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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.
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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.
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• Holstein Tour
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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.
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MUSCHALMERS
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Washington Boro, Pa. Litltz, Pa.
L. H. Brubaker
Lancaster, Pa.
Allen H. Matz
Farm Equipment Grumelli Form Service
New Holland, Pa. Quarryville, Pa.
Osborne Jersey Cow
Rated Tested Dam
A registered Jersey cow
owned by Edison W. 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
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Rheems. Pa.
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Akron, Pa.
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