One goal of swine resear
chers is to synchronize heat
periods among sows. This
will make artificial insemin
ation practical and bring far
rowing dates within shorter
periods.
Tiie 1961
Random Sample
Results Are Coming In:
The Shaver
Starcross 288
WINS
The Western N.’ Y.
Test
SECOND
In the Wisconsin Test
THIRD
In the Missouri Test
In the Texas Test
SHAVER
Leghorn &&
Farms, Inc.
MOUNT JOY R. 1. PA,
Phone: OL 3-2455
WANTED-DEAD!
a
ALFALFA WEEVIL and Spittle Bug, too!
Your Custom Sprayer
Richard R. Forry
LANCASTER EX 7-0035
Herbert F. Gehr
' STEVENS AN 7-6822
Kenneth H. Habecker
LANCASTER EX 3-4187
MOUNT JOY
T. M.'s Reg. U. S. Pal. Off.; ORTHO
FUTURi. FARMERS AT THE GARDEN sPux juxerti learn traitor
engine maintenance first hand this winter on the engine presented to them recently by
the International Harvester Sales in Ephrata Making the presentation is E W Rutt,
right, representing the Ephrata firm. Accepting the 21 horsepower unit for the school is
Donald A. Sheaffer, Garden Spot High School Principal, center, while Larry Weaver,
left, president of the Grasslands Chapter of Future Farmers of America accepts the gift
on behalf of the agriculture department. The unit is the second such piece of equipment
placed in a county vocational agriculture department by the Ephrata International Har
vester sales The first unit was placed in the Ephrata High School early in the summer.
Robert Herr, teacher of vocational agriculture at New Hollond said the unit would be
used in farm mechanics instruction with high school students as well as Young Farmer
classes < —L. F Photo
Advertisers will be glad Swine raisers should main- Bedding of chopped straw
to have you mention Lancas- tain a cholera vaccination and ground corncobs stays
ter Farming when answering program that includes all an- dry longer than straw alone
advertisements ima’s in the herd. m livestock pens.
Hess Bros.
PARADISE
is usmg
OL 3-7195
B. Landis
Benj.
ORTHO
*l.l
Melvin G. Lapp
LY 3-5717
ATGLEN
Leßoy R. Pfautz
STEVENS AN 7-6015
Alvin F. Smoker
INTERCOURSE SO 8-8416
Harold Zook
LANCASTER
OV 7-6535
Lancaster Farming. Saturday, November 4. 1961
Dieldrin
EX 4-5412
Wheat Grazing
Legal Until
May 1, 1962
With few exceptions, ac
reage diverted from wheat
production to conservation
use under the 1 f)C2 wheat
stabilization program may be
grazed until May ], 1962,
according to Landis G. .Beck
er, Chairman of the Lancas
ter County Agricultural Sta
bilization and Conservation
Committee
An exception to this aead
line date for grazing is whe
”e a producer wishes to be
under the program’s
double-cropping provisions,
n which case grazing will
mt be permitted on the
*arm after December 31 ‘Bl.
The_ 1962 wheat stabili
sation _ program prov’des for
‘he diversion of land from
■■'heat production to conser
vation uses. By using the a-
diverted for aop rov
ed conservation practices,
producers earn payments.
The program also provides
that the diverted acreage is
not to be grazed or a crop
harvested from it during the
year
With a grazing deadline
of May 1, 1962, the diverted
acreage on participating far
ms may not be grazed from
that date through the bal
ance of the calendar year if
the farm is to remain eli
gible for wheat stabilization
payments. In addition, the
no-grazing requirement must
s e met if the wheat from
the farm is to be eligible
"or nrice support.
Winter wheat producers
may apply for participation
‘n the 1962 wheat stabiliza
tion program any time up
to December 1, 1961. An ap
plication is necessary for
each farm on which the pro
ducer expects to take part
m the program Winter wh
eat stabilization payments
will be made only to those
■"’■ho file application at the
County ASCS office by Dec
ember 1
USE DIELDRIN
THIS FALL
CONTROL-
ALFALFA WEEVIL
NEXT SPRING
Alfalfa and clover fields
sprayed with Dieldrin
during October and No
vember gives satisfact
ory control of alfalfa
weevil and spittle bug
the following spring.
Order your supply now
from
SMOKETOWN
Ph. Lane. EX 7-3539
M. Mini tr». »mki »ww
(srtßs)
Dieidrin
Distributed by
J. C. Ehrlich
Chemical Co., Inc.
736 E. CHESTNUT ST..
LANCASTER. PA.
EX 7-3721
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