AUTOMATIC BALE WAGON picks
up, loads, transports and unloads bales on
a stack or one at a time into a conveyor at
the barn, without manual assistance. With
additional attachments the wagon re
lieves the load-units of bales from the
stack, unloads them one at a time in the
Plants Need Leaves
with the idea it puts added ist at Penn State A good growth
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ilants, and tips of squash, musk- practice, says James 0 Dutt, ex- signs of a healthy garden
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backwasHng of teats riomotes herd
health Large milk mists, sloped milkei
body bottom moves milk fast
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Now any abnormal pulsator or inflation ac
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design permits VISUAL monitoring Body
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eliminates guesswork . prevents twisted
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design insures fast, gentle milkmg
vacuum xeseive under cushion top gives
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LOW CLEARANCE DESIGN . . .
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Lancaster Farming. Saturday. August 31.1968
A Letter To The Editor...
(Ed. Note; Mr. Amos Hive
ly had a milling machine busi
ness in Quarryvillc for about
10 years and has many friends
among the Lancaster Farming
readers. He recently moved to
Australia and it is with pleas
ure that we reproduce (with
Hivcly’s permission) the con
tents of his letter to the editor,
dated August 19, 1968.)
Queensland, Australia
Dear Editor:
Having formerly lived in Lan
caster County and subscribed to
your farm paper for several
years, I felt you might find it of
interest to have a report on ag
riculture from Australia. After
making a trip here in 1967, I
decided to migrate to Australia
and after spending five weeks
and three days on a 9000 ton
freighter we landed July 27,
1968 This is their last month of
winter but it seems more like
October in Pennsylvania. The
temperature at night runs 40 to
50 degrees and the days 60 to 75
We have only had about one and
a half days of rain since we ar
rived and very little cloudy
weather.
Brisbane is the capital of the
state of Queensland, which is an
area twice the size of Texas
Brisbane has a population of
725,000 and is nearly all private
dwellings spread over a vast
area. Queensland has about one
third of all the cattle in Aus
tialia and their large annual
Livestock Show was held here
last week It was on for 10 days
with a total attendance of 621,
000 people. They hold many
sales of the stud cattle (breed
ing stock) and they brought rec
ord prices this year. They sold
270 bulls and 15 females for a
total price of $490,200 making an
average of $1720. The highest
single animal price was $28,000
for a Hereford, which are per
haps the most popular. They
also have Shorthorn, Santa Gert
rudis, Angus, Brahma and Brah
ma crosses As yet they do not
have Charolais but interest »
building and there has been
least three Charolais Associa
tions formed without a single
animal of the breed in Australia
The Charolais semen is to be re
leased from England to be de
livered here next May in a lim
ited quantity. They already hare
more deliveries booked for 1970
and 1971. Cattle numbers hare
increased about 40 percent here
(ince 1950 and sheep are on the
decline. They still have 160 mil
lion sheep, however.
They also had acres of farm
machinery on exhibit, most of
which is larger in size than is
used in Pennsylvania. The larg
est combines run 22 foot head
ers and disk plows as big as 26
bottoms and cultivating tools as
wide as 45 feet New Holland
machines are quite popular here
as well as Gehl, Massey-Fergu
son and John Deere About half
of their farm machinery is A»s
tralia brands
They have a number of sport*
and contests not seen in the
States and are most interesting
to watch Of particular interest
(Continued on Page 17)
Broderick Cites
Farming Importance
Hershey - Lt Gov Raymond
J Brodeuck this week predicted
Pennsylvania farmers will “meet
the challenge of the future” by
doubling production to help feed
millions moie people in the 21st
century
Speaking at the official open
mg of the 1968 National Plow
ing Contest Tuesday, Lt Gov
Biodenck after ribbon cut
ting ceremonies said, “holding
the National Plowing Contest
heie in Pennsylvania dramatical
ly emphasizes the fact that Ag
riculture is and always has been
the key industiy of our Common
wealth
“The business of Agriculture
is the keystone of our nation’s
economy.
“Farming is big business in
Pennsylvania Farmers of the
Keystone State produce over a
billion dollars worth of crops
and livestock a year. We rank
17th in the nation on that score,
and they still call Pennsylvania
an industrial State.
“What of the future? In anoth
er generation and before the
close of this century, each farm
ei will be feeding twice as many
people as he now feeds. If sci
ence and technology continue to
multiply the faimer’s efforts at
the rate of the past 30 years, the
farmers of America will be pre
pared for the challenge of the
20th Century
“I congratulate the officials of
the National Plowing Contest,
Secretary of Agriculture Lee
Bull, Deputy Secretary Jack
Giey, and all the others associat
ed with this exhibition. With
men of your calibre at the helm,
the farmers of Pennsylvania, the
farmers of the United States will
be ready for the challenge of
the next generation.”
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