—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, June 18, 1966
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Modern Farmer Needs The Tools Of
Big Business, Dean Tells Bankers
Ur Russell E. Larson, dean
of the College of Agriculture
at Penn State University, told
an agricultural credit confer
ence at the Univeisity last
week that the farmer today
needs all the tools of big bus
iness a sophisticated rec
oi els keeping system, modern
farm management techniques,
and an understanding of the
pioper use of capital and
ci edit
The business of agriculture
in Pennsylvania, the Dean
said, accounts for some 30 per
cent of all manufacturing
plants. 19 peicent of the total
industrial production, 32 per
cent of the total dollar vol
ume of wholesalers, and 35
peicent ot total retail sales
Looking to the future, Lar
son piedicted “an increasing
volume of agticultural prod
ucts will be produced by fewer |
people and by fewei but larg |
ei business units with morel
peisonnel to seivice them” j
NFU President
Calls ’67 Wheat
Plan Inadequate
Vdtional Faimeis Union
Piesident Tony T Dechant
said lecently that the piovi
sions of the 1967 wheat pio
giam announced Thuisday by
Societal y of A.gncultme Or
ville Fieeman ‘do not live up
to the puce and income ob
jectives and expectations' of
his oiganization
The national faim leade,
said that ‘faimeis should not
be expected to pioduce when*
loi expoit and food tor peace
use at the SI 25 level estab
lished loi 1967 ’ He called
upon the Admimsti ation to
use its authoiitc undei the
Food and Agncultuie Act ot
1965 to establish 25c-pei-bushel 1
expoit ceitificates
He indicated that if the 'Vd
munsti alien did not act to
boost expoit puces his 01-
ganization may pi ess toi an
amendment to the 1965 foui
yeai faun law making ceitifi
cates mandatoiy
Dechant noted that the
blend puce launeis leceue
lot all of then wheat pioduc
tion would di op Horn SI 84 to
SI 79 unclei the 1967 piogunn
because of a deciease in the
piopoition of then output
used domestically Food wheat
consumed in the U S is sup
potted at lull pauty “The
costs of pioduclion will not go
down they can be expected
to use again But the pio
giam announced vesteiday ie
quiies the Jaimei to take a
sc-pei -bushel beating in his
total letum he said
Dechant pointed out that
the wheat cauvmei on Tul\
1 1967 is expected to be down
to aiound 350 million bush
els less than one lout th ol a
yeai’s iequu ements even with
the 15 pei cent mcieasc in al
lotments lecenlh announced
He said this is tai below the
620 million bushe, level lecom
mended as a minimum stia
tcgic teseive
Conti aiv to the views ol
some cichisois to the Seue- 1
tc. tv ol Agncultuie I am con .
Miiced that additional income!
must be piOMded it faimeisi
to mciease pi eduction
commensuiale with spualingj
mods at home and abioad 1
Ihe development ol sevei e i
uheat shoitages similai to
what is Declining today m the
daily industiy, is not a ie
mote possibility It is veiy 1
neatly upon us.’ he declaied |
die
He said that the world popu
lation explosion poses a great
challenge for agriculture, not
ing published reports that our
nation will have to discard ag
ricultural restraints and “gear
up’’ to feed the increasing
number of people.
Lai son also told the 75
bankers attending the meet
ing of the trend toward auto
mation on the farm due to
the scarcity and expense of
labor, the growth of speciali
zation in farming and the con
centration of market power in
to fewer organizations
“A stiong agncultuie is the
Use these Red Rose Poultry Feeds:
RED ROSE LAYING MASH or
RED ROSE COMPLETE LAYING RATION-
contain mmeials, nutuents and antibiotics in pi op
eily balanced amounts to give layeis a peifect
diet so they can piocluce at high lates
RED ROSE T-C FEED
This is the feed you want to use to extend the
peuods of high egg laying, impiove feed efficiency
in the piesenee of disease times of stiess fiom
moving, vaccinations, extieme tempeiatuie changes
oi woiming Feed Red Rose T-C Feed foi three to
five davs when feed intake slumps and vigor is
low
Walter Binkley & Son
Brown & Rea
Atglcii
Elverson Supply Co.
Elverson
L. T. Geib Estate
Mdnheim
I. B. Graybill & Son
Rcfton Strasburg
E. M. Heisey
Sloping Wire Floors
Control Egg* Problems
PSU Experiment Shows
Sloping wire floors in poul
try houses, combined with roll
a-way nests, can control the
pioblems of eggs laid on poul
try house floors, stated Dr.
Glenn 0. Bressler of the poul
try science department at
Penn State Univeisi'v during
a sales and service short
course held recently at Uni
versity Park.
Bressler said the floor egg
pioblem was brought under
control last year at Penn
State, the first year of expeii
ments with the sloping wire
floor Eggs laid or. the floor
in the solar house. Feed con
basis of a strong economy,” version for all flocks kept on
Larson stated. wire floors was 41 pounds of
See These Dealers For Your Feeds
Litit/
Hit. Jo.v
roll to the center aisle where
they are gathered along with
nest eggs, ho explained.
In both solar ana window
less houses at Penn State’s poul
tiy farm, involving over 6,000
Leghorn layers, pullet produc
tion averaged better than 250
eggs per layer in 12 months
of lay, starting with pullets
22 weeks old. Capital invest
ment, it was pointed out, runs
less than $3.00 pei layer for
house and equipment in the
sloping wire floor system of
egg production.
• Mortality in the windowless
house was less than 5 per
cent and in the solar house
about 10 percent, the differ
ence being due to cannibalism
A good layer never knows when to stop work . . .
as long as she is getting a good, high energy feed.
As a chick, a hen needed a feed with high growth
factors and a capacity for creating disease resis-
tance As a pullet she needed feeds to develop her
body As a layer a hen needs high energy feeds
such as Red Rose
required for heavy egg laying.
Heistand Bros.
Elizabethtown
A. L. Herr & Bro.
Quarryville
David B. Hurst
Bowmansville
Mountville Feed Service
Momitville
Musser Forms, Inc.
Columbia
Musser's Mill
The Buck
foed per dozen eggs. This per
formance, .Bressler pointed out,
was achieved with pullets
housed at two-thirds of a
square foot per layer. Pullets
housed on 'litter at eight
tenths square foot per layer
did not do as well, he added.
In addition to controlling
the floor egg problem, the
sloping wire floor system has
advantages of simplicity, speed,
and ease of egg gathering from
egg trays in the center aisle.
Rate of egg breakage is low
and the eggs are clean. An
other advantage is the rapid
drying of droppings in well
insulated houses using a pres
surized ventilation system.
This makes manure handling
easier and reduces the quan
tity to be removed, Bressler
concluded.
your clue to
profits from the
hen house lies in
better feeding!
to provide the nutrients
Red Rose
SUPER HORSE FEED
Vitamins A - D - E - Riboflavin,
B complexes and everything
that is good for horses is blended
into this high quality ration. TRY
IT!
for High Performance
and Top Condition!
Chas. E. Sauder & Sons
Terre Hill
Ammon E. Shelly
Lititi
L. M. Snavely
Litit?
E. P. Spotts, Inc.
Honey Brook_
H. M. Stauffer & Sons,
Witmer
Inc.