POUNDS OF FEED PER DOZEN EGGS IS A CRAZY FIGURE Do you agree? Oi disagree’ If you have a 3’A lb Leghorn * that will average 250 eggs per bird per year and lay a lot of small eggs, you’ll get a wond erful figure on "pounds of feed per dozen eggs ” If there’s a spread of 20c per dozen this summer between large and mediums, you can see that it doesn’t make much sense for a breeder to brag that his stock will produce a dozen eggs on 4 lbs of feed when a larger egg strain, eat ing, % lbs. of feed more per dozen at an extra feed cost of lV4c per dozen will lay eggs that will bring 20c more per dozen Babcock Bessies Just Right Size You’ll find our popular strain cross - the Babcock Bes sie - 3ust big enough to give you high rate of lay of large eggs over a long period of months. You’ll find their feed conversion of “pounds of feed per pound of eggs” is excel 'lent They become into large eggs rapidly and yet have ex cellent persistency. Body weight at first egg 3-% lbs, at a year of age a little less than 4V4 lbs These are approximate average weights. Please send for “Bessie” lit erature and prices to : Babcock Poultry Farm, Inc. P. O. Box 286 Ithaca, New York Russell Mease Route 4 Manheim, Fa. Local Representative Phone Manheim MO 5-4705 FURNITURE AT ; BIG DISCOUNTS i Store Hours: DELIVERY AVAILABLE EASY TERMS ! FREE PARKING NOW ... 2 STORES TO SERVE ! YOU BETTER MARTINDALE INTERCOURSE FURNITURE STORE BRANCH ■ 1 PH. HILLCREST 5-2932 PH. SOg-3752 | “The Cash Discount Stores” < i Buy Where Your Friends Buy More and more people are making us their first choice for ... ★ ULTRA-LIFE MIXED POULTRY and DAIRY FEEDS ★ Fertilizer ★ Lime & Limestone Armour ★ Poultry Equipment Cramer’s x ★ Spray Materials Baugh’s ★ Roofing ★ Field Seeds ★ Sand ★ Cement M. H. 30 for prevention of tobacco suckers. WEST WILLOW FARMERS ASSOCIATION WEST WILLOW Ph. Lane. EX 4-5019 FAMOUS FOR DELIVERY IN MINUTES $ i '*V x<)< * >*< '*■ ti*'** *t'» v * f * »£ **> ** 2T'»--v « * HOLDING THE~BACKFAT probe in position, Dwight Younkin tells Lancaster County Swine Producers that this is a fast and easy way to tell if a hog is truly meat type. The operation is easy and does not seriously injure the animal if proper sanitary precautions are taken Photo) \> 4 V^ , k v « - - **■* New York, Jersey Set ft Bang’s Deadline HARRISBURG - - Dairymen shipping milk to the New York, and Jersey markets are urg ed by State Secretary of Agri culture William L. Henning to take immediaate action to begin, removal of brucellosis reactors from herds. New Jersey will not accept milk from any brucellosis infected cattle and on Jan. 1, 1959 milk shipped to New York mar kets must be from “clean herds.” Dr. H A. Milo, director of the Bureau of Animal Industry, State Department of Agriculture, said the New Jersey order would “greatly affect” dairymen in Brad ford and Lebanon Counties where only limited testing for brucel losis is underway “Pennsylvania producers,” Dr. Milo said, “face the loss of their New Jersey and New York mar kets for mijk unless they act soon.” He added that once testing for brucellosis is approved by dairymen in these two counties an undetermined period of time will be required before test and certi fication can be completed. He warned that unless dairymen not yet in testing programs fail to ap prove such testing “it might be. too late to hold the markets they (dairymen) have ” There are more than 46,000 dairy cattle in Bradford County and 15,000 dairy cattle in Lebanon County, the Department reported. In order to be approved as brucel losis free the infection cannot ex ceed 1 per cent in the county cattle population and 5 per cent of the herds in the county. There are 55 of the State’s 67 counties certified as brucellosis free. There are 8 counties com pletely tested but awaiting certi ficataion. Only 13 townships of the 1 569 townships m the Common wealth do not have testing pro grams underway. They are in Bradford and Lebanon Counties. BAI Warns to Check Pastures For Possible Poisonous Plants HARRISBURG Livestock I changing to lush pastures during | this dry period are constantly in danger of consuming poisonous plants unless farmers take proper precautions, the State Department of Agriculture said today. Dr. H. A. Milo, director of the Bureau of Animal Industry, said cattle going on quality pastures after a period of grazing on poor er grasses should not be turned out until farmers inspect fields for poismous plants. A report from York County was recently received in the Department in which a farmer' reported three dairy cattle died as a result of eating poisonous plants According to Dr. Milo, herd owners shoOld pay particular at tention to their pastures during dry weather when poisonous plants appear to thrive. He add ed that prussic aacid poisoning will develop following consump ; tion and digestion of the plant and kill livestock. Farmers were urged to inspect new pastures and to give special inspection care to fields following ■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■« ■ B ■ HELICOPTER Be * r\ • b apraymg-Uustmg B B B fl B B B B B B a B Control Insects and Diseases CORN, HAY, TOBACCO, TOMATOES, FRUIT, ALSO TOBACCO SUCKER CONTROL Contact early for scheduling HELICOPTERS INTERNATIONAL, Inc. 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Start my subscription immediately. a rain or heavy winds In the pa l -! wild cherry trees have been up < i ooted and carried over to pastur es to piove fatal to livestock eat ing the plant. Dr. Milo said cattle suffering from prussic acid will have dry coats, become listless and diarrhea. Farmers should contact veterinarian upon noticing such, sysmptons, he said. PASTURES ; For year round grazing sow] a Swiss Permanent Ready to pasture in 8 weeks.' No more reseeding. ] We also have an excellent Hay Pasture Silage Mix 2-3 cows per acre grazing. Casupa Super Green Pastures. FRED FREY QUARRYVILLE, PA. ST 6-2235 & Call r wl
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