6—Lancaster Farming, Friday, Oct. 4, 1957 SHOVELING CORN INTO A conveyor are Harry H. Ranck, R 2 Ronks, and his son Parke, 23. Ranck, together with another son, Harry Jr, 21, operates a 117 acre dairy and beef cattle farm. (LF Photo) Good Bulls, Too Selective Breeding, Hard Culling Brought Ranck Herd to Fore By 808 BEST I Harry H Ranck, R 1 Ronks, who | has topped the Red Rose DHIA in butterfat production for 1 the past two years, is a modest man To hear him talk, all he has ever Stretch Your Grain with Sugared Schumacher Feed It's an Livestock Fee lor DAIRY & BEEF CATTLE HOGS, SHEEP & HORSES YOU’LL LIKE YOUR FEEDING RESULTS when you feed Quaker Sugared Schumacher Feed to your livestock—either as the entire grain ration or in combination with other grains. You see, it’s a blend of grain products plus molasses, added proteins and minerals including important trace minerals. It’s nutri tious, palatable and digestible. And it’s priced right. . . for economical feeding. See or tall us today for Sugared Schumacher Millport Roller Mills J. C. Walker & Son Lititz, R.D.4, Pa. Gap, Pa. S. 11. Hiestand & Co. Salunga, Pa. Grubb Supply Elizabethtown, Pa. We ylso have Ful-O-Pep FgedA for livestock and poultry done is provide a boarding house for Holstems According to him, it was sort of an accident that his father bought the original fundation stock, an excellent bull was kept on the George Rutt Stevens R. D. I. Pa. Paul M. Ressler & Son D. W. Hoover East Earl. R. D. 1, Pa Paradise, Pa ***** &im THIS IS A VIEW OF THE farmstead and meadow of the Harry H. Ranck farm. These Holsteins topped the county DHIA in butterfat production this year with a faim on a hope, and his two sons really run the dairy business But when you get into the dairy business on the 117 acre farm a little farther, some of the good management and sound business principles that he has followed You’re the BIG News in our lives! We’ve heard so much about you. Hope the Boss reads this and starts that “Early Bird” Program for us. They say it looks good, is good, and costs less than most High Quality Feeds. Why not sharpen your pencil, Boss, 6nd let’s get going! There’s a Sales-Service man close.by and these folks do business the Lancaster County Way. Know what I mean? Make Good with "Early Bird" Feeds ... In bags or bulk, to Suit Your Needs. MILLER & BUSHONG, INC. THoMufaetenvt* *pCtte 'pctcU Sbtce t%75 ROHRERSTOWN, PENNA. Success Is A Journey • . ■ Not A Destination V, f ** i herd average of 612 pounds. Ranck has raised his own replacement stock for the herd since 1949. (LF Photo) start to shine thiough. Among them are a prgram of selective breeding and culling that has been going on for over 20 years. Feeding is done with home grown grains mixed to a special formula, and the boys * y > * were raised with the cows. Ranck started in the dairy busi ness as a young man when a new herd of foundation heifers from Ohio were brought on the farm following the loss of the previous (Continued on page 7) $ V ' I
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