B—Lancaster Farming. Saturday, February 1,1969
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HONORED at the Dairy Production Awards Ban
quet by Miller and Bushong, Inc., for high production
records are; (left to right) Richard and Fred Lieske,
Ponderosa Farm, Rising Sun, Maryland; Glenn Freese,
Side Brook Farm, Oxford; Ray Harbold, Ray-Line
Farm, Mt. Joy; Jay Landis, Pa-Ta-Ja Farm, Lancaster
R - William Arrowsmith, Hillacres Farm, Peach Bot
tom; George Edgeington, Manager, Fair Hill Farms,
Chestertown, Md. The high herd was the Ponderosa
Farm herd with 85 cows averaging 15,914 pounds of milk
and 659 pounds of butterfat. And they also had the two
A Cirm nffprino a need for 1300 acres to be
ir ” l I* -n planted preferably in Lancaster
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Cultivation should begin as One of the problems in gett
soon as you see down the row ing acreage this year is the
and hand labor is necessary to Alrazme carry-over from the
thin the beets The thinning last corn crop. You can’t grow
process should be completed by beets the year following corn
mid June and the labor is avail- jj as been treated with this
able by Mexican American wor - we con t ro l chemical,
ers supplied by the New York
company Sugar beets are a high-yield
Sugar beets send a large root crop according to Richards The
system deep into the soil, there- tops are good for cattle feed
foie requiring a deep soil and (about the same value as un
also reaching deeper soil nutri- wilted alfalfa) or green fertil
ents and water. izer And you also have the
At hai vest time in the fall, cash crop of beefs,
the tops are removed and a „ , ,
hai vesting machine is sent into Contract Offered
the field to pull the beet roots Explaining the grower con
and load them on a truck for tiact Richards said, We guar
hauling to the receoving station antee Sl4 per ton of Sugar
Beets received at the station.
You can’t go below that on the
Receive At E-Town
The local meeung was the present contract but if the sugar
foui th held to date in the 14 maiket puces mciease you can
Southeastern counties of Penn- benefit Another advantage,’’
sylvama Richaids said the com- the lepiesentative said, “is that
,panj has the location of its le- you know what you will be paid
cemng station picked in Ehz- before you plant the ciop”
abethtown wheie theie is Rail- On a question fiom the gioup,
load service and good highways Ranalds figuied the current
He repoited 700 acies alieady p llce to farmeis on a ton of
piomised for planting fiom Hei- ee f S aveiaging 20 percent su
shey Estates and farmei s in a {- a Rttle over c;ig plus the
Dauphin County This leaves _
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SAMCO!
SAMCO CAN DO IT!
See the Original Swedish
Fluid Manure Handling
System on Display at
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GALAXY NOW HAS 3 EXCELLENT DIRS.
JAYLU GALAXY LUCY Ex 92, 4-0 365 2X 26311 1082
FOR SERVICE IN LANCASTER COUNTY CALL
more to come Why not make some of them yours?
A GALAXY DTR
Nelson Kreider Strasburg 717-GB7-G214
Marlin Kovev Ephrata 717-733-1224
highest record cows: Stella, 329 days, 27,467 m, 1,139 f;
and Jewel Alice, 333 days, 25,282 m, 1,192 f. Other high
record cows and their honored owners are: Fairhul
Farms, Linda, 365 days, 27,578 m, l,071f; Pa-Ta-Ja
Farm, Princess, 5-By, 365 d, 22,171 m, 1,026 f; Ray-Line
Farm, Marie Hartog, 7-3 y, 344 d, 25,269 m, l,011f; Side
Brook Farm, Jean Dolly, 5-4 y, 365 d, 23,976 m, l,ooBf,
Hillacres Farm, 6y, 301 d, 16,035 m, 814 f; Apple Brook
Farm, Mr. and Mrs. Donald Brown, Oxford, Topsy, 8-ly,
305 d, 12,173 m, 813 f; and Glen Tyan Farm, Rising Sun,
Md., Morning Glory, 3y, 374 d, 14,813 m, 800 f.
government subsidy of 80 cents
per hundredweight. Total es
timated growing costs were not
given at the meeting but labor
foi the first weeding and thinn
ing was reported at $2O to $3O
per acre and $lO or $ll per
acre for maybe two more weed
ings. Seed supplied by the
company was set at about $lO5O
per acre (three pounds at $3 50
per pound). Other costs would
include tractor cultivations and
harvesting equipment or custom
harvesting.
