16—Lancaator Farming, Saturday. February 11, 1961 RETIRED ASSOCIATE COUNTY AGENT, Harry Sloat, left, accepts a purse of $167 from Amos Funk, Mu lersville Rl, president of the county vegetable growers. Vegetable men made up the purse for sloat in appreciation for “the many years of untiring effort” on behalf of the vegetable industry. The presentation was made at a celery growers meeting at the Funk farm on Monday. •—L.F. Photo # Celery 9 SCD Program (From page 1) (From page 1) , it should be good.” oratory In other business, Amos A calendar of events and Funk, on" behalf of County program of work was pre vegetable growers, presented pared for the District by the a purse of ,$167 00 to retired cooperating agencies. The Associate County Agent Har- District held regular month, ry Sloat, for his work with ly meetings the organization through the A workshop for leaders of years. watershed meetings -was A Canadian Layer IN PENNSYLVANIA The great Canadian-bred layer, Shaver Star cross 288, finished in the first quartile in the Pa. Random Sample test, topping all other interna tionally franchised breeds, with the following statistics: - Eggs per hen housed 245.6 Feed per 24 ounces of eggs 4.2 lbs. Laying house mortality . 8.3% Percentage Urge eggs last month of test 98-0% Net income over feed & chick cost $2.85 SHAVER SOLD BY fe Creider Leghorn Farms, Inc. Phone OL 3-2455 Mt. Joy H. 1, Pa. READY TO SERVE YOU With a Complete Line of Farm & Garden Seeds • Cert. DuPuits Alfalfa • Ladino Clover i • Cert. Vernal Alfalfa • Pasture Mixtures • Cert. Buffalo Alfalfa • Grasses j • Cert. Ranger Alfalfa • Seed Grains • Cert. Pennscott Clover • DeKalb Corn • Penna. Grown Red-Clover • DeKalb Sorghum • Birdsfoot Treefoil • DeKalb Sudax • Cert. Seed Potatoes Pre-innocidated Alfalfa Available CATALOG FREE UPON REQUEST STORE HOURS 7 A- M. to 5 P. M. Monday thru Saturday SMOKETOWN Phono Lane. EX 7-3539 CONSERVATION FARMING MEANS MANY' THINGS as.- showm by. thl*- view of the Henry S. Eby farm at New Holland Rl, East Earl Township. - Contour strips. make a patchwork pattern oh the land. The dark strip running from the lower right, .curving to center and back to right center is a watershed waterway carrying surface water to the farm pond. The contour strip cropping shown leaves a minimum, of soil bare during any part of the year. - ' —SCS Photo held and-from that meeting came six successful water shed meetings throughout the county to explain the District program. Watershed meetings were held in the Manheim, Lampeter - Stras burg, Mount Joy, Blue Ball, Hammer Creek and Eliza bethtown areas. The-District and coopera ting agencies sponsored eight television programs during the year. Farmer cooperators in the district now total 1,955 of the approximately 5.900 REAL QUALITY ALWAYS LOWERS COSTS! Start Your Chicks On The Best Our Early BirdLNo. 3 REPLACEMENT CHICK STARTER Available Now! WHAT ABOUT QUALITY? Because of a full years work by our Nutrition Department we have been able to incorporate many improvements in this fine feed. It's been thoroughly tested and we think it's the'BEST replace ment chick starter available in this area. 9 CO & MILLER & ROHRERSTOWN, PA. farms in the county. Thirty- League, - Lancaster Farming two of the 41 townships in and .Lancaster Newspapers, the county have one or more and the County Commission cooperating- farmers. ers. - .. Givler lists the cooperating GMet reminds farmer agencies as Soil Conservation that the service of the Dis* Service, Department of For- trict is free for the asking ests and Waters, Agricultural The fivejiirectors serve with Extension Service, Vocation- out pay, the state- providing al Agriculture Departments, money for travel to and Game Commission, Fish from the annual meeting Commission .Department of partially offsetting their ex Highways, Fanners Home penses. Administration, Farm Credit The District can help far Cooperatives, Agricultural mers plan a conservation Stabilization Conservation program suited to the indi Committee, Isaac Walton vidual farm. sentative for records on the costs of raising pullets and our new Feeding & Management program for re- placement stock or call Lancaster EXpress 2-2145 direct. BUSHONG, k Finest Service Anywhere \v\ tI//// CHICK STARTER Ask any Miller & Bushong repre- Phone Lancaster EX. 2^2145 ,-fJ