10—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, January 3, 1959 +< ‘ * SHOWN ABOVE is the new $70,000 poultry research building recently completed at the Ithaca, N. Y., Babcock Poultry Farm research center The building contains 21,- 000 square feet of floor space on two floors and is designed and equipped to scientifically test the flock performance of the 62,000 wing banded females in the firm s testing pro gram I,oooth Holstein Enters 1,000 lb. Butterfat Club The Holstein-Fnesian Association of America has reached a new milestone in its breed improvement program —the 1000th official record of 1,000 lbs. or more of butter fat by a registered Holstein cow. “Number 1,000” was milk ed into the books by Carna tion Lola Lassie Spofford 3406270 (VG) - a six year old at Carnation Milk Farms, Carnation, Washington. Her record, made on Ad vanced Registry test under the supervision of the State College of Washington, total led 25,389 lbs. of milk and 1,010 lbs' of butterfat. Milked three times daily, the Carnation Holstein out milked four average cows during her 365 day testing period. Her completed record adds a new chapter to a story dat ing back to 1912 and Pontiac Clothilde DeKol 2nd 69991 - first registered Holstein and first cow of any breed to pro duce 1,000 lbs. of butterfat in a year. A total of 813 cows figure in the “first 1,000” official 1,000 lb. Holstein records. Both figures are greater than the combined totals of all other dairy breeds. The “milestone” cow, en tered the charmed 1,000 lb. circle for the first time, was bred for the job of consist ently heavy production. Her dam, Carnation Lassie Lady Spofford 2866890, re cently completed a 365 day record of 26,116 lbs of milk and 1,012 of fat as a ten year old Several closely-re lated members of the herd are also 1,000 lb producers. “Lola”, newest member oi the 1,000 lb. club” is class! fied “Very Good”, the second highest designation in the The USDA again has cal led attention to the fact that the Poultry products Inspec tion Act becomes fully ef fective on January 1, 1959, and that except for exemp ted poultry producers and re tail dealers, all trade proces sors must have their plants officially approved before they can sh'p their products in interstate commerce after Jan 1 SIMPLICITY Garden Tractors Snavely's Farm Service HEW HOLLAND EL 4-2214 Lloyd M. BURKHOLDER Chick Hatchery Bed or While [ Vanlreis Cross I * White Leghorn* p, B-A Bed Cross BV Mi 0. S. Approved Pullorum Clean ** Call BE 3-0613 R. D. 1. EPHRATA, PA. 1 Ml. NE ol Clay on Stereos Bd official Holstein type pro gram She weighed in at 1,- 960 lbs at the close of her lactation. t, - - ... ATTENTION DAIRYMEN Limestone Sand For Use In Dairy Bams D. M. STOLTZFUS & SON, Inc. ASPHALT PAVING S CRUSHED STONE Quacryville. Pa. Qaarryville, STerling 6-2191 fj ''4,'?'''' ' « ; -T'' ■■- " - T-V v Superior No. 17 Spreads Tough Stuff at High Speed Heap it up! This Oliver No. 17 is rugged... shreds the big forkfuls from tractor loaders easily. A large main cylinder tears apart the matted chunks...the Hammermill Wide spread distributes evenly over a full 7-foot swath. You save all around with this No. 17. Oliver’s exclusive, automatic, self-locking hitch and stand saves hitching time. No heavy lifting...no jackscrews. An inverted arch makes the No. 17 low at the rear. You ofm load from either side. And, wide flare boards make loading easier, increase box capacity. TTVTnTT' See the perfectly balanced No. ISmIImuI 17 that’s easy to pull...that’s I 1 designed for high speed spreading I j —up to 5 miles per hour. ' —v y Formers ville Equipment Co. Ephrata, RJD. 2 N. G. Hershey & Son Manheim, R. D. 1 Swift Prdered to Cease And Desist Market Practices WASHINGTON, Dec. 24 The U. S. Department of Agriculture issued an order under the Packers and Stock yards Act Dec. 23 in a pro ceeding by the department against Swift and Company. The order, which was en tered pursuant to a stipula tion by Swift and Company and the Department requires the respondent company to cease and desist from; 1. Purchasing hogs from any market agency at prices determined soley by average weight of the hogs without considera f ion of the respec tive merits of each individual lot or consignment: 2. Purchasing or agreeing to purchase hogs from any market agency and there after arranging for a compe tive buyer to act as the ori ginal purchaser of all or a port’on of the hogs which the respondent had bought or ag reed to buy; 3 Furnishing a competi tive buyer or dealer, prior to or during the conduct of re spondents buying operations, For Your CALL OLIVER Chas. J. McComsey & Sons Hickory Hill. Pa. J. B. Lapp Atglen. Pa, restricting or limiting com petition, manipulating live stock prices, or controlling the movement of livestock, with information concerning (a) prices to be paid by the respondent for hogs, or (b) the number of hogs to be pur chased by respondent; ‘ 4. Furnishing any price schedule, directly or indirect ly, to a competitive buyer for his use as a price in the purchasing of hogs. The stipulation between Swift and USDA states that it is for settlement purposes only and does not constitute an admission by respondent to v-olations of the Act The order continues the proceeding by USDA with re spect to two additional al legations charging the res pondent with: 1. Assembling and disse minating price information to market agency salesmen or competing buyers for the purpose or with the effect of establishing the market price on hogs; 2. Purchasing or agreeing BABY CHICKS MUSSER Leghorn Chicks bred for the business poultryman who’s looking for dependability! We don’t claim our birds are the best ... we don’t say they’ll all live to 15 months of age . . > we don’t say they’ll all lay 300 or more eggs, we do say they are pleasing hundreds of commercial poultrymen and are a good buy at a fair price. 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Farm Bureau DILLERVILLE HD., LANC. to purchase hogs without y oking at such hogs in say pens and bidding on them J free and open competition I USD A states that the tvJ above practices are of marl ket-wide iterest and it n ov j believes that changes in thcrj practices can most effective];' and promptly be accomplish ed through negotiations Wi|] all interested persons. Th. Department therefore is con‘ tinuing the proceeding \vit]j respect to these two practil ces in order to make it pos. sible to work out a setllq ment on a market-wide has -if U.S. 58 Crop (Continued from page li produced a record oat croj from the lowest acreage « many years The all-wheat crop of ala most 1 5 billion bushels wi| more than half larger thalj m 1957 Rye, a sister foot! gram of lesser importance, a| so had a record yield avorJ age and the largest crop sml ce 1942. | Potato production was iffl cent above the 1957 tog tai, 15 per cent above aver| age and fourth largest on leg cord. g BABY CHICKS •R. D. 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