Landis Wins Tractor Driving Contest
John J. Landis, Leola, holds trophy he received for winning
the New Holland Fair tractor driving contest.
Unimportant Victory
The only major victory
American forces won on land
during the War of 1812 was
the Battle of New Orleans.
The victory had no military
importance and was fought
two weeks after the treaty of
peace had been signed.
As a beef operator you're interested in maximizing
your profit picture. You’re looking for new ideas, new
methods and new innovations that will help "beef up’ ’
your profit. Here’s a program worth looking into. It's
Called "Van Dale Systems Feeding.” It starts with
maximizing your production of total digestible nutri
ents with increased haylage and silage. This permits
the best use of your land and cattle coupled with a
fully mechanized feeding system. Van Dale has the
equipment and know-how for maximizing profits
through mechanized feeding.
FORAGE BOXES
So let’s bring it in from the field with a Van Dale
Forage Box. These rugged built' units are
equipped with exclusive auger-type "beaters”
that deliver all kinds of forage under all kinds
of conditions. No clogging at the blower, as
the forage is metered between the augers
—not over the top!
SILAGE DISTRIBUTORS
Van Dale distributors insure even
silage distribution throughout,
the silo for a maximum fill.
The l64oPower-FH's unique
revolving deflector plate
diverts the explosive force
of incoming material and
spreads it evenly in a con
tinuous sweeping pattern
to the wall. The 538 oper
ates in an elliptical
motion, directing forage
to the outside walls of
the silo. Varied spout
rotation speed allows for
even fills.
SILO UNLOADERS
There’s a Van Dale unloader for
every feeding application. These high
performance twin-auger units can handle
virtually any silage or haylage under the most
adverse conditions... frozen, gummy or what
have you, and do it fast. The 1230 has been
customer-certified in the field to outperform,
and outlast any make its size. For hard work in
smaller silos there’s the ~F. The Ind ''iah
built for silos from 20 to 4 1
has a capacity up to 40 tons per
The Pamirs, a mountain
region in central Asia, is
called the “roof of the
world” because of its great
altitude. In India, the Pamirs
are called Bam-idunya,
which means, literally, “top
of the world.”
Non-Stop Feeding
VAN DALE
Box 337, Long Lake, Minnesota
World’s Roof
John Landis, Leola, received a
trophy and a $25 check for taking
first place in the Garden Spot
Young Farmers tractor driving
contest at the New Holland Fair
last week.
With his low score of 80 points
for avoiding penalty points,
Landis beat the next two con
testants by 35 points.
Tying on points at 115 were
Harvey Sauder, New Holland
RDI, and Eugene Eberly, New
Holland RD2. But Sauder was
awarded second place because he
finished the course in 13 minutes,
compared to 16 for Eberly, who
was third.
Sauder received a check for $2O
and Eberly for $l5.
William Fisher, East Earl
RDI, was fourth with 165 points
and received $lO.
Eleven contestants completed
the event, which included
maneuvering a tractor and
manure spreader through a tight
figure eight obstacle course and
backing a wagon uphill into a
stall.
CALEB M. WENGER
Drumore Center, RDI Quarryville, Pa.
Phone 548-2116
U.S. Economy Discussed
“All business shares one
problem: how do we attract
yound people to our field?”
That was the question posed by
Dr. Paul S. Nadler, professor of
business administration at
Rutgeife University, Newark,
N.J. Thfe columnist, author and
economist outlined the problem
for his audience at the Founders
Day luncheon during the 40th
anniversary convention of the
Northeastern Poultry Producers
Council (NEPPCO) recently.
Dr. Nadler challenged NEPP
i CO members to get young people
to realize that their industry can
provide them with a career that
is meaningful.
In his address, “The Outlook
for the Economy and the Dollar,”
Dr. Nadler advised his audience
to take a good look at the bond
market.
“The stock market will move
up slowly,” he predicted. “But
interest rates will remain high
and there will be less inflation,
making the yield on bonds and
attractive investment.
“There are two kinds of in
vestors,” he noted. “Those who
want to eat well and those who
want to sleep well.”
