6—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, April 18, 1964 THIS IS WHAT THE' PHARES M. WEAVER BARN looked like at 12:45 p.m. Thursday. Approximately 125 men gathered to help replace the Lititz R 4 structure lost to fire in February. At 7 a.m. there was nothing above the bam floor. L - F - Photo. Since 1935 . . . Your Dependable SALES EVERY TUESDAY FLORIN Replacement Pullet Feeds Offer You Complete, From Day Old Chicks To Mature Pullets Florin Chick Starter Florin Growing Mash Florin Gro-All Florin Gro-Mor Pellets We would be happy to help you develop a pro gram to suit your individual needs. FOR MORE DETAILS CALL MOUNT JOY 653-1451 Wolgemuth Bros., inc. • Milk'Production (Continued from Page 1) Crop Reporting Service in the State Department of Agricul ture. March milk output totaled 644 million pounds, down about I V2 per cent from 1963, but up 7 per cent from average. Milk cow numbers were esti mated at 825,000, or 4 per cent fewei than for March 1963, and 7 per cent less than average. The value of ration fed held steady at $3 46 per cow, the same as for the preceding four months. But currently it is 2 cents above 1963 and 14 cents above March of 1961. Commercial dairymen mdi- Economical Programs cated, as of Apr. 1, that the cost of raising a heifer to milking age was $248, or $9 more than a year ago and $l2 above 1962. For The Home And Garden WEED KILLERS PEST CONTROLS LAWN SEED, SPREADERS, FERTILIZER MOTOR OIL BATTERIES ELECTRIC FENCE CONTROLLER GARDEN TOOLS FIRE EXTINGUISHERS 24 Foot Aluminum Extension Ladders A $3O Value During Sales Dates • Born Raising (Continued from Page 1) by Mrs. Weaver and 11 other women. Some of the builders are from the Litxtz area, but many came from the Farmersville and Groffdale area where the Weavers formerly lived. They came to help Weavers replace the barn which burned on Februaiy 11, and they gave a day’s work to help a fellow man in need. But Mrs. Weaver said, “They always do that when somebody needs a barn not only when they get burned out” To an outsider, it looked like confusion compounded with so much going on at one Special Pricing on a Select* Assortment of Seasonable items such as: OUR PRICE $19.95 INQUIRE ABOUT OTHER ITEMS TODAY Eastern States Farmers’ Exchange, Inc. time, but under the organs tion 9f Addison Martin, p ai J ersvil'le, the barn went up schedule. No short-cut bji n this. All the beams and were morticed, the tendons cut and placed, holes boied through both and the whole thing pe g „ ed together with tough wooden pegs While this is not the fastest method of constitution the large number of touniy barns still standing allei a hundred years attests to th e fact that it is a good method When the day ended, only the finishing touches remained to be done and 125 men went home with a good feeling ol having done something woith. while. OF VALUES April 6-25
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