B—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, January 21,1978 the OLD JAN. 23-29, 1978 Wet noses we supposes Don't bathe vour dog nou Winston Churchill died Jan 24 1965 Full moon Jan 24 Average length of days for the week, 9 hours, 47 minutes Buffalo was snowed in this week last year Gold was discovered in Sutter's Mill, Calif jan 24, 1848 Valor 'ifs halfway hettccm ani cowardice (Miguel de Cer- doth blow white moon doth neither ram nor snow Home Hints To thaw frozen water pipes use the blower end of a tank sacuum cleaner OLD FARMER'S WEATHER FORECASTS New England* Week begins partly sunny with scattered snow through Tuesday, expect a blizzard with 12-15 inches south and on coast for remainder of week Greater New York-New Jersey: Sunny to start, then rain and snow with blizzard for end of week Middle Atlantic Coastal* Ram and heavy snow, blizzard for most ot the week Piedmont & Southeast Coastal: Rain and very warm all week Florida: Hot with light showers, rain, cold with snow in north for week's end Upstate N.Y.-Toronto Sc Montreal: Intermittent snow through Tuesday, then rainy and mild at midweek, cold with snow, heavy in southeast for weekend Greater Ohio Valley: Snow changing to ram through Friday, cloudy and very cold for weekend Deep South. Rain to start then turning very cold with snowstorm for rest of week Chicago Sc Southern Great Plains: Snow on and off through Thursday, cold and partly sunny, flumes east for rest of week Northern Great Plains-Great Lakes: Very cold with some snow throughout most of week, clearing Sunday Central Great Plains: Snowstorm expected, end of week sunny but very cold Texas-Oklahoma. Rain changing to snow to start, then end of week is seasonal and very cold Rocky Mountain* Ram and snow to start, then partly sunny, very cold, snow north for remainder of week Southwest Desert: Week begins partly sunny, few showers, cool then cloudy, cold, frost at midweek, week's end clear and hot Pacific Northwest; Snowy and very cold to midweek, remainder of week brings heavy ram north, warming and floods California* Partial clearing, cool with frost inland through Thurs day, sunny and much warmer for week's end (All Rights Reserved Yankee Inc Dublin NH 03444) Crime and Miracle Fishing is the sport which points out it’s a crime to catch fish in one lake and a miracle to catch some in another t 1 Join your fellow pork producers in supporting pork promotion and production research to keep hogs a profitable farm enterprise. Tell your market or buyer that you want 10 cents per market hog or 5 cents per feeder pig deducted to support these programs. Most markets and buyers will cooperate fully if you let them know. The PPPC was for med and is funded and directed by producers. There is no Government Agency involved For more information, contact: HERBERT SCHICK, Secretary-Treasurer Kutztown, R.D.2, Pa 19530 Phone 215-285-6519 Ask the Old Farmer Isn't there a rhyme about the color of the moon and how this color can foretell the weather 7 DA , Lynn, Mass There are several, but the one most familiar to us is "Pale moon doth ram, red moon m' * ' % w, 9$ tv* I f | “Precise Application” | I APPLY YOUR LIME NOW! I I "" ? / TAKE ADVANTAGE OF ; SPECIAL WINTER DISCOUNTS | CALL— ✓ 'i 717-569-3296 CHEMGRO FERTILIZER CO., Inc. STATE ST., BOX 218 East Petersburg, Pa. 17520 By JERRY WEBB University of Delaware NEWARK, Del. - Kidding a farmer friend the other day about an old Farmall tractor parked under a tree in his backyard, I was reminded of the important role that breed of tractor played in this nation’s agricultural progress. I had jokingly accused this fellow, who is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Delaware Agricultural Museum Association, of starting his own backyard collection. He quickly told me how useful a pair of those old Farmalls are around his place and what it would cost to replace them with today’s comparable machines. Antiques? Indeed not. Thousands of them are still hardworking machines with most replacement parts still available from the dealers. Hardly a day goes by when I don’t see a Farmall H or M doing some useful farm work. Farmall tractors, manufactured by the In ternational Harvester Company in a half-dozen sizes, helped revolutionize agriculture in the 1930’s and 40’s. The first ones were steel-wheeled monsters with size classifications like F2O and F3O. They were as good as any back in the early days of farm tractors - big and slow, hard to turn, hand crank starting and no mechanical or hydraulic lifts for mounted equipment. It took a good man to run one of those early models. Then, in the late 30’s, International Harvester redesigned its entire line of farm tractors. The result was an agricultural classic - a machine that met the challenge of that day and beyond, one that has truly met the test of time. Though lacking the hor- " X - -- -y-.