6—Lancaster Farming. Saturday. June 4. 1960 r; > . V MISS MILK MAID OF 1960 for Lancaster County, Barbara Keener, is not on'y a beauty pageant winner on the stage; She is a real milkmaid on the farm as well Here she grooms her 4-H heifer exhibiting the techniques which won for her two successive county fitting championships • Keener (From page 51 m the held was producing up to 74 pounds of milk per day earlier this year Any farm handling as much as a ton of milk a day must make the handling as simple as possible. Even though Level Valley farm has had a bulk tank for foui "Piompt Bail Bond Service” BUHRMAN'S CONVENIENT PARKING LOTS Opposite Brunswick Hotel Opposite Post OHice Next to Western Auto Store 115 East King Street Norman A. Buhrman, 228 N. Duke St. "Prompt Bail Bond Service” NEW Monday New Holland Hayliner Baler (less your used baler) SAVE on McCormick Balers only SLOOO NEW CRUSHERS & CRIMPERS - $598 (less jour used crusher or crimper) NEW SIDE RAKES - Roto bar type (less your used side rake) NEW MOWERS - Belt driven type (less your u«ed mower) USED BALERS 77 NEW HOLLAND BALER WITH STEEL WHEELS 77 NEW HOLLAND BALER WITH STARTER & RUBBER 66 BALER WITH ENGINE ON STEEL 66 BALER WITH ENGINE ON RUBBER 66 BALER, PTO, ON RUBBER 77 BALER ON RUBBER - DEMONSTRATOR NO. 46 McCORMICK BALER SMOKER ELEVATORS AND GRAIN BOXES - 67 NEW HOLLAND DEMONSTRATOR Only a few left at the old price! HURRY! THESE BIG SAVINGS AVAILABLE FOR A LIMITED TIME ONLY! L. DIEM & SONS Jor X& y y/’W./V" <y R.D. 1, MOUNT JOY, PA. . , PRIVATE SALE of and USED HAY MACHINERY Starting Mon., June 6 at 9:00 a. m. - FOR THREE DAYS - Tues. NEW BALERS; years, there is still a lot of larrying and lifting to get the milk from the barn to the milk house. A pipeline milker has been ordered for the farm and a ill be installed in the near future. This will bring the chore work one step nearer to total .mechanization. Keener has a gutter clean er in the cow stable. The green chop alfalfa is ped directly onto self feed wagons and does not have to be handled again. Feeding of hay and grain are likewsie planned to be as efficient as possible with the use of carts and the planned loca tion of hay storage and the silo. Keened believes that green "hopping of the most economical ' methods of get ting green feed into his cows Last year he fed 45 cows for a full week on two and a half acres of alfalfa. This was at a time when the cows were not on any pasture and had no silage or other for age At the present time, the Level Valley herd is being fed alfalfa chopped in the field, but up until this week the cows were getting a mix ture of ladmo clover and timothy. Most of the 47 acres of grass on the home farm plus - Wed., 9:00 A. ONLY $999. - $395 $379.95 M. to 6:00 P. USED MOWERS • ALLIS CHALMERS •FAST HITCH McCOHMICK • "C" McCORMICK MOWERS • SUPER A MOWERS LiTITZ 12 acres on rented ground will be topdressed with 0-15- 30 as soon as the bay is tak en off the ground. The day following baling, all alfalfa stubble will be sprayed with a blend of par athion to control insect dam age. Keener believes that ev en a few* days delay in ap plying this spray will get the next growth off to a slow start. With four or five cut tings for each field planned, the aftermath growth has to get started immediately. In addition to the grass and legume acreage, Keener plants 18 acres of corn, 12 acres of wheat, 13 acres of barley and five acres of to bacco (to keep the family in pin money). Each year sev eral acres of rye are seeded l to 3 For every dollar invested in limestone, o'pen ment stations conclude, three dollars are relumed in crops Where else does one dollar bring three in icliuti’ It pays to use agricultural limestone! MARTIN’S LIMESTONE IVAN M. MARTIN, Inc. Blue Ball, Pa. ONLY - - June 6 M. USED RAKES USED TRACTORS 1 - FARMALL 400 FAST HITCH I • FARMALL 400 LESS FAST HITCH FARMALL SUPER C FAST HITCH FARMALL SUPER C LESS FAST HITCH 1 - FARMALL A WITH CULTIVATOR SUPER A I - 1 - OLIVER 88 DIESEL 1 - SUPER OLIVER 88 DIESEL 1 - NO. 22 CATERPILLAR CRAWLER 1 - SUPER M Ph. MAdison 6-2131 lor pasture to SUD , the eight acres of Reed’s Canary grass With a dairy otv , the size of this one f, Fatl appear there wouldi 1 ough work to keep 6 v ' busy, but Keener kl^ o bout 1,000 laying hj* This year there ar e f horns in the house nr ' ing market eggs, but plans to return to ii 11 breed of hen to J'f hatching eggs for ah. hatchery. High production, efr management practices family type operation adU to some mighty satl _X v results for the Keener f, on Level Valley f arm ao " of the best in the \L® Garden Spot of fi no f a^‘ New Holland ELgin 4 2112 Terre Hill Hlllcrest 5 3455 Gap Hickory 2-414 S -7-8
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