Lancaster farming. (Lancaster, Pa., etc.) 1955-current, June 20, 1964, Image 5

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    market egg producers
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DO YOU KNOW THAT:
A 1214% improvement in feed required per dozen eggs
equals a saving of approximately $350.00 per 1000 hens.
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produce BETTER SHELL QUALITY over the laying year?
That each Vi% improvement in breakage can improve your
income by $36.00 per 1,000 hens housed?
A price improvement thru BETTER GRADE of V 2 cent per
dozen amounts to approximately $lOO.OO per 1,000 hens
housed?
If your feeding programs gives you 1 % better hen house
liveability and Vz dozen more eggs per hen housed, it can
mean as much as $175.00 extra return per 1000 hens?
That GOOD records pay big dividends? Without accurate
records you CAN NOT fairly judge the value of your pro-
gram?
That it's not the STARTS it's the FINISH that counts.
May We Help You Do A Better Job?
EARLY BIRD FEEDS and
GOOD MANAGEMENT
A Winning Combination
For Any Poultryman
Contact your Miller and Bushong
Service Representative or call ws
at Lancaster 392-2145
(Area Code 717)
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%>' Bushong, Inc.
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Manufacturers of Poultry and Livestock Feed Since 1875
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Rohrerstown, Pa.
Ph, Lancaster 392-2145
(Area Code 717)
Lancaster Farming, Saturday, June 20, 1964
Crop Summary
Showers Aid Crop Growth
HARRISBURG Showery
weather dunng the week end-
ing June 15 helped maintain
adequate soil moisture for good
growth of vegetation, avoid
ing to the Pennsylvania Ciop
Reporting Service Pastuies
and cut over alfalfa fields have
greened up nicely Soils were
too wet to work early in the
week but later considerable
cultivation, spraying and hay
making was accomplished
Fruits continue to gain size
and generally good production
of all kinds is expected.
Above normal temperatures
during the week encouraged
rapid growth of corn, vege
tables and other crops.
Bailey is coloring and har
vest of earliest fields will get
under way in about a week
Most of the wheat crop has
headed and some is beginning
to color. Good yields are in
prospect
Oats are in varying stages of
development Some winter oats
in the south is heading. Plant
ing, and some replanting, of
corn is nearing completion.
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Prospects for hay and pas
ture impioved
Potato planting in the Pot
ter county area is about com
pleted Cobblers in the south
are setting tubers Transplant
ing of tobacco in the Lancas
ter area made good headway.
The strawberry harvest is pro
gressing into northern coun
ties Hai vesting of peas for pro
cessing has stalled Sweet corn
and tomatoes made good
giowth Planting of snap beans
foi processing continued.
Indications continue to point
to the best fruit crops in years.
Thinning of apples and peaches
is well advanced Sweet and
soui cherries are coloring.
Spray schedules have been ef
fective in controlling insects
and disease.
The new $75 denomination
Senes E Savings Bond, bear
ing the portrait of the late
President John F Kennedy,
goes on sale during “Opera
tion Security”—Treasury’s 1964
Savings Bonds campaign.
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Home Office—P. O. Box 1052, Indianapolis, Iml,
.City.
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P.O. Box 1233
.State LL___
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