Lancaster
Schedules
/The Lancaster County Swine
Producers annual field day has
been scheduled for 9 a.m. to
3:30 p.m. Thursday, August 12
at <Jhe Farm and Home Center,
1383 Arcadia Road, Lancaster.
The event will indude ex
hibits, speakers, and a pork bar
becue.
I'M PROUD TO Ws
BE A FARMER
PORK is Good Food
VIGORTONE PRE-MIXES
Cedar Rapids, la. • Fremont, Neb.
Looking forward to meeting you at the
Lancaster Co. Swine Producers Field Day
Thurs., Aug. 12 Farm & Home Center
Co. Swine Producers Assn.
Annual Field
The program will begin with
exhibits at 9 a.m., followed at
10:30 a.m. by a speaker, Dr. Lar
ry A Johnson, swine research
branch, U.S. Department of Ag
riculture, Beltsville, Md., on
“Animal Reproduction and Ar
tificial Insemination.”
At 11:30 a.m., M. Lawrence
Day Aug. 12
Bayern, American Cyanamid,
Princeton, N.J., will show a
movie on “Profitable Pork
Production.”
From 11:45 till 1:30 p.m., a
pork barbecue, costing $2.50,
will be held.
The afternoon program in
cludes: at 1:30 p.m., Dr. Larry
Price, Allied Mills Inc. Re
search Division, Libertyville,
111., talk on “Animal Health”:
2:30 p.m., Dr. Kenneth Dolge,
livestock nutritionist, Buffalo,
N.Y., talk on swine manage
ment and telephone interview
with co-op research farm, Lex
ington, 111. At 3:30 p.m. exhi
bits will remain open for view
ing:
My Neighbors
“I’ve compiled a rather
extensive list of my past ac
complishments to help guide
you in judging this work.”
Will Be Looking For You At Our Exhibit
During Lancaster County Swine
Producers Field Day August 12.
BIG DUTCHMAN
New Holland, Pa.
McNESS THE PREMIX THAT WON
THE MIDWEST.
Highest Quality at Wholesale Prices.
See our exhibit during the Lancaster County
Swine Producers Field Day August 12.
HORACE S. WANNER
R.D. 1, East Earl, Pa.
WE HOPE TO SEE YOU
AT OUR EXHIBIT
During The Lancaster County
Swine Producers Field Day.
AUGUST 12, AT 1:00 P.M.
PENN-JERSEY
HARVESTORE SYSTEMS, INC.
New Holland, Pa.
Don’t Wait
FORAGE HARVESTER OWNERS
have your harvester knife sharpened
and rebeveled back to factory specifications
with the latest water cool machinery.
SHENK'S FARM SERVICE
R.D. 4, Lititz, Pa. Ph. 626-4355
Pa. Egg Output Up 13%
Pennsylvania laying flocks
produced more than 300 million
eggs in June, up 13 per cent
from June 1970, but about the
same as May’s production.
Average price received by
producers on June 15 was 29
cents a dozen, down 4 cents
from May’s price, and 1 cent
below the price a year ago.
The stockpile of eggs in cold
storage, including frozen eggs,
continued to climb in the U.S.
with June’s stockpile up about
35 per cent over the June 1970
figure. There were 1,888,000
cases in storage across the na
tion.
In the meantime the cost of
laying mash fed to laying flocks
In two separate articles in the
May issue, “Family Health”
points out the importance of
milk in the diets of infants and
adults.
“Don’t be afraid of whole
milk,” one article on feeding
babies says. “Many parents
worried about cholesterol,
switch their babies from whole
milk to skim milk. Babies need
the nutrients and calories of
whole milk.”
In another article, Dr. Jean
Mayer, the nutrition expert, ex
plains “What to Do Until the
Guru Goes,” a discussion of how
parents should handle young
F
Lancaster Farming, Saturday, August 7,3971—'7
Milk Is for Infants and Adults
was up $5 per ton over the June
1970 price, reflecting an in
crease of about 6 per cent.
The average price paid to pro
ducers of broilers and roosters
June 15 was 17.5 cents a pound,
up 2 cents from June 1970
prices. Stock on cold storage
declined from June 1970 fig
ures.
The price of broiler growing
mash at $lO3 a ton was up $6
a ton from June 1970.
Feeder cattle in Pennsylvania
feed lots totaled 57,000 on July
1 up 4,000 from a year ago Fed
cattle marketed during the
April through June quarter to
taled 38,000, a 7 per cent de
cline from the same period a
year ago.
adults hooked on the latest crop
oC fad diets based on Zen Budd
hism.
“Most vegetarians who are an
imated by such convictions are
in no way averse to drinking
milk or to eating nonfertile eggs
They are classified as ‘ovo
lacto-vegetarians ’ This type of
diet provides perfectly satisfac
tory nutrition. With plenty of
milk and cheese, and eggs every
day, meat will be in no way
missed Protein, calcium,
vitamin 812, iron, and trace
minerals will be present in quite
sufficient amounts in the diet of
your child ... try to get your
child to compromise by eating
nonfertile eggs, or at least, like
Gandhi) milk and cheese . . .
Extreme, vehement vegetarian
ism, omitting milk, may also
suggest a deep-seated psycholo
gical difficulty.”
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