—Lancaster Farming. Satun
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What's New?
Limited 1974 production of new
International 241 BIGROLL Baler
and Carrier has just been announced
by International Harvester Company,
initial units will be distributed to
company’s regional offices
throughout the United States. Mass
production is scheduled to start next
PREPARE NOW
FOR FALLSEEDING
BY USING
CONESTOGA BRAND
FERTILIZERS
COMMERCIAL OR BULK BLENDS,
ACCORDING TO
SOIL TEST RECOMMENDATIONS
RAISE SILAGE TO 13 PERCENT CRUDE PROTEIN
WITH OUR PRO-SIL
PHONE US FOR YOUR
SEED ORDERS.
Penrad Barley—Arthur Wheat
WL 303 Alfalfa —Timothy
Lancaster Bone
Fertilizer Co. # Inc.
Oxford Quarryville
215-932-8323 717-786-7348
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year. BIGROLL baler will produce
cylindrical bales 6 ft. in diameter and
5 ft. in length, weighing up to 1500
pounds. Bales will be spiral wound
with twine, without knot, and with
manual control from the tractor seat.
Ejection will be via hydraulic gate.
Hog
Carcass
Show
A hog carcass show will be
held on September 26 at the
Lampeter Fair. The deadline
for entries is Wednesday,
Sept. 18. Entries should be
mailed to John H. Henkel,
Willow Glen Farm, RDI,
Strasburg, Pa., 17579.
The number of entries is
limited to 25 hogs and one
entry per farm on a first
come first served basis. All
entries should be ready for
judging at 12 noon Sept. 26
with the on foot judging
taking place shortly
thereafter.
Entry fee is $l.OO per hog,
payable when sending in
entry. Barrows or gilts
weighing 200-230 pounds are
eligible for entry.
Carcasses will be placed in
the order of the ham and loin
percentage of the carcass
weight with meat quality
taken into consideration.
Premiums will be; on foot
class $20,15,10, 5 and 5 and
on fail class from $25 - $5.
Cattlemen Plan
Special Tour
The South Central Cat- sewage systems. The latter
tlemen’s Association, an techniques are ordinarily
affiliate of the Pennsylvania used by plants which do not
Cattlemen’s Association, have the capabilities of
will sponsor a special tour of recycling these types of
a very unique cattle feeding waste products through
operation in Delaware. The livestock. According to
tour will take place on Lowell L. Wilson, Secretary
Tuesday, September 24, with of the Pennsylvania Cat
busses leaving from the tlemen’s Association, this
York, Pennsylvania area, type of operation is not only
The Draper-King-Cole creating an additional,
horticultural processing useful livestock feed which
plant, and its related cattle can replace costly grain in
feeding and breeding cattle rations, but it is also
operation in Delaware, will decreasing the need for large
be visited. Draper-King-Cole land fills and other costly
Farms have approximately disposal methods.”
5,000 head of cattle on feed In addition to the Draper
and a 400-cow breeding herd, King-Cole operation, another
primarily Santa Gertrudis. beef cattle and swine
The uniqueness of this operation will be visited by
operation is that a very high the cattlemen’s group,
portion of their total feed
used comes from the hor-'
ticultural processing plant’s
wastes and by-products.
The waste products
originate from the residues
left after processing of sweet
corn, peas, potatoes,
tomatoes, beans, onions, and
a wide variety of other types
of crops. These wastes vary
widely in their nutritional
value for cattle, but can be
used economically to replace
some of the high-priced
grain and corn silage fed in
conventional feedlots.
In addition to the beef
produced from these wastes,
the' processing plant is
using the cattle as a disposal
method for these wastes. If
these wastes were not fed to
the cattle, it would indeed be
a costly procedure to dispose
of these waste in land fills,
by incineration, or through
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A
CLEAN
HARVEST
Will Be Worth
More This Year
Get Everything You Grow
With A Gleaner Combine
Every grain, kernel or bean you
leave in the field is a profit
opportunity 105 t... and when
prices are up, the loss is even
greater. So this year more than
ever, it'll pay you to harvest
with a Gleaner combine from
Allis-Chalmers . . .the machine
with the clean reputation. We
have a model the right size for
your acreage with the right
head for your crops. Clean up
this year with a M odel L, M odel
M, Model F or Model K—the
Golden Anniversary Gleaner
combines.
a Nissley Farm Service Grumelli Farm Service
Washington Boro Pa Quarryville Pa
Roy H. Buch, Inc. I. H. Brubaker
Ephrata RD2 Lancaster. Pa
ALLIS-CHALMERS
BHM Farm Equipment, Inc.
Annville, H D 1 Pa
Anyone interested in at
tending this tour should
contact Mr. Charles Sunday.
RDI, York, Pa., or H. H,
Stambaugh, 717-789-3416,
director of the Pennsylvania
Cattlemen’s Association.
Unlike the eye, which is
protected from harsh light
by the eyelid, the ear is
exposed to a continual
barrage of environmental
noise that can be hazardous
to human hearing ability,
officials of the Beltone
Crusade for Hearing Con
servation note. To protect
against the tragedy of an
undetected hearing loss they
urge everyone to have their
hearing tested at least once a
year.
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