THIS HEN AT PENNSYLVANIA State University seems fascinated by the equipment Dr. Martin W. Schem uses to test the electrical activity of her brain. Here Dr. Schem checks out the equipment prior to testing responses of the hen. This is basic research to determine the rela tionship between brain areas and specific types of behavior such as feeding or sexual behavior The study is directed by the Agricultural Experiment Station at Penn State. Give Lancaster Farming advertising a chance to work tor you, TOMATO GROWERS! PROFIT BY Earlier - Easier Harvesting WITH SHED-A-LEAF “L” Dries up the leaves . . . ex poses the tomatoes to more sunlight. Results in fast ripening and early harvest. Picking is easier and quick er Also reduces mold through better drying. Shed- A-Leaf “L” (liquid) is easy to mix with water and apply by ground or airplane spray er. Distributed by J. C. EHRLICH CO. 736-38 E. Chestnut St. LANCASTER BURLING'S CHICKS FIT FARMERS' NEEDS! You can find just what you want at Bill Burlxng's hatch ery. You have eight top strains and crosses to choose from. Our Leghorn eggs hardly need grading—they’re so uniform Our Scxlinks are very popular with near by farmers. Then there are the “pick” of the best strains and cross es for Bi oilers, or mcat-and eggs. Our many top wins at Chick and Egg Shows pro\c their quality in competition One customer said our Carey Leghorns aic. “Just wonderful birds to handle" That’s important m high poweied Leghorns Take your pick to suit jour needs Buriing's Big 8 Carey's Famous Random Sample Test-winning Leg- A Chick for every Farm or Business-flock need! BURIING’S HATCHERY Box F State Banks in 58 Lead Farm Loans Pennsylvania banks were serving farmers with more credit than any institutional group of lenders on January 1 of this year, according to Stanley Musselman, County Agri. Council president, who represents the Pennsyl vania Bankers Association as Lancaster County Agricul tural Representative. Based on the eighteenth annual farm lending sum mary by the Agricultural Commission of the American Bankers Association, Mussel man reported that “at the beginning of the year, Penn sylvania bankers were help ing farmers with $161,728,- 000 in loans—eight per cent more than a year previous. The total included $83,- 317.000 in production loans and $78,411,000 in agricul tural mortgages. On the same date, $9,043,- 000 in agricultural loans were held by insurance com panies; 825,869,000 by Fed eral Land Batiks; $20,317,000 in Production Credit Associ ations; and $10,014,000 in non-real estate loans plus $9,- 340.000 in real estate loans horns A customer made a 270-egg average on 1800 birds ! Merryknoll Sexlink (Rock x Red)—Bred by electronic “brain” methods. Golden Sexlinks Harco male x Andrews White Rock female They’re tough, and great layers. 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ROHRER • I, ' "LOCAL DELEGATES and officials of the recent tional Farm Youth Exchange alumni conference -n , ville STC are from left: Credon Bixler, Pa. IFYE n delegate to Jordan in 1955, who is an SPABC tech* Carlisle; Elinore Griffith Ruhl, Mt. Joy housewif State Coordinator for the week-long conference anti gate to Germany in 1954; Jean Singer Thomas Switzerland in 1951, from Manheim, and James n es ? burg, who is to leave for Peru in October on (w Program —Up, Ad- Home , THE AMOUNT np diate-term repayment basis. “Intermediate - term loans - orn an “ to ' 3e shorn i are most frequently needed U S m 1959 is eslim B for machinery _jmd equip- 251,829,000 lbs g rease ment, livestock, soil improve- g ve per cent lai ger th ments, additional land, and and 10 nt . refinancing short-term notes. __ UV( “As a further service to 1949-5 average, acc( help farmers improve their to the USDA. operations, about one-third The 1959 wool crop of all other bank agricultur- largest since 1946 fi, al loans have a- repayment per cent increase, f roi program longer than one year is a result ot bo year Banks serve farmers increase in the numb with far more intermediate- sheep shorn and a slij teim credit than any other grease in average weij group of leaders ” fleese balanced. Result: feed . . . milk prod M maintained over ir FEEDING DRY the extra vitamins unborn calf and cows fed on this more milk during th your dairy feeding PARADISE QUARRYVILLE
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