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—Lancaster Farming, Friday, November 14, 1958
LANCASTER COUNTY GROUP, consist
ing solely of class champions near runners
up, showed to a victory over the field with
calves owned by these county club mem
bers From left, with their steers are:
Wesley Mast, summer yearling Angus
MUSSER
Leghorn Chicks
_...f or large white eggs
of premium quality
*'Direct from the Breeder”
Money-Makers plus Salisfact'on
Phone Mt. Joy 3-4911
MOUNT JOY, PA.
Windle’s Hatchery
Cochranville
champ; Emma Mae Mast, showing Paul
Mast’s second place summer yearling;
Rhoda Mast, with her champion junior
yearling, and Darvin Boyd, with his third
place junior yearling. LF PHOTO
Congratulations Hess Bros.
Carpet Installation
by
Martindale Furniture Store
2 miles North of Ephrata
on Route 222
MaGee, Mohawk, Barwick & Roxbury Carpets
Best Wishes to Hess Bros,
PAUL HASSLER
Reamstown. Ph. Denver AN 7-6220
Best Wishes To
HESS BROS.
Grading and Excavating by
LOUIS HURST
Denver, Pa.
Ph. AN 7-5523
Farm Pond Building A
Specialty
Electrician
Congratulations to
Hess Bros.
MELVIN FELPEL
Carpenter
Ephrata, R. D. 2. Ph. RE 3-7080
BEST WISHES
TO
HESS BROTHERS
on the opening of their
New Plant
MILLER & BUSHONG
Rohrerstown, Pa.
Manufacturers of Early Bird Poultry Feeds
BEST WISHES
to
HESS BROS.
Bauman Lumber Company
PH. RE 3-2692
Ephrata, Pa.
Deer Winter Kill
Not Necessarily
Slow Starvation
Contrary to popular opinion,
deer do not necessarily starve in
winter due to severe winter
weather and lack of good browse,
research at Pennsylvania State
University seems to indicate.
In a three-year feeding experi
ment involving 26 growing bucks,
deer voluntarily went on half ra
tions from November through
March no matter how much good
feed was available.
And records show thSt winter
starvation of deer most often oc
curs after very dry summeis
wnen feed supply and quality are
poor
The Penn State studies show
tnat bucks eat twice as much dur
ing summer and fall as during
the winter months, if they can
Lnd enough feed that suits them.
Studies have been completed on
a heid of five-year-old bucks and
another herd of 17 bucks is now
under test.
The Agricultural Experiment
Station at Penn State found that
mature bucks fed all the nutri
t,ous feed that they wanted gre.v
to weigh 250 to 290 pounds
If the der failed to put on
weight in late summer and fall,
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