16—Lancaster Farming. Saturday, April 9,1960
Farm Calendar
April 9 930 a. m. - Nut
tree grafting demonstra
tion at the farm of John S.
Brenneman, Route 324
near New Danville.
April 11 7.30 p.m. - New
Holland Community 4-H
club meets in the New Hol
land Farmers National
Bank.
7-30 p.m. - Ay shire- Jersey
4-H club holds organiza
tional meeting at the
Southeastern Penna. Arti
ficial Breeders Building at
Landisville.
7:45 p. m. - County Soil
Conservation District Di
rectors meet in the Lanca
ster Court House.
April 12 9:00 a.m —Lan
caster County Dairy Day
at the Guernsey Sale Pa
vilion, Lincoln Highway,
East of Lancaster.
April 12 7:30 pm.
Blue Ball fire hall, East
ern States Membership
meeting, R. J. Becker, ex
tension Farm Manage
ment specialist, PSU.
April 12 —7.30 pm. - Eliza
bethtown Watershed meet
ing m the High School.
7.30 pm. - Elizabethtown-
Donegal 4-H club meeting
in the Elizabethtown High
School.
April 13 7 30 - Guernsey
4-H club reorgamzational
meeting m the Solanco
High School, Quarryville.
April 14 7 30 pm.
Eastern States Member
ship meeting, Pequea Val
ley H. S, speaker Wally
Dunlap, Area Manager fr
om York.
April 14 7.30 p m. - Lititz
- Manheim community 4-H
club meets in the Fair
land school.
April 15 7:30 p.m. - Coun
ty 4-H electric club to tour
the General Motors assem
bly plant at Wilmington,
Del.
April 18 7:30 p.m.—
Eastern States Member
ship meeting, Hostetters
in Mount Joy.
April 19 7:30 pm.
Eastern States Memb'er
. ship meeting, Penryn fire
hall.
March 28 —7:30 pm. Or
ganizational meeting of
the Elm-Penryn Commun
ity 4-H Club at the Pen
ryn fire hall.
Farm Sells For
$726 Per Acre
The 119 acre farm offered
for sale at public auction
Tuesday, April 5, by Jonas
Zook of New Holland R 2,
was bought by John Yost,
Narvon R 2, for $86,394 or
$726 per acre
Three cows in the 50 cow
Zook herd topped the $5OO
figure One grade cow and
calf brought $540 00 Seven
cows brought $4OO or over.
The average on thirty three
cows was $386 00
Other farm items sold by
Carl Diller, anctioneer, in
cluded an elevator, $lB5 ;
corn picker, $3OO, forage
harvester, $1,660; • hay fan,
$390; pair of horses, $467 50
Four other horses averaged
over $2OO each, and a grain
drill, $3lO.
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if
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THE RIGHT COMBINATION
THAT COUNTS!
CHICK QUALITY
• MANAGEMENT
Here are a lew of our customers broiler records which came to our atten
tion in the last several weeks.
GOOD? Of course it's good and it shows what can be accomplished when a
grower manages to combine ALL of the
necessary factors which go into producing
GOOD birds at a LOW COST.
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. . Here are the highlights of
Crop Acreage Is that comparison:
f - 1. The land placed in the
Larosst Part Ot Conservation Reserve con
a tained a substantially higher
C~ j I D an L I ana percentage of acres devoted
ooii DanK Lana to oats barley grain gor .
What kind of land are ghum, and flaxseed than the
farmers retiring from use percentage of all U. S. crop
and putting into the Conser- land devoted to those crops,
vation Reserve? What was 2. The Conservation Re
it being used for before it serve j an( j v/as about equal
went into the Reserve? Is it to the u s ave rage percent
typical U. S. farmland? a g e 0 f conl) wheat, soybean
To get at the answers to vegetable and peanut ac
such questions as these, th* reage.
U. S. Department of Agri- g The Reserve was sub
culture’s Soil Bank Divis- s ta n tially below the national
ion has made a study of for- avera g e j n its percentages of
mer use of Conservation Re- cr opland hay, rotation pas
serve cropland as compared ■■
with the use of' all U. S. ge55555555565568|i
cropland reported in the
1954 Census, "latest available
If interested in a natural
program of farming it will
pay you to investigate and
use
New Jersey Green
Sand and Calphos
Any quantify available
Bag or Bulk
Ton or carload lots.
You are cordially invit
ed to attend the illustrat
ed lecture on “The Agri
cultural Problem” by Dr.
WiPiam A. Albrecht, Pro
fessor of Soils, University
of Missouri, since 1916
April 11. at 7:00 P. M.
Manheim Township Jr.
High School Auditorium
at Neffsville.
BROOKLAWN FARM
118 Kreider Avenue
Ph. LO 3-1580
H. MERVIN McMICHAEL
Lane., R. 6 Ph. TR 2-4377
or your local dealer
• WEATHER
• EFFICIENT FEED
No. Birds
18,000
11,000
3,500
12,000
AND A LOT OF OTHER FACTORS ARE INVOLVED.
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Wks. Days
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9-5
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ture, and idle and fa,
land. 111
For example, whii e
are grown on -only abowj
of all U. S. cropland, J
than 14 percent of the J
age that will be under S
serv&tlon Reserve conw
in 1960 was formerly i n ‘
Sixteen percent of the ]
serve acreage” was f or J
in corn—within 1 pereenj
point of the national
age.. On hand,
most one g j'
land is in hay and W
pasture, but only
of the Conservation
formerly devoted to
uses.
Conversion.
2.37
2.43
2.23
2.25