Something New
By Jay Irwin
Associate Agricultural Agent
The Penn State Game Bird
Short Course is now the Penn
sylvania - New York Game Bird
Conference.
To better serve the industry the
Pennsylvania Association and
New York Association have
combined efforts with Cornell
University and Penn State
University to give you more and
better information.
In the J.O. Keller Bldg, at 9
a.m. on February 26 and 27 on the
Penn State Campus we will
launch our seventh international
CORN GROWERS &
LIVESTOCK FEEDERS
ARE INVITED TO A FARM
INFORMATION MEETING
TUES. FEBRUARY 20 f 1973
at
L.H. BRUBAKER'S STORE
350 STRASBURG PIKE, LANCASTER
To Corn Growers: (Tues. evening 7:30) This is a No-TIL
meeting for owners and prospective owners of No-TIL
planters. Farmers who are interested in having some
planted by a customer operator who also urged to attend.
An Allis-Chalmers company representative and a chemical
company representative will give helpful information,
show pictures, and answer questions concerning the
equipment, chemical weed and insect control, etc. Bring
your questions and your neighbor.
To Livestock Feeders: (afternoon and evening) High Feed
Costs? Our newest product line is an automatic Mix-Mill
farm feed processing system. The basic Mix-Mill processer
consists of a 4 or 6 ingredient blender and grinder which Is
98 per cent accurate. Package systems are available with
storage and handling facilities. We plan to have with us a
Mix-Mill demonstration unit. He can help you calculate
possible dollar savings in your operation.
FOR MORE INFORMATION CONTACT
L.H. BRUBAKER ROY A. BRUBAKER
350 Strasbnrg Pike 700 Woodcrest Ave.
Lancaster, Pa. Lititz, Pa.
Tel. 397-5179 Tel. 626-7766
RED ROSE FARM SERVICE INC.
MR. FARMER
HAVE YOU ORDERED
YOUR SPRING SEED
REQUIREMENTS?
SEED OATS, AND SOME
VARIETIES OF ALFALFA ARE
IN SHORT SUPPLY.
HAVE YOU TRIED OR HEARD ABOUT WL 305 ALFALFA?
SUGGEST YOU CALL OR STOP IN FOR MORE
INFORMATION ON THIS PROVEN VARIETY.
HOW ABOUT YOUR SPRING FERTILIZER NEEDS!
Red Rose Farm Service Offers a Complete Selection of AGRICO Fertilizers, Bag
or Bulk, Truck or Pull Type Spreaders available.
FOR PROMPT COURTEOUS SERVICE STOP AT
ONE OF OUR CONVENIENTLY LOCATED STORES TODAY,
Main Office
N. Church St.
Quarryville, Pa
786-7361
program for game bird growers
and shooting preserve operators.
This two-day meeting is packed
with new and usable information.
Enough time will be allowed for
you to talk personally with each
person at this conference. Our
enrollment has averaged 70
people per year in the past from
all over the United States,
Canada and Mexico.
The 1973 program for the
Pennsylvania-New York Game
Bird Conference includes new,
different and necessary in
formation for everyone in the
industry.
In Game
Mr. Dick Campbell of Milan
Feather Farm, Red Hook, New
York will show a quick and ef
fective way to catch and load
pheasants.
Dr. Leland Dwight Schwartz
will keep you in business with a
program for identification and
control of Tripple E disease
and VVND. These diseases can
wipe out all birds if uncontrolled.
Mr. Ed Smith, President,
Pennsylvania Game Breeders
Association will show his finest
selection of 35mm slides of the
historic Colonel Hunter Farm
Preserve near Jamestown,
Pennsylvania.
Mr. Lynn Laudenslager, Editor
of the Pennsylvania Game Bird
Bulletin will cover effective and
efficient production management
for quality pheasants.
Mr. Tom Light from New York
will share the results of his 1972
financial analysis study made on
hunting preserves in New York
while he was at Cornell
University.
Dr. Owen Keene, Poultry
Nutritionist at Penn State will
discuss how antibiotics can be
used in raising Bobwhite Quail.
