6—Lancaster Parmin,
Home Economics
Scholarships
Are Available
Twenty-four scholarships of
$2OO each will be available for
the 1967-68 academic year from
the Lydia Tarrant-Extension
Homemakers Scholarship Fund,
announces T. H. Patton, direc
tor of the Cooperati' a Exten
sion Service or Penn State Uni
versity.
These scholarships are avail
able to students majoring in
home economics and enrolled at
all the four-year accredited
home economics schools or col
leges in Pennsylvania.
Contributions of women ac
tive in the home economics ex
tension program throughout the
Commonwealth support the
fund. Donations for the 1966-67
fiscal year totaled $5,100.
Students interested in apply
ing for one of the scholarships
may obtain information from
the head of the Department of
Home Economics at the college
where they will be enrolled as
sophomores, ju.nors, or seniors
this fall.
Established in 1953 at the
first Extension Homemakers
Week, the fund has provided
SET YOUR CLOCK FOR NEXT YEAR'S
CROP WITH OUR FALL-WINTER
FERTILIZATION PROGRAM
Lay your plans now to beat the weather by top
dressing yearly Legumes and applying plow down
mixtures this fall.
Try CONESTOGA BRAND FERTILIZERS
For these services
Chickweed killer alfalfa mixtures
All fall grain analysis '
Special mixing to soil test
Bulk spread Pick up or bags
' Special terms on fall plow downs.
Make Conestoga Brand your winner this fall.
LANCASTER BONE
FERTILIZER CO., INC.
Quarryville Oxford
786-2547 215-932-8323
Saturday. September 9,1967
• Frey's Dairy
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lor. It takes four men in the
barn three hours to milk.
Twelve silos the largest a
newly constructed 30’x80’ one
supplies the herd with hay
lage and corn silage. Alfalfa
and corn are the only crops
grown
With all the size of this op
eration the average yearly
milk production per cow is
still eleven to twelve thousand
pounds. The milk tank holds
4.000 gallons and daily pro
duction now is about 12,000
pounds.
The four men employed in
the barn never get to the field
and four other employees be
side Armor and Jay do the
field work. They have nine
tractors.
As the cows go dry they are
taken from the free-stall barn
and placed in the old barn for
a week until they are com
pletely dry. Then they are
placed in a pen with a me
chanical feeder. Here they re
ceive all the silage they can
eat and only six pounds of
243 scholarships totaling $36,-
500.
For the 1966-67 academic
year, 24 students received scho
larships. They represented 14
different colleges, says Patton.
grain « day. Shortly before The Freys have increased the tour also stopped in York
freshening they are moved their herd from 200 head to County at Sulking Springs
(back to the old barn and the the present 400 in the last year Farm and Rutter Bros. They
grain is gradually increased to and a half. They want to add continued on to The Atlantic
15 or 20 pounds a day. The another 50 head in the next Breeders headquarters for a
best milking cows get up to 25 year. charbroiled steak evening meal
pounds of grain a day. The two hundred people on and open house.
COWS EATING FROM THE BUNK
stretched through the 420 foot free-stall
barn on the FREY’S DAIRY FARM,
Now 5 engines to choose from with
the Allis-Chalmers One-Ninety tractor!
Pick the fuel, pick the power you
want for 5-bottom work! Gasoline or
diesel in the One-Ninety—or get 15
to 20 extra horses in the new One-
Ninety XT, diesel, gasoline or LP
gas. No matter which one you pick,
L. H. Brubaker
Lancaster, Pa.
Nissley Farm Service N. G. Myers & Son
Washington Boro, Pa. Rheems, Pa.
Grumelli Farm Service
“This One-Ninety is <
whole tractor family!
Quarryville, Pa.
Conestoga R 2. The National Breeders
Tour stopped here on, their way from
Hershey.
you’ll be getting the workin’est,
easiest-operating 5-plow tractor you
ever saw! You have to experience a
One-Ninety to know how great it is.
We’ll be glad to provide the experi
ence. Drop in and see us!
Allen H. Matz Form Equipment
New Holland
L. H. Brubaker
Lititz, Pa.
Chef 1 Long
Akron, Pa.