• Holstein
(Continued from Pago 8)
After noon, the tour stopped at
the 600 acic father sons partner
ship of Arthur, Wayne and
Harold Lesher The 90 milk
cows arc housed in a complete
ly new 130'x80’ fioestall bain
with a 100’ bunk feeder and 110
stalls
The old bam is used for the
Jieifeis and young stock A li*
quid manure system is used
The storage capacity in the sys
tern is 20,000 gal and is emptied
eveiy six weeks The cows were
repoited doing beltei in the
new IVz year old setup with
pi oduction on several cows go
mg ovei 100 lbs of milk a clay
to 130 pounds
The last stop was the Wer
nersville State Hospital Faim
These 83 milk cows have a herd
average of 15,825 pounds of
milk and 602 lbs of buterfat,
third high in Berks County A
part of the hospital institute
was also toured
And finally, the tour ended at
5 p.m where it had started. And
.as this reporter left the park
ing lot, the sun broke through
the clouds to send local dairy
men back to their own milking
at home with about as much
sunshine as they had seen all
day
•Jf Farm Management Profit-Tip from Organic Plant Food
anhydrous ammonia plow-down
Most concentrated form
of nitrogen
Anhydrous ammonia (NH 3 )
is the most concentrated
form of nitrogen fertilizer
82% N. Other nitrogen
fertilizers of loweranalysis
are made from NH 3 .
Compare your cost per
acre using NH 3 with any
other source of nitrogen,
and your savings are evi
dent. It’sthe most econom
ical method of application
per pound of nitrogen.
Anhydrous ammonia
piowdown facts
• Piowdown application of anhydrous ammonia is an
effective way to reduce spring field work. First, bulk
spread phosphorus, potash. Then turn them both
Organic
Plant Food
Company
Lancaster, Pennsylvania
SEE SILL BRUBAKER '
ON THE HOLSTEIN TOUR are (left Clarence Stauffer, Association President,
to right) Mr .and Mrs. Clarence H. Martin, The cow in the Martin herd is Shirley
Cacoosing Farm, Sinking Spring R 6; Pabst Bell, classified Very Good with
James Haldeman, Berks County agent; 17,000 pounds of milk and 740 lbs of butter-
Paul Zimmerman, tour chairman and fat. - L. F. Photo
How to profit from
ORGANIC PLANT FOOD CO.
P. O. Box 132 • Grofftown Road • Lancaster, Penna. 17604
• Nitrogen applied by an
hydrous ammonia plow
down requires fewer trips
over the field. Soil com
paction is reduced.
Anhydrous ammonia
plowdown is an effective farm management proce
dure. Let us help you work it into your total soil fertility
program. Call us, we’ll come to see you.
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Phone 392-4963
Lancaster Farming, Saturday. April 5, 1909 9
under as you plowdown an
hydrous ammonia for your
source of nitrogen. This
provides nitrogen, phos
phorus, and potash at plow
depth for a steady, season
long source of nutrients.
• Reduce your costs by do
ing two jobs at once
plowing and getting your
nitrogen in the soil.
Heat-Treating Eggs
Halts Chronic
Respiratory Disease
\ special heat tieatment of
eggs beloie incubation slops egg
tiansnnssion ol chiomc icspna
loij disease in chickens
The niaioi infective agent of
this disease is Ah coplaMiia gal
lisepticum, a vei\ small bactei
uim Hons may canv Ah cop
lasnia 01 nanisms in the lepioduc
live tiact, and egg tiansmission
is a maioi i onto ol M\coplasma
infection
Since the eaily 1960’s ie
scaicheis have had some suc
cess in i educing egg tiansmis
sion by tiealments applied be
foie incubation Most lecentlv,
clipping eggs in antibiotics pair
ed with othei techniques, pioved
helpful in cleaning up Mycop
lasma infection fiom most bioil
ci bleeding flocks
Mycoplasma eiadication ic
mams to be completed, how
ever, in ceitam poultiy lines.
While dipping could possibly
complete the eiadication pio
gram, the method has diaw
backs Some Mycoplasma slip
through, and special matenal
and equipment are needed
These drawbacks can be over-
come, it now appears, with a
new eiadication method that
parallels pasteui ization—heating
eggs to a predeteimined, mod
el ately high tempeiatuie ARS
veteunanan H W Yodei, who
devised the new method, says
that it depends foi success on
achieving an intei nal egg tem
peiature of 114° F undei a
specified set of conditions
The method was evaluated at
the ARS Southeast Poultiy Re
seaich Laboiatoiy, Athens, Ga,
when tieated eggs had been in
cubated for 14 days a good
time to check for egg-boine in
fection Results showed no
Mycoplasma suivival in eggs
that had been expeiimentally
infected
Yodei calls 114° the cutieal
tempeiatuie because it kills the
Mycoplasma and consistently
keeps hatch of treated eggs with
in 8 to 10 peicent of noimal.
Tempeiatuies highei than 114°,
while eliminating Mycoplasma
just as completely ieduce chick
hatch moie diastically
The optimum tempeiatuie was
achieved m piehminaiy expeu
ments by heating a batch of 40
eggs in a small mcubatoi foi 6
houis to eiadicate Mycoplasma.
Yodei found, howevei, that
each size of load poses a ditfej;-
ent pioblem The hugest load
he has checked was 2,000 eggs—
close to a commeicially feasible
batch
Foi this load, the incubator
must mn 10 to 12 houis foi
to leach 114°, no fuithei hold
ing at this tempeiatuie is need
ed Hot-iunning incubatois
should be adjusted to achiexe
the desired tempeiatuie i® the
10 to 12 hour lange, howecer.
Shoitei tieatment is ineffective;
longei tieatment incieases ein
biyo damage
Since standaid incubatois and
equipment aie used foi the
tieatment, the only special le
quuement is a good meiciuy
theimometei The majoi cost
is the reduced hatch, which at
the level mcuiied with 114- is
reasonable for the pumaiy
hieedei, who does the basic
bleeding foi the poultiy indus
try
‘ Foi success,” Yodei sajs,
“the bleeder must determine
the temperatme precisely The
best way to get a good tempeia
tuie is to put the theimometer
in a sandfilled jai oi bottle and
place it with the eggs I’d buy
tlvee theimometers and test
them togethei before use If one
reading disagreed, I’d still have
two otheis to give me assuiance
the job is being done i ight ”