A POLISH HOLSTEIN. Mr. and
Mrs. Henry Hackman, Manheim R 2,
visited a 7,500 acre government farm in
Poland this summer where he photo
graphed this black and white cow. The
herd average on 700 head is 10,758
pounds of milk and 436 pounds of but
• Hackman
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divided into 12 farms. They
have 500 laborers taking care
of 1,600 dairy cows, heifers
and bulls, as well as 3,000
sheep and' a large number of
swine.
The top producing Holstein
has a record of 22,110 pounds
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of milk with 836 pounds of
(butterfat. The herd average on
700 head is 10,768 pounds of
milk and 436 pounds of butter
fat. Hackman said the Holstein
of Poland is more beefy than
our own. They test for TB
twice a year and their breed
ing is done through artificial
insemination.
A bull stud is part of the
Agway
terfat. Top record in the herd is 22,110
pounds of milk and 836 pounds of but
terfat. Hackman said their cows have
more beef type than our dairy cows
here. Edmund Apolinarski, director of
the farm, is shown holding the cow.
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fa:m operation. They have en
larged this operation from 15
head in 1960 to the present 50
bulls. They breed 83 to 85
thousand cows per year and
their first service conception
rate is 74 percent. Most of the
cows they breed are owned by
private dairymen.
Crops on the farm include
oats, wheat, barley, rape and
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Lancaster Farming, Saturday, November 4,1967 —7
THE EDMUND APOLINARSKI FAMILY, near
Poznan, Poland. Apolinarski is the director of a 7,500
government farm Mr. and Mrs. Henry Hackman visited
on their summer trip to Europe.
rye. The growing season is not
long enough to grow corn for
grain but they do fill the I
silos with corn. The pictures
show their corn every bit as
good as our own silage corn.
Yields on the grain crops
show their good fertilization
piogram. Oats yield 97 bu. per
acre,' barley 56, rape 41 and
iye 40. And they get 20 tons
per acre on their sugar beets.
And, since 17 percent of the
gross weight of sugar beets is
sugar, this means they are get
ting 3.4 tons of actual sugar
per acre.
Hackman has pictures of
oats as tall as a man, irriga
tion of pasture land and ma
chine-combining of grain on
this farm.
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556.97
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7.34
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$99.00
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524.00
512.00
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However, not all private
farms are as modern as this
government one. Eighty-six per
cent of all land is owned by
private farmers. Hackman said
the size of the farms is usual
ly 15 to 30 acres. But even
these small farms are starting
ito become mechanized.
The Hackmans left on their
trip July 5, and returned Au
gust 24.
Control Rats
Before They
Settle Down
Rats and mice move indoors
as soon as weather gets cool; get
rid of them before they settle
down on your farm or in your
home, advises Frank Boys, agri
cultural chemicals extension
specialist at the University of
Delaware. Rat-proof buildings,
starve them out, poison them or
remove their shelter as much as
possible.
Keep all crop storage areas
neat and clean; store sacked
grain and other materials at
least one foot above the floor on
shelves. Clean up old trashpiles
and any other places where rats
or mice might live, breed and
raise their young.
Don’t give a rat a free meal,
Boys cautions. In your home,
keep food covered and properly
stored; use tightly-covered met
al cans for garbage disposal. Be
careful in the farmyard too;
get rid of waste grain and other
potential food from barnlots and
farm buildings.
Try to keep lodents outside
buildings; close as many small
openings into the building as
you can. Unfortunately, rats can
squeeze through half-inch holes
and mice can make it through
quarter-inch holes. Cover sur
faces that rodents could gnaw
through, such as window frames
and the bottoms of doors, with
metal flashings or hardware
cloth.
Unscreened basement floor
drains are an open invitation to
sewer-traveling rats and so are
open spaces aiound pipe en
trances into buildings.
Poisoning is an excellent con
trol method, but be sure you
keep poisoned bait away from
other animals, especially chil
dren, Boys warns. Anticoagu
lants such as diphacm, fumann,
pival and warfarin are effective
poisons. Since this type of poi
son seldom kills with a single
does, keep plenty of bait avail
able for 10 to 14 days.
Put the bait under cover to
protect domestic animals; also,
rats prefer to feed under such
a cover. Boys points out. Put
the bait in several places along
suspected rodent routes and
keep it fresh.
People, plants, animals and
souls all grow the same way —.
a little every day.