Sales Up (From page 2) •d steers $22 50 - 25 .mg to weight. Load lb standard grades, $23. 1545 lb commercial $22 00, two loads 1150- lb ' utility steers $2l 50 22 50 Shipment choice mme 1004 lb heifers i highest price straight ’ in loadlots since last bulk good and choice • $25 50 - 28 25. Cho irgely $27 00 up, stan to low-good he fers \ . 22.75 Two loads standard and good 905 ■vraskas, $25 00 standard cows $2O 50- Utility and commer :ows closed at $17.50 - mostly $lB - 20. Late canners and cutters $l6- Few heavy Holstein $l9 00 Few light or canners as low as $l3 and commercial bulls at $23 50 - 25.50. jd vealers $29 - 32 I/ti and standard $2O - 29 down to $l5 Two ; good 500 - 575 lb mix sleer heifer stackers i - 28 Few head good steer calves sold up to PLACEMENT PULLETS WHAT WILL THEY COST? HOW WELL WILL THEY DO? In the late fall we completed the raising of 2888 pullet:; at the ler and Bushong Manor Farm.- RECORD OF GROWING PERIOD Number of chicks started ' 2,888 (540 were heavy breeds) Number of pullets fit to be housed L . - 2,715' X 94 01% Age 144 days Mortality m growing 148 (5 12%) Number of birds culled ' 25 (0 87 %) Total mortality and Culls ' >- '173 15 99%) lc-a ll GROWING COST PER PULLET (144 days) Feed cost per pullet (bulk feed) (Feed consumption per pullet - 19 1 lbs Litter cost Grit ( Electric Gas for brooders Medication 5 Vaccination , ■ Newcastle (twice) Bronchitis" (twice) Chicken Pox Insurance Total cost per pullet (Excluding cost of chick and labor) Costs slighily KigKer than normal because a special medication was used' in the feed, for the first six weeks. This extra precaution was taken because forty-eight differ enfstrains \gere housed in one building. . TALK ABOUT PERFORMANCE . . 9'4.01% acceptable at maturity . . 79.1 c feed cost .per pullet . . . 86c total'growing cost 'per pullet. How much more money would you earn each year if your pullet replacement flocks produced records like this? ■' S. We have customers who do better than this. More about that later. / ’ou can enjoy this sort of performance if ou start with good chicks, feed a good feed nd follow proper management techniques; he chick selection we leave to your own ood judgment. But, surely, the results of i’s twenty and Vz week growing period saves no doubt in your mind as to the best ceding and management program! It's the arly-Bird Feeding and Management Pro ram for Replacement Pullets. Free Manage ment Manual available. Or, get the infor mation right from the source your Miller nd Bushong Serviceman. Cadi us! NOTE: OUR NEW IMPROVED 1959 No. 3 REPLACEMENT fc Manufacturers of Poultry and Live Stock Feed Since 1875 At 1 BelfsviHe Insect Resistance To Flight Stress Tested When aircraft from a for e:gn country land at our air ports, the planes are inspect ed ms de and out Plant, material that may harbor in sects is removed. Inspectors search the interior for lar vae, pupae, and adult stages of pests dangerous to agri culture and public health They look at the wings of the aircraft for egg masses of destructive insects And they treat infested aircraft with insecticidal aerosols flight tests m co-operation with the U S Navy Disease Vector Control Center, Jack sonville, Fla, the Naval Air Test Center, Patuxent Riv er, Md , and the military Air Transport Service USAF LABORATORY STUDIES at Beltsville indicated that several species of insects were killed after one hour c;f| refrigeration at five degrees to minus 22 degrees F. Dur ing tests at Jacksonville, $32 Package high-good 765- y ellow fever * nd common 1075 lb feedmg steers $24- malaria mosquitoes, Amen -26 25, medium 1075 lb can and German roaches, weights $24- rat fleas, and flies, died in But with the coming of the jet age, new quarantine problems arise Though'high altitule may be fatal to in sects, high speeds cut the transportation time. USDA entomologists are conducting tests to determine the mor- STARTER AVAILABLE NOW. *„„ -'a ** ‘ -V ” V Bushong, tality of insect hitchhikers on jet wings or inside the air craft in both heated and cold sections Experiments have been conducted by ARS entomolo gists W N Sullivan and en tomology student E B Knip- Lng in the laboratories at Beltsville, Md , and in actual * "■* v > X, *.. 