Lancaster Farming, Friday, May 16, 1958—5 Champion COT Birds Bring $6.50 To Equal Record Set at Coatesville The Pennsylvania state cham pion jumoi chicken giower pock SAVE LABOR ON REPLANTING With These Proven Products PLANT STARTERS ORTHO - GTO Liquid Fertilizer 1 gal 5 gal can Transplantone 1 lb 400 V H. P F. Case (10-3 lb ) 7 50 Nutn-Leaf 5 lb bag 175 Nutn-Leaf 25 lb bag 750 Isotox Transplanter Solution For Wireworm Control 6 oz (makes 200 gal) 185 Isotox Seed Treater (F) Just Dust on Seed Corn Controls • Wire Worm • Seed Rot • Seed Corn Maggot • Damping-off Diseases 4M> oz treats,! bu 1 35 1 lb treats 3% bu. 3.45 Arsenate of Lead 3 lbs 120 5% Chlordane 5 lbs 110 50% DDT 4 lbs 145 25% Malathion 3 lbs 210 Ferbam 3 lbs 195 7% Duo Copper Dust 5 lbs 1 15 53% Duo Copper 6 lbs 275 Orthocide “50” 3 95 1% Rotenone Dust 4 lbs 1 15 Tomato & Potato Dust ' 4 lbs 1 15 AGRI ■ MYCIIV > For Control of Fire < Blight and Blue Mold > Large bottle - 675 Dried Blood 100 lbs 850 Bone Meal 25 lbs 185 Cyanamid 100 lbs 450 Sheep Manure 50 lbs 195 Cattle Manure 50 lbs 225 Weedone 2,4 D Products Weedar “64” (Amine Salts) 1 gal. can 375 5 gal. can 17.75 Weedone LV4 (Low Volatie Ester) 1 gal can 5 gal. can We have in stock a Complete Line of Millers Fertilizers and Insecticides at all times > Aroma - Pep < s For Preserving ? < Grass Silage . £ STORE HOURS 7 A M to 5 P M, Mon. thru Sat SMOKETOWN, PA. Ph. Lane. EX 22659 cled a check for $347 75 when his 1 ( '58 Chicken of-Tomorrow entry ol 15 broiler-fryer chickens brought $6 50 oer pound at auc tion May 7 ijn Sunbury The price per pound equaled the all-time state record set at Coatcsville in 1955 The happy boy is 16 year-old I'red R Romig of Beaver Springs RD 1, Snyder County The check came from Mattern’s hatchery, Beaver Snrngs, where Fred bought his chicks It was the high est bid at all six regional auc tions where more than 600 en tiics were sold today Young Romig's cross bred chickens won the state title at the Farm Show Building on Tuesday m competition with the 24 top en tries out of the original 43 in the statewde contest The 15 dressed chickens weighed 53% pounds, averaging 3Vz pounds each at 9Vz weeks of age. Second best price in the State uas $3 00 per pound paid at the I redencksburg auction for the reserve championship entry of Lcien L Woman, 19, Bernville KD, Berks County His lot weigh ed 59 pounds and netted him $174 fiem Purina Mills, the buyer. While the reseive champion birds weighed moie than the champion entry the judges found shghty higher quality gave the edge to the Romig chickens Slate champion birds brought S 6 per pound in 1956 and 1957 At each auction the regional grand champion brought the high est price per pound, as lollows (Continued on page thirteen) $4 00 14 75 NOW .. . THREE (3) UNLOADING BULK-FEED TRUCKS TO DELIVER QUALITY PROVEN 5 60 27 25 BUVit LANCASTER EXpress 4-0541 MANHEIHI MOhawk 5-2466 QUARRYVILLE STerling 6-2126 FARM BUREAU FEEDS YOUR INCREASED DE , MAND FOR FARM K BUREAU LIVESTOCK and POULTRY FEEDS is ,C. COO, • a I; K., *ir ’ 4 f i 'f- A CHECK FOR $347 75 was the material rewax-d to Fred R Romig, Rl Beaver Springs, who grew the Grand Champion entry in the state Junior Chicken of To morrow contest. This price, $6 50 a pound, equalled the record set in Coatesville in Deeply Appreciated IF YOU ARE NOT FAMILIAR WITH OUR “Low Cost” DELIVERY PLAN CALL Farm Bureau TODAY. f mi- 1955 Statewide, the average price was 54 77 cents a pound Live contest birds sold for an average of 24 11 cents a pound at the Lancaster Poultry Exchange Thurs day. NEW HOLLAND ELgin 4-2146 I | j STANDARD I I Equipment, Inc. I j ANNOUNCES ITS | I 8% j I SPRING DISCOUNT j I I ' SALE | I ON I I ALL-NEW BARN CLEANER i 1 EASY-ILL COMFORT J STALLS I j SALE CLOSES MAY 31, ’5B | 1 GLENN H. HERR j | Mai«heini RDI j j Phone Landi,Mjle TW-S 8391 J • I \J'J - > < , i / /* &A * J <7* ' ! 'i -V ? ' '2 M / A '*-C rS**
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