16—Lancaster Farming, Friday, Oct. 4, 1957 Ncw USDA Yearbook ‘Soil’ Expands Coverage on Problems in Soil Care Up-to the-mmute information on soil care of use to home garden ers as well as larmers is empha sized in the 1957 Yearbook of Agncultuie, “Soil”, which was published Sept 22 by the U S. De partment of Agriculture. The book’s 88 chapters were written by 142 scientists in the fields of soil management, botany, horticulture, soil conservation, agionomy, irrigation, and otheis Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Taft Benson says in his foreword to “Soil” “More research continuing, thoiough research—in the man agement of soil and water is a vi tal part of our long range pro gram Not only must we learn more about the management of soil and water, we must encour age the wider dissemination of the results of this research That is why I am so keenly interested in this Yearbook of Agriculture and commend it to you and your neighbors ” Of particular interest to peo pie who have gardens, lawns, fruit trees, and small acreages are chapteis about soil manage ment for home gardens and lawns, ornamental plants, vegetables, or chaids windbreaks, soil acidity, and the bases of fertility Major attention also is paid to soils and plant growth, plant nu tntion and fertility, soil moisture, the tiace elements necessaiy for plants, applying fertilizers, prin ciples of tillage, erosion, soil and insects and plant diseases, irri gation, soil management for main crops, and the economic aspects of soil management One comprehensive section deals with soil management and 0 M Healthy Chicks Make Great Layers! How Much Do Your Eggs Bring Per Pound? New York Egg Prices—August 21, 1957 V' ' You can see from the above figures that large eggs hav-e a tre mendous advantage. Not only do you get paid more per dozen for large eggs but you get paid more per pound for large eggs It takes just as much housing, investment and labor to produce small eggs as large eggs At the above prices a flock laying 52%, but laying all iarge eggs, will bring the same egg income as a flock laying 67% and produc ing ail mediums; and the same as a flock laying 96% and produc ing all pullet size eggs Then why do folks talk about pounds of feed Tier dozen eggs 9 Search me I don’t know Fortunately, today we can supply you a bird, Babcock Bessie, that will peak at around 90% production and settle back to 70% to 80% and produce a high percentage of large eggs for 12 to 15 months We’ll furnish Random Sample Test figures on this in a coming ad For Hatch dates and a 48-page free catalog write Babcock Poultry Farm, Inc Box 286 L, Ithaca. New York. We will look for you at NEPPCO . . . Please come to the Babcock Booth 168 and 185 right across from the Sample Flock display. BabcockPoulfryfa needs in each of 16 regions of the United States The preface to the new year book quotes a statement in the 1938 Yearbook, “Soils and Men ” “The social lesson of soil waste is that no man has the right to de stroy soil even if he does own it in fee simple The soil requires a duty of man which we have been slow to recognize ” It goes on to say “A purpose of the present book is to indicate the extent to which that warning has been heeded—and at times to re peat it—and to describe the knowledge about soils that scien tists and taimeis have since gained ” Th book contains many tables of measurements, graphs that show amounts of fertilizer to use, instructions about composting and improving soil structure, maps of soil and climate zones, and details of farming practices throughout the country all of which are designed to make the volume of piactical value to many readers The yeaibooK of Agriculture has been published yearly ever since 1849 - before the Depart ment of Agriculture was establish ed It is a Congtcsssional docu ment, and each Senator and Rep lesentative in Congress has a limited numhei of copies for dis tribution The Department of Agriculture buys some copies for its employees hut has none avail able for general distribution Copies of the 1957 Yearbook of Agriculture may be purchased at $2 25 each from the Superinten dent of Documents Goverment Punting Office, Wahmgton 25, D C Requests for copies should not be sent to the Department of Agriculture ,Wt. per Size case Large Mediums Pullets 47 ibs. ' 41 lbs 35 lbs. ’ ■* From Producer, Price Current ’ Babcock’s Figures RUSS MEASE Local Representative Route 4, Manheim, Pa, Phone MO 5-4705 Price per lb. 33(2 ’ 29(2 * 23(2 ’ Price 520 400 > 280 Farm Calendar Today Senior Extension Club 8 p m at Farm Bureau Cooperative, Lancaster. Sat., Oct. 5 Brandywine Angus Heifer Club Show at Norman Davidson farm, Kennett Square