TRY A CLASSIFIED AD! FLAT BIG DUTCHMAN IDS Slier Are., New HoElond, Po. Poultry men around the world ore fast equipping their poultry houses with the "high profit return" automated. Big Dutchman Flat Deck Cage Systems and Equipment as shown above. Contact your Big Dutchman Branch or Representative today . . . about yours. A Division of U.S. Industries, Inc, ~|p > FRANKLIN MYERS shows some This field had been in corn in 1968. nearly mature ears on no-til planted corn. L. F. Photo • No-Til (Continued from Page 6) Paul S Zimmerman, Lxtitz R 4, about his no-til planted corn planting next year because of “Earlier, I thought it might not the saving in time required to do as well, but it giew out of it get the corn in the ground and and now I don’t see much differ the saving in cost to do so He cnee I usually let others try figuies they saved at least $8 00 new things first,” he chuckled per acre with the eliminated “But this is one thing I thought plowing and disking. might woik in oui aiea” CAGES Lata a u r Fanning. Saliir. l*./69 promising,” “It looks Phone 354-5168 Zimmerman is planning again to use the new method next year but may do some things differ ently First, he thinks he may disk the giound first to get the fertilizer in the ground better and maybe make the weed killer moie effective He also likes the idea of running a chisel thiough tne middle of each row to let the loins soak in better says Basically though Paul likes the new idea because it saves on machmeiy ware and it saves time in his busy work month of May Elvin M Huish, Lititz R 4 had a pioblem getting the planter in the ground as did 'ome other fanners according to the repoits. In Hursh’s case some of the seeds appeared to be not much, under ground level But it came up very good almost unbeliev ably good. “I didn’t know much about it,” Elvm said I thought I would seo how it woiked and fortunately it woiked out foi the best” Hursh killed off the alfalfa and the lams came the day aftei tho corn was planted to bring the crop up quickly He wants to gee the seeds deepei next yeai but for this ciop he expects yields to be as great as his othei corn even though he planted a short season vauety. So, leports fiom diffeient farmeis in different paits of the County all seem to favot the new no-til coin planting method. Almost eveiyone repoi ts changes he will make to bettei use the method m his situation But the sum of all the reports seems to be as one farmer said “I think we aie going to do moie of it next year.” Pennsylvania’s lamb crop this year is estimated at 126 000 Thi,; will be a decline of 6 peicenf fiom last year and is compar able to the national downward late foi 1969, according to a mid year livestock suivey by tho State Crop Reporting Seivice The suivey indicated an ir ciease in the Commonwealth’] wool pioduction horn 1968 by C pei cent to 1,201,000 pound Tho r.umbei of sheep shorn wa icwd 2 000 head fiom the yeai to 156,000, but fleece weight a; 7 7 pounds was up 3 pounds i Pennsylvania s 1969 calf ci op jis estimated at 797,000, down |2 000 fiom last year and 20,000 below 1967 1 Last yeai, 12 million cigai etten Jweie lolled by hand in an effort 'to beat the puce uses At least tw ice that number weie mooched , ’ii an even moie successfu 1 eftoij, 7