A I • Ido’s r Notebook ,* May is the month of flowers and Spring sunshine. I’ve decided the element of surprise is one reason I enjoy walks in the fields and woods. A hen pheasant rises to flight at my feet and sends AAAAAAAAA^ A CHARLESTOWN RD7- PROSPECT RD. TO GET THE BEST IN NEW EQUIPMENT AND THE BEST DEALS IN USED EQUIPMENT NEW EQUIPMENT 9Vi ft. Flexible Harrow 10 ft Offset Harrow 4 bottom Auto. Reset Plow 3 bottom Mounted Plow 442 AC Baler 150 bu. Gram-O-Vater Box 200 bu Gravity - Flo Bin w-8 ton gear 8 & 10 ton A.C. running gears Is Your Tractor Tired? Call Lynn or Rick or Does your Equipment Need a Facelift 7 Call Steve at 717-285-4844. If You Need Parts, Call Barbara at 717-285-4844 LARGE INVENTORY OF PARTS ; I Vs f v« - '|i Ida Risser £ shivers through me. There is a forgotten apple tree in a fence row with red-pink buds bursting into beautiful pale pink blossoms. And under it I find white violets for a tiny two inch vase at home. Then unexpectedly I see a wild NISSLEY FARM SERVICE Washington Boro, Pa. 717-285-4844 CALL DICK 717-653-4286 717-285-4844 flower which I feared had disappeared from our farm. Not for 30 years had I seen its heavenly blue periwinkle like blossoms along the, Conestoga River (it is of*' ficially a river now and no longer a creek). Sometimes there are unpleasant suprlses like finding six trees in a row chopped down without anyone even asking per mission. But generally speaking “trampers” can not only leam about nature, but come home in a better state of mind. We’ve taken one more step to save the soil on our farm. All of the fields have been laid out in contour strips and now we’ve put in a long sod waterway. Since the new highway was built through the farm we have had a big problem with water after a heavy rain. We’re hoping that planting redtop and Reed canary grass will reduce the erosion rate. The law tells us that by 1977 all fanners who plow or till the soil will be required to have an erosion and sedimentation control plan. Some people have told me they would like to hear m6re about our week’s stay in Seattle Washington in March. So I’ll try to describe some of the things we saw in the Old Curiosity Shop at BARBER OIL CO. [TEXACO] Fuel Chief HEATING OIL * Oil HEATING EQUIPMENT AIR CONDITIONING MOUNT JOY, PA. Ph. A AAA A USED EQUIPMENT A.C. Dl9 Diesel, excellent cond. Massey Hams 81 10 ft. Disc Harrow 2 bottom Trail Plow 2-row Snap Coupler Planter (2) 4-row IH Planters CALL CLAIR 717-665-7471 717-285-4844 DEPENDABLE Sales & Service and 10,000. Results from feeding trials indicate that up to 12.5 percent DLW in the feed ration did not adversely affect egg production and .feed efficiency. At higher precentages, egg production and feed efficiency were reduced. Both body weight and egg weight declined when 20 percent or more DLW was included in the ration of laying hens. DLW can also be fed to dairy and beef cattle. The ERS report said that beef cattle rations containing up to 30 percent DLW have been fed without significant ad verse effects on per formance and carcass quality. Ground and ensiled broiler waste likewise produced no negative effects on the carcass quality of beef cattle, though feed efficiency tended to be lower when ground broiler waste was used. The major problem with feeding DLW to beef cattle was found to be its palatability. A Pier 51 on the Alaskan Way. I found some of the following very interesting and other plain grotesque and bizarre. There were fleas in dresses (looked at through a microscope), and also the Lord’s ptayer printed on a pin head and on a grain of rice, There was a 67 pound snail, the largest Jawbone of a whale, a 6 ft. giant crab, and all types of guns and swords. We also saw a two-headed calf, a 6 ft. mummy found in the desert in 1895, shrunken human heads, a 10 ft. rat tlesnake skin and many finely carved totem poles from Alaskan Indians. Many items were for sale such as ivory figures, sea shells, furs, Indian turquoise jewerly, wood carvings, ships in bottles and many others. Recycle Poultry Waste Large-scale poultry operations can recycle poultry waste as feed on an economical basis, a U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) report said recently. The study, prepared by USDA’s Economic Research Service (ERS), examined economic aspects of recycling layer and broiler wastes from poultry and feeding them to livestock and chickens. It found that dried layer waste (DLW) can be processed and fed back to poultry on at least a break-even basis in 50,000-to -80,000 size laying hen operations. It is not a break even operation for the smaller, family-size poultry farms n the study showed. The cost of drying the layer waste was $25, $3O, and $46 per ton, respectively, for flock sizes of 80,000, 50,000, ERTH-RITE Soil Conditioner MAXICROP LIQUID PLANT FEEDING' Vitamin Si Mineral for livestock and poultry Need for less protein in crease butterfat cut mastitis increase egg production Zook & Ranck, Inc. RDt.Gap, Pa. 17527 9m** , • • ‘ Lancaster Farming. Saturday, May 4.1974—23 f ' lanmster'silo 'c’o' ' inc' ''i > 2008 Hormhoe Rd. 2436 Creek Hill Rd. 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