HIGH QUALITY FORAGE
FOR
Getting the most nutrients out of your
forage crops is your best way to save
feed bills. Along with your good manage
ment, Beacon Pre-Serv gives you an edge
on the weather so you
can harvest and store
better forage. Beacon Hay
Pre-Serv* lets you bale
hay at 25% moisture.
That's a big help in rainy
weather, because it can
save you a day's waiting
time and avoid loss of
nutrients from wet hay.
By treating hay with
Beacon Hay Pre-Serv you
reduce oxidation and reti
and stems. The result: 10% more digest
ible nutrients. Up to 10% more protein.
beaco£feeds
Beacon Milling Company, Inc.
DAVID 0. FINK
Slatmflon, PA
215-767-1403
CLARK SUPPLY CO.
Rising Sun, MD
301658-5125
H. JACOB HOOBER
Intercourse, PA
717-768-3431
HYKES QUALITY FEEDS
York Haven, PA
717-266-1269
NEW FREEDOM FARM & GARDEN
R t W FEEDS AND HARDWARE H. M. STAUFFER * SONS, INC.
Centerport, PA 19516
Phone 215-926-3818 717-393-1369
RICHARD B. KENDIG
Special Accounts
Representative
Phone 302-478-3058
j* 9RE-SERV' tty
York, Pa.
W. L MUMMERT CO.
Hanover, PA
717 637 6923
EARL SAUDER, INC.
McCRACKEN’S FEED MILL, INC.
New Freedom. PA
717 235 3606
Nearly 10% more income per ton of hay.
Beacon Silage Pre-Serv* helps keep haylage
and grass silage fresh and sweet. Tests have
shown that, in storage, Pre-Serv gives 7%
more protein retention,
increases lactic acid
production 53%. .
Pre-Serv products are a
combination of natural
acids, anti-oxidants and
selected flavors. They
help to maintain forage
quality, so you will get
greater palatability from
your hay and silage—and
that's another reason you
lore profit.
Use them both this year, and get more
nutrients from your forages.
IKE DULY HOimtEASTEfW COMPANY
OFFERING t COMPLETE, RELIABLE
preservative pmeium for the form.
VAN-MAR FEEDS
Shoemakersvide, PA
215-926-2121
New Holland, PA
717 354 0861
Manheim, PA
717-665 2186
CHESTER WIEST
Sale 6 Distribution
Manafer
Phone 717-741 2600
‘Trademark of Kemin Industries, Inc
Phone7l7-843-9033
GEORGE UNDERWOOD
THRRPE t GREEN MILL
Churchville. MO
301-734 7772
ROBINSON BROS.
Delta. PA
717 456 5215
E. W. HOLTON
RHOADS MIOS, INC.
Seinscrove.PA
717-374-1141
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Northeast, MD
301-398-1541
Darelown, N J
609 769 2334
R. E. RUDISIIi
Sales A Distribution
Manager
Phone 717-154-22*1
Lancaster Farming. Saturday. May 21.1977
Alternative to
property tax sought
BROOKVILLE, Pa. - State
Senator Patrick Stapleton
told an assembly of the
Pennsylvania Association of
Conservation District
Directors’ last week that, in
order to check the declining
acreage of essential Penn
sylvania farmland, an
alternative to the present
system of property taxation
must be sought.
Senator Stapleton,
chairman of the Senate
Agriculture Committee, said
the results of the present tax
system show it to be difficult
to administer, places a
burden on the poor and
elderly, is inequitable, partly
regressive, and a prime
contributor to suburban
sprawl and urban decay.
And, additionally, it is a
principle factor in our
rapidly disappearing far
mland.
The Senator further stated
that a situation as important
to our lives as is the taxation
of land must be approached
with a spirit which tran
scends political par
tisanship.
Stapleton further reported
he is sponsoring a bill which
Coffee crop up
WASHINGTON, D.C. - The
Foreign Agricultural Service
(FAS) has forecast Brazilian
coffee production for the
1977-78 crop year at 17
million bags. This outturn,
while still below production
levels attained prior to the
1975 frost, would be 79 per
cent greater than the FAS
estimate of 9.5 million bags
for the 1976-77 harvest.
a
Tr~ctors
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would protect to a high
degree the loss of prime
farmland to highway con
struction and landfills. This
bill would essentially ex
clude these developments
from Class I, II and m
farmland unless no alter
native sites could be utilized.
A similar bill was drafted
during the 1975-76 legislative
session, but fell short of
enactment.
On other matters, Walter
Peechatka, executive
director of the State Con
servation Commission re
emphasized that by July 1,
agricultural land will be
subject to the erosion and
sedimentation rules and
regulations. He urged far
mers who may not yet have
provided for this to contact
their local conservation
districts for advice and
assistance.
William Kennedy
representing the Penn
sylvania Department of
Agriculture, stated that the
pesticide certification ap
plicator program is making
good progress. To date,
11,000 private and over 5,000
commercial applicators are
certified.
The original Lancaster
Pike connecting
Philadelphia with Lancaster
was completed in 1074 at a
cost of 1444,574. Today’s
building costs for the 62
miles of modem roadway
would amount to $124
million, according to Penn-
DOT engineers.
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