14—Lancaster Farming, Friday, May 9, 1958 RANDOM SAMPLE TEST birds, including chicks from 11 states arrived in Lancaster County Saturday to'be raised at the facilities of Miller & Bushong, R 1 Washington Boro. There are 2,976 chicks being raised. They will be reared for 150 days and then moved to Harrisburg for the 350 day test. (LF Photo) Lloyd M. BURKHOLDER Chick 4>V Hatchery Red or White Vantress Cross |\ White Leghorns fVv R-B Red Cross £ U S Approved fy* Pullorum Clean V Call RE 3-0613 R D I—Ephrata, Pa. 1 Mi. NF of Clay on Stevens Kd. when HARVES7ORE HAYLAG E can be the only forage you need Haylage is field-wilted 40-60 r r moisture forage up to 460'. higher in protein, almost a complete ration in itself, Cuts field losses eliminate -> hard-to-mahe hay, water-logged bitage SEE US for the labor-saving, money-making details Knipmeyer Inc. Harvestore Sales & Service NEW HOLLAND, PEXNA, PHONE ELGIN 4‘2351 LEGHORN BREEDERS FLOCKS WANTED Babcock Hatchery R- D. 3. - UTITZ, PA. Call Collect MA 6-5872 Faster Growth-Better Health Now sell all your milk! The B-B Calf Starter Program is the secret... as good as whole milk. Special quality ingredients increase appetite, practically eliminate scours, help your calves reach maximum, growth, safely, quickly. 1 Ni, 1 1 /' m b a /* a. 't CALF STARTER who mum* i»m otOMwo a-ttw* FREE Until May 15 FREE CALF STARTER- S. O. Trupe Ira B. Landis East Earl, R. D. 1 779 Valley Rd., Lane. M. S. Graybill & Son Clem Hoober Barevllle Intercourse P’onecr ’ VT anuf?cturers of High Efficiency Poultry Rations. htcers Open Slow,, Steady At Baltimore BALTIMORE, May 5 CATTLE AND CALVES Fed steers comprised appio\lnvately 75 per cent of the supply with the balance mostly cows Fed heiCeis were virtually ab sent from the run Around 150 head o, stockers and feeders arriving last Friday were offered in today’s trade Fed steers opened very slow, but clos ed moderately active Trading was un even with prices steady to mostly 25 cents to 50 cents lowei Hellers were nominally steady Cows were moder ately active and about steady Bulls were modelatciv active and 50 cents higher with instances $1 00 up Vealers vver„ scaice and moved moderately active at steady prices Stocker and feeder steels and stock steer calves vveie active and fully steady The bulk ot 890 1260 lb av erage good to aver a°e choice fed steers sold Irom $27 50 $29 50 with two lots mostly average choice $29 65 and $3O 25 One lot high cla ice 1175 lbs reached St! 50 and a few standaid and low good sold at s2ii 50 $27 50 V few head and small lots 644 968 lb low-good to low-Choice led heifers ranged from $25 00 528 00 Utility and commercial cows bulked at $2O 00 92200 With a few at $22 50 and a few standard $23 00 Canners and cutters sold largely from $l7 00 $2O 00 with a few light canners at slb 00-917 00 Utility and commercial hulls brought «2> 00-525 50 with two individuals at $26 00 Choice 170 230 lb vealers brought $32 00 535 00 and two head of prime 535 50 $36 00, good 529 00- S"2 00 and a feu standard $25 00-529 00 A load of 675 lb choice to fancy stock steers brought 531 00 and around three loads 516 599 lbs $2B 00 531 00 A load of 466 lb mostly good stock steer calves sold at $3lOO and one lot 473 lb' $3O 00 Good clearance all classes HOGS Butchers were active and fully 50 cents to mostly 75 cents higher on weights under 240Jbs with weights over 240 lbs about steady Sows were scarce and sold strong to 25 cents high er The bulk of the supply was mixed lots of U S No 1, 2 and 3, 180 240 lb butchers and these sold mostly at $22 75 with a few small lots down to $22 SO Around 40 head mainly No 1, near 200-215 lbs, sorted for weight ano grade, $23 00 About 50 head No 2 and 3, 240 lb garbage fed butchers Ask Your B - B dealer. PSU’s Electronic Computer Used To Figure Low-cost Broiler Feed Few people other than feed mill operators know how difficult it is to make a competitive animal feed these days It is fairly easy to make a feed mixture if you are not concerned with its cost But, if you are trying to give the farmer the maximum feed value per dollar, you must considers score or more of materials and calculate the quantities of each