depart nent of Agriculture. Dairy nutritionists of the De partment’s Agricultural Research service, who- made the feeding ests at Beltsville, Md., success ully discontinued milk feeding if heifers at 60 days and grain ceding at nine months. Their re ,earch has shown that use of arge quantities of high-quality lay in rations for dairy heifers natenally reduces the cost of •earing dairy herd replacements Usual practice has been to .teed calves whole or skim milk up to six months, and concen trates, plus roughage, until first j calving As much as 2,000-3,500 [pounds of grain is commonly fed to dairy heifers under these con ditions before first calving. Re searchers found, however, that with the feeding of large quanti ties of good ( hay, grain fed in excess of 560 pounds does not increase the growth rate. They also found that different combinations of alfalfa hay'with other high-quahty' roughages such as corn silage, timothy hay and corn silage, timothy hay and orchard grass-Jadino hay, and bromegrass-ladmo hay and corn silage all produced similar re sults in calf gains. The studies indicate that it is important to maintain a high legume content in the high-quality roughage ra tions r In these experiments, the in dividually fed group of nine Hol stein and 25 Jersey calves was offered as much forage as they would eat, after 10 days of age The group of nine Holstein heifers consumed an average of 564 pounds of grain during the first nine months and their weight averaged 617 pounds at 12 months, compared with ex pected “normal weight” of 632 pounds. Weight of these heifers at 24 months averaged 1,068 pounds, compared with expected weight of 1,069 pounds. 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