Former Local Man Reports Again on Farming in Australia
Perhaps many of you have Following the worst drouth
heard Australia called a “Land in Queensland history, we have
of Contrasts.” It has certainly experienced the wettest three
proved to be true, in the case months in 75 years in Eastern
of our recent weather changes Queensland.
Cuts Mowing Time in Half.
2 Year
Warranty
GEHMAN BROS.
SALES & SERVICE
1 Mi, North of Terre Hill on Rt. 897- East Earl R. D. 1
UISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY
HAVE LEARNED THAT COWS WHOSE HEADS ARE AIR CON
DITIONED PRODUCE NEARLY 20% MORE MILK IN THE
SUMMER MONTHS THAN THEY WOULD NORMALLY."
KEEP 'EM COOL
WE CAN’T AIR CONDITION THE HEADS OF YOUR COWS, BUT WE CAN
INSULATE YOUR BARN, MILK PARLOR, LOAFING SHED AND OTHER
AREAS WHERE ANIMALS CAN ENJOY COMFORT FROM BROILING SUN
AND HIGH HUMIDITY.
We insulate with
SPRAYABLE URETHANE FOAM
and all we need is a clean, dry and moderately warm surface to apply our foam
spray which sets m a matter of minutes.
We also insulate potato and apple storage facilities, chicken houses, steel
buildings and whatever else you can think of.
CONESTOGA CHEMICALS & PLASTICS, Inc.
1278 Loop Road, Lancaster, Pa.
ONLY
5699™
See them at
Phone 445-6272
(fiom Chemical & Engmeeung News, Dec 21, 1970)
Affiliated with J. C. Ehrlich Co., Inc.
Toowoomba Bay had 35 inches
of ram since December 1 and
Brisbane had 45 inches.
Thus far, March has returned
to a normal rainfall pattern.
Some of the summer crops
never got planted, and many
that were planted got flooded
out Thousands of acres of lu
cerne (alfalfa) were even killed
out by water standing on the
fields too long.
I seemed to fare better than
most in that I did not lose more
than six or eight acres out ot
about 75 acies.
Hay has been an abundant
crop and the top price for
lucerne has been about $2O a
ton I have about 4,000 bales in
the shed that was rebuilt fol
lowing the wind storm in No
vember. I have sold nearly that
much since we started making
hay in November. The fifth cut
ting should be ready to cut in
about two weeks and it will no
doubt be the last for this sea
son.
So far I have neither sprayed
nor fertilized any of my crops
I have about six acres of soy
beans which show real good
promise, although they will not
be ready to harvest for six
weeks at least. The harvesting
of sorghum, millet and corn is
just starting. In some areas that
had good drainage, the crops
look excellent. There will be
sorghum crops of over 100 bush
els to the acre and a few corn
crops could reach that.
Other years, I have always
been dissappointed with the
corn crops here, but believe
now it was mainly a lack of
moisture, as this year there
are some excellent crops. We
have about six acres of corn
which were never sprayed, fer
tilized or cultivated and I would
estimate 60 to 70 bushels pel
acre We lacked the machinery
to'cultivate, and the weather.
WHAT DOES IT
TAKE TO BREAK
THE HEAT?
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would haidly have peimitted it
anyway.
Since the feed company I
work for will be short on soj
beans this season, my boss is
thinking about giving contracts
on lupines They are a wintei
growing crop and quite high in
protein Understand they have
been growing them in some
areas of the States He esti
mates a price of $6O a ton and
said a reasonable crop would be
one ton per acre.
I have 24 cows inseminated
with Charolais semen now, and
so far have had only three re
peats.
Most of this year’s calf crop
are ready to wean and I had a
buyer look at them yesterday
I will keep about six of the best
heifers to add to the breeding
herd and with eight heifers I
• Ladies, Have You
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tents Some of these are al
ready on the market
More packages will be used a?
serving dishes.
And there are packages being
developed with printed circuits
that can be plugged into a wall
socket, the contents cooked in
the package, and then the pack
age thrown away.
Raw foods will also be re
designed through improved
breeding programs For exam- And we don’t lose much time
.n the Head o, GOV
easier packing for shipping Ob- ment as you undoubtedly heard
long tomatoes will yield more on the news
uniform slices,
Meats of the future will be under
prepared at a centralized pro
cessing plant, thus eliminating
meat-cutting rooms at the su
permarket, and then sold froz
en The meat will be oven-ready
and more tender and lean
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397-3721
Lancaster Farming, Saturday, March 27,1971 —
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A. G. KURTZ PAVING
A DIVISION OF A G KURTZ & SONS, INC
DENVER - PA.
HEADQUARTERS FOR STONE AND OIL.
CRUSHED STONE, ASPHALT PAVING. SERVING
LANCASTER. LEBANON & BERKS COUNTIES
bought a few days ago, I should
be up to 40 cows by next year.
I have a young man hired to
faim foi me, and he will stait
about Apul 10 He is to be mar
ried on March 27 and will oc
cupy the newly decorated faim
house that has been empty for
six months.
He has worked on large cattle
and sheep stations in the West
and told me one property he
worked on was 200 miles
around the boundary Do not
know if he can confine him
self to an area of 211 acres 9 He
has his own horse and dogs for
handling sheep and cattle.
The export business that I
am to be associated with has
had a long series of delays in
getting started, but looks now
that it will definitely be start
ing very soon Another large
company from Maryland has
bought an intei est in the busi
ness and they have a man here
in Australia now to see about
getting it moving almost imme
diately
In the last three months,
there have been three new
American families settled here
in Toowoomba I have not met
any of them personally as yet.
One family from lowa has 11
children The others are from
New Jersey and Florida.
We also had a lady from Ohio
visit us a month ago So you see
Australia is being discovered at
last
So long from the Land down
Amos Hively
26 Lestie St.
Toowoomba,
Queensland,
Australia
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