, VOL. « NO. 12
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WORKING ON RECORDS IN THEIR home office are Mr. and Mrs. Jay Kiss
er. Mrs. Kisser prepares lactation and monthly herd average records for the Red
Rose- Dairy Herd Improvement Association newsletter which goes out every mon
th. Jay is preparing his daily report which is mailed to the Pennsylvania State
University for processing on electronic equipment The newsletter
prepared by Mrs. Risser (Lois Ann)' is mailed to every member in the associa
tion. . L. F. Photo.
Poultry Meet
.is Scheduled 1
t A panel discussion, of Poul
gtry -House ’Construction and
* Automatic Equipment will be
the feature of an educational
■ meeting scheduled by the Lan
caster County Poultry Associa
tion on February 28.
-The meeting,- scheduled for
k 7:45 in the Poultry Center on
; Roseville ißoad, will open with
’ a discussion on marketing of
! eggs by Earl Hess, Hess Bro
i thers, Ephrata. In his talk on
I Farm Calendar
Feb 25 7-15 pm Egg-
O-Rama meeting in. Penryn
fire ball
7:30 pm Northeast 4-H
tractor club meets in the
shop of Allen Mats, Denver
r 8- p.m Red- Rose Dairy
i Herd Improvement Ass’n dir
[ ectors meeting Reorgani
| zation At Farm. Bureau
|, building, Dillerville Pike.
Feb. 26 —7 15 pm. New Four agronomy experts will
t Holland Young Farmers be on the program of the an
i meeting. Arlie Anderson, nual Lancaster County Soils
| Masonic Home Farms, will Day next Wednesday at the
r discuss swine management. Guernsey Sales Pavilion, Line
| In New Holland High School oln Highway east of Lancaster,
t 7:30 pm Central 4-H Time will be allotted from
£ tractor club meets in the 930t010 am for inspection Production of more poultry
| shop of / L H. Brubaker, of displays and exhibits by mea l predicted for 63 .
[ Strasburg commercial firms of the county. Production of both broilers and
* 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Joint Beginning at 10 a.fn , Mil- turkeys is expected to be high-
poultry meeting for York, ford Heddelson, extension agro- er la than in 1962, accord
f Adams and Lancaster Coun- nomist from the Pennsylvania in S a re P° week from
r ties at York Caterpillar Co , State University will use soil Penn State extension mar
[ Lincoln Highway east of profiles to illustrate his talk, ketmg service.
; York. “Know Your Soil Type’’. He More broilers will be market-
Feb. 26 1-30 p.m. and 7:00 will be'followed by James Ea-. ed the first Quarter in “63”
I p.m. 4-H leaders clothing kin. chairman of agronomy ex- .than in the first quarter of 19-
i construction course. Lancas- tension at BSU who will dis- 62. Placements in the latter
r fer Production Credit Assoc, cuss the value of soil testing'.' part of ’62 were •‘'above 19 61.
• Roseville Road. John Baylor, extension agro- Eggs set the first-three weeks
F©b. 27 9:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. nomist will talk of “Better For- of January for hatching of bro
[ County Soils and Crops age Crops,” and George Berg- iler chicks in 22 major states
da y in Guernsey Sales gren, extension agronomist, ranged from 3 per cent below Mass
| Pavilion, Lincoln Highway -will ■•esent the "Latesl in to 2 per cent above year ago Clarence R. Bauman, 19,
p-earsf-of Lancaster, ' Weed't/OntPol J V ; during the-af- levels, for-the corresponding son of Mr. .and Mrs. Ivan W.
“Pennsylvania Egg Business in.
the Balance". Hess wilVdiscuss’
OonapeJtrtlom'-front' oiilSr areas
of the country, tomorrow’s
markets and how Pennsylvania
eggs will fit into present and
future trends in production and
marketing
The panel of four successful
poultrymen from the county
■will be moderated by Carl Dos
sin,. Extension-Poultry Special
ist from the Pennsylvania
State University.
Discussing such points as
lagoons for handling manure,
ventilation systems, dropping
pits, belt gathering of eggs and
types of feeds will be George
Weaver, and David Mussulman,
both of New Holland: Walter
Augsburger, Remholds Rl, and
Jack Huber, Lititz R 3.
