Lancaster farming. (Lancaster, Pa., etc.) 1955-current, June 01, 1968, Image 21

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irow In Same Space
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Two plants can not grow in
the same space at the same
;ime. Pasture grasses and weeds
KAFSTAL
The stall for easy
individual care
This sturdy built calf stall promotes
hay and grain feeding earlier which means
bigger and healthier calves.
KAFSTAL also prevents sucking prob
lems, uses little bedding and is draft free.
We also build wagon beds, veal stalls and picnic tables.
Glenn M. Hoover
R. D. 1, Leola Ph. 656-6556
nothing compares with the
bright, refreshing taste
of ice-cold milk!
Pound for pound, ounce for ounce-milk is by far your best food value!
In fact, if the nutritional values in milk were paid for at the current
prices of other foods, milk would sell for more than fifty cents a quart—
nearly twice the price you pay right now.
The next time you slop at the dairy counter, remember this. A single
quart of milk is equal in energy value to 10 ounces of steak... 5 Vz
pounds of spinach... 8 eggs.... 9 oranges... or 6 pounds of tomatoes.
For flavor, energy and nutrition—drink plenty of fresh, wholesome
milk. It’s nature’s most perfect food. And it tastes goodl
MILK PRODUCERS
COOPERATIVE ASSOCIATION, INC.
KINNE ROAD, SYRACUSE, NEW YORK 13214
Bargaining Voice for 10,000 Leading Dairymen
in New York, Pennsylvania and Vermont
can not both occupy the same
spot.
But “It is amazing to observe
the weedy pastures in Mary
land.” says Dr. James Paro
chetti, University of Maryland
weed control specialist.
“Broadleaved weeds are the
most common, and there Is us
ually no need to live with these
weeds,” he adds. “They are li
terally robbing the farmer in
many ways; some of the weeds
are poisonous; they steal water;
they steal nutrients, and
most important they steal
space.”
Thistles and buttercups are
the most abundant weed in
many pastures. “Consider the
bull thistle,” he says, “It is not
common to see 100 to 1,000
plants per acre.”
"The bull thistle will grow to
a considerable height, and at
maturity will be about three
feet in diameter.” A plant this
size can occupy as much as four
square feet. A thousand thistles
of this size on an acre would
take 10 per cent of the area out
of grass.
Many farmers fertilize pas
tures at considex-able expense.
Dr. ParoChetti adds. For about
a dollar per acre,, they could
add a pound of 2,4-D and wipe
out many of the broadleaved
weeds that are robbing them
and then livestock.
Some of the perennial and bi
ennial weeds will need to be re
treated for permanent control,
but there is no need to live with
these space thieves in pasture
fields.
Lancaster Farming. Saturday. June 1. 1968
Milk Plants Dwindling, Yet
Fewer Are Producing More
Milk plants are going out of cent in the biggest markets,
business at the rate of about Being small is no asset in the
800 a year. In fact, some 14,000 dairy business. Among other
fluid milk processing plants problems, the small-volume
went out of business between business must cope with high
-1948 and 1965, according to the er costs both fixed and variable.
Economic Research Service for The difference gets larger day
the National Commission on by day with new techniques de-
Food Marketing. Here are some manding costly new equipme it
characteristics of today’s dairy and facilities,
industry, according to the re- The large, well advertised
port; firm can more readily create
The plants producing ice acceptance for its product than
cream and other manufactured t * ie smaller one. And accep
products decreased by about translates itself back into
one-third in the period between volume, as well as price. Pi >
1944 and 1961. curement. too, may be a moj e
In 1964, the four top dairy expensive process for the small
firms in the nation ran 7 per- er firm. .
cent of all plants processing Since it is the little milk pio
fluid milk. They made more ducers who are leaving and the
than a fifth of the total value bi gS ei ' ones who are staying m
of shipments. Output for the the business, there are mme
top foui' was more than three an enough to keep the nation
times the value of shipments by supplied with milk, i-.e
the fifth to eighth largest firms. cream anf l a H t be other van,)-
In 1964 the four largest firms 3 '
accounted for 89 per cent of the p
fluid milk processed in the
smallest of the federal milk or-
der markets studied The shaie
of the top four was only 52 per-
ik Jun& Dcm Marttft
Let’s celebrate the occasion by being extra sure to
eat tasty,' nutritious dairy products at every meal.
Enjoy cold, refreshing milk at every meal
encourage your friends and neighbors to do the
same. Get into the habit of drinking milk regularly.
Sharp cheddar cheese is a hard-to-beat snack. Select
from the wide choice of delicious ice cream flavors
when you order or serve dessert.
We’re proud that many dairymen in this community
are loyal Purina customers. And, we welcome this
opportunity to promote the milk and milk products
they produce.
Why not make a mid-year resolution to use more
of their dairy products in June ... and throughout
the whole yearl
John J. Hess, 11, Inc.
Ph: 442-4632
Paradise-
Wenger's Feed Mill
Inc.
Ph: 367-1195
Rheems
Ira B. Landis James High & Sons
Ph: 569-0531 Ph; 354-0301
779 Valley Road, Lancaster Goidonville
Surface designs of embossed
cotton aio impiessed in the lab
ile >s pait of the finishing op
eiation
John B. Kurtz
Ph: 354-9251
R. D. 3, Ephrata
West Willow
Farmers Assn., Inc.
Ph: 464-3431
West Willow
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