Labor Saving Machinery Caii Cause Burden if Improperly Planned There’s a lot of talk about labor saving materials handling equip ment for farms, says Chester County Agent Robert A Powers But, he adds, these machines should always be used in the p.oper place a) the proper time or they may create a bigger bur den than they remove. If you have been contemplating the purchase ot such equipment, Powers says it will pay to ask yourself the following questions 1 What are the possibilities of rearranging and making more ef fective use of piesent buildings and equipment 7 2 How much labor will the equipment save 7 What is its val ue 7 Can you effectively use the labor saved 7 3 Will the cost of owning and operating the new equipment bp more or less than the value of the labor saved 7 How much 7 4 How many more bushels of giam or 'how many more cows or chickens can this new equipment permit you to handle 7 5 Will the profit on these ad ditional units pay for the new machines 7 6. Will your present buildings and land support these additional Out look fooifa will show you why OUTLAST ALL OTHERS! SIEGU3R GUARANTEES MORE AND HOTTER HEAT OVER YOUR FLOORS A FREE KNIFE SHARPENER IS WAITING FOR YOU IF YOU STOP TO SEE THESE IMPORTANT FEATURES AT . . . L H. BRUBAKER 350 STRASBURG PIKE, LANC. LITITZ, R. D. 3 2 STORES TO SERVE YOU units 7 After you haV? satisfactorily answered these questions and de cide to mechanize your barn chores, Powers suggests making these machines give you mate rials flow, rather than unit load handling Study the situation carefully List the tasks to be done in se quence Make sketches of build ings and the equipment in them. Hake flow diagrams of how the material will enter the barn lot Show each step it will take throughout the operation Red Meat Production Down four Percent From January through July of 1957, production of red meat in this country totaled 14,- 773 million pounds down four per cent from the 15,311 million pounds produced during the first seven months of 1956. Compared with last year, beef production was down one per cent, veal down one per cent, pork, down eight per cent; lamb and mutton, down one per cent, and lard production, at 1,397 million pounds, was down eight per cent from the January- July period of 1956. Behind the gleaming, porcelain cabinet, you’ll find a patented inner unit that makes traveling floor heat possible. Look at the big, furnace-type blower that drives the air through a battery of inner heat tubes-that set nght in the heart of the fire! Siegler doesn’t wait for the heat to come out... it goes right in after it, then forces it over your floors! Come m and see for yourself why Siegler Outheats-outlasts all others! MONEY BACK GUARANTEE IPENB Starting Finance Drive For Coming Year To permit a step up in its pres ent consumer-information serv ices and a iapid introduction of promotion programs tailored to the poultry industry’s future, the Poultry and Egg National Board is conducting an aggressive fin ance campaign among individuals and firms that invested in PENB in 1956 but have not yet done so in 1957 PENB is gearing its activities to the maiketing needs of the in dustry, with health and education programs playing a basic role along with its highly effective consumer publicity services, Lloyd H Geil, PENB general manager pointed out in announc ing the intensified campaign These services will, have a broad impact on the poultry industry’s markets today and tomorrow, Geil stated in a letter which opened the campaign, and then declared “Today greater emphasis is be ing placed on the marketing of poultry products- To keep pace with the important new concept, your PENB is expanding its pro motional program to register more forcefully on the minds of consumers the need for using more eggs, more chickens, and more turkeys in their daily meals “Our new program of action is aimed at the 43 million youngsters in schools and the 17 million teen agers Of course, adults are also our target. We believe it is vital ly important to plant at an early age sound food habits which in clude adequate portions of poul try products This assures a better market for poultry products when new homes and new families are established In addition, in our forward looking promotional pro giam we are taking positive steps to stabhze the thinking on dietary fat and its possible relationship to heart disease ” Geil stressed that PENB has the enthusiastic cooperation of 7,500 food publicists on newspap ers, magazines, radio and TV in featuring information furnished by PENB for the puipose of in creasing sales of eggs and poultry meat “These people have learned over the years to place their con fidence in your organization the Poultry and Egg National Board as a source for reliable information on the many taste appealing ways consumers can use all poultry products,” he wrote. He then drove home the point that “your organization has earn ed this respect as a result of tne support you and thousands of oth ers have given PENB in the past,” and urged the continuation of this support to an even greater ex tent In an open letter to the poultry industry, Herbert Beyers, PENB president, stressed that the pro motion programs of PENB are taking on added vigor and new forms under Geil’s leadership. “The impact of this new educa tional approach on the market will be felt steadily in the days, months and years ahead,” he said. “The ‘climate’ is constantly being built for greater sales of eggs and poultry meat. “This is not a time for anyone interested in the advancement of the poultry industry to stand still! Competition in other food fields is ‘on the move’. We must hold the markets we have won, in tensify our eftorts to broaden them, and move boldly into new areas where gams can be made. “Your prompt investment m the hard-hitting and far-visioned promotion programs of your Poul try and Egg National Board will help the industry to advance far ther than ever before.” Masonic Homes Farms Ayrshire Makes Record Masonic Homes Charming Peg gy, a foui;-year-old registered Ayr shire in the herd of Masonic Homes Farms of Elizabethtown, has recently completed a record on official Herd Test of 12,928 pounds of milk and 538 pounds of butterfat made in 305 days or less', milked twice daily. JLancaster Farm Series of Field Meetings for State Workers Planned A series of training and oncn tation conferences for held pei sonnel was announced Monday by State Secretary of Agrculture William L Henning First scs sions were scheduled at Blooms burg, Nov 6 and 7 Henning said upwards of 50 employees will attend each pro gram designed to mfoi m field pei - sonnel on newest Department functions and policies Meetings will be held m Butler, Nov 26-27 and at Reading in De cember, Secretary Henning re ported The training and orien tation progiams were fust held last year “with marked success,” Henning said. The Bloomsburg, Butler and Reading conferences are a follow up of management programs held recently in Harrisburg for De partmental executives from all sections of the State Included on the scheduled pro grams will be directors of all four Department bureaus, Foods and y < y * > * •• / * GRAND CHAMPION STEER (1957 New Holland fair) Finished out on grain and Farm Bureau 32% Steer Supplement Harold Leaman, Lancaster R 5, who showed the Grand Champion, (a Hereford) feels that Good Man agement, as well as a “Balanced Ration” Feeding Program, helped him win \he coveted crown. Call today for prompt and courteous delivery in bags or bulk of: Farm Bureau Steer Supplement (The Feed of Champions) COU/I^^ Lancaster—Manheim —New Holland—Quarryville ing, Friday, Nov. 8, 1957—5 Parity Drops 2 Points; Same as Ratio Year Ago Dunns the month ended in nnd October the index ol prices leceived by launcis diopped five points, atcordins to the Crop Re porting Board Primal ily respon sible for the decline wcie lower pi ices for most meat animals, oranges, coin and cotton which were only partially otlset by high er puces foi dairy pioducts and eggs During tne same period, tne in dex of prices paid by farmers foi commodities, set vices, interest, taxes and farm wage rates stayed the same as in mid-September but three per cent higher than a year earlier Thus, with the index of prices leceived ofl moderately, and the index of prices paid the same, the parity ratio dropped to 81, two points under nnd September and the same as lor Oct 15, 1956. Chemistry, Animal Industry, Plant Industry and Markets De partment policies will be out lined by Deputy Secretary L H. Bull Henning will be m charge of the two day programs
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