Another special meeting, to
discuss pullet raising, is plann
ed by the association for March
28 at the Poultry Center. •
Co. Soils Day
Is Next Week
Lancaster Farming, Saturday, February 23, 1963
SwmePr oducers
Show And Sale
Is Next Week
The Lancaster County Swine
Producers Assn have planned
their sth Annual shew and sale
to be held at the Lancaster
Stock Yards, Tuesday, March
3-, 19 63
(Reflecting the market trend
foi heftier meat-type hogs, the
show committee has increased
the liveweight of judging clas
ses 10 pounds in the lightwei
ght division The increase plac
es a 190 lb minimum and a
220 lb maximum m the light
weight judging classes and a
221-250 lb spread in the hea
vj weight divisions
There will be classes in the
following breeds with crossbred
fcogs If'ing shown in the class
of their sire, Berkshire, Chest
er White, Duroc-Jersey, Ham
shire, Landraee, Poland China,
Spotted Hogs, and Yorkshire
Judging features single, trio
and truckload classes.
To further emphasize the
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Broiler Outlook
Shows Increase
I Ride With The DHIA Tester
DHIA Records Are A Tool
The Dairyman Must Use
Editor’s Xoto: This is the second in a series of articles
dealing with Lancaster County businesses related to agricul
ture. The writer will spend a day riding with personnel who
serve the farmer but who do not actively engage in the busi
ness of farming. The articles are an attempt to bring the farm
er a report of the job ot seivice personnel before they reach
the tana. Other articles will be printed in the follow mg weeks.
Our “day” began at 5 15 p
m I met Jay Rissler, head tes
ter of the Red Rose Dairy Herd
Improvement Association, at
the farm of Jay Landis, Lan
caster R 6. just about 15 min
utes before milking time
In the early days of rank
testing. Jay told me, when the
tester stayed over night with
the farm family, he was expec
ted to arrive at the farm m the
middle of the afternoon to get
all the information copied fiom
the farmer’s records to the tes
ter’s book, but since all recoids
are now processed on electronic
computers, there is much less
copying to do, and the tester
does not have to get to the
farm 'unnrjusr before milking
time.
Jay found two bales of straw
for his sample bottle tray and
SPABC Reports Highest
Volume Service On Record
The Southeastern Pennsylvan
ia Artificial Breeders Coopera
tive reported a record number
of first services during the past
year at the annual meeting in
Leola Memonan building
Thursday night
The reported 157 first serv
ices is an increase of three per
cent over 1961 despite the de
crease ill cow numbers over
much of the cooperative’s serv
ice area.
In a report of management,
David Yoder explained that ris-
Local Youth
Is Honored By
Cooperative
A Lancaster County youth
this week was among 10 young
people honored by the Eastern
States Farmers Exchange at
the cooperative’s 45th annual
meeting in West Springfield,
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CIARENOE R. BAUMAN
By: Jack Owen
a bale twine to hang his scales,
and he was ready for business.
While Jav Landis washed
the first cow s uddei and put
the milkers on. Jay Risser got
freshening, breeding and dry
dates from the barn charts.
“This is the first thing I do
whenever I go to a farm,” Jay
said The records were in good
shape on this farm, and it did
n’t take long
Landis makes good use of
his' records to cull his lower
producers, and as a guide in
feeding his better cows. “It is
important to have good rec
ords, but they are just a. tool.
If you have a shovel and it
stands against the wall, yon
won’t get any work out otf it.”
Risser said “Dairy records are
just a tool like any other tool
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ing costs forced a $1 00 increa
se in service fees on January in
order to maintain working cap
ital and take stock from the In
active members and put it in
the hands of active members. A
total of 911 shares of inactive
stock was redeemed last year
and 833 new members were ad
ded This drop in membership
is about equal to the state and
national trends, Yoder said.
Breeding fees during the
year totaled $789,642 with cap
ital assets at $443,514 Net in
come was $25,749 which was
distributed at the rate of 16
cents per $5 00 first service.
Henry E Kettering, Lititz
R 3, was elected director of the
organization for a three year
term.
District delegate posts, all
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FIVE-DAY
WEATHER
FORECAST
Temperatures during the
next five dajs are evicted
to average se\ cn or more
degrees below tlie normal
range of 37 at night to 44
In the afternoon. Some mo
deration in temperature is
evpected during the first
lialf of the period turning
colder again near the end
of the period. Precipitation
is evpected to total less
than a tenth of an inch
(melted) occurring as light
snow near the end of the
period.
$2 Per Year