—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, August 18, 1962
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Pennsylvania Dairy Cow Herds
Prove To Be Highly Productive
Milk production on Pennsyl
vania farms last year totalled
a little less than 7 billion
pounds. Average daily pro
duction would fill a row of
quait bottles extending from
Ei le to Philadelphia and half
way hack to 1 Lancaster.
The foregoing aie illustrated
of comments found in “Penn
syhania Dans Statistics--
19 62 ” a booklet recently ie
loased by \V L Henning, State
Secretaic of Agriculture Tins
publication was prepared un
der the dn ection of Dewei O.
Bostei of the State Ciop Re
poitmg Sievice assisted In a
committee £lOlll the Agneu'-
tuial Expeunient Station.
Unnersitv Paik of which C
IV Pieue agi icultuial econ
omist, was chan man -
Extensile statistics compnse
a maioi pai t ot this publu
ation. Students of the aguc
ultuie ot Peniisihauia will
quicklv learn Di Pieioe sais
tliat about half the income of
the faimeis of this state is
li om sales of milk caUes and
surplus dam animals
Nearly 30 peicent more
milk ivas piodnced in Penn
svhama in 19C1 than m 1948.
so much that not all of it
could be sold in fluid form, he
points out Ice cieam has in
creased in Piodnction in this
State m the past dozen xeais
by 10 per cent, better by 75.
non-fat di\ milk about C times
and cottage cheese has tnpp
led.
HANDLE
HEAVY TONNAGE
for less
Look closely at the cylinder of a row-crop No. 50 Forage
Hai vester.
. You save power because cupped shape design cuts
and throws.
~. Chops uniformly because 4 knives afford 12 feet of
cutting edge.
~. The difference in this cylinder is fast work, light draft,
less cost.
Ask us about a No. 50 Forage Harvester.
Ask us about the Allts-Chalmers plan to finance
your tlmo purchase of farm equipment.
AUIS-CHALMERS A
SALES AND SERVICE y'
L. H. Brubaker Grumelli Farm Serv.
I.ititz, Pa.
N. G. Myers & Son
Rlwvms, Pa.
Nissley Farm Service Snavely’s Farm Service
Boro, Pa. New Holland. Pa.
Lauscb Bros. Equipment
Pennsylvania dairy farmers
received from approximately
9 to about 11 cents per quart
for milk m 1961. depending
on the area in winch it was
pi oduced
A total of about 882.000
milk cows weie reported in
the state last year, the same
number as weie reported in
1941. Axeiage milk pioduct
iou had iiseu, Dr. Pierce sa\s,
fiom 5.520 pounds per cow
in 1941 to 7.520 pounds in
1961 an mciease of 41 pei
cent.
Kirkwood 4-H
Plans Float
Plans lor entenng a float
m the Solanco Fair at Quaii\-
Mlle weie made at the last
meeting ot the Kukwood 1-It
club
The meeting, in the home
ot Mis Richard Maule. club
leadei was called to order be
piesident Mai tin Gieenleaf
Roll call was answered by
membeis gmng a repoit on
the state of their projects.
An imitation was issued to
attend the August 23 meeting
of the Gaiden Spot Communi
ty 4-H club
Refieshments were served
to the gioup by the Society
ot Farm Women 15 Leaders
present included Mrs Maule
George Reinhart, and John
and Fied Frey.
Qiiatrj viile. Pa,
L. H. Brubaker
Lancaster, Pa.
"High Production ...
for a Longer Period of Time "
nimr-
&
Mr. Titus Hurst R. D. 3, Lititz, has this to say about feed
ing Beacon: "I feed Beacon because my cows maintain high
levels of production for a longer period of time . . . and hold up
well in flesh."
Mr. Hurst 1 hos been feeding Beacon for five years and has
been using Beacon Dairy Feed Programming through most of
that time. It's interesting to compare his most recent DHIA aver
age (on Beacon) with his last previous non-Beacon average:
Year No. of Coh> Av«;f, Milk Avge. ButtorM
1961 21.5 14,882 lbs. 554 lbs.
1957 15.6 11,027 lbs. 406 lbs.
3,855 lbs. 148 lbs.
Beacon
Non-Beacon
Average Increase
That's an increase of more than one-third. And, much of the
increase came in Mr. Hursts early years on the Beacon pro
gram .... giving him extra milk income almost from the start
on Beacon. t
Herd quality and herd management at Mr. Hursts farm
ore tops. Here are several recent and current records to show
what individual cows are doing:
Rollinstead Dean Evelyn (pictured above)
2 yrs., 8 mos. 355 d. 15,631 lbs. milk
3 yrs., 10 mos. 85 d. 6,628 lbs. milk
(in progress)
Rollinstead Leader Evelyn
2 yrs., 5 mos. 383 d.
3 yrs., 7 mos. 342 d.
4 yrs.. 7 mos. „ 176 d.
(in progress)
And another great cow in-the Hurst herd, Burke Belle Fobes,
has averaged per year for the past four years 24,413 lbs. of milk*
790 lbs. of butterfat.
Top production potential deserves top nutritional support.
We ore pleased that Mr. Hurst finds Beacon capable of offering
that support to his fine herd.
We think that Beacon Dairy Feeds and Beacon Dairy Feed
Programming can help more Lancaster herds to new high records
in production and ineorrte over feed cost. Why not coll your neon*
est Beacon dealer today?
k. McCracken
Manheim
FARMERS SUPPLY COMPANY MILLPORT ROLLER MILLS
Lancaster Rift, Litltz
GERMAN'S FEED MILL EARL SAUDER, INC.
BOMBERGER'S STORE
I. B. GRAYBILL & SON WENGER'S FEED MILL
•Stuusburg
BEACOfT
FEEDS
Beacon Division of Textron Inc.
YORK, PA.
Elm
Denver
,539 lbs. milk 706 lbs. butterfat
,408 lbs. milk 642 lbs. butterfat
,317 lbs. milk 478 lbs. butterfat
20,
19,
13,
o.
New Holland
REMINDER
GUERNSEY FIELD DAY
AUGUST 23rd
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a > >/
583 lbs. butterfat
310 lbs. butterfat
Rheems