Show begins at Ipm Mon., Oct. T New Holland Community 4-H Club at the home of James Wolge muth, R 1 Bareville Tues., Oct. 8 County Steer Feeders Tour 7 a m at Conestoga Bus Gdrage, East Chestnut Street, Lancaster NEPPCO Exposition, Farm Show Building, Harrisburg PFA Membership Dinner 6 30 p m at Hostetter’s, Mt Joy Young Farmers meeting 8 p m at Manor School Wed., Oct. 9 Mt Joy Community Exhibit through Oct 12 International Dairy Show, Chi cago Thins., Oct. 10 Chestnut Level Farm Show afternoon and e\enmg Sun.; Oct. 13 NACAA Convention, Boston Wed., Oct. 16 State Veterinary Medicine Con fetence, Hotel Brunswick, Lan caster Thurs., Oct. 17 State Black & White Sale, Farm Show Bldg y Harrisburg Porina-fed steers are shown in stockyards pen before going on the scales for final weighing. $ 9.61 extra profit per head on Purina-fed steers Lancaster Stockyards demonstration proves advantages of feeding balanced supplement More than 500 feeders attended the Lancaster field day at the Union Stockyards, marking the conclusion of an important cattle feeding demonstration. At the completion of a 110-day split-steer demonstration, ten steers fed on cottonseed meal had averaged 2.34 lbs. gain per day, or a toted of 257 lbs. gain per head. Steers fed Purina Steer Fatena with stilbestrol gained an average of 2.61 lbs. per head per day, or a total of 288 lbs. per head. The cost of gain was 22 y 2 i per pound on Purina; 23.2 t per pound on cotton seed meal. Starting at approximately the same average weights, the Purina lot finished off averaging 1,026 lbs., and grading all choice. The other lot finished the test averaging 997 lbs. per head, seven head grading choice and three head grading good. The average labor profit per steer in the Purina lot was $26.13; profit per head on cottonseed cake was $16.52. The return on the Purina-fed steers was figured at $9.61 per head over the other lot. You, too, can take advantage of the extra feeding value of Purina Steer Fatena. Ask your Purina Dealer about a feeding plan to fit your requirements. No matter what kind of cattle you have . . . and regardless of your grain and roughage situation, there is a Steer Fatena to meet your needs. Let Purina help you widen the gap between market price and feeding costs. FEED PURINA . . .YOU CAN DEPEND ON THE CHECKERBOARD ■W.V-V.V-W.V-VJ Penn State Holstein Completes Sixth Straight 1,000 lb. Lactation History is a habit with Pen-put of the average dairy cow state Inka Pathfinder Star 1 Pennsylvania State University’s most famous registered Holstein is back in the headlines with st'll another unprecedented pro duction feat —six straight 1,000 lb record! She became the first cow to hit the “six for six” mark on .official test with a 365 day rec ord of 24,248 lbs of milk and 1,006 lbs of butterfat started at the age of 12 years, eight months. Her production in five im mediately preceding lactations was 11-0 22,997 1,004 9-10 24,715 1,035 3 8 5 25,522 1,100 3 7-2 26,566 1,172 2 5-8 24,076 1,0018 Np stranger to the limelight, Penstate Inka Pathfinder Star also ranks as the first cow in his tory to complete five 1,000 lb. records on official test Three other registered Holstems have since duplicated this achieve ment All of her records hve been mde on three milkings a day in the Herd Improvement Registry program of The Holstein-Frie sian Association of America At the close of her newest record, her lifetime production totalled 210,394 Ibsl of milk 1 and 8,870 lbs of butterfat—more than eight times the career out- Penstate Inka Pathfinder Star has spent her entire life on the University farm. She is a daugh ter of Osborndale Chieftain Inka Ormsby, a Gold Medal Sire bred by the late Mrs. Waldo S Kellogg, Derby, Conn, and developed m the Penn State herd. Outstanding in type as welf? as in production, she is official ly classified “Excellent”. Long a top brood cow, she cui rently has four sons, four daugh ters, 16 grandsons, 228 grand daughters and a long list of more remote descendents registered in 'the Holstem-Fnesian Hard Book Since one of her sons, Pen state Sprucelejgh Inka Star, has? been used extensively by the estern Pennsylvania Artificial Breeders Cooperative, she also has many grade descendents in the Keystone State. Green Chop May Be Better Than Grazing A cooperative study by the * USDA’s Agricultural Research * Service and the Pennsylvania Ex periment Station shows that green chop feeding for dairy cattle may be more profitable than grazing. On a typical dairy farm where the study was made, it was found that by changing from grazing to green chop, the onerator could add three cows to his herd.
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