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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'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.
Similarly, the group of 25 Jer
sey calves, which consumed an
average of '549 pounds of grain
until nine months old, averaged
460 pounds at 12 months compar-
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