12—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, September 7.1968
Attitudes & Platitudes Jerry Marcus
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«You tiiHtr (live Ait motor checked—lt keeps meklnf souimli
like « policemen's whistle."
The Travelers Safely Service
More than 15% of the drivers involved in fatal accidents
in 1967 were women.
Ground Cover
Vegetative cover on the
ground over the winter months
is a very good soil management
piactice. Open fields are subject
to both watei and wind erosion,
these may be quite severe if
there is any slope to the area,
or if there are long periods of
fiozen ground without snow cov
er Farmers still have plenty of
time to seed one of the winter
grains as a cover crop, or use
ryegrass or field bromegrass.
When the cover crop is plowed
down next spring the organic
matter added will help maintain
soil fertility Within the next
month many row crops will be
removed and the cover crop may
be seeded after discing or work
ing the soil lightly. All of these
cover crops mentioned may be
used for livestock grazing until
the snow flies and used again
next spring for early pasture
Fewer turkeys will be raised
ir Pennsylvania this year than
last, but the decline follows a
national tiend Pennsylvania’s
gobbler population is expected
to numbei 1,753 000, a diop of 13
percent fiom 1967, accoiding to
the State Ciop Repoitmg Serv
ice The US tuikey ciop is ex
pected to total 106 9 million, 16
pei cent below last year
Pennsylvania’s crop is expect
ed to total 272,000 in light
breeds, 13 percent greater than
last year, and 1,481,000 heavy
bieeds, 16 peicent less than a
year ago
A sure way to wipe out a
fnendship is to sponge on it
My Neighbors
feiliiff
“George’s wife away
lower costs. Badger quality means long-term profits. See us and ask
about convenient Badger financing.
R. M. Brubaker & Son
Saluuga
Isaac W. Hurst Grumefli -Farm Service
Blue Ball Quarry ville
Today’s Average Hog Produces
Ten Percent More Lean Meat
Have you ever heald' of a
thiec-hammed hog?
Dr. Thomas B. King, head of
the Department of Animal Sci
ence at The Pennsylvania State
University, said researchers and
livestockmen haven’t been able
to produce one as yet but be
cause of tremendous strides in
the fields of feeding and ge
netics, the average hog today
yields pounds more lean
meat than did the average hog
12 years ago. This is about the
weight of an extra ham.
Before you jump to the con
clusion that today’s hog, is just
tnat much heavier. King points
out that the total weight differ
ence is actually less than two
pounds more
A 10 percent increase in the
amount of lean has been accom
panied by a 26 percent decrease
in the amount of fat and lard, he
explains In other words more
lean and less fat, more protein
and fewer calories just what
the modern weight - conscious
consumer is demanding.
Research has shown, King
said, that pork is nearly 100 per
cent digestible and is acceptable
as a valuable source of protein
“On a cost-per-serving basis—
Carl L. Shirk
Coiebrook Rd., Fontana
which is a more realistic meas- grade standards were changed
lire of food expenditures than on April 1, 1988. U.S.DA. made
cost-per-poimd. ** .<ter S ex- dS JEEf^
cellent values which have gone hlgh quality, lean pork,
unrecognized by many home- —~—
makers,” the Penn Slate official One seventh of the world’s
emphasized. “The homemaker farm lands are planted to wheat,
can get from two and a half to which is grown from the Arctic
five servings of ham pork chops, Zone to the Torrid Zone, from
and pork steaks per pound ” sea level to 11,000 feet altitude
' As further evidence of the de- in about 15,000 varieties. Every
velopment of the meat-type hog day of the year, farmers some
in this country. King said that place on this globe are planting
US. Department of Agriculture oi harvesting wheat.
WHY PAY MORE FOR LESS?
SILAGE ENRICHER
“ALGIT”
A PRODUCT OF THE SEA
Use 5 lbs. Algif to each ton of silage.
1. This prevents “Run Off”, (of juices)
2. Keep the silage fresh.
3. Eliminate that certain odor from silage.
4. Increase the nutritional value of silage.
5. Cattle prefer Algit treated silage.
6. The smell which your clothes get in
wintertime is eliminated.
Spread on top of load by hand before unloading.
For additional information contact:
ZOOK & RANCK, Inc.
GAP R. D. #l, PA. 17527
Telephone; 717 442-4171