Metric System To help you prepare for the eventual change, Trudy Dougherty, Chester County Cooperative Extension home economist, passes on this layman’s guide to the metric system. There are three basic metric units-the gram for weight, the meter for length, and the liter for volume. You need to remember some prefixes, too. Milli, meaning one-thousandth; centi, meaning one-hundredth; and kilo, meaning one thousand times. The gram is about the weight of a paper clip. The kilogram is slightly more than two pounds. The meter is a little longer than a yard. The millimeter is the diameter of a paper clip wire. The centimeter is the width of a paper clip. The kilometer is somewhat longer than half a mile. The liter is a bit larger than a quart, while five milliliters make a teaspoon. A 37 degree day is nearly BEAI THE EQUIPMENT SHORTAGE! Farm equipment is in short supply. Deliveries are slow. Act now to be sure you’ll be ready for the coming season. We suggest that you do two things: 1. Order your new equipment now. We'll do our best to serve your needs. 2. Make arrangements early to have your present equipment put in shape and checked-out. That will give us a chance to order any replacement parts not in stock. L H, Brabaktr C. E. Wiley A Son, Inc.' SSOStraaburgPike 101 S. Lime St., Quarryville T ancastff 786-ms 397-5179 A.B.C. Groff, Inc.; 110 S. Railroad Ave. "New Holland 354-4191 YOUR AUTHORIZED NEW HOLLAND DEALER DO YOU NEED USED PARTS FOR FARM TRACTORS and FARM MACHINERY CALL HARRY STOHLER AT WENGER FARM MACHINERY South Race St. Myerstown Pa. Ph 717-866-2138 NHA Hopes to Ease Bailing Wire Shortage Shortages of baling wire Washington, and Dick freight bill at the forty for the need for emergency a destination in the needed last year during the Spears, Manchester, Ten- thousand pound rate is based rates on two forty foot cars Southern Territory which hay harvest and the need for nessee to serve as an ad hoc on two facts. Shortage and at the forty thousand pound emergency freight rates to committee to “leave no high cost of fuel are both minimum rate. The two forty permit the shipping of two stones unturned in their creating problems in foot cars would be loaded to forty foot boxcars on one efforts to see that farmers transporting hay by trucks foil visable capacity, freight bill were among the who need baling wire are from surplus to deficit areas. The Interstate Commerce main topics discussed at the able to purchase this The energy need per ton mile Commission has been urged Mid-Term Board of Direc- essential item.” to haul hay by railroads is to authorize the railroads to tors Meeting of The National Both baling twine and wire many times lower than that make effective at once the Hay Association, Inc., in were in short supply last required by highway carr- change in rates on hay as Lake Worth, Florida. year but the wire shortage tors”, states Benjamin suggested above. This ArnoldPoppe, president of created the greatest Trumbull, Jackson, arrangement is nothing new the trade association of hay problem. This wire shortage Michigan, Chairman, as it has been effective in shippers, brokers, dealers problem can be solved if Transportation Committee times of drought in the past.* and receivers, appointed steel mills in this country of The National Hay “The saving”, continued vice president Robert C. will recognize the necessity Association. Trumbull, “to cattle feeders Horton, Kenosha, Wiscon- of producing more of this After February 22, 1974 if the hay moved in two forty sin; Directors Ronald T. essential agricultural item, railroad freight rates will foot cars on one freight bill at Anderson, Ellensburg, Horton is chairman of this have been increased six the forty thousand pound committee which will also tones during the last four minimum rate from the address its attention to the years. The minimum rates Green Bay, Wisconsin area need for more hay baling on toe amount of hay that twine, can be shipped in a forty foot “The emergency need for boxcar are higher than the railroad freight rates that rates on hay in a fifty foot will permit two forty foot ca f> but fifty foot cars are boxcars to be shipped on one seldom available for ship ping bay. This is the reason 99 degrees on our Fahrenheit thermometer, and zero is the freezing point of water and 100 the boiling point. Get ready-the metric system is coming. Boy A. Brubaker 700 Woodcrest Ave. Lititz, Pa. Tel. 626-7766 Swine Production Skills Will Be Presented At Penn State Men and women who are relatively inexperienced in the essentials of swine production will have an opportunity to learn valuable skills by enrolling in a Basic Swine Management Con ference scheduled for March 26-28 at The Pennsylvania State University. Sessions will be held in the J. 0. Keller Building. Topics covered during the three-day conference indude planning the swine en terprise, diseases, buildings, management, genetics, breeding, testing programs, environmental controls and regulations, and waste handling systems. Instruction will be presented by Penn State faculty members who have specialities in the areas of animal science, veterinary science, agricultural engineering, and' agricultural economics. A registration fee will cover the cost of in structional materials. For additional information and registration forms, contact the Agricultural Conference Conference Coordinator, 410 J. 0. Keller Building, University Park, Pa. 16802. Production and Type Improvers in Daily Service JERSEY: 15J43 B.S. Noble SUPERB-GoW Medal USDA (1/74)—28 Daus. Ave. 10,518 AA 502 F; t492M +I6F {36% r.) 17 Classified Daus. Ave. 83,4 AYRSHIRE: A 73 Mor-Ral COMMANDER'S Pride-VG & D.Ap. USDA (l/74)-252 Daus. Ave. 13,415 M 495 F; t1,037M +I7F (91% r. 45 Classified Daus. Ave. 85.2 BROWN SWISS: 1861 Breezy Hill CORVAN-Very Good USDA (1/74)—18 Daus. Ave. 15,219 M 635 F; +4BSAA +24F (32% r.) PLAN TO ATTEND YOUR MEMBERSHIP MEETING: No. Lancaster: Feb. 21,7 p.m.. at Blue Ball Fire Hall So. Lancaster: Feb. 19,7 p.m. at U. Meth. Ch., Quarryville Leb. - So. Dau.: Feb. 13,10 a.m., at City-County Bldg., Leb. (meal tickets now on sale from your local Technician) -Atlantic BREEDERS COOPERATIVE LIVESTOCK SERVICES LANCASTER* Akron East Earl Gap* Mount Joy Quarryville Lancaster Farming, Saturday, Feb. 2,1974 569-0411 859-2552 445-4131 442-4471 653-1451 786-7381 CLEONA* Elizabethtown Hummelstown READING* Frystown *24-hour answering service or recorder now carries a rate of $22.40 per ton on a 30,000 pound minimum (and seldom can that much hay be put in one forty foot boxcar) would be $4.00 per ton if our request is granted. The freight for the same distance on a 40,000 pound shipment is $18.40 per ton. Boxcars unsuitable for other commodities can be used for shipping hay. Hay is an important ingredient in the pipeline that leads from the soil to the consumers’ table where meat and milk are con cerned. 15H120 Harrisburg BAY Ideal EX & Production Qualified USDA summary (Jan,/74)~ 211 Daus., 123 Herds Ave. 15,990 M 3.62% 579 F P.D.(90% r.) 11,074 +3l (+s7o per lactation) 24 Classified Daus. Ave. 79.4 ISGIII Holichuckey T.C. TRANSFEJI NAL summary (Jan./73) 9 Daus. in 1 Herd Ave. 14,854 M 4.27% 635 F .0.(19% r.) +321 +ll 10 Classified Daus. Ave. 86.5 These sires, along with all other Genetic Power Profit-Makers, are as near as your phone. COATESVILLE* Parkesburg Oxford 273-6763 367-3923 566-2569 YORK* Brogueville Dillsburg Fawn Grove 376-8297 933 8318 21 384-2741 857-5545 932-9361 792-0941 927-6210 432-4534 382-4805
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