—Lancaster Farming, Friday, Oct. 35, 1957 6 A COLLECTION OF OLD CLAY pipes is one of the exhibits in the recently estab lished County Store at the Landis Valley Farm Museum. Showing his wares to two “customers” is Fred Ward, Linglestown. * Healthy Chicks Make Great Layers! Monroe c. Babcock Poultrymen have been asking for: SIZE OF BIRD: At First Egg About 3.5 lbs. At One Year of Age 4.4 to 4.7 lbs. DAYS TO FIRST EGG: This varies with time of year hatched. Bessies are a little slower to mature than some other strains. RATE OF LAY: Under ideal care Bessies will peak at 88% to 93%. Flock averages for 12 months of lay run 235 to 270 eggs per bird housed. PERSISTENCY: Very long winded layer 14 to 15 months continuous high lay. Production gets down to 60% to 55% at end of 15 months. EGG SIZE: Excellent. First twelve months of lay will usually run 82 to 85% large and extra large. From fourth month of lay on egg size will run 92% to 95% large and extra large. Very few double yolked eggs at anytime. EGG SHAPE: Just about right in our opinion SHELL COLOR: Chalk White. SHELL STRENGTH; Good. BLOOD SPOTS: Low very satisfactory ALBUMEN QUALITY: Good. PERCENT “A” ’S AND “AA” »S: As shown by egg grading stations, usually over 95%. PLEASE NOTE: No bird that has laid 'heavily 12 to 15 months will lay a beautiful, strong shelled egg with high interior quality Babcock Bessies will lay a fine egg for about 12 months, but after that their egg quality will go down hill „ - HOW TO ORDER. Either write for prices or phone us collect BABCOCK HATCHERY Lancaster Countv Branch Route 3F, Utitz, Pa. Russell Mease Route 4 Manheim, Pa. Phone MO-5 4705 Here’s the description of BABCOCK BESSIES Phone MAdison 6-5872 Bob Decker R. D. #1 Milford, New Jersey Phone Milford 4-4909 The “customers” are Mrs. Paul Eshelman, Rohrerstown, and Mrs. Wilbur H. Oda, Ephrata. Looking on in more modern dress is Marjorie Reid, Lansdown, and Reed Barber, Philadelphia. Farmers tlsing Local Markets Not Using News Farmers who patronize a given livestock market because of con , ' r cnience and habit mav not be ob taming the most useful type of market news or using that which is available to best advantage. Doubts of this kind have been expressed by C. T. Trotter, agri cultural economist at the Agncul tural Experiment Station, Umver sity Park, since completion of a survey in which he interviewed 376 farmers in 20 Pennsylvania counties. Auctions were the principal markets patronized by the maior ity of farmers. Two items which would benefit both farmers and auctions, as well as other mar kets, are adequate market infor mation and improved transporta tion facilities. Under market in formation Trotter includes re ports of • availability, type and quality of animals, particularly dairy, as well as prices received. Between 1945 and 1955, volume of sales at Pennsylvania auctions more than doubled and business lone by such selling agencies still is growing. Auction facilities us ually are used only once a week a factor which has a definite bearing on selling costs and kinds of facilities which can be af forded. Only about per cent of the livestock sold was transported to market in farm-owned vehicles Most animals were sold m small lots Nearly 50 per cent of the sales reported in the survey were of one or two -animals. At the same time, about 65 head of dairy stock were sold annually per 100 matuie cows. Production Per Cow Sets New Record On Oct. 1 of this year, milk production per cow in crop re porter’s herds averaged 17.81 oounds, two per cent above Oct. 1 last year, 16 per cent above the average for the date and a new record higih Total milk production on farms in September also reached a new high ot 9.611 million pounds. This is one per cent above the pre vious high set last year and five per cent above average for Sep tember In the first nine months of this year milk production amounted to 99 4 billion pounds, nearly one per cent more than the previous high of 98 5 bihon pouTids pro duced in the first nine months of State Redivides BAI Districts Due to Advance in A redivision of Bureau of Ani mate Department of Agriculture /as announced today by Secre ary William L. Henning who said he move will provide better ser /ices for many Pennsylvania 'armers. Offices at Sunbury, Northuin berland County and Montrose, Susquehanna County, are to be closed and a'district will be add ed in Tunkhannock, Wyoming County. “Recent progress made by the Department’s accelerated bovine,’ brucellosis Bang’s disease pro gram is the principal reason for the change,” he explained. Last week Lebanon County became the last of the 67 counties in the State to complete initial testing for brucellosis District veterinarians are as signed to nine areas in the State to carry out department livestock programs and enforce State laws. Sunbury office, jurisdiction in Col KUttixtttitiiUittiiiXttttiiiiiUtititSiUtttttiittniiititiitntititiUintitiiiititit 'palm “Bureau LEGHORN STRAIN CROSS - 55 NEPPCO “Egg-to-Chick” SHOW finds CHAMPION Farm Bureau LEGHORN Strain Cross - 55 OUTSTANDING in: ★ EGG QUALITY, Interior & Exterior ★ EGG SIZE, CONDITION & SHAPE. ★ HATCHABILITY ★ VIGOR, SIZE, CONDITION, WEIGHT, and LIVEABILITY of Chick. f CHAMPION jr » Order Now Discounts For Early Pullet Orders Remember— Farm Bureau “LSC 55” is the “Most Profit able Layer You Can Buy.” Farm Bureau “COMPLETE” Chick Line includes. Leghorn Strain Cross ★ White Vantress W. R, 55 Oross West Line “702” ★ Silver Hamps Leghorn ★ White Americans White Rocks ★ New Hampshire Lancaster—Manheim—New Holland—Quarryville Bang’s Program a veterinarian was not assigned. As a result of the closing of the Sunbury office, jursdctiion in Col umbia, Montour and Northumber land counties was transferred to Tunkhannock. The responsibility of Union County is now that of the Wellsboro, Tioga County office, and Snyder, Mifflin and Juniata counties have been add ed to the Hairisburg district. Dr. B B. Farr, district veter inarian in Montrose, has been as signed 'to Tunkhannock. Brad ford and Sullivan counties have been added to this distuct They previously were the responsi bility of the Wellsboro office. With the redivision of the" vet erinary offices, the Department of Agriculture can ' now assign trained personnel to new pro grams for the control arid era dication of animal diseases, es pecially brucellosis --and leptos pirons in swine, Secretary Hen ning said. ,C. CO(/j BU^-
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