Management Is Biggest Factor In Farm Success Ability to manage is more im portant in determining a farm er’s success than the size of his, farm, the quality of his land or his particular enterprise, says W. T„ McAllister, extension farm management specialist at the University of Delaware. The real auierence between the successful and marginal businessman farmer or store keeper is his ability to man age all available resources: to SPECIAL PRICES VO FARMERS ON MICHIGAN PEAT Contact Us Now and Save HUBER NURSERIES 2050 Fruitville Pike, Lane. Ph: 569-2009 loader Sander blade Both Loader and Blade use the same Attaching Brackets. . . . From This . . . t* M V “Why wait until you are ‘snowed in’ again before getting prepared with a SAUDER LOADER, SNOW BUCKET or BLADE? Remember! Some of the‘worst’ snow storms we’ve had in Lancaster County have come in MARCH.” Mfg. by ™ UR LOCAL w W NEW HOLLAND, PA. T Q ODAY DEALER alliir irii. * PHONE - 354-8721 have that “sixth sense’’ that an ticipates problem situations and the intelligence and skill to make good management decisions at the right time. •Good farmers tend to gravi tate toward the highest quality farm land. Farms can be too small or too poor and some en terprises have such low earning power that even a good manager would find it difficult to be suc cessful, says McAllister A good manager will recognize the lim itations of his farm and do some thing about them rather than letting them limit his success for the rest of his life He adds that one of the basic weaknesses of poor managers is their failure to control the little things that make up the whole management job. As an exam ple, McAllister cites a farmer’s failure to make sure corn plant ers were working properly be fore planting: instead he discov ered a partial stand later. “The tendency in this situation is to blame the seed, the weather, somebody except yourself,’’ he says. In many cases, manage ment, or lack of it, was at fault —wrong size seed plates, worn plates, failure to check plantc accuracy, planting too deep, cr No Wrenches required to change from one to the other. "Fits” Many Makes and Models of wide Front Axle Tractors. Loader Accessories: v ■* JtiM&h " * SPRING TRIP MODELS NOW AVAILABLE FOR SNOW PLOWS. if 4-H NEWS The third meeting of the Northern Lancaster County 4-H Soil & Water Conservation Club was held last week at the Twin Pine Auto Sales. Twenty-seven members were present. Lucy Weaver demonstrated how to use a slope finder, and.* Mary Ann Weaver and Karen Horst demonstrated the rate of water infiltration into bare soil and into ground covered with grass Associate county agent Jay Ir- some other human error that could be prevented through proper management Management is doing things right or seeing that they get done co rectly and this means looking after details One of the farmei’s big problems is that he is co istantly under so much pressure to get the 30b done that he doesn’t take time to organize his work and follow through on details Tins follow-through on details Larry and Dennis Rohrer dem is likely to be the difference be- onstrated the flow of electricity tween being average and being in the Engine’s Electrical Sys in the top 10 percent of success- tem; Ken Risser, The Starter ful farmers, concludes McAllis- and All Its Parts, and Jeff Uls ter. ser. How a Fuel Injector Works. vin spoke of the importance of giving a demonstration. Aaron Stauffer showed slides of con servation vs. no conservation in Lancaster County in 1967. Lucy Weaver was elected as a county council member The next meeting will be on March 1 at Twin Pine Auto Sales, west of Ephrata. SOIL & WATER CONSV. CLUB The meeting of the Southern "Lancaster County 4-H Soil and Water Conservation Club was held this week at the home of David Charles, New Providence R 1 Orval Bass of the Soil Con servation Service was the speak er and showed a film, “Beyond Tomorrow” Next meeting will be March 4, 8 p m , at the home of Ira Welk, Quarryville R 3. CENTRAL 4-H TRACTOR CLUB Three demonstrations high lighted the Central 4-H Tractor Club meeting held at L H Bru bakers, Strasburg Pike last week. To This . . . - ? Lancaster Farming, Saturday, February 24,1968 Blade Accessories: Side Plates Poultrymen Need To Classify Decisions Poultry managers should clas sify their decisions into what they are going to control or what are they going to react to, ac cording to Herb Jordan, Penn State Poultry Specialist. Foi in stance, wholesale egg price can not be controlled bj one poultry man so he learns to react to it by (1) culling lazy layers dur ing low egg prices, (2) mciease home labor to sort eggs so the egg processing plant need not charge him so much for piocess ing, (3) keeping a very close eye on bird health or, (4) get ting rid of or molting the whole flock if the time is right However, a situation like poul tiy house management can be controlled The poultryman can install fans and thermostats for ventilation control, and insula tion and ventilation for house temperature control; also he can decide to increase or deciease bird density, reanange equip ment location or change light intensity, day length, or air flow. So poultry house environment is controllable while wholesale egg price is not. Good poultry man agers know the difference and control only the items they can while reacting only to factors they have no control over Skids 19
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