4 * ~'jys„~ *B* B CO' Miller Rohrerslown. Pa. Ph. Lancaster EX 2-2145 79 10c 1.57 c 0 24c 0 29c 0.22 c 2.00 c 190 c 0 20c 86 02c fnc. Lancaster Farming, Saturday, January 3, 1959—5 unheated areas of “Fury” fighter aircraft that flew over 40 minutes at 40,000 feet Insects were also killed when “Skywarrior” bomb ers flew for three hours at 40,000 feet Outside temper atures in both instances var ied between minus 38 dc giecs and minus 78 degrees F In some areas waimed by radar and other electronic equipment, insects survived During flights at lower alti tudes, where temperatures are warmer, insects remain ed alive What other insecL, will do under the same con ditions and what various in sects will do m other sec tions of the plane is still not known During inspection of planes entering Miami (Fla ) International Airport, Phal eanidae egg masses occasion ally are found To determine the effect of jet speeds and altitudes on egg masses, eggs of laboratory-reared army worms were laid on alumni um foil and the foil taped on the wings of jets before takeoff at Patuxent When the aircraft returned, scien tists checked the eggs, us ually the most d’fficult stage to destroy, and found they had been killed Altitudes were up to 40,000 feet with outside temperatures as low as minus 76 degrees F More experiments must be made with other species of egg masses before final con clusions can be reached Laboratory tests showed that msects die at excess.ve temperatures, too They’re PINE WOOD SHAVINGS For Poultry and Livestock Bedding CALL EXpress 4-5412 CONVENIENT SANITARY SERVICEABLE Deliveries Made Over Two Tons Trailer Load Prices, Baggecl or Bulk HAROLD B. ZOOK 220 Lampeter Road Lancaster. Pa. IMPROVED More Than Ever We are constantly improving our birds. Here are some of the refinements that have been bred into Babcock Bessies to make them better money-makers than ever before. High Egg Quality—Bessies rate very high in inter ior egg quality for many months of lay. Grading sta tions report over 95% AA’s and A’s for Bessie eggs. Thick Shells—Bessies produce eggs with thick shells that the grading stations and housewives de mand. Excellent Livability—Bessies are hardy They give you excellent livability as both chicks and layers be cause the breeding stock is tested under extreme stress conditions. Friendly Layers—Easy birds to handle, as the re sult of 20 years of breeding for gentle birds in large flocks and in cages. Bessies continue to have the high rate of lay, per- , sistency, large white eggs and efficient body size that . have long made them popular These qualities im prove year after year under selective breeding and ■ tireless research. BABCOCK HATCHERY, Inc. R. D- 3; LITITZ. PENNA. Phone MAdison 6-5872 unable to stand as much heat as man To determine how much heat insects could endure from friction in un refngeratcd sections of air craft m supersomc flight, scientists conducted labora tory tests to estimate the thermal death point of sev eral species Insects were ex posed from 15 to 60 minutes at 104 degrees F in an elec tric oven Northern house mosquitoes and common malaria mo squitoes showed 100 percent mortality at 133 degrees F Yellow fever mosquitoes and Mexican bean beetle larvae were killed at 122 degrees' F and Mexican bean beetle adults, house flies, Japanese beetles, confused flour beet les, and American dog ticks at 131 degrees F. Grasshop pers and Colorado potato beetles were hardest to kill. It took a temperature of 140 degrees F to kill all these insects Temperatures were record ed mside a grounded C-47 fuselage to simulate condi tions in an un-msulatect jet plane On half the sum mer days the temperature in side the plane (parked in the sun) reached 120 degrees F. or higher Thus, many in sects in uninsulated aircraft m the xropics would be kill ed throughout the year These studies help us un derstand how air transpor tation may spread inset.!: pests and what safeguards must be piovided through quarantme procedures
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