Temporary Pastures More
Feed Than Most Permanent Ones
While bluegrass and com
binations of bluegrass with
white clover and other legum
es are the most common per
manent pastures for dairy
cows, pasture mixtures grown
in the regular crop rotation
such as a mixtuie of alfalfa
and' brome grass or orchard
grass or a combination of la
dino clover and grass, provide
a much greater yield then
permanent bluegrass pasture,
Victor Plastow, Associate Co
Agent, said this week Still
more important is the fact
that they furnish good feed
in midsummer, when bluegrass
is often parched and brown.
The carrying capacity o£ pas
tures vanes widely, depen ling In supplementing scanty
on the soil and climate and the best way is to
especially on how wisely the uge for pas ture the second
pasture is managed If no sup- cro p on a mixed legume and
plemental feed is provided for g rass hay field, which has neen
periods of drought, 15 to 2.5 cu t ear iy Another method is
acres of fairly good pastuie t 0 grow Sudan grass or some
should be provided per cow, o ther annual-pasture crop for
but if such additional feed is gummei pasture,
furnished and the pasture is
properly fertilized, the pasture Plastow reminded farmers,
allowance can be reduced to 1 if you cannot provide the cows
acre per cow or even less enough torage by these piac-
When irrigation is used on tices, then they should be led
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wel fertilized pastures, one
may get by on 2 cows per acre
throughout the season, Pas
tow said.
Cows on abundant pastures
well fertilized pastures, one
forage a day. To harvest this
amount of grass with her
mouth, a cow must graze sev
eral houjs a day, even when
the pasture is good When the
forage is scanty, she spends
much more eneigy in grazmg
in an effort to get enough
feed. Experimental tests show
that cows spent 7 3 hours a
day grazing on poor pastuies,
while they needed to graze
only 5 6 hours on good pas
ture.
BEST FOOD BUYS
Picnic Items To Be Featured
Ham and poultry will dom
inate the meat counter this
week end says Harold Neagh,
Penn State’s extension consum
er marketing specialist. Food
markets will be geared to pic
nic features for next Thurs-
silage, hay, or green chopped
torage This is geneially much
more economical than to tij to
keep up the production by
merely increasing the an’iount
of concentrates.
When there are enough cow«
in the herd to use up silage
fast enough to keep it liom
spoiling, silage is generally a
much more economical summer
feed than green chopping It
green chopped roughage is led,
it should be kept in mind thaf
it is much more watery than
good corn silage and therefore
it is necessary to teed consider
ably greater weights, Plastow
said.
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in every type of hay. For example, cracking
lightly, just enough to break the wax coating on
the hay stems, is the secret of Allis-Chalmers
hay conditioning. Hay plants come through
limp, but complete—not chopped or mangled.
Note below the new Alhs-Chalmers Hay Conditioner
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Lancaster Farming, Saturday, May 25, 1963—11
day’s holiday. In meats, these
include hams of all weights
and cuts, fryers, beef steaks,
small turkeys, hamburger, hot
dogs, and luncheon meal.
Whole fryers will continue to
wear the familiar 25-27 cent
price tags of last week seen in
many stores Because of the
popularity of fryers, retailers
are merchandising them in
every conceivable way as
halves, quarters, cut-up, legs,
and breasts.
A small turkey may be just
the thing to fill your menu
needs for this week end with
planned leftovers for the early
part of next week. The small
fryer-roasters weighing 4 to 6
pounds generally start at 39
cents a pound.
Eggs are a better value in
many markets as prices adjust
downward. The large size
continue to be the better buy
on a per pound basis, but all
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HAYING...
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Stevens, Pa.
sizes are in the low price
range. So don’t forget to stoqk
up for all those holiday need*
for potato salad, deviled eggg,
pies, and other goodies.
Beef prices continue to fall
at wholesale, but retail price*
are unchanged with a week
ago except for week end
specials. Lower prices will ba
found mostly in steaks and
hindquarter boneless roasts.
Pork prices are heading higher.
Next week many area stores
will be promoting Pennsylvania
Lamb-B-Q Lamb is quit*
adaptable to outdoor cooking—*
as kabobs, on a rotisserie or
just plain grilling. And it’s a
very good meat for cookinfi
over an open fire because of it*
young tenderness and distine*
tive flavor. There are many
cuts to choose from. For
something different in a cook
out you might like to try cubes
of lamb shoulder meat, mar
inated m your favorite sauc*,
then skewered with a comblna*
tion of fruits and vegetable*
for an attractive tasty kabob.
LISTEN—no-chatter, pitmanless mowing is quiet
. . . with smooth, non-stop rotary action. New
Allis-Chalmers mowers for 1961 provide one
ipiece, reinforced cutter bar design... heavy crop
durability in the Twin- Wheel drive mechanism.
New outer shoe loop divider speeds mowing of
rank or tangled growth.
SEE Cure-right Conditioning—note how thi
combination of rubber and steel rolls make;
the difference, leaving stems soft and limp
Wax coating is cracked to allow 50 percen
faster curing. Just enough action to releasi
stem moisture without making the crop int<
“silage.” Leaves are cured naturally, sla;
on the stem.
L. H. Brubaker
liititz, Pa.