The company by contract
must pay the grower 75 percent
of his earnings by December 15
and the final payment which re
flects the sugar prices for the
year must be paid by October
1970. The contract is for one
year “You will belong to the
Finger Lakes Sugar Beet Grow
ers Association,” Richards said.
“They negotiate the contract
with the company and have ac
cess to the company testing and
weighing facilities ”
It was reported that $300,000
is what the company will spend
to put the receiving station in
the local aiea Therefore the
need for the minimum 2,000
acres. The goal is to get enough
acres in Pennsylvania to estab
lish a refinery here. That would
take 30 to 40 thousand acres.
The futural potential of di
verted acres to sugar beets away
from other regular Pennsylvania
farm crops was the reason for
the local visit by the represent
ative from the State Ag Dept.
Anstme said, “Secretary Bull is
especially interested in how
farmers will respond to the
sugar beet proposition and what
crop acreage changes will be
made. We aren’t here to sell
the idea but we will help farmers
all we can.”
Anstme told Lancaster Farm
ing after the meeting that Secre
tary Bull is interested in seeing
a new cash crop such as this in
Pennsylvania but he wants it to
come orderly and only fast en
ough to result m a successful
venture for farmers.
Sign-up
A conti act signing meeting
for faimeis with officials of the
New York Sugar Industues,
Inc, will be held Wed , Febru
ary 12 from 1 30 to 5 p m in
the Faun and Home Center
SIRING THEM RIGHT
PINEYHILL GALAXY EX, PQ 5/68
USDA SUMMARY, OCT. 1968
423 dtrs, 188 herds avg,
Pred. Diff. (rpt. 94%)
HFA SUMMARY, OCT. 1968
150 classified AI. dtrs avg 800, 100.7% BAA
On 132 pairs, +l2O over Expectancy
Galaxy’s A.I performance marks him as one of the
most solid Rag Apple sires of the breed Though still
a relatively young sire, he already has 3 Excellent
daughters, all the result of AI. service And we’re sure
that there’s more to come! Why not make some of them
yours’
Available at only a $7.00 first service fee (no
charge on repeats till 4th service) Galaxy is siring high
production from daughters that are upstanding, strong
in the front end, having desirable udders that milk out
fast. Put him to work for you.
E. D. #2, Tunkhannock, Pa.
HOME OF THE A. I. PROVEN SIRE
GRANGE NEWS
William Fredd, Agriculture
Department of Solanco Sr. High
School, was the speaker at Ful
ton Grange #66 at their regular
meeting January 27 held at
Oakryn. His topic was “Simula
tion on Computers For Farm
Management.” He showed color
ed slides of the Willis Krantz
farm, Quarryville R. D , where
he and a group of young farm
ers are simulating computer
knowledge for its farm manage
ment.
During the business session
conducted by the Master, Clif
ford W. Holloway Jr, $lO 00
was given to a needy family in
the county
The Pomona chorus will hold
rehearsal February 9, 8 pm at
Fulton Grange Hall and a Pom
ona code-reading class and par
ty will be held at the home of
Charles McSparran, Quanyville,
February 14, 8 p m Mrs Elaine
Stoltzfus is in charge of games.
The Youth Committee is
sponsoring a dance for com
munity young people February
15, 8 to 11 pm. at the Grange
Hall with “Incense” band fur
nishing music. Plans were made
for a bus trip to the Chrysler
Plant, Newark, Del. February
18, leaving the Grange Hall at
645 p.m. Reservations should
be made through Mrs. J. Stan
ley Stauffer Jr.
Ground-oriented friend says
that taking a train is the only
way to fly.
Originally it had been reported
that a minimum of 50 acres
were needed to make the pro
ject advisable. Richards clari
fied this Thursday by saying
they will take farmers with 5
or 10 acres who want to try it.
But he cautioned that such small
acreage will not justify buying
the huge harvesting equipment,
“If several farmers want to go
together and get the work done
on a custom basis it will work
fine,” he said The 40 or 50
acres are needed if the individ
ual wants to buy his own har
vesting machines.
In closing the meeting Smith
said that it was up to the indivi
dual farmer now to decide if
raising sugar beets will pay “We
have the climate, soil and the
good farmers to do it,” he said.
“But, you must decide it beets
can compete with the crops you
now have.”
Inquiries or questions may be
directed to the County Agent’s
Office in the' Farm and Home
Center Building.
14829 555
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