—Lancaster Farming, Friday, Sept. 20, 1957 6 Winchester* Ya. Fast Becoming Market Center WINCHESTER, Va Long noted as the “Apple Capital” of the East, Winchester ns now also becoming one of the important livestock market centers in the East Two livestock markets handle stock of every descnption in all the northern Virginia counties as well as the pan-handle of West Virginia These two markets a lone do a gross business of $7,162 377 65 annually In addition to these, the North ern Virginia Livestock Producers Assn, Inc. holds three feeder sales handlmg over 6,000 head of feeder calves, yearling steeis and heifers The first of these sales is geneially held about the middle of April, when 1,500 or more head are sold The Yearling Steer Sale is held in late Septem ber when 1,500 or moie yearl ings are handled The largest sale, as well as the oldest, in the Feeder Calf Sale, held the second Friday of Oct- 1 ober each year This sale some times handles as many as 4,000. head. These sales are made possible through the cooperation of the Virginia Agricultural Extension Service, the Virginia Division of Markets, the Virginia Beef Cat tle Producers Assn, and the Northern Virginia Livestock Producers Assn. More than 275 leading livestock farmers in Northern Virginia provide these feeders and prepare to meet the highest requirements of buyers who are looking for feeder animals. LANCASTER FARMING CLASSIFIED ADS PAY ST 6-2132 Those Awful Greider Leghorns! What about those Greider birds, anyhow? Well, chick salesmen of competitors say they’re not much good! Just in case you haven’t heard, here is what they’re saying; —They are unproven —They lay poor shell eggs —Hens are too large —Eggs are too large —Eggs are too small —Winning Egg Laying Test doesn't mean anything I can’t understand it! Lancaster County poultrymen bought a quarter of a million of these terrible pullets in 1957! And they’re ordering again for ’5B! I guess that 80 and 90% production sort of confuses them, and they just up and re-order without thinking! Do you want to he confused? Make your flock Greider’s for 1958! Greider Leghorn Farms, Inc. Mt. Joy, Pa. Trenches Aren’t Pretty y But They Make Feeding Cheaper By Bob Best A 65 foot tile silo towers over the John Sangrey farmstead, R 1 Conestoga, in the rolling lands of Southein Lancaster County. But this year it will be only a supplement in the Sangrey steer feeding program The dominating factor in the feed lot will be a new trench silo, lust completed and filled with coin silage This silo, 90 feet long, 18 feet wide and aver aging eight feet deep, almost triples the silage storing capacity of the farm Sangrey, who feeds a hundred to 120 steers a year, now plans to hold 140 head this fall Actually a trench silo is not brand new on the Sangrey farm. For the past few years, he has had dirt trenches These were simply a big ditch cut with a bull-dozer and filled with silage. While a good quality of silage can be made with them, and the cost is low, they are definately unpleasant to feed from in wet weather. Sangrey therefore decided this summer that he would make the 'trench or bunker type silo a per manent installation on the farm. It is located on the west side of the bank barn, with the barn foundation making one of the sides for part of the length of the silo. The other, side is of concrete block construction. The blocks were laid in two courses with tie bolts between The holes in the blocks were packed with cement for greater strength Then the exterior of the blocks and the barn founda tion were finished with plaster ing cement to give a smooth sur face. To give the west side of the bunker added strength, a dirt bank has been pushed against it. When asked why he chose cement block construction, San —Hens pick too much —Hens too wild —Poor feed efficiency —No breeding pro- gram —Worst chicks you can buy Ph. OL 3-9900 grey said that he felt it was the most economical. He cited the high labor costs involved in mak ing forms and working with the forms Sangrey’s normal feeding pro gram works like this. He buys feeders at six to seven bundled pounds. They then go on pasture as long as pasture lasts and then into the feed lot. In the lot thev receive silage and about two pounds of supplement. For the last 90 days they are gram finished The silage will be self fed from the trench using a portable rack A tractor loader will be used to keep the floor of the silo' clean, and may be used to knock down the silage and to move the rack forward The rack will be constructed with a floor for the front feet of steei s to prevent the animals from pushing over the rack and spoiling and wasting silage. This feeding system does not produce high prime cattle, San grey says But he doubts the value of the extra cost involved in feeding steers to high prime. The svstem works. A load San grey sold Monday brought $25 a hundredweight in a weakening market. This fall Sangrey has two pro blems confronting him. The soy bean and sorghum mixture he planted for silage has been badly hurt by the drouth. And the corn crop is down considerably from normal. Therefore he feels that his feeding program will have to include four or five pounds of grain a dav to make up for the lack of quality an the silage And the added acres of corn that will have to go to fill the silos will cut down on the gram avail able Added to this is the difficulty in obtaining good stock cattle at a low price this fall. However Sangrey believes that he has found the answer to economical steer feeding with a minimum of work by using all the plant in the silo. At the highest reasonable esti mate, the cost of a mandatory fed eral poultry inspection service would be less than 10 cents per person per year, the American V etennary Medical Association says Why It's GOOD BUSINESS TO OWN A miMMit&IiMSRAINDMU 1 JSsiEZSB DIRT WAS PILED OVER the end of the black plastic cover to make a good seal on the silo cover. Sangrey has arranged fences so that cattle will have free access from the feed lot this winter. (LF Photo) ON DISPLAY AT THE LAMPETER FAIR it Complete line of Farm Equipment /ACV incli jdingthe NEW D-14 Tractor and Attachments, and No. 7 Mower it Wilson NEW DIMENSION Bulk Milk Tank. Also NEW CREA _ MERY PACKAGE Direct Expan sion Tank. it 800 Forage Harvester it No. 68 Baler it Cunningham Hay Conditioner it Graham-Hoeme Plow it McDade Hay Fan L H. BRUBAKER Lancaster R. D. 4 Lititz R. D. 3 t
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