How to
Maintain Choppers
damage to the machine.
Check and adjust the slip
clutch; it is also there to
protect the machine. It
should be adjusted to protect
the chopper - not to allow you
to use all available hor
sepower. Follow the in
structions in the operator’s
manual covering “Glazing"
and adjustment.
Lubricate the entire
machine regularly as in
dicated in your operator’s
manual.
OPERATION - Let’s
assume that we have the
machine peoperly set up,
adjusted and lubricated and
we are ready for field
operation. Up to this point we
have said very little about
the tractor to be used. Your
tractor-chopper combination
will fall into one of three
categories:
Horsepower and chopper
capacity evenly matched -
This combination should
provide efficient and trouble-
HAY WANTED
Kaolin Mushroom
Farms Inc.
CALL
1-215-268-2262
Extern Lancaster Co
Mchin Harr
M 2 New Holland, Pa. 17557
Ph: 717-354-5977
Worth Utesteni Lancaslor Co.
Earl B. Gindor
RO2 Manheim, Pa. 17545
Phone 717-665-3126
RD2 Conastop. Pa. 17516
Ph: 717-872-56*6
Adjust and
free service for an
economical operation.
Low horsepower with
large chopper - This com
bmation will obviously result
in poor chopper capacity and
performance but will seldom
be the cause of machine
failure.
High horsepower with
medium or small chopper -
This combination usually
spells TROUBLE, Too many
operators attempt to operate
at tractor capacity rather
than machine capacity.
These practices will include
faster ground speeds,
heavier windrows, tighter
slip clutches and heavier
shear bolts. Capacity will be
above expectations, but
unfortunately downtime and
repair expenses will be
excessive.
To summarize, we remind
you that speedy and efficient
performance of your
equipment during the har-
IT PAYS TO FEED THE AGRI-KING WAY!
“Just a few words to share with my fellow dairymen
I started on the Agri-King feeding program in December 1972. In August 1972 I was
milking 40 cows with a rolling herd average of 13,543 lbs. milk and 475 lbs. fat. I was
shipping 33.8 lbs. milk per rows per day on all cows and 39.4 lbs. on milking rows. In
August 19741 milked 50 rows with a rolling herd average of 15,486 lbs. milk and 514 lbs.
fat. I’m now shipping 44.1 lbs. milk per cow per day on all cows and 55.7 lbs. on milking
cows. This is the best I’ve ever done through the summer.
I’ve had very few milk fevers, and my breeding problems have decreased so that I don't
have to sell rows because of not being able to get them bred. I use Super Micro on all my
fresh rows until they settle, '
I feel it pays to put corn silage in green and treat it with > King. Last year I filled one
silo with green corn silage treated with Silo King, and it was tne best silage I had.
I didn’t realize just how much better the rows were doing until 1 compared my records.
I’ve increased my herd by 10 rows and their milk production by more'than 10 lbs. per cow
per day on all cows and more than 16 lbs. on milk rows. Also my veterinary bills are really
down. It’s a pleasure for me to milk rows under these conditions l .’’
LehfeCo...*rta.
J. H. Moore
1213 Zorba Drive
Whitehall, Pa. 18052
Ph: 215-432-5987
teton Lancaster Co.
A. L Weriaao
413 locust St
Coiuiabia. Pa. 17513
Ph: 717-614-8761
vest season starts before you repair parts that may be
go to the field. Plan well required. A rainy day spent
ahead of the season of use to in the machine shed can pay
inspect and adjust so as to dividends of many sunny
allow time to obtain any days in the field.
-Your Neighbor-
JOHN M. STOLTZFUS JR.
RD2, Box 154 Narvon, Pa. 17555
CheskrCo.
BMfem WMk
RDI
Wglen, Pa. 19310
Ph: 215-593-6143
Marvin Meyer
RO2, Box 157
Annvilie, Pa. 17003
Pb: 717-867-1445
Cut length should be chosen
carefully to best meet your needs.
Screen size should be chosen
carefully to meet your requirements.
\ KEY TO PROFIT
AGRI KING, •
' rnsaMira mt puemms
I Please Send Me More Information On More Milk
Name.
RD or St
I City State
I Zip Phone
ILTON, ILL.
and Less Problems “The Agri-King Way”.
Mail to:
George F. Delong
REGIONAL MANAGER
P.O. Box 683 Lititz. Pa. 17543
Lancaster Farming. Saturda 1
Agriculture Council
A nationwide program to 28 inviting participants for
put farmers and consumers the exchange visits,
back in touch with each other Scheduled for the weekend
will be launched this week in of October 11-13, the ACA
the midwestem states of Midwest City-Farm Swap is
lowa, Illinois and Minnesota co-sponsored by WGN Radio
by the new Agriculture TV, Chicago; the lowa
Council of America which Cattlemen’s Association; the
represents a broad cross- Boone Chamber of Corn
section of farmers, farm merce; and the lowa Pork
organizations and farm- Producers,
related businesses. Several activities designed
“This is the first effort of to provide answers to
its kind ever undertaken by questions posed by con
the nation’s farming and sumers, press and others
ranching community,” said will be coordinated through
ACA chairman J. S. Francis, WATS lines installed in a
Jr. of Peoria, Arizona. “Our new Midwest ACA office in
purpose is to build a lasting Madison, Wisconsin, and the
bond of partnership between home office in Washington,
farmers and consumers D.C. For example, con
based on their strong in- sumers in the three-state
terdependence and mutual area will be encouraged to
long-term interests.” call 800-356-8113, a toll-free
The ACA program theme number, one night a week to
“Let’s keep in touch - talk directly with a farmer
Together we’ll grow” will be or rancher about any farm
emphasized through specific related issue,
activities geared to provide Another key service,
grassroots people-to-people “Farm News for City
contact between urban People,” will provide
consumers and the nation’s specialized information for
2.8 million farmers and civic, business and
ranchers. Following a educational groups,
concentrated 96-day cam- To help keep ACA in
paign in the Midwest, the formed of major consumer
program will be expanded concerns and the most ef
througbout the country. fective means of response,
One program activity - a invitations have been ex-
City-Farm Swap - will tended to leading consumer
feature exchange visits representatives to par
between urban Chicago ticipate on a Consumer
families and farm families Action Panel which will have
from Boone County, lowa, direct input into the overall
More than 50 Chicago program,
families responded within “This is a comprehensive
minutes of the first broadr approach,” Francis said,
cast announcement August “which -«will permit in
dividual farmers to respond
to questions and concerns
from individual consumers
on a variety of levels. We are
aiming for the best kind of
communication - direct,
face-to-face and straight to
the point - which we believe
will result in better un
derstanding.”
Francis pointed out that a
century ago most Americans
lived on farms, but now 95
percent of the population live
in urban areas. “People in
cities today,” he said, “have
no way of knowing how or'
why such things as the
recent drought, or last year’s
fuel crisis or strikes in a
major industry affect the
production of food and raw
materials on the farm - and
consequently the supply and
cost of commodities to meet
each family’s basic needs.”
Francis produces cotton
and vegetables and is a
cotton ginner. Other ACA
officers are: Vice Cbarinum
Butter Freese, Wellman,
Iwpa, cattleman; Second
Vice Chairman Thurman
GagtiUfCorwttb, lowa, com,
hqfekmd soybean grower;
Spetmy William *oweQ.
pjaaceton. Miimourl,
and TTeafcer BL
L. ’’Hatcher, |unar,
Colorado, wheat grower.
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