prove the ingredients for survive poor weather condi
)otatO one of America’s favorite tions. Good appearance is
; (from page 5) snacks. also essential as is the prop
,l] the desirable featur- i n his search for the ideal er maturing time
L one variety. potato, Dr. Mills is seeking
O Mills, authority on one that will have high yield
breeding hopes to im- disease resistance, and will
EIDER LEGHORN FARMS
Distributors of
e SHAVER Starcross 288 Leghorn
THIS RUGGED, CANADIAN BRED
jAYER ON YOUR FARM. YOU’LL GET
>lenty of eggs in the roughest
leather, be it hot or be it cold.
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me OLdfield 3-2455 MT. JOY. R. I. PA.
Any
Hay Machine
, PAUL NOLT
lllc oln Hwy., Gap, Pa,
IVAN M. MARTIN, Inc.
BLUE BALL. PA. Telephone: New Holland. ELgin 4-2112
Terre Hill, Hlllcrest 5-3455
Gap. Hickory 2-4148
The Drink For You!
Your Artificial Breeding Cooperative plays
a major role in today's Dairy Industry. We are
glad to assist dairymen in promoting increased
consumption of our high quality dairy products.
enna. Artifical Breeding Coop.
;er, Penna.
Total consumption of po
tato chips, he reports, is up
ten-fold from 1940. There
were 4,500,000 bushels of
fresh potatoes chipped in
1940, and in 1959 there were
47,000,000 bushels chipped
He adds that potatoes for
use in frozen French fries
require the same qualities
as potatoes for chipping. Last
year 21,000,000 bushels went
into frozen French fries
compared to 2,000,000 bush
els in 1951—and none in
1940.
This year Dr. Mills will
have 10,000 seedlings from
true seed. These are made
from controlled crosses in
the greenhouse and are test
ed for many qualities. The
best seedlings, varying from
5 to 8 per cent, will be us
ed the following year.
Pennsylvania farmers are
cooperating with Dr. Mills
m the growing of the most
promising vanities. He is as
sisted by a graduate student
Otto E. Schultz, of Howick,
Phone LO 9-0411
See The
Hay Conditioner
Meyer
Lancaster Farming. Saturday., June 3. 19S1—
Natal, South Africa. Mr. 23 through 29.
Schultz is working for his “Motor vehicle accidents
doctor of philosophy degree cause nearly one-half of the
in plant pathology. fatal injuries to farm peo-
Among current varities the P^ e > on ly one-liflh of the
State’s most common variety nonfatal injuries. Three-
Katahdm, is good for table fourths of all deaths from
use but suitable for chipping unotor vehicle injuries re
only when freshly harvest- suit from accidents on rural
ed. It is used for chipping roads. One of every seven
until December after which persons killed in motor ve
time the Russet Rural is us- hide accidents is a farm
ed. Russet Rural, however, resident, “Henning pointed
is not popular for table use out -
because of its dark skin and
sometimes odd shape. It is
also more difficult to grow
and is easily acected by poor
weather conditions and dis-
ease
Rural Safety
Week Scheduled
HARRISBURG Pen
nsylvania Farm Safety Week
this year will emphasize
highway safety as it per
tains to rural and farm fa
milies, State Secretary of
Agriculture William L. Hen
ning said today.
Henning is chairman of
the Farm Safety Week com
mittee of the Pennsylvania
Rural Safety Council. The
week is to be observed July
Milk Cooling
Specialists
*
M. S. SENSENIG
109 E. MAIN STREET NEW HOLLAND
Phone EL 4-0691
—SPECIALS—
• 12 can iront opener Wilson cooler
• Engine or electric compressors
New and Used
NEWI
72 CHOPPER
6-foof chopper
at a 5-foot price
A full 6-footer for the forage harvest and green chop
ping plus all a shredder can do. Big, big capacity
PTO-powered with 72 inches of rotating flails and a
knife-edged fan to double-cut the crop and keep 6 feet
of swath sailing into the wagon. Loads it trigger-quick
way back to the wagon comers. No fan threshing or
crushing! Cuts and chops at the flails . . . chops finer
at the fan. Up to Vs more capacity than most flail
choppers. It’s Gehl built . , . durable, and is actually
priced below most 5-foot machines.
GEHL. PUTS ALL THE
PRICE FACTORS
IN YOUR FAVOR
FARMERSVILLE EQUIPMENT COMPANY
EPHRATA. R. D. 2
He said that Governor
Lawrence’s highway safety
program has helped make
Pennsylvania highways saf
er today than they have be
en since before World War
II The motor vehicle death
rate has dropped to 4 0 per
hundred million vehicle mi
les However, on the basis
of current trends in popula
tion growth and traffic fa
tality rates, experts predict
the yearly death tolls from
highway accidents can reach
new peaks' unless the high
way safety effort is sharply
stepped up on all fronts
The Pennsylvania Rural
Safety Council will cooper
ate wnh tie U S. Depart
ment of Agriculture and the
National Safety Council m
sponsorships of Pennsylvania
Farm Safety Week.
GEH
,H cur
Phone New Holland EL 4-9221
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