SOLD AND READY TO GO, this bull, one of the first animals through
new auction pavilion at the Lancaster Union Stock Yards, keeps a wary eye
remission man, James Dunlap, and the crowd of spectators that jammed
llery for the grand opening. L F. P T
FARM
BUREAU
Farm Bureau’s
Turkey Feeding Program Tops!
12 DIFFERENT TURKEY FEEDS TO MEET
THE NEED OF EVERY AGE AND CONDITION
News
Tests Show Feeding Pre-mixed Feeds Outperform Free
Choice feeding -By ,60 Pounds More Gain Per Turkey With a
.76 Better Feed Conversion.
ALL FARM BUREAU'S TURKEY FEEDS ARE FORMULATED
AT CO-OP MILLS TURKEY RESEARCH FARM
ANOKA, MINNESOTA
New Holland
Lancaster
894-0541
FARM BUREAU
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(Available in Mash - Crumbles - Pellets)
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It seems turkeys are not very. smut when it comes to
balancing their diets. , At- least that’s what Cooperative
Research test findings show.
In recent tests, concentrates and corn were fed free
choice to groups of turkeys. The results obtained from
these birds were compared to those of turkeys fed pre
mixed and pelleted feeds.
The tests of both hens and toms, from 12 thru 24
weeks, showed: free choice feeding 9.4-pound gain with
ion; feeding pre-mixed and pelleted
;ain with a 4.60 feed conversion,
dieted feeds, like Cooperative Mills
ed to be more economical and prac-
just mentioned are only a small
•ch program at the Turkey Research
; for more than 15,000 birds, there Is
the study of every phase of turkey
diy you can be sure of getting the
'ooperative Mills Turkey Feeds from
354-2146
Quarryville
786-2126
Lancaster Farming, Saturday, April 4,1964 —©
Farmer Sign-Up In Grain Program
Reflects Higher Price Features
A ten per cent gain in Seed The 342 participants in the
gram program participation by current program, which ended
Lancaster County farmers was last Friday, agreed to divert
noted this week by the local 4,871 acres of feed grain
office of the Agriculture Sta- over 90 per cent of It corn
bilization and Conservation Ser- compared to 1963 when only
Vic®- 311 farmers retired 4,157 acres
Officials at the local ASCS
office theorized the increase
over last year might be due to
better financial features of the
1964 program.
Over 340 county fanners
have signed up to temporarily
nearly 500 acres from com,
barley and grain sorghum de
spite depleted feed stocks from
two successive drought years.
As an incentive to enroll in
the four-year-old program de
signed to reduce stocks of sur
plus grain, the Federal Govem
ment will pay eountians a quar- In 1963, the county farm
ter of a million dollars for agency issued payments drafts
idling the acres. in the amount of $168,052.
A substantially higher pay-
I ment rate for diverting over
40 per cent of a farm’s feed
gram production apparently ap
pealed to more county farmers.
Said Miss Dorothy Y. Neel,
ASCS office manager: “We had
very few applicants this year
who didn’t divert at least 40
per cent of their feed grain
base.”
This high rate of payment
was obviously responsible for
a substantial 17 per cent in
crease in acreage retirement
from a year ago, she said.
FARM
BUREAU
Lancaster - 394-0541
New Holland - 354-2146
Quarryville - 786-2126
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mu .4L
Unico fires, batteries,
spark plugs, air fillers
and oil fillers.
APRIL 1 TO MAY 30
Pius 3 Extra Bonus Specials
from production.
The 1303 plan, however, had
a serious economic look in its
provisions which said the top
pay rate would be issued only
if a fanner diverted his entire
feed grain base and agreed to
grow no com.
Payments to county fanners
this year will total $228442,
second highest since the feed
program was inaugurated by
Congress in 1961. The total was
36 per cent greater than a year
ago.
Local enrollment in the 1964
program was termed “success
ful” despite earlier predictions
by anti-farm program growers
the two-mop th signup would
get no more than 200 produc
ers because of drought-created
grain shortages.
Even some members of the
county ASC committee would
not predict the eventual 342
participants.
Other committeemen theoriz
ed the enrollment could have
topped 400 had conditions boen
normal.
Many farmers who had par
ticipated in thp previous three
years indicated satisfaction
with the program, but said
quite frankly they needed corn
this year.
In four years, county farm
ers have diverted 17,829 acres
of feed grain in return for
$884% thousand in federal pay
ments.
Some 64,000 orphans of vet
erans who died from service
connected causes have entered
training since the War Orphans
Educational Assistance pro
gram supervised by the Veter
ans Administration was started.
According to French folk
lore, kt a peasant released a
black cat at a spot where fire
roads meet, it would lead him
straight to hidden treasure.
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