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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: .
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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
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LIMA
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