For Full Market Reports Read Lancaster Farming * CHR>St«^ PRODUCTS Christiana* enna spri^ I®' 1 ®'- 00 ' 1 * 8 Lancaster «• pent l3, T- partt! ® a Vg l Brushes. etu^ toe .• * a S^SS’® 4 ’’ 1 ” 5 prices. * to m he interested "ign v? niv Von vrill jvon GraP j five-tree carload o£ 1 settees, r°^ s t arrived tables, ’planters Ta at We»es- a? CO, cincereiy ? ourS ’. mS Barnes M- M®” 5 ’ School Lunch Uses A Billion Dollars Worth Of Food Yearly On any schoolday, more than 10 million children participate in the School Lunch Program which operates about ISO days a year and uses a~ billion dollars worth of food a year. If they all sat at one lunch room table, on both sides, it would extend 3,600 miles or from Washington, D.C. to 150 miles north of Anchorage, Alaska. Daily they consume some 4,- 750 tons of milk in half-pint car tons plus 82 carloads of ground bef for hamburgers and some 19 million buns. According to Ruth M. Lever ton, Ph.D., of the Agricultural Research Service of the U.S. De partment of Agriculture, the School Lunch Program has grown steadily since t began in 1946 Its potential is as great for the next 20 years for helping to: —Close the nutrition gap be twen food available at home and total food needs, thus meeting current nutritional needs for the child's growth and development —Shore up some nutritive re serves for the child’s future growth, development and well being. —Establish good eating habits through repeated experience with desirable practice. —Reach parents with aids for maintaining nutritional health of their children. —Acquaint teaching staff with the value of encouraging chil dren to eat and enjoy a variety of good food. The same cotton cloth can be finished to appear as chintz, denim, chambray, gingham, moire, m'atelasse, or pique. Lancaster Farming, Saturday. June 1,1968 • Tests (Continued from Page 17) Cows about to be dried off are often milked until the DHIA tester collects and tests his sam ple and are then dried off. Cows just freshening are not tested by the DHIA supervisor until they have ben in milk for 7 days even though this milk is included in the plant sample. Milk taken for home use af fects plant tests but does not af fect DHIA test. This milk will include uses as calf feeding, hired help use, and occasional ice cream making for home use. WE USE QUALITY PAINT AND IT DOES STAY ON!!! Aerial Ladder Equipment Used To Paint Your Farm Buildings • Modern and Efficient Method • Reasonable Prices • Over 10 Years Experience • Spray-on and Brush-in Method Has Proven Most Satisfactory On Over 1000 Barns Of Our Well Pleased Customers. C. RALPH MILLER R, D, 4, Manheim, Pa. fed up with a plugged mower? here's real non-stop __ mowing-conditioning Now you can make hay without getting off the tractor seat. With this new New Idea cut/ditioner which does the work of a mower and a hay conditioner, you get plug-free non-stop in all kinds of hay. ,Jt’s great in heavy, down and tangled Hay which plugs sickle )®ar mowers. Where your mower won’t go, this machine will! Coes speedy job of shredding stalks, cutting weeds, clipping pastures. Available in 7-ft. and 6 ft. models. Windrow attach ment available. ' mum sauimMKHT Chas. J. McComsey Longenecker & Sons Farm Supply Hickory Hill, Pa. Rheems Roy H. Buck, Inc. A. B. C. Groff, Inc. Ephrata, R. D. 2 New Holland Allen H. Matz Wilbur H. Graybill Denver Lititz, R, D. 2 Landis Bros. A, L. Herr & Bro. Lancaster Quarryville Certain mechanical losses will affect the difference In the test at the farm and at the plant. These mechanical losses may be due to spillage or stickage of the cream to the can or bulk tank. Different sampling, testing, or reading methods within the range of error of the test by the parties concerned may be a source of variation. Above all. remember that the DHIA test is of value when prop erly used, but this test should never be considered to be the test on all milk produced during a month. Ph. 665-3388 27
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