e Our Want Ads For Bargains Try a Classified Ad. e % More Proof ...It Pays to Feed PURINA Willow Gien Farm’s Purma-fed m Big Healthy Litters •... ... And Fast, Early Growth! WE CAN HELP YOU PLAN A SOUND FEED * - AND MANAGEMENT PROGRAM, BACKED BY PURINA RESEARCH FOR YOUR HERD. CALL OH VISIT US FOB DETAILS Blend & McGinnis Aiglen Whiteside & Weicksel Kirkwood Snader's Mill Ml. Airy mgenroth's Feed. Serv. Mount Joy ■V-V-VAV.V.V.V.V.V/. ] Ira B. Landis Valley Road. Lancaster Warren Sickman John J. Hess Kinders - Vintage I'."*-''-'? High '^-'r^-'nrille John Henkel, left, and Joe Little, owners, of Willow Glen Farm, R. D. 1, Strasburg. Pequea During February, March, and April of this year, 29 firsi-liiier gills far rowed ai Willow Glen Farm. They weaned an average of 9 pigs apiece big pigs which averaged 2.62 pounds ai birth! Their new farrow- ing house has 30 metal stalls desig nd and built by Joe and John. Sows leave these stalls twice daily for feed, wafer, and exercise. Pigs stay here to 3 weeks of age. This group of 10-12 week-old gilts will average 70 pounds or belter. All are candidates for foundation stock. Some will stay at Willow Glen Farm. Others will move into „ commercial herds. John J. Hess, II Intercourse - New Providence Wenger's Feed MilLlnc. Rheem' I. H. Reitz & Son, Inc. Liti‘2 John B. Kurtz Lancaster Farming, Saturday, July 16, 1960 Give Lancaster Farming advertising a chance to work • Linear (From Page 1) kets,” Hutton said With the information as ac cuiately supplied as possible, all fesiblo plans of form pro gramming are considered by first eliminating the obvious ly unsuited activities For example, a farmer mi ght have the alternatives in the dairy business of laismg all or none of his gram feed, all or none of his forages, having a pasture program or a“corral” dairy program He might plan to raise his re placements or buy them, or any number of other variat ions Similar variations ar ise in all other phases of farming. Now the question arises, how can all necessary data be processed to show the farmer what he could expect in the way of returns from each program 9 The answer is PENNSTAC Pennstac is the electronic computer ouilt by the El ectrical Engineering depart ment at the University. It has been used for several months to process the Dairy Herd Improvement records for the state Fed accurate information regarding goals and resour ces, the computer will run through an amasing number of calculations to find the pertinent activities which will help the farmer reach his goals When asked what the fu ture of Linear Programming is likely to be, Becker said “We ha\e never before put so much pressure on facts One thing we are finding out is that we need better and more detailed and accurate records The university plans to build a course m agricul tural economics around the program, but at this time, fa cihties are so limited that we can offer no aid to farmers- However, several of the com mercial farm management companies are offering the service. “When questioned as to the possibility that machines co uld now be counted on to make the decisions m farm ing, both Becker and Hutton hurried to assure the group that good judgement on the part of the farm operator can not be discounted. “But judgement based on the results of - Linear Pro gramming is better than judgement without it,” Hut ton said. Family Night Planned By Farm Women 6 Memoerj of the of Farm Women No Six plan to hold a family night and evened dish social m the El zabethtown Park on July 26 at 6 30 n m features of IneJuly 0 moebng of the g-cup, in *ho home of Jonas T'a-re' f who was also in obarae of devot'o~s were nict”T'=- of the H n rshev flow e” "oi-dens and f h c “ D”Pont wardens as well ns pictures laker by Mr John Heisey cn his trip to No T- a Co-hostcssos fo l- the meet ip.a v e”e Mrs Jonas Mis T Tenr/ E~oneman and Mis Muster Heisev News for the group is M’« C R Frey, Elizabeth tov n A^rordin? to *he Nation al Safety Council the young c te T,c ’ r~e the mo°< likely to suffer serious injury on the fnm T he five M fauiteen v»'" nMs have rmre fatal acc’do f s on the ■ than anv rfher . i; ,c grouu K"ep an eye on them end keep ‘lipn -wav from farm rnach ’iiPrv unless thev a-e old one" 'h to understand the danger advises Unn ersitv o' Delaware agricultural en ginoe- Ernest Scarho”ough 7
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