BULK STORAGE BINS
Supplementary feeds are easily
handled with Van Dale's bulk stor
agefeed bins. The Superstores are
available in 4V£ or 7% ton sizes.
These units are fiberglas con
structed . They won’t rust, dent, cor
rode or absorb heat from the sun.
CONVEYORS
Whether straight-out, incline, au
ger or chain. Van Dale conveyors
fit most any automated feeding
system. The SCCI4OO Chain Con
veyor is Van Dale’s highest capacity
conveyor. It handles all rations—
safely. The CT 2OO and 300 auger
type conveyors are adaptable to
any feeding system. They’re
tough, efficient, easy to install
\d economically priced.
BUNK FEEDERS
Van Dale has a bunk feeder for every
operation. The SCFI4OO Traveling
Bunk Feeder is a single chain unit
that will carry and feed virtually
everything. The Mammoth 14
Multi-Feeder is an auger type de
signed especially for multi-lot
operations. The 934 and 1234
Auger Bunk Feeders are the
. sturdiest, smoothest operat
ing, lowest cost feeders ever
produced. Then, there’s the
stainless steel Shaker Feeder.
A combination feeder and
bunk designed for single
lot operations.
Van Dale Systems Feeding
comes down to one word...
efficiency. Van Dale offers var
ious models and sizes of feed
ing equipment to most effici
ently match the needs of every
feed lot layout... old or new,
large or small. Check with your
Van Dale dealer to see what
you need to maximize your
profits. And ask him about
Van Dale’s new agri-leasing
program.
Lancaster Farming, Saturday, October 9,1971
Blood lines, good husbandry,
and feeding efficiency are con
siderations of utmost importance
tc today’s dairyman.
Quoting from Penn State’s
Correspondence Course on Dairy
Cattle Feeding authored by
Dr. Earl M. Kesler “High
milk production in dairy cattle
depends primarily upon inherit
ed characteristics; hut unless
cows are properly fed and cared
for, they fail to produce milk up
to their inherited capabilities.”
A cow may be well fed, but
not necessarily efficiently fed.
To feed a cow efficiently, a
knowledge of many fundamen
tals in animal nutrition is need
eo, plus additional knowledge of
feeds, ingredients and current
.prices of same.
Penn State’s Dairy Cattle
Feeding Course treats this
subject in an informative and
easily read manner.
To enroll in the course, all
that is necessary is to send your
name and address with $2.65 to
Dairy Cattle Feeding, Box 5000,
University Park, Pa. 16802.
According to Dr. Nadler, we
are entering the era of those who
want to sleep well. He described
the nation’s current economic
woes, stating “We have achieved
the impossible inflation and
unemployment at the same
time.”
Among the causes of our
problems, the speaker pointed
out, are the development of
various power blocks that
operate on the assumption that
they can always get more, never
less, for their efforts. These
groups, he charged, are all for a
free economy system until it
threatens their position. ”If they
truly believe in a free economy,”
he said, “they must be willing to
accept the fact of economic
cycles.”
Expressing little hope for
success of the Nixon Ad
ministration’s “trickle-down
theory of priming the nation’s
economic pump,” he said fac
tories that are now only producing
at 75 per cent of capacity are not
going to spend money on capital
expansion.
“We must pump money into the
bottom of the economy, not the
top,” he said.
Dr. Nadler also called for a
broader tax base as an economic
necessity. He sited, as an
example, a project in Newark, N.
J., that would have provided 1,000
jobs was turned down because it
would have eliminated 50 pieces
of tax rateable property.
While Nixon’s economic
policies have changed the course
of the economy overnight, Dr.
Nadler said the problem of power
blocks persists and is retarding
our recovery.
Correspondence
Courses
2S
The margin of profit for most
agricultural enterprises has nar
rowed. This indicates that only
the efficient farmer is going to
survive dn today’s competitive
world.
LLOYD H.
KREIDER
Auctioneer
ond
Soles Manager
330 West State St
Box 2 RDI *
Quarryville, Pa. 17568
Ph: 786-3394
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