Here’s How To Cut Production Costs! Research Report from Early Bird <t~ Z < Jl* & il view of buildings on the Early Bird Experimental farm. At this location we continually conduct pro ■onnected with lowering egg production costs. Below is a 'Summary of results of a 6 months comparison of Mash versus Crumbles laying flocks. Groups 3 - 4 Fed Crumbles •V 193=5 uy stage Groups 1 - 2 Mash Fed No. Per Cent Birds Production 219£ 67 68 2150 84.63 2122 83.98 2096 80.34 , 2078 76 99 1856* 78.07 78.61 :y 1939 »ry srage 10 Culled iO Culled the averages for 6 months production— not SVs lb. lb. per dozen, but 4.02 and 3.9 Ib. per dozen eggs. ICH points the way Filler & Bushong are constantly searching for better ways to build more efficiency their feeds and thereby truly lower the Pf r Unit production costs for you. emher. ... ERFORMANCE is the KEY LY BIRD FEEDS and GOOD MANAGEMENT A Winning Combination For Any Egg Producer finest poultry service anywhere, contact your Miller & Bushong Representative or AvV»lf// / & f 5--- - Per Cent No. Birds 2190 2150 2117 2087 2065 1891'* Production 67 26 82.52 81 07 78 05 72.73 74.19 76.14 TO LOW COSTS call Lancaster EXpress 2-2145 Miller & Bushong, Inc. hohbebstown; pa. Manufacturers of Poultry and Live Stock Feed Since 1875 V Lbs'Feed/ Doz. Eggs 4 52 4.13 3 74 4 09 3 80 3 85 4.02 Lbs. Feed/ Doz. Eggs 4.43 4.02 3 65 v . 385 ’ , 3.62 3 80 3.90 Ralph Holder, Director of Research and Nutri tion, and Noah Gehman (left) farm manager ex- - one of the birds used in a research project > Ph. Lancaster Express 2-2145 ; Lancaster Farming. Saturday, July 18. 1959—& • 'Love Apples' blemishes and of good size ■ compared to Stokesdale. Heisey raised 5,000 staked plants last year and has doubled his planting this summer. “It didn’t Lancaster County growers long to learn about Pa 103,” says B. L. Pollack, vegetable plant breeder at Penn State “Most of the seed of Pa. 103 avail able this season went to the county growers,” he adds. Dr. Pollack reports staked tomatoes in the county are valued at between $3 000 to $5,000 per acre. The acreage of staked tomatoes in Lan caster County is the largest in the State. s ! Just released for commer cial production this summer. Pa. 103 has been tested in Lancaster County for five years. Tomatoes in the com parison tests were harvested, counted, graded, and weigh ed by Heisey’s daughter Car ole (a junior at Penn State) Grading was in accordance with standards set by the Washington Boro Tomato Growers Cooperative Assn. All production was sold (in pools) through the Co-op erative at the prevailing-mar ket price. The Heiseys are keeping accurate records a gain this summer. Staked tomatoes can mean a real profit for the efficient producer, Penn State’s Dr. Pollack observes, Good quality, high yield ing, early tomatoes demand a good price. He believes these qualities make Pa* 105 a desirable hybrid. At the same time, he re minds growers 'that efficient management is a “must”, due to the high costs of hand labor involved in staking, typing, pruning, picking, and grading. Henry Heisey, Leroy Funk of " Washington Boro, and most county growers trim their plants to a single stem. However, Amos Funk of Millersyjlle is growing 10,- 000 plants this summer on double stems. Funk says the double stems were not hurting maturity of his plants as' of late "June. He irrigates his tomato plots like most growers -of staked tomatoes and claims he has very- little trouble,,if any, from gray 'wail' disease'. This summer, for the sec ond season, he is mulching his tomatoes with black plas tic. Dr. Pollack says tests at the Penn State campus and elsewhere show.that Pa 103 matures equally well grown either single or double stem. However, maturity is often delayed when double stem ming is used with Stokes dale. These Penn State trials in Lancaster County are con tinuing. Many new experi mental hybrid tomato strains are being developed
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