Farm Irrigat* in
Doubled In ’6G
Drought Year
HARRISBURG—Eight billion
gallons of water were poured
on Pennsylvania farmland from
irrigation systems in 1966
the state’s fifth con s e cutive
drought year—according to the
Pennsylvania Crop Reporting
Service.
But, the service noted, it
was "only a drop in the buc
ket.” Rainfall in Pennsylvania
during a normal year is esti
mated at 32 trillion gallons—
about 4,000 times the amount
of water applied to fields last
year by irrigation systems.
The use of water on agri-
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"Everything About The
And HORNCO FEEDS
Says; JAMB CROFF, Lancaster, Pa.
"I know I can depend on my HORNCO
serviceman for help with my poultry
problems. The company is prompt in
delivery and the driver is always careful
to avoid waste.
ing HORNCO FEED and look forward
to many years of friendly relationship
with D. E. Horn & Company."
Jim’s
280 Days* of Production
Conversion to date and 203 Eggs per
* Record started at 24 weeks of age.
FEEDS
D. E. Horn & Co., Inc York, Pa. n. 854-7867
cultural land is included In a
preliminary report of an irri
gation! survey being completed
by -the Crop Reporting Serv
ice. It discloses that an esti
mated 45,103 acres of cropland
were watered during last sum
mer’s dry spell, almost double
the acreage irrigated two years
earliei'.
Heaviest use of water was on
more than 9.000 acres of vege
table crops and about 7,000 ac
res of fruits and berries. More
than 6,000 acres of potatoes—
about 17 percent of the state
total—were irrigated.
PCRS also rep oiled that 6,-
000 acres of field corn were ir
rigated, but pointed out that
this represented less than one
percent of the harvested acre
age.
Irrigation systems were em-
I'm happy to be feed-
Record with His 6400
average Hen Housed.
Area Oliver Dealers
See Equip. Preview
Two Lancaster County Oliver
farm equipment dealers and
their representatives attended
Oliver Corporation's Growing
“0” field demonstrations this
ployed in 63 of Pennsylvania’s
67 counties last year, the sur
vey disclosed. Only Cameron,
Elk, Forest and Jefferson coun
ties were listed as non-users.
By contrast. 7,000 acres in 47
counties were irrigated in 1949.
The survey also disclosed
that 114 farmers reported us
ing irrigating equipment for
the first time in 1966. One hun
dred and four farmers were
first-time users in 1965.
D. E. HORN
Appeals To
is
TOP PERFORMANCE AND EFFICIENT
SERVICE TWO OF THE REASONS WHY
MORE POULTRYMEN ARE FEEDING
HORNCO THAN EVER BEFORE. WHY NOT
CHECK WITH YOUR NEIGHBOR WHO
FEEDS HORNCO?
week at Ilcrshcy Farms, Hcr
shey.
Nelson Hershey. president of
N. G. Hershey & Son, Inc. Man
helm, attended with Galen Hos
ier and Ammon Shelley. Also
attending was Ivan Noll, presi
dent of Farmcrsvillc Equip
ment Co., Inc. of Ephrata R 2.
with Bud Buch, Charles Hack
man and Phares Musser.
The farm equipment men saw
a wide range of new products
for the coming fall, winter, and
spring seasons introduced
and many of them were demon
strated under actual field
operating conditions, often in
competition with similar-sized
models made by other manu
facturers.
Cage Layers after
a 4.13 lb. Feed
Lancaster Fanning, Saturday. July 2.9.1967
Dealers from throughout
&CO.
Me"
several slates in the area wit
nessed Oliver president Sam
White. Jr, and his top manage
ment (cam liom the Chicago
headqtiaileis ol Ihe hum and
conti udois equipment subsi
diaiy ol White Motor Corpoia
tion piesenl the new products.
These will be icady Jor distri
bution In dcalais ami cuslomeis
later this vear On Tuesday,
Fanners Day, dealers within
duvmg langc attended with
their invited local faun quests
to view the new machinery in
action
The two-day held event was
one ol eleven such dcmon»tia
tions being piesenled in pi in
cipal agi icultui al ureas aeioss
the countiy (lining July, Aug
ust, and September.
PENAR
Available now at
P. L. ROHRER & BRO.
SMOKETOWN, PA.
Ph. 397-3339
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