Farm Calendar '■
Jan. 31—Producers Live
stock Cooperative annual
meeting.
Feb. 2 —Southern 4-H Trac
tor Club, Wenger Imple
ment Co., Buck.
Feb. 3—1:30 p.m. Lane. Co.
Farm Women Society offi
cers meet, Christiana.
Feb 3—Northern Lancaster
County Tractor Club meet
ing, H. S. Newcomer and
Son, Mt. Joy.
Feb. -4—4-H Electric Club
Meeting, PP&L Building,
Lancaster Square.
-Feb. s—Societies 17 and 20,
Febfuaty meetings.
Feb. s—Lancaster County
Banker’s Assn. Banquet
g p.m„ Conestoga Valley
Association, Poultry Cen
ter.
y e b. 6—4-H Baby Beef Club
Annual Banquet.
Feb 7 1, & 10 and
19, February meetings.
Feb. 9—4-H Ayreshire Club
meeting.
Feb. 9—Southern Tractor
Club meeting, Cope and
Weaver, Willow Street.
Feb. 10—Northern „Tractor
Club, Arthur S. Young, Inc
Kinzers
Feb 11—4-H Electric Club,
PP&L .. . _ .
4-H Guernsey Club, Solan
co voc-ag building.
Feb. 11—Societies 14 and 16
meet.
Feb. 12—1 pm., York Co.
SPABC dist. meet, Cater
pillar Assembly Plant, in.
Yory.
Feb. 12—Societies 21 and 22
meet.
Feb. 12—Lancaster County
Ag. Extension dinner meet
ing, Hostetters, Mt. Joy.
'Feb- 13 —7 p.m. Lebanon -
"Berks Co., SPABC dlst.
meet, Leb. Valley Farm
Bureau, Lebanon.
Feb. 13—4-H Holstein Club
to Ice Capades
Feb. IS—Society 13 meets.
Feb. 14—Societies 2 and 7
me6t.
Feb. 14—Poultry Assn. Bar
becue. 2-5 p.m. at Center.
Feb, 16—Southern Tractor
dub' meeting, Mann and
Gnunelli, Mechanics Gro
ve.
Feb. IB—Farm Bureau An
ti*! meeting, 10 a.m. Guer
nsey -Pavilion. '
Feb. 18—7 p.m., Chester Co.
SPABC dist. meet, Sads
buryville Fire Hall.
Feb Iff —7 p.m Lane. Co.
dist meeting, E. Hempfield
Elem. School, LandisviUe.
Feb. 20—4-H Leaders’ Ban
quet, Hostetters, Mt. Joy
Feb. 21 —Annual Bred gilt
sale. - ,
Feb. 23 —Herr’s Implement
Store, Williw Street.
March 2—Conestoga Farm
Supply, Quarryville.
March 3—Market Hog Show.
March 11—Dairy Day.
March 19 —Swine Producers
Assoc annual banquet
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age group. The trip is the
grand prize for the contest
and will be Aug. 9 - 12.
This is the fourth year for
the event, Rentschler reports
Last year 6,939 contacts be
tween members of the Penna
Cooperative Council and or
ganized youth group mem
bers were made.
tee Brobst, Lancaster Pro
duction Credit is secretary
treasurer of the county coun
cil. youth committee wijth
membership of Charles Co
wan, Interstate Milk Prod.;
Harod E. Menzel, Eastern
States Exch.; C. P. Brantley,
SPABC; Simeon Horton, Mt.
Joy Farmers Milk Co-op, and
Donald Berry, Producers Ex
change
Other council members are
the Lancaster County Potato
Tobacco and Tomato Grow
ers associations, Producers
Live Stock Exch., and Nat
ional Farm Loan Administra
Uon.
Grapefruit are so-called be
cause they sometimes grow
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16—Lancaster Fanning, Saturday, January 81, 1959
How Well Will You Do
WE FRANKLY DO NOT KNOW. BUT JUDGING BY THE RECORDS OF OUR
CUSTOMERS CHANCES ARE YOU'LL DO VERY GOOD.
Here is an example—
The record of Jim Garber, an Early Bird feeder
from Elizabethtown. R. D. # l.
Period November 1. 1957 - November I. 1358
Hens Housed
Hens Culled
Birds Died
Hens at end of
12 mo. period
Depletion
EGGS PER HEN HOUSED FOR THE
12 MONTHS
Total feed used for period ,
Feed used per Hen Housed
FEED USED PER DOZEN EGGS ..
FEED COST PER DOZEN EGGS
Percentage of sizes sold
Large Medium _ Pullet Pewee Cracks Jumbo
72.2 23.3 3.4 0.1 0.9 0.1
r We are pleased to get reports like the above,
fpid we wish to compliment Jim Garber as well as
many other Early Bird Feeders on their good rec
ords.
Here’s Another Record Made At Early Birdf
3480 Leghorns in Pens 1, 2, 3 and 4
EARLY BIRD LAYING FE
GOOD MANAGEMENT
A Winning Combination For-Any EggProduc
Contact your Miller & Bushong Service Representative
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ROHRERSTOWN. PA.
Manufacturers of Poultry and live Stock Feed Since
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