Here’s How To Cut
Production Costs!
Research Report from Early Bird
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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
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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
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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.
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LY BIRD FEEDS and GOOD MANAGEMENT
A Winning Combination For Any Egg Producer
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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
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Manufacturers of Poultry and Live Stock Feed Since 1875
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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
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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.
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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