<**••• - * . * « J #• r »<* * The directors of the Farm and Home, Foundation, met on the site of the Mew building Monday morning to launch the, wrap-up of the -farm gifts campaign among Lancaster County farmers. Jack Lee, New Holland Machine Co., sitting in for co-chairman Lawrence H. Skromme, reported that only 28 per cent of the. campaign cards have come back. Lee said 156 thousand dollars are ST * •'* * - * "W S, v ~ < - f 1 ****** ■*-» f-* You're taking a chance! If you’ve been in the habit of “booking” your feed before new-crop information is available, you have been taking a chance with your feedlot results. Youmafce money by producing the lowest cost pound ©f beef, not by savinglpennies on a “cheaper,” less efficient supplement or ration. A good booking means nothing unless the feed itself is of high quality. S© why, not wait untityouhave talked with us about Purina’s feeding prQgrams. They feature Purina Cattle Starters that will put cattle on full feed the very first day. And they contain supplements “built-to-fit” your own particular grain and roughages. Or complete Cattle Chows that can save you work and may cut feeding costs. Ask' its also how you can protect your cost with Purina’s Firm Price Plan. ' ■ ' r . 1 -J. Mr Ira Landis J w . Ph: 569-0531 : . 179 Valley Ml, Lancaster ** v i t James H4gh & Sons Ph: 35*0301,' Gordonvillc . LOW COST PRODUCTION... , tha reason more cattlemen feed PURINA SECOND SECTION -John B. Kurtz Ph: 354-9351 K. D. 3, Ephrata -f - u .West Willow Formers Wenger's Feed Mill, Assn., Inc. Inc. Ph: 464-3431 Ph: 367-1195 - West Willow R bee ms still needed. Levi Brubaker, co-chairman, speak ing of the good crop year said, “There are few farmers that can’t spare $lOO this year. These are the people who we must get interested in this fine op portunity to help in the development of agriculture.” In the photo above the sprawling complex is rapidly taking shape at the junction of Routes 30 and 230. L. F. Photo John J. Hess, 11, Inc. Ph: 442-463* Paradise Soil Testing Laboratory Dedicated At Penn State University Park - Dedication The new Soil Testing Lab ceremonies here recently mark- oratory will be, in « manner ct ed the official opening of the new Soils and Forage Testing £ r00 ?^ n 3L* acitl H“_?° c * m P a * 'Laboratory which, officials of W. Wayne Hlnish, aasocl- B,*. it™ ate professor of agronomy Ex -22? SZ' tension at Perm State point* m^*n.i+b y ’ out Hiidsih, a University monwealth ‘homeowners ami farmers the most compreben- , W £?, sive testing program tound •l • IA.. )i in uiA < st i Ei6) said it arUl now Jj* ZfSZ&’SlttSt which houses ultrsrnioucrn i. j • equipment inehnJine a "hook- SSLST e " M ‘”“ “ *■“ TZ Laboratory analysis of sett puter center, were turned over -tt to Dr. Russell E. Larson, dean ™ of the College of Agriculture by State Secretary of Agricul tore Leland H. Bull, through JJ®| t whose department, the Gener- al State P Authority provided “ pSeXX fttnds for the buiang project. s-s s? 1 •• «i.*s ommendations under the new Physical characteris ta®fs the modem equipment partieularily depth, and computer provides, Dr. “ i „„ 4SI? Larson said “within the next •“* "IfS. few years, we expect to add 'itH** greatly to our knowledge aibout (Continued % ) the nutrient status of Pennsyl- vania soils. With this inform*- tion available, it will be pos- V»U€ITlSey LOW able to solve’many of the nu- I¥__ |_|* U tritional problems that have "do nigll IxtSCOIXI tended to restrict maximum PETERBOROUGH, N.H. yieW potentials of certain Beaulea Perfect Anne, a-Sen agronomic and horticultural ior nine year old. Registered crops.” Guernsey cow, owned by R. F. The new improved Forage and L. A. Witmer, Willow Testing Service which will be Street, has completed an of operational later this year, ficial DHIR actual production will also provide fast efficient- record of s 12,920 pounds of service to farmers who want to milk and 572 pounds of ibutter know the nutritional status of fat, in 305 days two- times a their grasses 'and' legumes;'day-milking, according" toTtor Computers will be used to con- American: Guernsey Cattle vert forage analysis inform*- Club. " - - fkm into economically forma- The testing was supervised fated feed rations for meat and t>y Pennsylvania State' Univet dairy animals. sity. October 21, 1867—33