6—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, March 11, 1961
Additional Funds Made Available
To Farmers Home Administration
' An additional $5O million
has been made available to
the Farmers Home Admini
stration ior farm housing
loans, Mr Richard Hoover,
the agency’s county super
visor announced today.
He said that the new loan
funds assure an adequate
supply of this type of credit
ior eligible farm families
during the balance of the
fiscal year Loans made so
5000 Heifers
Sought For
Breed Promotion
Pennsylvania’s quota in
the national drive for 5000
Jersey Heifers for milk pro
motion is 197 head, Edison
Osborne, the state chairman
of the enterprise has an
nounced
Osborne, the well known
breeder of Jersey cattle and
owner of Cornwall Farm at
Peach Bottom. Lancaster
County, urged every breeder
of Jerseys, purebred or
grade, to join in the drive to
toll the public the story __ of
Jexsey milk
The “Kickoff” meeting for
the heifer enterprise in dis
trict nine of Pennsylvania is
scheduled for 800 pm. on
Match 24 at the Southeastern
Pennsylvania Artificial Breed
ers Cooperative stud barm
on route 230 west of Lan
caster The ninth district in
cludes the counties of York.
Cumberland, Dauphin, Berks
and Lancaster
Heder enterprise is a part
of the larger undertaking,
The All-Jersey Program, de
signed to improve the posi
tion of Jersey cattle owners
bj increasing the demand for
the pioduct of the Jersey
cow'
Hc’fers pledged to the pro
tect will be assembled at a
central point, Osborne said,
where they will be sold pn
\ately or at auction if vol
ume wai rants Receipts from
the project will go toward
piomotion of Jersey cattle
and their production
Miller
Construction Co.
Excavating, Bulldozing,
Pond bin ding. land
clearing, Backhoo work
and trenching
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far this year plus those be
ing processed had practically
exhausted the funds previous
ly available.
Farm housing loans are
made throughout the rural
areas of the United States
The loans provide farm fa
milies with an opportunity
to acquire an adequate hou
se and efficient service build
ings
Application for farm hous
ing loans may be made at
the local office of the Farm-
Home Administration,
Mr' said The loans
bear 4 per cent interest and
are repayable over periods
up to 33 years
Tire maior demand in Lan
caster County is for loans to
construct and modernize farm
homes, and most of the funds
aic used for new construct
ion
Improvements financed
with loans include the in
stallation of cential heating
and pressure water supply
systems, the addition of bath
rooms and the modernization
of kitchens
Many local farmers also
use the loans to adjust their
service buildings to the
changing requirements of ag
nculture A frequent exam
ple in this area. Mr. Hoover
«aid, is the conversion of
obsolete dairy facilities by
the construction of modern
milking facilities, milk hou
ses and silos.
To be eligible a farmer
must own a farm that will
annually produce for sale or
home use at least $4OO worth
of commodities based on
1944 prices and be of suffi
cient value to adequately
secure the loan
b b More Proof .... It Pays to Feed PURINA
261 pigs weaned from
2© first-litter gilts!
Last February, March, and April, -39 first-littoi
gilts farrowed at Willow Glen Farm, R D 1,
Strasburg, Pa These gilts weaned an average of
9 pigs apiece . big, healthy pigs which averag
ed 2'32 pounds at birth'
Owners John Henkel and Joe Little have follow
ed the Purina Program since establishing their
purebred Yorkshire herd. Twice m 1960 then
farm was selected as a public demonstration of
efficient hog production in Pennsylvania. Their
complete record-keeping system and testing for
feed efficiency, rate of gam and carcass evalua
tion proves they’re on the right track for supply
ing hcrd-improMng seed stock to commercial
herds in the stale
“From what our records show, we believe Penn
sylvania farmers are in an excellent position to
‘cash in’ on pork production, ’’ say these young
partners “Good stock and a good feeding and
inatkctmg program looks like a sound invest
ment lor many years to come 7
John Henkel, left and Joe Little, owners, of Willow Glen Farm'
R.JD. 1, Strasburg.
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Aiglen
Whiteside & Weicksel Warren Sickman Wenger's Feed MilUnc.
Kirkwood Pequea Hheems
Snader's Mill
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Wingenroth's
Feed Service
Mount Joy
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Grain Survey, n MM »■
A survey of all farms in with proposed feed grain du £”? will in
Lancer Count, whtoh pro
duce feed grains will get 3ude Th xs s r i«; l Er.f2r’ ?•
underway in the next day acreages of'corn and other and oats ’ ? S .? J. he ac "
or so, according to Landis f eed g giains . - reage devoted to other cr ops
G. Becker, Chan man of the ✓ an d land uses, for all farm s
Lancaster County Agricul- _ To put such a program in- in the area where one or
tural Stabilization and Con- to operation for 1961 crops more of these teed grains
servation Committee in a manner which would be were produced within the
j The survey is being con- fair to all growers, accurate past 2 years -
Produced In 1960 By Funk's-G Hybrid Seed . .
On the York County Farm of J. E. Lanius & Son.
FUNK'S G-HYBRIDS have done it again won the 1960 Official Pennsylvan
ia 5-Acre Yield Contest with a whoppog record yield of 206.6 bushels per acre
And also-won 3rd and sth* highest yields in thu stTcwide contest open to all
brands.
This was the 4th time within the past 8 years that Funk’s G has produced the
Champion-Yield REAL PROOF Funk’s-G superior breeding pays off in more
corn at harvest time !
~ YOUR 1961 Corn Crop . .if you want to make sure of mqre corn this fall
the finest upstanding, blight-fighting, higher-yielding corn decide right now
to plant Funk’s-G seed this spring
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