(Left to right) Jack Hough, National Sales Manager for
Babcock Poultry Farm, Inc., Ithaca, New York, shows Rus
sell Mease, General Manager of Babcock Hatchery in Lititz
and Dr. A. J. Wyatt, Head Geneticist for Babcock, the fine
performance recently completed by the B-300 in the Penn
sylvania Random Sample Test.
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run well over 100 bushels. Long, tapered gatherers and
high inside shield, funnel stalks right m. Even tangled
stalks seldom escape three roller-type gathering chains.
There’s new gathering and snapping* speed. And the
237’s spiral snapping rolls cut shelling loss in half.
Faster elevators with higher flights move corn up fast.
Trash goes too, aided by new rotating trash paddles.
New husking rolls —cast-iron spirals against serrated
rubber peel husks, pull trash through. You pick clean.
See the new 237 soon. Ask about the Credit Plan.
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Babcock Hatchary Has
Appreciation Dinner
Approximately 2SO poultry
men and other guests recently
met in Bird in Hand, Pa., for a
delicious dinner followed by a
program with speakers. The
event was sponsored by Bab
cock Hatchery, Inc., Lllilz. Pa.,
as an appreciation dinner for
their many customers and
friends.
Russell A. Mease, general
manager of Babcock Hatchery,
welcomed his guests and thank
ed them for their fine epopera
tion. He described the com
pany’s growth in the past two
years since the new hatchery in
Lititz had been operating. He
also introduced his key employ
ees who were attending the din
ner.
Jack Hough, national sales
manager for Babcock Poultry
Farm. Inc, Ithaca, New York,
spoke about Babcock’s recent
winnings in Random Sample
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Clean Up Your Garden Now To
Avoid Next Year’s Problems
Dirty flower beds can harbor
insects and diseases through the
Tests. The B-300, a world fam
ous Babcock White Leghorn, has
just finished first in income over
chick and feed cost for both the
Pennsylvania and New Hamp
shire tests Hough also told of
his company’s great growth
throughout the entire woild dur
ing the past few years
Hough then introduced Dr.
Andy J. Wyatt, head geneticist
for Babcock, who discussed the
Babcock breeding piogram Dr
Wyatt used colored slides to il
lustrate the complicated work
that goes into developing and
maintaining the kind of lajing
bird demanded by todays poul
try industiy
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Lancaster Farming, Saturday. October 19.1968
winter, says a University of
Maryland horticulturist.
"Don’t leave your garden in
a mess," cautions Francis R
Gouin. As soon as your flowe;
beds have lost their beauty, pul'
out your annuals and cut back
the herbaceous plants. Flowe.
beds full of old dead plants de
tract from the clean and neat
appearance of your home.
If your flower beds are pn
manly annuals, a steel rake is a
useful tool for raking up the de
bns and for pulling out the dead
or dying plants. If the beds are
interplanted with annuals and
perennials, it is best to hand
pull the annuals, trim back the
perennials with sharp lawn
clippers, and clean out the bed
with a lawn rake
Don’t Burn Dividends
The cleanings from your gar
den may be placed on the corn
post pile to rot, Gouin continues.
Every fall thousands and
thousands of tons of leaves are
burned, he explains. This is not
only a great loss of much need
ed organic matter but it also
adds to our serious problem of
air pollution.
Even though chemical fertiliz
ers can supply most nutrient
needs of a plant, science has not
yet found a practical substitute
for organic matter in the soil.
When leaves and branches are
burned all their important soil
building properties are lost to
the atmosphere and the ash that
is left is material that can be
purchased in a fertihzei bag
Leaves may be composted by
simply piling them neatly and
adding a little soil and fertilizer
to speed up rotting Oak leaves
and pine needles make an ex
cellent mulch around ornament
al shrubs without composting,
Gouin adds
Grazing Fields
Questions continue to arrive
at our Extension Office concern
ing the grazing of alfalfa or clov
er fields at this time of the year,
the concein seems to he the
danger of harming the stand
and the danger of poisoning the
livestock I see little danger in
grazing these fields late into the
fall providing good manage
ment is practiced This valuable
growth of legumes will make
good forage and if the area is
not grazed down too closely, the
stand should not be harmed.
Neither clover nor alfalfa are
poisonous following frost or
freeze but the danger of bloat
exists at all times especially on
wet or frosted forage Animals
should be permitted to graze
the area only when the plants
are dry and only after they have
had a feeding of some other
kind of forage If the field is top
dressed with fertilizer, the ani"
mals should be removed from
the area until it received a soak
mg ram.
Hunters Caution
Don’t shoot without looking,
warns R. G Wingard extension
wildlife specialist at Penn State.
Each year many people are
killed or seriously injured while
hunting
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