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MARCH 8-14, 1976
Miplt Irtfi call up their wine.
Warn children about soft pond ice Johnny Applcsccd died
March 11, 1847 hirst quarter of the moon March 8 Maple sap
run begins Average length of days for the week. 11 hours 42
minutes New York first state to license dogs, March 8, 1894
Bible first printed March 13, 1462 dosed doors are more easily
heard through than open ones Old Farmer's Riddle; What kind
of a table has no legs? (Answer
below)
Ask the Old Farmer: When
something very unusual hap
pened, my grandmother used to
sav, "My goodness' Cut a notch
in the crane " All the cranes I've
ever seen have been made of
iron, and hard to notch Can you
solve this 7 DS, Marblehead,
Mass
Marblehead used to be a whaling port A whaler earned several boats
which they lowered for whales The wooden davits on which the boats
were hung were more amtenlly known as 'cranes 'Crews of whale-boats
used to "notch the crane" to keep track of the whales killed Likely your
grandmother was referring to that kind of crane
Home Hints - A good toy box is a bnghtlv colored wooden market basket
Riddle answer. A timetable
OLD FARMER'S WEATHER FORECASTS
New England: Entire week alternates between ram, snow and sleet
m north and south
Middle Atlantic Coastal: Week starts very mild with ram, thun
derstorms m west, thunderstorms, heavy rain and some hail latter
part, then colder by week's end
Greater New York-New Jersey: Week begins warm with light to
moderate rain, then cloudy, rainy and colder continuing
throughout weekend
Piedmont & Southeast Coastal: Unseasonably warm with scat
tered light rain early week, occasionally showery, some heavy
thunderstorms latter part
Florida: Clear and very warm u> central and north, cloudy and
mild in south at beginning, becoming cloudier with showers and
cooler in central and north
Upstate N.Y.-Toronto tc Montreal: Heavy ram and thunderstorms
early in week, changing to snow in north and mountains, light rain
and snow in latter part turn into blizzard by weekend in central
and north
Greater Ohio Valley: Rainy, thunderstorms and squalls at first,
then very warm; storm ending, becoming cold with light snow lat
ter part
Deep South: Week begins fair and warm, with light rain in north,
rain becomes heavy in north, south is clear and warm
Chicago tc Southern Great Lakes: Rainy, some hail and possible
tornadoes early in week, then quite warm, week ends with light
rain changing to light snow with a cold snap
Thursday, Mar. 11, ia
Dairy Day in Berks County
with program! beginning at
10 a.m. and lasting through
approximately 3 p.m. Guest
speaker* and a panel of
farmers will be featured at
the event. To be held at the
Berks County Agricultural
Center Auditorium, Dairy
Day's schedule ia aa follows:
Speakers
-10:00 a.m. - “Environmental
Approach to Manure
Handling” Gerald
Bodman - Extension
Engineer, Penn State
University.
10:30 a.m. - “Practical
Waste Disposal Struc
tures" Menrin R. Ice -
State Conservation
Engineer, USDA Soil
Conservation Service.
Farm Panel
11:00a.m.-MY STSTEM OF
LIVESTOCK WASTE
The U, S. Department of
Agriculture has recom
mended amending the
Eastern Ohio - Western
Pennsylvania federal milk
marketing order to increase
the charge to handlers on
overdue accounts.
The recommendation is
based on a Dec. 3 hearing in
Cleveland which was
requested by Dairylea
Cooperative, representing a
substantial number of dairy
farmers serving the market.
The recommendations
Berks Dairy Day kicks off Thursday
Milk orders altered
DISPOSAL: Donald
Duncan • "Manure
Stacker"; Roy Christ
man - “Feed Lot Runoff
Lagoon - Dairy"; Mark
Wolfskill • “Feed Lot
Runoff Lagoon - Beef”;
Robert Manbeck - “Spray
Irrigation of Milkhouse
Waste"; Robert Sat
tazahn - “Lagoon for
Milkhouse Waste.
11:30 a.m. • “Economics of
the Dairy Business"
Glenn Shirk - Associate
County Agent, Chester
County.
12:15 p.m. - Lunch.
1:15 p.m. - “Calf Raising
Facilities" Gerald
Bodman - Extension
Engineer, Penn State
University.
Farm Panel
2:00 p.m. - Victor Ziegler,
Dairy Fanner, Lebanon
appeared in the February
27th Federal Register.
Comments may be filed, in
four copies, until March 13,
with the Hearing Clerk, U. S.
Department of Agriculture,
Washington, D.C. 20250,
where the public may review
them.
Copies of the recom
mended -decision may be
obtained from Market Ad
ministrator C. C. Taylor,
P.O. Box 30128, Cleveland,
Ohio 44130; or from-the
Dairy Division, AMS, USDA,
Washington, D.C. 20250.
County • “My Experience
With Calf Hutches"
Mathew Degler - “En
vironmental Housing For
Calves"
Mrs. Barbara Haner,
“Keeper of the Calves",
Chester County - “Three
Calf Barns - 201 Calves
Raised Last Year"
New John Deere
70-hp 2640
Its performance proves
its heritage
Make move shred and feed 4-ton haystacks
load up to 1 Va tons and lift it ten feet high
drill postholes plow plant cultivate or .
you choose the job-and let this new 2640
take charge The 2640-this is a full-crop
full-season performer The 2640 s towering
performance proves its hentage-John Deere
A live PTO draft-sensing 3-pomt
hitch powerful closed-center hydraulics
these and morp qualify this 70-hp performer
for most any job
The 2640 is also big in comfort-you get
deep-cushioned armchair comfort 'ogicaily
placed and color-coded controls full
instrumentation in a flat-black, no-glare dash '
and much more you II find only when you climb
aboard the new 2640 and see Jt yourself
Stop in today and see this powerful new
John Deere 70-hp 2640-its performance is
good proof of its family name
Clear 15-inch obstructions
with this Spring-Reset
Plow. S
With this'
Spring-Reset
Plow you get
two types of
reset action
Bottoms can
(1} rise verti
cally to slide
over sloping
rocks, or [2]
trip back and
up as much as 15 inches if point catches on
an obstruction In 4- to 7-bottom sizes
See us soon for more information
Landis Bros. Inc. A.B.C. Groff, Inc.
Lancaster 717-393-3906 New Holland 717-354-4191
Adamstown
Equipment Inc.
Mohnton,RD2, PA 19540
[near Adamstown]
215-484-4391
M. S. Yearsley
Glen Rock, PA
oOnS 717-235-1306
WestChesfer 215-696-2990
Stanley A. Klopp, Inc.
Bemville, PA
215 438-1510
' Agway, Inc.
Chapman Equipment Center
Chapman, PA
215-398-2553
Shotzberger’s
Equipment
Elm, PA
717-665-2141
2:so p.m. - "COWAMP -
Comprehensive Water
Quality Plan toe Berka
County and How
Agriculture Can In- 1
fluence the Final Plan”
W. Harry Schaffer -
Community Resource
Development Agent for
S>E. Pennsylvania.
Pikeville
Equipment Inc.
Oyster Dale Road
OIeyRD2,PA
215-987-6277
Neuhaus'es, Inc.
I. G.’s Ag Sales -
Silverdale, PA 18962 *
215-257-5136
Kermit K. Kistler
Lynnport, PA
215-291-3270