NO LIFTING MILK on the James Graybill farm. Milk
rom his 36 holsteins flows by gravity to a vacuum release
nder stalls m his milk ng parlor and is pumped under
ressure to the bulk tank in his milk house With no expos
rc to the ar, the' milk is pumped into milk Company’s
in k tiuck. Here James, left, talks with the truck driver,
onald Lefever, Lancaster, while the milk flows
LANCASTER COUNTY DISTRIBUTOR FOR DITHANE M-22
LEBANON CHEMICAL CORP.
LEBANON. PENNA.
Dithane M-22 Users
Sweep Top
Tomato Grower Prizes
Three top winners in the 1960 New Jersey 15-ton Tomato
Club competition used Dithane® M-22 to control anthrac
nose, early and late blights, gray leaf spot and septoria leaf
spot in their prize crops.
The following table lists these three champion growers, their
'winning figures, and their Dithane spray programs:
YIELD per ACRE
t/y
-£ V<
*
GRADE
ACREAGE
*</ &
%
APPLICATIONS
FUNGICIDE
Mr. Elmer A. Tindall has been a top winner for 12 years.
He is a long-time Dithane user.
The father of Bruce Jones, the 4-H winner, is also a Dithane
user. Mr. Lester C. Jones grew 55 acres of tomatoes in 1960
with a yield of 20.9 tons per acre.
Mr. Tindall and Mr. de Silvio use RHOTHANE® for insect
protection to avoid costly losses from hornworm and fruit
worm. Your dealer can help you plan a spray program to
help bring you prize-winning yields, too.
SPRAY AND SAVE WITH
DITHANE M-32
DITHANE M-22 AVAILABLE AT
SM P. L. ROHRER & BRO Inc.
MOKETOWN, PENNA. Phone L- -aster EX 7-3539
CLASSYIELD CLASS 4-H CLUB
;*||| Elmer A. Tindall h s Emidio de Silvio 3 Bruce Jones
f- * Windsor, N.J. Cedar Brook, NJ. Medford. N.J
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24.3 tons
US #1—85.2 %
US #2-14 6%
Cull* —0 2% '&|
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20 9
DITHANE M-22
5 at 3 lbs/*oro
M
ROHIVI m
HA & AS I
PHILADELPHIA 5. PA.
‘.'Milking Parlor
li’rom page 1)
to be m Iking 40 cows by
winter and perhaps have 50
by this tme next year I can
take ca.e of that many with
the new system, he says.
Before installation o h->
parlor about six weeks ago
the 36 cows were milked in
a stanch on barn and nr Ik
carr ed to the bulk tank.
“Now I do the milking my
self Before there was two
or three of us—two milkng
and one carrying m Ik, and
it took iust as long as it does
now ” Graybill says.
I had the parlor ordered
before this new system came
out, but when I heard about
it, I changed my order,
Graybill said
The new system to which
he referred has the milk line
below 'he floor of the milk
ing stall. Wth tills set-up no
milk is raised under vacuum,
(one of the causes of rancidi
ty m pipeline milking sys
tems) but flows by grav'ty to
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34,5 tons
US. #1—734%
US. #2—26 3%
Cull*—o 3%
12 7
DITHANE M-22
11 at 2 Ibs/aero
Phone CR 3-IGB7
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r
21.7 ions
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jjj OS. #l-64%
kj U.S. #2—32%
WB Cull* —4%
8 93
V* DITHANE M-22
|rt| 7 at 3 lb»/«cro
Lancaster Farming, Saturday, June 24, 1961—7
a vacuum release and is g TobaCCO Disease
pumped to the bulk tank un- (From page x/
der pressure. , , ,
appl cd between the regular
The vacuum line is also of intervals
glass and is washed each Where wildfire is present,
milking along wflh the mik Luock recommends mcreas
line, but the two systems arching the streptomycin to 200
on separate pumps The vac parts per million for the
uum line operates at 18 inch- next two or three sprays
es ol vacuum while the milk Most of the d sease inci
hne has only 13, making for dence occurred where grow
faster, easier milking and ers stopped the spray pro
less fluctuations n vacuum at gram when they began puli
the cow’s udder. mg
1 Many milking parlor in- Lucck re P° rted the two
stallations in the county have newly-released varieties of
been installed in remodeled i°kacco released carl.er this
bank barns and resemble ye?r by the Pennsylvania
dark cellars more than par- S ' ate Umvers ty appeared to
lore, but the parlor on the be free from any disease '
Graybill farm is light, airy
to keep clean and The farmer receives 12 per
y ‘ 18 °nly good look- cent less for a typical “mar
ng, but very eff cient”. says ket basket” of farm grown
(Turn to page 11) food than he did in 1947-49.
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