Emergency Livestock Feed Program
Offered in 38 Pennsylvania Counties
The U.S. Department of
Agriculture last week made
available government-owned
feed grain at reduced prices in 38
counties in Pennsylvania where
excessive rainfall has resulted in
heavy crop damage.
Pennsylvania has suffered
from a continuously
deteriorating livestock feed
supply due to the above normal
amount of rainfall this year. The
situation was aggravated by
tropical storm Agnes during late
June. The loss of livestock feed
was compounded for many
livestockmen who, because of the
storm, had such added expenses
as the repair of farm buildings,
fences and machinery.
ACSC officials in Pennsylvania <
LANCASTER LABORATORIES, INC.
ANALYTICAL SERVICES DIVISION
Feeds, Flour, Forages, Foods
Dairy Products, Water, Waste Water
Bacteriological, Physical, Chemcial
2425 New Holland Pike
Lancaster, Pa. 17601
Telephone (717)656-9043 or
(717)656-9868
MR. FARMER
Have you heard about the Red Ro
Programmed Hog Feeding System?
FEED PIGS FOR PROFI
FROM THE START
Let us help you with our various
services and products.
ATGLEN AREA
BROWH &
REA, INC.
ATGLEN. PA.
215-593-5149
report that damages resulting
from Agnes are the greatest
wrought by any storm in this
century, although the degree of
damage varies greatly from
farm to farm. The livestock feed
program is urgently needed to
assist eligible livestockmen who
would otherwise have to liquidate
many numbers of their foun
dation herds.
The 38 eligible counties are
Armstrong, Bedford, Blair,
Cambria, Cameron, Centre,
Clarion, Clearfield, Clinton,
Columbia, Crawford, Cum
berland, Erie, Fayette, Forest,
Franklin, Fulton, Greene,
Huntingdon, Indiana, Juniata,
Lackawanna, Lawrence,
Luzerne, Lycoming, Mercer,
Sources of supply of excellent breeding stock
Local feeder pigs for your finishing facilities
Markets for your feeder pigs
Feeders - Waterers and other production equipment
Complete selection of animal health aids and sanitation
products
The proper use of Red Rose Starter Feeds and Sup
plements, for the most profitable conversion of your
grain into pork.
FOR COMPLETE INFORMATION CALL YOUR LOCAL INDEPENDENT RED
ROSE DEALER LISTED BELOW.
Red Rose
ANIMAL FEEDS
Monroe, Montgomery, Nor
thhampton, Pike, Schuylkill,
Somerset, Sullivan,
Susquehanna, Tioga, Venango,
Wayne and Wyoming.
The livestock feed program
becomes operative in counties
where the Secretary of
Agriculture determines that
severe drought, flood, or similar
conditions have reduced feed
supplies to the point where
assistance is required to help
eligible farmers preserve and
maintain foundation herds and
other eligible livestock.
Under these circumstances,
Commodity Credit Corporation
owned feed grains are offered at
reduced prices in keeping with
loccal support levels for the kinds
of grain supplied.
The grain, as available, will be
offered through the Agricultural
Stabilization and Conservation
Service (ASCS) county offices,
which are charged with the
responsibility for determining
eligibility of individual producers
for assistance.
Freshly hewn birch chips
sink when they fall into
water since birch has a high
proportion of green wood;
that is, cells fiUed with sap
instead of air.
Sinking Chips
QUARRYVILLE AREA
RED ROSE FARM
SERVICE, INC.
N. CHURCH ST.
QUARRYVILLE, PA.
786-7361
Lancaster Farming, Saturday, September 2,1972
Twin Valley FFA Chapter
Involved
Last Friday, August 25,10 Twin
Valley FFA members traveled to
Kutztown to participate in the
Berks County FFA Dairy and
Livestock Judging Contests.
Six Twin Valley students were
among 23 participating in the
livestock judging contest.
Livestock judges were required
to place a class of market hogs, a
class of breeding gilts, and a
class of market steers.
Frank Stoltzfus, State FFA
vice-president, was the only Twin
Valley member to place in the top
10, finished seventh. Other Twin
Valley livestock judges were
Ronald Smoker, Lloyd Simmers,
Glenn Vickers, Melvin Houck and
Thomas Carskadon.
Nevin Mast, Twin Valley
president and Berks County vice
president, finished third in the
dairy judging contest, highest of
the four Twin Valley par
ticipants. Other Twin Valley
dairy judges were Terry Murray,
Robert Stoltzfus and Robert
Evans.
Dairy judges were required to
place one class of mature
Holstein cows, one class of
mature Milking Shorthorn cows
and one class of yearling Holstein
BUCK. PA.
284-4464
In County Contests
heifers. First place in the contest
was earned by Richard Dietrich
of Kutztown. Twenty-eight
contestants participated in the
contest, representing the eight
FFA Chapters in Berks County.
Friday afternoon eight FFA
members - one from each
Chapter in the County - par
ticipated in a tractor driving
contest. The tractor driving
contest is divided into three
parts. First, the contestant must
perform a safety check on the
tractor he will drive. Then he
hooks up to a manure spreader,
losing points for each half-inch
the tractor hitch is off-center.
Then he must pull the spreader
through an obstacle course. Here,
contestants lose points for
touching the sides, fouling
equipment, and for each change
of direction.
Finally, the contestant must
pull a four-wheeled wagon from a
stall and back it into an adjoining
stall. The wagon can be pulled
only 40 feet forward and no more
than five feet to either side of the
stalls. The stalls allow six inches
clearance on both sides of the
wagon. The contestant loses
points for each inch off-center at
both the front and rear of the
wagon, for each inch over two
inches from the rear of the stall,
and for each time the wagon or
tractor touches the sides of the
stall, and for each change of
direction. Contestants are scored
for safety thruoghout the contest
Twin Valley’s Nevin Mast
placed second in the contest.
Pa. Mushroom
Industry is the
World’s Biggest
Pennsylvania still has a firm
grip on the title of mushroom
capital of the world. Production
during the year ended June 30,
1972, was 140.5 million pounds, an
increase of nine percent, ac
cording to the Pennsylvania Crop
Reporting Service.
Growers in the state intend to
utilize 56.6 million square feet of
growing area during the next 12
months which would up next
year’s crop another 6.6 percent.
The average price paid to the
mushroom farmers during the
past year was 45.8 cents per
pound. Twenty-five percent of
their production went into the
fresh sales market where the
average price was up to 59.5 cents
per pound.
The increasing popularity of
mushrooms has helped offset the
threat of lower priced imports
from the orient. Mushroom
production in the other 49 states
climbed even faster than in
Pennsylvania, up 16 percent, but
Keystone State growers still
produce 61 percent of the national
total.
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DAVID |||| BROWN
WALTER BINKLEY
& SON
R.D.4, LITITZ, PA.
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