From Local Ag Teachers ;
Agriculture-Dld You Know?
This is a year of concern
over the world's food
production. In many
countries what had become
known as “The Green
Revolution” in using modem
methods of food production
MEMO
HAY, STRAW
and EAR CORN
SALE
EVERY MONDAY
AT 11A.M.
New Holland Sales
Stables, Inc.
Phone 717-354-4341
Lloyd H. Kreider, Auct.
Save the stover
If you’re turning crop trash under, there’s a good chance it
could be a lot more valuable as feed And with a HESSTON
StakHand® in your choice of three sizes you can put
up stover in compressed, weather-resistant stacks just as
easily as you'd put up hay Yes, corn . wheat milo and
other stubble, can be turned into pounds of beef or milk
gained instead of pounds of crop trash turned under So
see us about StakHand in stover right away And
remember, there’s no better way to handle hay than with
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Tractors
Bring in your early order for NK seed corn now And bring in
your top corn yield next year
As you know, severe weather damage in midwest seed pro
duction areas is expected to drastically limit the availability of all
seed corn for next year
Your signed order in the hands of your Stanford Seed dealer
is your best assurance that you will have the top performing
Northrup-Kmg corn hybrids you need for your farm So bring in
your early order now
Thoughts
in Passing
has turned brown with
drought and starvation. Yes,
even the United States has
suffered this summer from
disasterous drought and
frost.
Surely these national
disasters coupled with world
wide economic problems call
for a new day in agriculture.
A day when the farmer must
renew his courage. A day
when all farmers must know
more about marketing and
purchasing. A day when
farmers must know where
their “bread is buttered” in
the farm operation.
Surely you have heard that
some men think the farmer
has never had it so well. But
“Did you know” that the real
income farmers have had to
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of any size tractor 32 to 130 h.p.
STAUFFER
DIESEL, Inc.
312 W. Main St.
New Holland, Pa.
Phone 717-354-4181
THiJfikmMjfm co. |i|Cj
PO Box 230, Plymouth Meeting. Pa /PO Box 366, Buffalo. N Y
James L. Green
Elizabethtown High School
spend on themselves has
risen at a rate slower than
that of the average
American’s. Yes, and while
receiving less for their labor
they have increased their
productivity twice as fast as
industry has. In 1942 on
Lancaster farms the
average com yield was 50
bushels per acre, now it is
over 100 bushels per acre
with many farmers
producing over 140 bushels to
the acre. Milk production is
similar, going from an
average of 4,000 lbs. per cow
in 1935 to about 10,000 lbs. per
cow now. Yet this fall the
farmer received less for his
milk after feed cost than he
Reber Retires From Penna.
Farmer Post
Norman Reber retired this
week after nearly 29 years as
editor of Pennsylvania
Farmer magazine. Reber
lives on a 152-acre dairy
farm which he owns near
Bemville in York County.
Over 300 guests, including
many leaders in the Penn
sylvania farming com
munity, were on hand
Tuesday night to honor
Reber at a banquet in his
honor in Harrisburg. As a
spokesman for farm in
terests for nearly three
decades, Reber was honored
many times over the years
by numerous farm groups.
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Egg Promotion
Needs Support
Southeastern Penn
sylvania egg producers have
a major stake in an up
coming promotion of shell
eggs in the New York market
zone planned by American
Egg Board for the opening of
1975, This is the view of Paul
Hess, Sr., President of Plain
and Fancy Egg Ranch, RD3,
Elizabethtown, Penn
sylvania.
As a major producer and
distributor of eggs, the Plain
and Fancy organization, saw
fit to support a finance drive
by America Egg Board this
past Spring with a $5,000
contribution. At that time on
a countrywide basis AEB
raised some $650,000. a
major part of which was
raised in the Northeast by
Nema and Neppco.
k
AEB has come forward
with a plan of action in which
they will put up $135,000. in
matching funds to match
$35,000 from Nema and
$lOO,OOO. from the Southeast
that will be used in a TV,
radio and newspaper
campaign on behalf of eggs
in the metropolitan market.
Mr. Hess expressed the
has since 1940.
This is only a part of the
Story of Agriculture in 1974.
If you didn’t know why
fanners were killing calves
on television then listen to a
farmer.
Norman Reber
Lancaster Farming, Saturday, Nov. 30.1974
strong feeling that any ac
tion to improve egg demand
in the New York area must
reflect favorably in all major
production areas. Penn
sylvania easily qualifies for
that designation.
Unfortunately, he con
tinued, some persons and
organizations with interest
in layers did not respond to
the Spring drive. They now
have a good opportunity to
rectify the situation and
back the hands of neighbors
who gave earlier, by mailing
a contribution check to
Nema, Post Office Box MM,
For high efficiency
at
feed
Checkerboard
You can take advantage of present high milk
prices by getting your cows to produce at their
bred-in ability at a low cost. Checkerboard
Dairy is the milking ration for the dairyman who
wants a highly efficient, yet a low-cost ration for
his herd. Checkerboard Dairy has a balance of
vitamins, minerals and protein cows need for top
performance. And it’s a complete milking ration,
high in molasses for added palatabihty and
pelleted for easy handling and feeding.
Put your herd on Checkerboard Dairy. See us
today and let Checkerboard Dairy help your
cows produce all the milk that’s bred into them
and let you take advantage of today’s good
milk prices.
Wenger’s Feed Mill Inc.
Janies High & Sons John B. Kurtz
Ph: 354-0301
Gordonville
West Willow Farmers Assn., Inc.
John J. Hess, 11, Inc.
Ph. 442-4632
Paradise
McCracken’s Feed Mill, Inc.
2 New Charlotte St., Manheim
Ph. 717-665-2186
Club To
Hold Tea
The Women’s Republican
Club of Lancaster City and
County will hold its annual
Christmas tea and in
stallation of officers on
Thursday, December 12,
from 2 to 4 p.m. at the home
of Mr. and Mrs. John I.
Hartman, Jr., 47 Glen Moore
Circle. The home is located
off Route SOI opposite the
Lancaster Shopping Center.
The tea is open to the
public and no reservations
are necessary.
Durham, New Hampshire,
03824 immediately. Con
tributions to the Spring drive
were scaled at one cent per
bird.
low cost
your cows
Dairy
Ph: 367-1195
Rheems
Ph: 354-9251
R.D.3, Ephrata
Ph: 464-3431
West Willow
Ira B. Landis
Ph: 665-3248
80x276, Manheim RD3
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