\ 10—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, February 14, 1959 MISS PENNSYLVANIA Poultry Industry, Diane Bit ting, Plumsteadville, Bucks County, presents a carton of Pennsylvania certified eggs to Governor David L. Lawrence. This was a pre-March Egg Month event arranged by the Pennsylvania, poultry Federation and the Bureau of Mark ets, State Department of Agriculture. SLEEK, STRONG-BONED on New FORMula Wayne Calf Starter Here's an ideal creep feed! New FORM—new FORMULA! Special new texture and formulation gets calves on dry feed early. Fortified with an antibiotic, vitamins, minerals and proteins, new FORMula Wayne Calf Starter grows sleek, bright-eyed, strong-boned calves, New FORMula Wayne Calf Sfarfer • Coarse, Uniform Texture Calves Lika • 10.6% Faster Gain —14% Less Feed* • No Growth Lag After Weaning • Antibiotic Fortification Helps Prevent Scours • Tastier Gets Calves On Dry Feed Earlier *ln Research Farm tests eeropared ta jirevleus feeds. H. : r STAUFFER & SON'S. Inc. Witmer - Honks - Leola, Pa. ROHRER'S MILL R.D. 1, Honks' Pa. ABERDEEN MILLS R.D. 2. Elizabethtown, Pa. LIME VALLEY MILLS H.D. 1, Willow Street. Pa. MILLERSVILLE J. K. STAUFFER & SON Lawn and Bellaire. Pa. ROSS C. ULRICH. JR. R.D. 2, Peach Pa. SUNSHINE FARM SUPPLY Litits, Pa. SUPPLY CO. Sprague Claims r~ > «• Hybrid Corn Worth $6-million To State Six million extra dollars worth of corn is the annual bonus Pennsylvania farmers gain from raising hybrid field corn, the Pennsylvania Crop Improvement Association learned recently. This is six million dollars worth of livestock feed, that would otherwise not be har vested, declares Howard B. S.prague, head of the agron omy department at the Penn State Univ. - Dr. Sprague said the fig ure is a conservative estimate of five extra bdshels of hy brid corn per acre yearly during the last 15 years of corn breeding work at Penn State. "The fanner who grows 50 bushels or less per acre, is not growing corn profitably” Dr. Sprague declared. “Yield of—7 5 bushels or higher are needed to make corn produ ction worth wile.” he asser ted. “Penn State’s corn breed ing program promises tq_ en rich the farmer’s status even more, he continued/ “Since Pennsylvania lacks feed sup plies amounting to 180 mil lion dollars annually, there is a great opportunity ahead to help local fanners produ ce more -of their o\ n live stock feed.” Soffit Offer Low Cost Fiie-Safe Construction For Farm Buildings EPHRATA, PA. The modern trend is toward the use o£ concrete Soffit Block floor systems for floor con struct on in farm buldangs. A Soffit floor is the "most economical and most fire safe floor system available for today’s farmer. Soffit-type floor systems compare favorably in initial cost with floor systems built of less wear-worthy materi als, although their greatest economy is found in the long range savings accumulated from low upkeep cost and low fire insurance rates. A floor system built with concrete Soffit Block almost never needs repairing. It is a permanent floor that is capable of carrying great loads of forage, grain and farm machinery without un due stress on the floor itself. Tests show that a Soffit floor can carry -loads up to 183 lbs. per square foot, with the resulting deflection totaling only 1-7/32 of an inch.* This load carrying capability is without excessive “dead 'oad” because Soffit block’s hollow core construction and ’ightweight aggregate make t light in weight. *Safe Limit Design and Oeflection Tests by Scott En gineering Co., Alpena, Michi gan. Safely and econom.cally, you build foam buildings for a lifet me with concrete wa ry. Select a concrete block of proven durability, ready ava lability and low cost Kurtz Bros. Concrete Block for walls and Soffit Block for floors and ceilings. CONCRETE INC. SFHRATA RE 3-1231 GREIDER Leghorns s • Shaver Star Cross 288 Legho s • Van tress Arbor Acre ( Broiler Chi 5 • Grader Leghorn Farms, MOUNT JOY RT. I, RENNA. '■■■■■l •■■■■■■■■■■• ■■■■■•■■■■■ l ■■■! ock Floo (Above) After his barn was razed to the ground by fire last year, Mr. Edwin B. Noli, New Holland RDI, in stalled this concrete Soffit Block floor system in his newly built barn. (Right) The design and shape of Soffit-type concrete. filler block made continuous rows of insulating air spac 'esT'when laid tight together. Projecting flanges provide a form for pouring the steel reinforced concrete joist, forming an integral slab construction that is light in weight. The result is firesafe construction at low cost that will last a lifetime. -*• > rs, * •t /t J - ■* - / Dr. Sprague pointed need for better coin lage. Some counties per cent of the corn the silo ("BILL DING" PH DENVER AN 7-2
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