.fit 08 ~i it'W b<>o bulletin INCREASE YOUR INCOME with Mr. Poultryman, are you getting ready for profitable commercial operation in the years ahead? As you know, some farmers are ex panding flocks for more income; streamlining equipment and hous ing for peak of performance. Jf you are thinking along these lines, [ask us about the Purina high den ‘:y plan. It’s a plan worked out by rina engineers, Purina Research GET RID OF LICE ON YOUR HOGS can go after lice and fleas, help prevent the spread ircoptic mange anytime -with. Purina Hog and Cattle mg Powder. There’s no need to worry about spray yonr hogs in cold weather. Just rub Hog and Cattle ing Powder into the hair coat of each hog and scat it in the bedding. got Hog and Cattle Dusting Powder in sturdy, 20- iber pails at our Checkerboard Store. Pick one up And he sure to ask ns for your free G-4 Insecticide ;r that conies with each pail you buy! To stop lice and fleas, dust your hogs with Purina Hog and Cattle Dusting Powder. It’s finely ground gets down next to the skirt where it does the most good. John B. Kurtz Cedar Lane John J. Hess, II ■com se - New Providence Ira-B. Landis Hey Road, Lancaster Warren Sickman ■ ■■ ■■■■■■ ■ ji ■ Bflflflfl,B. JBBBBBBBBBB S. H. Hiestand & Go. John B, Kurtz Bphrata Pequea i. ' i r^Mtfwyeygrafgaa lb* Farm specialists, and by field ex perience. It answers questions you will want to know about bird den sity, housing, insulation, controlled environment, egg handling. Drop by our store today, and prove to yourself . . . Purina service helps you increase your income. Science is working hard in Purina’s modern, laboratories Science is working hard for 3on at Purina’s modern, new laboratories, Checkerboard Square, St. Louis. Each month, some 33,000 quality control tests are run on hundreds ot ingredients and chemicals used in today’s complex lead for mulas. Exacting and time-consuming, yes . . . but such work by Purina’s dedicated team of scien tists is one ot the underlying reasons nhy Purina has led the way in better feeding methods for 68 years. Purina doesn’t believe in experimenting with >ou, the customer. That’s why its laboratory lacilities were recently doubled in si/e ... to better as sure yon of top-quality ingredients and precision formulated Chows worthy of the Checkerboard trademark. This modern laboratory Ts evidence, too, ol Purina’s desire to keep abreast of the very latest in animal nutrition ■. to help you pi educe more meat, milk, eggs and wool more efficiently. Salunga James High Gordomille Whiteside & Weicksel Kirkwood Wenger’s Feed Mill, Inc. ' Rheems J. H. Reitz & Son, Inc. Lititz John J. Hess Kinzers - Vintage ii’ i v > : ■ , i FHA Loans Aid Farmers In Saving Soil Fanners Home Admmistia tion ending in 1962 reached the highest level for any 12 month period in local history A total of $522,000 was loaned to aiea farmers by the Local FHA Oh ice located at Lancaster Pur pose for which loan funds were used included loans to reorg anize farms with new equip ment, better livestock and oth er operating needs; to buy, de velop, enlarge farms and to le finance debts; to build or im prove houses and service build ings oii farms and on non-farm tracts in rural communities; and loans for land development and conservation piactices to preserve and maintain soils and improve net farm incomes. In 19 62 local farm families repaid nearly $320,000 in pnn cipal and interest on loans Tine good repayment recoid by farm families using Fanners Home Administration uedit points out that with adequate ciedit plus technical advice and the use ot good farm piactices, family fanneis can operate suc cessfully under modern agu- cultural conditions One of the most impoitant piactioes is the adoption of soil and water con sei ration plans on farms The Agncultuie Acts of 1961 and 19 62 added a number ot new loan authonzations to the Farmers Home Administrate i program objectives Loan authonties weie bioad ened to include the financing of lecieational entei puses des igned to help supplement fam ily farmers’ incomes Also small towns and associations ot farmeis and other luial resid ents now may borrow funds to finance changes in land use, in cluding development of reciea tional facilities Housing acts now perni't loans'to luial lesidents to con stiuct homes and to senior cit izens to buy, build 01 lenovafe housing foi themselves as well as loans to individuals, corpor ations and gioups to build i en tail housing foi the eldeily in ruial aieas Farm Credit Available For Conservation ,u~m Lancaster Pi eduction Ciedit and Fedeial Land Bank Asso, ciations is owned by and seiz ing Farmers of our community with a dependable and conven ient, source of credit lor Farm Real Estate, Farm- and Home Improvements, Ciop and Live stock Pioduction Costs at rea sonable costs to enable the fai nter to conduct an efficient and a sound soils progiam. Essential to a profitable faxm operation is good manage ment. This requnes good finan cial planning, good seed, good livestock, reviewing and pre viewing market conditions and a sound sois program Primary to a sound soils pro gram is the employment of con servation practices recommend ed for a particular farm by your local S C D These practi ces maintain a high level of pioduction and consideiably re duce the cost of production by making it possible to get max imum results from labor, seed and fertilizer. Loans for S C D practices are readily aiailable During 19G2 Production Credit Loans outstanding am ounted to $4,308,616 00 and Federal Land Bank Moi tgage Loans $6,109,289 00 Lancaster Farming, Saturday, March 2, 1963 Richard W. Hoover County Supervisor Game 1 Protector List Activities The following is an accom plishment repoit by the Gamo Commission showing work completed in Lancaster Coun ty during the past yeai. On tha lour Farm Game Projects wo have 294 Coopeiatmg Far mess. These taring comprise a total of 27,893 acies. Farmers contacted 347 Coniferous distributed 3.G150 Jlultiflora Rose distributed Wildlife Borders recut 1,500 lul ft. Refuges maintained 597 Safety Zones established 347 Theie are live tracts of Game Lands m Lancaster County, located m Clay, Breck nock, Coleram, Penn and West Cocalico Townships These tracts comprise a total ot 5,- 50 6 acres. Strips planted 13 5 a. Strips piepared Cover Ciops seeded on strips Strips mowed Strips limed Stnps fertilized Woodland bolder 15,380 lin JX cut Woodland border i ecut Tiees leleased (Continued on Page 9) COUNT ON YOUR SEED MAM ><_■ " fr\ ' t~W* r yj TO HELP YOU PLAN BETTER PAYING CROPS THESE HOFFMAN SEED MEN ARE ready to Serve YOU I ELMER BRILL 1 Elizabethtown 367-5441 FRANK H. BUCHER Lititz 626-6504 JONATHAN S. SHIRK Leola 65C-9302 LESTER ERB Elizabethtown 367-7112 EDGAR C. UMBLE Gap HI 2-4525 JASON H. MELLINGER Stiasburg 687-6546 cHoffman C/ FARM SEEDS ALFALFA,*; CLOVER * PASTURE -OATS '• ".FUNK’S G-HYBRIDS i\, j 5 50 0 13 5 .1. IS 3 a. 13 a. 10 cl. 12 a. 1,800 liu it. 000
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