VOL. 10 NO. 17
JACOB HOUSER, JR.’s COWS SNUGGLE IN THEIR NEW BEDS. Houser
has built-42 to handle more cows with less effort. He finds that older
cows take about two weeks to adjust to the stalls, but heifers take to them im
mediately. L. F. Photo
Gov.’s Conference On Agr. Will
Feature Farm & Business Panel
A special feature of the
Governor’s Conference on Ag
r.culture which is to |be held
n Harrisburg on April 7 as
an afternoon panel session
that will reveal the progress
made by some of the State’s
outstanding Agribusiness lead
ers and their future potenti
alities, as they see them
The four participants omthe
panel will be: Alan Ware
heim, president, Hanover
Canning Company, Hanover;
Sam Dum, dairy producer,
East Petersburg; Walter Wil
marth, poultry producer, Har
iOrd; and Siegfried Weis, pres
ident, Weis Markets, .Suntoury
'Dr. Russel E Laison, dean
cf the College of Agriculture,
the Penn State University, Will
ierve as moderator of the af
ternoon seminar He will also
participate in the morning
Program, for which three out
standing education and indus
ay leaders have accepted Gov
ernor Scranton’s invitation to
serve as speakers.
The morning speakers are
Dr. Eric Walker, president,
Weotlier Forecast
Temperatures f»x the five
day period, Saturday through
Wednesday, are expected tP
aveijage below normal. Nop
mal for the period i|s a high
of 54 and a low of 34 de
grees. It will be 00(0(1
throughout the period.
ls expected
totajl Vi-1 inch. This will
oocufi as rain thrcfugh early
Saturday and agaiii Monday
the Penn State University,
Edmund Fallon, executive vice
piesident and general man
ager, AgWay, 'lnc., Syracuse,
N.Y, and Bennett S Chappie,
Jr, vice president, United
States .Steel Corporation, Pitts
burgh.
The afternoon panelists are
projecting their thinking for
w.aid to anticipate the ever-
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Pa., A 10-Million
Case Egg Market
Pennsylvania, with nearly
111 5 million people in 1964,
ranks third in population
among the 50 states If egg
consumption aveiages 314
eggs per person, thus repre
sents an annual egg market
of about 10 million cases. Of
importance to Pennsylvania
poultrymen is how this popu
lation is distributed through
out the state and the aate of
population growth For pur
poses such as egg marketing
it is necessary to consider
population in and aiound cities
with related economic sys
tems
‘Metiopolitan areas with a
■population of 100,000 or more
account for a little over three
fourths of the state’s popula
tion These 12 standaid met
ropolitan statistical areas may
include several urban centers
and the surrounding 'area. All
but three of these areas are
RGFICUI-TUR/U URRARV
THE PENNSYLVANIA hl*lZ COLLEGE
Lancaster Farming, Saturday, March 27, 1965
Farmers Hear About
Profit-Conservation
Link At SC&WD Meet
Farmers in the northern
pait of the county were told
this week that the under
standing and application of
sound soil conservation prac
tices can mean increased farm
earning power The discussion
leader, Wayne F Mares'oh,
county conservationist with
the UiS .Soil Conservation
Service, pointed out that soils
information can be used ef
fectively in selecting the most
piofitable ci op a farmer can
grow under such given 'cir
cumstances as soil type and
condition, moisture, climate,
etc Maresch illustiated his
points with slides depicting
the benefits of conseivation
SOS Conservationists use
the Lancaster County Soil Sur
vey Report in making these
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Fertilizer, Key
To Corn Profit
In Dry Year Too
Given the right soil situa
tion, com can be giown pio
litably in Delawaie even under
extremely dry weather condi
tions Statistics, iust released
by the Univeisity of Delaware
covering two dry years and
one noimal year, show that it
was still possible to pioduce
yields close to 100 bushels per
acre in the dryest year The
tests were conducted in 1962,
1963 and 1964'.
The key to high yields was
fertilizer use. Heavy appli
cations gave big yields in a
Free-Stall Housing Will
Reduce Per Cow Handling
Costs, Dairymen Report
(Ed note this as a two
part look at fiee-stall housing
as a system of managing daily
cows Part I deals with ob
servations on !a medium-sized
herd, and Part II with the
expeiicnces of a laige opera
tor ovei a thiee-yeai penod )
PART I
by Everett Newswanger
Staff Reporter
“We 'believe we can handle
40 cows as easily as we could
care foi 20 cows,” says Jacob
Houser Ji , 1520 Lampeter
Road, Lampetei “The only ex
ception would ibe the longer
milking time needed ”
Jacob recently built a 18’x50’
■silo, ananged 42 f ice-stalls
in a 50’x64’ three-sided alum
inum building; made a hold
ing pen; constructed a bunk
feeder; and dug a 39 iftxl2ft
x9ft deep pit to hold all the
accumulation of manure for
a two-month period. A hay
ra-ok built on the side of the
original barn can (be filled
from the hay mow.
EVEN ON A WET DAY MANURE IS HANDLED
EFFICIENTLY with this tractor-drawn scraper at the
Stroud Dairy. The scraping and cleaning operation is
performed daily by two men in about two hours.
Poultry Short Course
Set For April 6 and 7
Penn State University an
nounced recently that the an
nual Poultry Sales and Serv
ice Shoit Course 'will toe held
on the University campus on
April 6 and 7
Included in the program ai e
such subjects as The Penn
sylvania Started Pullet Pro
giam, (Sanitation the Key;
Light Control Regimes, Hous
ing Equipment Ventila
tion; A Vaticination Schedule
to Live With, A Pullet Feed
ing Program; Coccidiosis,
Each fiee-stall as 4’ wide
and 7’3” long Bedding con
sists of sawdust placed on a
base of crushed stones and
giound limestone 01 sawdust
on top of dry stable mamue
“We have no bobble no
cows lay on the pavement,”
Housei said ‘Om cows have
become accustomed to the
stalls m two weeks Heifeis
took to them immediately ”
HANDLING THE MANURE
The entire aiea barnyaid
and behand the fiee-stalls
is scraped anto the manure
pit every day except (Sunday.
This takes about one-halif hour
with the seven-toot blade be
hind the tractor Veiy little
hand scraping as needed
In the pit the manure is
mixed with water (all the
available rain water is used)
by an agitator run by the
tractor power-takeoff shaft
Houser finds the mam prob
lems of liquid manure hand
ling aie: keeping the manure
thoroughly maxed, having it
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Farm Calendar
Mar 29 I‘3o pm A joint
Young Fanner Meeting at
Lancaster Stockyards Sub]:
“What livestock to buy”
730 pm Cattle Feeder
meeting at Brecht School,
Lititz Pike, Lancaster Penn
Slate specialists Lester Bur
dette and Di Samuel Guss
'will discuss “Automation
and labor saving” and “Dis
ease and insect control ”
730 p m Ephrata Young-
Adult farm welding class.
Subj. “Welding farm equip
ment, Part II ”
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$2 Per Year
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