to use for each change m price This is such a difficult problem that its precise solution was impractical until the development of the “electronic brain ” A few of the larger milling companies already employ elec fomc computers, such as Penn stac, the Penn State robot calcula tor Pcnnstac recently was put to use Iyy R V. Bucher, Poultry Nu tritionist, and R F Hutton, Agri cultural Economist at the Agricul tural Experiment Station, Univer sity Park, in solving the problem of making a low-cost broiler feed. THE BIG JOB, these men re port, is that of getting the infor mation ready to feed into Penn slac. Results are obtained almost at once. But, every time a trial change is made in the ration, 23 simultaneous equations have to he solved. Problems of this size have been sold at $22 00 and 32 head mostly No 3 277 lbs at $2l 00 A few mixed No. 1 to 3, 300-400 lb sows $l7 50 $lB 50 SHEEP A 27 head lot of 79 lb most ly choice spring slaughter lambs sold for $29 00 | Farmers Headquarters For . . • | = HEPTACHLOR ALFLAFA SPRAYS , | | 2—4—D AMINE OR ESTER WEED KILLERS s 1 INSECTICIDE FERTILIZER MIXTURES = | V. H. P. F. PLANT STARTER = 1 BAKELITE—PORTABLE—SILOS | i BULK SPRAYING 1 LANCASTER BONE FERTILIZER CO. FACTORIES QUARRYVILLE OXFORD ST 62547 323 friiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniiiniiintiiiiiiiiiiiniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniiiiiiiiiiiinniiiiiiiniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiifiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiir> ■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■' @6ic6e«t from GREIDER LEGHORN FARMS. Inc. ■ Your Egg Washer Tells On You ■ Yes, take a good look at your egg' washer. Do you ■ see it as someone else would see it? Is it nice and ■ bright and clean each evening, filled with fresh clean ■ water, ready to go the next day? Or is it so coated ■ and scummy that you can hardly see what it’s made ■ of? You know, when I see an egg washer that looks * that way, I soon form my own opinion of the type of ■ poultryman the owner is. And I’ve seen some that ■ are filthy sights, some that look like they are filled ■ with soup, probably the water hadn’t been changed ■ for a week, and then we expect people to eat more ■ eggs. Actually, it takes only a few minutes each day 5 to scrub the washer and change the water when you’re ■ finished with it. That is one chore that is never left 2 undone on our farm. How about yours? 5 Mean Old Washer or Sissy Eggs? ■ ■ Does your washer crack too many eggs Perhaps ■ ■ your washer is too rough, or more likely, you need J ■ eggs with better shells. I highly recommend Greider ■ ■ Super-Cross Layers They are proven hard shell layers, ■ ■ at Official Laying Tests, and in the field. Nothing ■ ■ lays them harder, except maybe a turtle. However, * a I cannot recommend that you fill your laying ■ ■ houses with turtles. Tinted eggs, you know? ■ ■ Greider Leghorn Farms, Inc. ■ ■ MT. JOY HI, PA. Phone OL 3-2455 ” •BBBIIBfIBBBBBBBBBBB B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B solved by mathmeticians working with pencil and paper but this way of getting a solution is so slow that the answer would be out-of-date before it could be ob tained. Besides, solving the prob lem this way is much more ex pensive than by a computer. THE LOW-COST broiler feed design devised by Boucher and Hutton had 22 specifications. These specifications provided for balanced amounts of all the fac tors needed for proper growth of broilers. Twenty-six ingredients were considered in choosing a formula which demonstrates the method used. Of these, 12 were limited m the quantity used, included were such items as meat scrap, fish meal, dried milk products and tallow. Some requirements, as for vitamins, antibiotics, and min erals, can be met only from one source, thus, ingredients provid ing these amounts were added in fixed amounts.. In all, 18 items were added to the ration in fxed amounts. The number of ingredients considered can be increased easily. A new formula will usually be indicated' for each change in a ingredient price. LANCASTER FARMING CLASSIFIED ADS PAY Phone STterling 6-2132 Mt. Joy OL 32455