t’s Not Give All The
e
redit To The Feed!
Performance
and
Excellent Breeding,
Housing of a good healthy pullet,
Top flight management on the part of the producer, and
A feeding program fitted to get Optimum Performance
from the birds.
Feed alone won’t do it, but . . . your chances
are better with THE EARLY BIRD LINE.
kre's Proof:
Among the eleven producers in our delivery area recently honored by a notional
organization for outstanding egg production.
/E are users of Early Bird Feeds and Service,
UR competing feeds shared honors with the remainder.
I mong the Five Fatly Bird Users:
Production for 14 twenty-eight day periods ranged
from 242 to 278 eggs per hen housed.
9 Livability ranged from a low of 84.4% to a high of
94.6%.
Conversions ranged from 3.69 ibs.
eggs in cages to 3.78 lbs. on slats.
producer kept his hens beyond the 14 periods and had 318.6 eggs per hen housed
15 days of production.
You'll like the results you get from Eorly Bird Feeds.
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Low Cost Egg Production
RESULTS FROM A COMBINATION OF
Miller 6? Bushong, Inc.
FINEST SERVICE ANYWHERE
Rohrerstown, Pa.
Ph. Lancaster 392-2145
(Area Code 717)
of feed per dozen
NEWS
I ll NORTHERN CONSV.
CLUB HEARS TALK
by Curtis Horst, reporter
The tilth meeting of the
Not them I ancastei County 411
Soil and Water Conservation
Club was held at the home of
Aaron Stauffer, Ephrata Rl,
on March 23
Phillip Zimmeiman. Ephrata
Rl, gave a talk on “How Soils
Absorb Water”
DONEGAL-E’TOWN CLUB
ELECTS NEW OFFICERS
by Frances Bixler, reporter
On March 14, tne club met
at Donegal High School. The
following officers were elect
ed: president, Jeff Witman;
vice president, Joe Wivell. sec
retary, ~ Yimgmgei, as
sistant secretary, Kathy Ney;
treasurer, Faye Bi übaker. song
leader, Lois Hosslei. game
leaders, Floience Bixler and
Toni Wivell and news repoit
ers, Donna Hossler and Fran
ces Bixler Baseball captain,
Barry Hossler, and county coun
cil representative, Jeff Witman.
The club leaders are Chnst
Miller, strawberries, Kenneth
Borry, field com and pigs, Paul
Hess, capons, Mis John Heu,
flowers and vegetables, Willis
Hackman, tobacco: and Victor
Plastow, eountv extension lead
er
Meetings will be held the sec
ond Tuesday of each month.
The next meeting will be Api it
11, at the Donegal High School.
4-H COMMUNITY CLUB
REORGANIZES AT LINCOLN
by Barry Weitzel, reporter
The Lincoln 4-H Community
Club was leoigamzed onMaich
21 at the Mount Any FneHall.
The following officei s wei e
elected piesident, David Lem
inger; vice president, Eugene
Bollinger, seeietaiy, Phillip Le
imnger, tieasuiei, Deboi all
Weitzel, news icpoitei, Bany
Weitzel, game leadeis, Joyce
Weaver and Timothy Edwaids;
song leader Debbie Schantz,
and county council repiesenta
tive, David Lemmgei
Associate county agent Vic
tor Plastow discussed some of
the projects that can be taken
by the irembeis such as,
corn, tobacco, sweetcoi n, sti aw
bernes, ve g e table gai dening,
fioweis, rabbits, pigs, and ca
pons
Anyone between the ages of
9 and 19 who is interested in
joining the club is invited to
attend the next meeting to be
held at the Mt Any Fne Hall
on April IS, at 7 30 pm
• Lancaster Auction
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COWS Utility and high
yielding Cutter 18 25 19 35, lew
19 50-19 85 Cuttei 16 50-18 50.
Canner and low Cuttei 15 50-17.
BULLS Good and Choice
23-2450, couple Choice 2510-
25 25. Utilitv and Commercial
22 50-24 50, couple 1530-1740 lbs.
24 85-25.50
CALVES 180 Vealeis slow
steady to S 2 lowei, most de
cline on Good and Choice
VEALERS Choice 38 50-
42 50, 3 head at 42-42 50 Good
36-39 Standard 33-36 50 Util
ity 28 50 32 50 Cull 22 25 50
HOGS 338 Banows and
Gilts 75-1 25 lowei
BARROWS 4.ND GILTS
US 1 & ? 200-250 lbs 18 50-
19, 15 head US 1 215 lbs 19 50
1-3 195-250 lbs 18-18 50 US 3
285-310 lbs 17 10 and one lot
mixed weight 1 & 2 a\eragmg