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DC more L/eaaiy Jackets, honeybees, etc. County bowleis m the ten- ReCOrd High Farm 11X001116 Year
Than Snakp Bites used *"° thought that team Feed and Hatcheiy Lea
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According to the Council on sect stjn!? was caused bv the 36 week season at then annual gional editors of Faun Joui-
Rural Health of the Ameucan acculcntal injection of venom banquet Satin day night at the nal, a national faun maga-
Medical Association, bee stings directly into a vem Now how- Ameucan Legion Hall in 7 me. suggests that in 1965
annually kill moie Ameucans vel, a PP eals that the se ' Mount Joy Tiophies weie dis f aim income levels should
than the combined total of all (Continued on Page 19) -- -- lemain at then “lec
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They like the efficient results. They like the excellent service.
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company
Lancaster Farming, Saturday, May 22, 1965
concerned
Borneo
out high levels,” and they
pi edict that incomes of live
stock laimeis will be at the
top of the heap.
Although income from sale
of ci ops may be off some
what fiom last yeai. the edi
tois say that income from
all tjpes of farming i.s ex
pected to (op last year’s rec
ord 5421 billion Average
gioss income per farm from
all somces will likely exceed
last yeai’s high of 514,506,
they claim
Fanners laising beef cat
tle, hogs and sheep should
do particularly well this
yeai, the editors lepoited.
They expect egg producers
will get bettei prices toward
the end o£ the year, with
daily faimers holding at last
yeai’s leiels.
>Commenting on last yeai’s
widespread drought and this
spring s floods in the Midwest,
the editois pointed out that
weathei now is less of an un
certain factor in American
agucultural pi odu chon, which
is becoming more stable every
yeai
They gave these icasons
1 High capacity field equip
ment enables farmers to do
an amazing amount of work
in a short time, thus over
coming poor planting weath
er
2 High-powered fertilizers,
weed killers, pesticides and
impioved crop varieties each
offset some of the effects bad
weathei, such as 'drought,
might have on output.
3 New methods of harvest
ing, diying and storing also
help counteract unfavorable
weather
Added to these technologi
cal advances is the vastness
of the country itself, with
its wide vanety of crops and
climatic conditions Locally,
farm conditions may vary,
but nationally they pretty
much even out
The editors predicted that
fanners would continue to ap
ply record amounts of fer
tilizers and weed killers this
year as they seek to increase
pi eduction efficiency They
also repoited these trends;
Increased emphasis on
farmstead feeding, the prac
tice of keeping livestock in
total confinement the year
aiound Also greater mechani
zation at the faranstead
Use of narrow row® in
planting many type of field
ci ops as a way to bigger
yields
Gi eater use of upright silos
foi the making of com silage
and haylage
(Slat floors in livestock
buildings to increase manure
handling efficiency
Incorporation of weed and
insect killing chemicals in
the soil as fanners plant, in
stead of adding them later.
As early as 1856, Horace
Greeley sponsored a corn
growing contest for New 1 York
boys, a forerunner of 4-H
Club contests Rural school
supi inter dents and college ex
periment stations promoted
contests in crop production
and soil testing in the early
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