service bulletin 239 eggs average from 259,000 hens You hear a lot of “chin music” about results produced by vari ous feeds, regardless of quality, feed efficiency or price. Usually the cheapest feeds claim the best results. You don’t have to listen to “chin music” about results on the Purina Program. Some of us Purina dealers have collected' accurate year-long records from 128 Purina-fed flocks here in the East, These are the totals: 128 flocks 259,402 birds 65.7% aver, production 239 eggs per bird 4.35 aver. lbs. feed per dpz. 4.0 or less conversion on many flocks Please that these are not two or three carefully-picked records. These cover 128 flocks from small to very large. Figure youf feed J?9st per dozen. We believe you’ll quickly prove to yourself Purina feeding costs you less. Studies Show Less Pecking In "Organized" Flock . . . Every flock of chickens has a social order called “peck” order. In a small flock, every hen fights every other hen, learns which she can peck and which she had better dodge. Scientific studies show peck ing is nearly cut In half when the flock becomes “organized” when each hen knows where she stands In the order. If Sou mix flocks or add new birds, this pro cess is repeated to establish a new order. Cut CRD In Day-Old Chicks Use NEW Purina Tylon Soluble Now . . . yon can help knock out costly CRD infection in day-old chicks with Purina Tylan Soluble. Tylan Solu ble contains tylosin, a new, fast-acting antibiotic that cuts down the most common cause of CRD in baby chicks. When your chicks first arrive, add tills powerful Health Aid to their drinking water. We can supply you with Purina Tylan Soluble in economical 100-gram or 2-gram packets. John B. Kurtz - Cedar Lane Whiteside & Weicksel Kirkwood John J. Hess, II Intercourse - New Providence Wenger’s Feed Mill, Inc. Rheema *.9 9' 9< 9 '9 9 9- *9u 9 _9L i.p.- J9 9. 9__9_ Have new birds debeaked. Debeaking won’t stop fighting, but it reduces possibility of serious injury. Debeaking is the answer when birds are lost from pecking. It also stops losses from “blowouts.” Temporary eversion of the oviduct is normal with egg laying. It becomes a “blowout” if the ovi duct remains hanging externally. This is likely to happen In flocks where vents have been damaged by excessive vent pecking. H. Hiestand & Co. Salunga John B. Kurtz Ephrata James High Gordonville 12 to 15 ' months , loy Knock out CRD with new Purina Tylan Soluble in chick drinking water. John J. Hess Kmzers - Vintage J. H. Reitz & Son, Inc. Lititz Ira B. Landis Valley Road, Lancaster Warren Sickman Pequea Lancaster Farming, Saturday, June 30, 1962 Foreign Pests Enter Country In Many Ways Insects now cost me Ameri< can public at least $4 billion a year. Most of these are not natives to the United States Dr. Dale F. Bray, University of Delaware entomologist, says they “hitchhiked” to this coun try from abroad, the majority before plant quarantines ■were established m 1912, European corn borer, now found in 39 States, came to this country about 1910 in stalks of bioom corn imported into Massachusetts from Hun gary. It then spread to the corn belt w’here it now damag es at least $lOO million worth of corn each year. In 1949, its most destructive year, loss es reached $350 million. Gypsy moth, which defoliat es and kills trees, came to the US m 1869 when an amateur naturalist brought the eggs from France hoping he could cross gypsy moths with silk worms to produce a hardier stock The pest escaped from the amateur’s laboratory and spread rapidly through north eastern states Since 1890, State and federal entomolo gists have waged one of the longest, continuous, organized wars against this pest, but it remains a threat to the hard wood forests, orchards, and shade trees of this country. According to Bray, the Hes sian fly traveled to the U.S. during the Revolutionary War in straw bedding brought here by German soldiers hired to fight the colonists. The Ger man soldiers went home in 1783. But the Hessian fly re mained and spread westward. It since has millions upon millions of bushels of Wheat. Other pests sneaked into this country by various means. PROVED! BIGGER CROPS WHERE NEW DACTHAfCONTROLS WEEDS Oacthil W-76 hu bwn ngUtirid by USOA for ut In growing: . •' ' ONIONa ‘ CTRAWBERRIE3 ' Dacthal increases your yield by controlling annu- el grasses, lamb’s quarters, purslane, Florida pussley, common duckweed, carpetweed, redroot, pigweed, i nodding spurge and other competing weeds. \ Dacthal is a pre-emergent herbicide, tested and proved in four years of experimental work. Will not leave residue on mature crops, thus registered label is on a non-residue basis. Spray will not injure the newly seeded or newly transplanted plants. We feature Dacthal. Ask for it... improve your yield and profit. Dacthal is a product of Diamond Alkali Company, Cleveland 14, Ohio. Distributed by; MILLER CHEMICAL & FERTILIZER CORP. ALCO CHEMICAL CORPORATION, PJiila. 34, P*. Buy DACTHAL W-75 at your MILLER DEALER some were not even Known as pests at home The Japanese beetle, for example, was not considered a serious pest in its native Japan. But when it was brought to the U.S. some time before 1.916, it found a haven fiee from parasites that kept down its numbers in the Orient Its population sky locketed. Adult Japanese "Beetles hegi eat the foliage of an amazing number ot flowering plants, ornamentals, and vegetables. Grubs of the beetle damage the roots of grasses in pastur es, lawns, and golf courses. This one insect pest costs city dwellers, nurserymen, and farmers millions of dollars every year The boll weevil invaded Texas in 1892 and marched eastward across the cotton belt It has since caused losses totaling billions of dollars. There are other cotton pests of the world fully as destruc tive as the boll weevil, which do not occur yet in this coun tiy. Bray says these are only * few of the examples of foreign pests brought into this coun try in the past Others, just as damaging, are being stopp ed at our ports of entry by en tomological inspectors who man our first line of defense against the insect pests of the w orld. Pinch That Mum If your were long and spindly last fall you probably didn’t pinch the plants last spring and summer. Lynn Smith, extension flower specialist at Penn State, re commends pinching m&liDII remove the young growing tips; this makes the" plant branch out. It doesn’t get so long and leggy and produces more flowers. The job_ isn't difficult: just {Jr* top hSilf inch of each shoot, until about July 15 wheu flbifer buds start to form. EPHRATA, PA. Subsidiary of 13 LIMA ' BEANS
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