—Lancaster Farming, &turday, iJoy 2^1976 82 An exclusive model 768 three-row harvester and all-new hydrostatic wide-narrow row crop head by Avco model 7,09 power unit in narrow row New Idea, capable of harvesting 28 to corn. 40-inch rows, with a 767 forage Adjustable row widths on exclusive New Idea COLDWATER, Ohio -An three-row head on the exclusive Model 768 three- market which offers the row wide-narrow row crop versatility to harvest three head for use on the Uni- wide rows or three narrow Superchopper, introduced by rows with one head, without Avco New Idea Farm . any mechanical adjustment Equipment Division, here, is or any special tools, capable of harvesting row The combination of crops in any row spacing floating points, upper and from 28 to 40 inches. lower gathering chains and The Model 768 is the only throat springs provides j4*mou*tc6Hs 0(01 'TtcM-... HONEY BROOK Table Syrup ’Vo** IN BULK - 5 GALLON OR 53 G\LLON CONTAINERS For more information, write or call collect: M. Simon Zook Co. Box 160 - Honey Brook, Po. 19344 Baking Molasses featured harvester positive crop control to the feed rolls. A wider throat area offers 18 per cent larger opening to the forage harvester cutter head for more uniform ef ficient feeding. Extended flangettes at the gathering chain drive sprockets ensure longer bearing life by preventing wrapped grass and weeds from forcing out bearing seals. The new Model 768 can be mounted to any 767 Super chopper without modification. One of 11 new pieces of Uni-System farm equipment introduced by Avco New Idea for 1977, this new harvester will allow the fanner to change the width of corn rows without being concerned about how to get the crop harvested. This new machine - part of the Uni System - will adapt to har vesting row crops in any row spacing from 28 to 40 inches in width, x READ LANCASTER FARMING FOR FULL MARKET REPORTS AREA CODE 21S 273-3776 or 3777 USD A keeping watch for hog cholera WASHINGTON, D.C. - Although there are no areas in the country under quarantine for hog cholera, Lower freight rates sought GATUNBURG, Tenn. - Dick Spears of Manchester, Tenn. president of The National Hay Association, Inc., warns ‘Unless im mediate attention is given to hay transportation costs, baled bay will be a dying industry.’,’ Spear’s com mentsjwere to The National Hay Association board of directors meeting here on 'November 6th. The primary 1976-1977 goals, of the N.H.A. will be to improve ways to lower the cost of baled hay freight rates. Neil Cousino, Erie, Michigan, chairman of the Transportation and Legislation Committee will direct that committee’s work. The organization’s members are involved in the movement of millions of tons of hay throughout the United States. Their marketing avenues mean the success or failure of the hay growers across the nation. Savings realized on transportation would greatly benefit the dairy and beef industry by lowering the cost of them feed with the ultimate saving to the consumer. The lack of roughage in the livestock feeding program is at hazardous levels, ac cording to livestock nutritionists. Livestock people are experiencing shortages of hay in many areas while other areas have an abun dance and better tran sportation is the answer to • this problem.' Cleaner com at harvest. it begins with effective weed control in the spring. A Lasso plus atrazine tank mix controls many grasses and broadleaves. Lasso - Herbicide Lasso is a registered trademark of Monsanto Company Always read and follow label directions the U.S. Department of Agriculture has been urged to maintain a high level of surveillance for the disease in high risk areas for at least a year. The necessity for a high level of surveillance was urged by the Secretary of Agriculture’s Hog Cholera Advisory Committee at a meeting held November 8 at Miami during the - annual meeting of the U.S. Animal Health Association: Officials of USDA’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service defined the high risk areas as those I’M SMILING BECAUSE I BOUGHT A NEW FORD t AND SAVED A BUNDLE! } ♦ ♦ ***" * <V * v fiiSJ ■sT' w* jyjgpsarf 1 v ALLEN H. 505 E. Main St. New Holland Ph: 717-354-2214 it SERVING THEGOMMUNITY «X’ TWENTY-SIX YEARS 2 LANC. CO’S OLDEST FORD DEALER' + ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦* ,*i. * states which has outbreaks of hog cholera during 1975 and 1976.’Those states axg New Jersey, Massachusetts Rhode Island, New Hamp shire, and Texas. The last confirmed out breaks of hog cholera were July 17 in Worcester County, Mass., and Aug. 1 in Cape May County, N.J. Sur veillance teams of veterinarians and animal health technicians are in specting all herds in the high risk areas two or more times each month with certain high risk herds receiving in spections weekly. INC. j MATZ, t t * ♦ 4 4 k - ; r
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