READ LANCASTER FARMING
FOR FULL MARKET REPORTS
HALES 0 HUNTER CO.
Franklin & High St.
Ph. 717-838-1338
A valuable tool used by most feed companies
to help their customers is feed programing.
Let's take a look at the proceedure.
Your feed man shows up with plastic bags in
hand to take samples of hay and silage. One
blade out of the mow is selected, broken and
about a one pound sample is taken. Then out of
a silo, containing tons of silage, maybe a half
pound sample is put in another bag. These go
to a lab where a one gram sample is boiled in
sulphuric acid. One gram, incedently is one
454th of a pound. After boiling the sample is
weighed and subtracted from the one gram.
Now we know how much nitrogen was in the
sample. From this we calculate the percent of
crude protein. From this we apply a factor and
get the percent digestable protein. From this
we know how much protein is in every bale of
hay in that mow and each pound of silage in
that silo, don't we? Oh, by the way, how many
of your cows boil their feed in sulphuric acid?
KINDA MAKES A BODY WONDER,
DON'T IT?
® ELMER M. SHREINER
Trading at Good’s Feed Mill
Specializing in DAIRY & HOG FEEDS
New Providence, Pa.
Phone 786-2500
SINCE 1870
TRY A CLASSIFIED AD
PHONE 626-2191 or 394-3047
INQUIRE ABOUT THE
DAIRY
Scheduled for
NEW HOLLAND, PA.
FEED LETTER
PENN JERSEY
HARVESTORE
We Will Visit Three Outstanding
New Jersey Dairy Farms
Don't Miss This One
RICHARD ENCK -
Bill WINGENROTH - 733-3903
HENRY STAUFFER - 367-3196
PENN JERSEY HARVESTORE
Palmyra, Pa. 17078
TOUR
January 31
Contact-
Area distributors for Conklin products are shown here
with company president Bob Conklin, first row, third from
left. They are, left to right, first row: Wilbur Lentz, Neil
Hochstetler, Conklin, James Wanner, Raymond Ebersole and
James Lentz. Back row: Levi High, Paul Beiler, Joseph
Miller, Nick Yoder and Raymond Zook.
Rohrer Places Second
Safe Tractor Driving Contest
Doug Rohrer, a senior
vocational agriculture student at
Manheim Central High School,
won second place honors in the
State FFA Safe Tractor Driving
contest held in the Farm Show
arena last Thursday evening.
Doug is the son of Mr. and Mrs.
Clinton Rohrer, Lititz RD2.
The Safe Tractor Driving
contest is held annually during
Farm Show activities. Con
testants compete in three general
areas: a written examination in
Wish I’d Said
That &
“Borrowing neighbors usu
ally take everything but a
hint.”—Herman Gross, Tri
county (Mo.) News.
284-4973
354-5171
Lancaster Farming, Saturday, January 20,1973 —
safe tractor operation and
maintenance; tractor driving
skills which include backing a
wagon into a stall with a two-inch
clearance, after a precision
obstacle course.
Doug had previously won Safe
Tractor Driving contests at
Manheim and Ephrata and
during FFA Week at Penn State,
which entitled him to compete at
the Farm Show.
Doug gained his tractor driving
skills from his experiences on the
Rohrer’s 130-acre beef farm and
from his instruction m vocational
agriculture. He maintains honor
roll status in his courses in
school
Doug plans to become involved
in the home farming operation
following graduation
Local Conklin
Group Meets
The Conklin Garden Spot
Association held their first
regular area meeting recently at
the Plain and Fancy Farm
Restaurant
in
Some 250 people attended the
meeting to hear a speech by Bob
Conklin, an author as well as
president of the Minnesota based
Conklin Co
The Conklin company
manufactures lubricants
cleansing agents and other
chemicals for farm, home and
industry
MANURE PITS
24-36 ft., 48 ft. & 60 ft.
Diameter 12 ft Deep
circular precast concrete
with Gunite coated in
terior.
ZIMMERMAN
INDUSTRIES, INC.
R.D No. 1 Ephrata, Pa. 17522
I 733-6166
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