ILi'ETtif EFFICIENCY M t. V L n* Not necessarily so. Efficient means to produce more of a quality Must l OU DC Digger p roc j uc t with less time, money and labor per unit. EFFICIENCY to be More Efficient ? is raeasuved by comparing Production with costs more of a product —at less costs. Breeders, Nutritionists and allied indus try all help, Jsut, Feed Waste! Money Waste! Labor Waste! Mortality Waste! Thinking Waste! Condensed from Hen Cackles. 196i.' Published by Penm State University and The Agricultural Extension service Miller & Bushong will gladly help you with information, facts or figures in the planning, managing or programming of your poultry enterprise, just call Lancaster, EXpress 2-2145, er ® us * lon^ l,c - ** ROHRERSTOWN, PA. Ph. Lancaster EXpress 2-2145 "r ' • ■ »aanasB aaaviUßß '| BKUnHVaa Hß»BanttftasauvnaaHnß»RH»aaaßaa>RaßHßa*»Bß>‘H<n*B* The best bird ' on the Best Feed in the Best House will not be efficient if poorly managed. The moral; Prevent Waste, Money Waste, Feed Waste, Labor Waste, MortaM'y Waste, and Thinking Waste. Feed is your greatest cost. Do not allow feed to be wasted by careless.... Help, Feed makes a poor litter. Decide what you need, then shop carefully. Three questions: 1. What will this expenditure do to cut production costs and in crease output. What do you do with labor and time saved? 2. How good is the product and will it hold up. 3. What about price; is it a good buy? Five steps saved a day equal one mile per year. In large famil ies this may' not be. a problem. If you have hired help, look at work output per do’lar spent fpr labor. Will a machine do better? Can you look after a machine bef.er than a hired ,man? Would a-change in farm help do the job better? Time has value to the producer. Consider time into cost. A poor'disease prevention program is expensive. Do you get to the lab. in. time to prevent losing some $2.00 pullets? Do not over-medicate—get a good diagnosis first. Successful producers tie decisions to cost. It does not pay to ; spend $14.00 for drugs if it will bring you $7.00 by increased pro ducton. Over-investment In birds, feed, equipment or anything . else is money lost. , In decisions malting, the first step— A list of true costs next Good managers think for themselves. Others cannot make all of your decisions. You may not know how to formulate a complete ration or produce a genetically superior bird. BUT. you can keep track of how different birds do on different rations under differ ent housing and market conditions. You can analyze pub'ished records. Get the complete story, not just half of it. Good managers seek information as if it were money because decisions made from this information may Cost Money or Return Profits depending on whether the decision was good or bad. y Birds, Feeders poorly adjusted or too full. The rats. Sparrows, Insects, Consider net returns. "Finest Service Anywhere" Molds. Lancaster Farming. - "Saturday. December 9. • Red Rose Degree - ■ (From page 1) Degree winners and schools ire as follows Witness Oak Chapter, Don egal High Schoo" Glenn Musser, Mount Joy Rl Warwick Chapter, Lititz Kerry Fritz, Lititz R 3 Pequea Valley Chapter, Kinzers Dale Hostetter, Gap R 1 Ephrata Chapter Snader, Ephrata R 1 Penn Manor Chapter—Har m’d Herr, Millersville; Jack Herr, Lancaster R 6, Jere Harr, Lancaster R 6 Manheim Central Chapter Harold Hess, Manheim R 3; -lames Hess, Manheim Rl; Vernon Martin, Lititz Rl; G'enn Myers, Manheim R 3; Marlin Myer, Manheim 113 and David Shonk, Manheim R 2 Grasslands Chapter, New Holland Robert Freeman, Denver Rl; Car Gehxnan, of Mchnton R - Dale Houck, of Narvon Rl; Wilmer Martin, New Holland Rl: Kenneth Sauder, East Earl Rl, Ronald Shrom, East Earl Rl, Larry Weaver, New Holland Rl; Rov Weaver, East Earl Rl: and Galen Witmer, New Hol land R 2 Garden Spot Chapter, Lampeter James Houser, Lampeter. Donald Kraybill, Lampeter Road; Ear 1 Liven good, Morningside Drive and Roy Slaymaker, Strasburg Rl Solanco Chapter, Quarry ville Richard Geyer and Robert Wenger both of Quar’-yville Rl; Ronald Krei der, Jay Ranck and Dale Herr, all of Quarryville R 2. Carl Troop, Quarryville R 3; Leßoy Sollenberger, Holt wood R 2 and R. Edwin Harn ish, Christiana Rl. Elizabethtown Chapter John Fry, Elisabethtown Rl; Jay Gish, Rheems; Gary Kreiner, Elizabethtown R 3; Edward Shoop, Bainbndge. Rl, and Willis Hackman, of Elizabethtown R 3 • Corn Borer (From page 1) Corn borer damage to the State’s com crop during ‘6l was about the same as last year, according to field sur veys. A check of borer populat ion in 43 corn growing coun r ' ies showed approximately 15 per cent ot the stalks to he infested. This was a slig ht "eduction from the 1960 -esults which indicated a ittle more than 38 per cent “testation. Forty-three co mties were surveyed this ''ar as compared with 41 s e previous year. Corn borers ner infested talk averaged 1 70 a slisht from the 1 73 aver age for 1960. Heaviest infestation was 'oted in Some r set County •here the damage was more ban three time*? that of last ,o ar Slight reductions in •~rpr oopulation were re ported in the counties of the ■orthwestern and south cm ■•=>l oart of the state. Lieht *■ damage was renorted, in T Vayne County where only ’•< oer cent of the stalks °re effected. Normally m an open wm t. the com b'wer oopulat m is nartially reduced by Vrds Last winter’s heavy -nows prevented birds from -eaclnng the borers the De triment of Agriculture pi nt experts believe The European com borer ">s brought to the United >tate from Hungary or Ttalv n broomcorn. Tt was first ’scovered in sweet corn ear Boston, Mass., in 1917. Farmers are advised to ‘ve attention to the plani ng of next year’s corn crop nth the proper variety to esc withstand the corn bor ~ damage. The destructive est can be controlled ef ectively by using hybrid orn to resist borer damage, mreau officials said. Jerry
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