Mr. Dick Reynolds of the New
York Game Farm Management
System will give us the latest on
controlling predators and gapes
in the ringneck pheasant.
ERTH-RITE
SEA-BORN
ALGIT
ZOOK &
RANCH, INC.
R.D. 1 Gap, Pa. 17527
Phone 717-442-4171
Buck, Pa.
284-4464
Lancaster Farming, Saturday, February 10,1973
Birds
Herb Jordan will take a shot at
“What’s Wrong and Right with
Pricing in the Industry.”
Business meetings are
scheduled for the New York and
Pennsylvania Associations
during the conference.
Mr. Lee Kiefer, Director of
Pennsylvania Game Breeders
and NAGB and SPA and owner of
L & L Pheasantry will share with
us his experience with his new
completely automated system for
growing chukars.
Mr. John Mullin international
authority on shooting preserve
management will give us a
method with which to improve
our image.
Dr. Morris G. Mast, Poultry
Food Technologist at Penn State
will give a tour of the food science
labs and what this means to the
game bird industry.
Dr. Ed Kazicky of Winchester-
Western Nilo Farms will be
present to consult with us all.
More than 10,000 people have
now obtained and used in
formation from this short course.
Please mark your calendar and
come to this Game Bird Meeting
on February 26 and 27, 1973.
Send your check made out to
The Pennsylvania State
University to Bill Sipple, 410 J. O.
Keller Bldg., University Park,
Pa. 16802. There is a $2O
Registration fee per person.
The American Cancer Society
reports that one life in three is
now being saved from cancer
but it could be one in two with
out a single new research dis
covery if people understood the
value of early detection and
prompt treatment.
Watch For Our
OPEN
HOUSE
Week ot March 5
thru March 9, 1973
COPE &
WEAVER CO.
HI WH
New Providence, Pa.
ill WATCH FOR OUR |||
PANCAKE
DAYS
FEB. 21-22-23
MESSICK FARM
MACHINERY INC.
2750 No. Market St. Elizabethtown, Pa.
Ph. 357-1439
Jersey Cattle Club
To Hold Calf Sale
District 111 Jersey Cattle Club
will again hold a Junior Jersey
Calf Sale for 4-H and FFA youth
work in Pennsylvania. The sale
again will be held in conjunction
with the Pennsylvania State
Jersey cattle Club meeting
March 30 and March 31.
The State Club will meet at the
Willow Valley Motel, Lancaster
County.
The calf sale will be held at the'
William Aaron farm,
Quarryville, Pa., March 31 at
10:30 a.m.
Jim Boswell Assoc., Union
ville, Chester County Auctioneer,
donated his service free for this
worthy cause last year and will
do so again this year.
The proceeds from the sale are
turned over to the Pa. State
Jersey Club for 4-H and FFA
work.
Last year was a first for this
event held in Chester County.
Many of the animals purchased
by the youth were blue ribbon
winners for them in 1972.
For catalogs, write: George A.
Seeds, 1208 Seeds Lane,
Downingtown, Pa. 19355.
Red Meat
Slaughter
Off 7 pet.
Commercial red meat
production in December by
Pennsylvania slaughter plants
was 80,148,000 pounds, according
to a report this week from the
Crop Reporting Service. The
December production was 7
percent below a year ago. Total
1972 red meat production of
997,879,000 pounds was down 6
percent from 1971
Beef production m 1972 at 411.3
million pounds was off 4 percent,
veal at 19 8 million was down a
sharp 26 percent, pork at 560.5
million was 7 percent lower, but
lamb and mutton at 6.2 million
was up 6 percent.
Red meat production in the 48
states of 2,973 million pounds in
December was 6 percent below a
year ago Total 1972 red meat
production of 36,627 million
pounds was down 2 percent from
1971 Beef production was up 2
percent, but production
decreases were recorded for veal
of 17 percent, pork of 8 percent,
and lamb and mutton of 2 per
cent
TRY A
CLASSIFIED AD!
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