t 0 1 / 3 £S£ S /*■"“" - 's»*- 1 *a»** m %-s Is this the year you turn over a better tobacco leaf? slrn to USDA-approved Thiodan insecticide and it can be. Use it on any type of tobacco. Against aphids, flea beetles, homworms, RRjdworms, cabbage loopers, green June bug larvae, and stink bugs. (Not Mgistered for stink bugs, but recommended by some states.) Get better *nd lasting control with less material, fewer applications. .Use it without fear of injuring plants, without ill effects on flavor or grade. Use it as a liquid E.C. formulation. Or, for quick knockdown during heavy Infestations, with parathion in liquid or dust formulations. Use it for better tobacco profits. j OCI3 rf BST ■I FAIRFIELD CHEMICALS • NIAGARA CHEMICAL DIVISION • MIDDLEPORT, N.Y. Tfiiodon* lendes ulfont Ij o nglsltrtd Itadtmatk at Farbwtrk* Hateful A.O. Dairymen everywhere are getting and more with Ful-O-Pep Dairy Feed A Lancaster County former* reports 1545 lbs. milk per cow 4.23% test 65 lbs. fat per cow Dec. 1964 during Passmore Supply Co. Cochranville, P*. Millport Roller Mills H. Hiestand & Co. f Inc. Salunga J. C. Walker & Son, Inc. j... Gap, Penna. jVXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX>®.XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXV /StT\ - **“■* <» Tl« is** — 1 7* ••v r*> JW^ y3*=lSw C SsS=' c Ksr $ v ’’•Names on request See what Ful-O-Pep Cottle-izer Dairy Feeds can do for YOUR milk production! Millport K=3S«*S j3»ass» -< > 3gS"» more milk butterfat H. M. Stauffer & Sons, Inc. • Holstein Tour (Continued from page 1) is fed to all the cCwb and heifers alike. Even so,' two men get 850,- 000 lb. of milk a year from their 63 Holsteins. The herd classification average is 815 points (8 Very Good, 34 Good Phis and 14 Good). Sunday’s 368 acres are spicid ovei three farm 1 ' They laise Ifo acies of coin, 80 acirs of alfalfa and 20 acie* of trefoil A 20V-.IT silo with a hunk fccdci m a loose housing barn handles the heifcis The three sided attrl buildings at the hc.fei trim wcie built about a yeai ago after a fire de stroyert the orunnal buildings The heifers aie fed all the silage they’ll eat, a little hay and only (wo pounds of grain per nead a day This makes a low cost heifer raising pro gram, according to Sunday PAUL CHRONI«TER Proof that the family farm csn still pay was shown at Paul W Chroni»ter's 50-acre faim at Boiling Springs ill Their 32-head was the high est Cumberland County herd, with an average of 16,94® lib of milk and 670 lb. of butter fat Here the emphasis is on the individual cow “If you love cows you take care of lit tle things,” Paul stated. On this farm 30 acres are planted in alfaDfia and 15 acres are divided into nine grazing strips. A lot of the alfalfa is made into silage The Chron ister family likes waited, ear ly-cut alfalfa silage better than any other roughage they have tried In summer the cows are grazed only two hours a A Lebanon County farmer* reports 1377 lbs. milk per cow 4.0% test 55 lbs. fat per cow during Nor. 1964 Grubb Supply Co. Elizabethtown Kirkwood Feed & Grain Kirkwood Witmer Stevens Feed Mill, Inc. Stevens, Penna. Lancaster Fanning, Saturday, April 24, 1965 day in tlhe grass strips and then turned into a dry Jot for the remainder of the time. A limited amount of a com mercial gram mixture is fed. ALLEN DAIRY FARMS The completely mechanized “cow factory" at Allen Dairy Farms, Inc has a 515 lb but terfat average With 300 cows on test The cows are housed in a fi ee = hall installation, ex cept fur a ftw show and fine breeding animals kept in in dividual box stalls. It takes (luce m*- i .bout five hours earl, t' *o milk this huge heui ,) their dou ble, eight-stall milking parlor Theie are five excellent cows in the herd and 56 are clas sified Very Good. Four 24’x60’ silos and one 30’x50’ pi ovide fi ee-choice corn silage for the nuJJkmg herd Some gram is fed on top of the silage m the bunk feeders Only a small amount of hay is fed This “high-class” operation is in Che process of building an additional /barn for the dry cows and bred heifers The tour, in charge of Paul B Hess and Titus M Hurst, both of Lititz, and Donald L Hershey, Manheim, arrived ■back in Lancaster in tune for the local dairymen to do their own evening chores. kirkirk*-kiHrir*********************if****-*rk*lt*iHrtrk HIM! Guam POWER urn s pm cm Official tractor test shows a whopping 48.9 hp. A real work-horse. Match its power to the job for field economy and farm-wide versatility. Heavy pulls, light or varying loads, the new Series II D-15 lets you control power to fit your work. 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Osborne, Cornwall Farm, Peach Bottom Rl, has been rated a Tested Dam by the American Jersey Cattle Club The cow, Secret Lily of Rushton, was awarded the dis tinction for having three off spring with official pioduction records Her progeny averaged 11,378 pounds of milk and 653' pounds of fat on twice-daily milking, 305 day mature equi valent basis The three tested piogeny re quired to qualify a cow as a Tested Dam may either be three tested daughteis or three tested sons, or any combina tion theieof totaling three PATZ Sales & Service Barn Cleaners - Silo Unloaders - Cattle Feeders Robert K.Rohrer Quarryville, R. D. 1 Hensel KI 8-2559 N. G. Myers & Son Rheems. Pa. Chet Long Akron, Pa. 5