!Pf irf & PUZZELED? ? Feed Companies all across the U.S are puzzeled at the rate their customers are switching to VIGORTONE FEEDS!' They are even more puzzeled at how hard it is to get even one of them to switch back'' To find out some of the reasons why, contact your local VIGORTONE PRE MIXES serviceman soon!' You will find him to have 100 PER CENT IN TEREST in your livestock needs, and your increased profits! Over 150 Servicemen m Penna. alone' VIGORIONE PRE-MIXES Especially Now! LEON B. HERSHEY Box 166 Paradise. PA 717-442-4807 RON L. HERSHEY R 2 Gap. PA 717-442-8573 JASON E. MILLER R 4 Lancaster. PA 717-393-7244 WM. J. YODER Rl. Conestoga. PA 717-872-8047 ELI KING Rlßoxs9Ronks PA 717-768-3608 Berks Co. PA ALVIN ESH Box 72 Intercourse, PA 717-768 3128 H. MELVIN CHARLES Rl Washington Boro PA 717 684 5783 PETE CALDWELL Rl Windsor PA 717-246 1046 Better rations cost less . . with Vigorfone. 50 warehouses—over 5400 servicemen 3 manufacturing plants RALPH E. BRUNGART Loganton, PA 717-725-2355 ELAM G. HOOVER R 1 New Holland. PA 717-354 0432 PHILIP A. HAYES Oxford RD2 215-932-8736 CHRISTIAN L.STOLTZFUS R 2 Box 409 Elverson. PA 215 286-5995 CHESTER SOLTYS, JR Spring City PA 215 948-3647 Uh HARMONY J / tVin the feed lot I // JAMES STUTZMAN SONS R 3 Kutztown. PA 215-683-7198 ELWIN REAM Hughesville. PA 717 584-4085 SHERWOOD A. WITHER Box 138 Berrysburg, PA 717-362-8823 PAULL KREIDER R 2 Palmyra, PA 717-964-3791 WILMER J. WEAVER R 1 Fredericksburg PA 717-865 6710 MARLIN GEESAMAN R 2 New Port PA 717-582-4598 RUSSELL FRY Ouncannon. PA ROMAN YODER R 1 Grantsville MD - 301-895 5302 Life on the farm By DIETER KRIEG EDITOR’S NOTE; "Life on the farm” columns are written as en tertainment for farmers and to promote better understanding between rural and urban folks. Ail are based on actual recollections and are designed to portray the joys, sorrows, frustrations, daily work and triumphs of life on a Pennsylvania dairy farm. The columns are distributed to several Pennsylvania newspapers and have a sizable urban following. This is the time of year when dairy cows should be clipped or if you prefer, given a hair cut. Dairy sanitation regulations require that cows be kept clean, and short hair helps, to make the task much easier. Cows have been clipped for years; sometimes just for cleanliness, sometimes in preparation for shows, but most always because of a com bination of these two reasons. Cows are cleaner and better looking when their coat is trimmed. Most dairymen, if not all, who place some value on their cows' ap pearance, will agree that clipped cows look better but that is only half of it. A dairymen who r wants his cows to look nice will not just simply clip the hair, but carefully blend body hair so that the job looks neat. Clipping cows can be a pleasant job, or a life and death affair. Most cows, especially after having ex perienced it once, are fond of having the clippers gliding along their skin. Some want no part of it, and the flying legs prove it. THE KNIPCO $l5 OFFER! • o‘* • p,*~ - Buy any size Kmpco portable heater on or before December 31, 1976 and receive an extra $l5 00 discount on the spot Make the best deal you can on any Kmpco heater then ask your participating dealer for the additional $l5 00 discount See your participating Kmpco dealer today Home of the Blue Ribbon Barn Warmer 73 Lancaster Farming, Saturday, Dec. 11,1976 KNIPm STOLTZF US FARM SERVICE l\l yIhI Route No 41 f v i- i ' *s'/_ © Dieter Krieg 1976 I can recall an afternoon, 16 years ago, when I sat under the third best cow m the herd, gently running the humming clippers alongside her belly. All of a. sudden my right cheek felt numb, and I knew I had been kicked. It was so fast, the pain-hadn’t registered yet, and I never saw that hoof coming at me. Getting kicked is bad enough, but almost equaly “painful" is the job of trying to regain the startled animal's confidence Cows which are clipped for the show string receive a beauty treat ment which extends from the tip of their nose to the tip of their toes. Even the inside of their ears are clipped. When cows are clipped for sanitary reasons only, the farmer usually doesn’t clip any hair other than around the udder, tail, flanks, legs, belly, and up around to the hip bones. With no consideration for making the short and long hairs blend, such cows begin to look like poodles Aside from the reasons mentioned for clipping, there is a third benefit; comfort and health. Properly cared for and stabled cows do not need the long hair which Mother Nature gives them every winter. Keeping their coat relatively short and well groomed promotes healthy skin and slightly increased milk checks. The cow, feeling much more comfortable than she would otherwise, rewards her master with a few pounds of extra milk per day. Cochranville, PA 19330 PH: 215-593-5280 'A
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