Conservation Banquet Set
The Lancaster County Soil and
Water Conservation District
annual banquet has been an
nounced for 6:30p.m. March 23 at
the Farm and Home Center.
R. M. Davis, state con
servationist, U.S. Soil Con
servation Service, Harrisburg,
will be speaker.
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 topi
SILAGE DISTRIBUTORS
Van Dale distributors insure even
silage distribution throughout
the silo for a maximum fill.
The 1640 Power-Fit'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 1020 F. The Industrial is
built for silos from 20 to 40 feet in diameter and
has a capacity up to 40 tons per hour.
VAN PALE
The story of the wandering
Jew is not of Biblical origin,
although the legend has ap
peared largely in literature,
especially German and
French writings. The earliest
English reference to this
legend dates from 1236.
Non-Stop Feeding
Box 337 • Long Lake, Minnesota
Not from Bible
Among six southern Lancaster County
dairymen who were honored recently for
having high producing herds during 1971
at the eighth annual district five meeting of
Atlantic Breeders Cooperative at Memorial
United Methodist Church, Quarryvilie, are:
Holstein Producers Earn Progressive
The Holstein-Friesian
Association of America recently
recognized nine Pennsylvania
breeders, including three from
the local area, for the
CALEB M. WENGER
Drumore Center, RDI Quarryville, Pa.
Phone 548-2116
“Progressive Breeders’
Award,” the highest recognition
attainable by a breeder of
Registered Holsteins.
In addition, one local animal
BULK STORAGE BINS
Supplementary feeds are easily
handled with Van Dale'? bulk stor
age feed bins. The Super Stores are
available in AVz or /Vz ton sizes.
These units are fiberglas con
structed. They won’t rust, dent, cor
rode orabsorb heatfrom 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 CT2OO and 300 auger
type conveyors are adaptable to
any feeding system. They’re
tough, efficient, easy to install
id economically priced.
BUNK FEEDERS
Van Dale has a bunk feederfor every
operation. The SCF 1400 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
feedlot 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, March 4,1972—13
Curtis Akers, Quarryville RDI; Harry
Kreider, Quarryville RDI; Aaron E. Beiler,
Paradise RDI, and Henry Leaman, Windy
Hill Road, Lancaster. Also receiving the
award were: Robert Ulrich and son,
Quarryville RDI.
Breeders’ Award
Local breeders receiving the
Progressive Breeders’ Award
included: J. Mowery Frey and
Son, Beaver Valley Pike, Lan
caster, for the seventh time,
Jefferson D. Yoder, Elverson, for
the fifth time, and Clark A.
Yoder, Salisbury, for the first
time.
Only a total of 754 Holstein
breeding operations, including 89
in Pennsylvania, have qualififed
for the Progressive Breeders’
Award since the program was
started. To qualify for this
award, a Holstein breeder must
have a herd that meets strict
requirements in all phases of
breeding and management, in
cluding production, type im
provement, herd health, and the
development of homebred
animals.
Recognition for high butterfat
production of over 1,000 pounds
included: Maril-Dale Reflection
Kathy 5511312 (Ex), owned by
Vernon R. Umble, Christiana,
and sired by Pennstate
Marksman Reflection 1270143
(VG), a bull that has earned Gold
Medal Sire recognition and was
bred in the Umble herd. Maril-
Dale produced 23,754 pounds of
milk and 1,035 pounds of butterfat
in 365 days.
Farm Exports
Rise, Despite
Dock Strike
U. S. farm exports increased
six per cent during calendar year
1971, the U. S. Department of
Agriculture announced recently.
This follows an increase of 22
per cent the previous year.
The shipment of farm products
abroad in 1971 was hindered
considerably by a July to
November dock strike, however.
When ports opened under a Taft-
Hartley injunction in December,
shipments rose to $842 million for
the last month of the year.
The final figures for 1971 puts
agriculture exports at $7.7 billion)
a new high, the USDA said.
Secretary of Agriculture Earl
L. Butz said the strike caused
losses in the hundreds of millions
of dollars to American farmers
from reduced 1971 sales, from
lower prices and from the likely
cut in future sales as foreign
buyers turn to other supply
sources.
U. S. agriculture ended the
year with a favorable trade
balance of $1.9 billion in a year
when the total U. S. trade balance
was a deficit of $2 billion.
was recognized for exceeding a
half ton of butterfat on an official
test.