Lancaster farming. (Lancaster, Pa., etc.) 1955-current, February 19, 1966, Image 15

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    PREP ARE SPRAYERS State University. Replace
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GROW SWEET CORN
CASH CROP
HARVESTING AND HAULING AVAILABLE
JOHN F. COPE CO., BNC.
Manheim, Pa. Office Phone 898-2206
Field Representatives
JOHN L. BARE
898-7010 Lane.
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There are plenty of good reasons why Chore-Matic is America’s
top poultry feeding system (ask your neighbor, he probably has
one>. Any place in the house every bird has a complete, fresh, clean
feed ration that’s not picked over. Waste and contamination are
virtually eliminated. Chore-Matic gives 30% more feeding space
over trough type feeders. Entire line raises and lowers easily for
fast floor'cleaning. Auger gently moves feed to pans l , doesn’t grind
or separate feed. And the versatile Chore-Matic system provides
completely automated feeding for any size poultry house. Sure it’s
mimjser-one. Always has been, alway% will be. But then it should.
Chore-Matic is, the original auger type feedjng system,
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HALFWAY TO MARKET are these 100-pound porkers being raised as an.
FFA swine fattening project by Robert Weaver. He got started with swine when
he was awarded the Sears’ gilt several years ago. L. F. Photo
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< 365 LIBERTY STREET, EAST
J P. O. Box 1233, Lancaster, Pennsylvania
Anderson Box Co.
PO. Box 31157
Indianapolis, Ind.
□ Send literature □ Have salesman call
Address.
City.
.Phone 717-394-9204
Lancaster Farming, Saturday, February-19, 1966—7
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.State.
• Robert Weaver
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include such sports as base
ball and basketball. Locally,
he has participated in tele-
Msi'on programs which his
chapiter has piesented in the
Lancaster area. He traveled
to Kansas City last Fall with,
several chapter-mates and
their instructor to attend the
National FFA Convention.
During State FFA Week last
summer at Penn State he
achieved honorable mention
in the Farm Mechanics con
test. At the last annual
meeting of the Inter-State
Milk Producers’ Cooperative
in Philadelphia, he represent
ed the Garden Spot Chapter,
In addition to all of these
and county chapter ac
tivities, he raises two acres
of corn and one acre oof to
bacco, caies foi a dairy heif
ei and a pen of fattening
pigs These are the projects
he carnes as part of the vo
cational agriculture work
penence piogram.
Bob, a quiet, but intense,
soit ot boy, appeals to use
his available time to best ad
\ antage. Theie isn’t mu'ch.
wasted motion in what he
does, and appaiently his fel
low FFA menvbeis recogniz
ed this efficient qu'ality when
they chose him to lead the
cou'nty chapter tin's year.
• Pesticide Research
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tiom the Agucultural Exten
sion Seivice and the Penn
sylvania Department of Agri
cultm e
The stepped-up i esearclx
progiam will answer some
ot the Questions regaiding
the ielation of pesticides to
plant and animal ecology and
human health Frear points
out that-lesearch in the pes.
ticide field is a highly spe.
claimed subject loqmnng
laige investments in equip
ment and manpower
At the time chemical re
search on pesticides was be
gun at Penn State in 19 33,
less than a dozen insecticides
iwere in common use, and
about half that .number of
fungicides Today, hundreds
ot chemicals are used to con
trol algae, birds, trees,
snails, and rabbits to men
tion a tew. Most of today’s
■chemicals are organic com
pounds, some of a highly
complex nature, according t*
Frear.
Interest- tn cooperative work
is already indicated by facul.
ty memibers in fields o£
agronomy, animal science,
pla-nt pathology,.and forestry
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