--.- y'&Ky-.t <,% Some of the old tractors are today’s classics sepower of today’s big tractors, those old Farmalls have everything needed for the lighter jobs around the farm from pulling grain wagons back and forth to the field to mowing and raking. Considering that In ternational Harvester stopped makmg its Farmalls in the early 1950’s there are sure a lot of them still in use. In" fact, there’s hardly a farm that doesn’t have one resting in a shed or hiding behind a barn waiting for the next challenge for a small all-purpose tractor. But it wasn’t always that way. Back in the 40’s that Farmall M was a star. It was the heavy duty tractor of its time, pulling a big 3-bottom plow or a field chopper with relative ease. It could do the biggest jobs that farmers could think of and hardly ever need repairs. For about 15 years those old Farmalls dominated agriculture - but finally the need for more horsepower caught up with them. In ternational Harvester made an abortive effort to stay m the game with its Super H’s and Super M’s. These were the same tractors with souped-up engines. A farmer could convert his old tractor For Use With Automatic Beit Collecting Systems! if I One Person Operation! nXSZZSZZr “ nveyo r s - l or ™> re and positive egg handling, take the eggs nnr hln! r °T torS ' * P *“ *""* th « direction. into our blue cups. Here the operator merely places the package over the eggs. After going around the stainless steel drum and onto the take-away belts, your un cracked and unchecked eggs are ready for your cooler. future 3 ' 50 ,e3tUre 3 SP ° nge tyPC e “ °" er Wh ' Ch "" h* added to your P acker now «*" the The totally mechanical, no electronic Egomatic SR 45 PC Packer, with it’s limited maintenance, will give you years of trouble free packing Talk with one of our experienced salesmen today Modern Poultry Supplies, Inc. mg Smce the basic system was covered by patents, In ternational Harvester had to develop an alternative, the two-point hitch-an ill-fated design that was standard on the IH tractors that followed the Farmalls. Tractor designs came and went and the two-point hitch wound up in the junkyard as manufacturers switched to three-point hitches. Hor sepower and size zoomed upward each year as competing manufacturers vied for farmer ac ceptability with bigger with a dealer overhaul and if he wanted to spring for a paint job at the same time he got the new Super decals. But Super M’s weren’t quite up to the jobs ahead. They lacked the horsepower, weight and even more im portant, a whole new concept in hooking up field equip ment had come on the scene. Named the Fergusen system for its English designer, this was the original three-point hitch that has become standard for most of today’s equipment makers. This hydraulically controlled system revolutionized equipment design and operator convenience and comfort. NEW ADDRESS Office & Warehouse (Pickup) 1907-A Olde Homestead Lane Lancaster, Pa. 17601 717-299-0828 or 717-397-5850 machines and staggering price tags. Today, the largest In ternationl Harvester tractor weighs 10 tons or more, has four-wheel drive, 250 hor sepower, and sells for $40,000. Meanwhile its older brothers -- that long dependable line of Farmalls - still labor quietly in so many ways. For as farmers added newer models they kept the old ones. Farmers are funny that way. They don't like to trade in a good tractor - there’s always a place to use a second or third machine, pulling wagons or hooked to a mower or scraper. So a quarter o£_a century and maybe tractors later those Far malls are still out there working. The first new tractor I ever saw was a Farmall H - the first post-war model delivered in our neigh borhood. What a beauty, all shiny and red, it was about the most beautiful thing a farm boy was apt to see. Those I had seen prior to that were the pre-war models, old and faded, mounted on steel wheels, many of them with hand cranks sticking through their radiators. By (Turn to Page 14) PACKER Pack 50 Cases Per Hour!
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