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District 4-H beef show,
Lancaster Stockyards.
Judging at 9 a.m.; sale at
Ip.m.
Wednesday, Nov. 15
York County 4-H goat
project meeting.
Flower Growers’ Day at
Penn State University, 9
USED COMBINE
MF 410 Diesel w/Cab, 13’ Platform,
3 row N.R. Corn Head *O;250«
USED COMBINE
John Deere 55 Corn Soybean - * _ AA
Special 12’ Head *II,7UU
USED HAYBINE SPECIALS
John Deere 1209
New Holland 479
USED BALER SPECIALS
New Holland 67 Baler
John Deere 14T
John Deere 14T w/ejector
John Deere 24T
John Deere 24T w/thrower
New Holland 275 w/thrower
NH 269 w/thrower
USED HARVESTER SPECIALS
NH 717 single row head,
9 knife cutter bar
JD #l2 w/smgle row head
USED TILLAGE SPECIALS
John Deere 4-16” Hyd Reset Three Point
Ford 4-18" Semi-Mount Spring Reset
MF 720 Disk Harrow, 28 Blade, 26” Blades
w/hyd cylinder
Maximize your crop savings on slopes to 18 percent
with a John Deere Side Hill Combine
ggj Evergreen Tractor Co. Inc.
M 30 EVERGREEN RD., LEBANON, PA 17042, PHONE (717) 2724641
a.m. to 3:30 p.m. at the
Keller Conference
Center.
Annual stockholders
meeting and banquet of
the Federal Land Bank
Association of Lancaster
and the Lancaster
Production Credit
Association, at Plain and
$2,450.00
2,750.00
$1,150.00
750.00
700.00
950.00
1.750.00
2.350.00
1.750.00
1,750.00
350.00
$2,250.00
2,450.00
3,950.00
Fancy Farm Restaurant,
11:45 a.m.
Thursday, Nov. 16
Elizabethtown Area Young
Farmers meeting, 7:30
p.m. at the high school.
Inter-State Milk Producers
annual banquet, 6:15 p.m.
at the Host Farm, Lan
caster.
Friday, Nov. 17
Farmers Forum of York
USED COMBINE
AC Model E w/10' Platform,
Pickup Reel, 2 Row
Corn Head, Real Clean
USED HARVESTER
New Holland 880 2-row CCA
narrow row head OyODU.
MF 175 Diesel
USED PLANTER SPECIALS
Tag 11650 John Deere 1250-
6 Row Plateless
11941 Joh n Deere 494 A - 4 Row
11934 John Deere 494 A - 4 Row
USED COMBINE SPECIALS
AC - G w/4 Row Corn Head 14’ Platform $8,750.00
Cockshutt 427 w/Power Steering & 10’ Platform 1,450.00
John Deere 17 x 7
Co-op 15x7 Pert Gram Drill w/grass seed attach
MF 21x7 Plain
MISCELLANEOUS
New Set 18 4x30 Snap on Duals w/New
Goodyear 6 Ply Tires
3pt Hitch for 630 tractor
On-the-go, automatic separator leveling from
feeder house through cleaning shoe is yours with a
Side Hill 6600 Combine. As the separator levels on
slopes to 18 percent, the header pivots to parallel the
ground. Keeping the separator level maximizes your
crop savings because no material drifts to the
downhill side as with a conventional combine. And to
master hilly fields, you get a 128 hp. 404 cubic inch
diesel engine. The cylinder is 44 inches wide.
Matched headers include 4- and J6-row corn heads
and row-crop heads. Platforms with rigid cutterbar in
sizes from 13 to 22 feet... with flexible cutterbar in
sizes from 13 to 22 feet.
County at Rutter’s in Red
Lion.
Annual dinner meeting of the
Hunterdon County, N.J.
Board of Agriculture,
Quakertown Firehouse, 7
p.m.
Delmarva
ement
Denton, Md
USED TRACTORS
USED GRAIN DRILLS
Saturday, Nov. 18
sheep nianag
meeting,
$6,750.
$5,850.00
$2,350.00
650.00
1,275 00
$750.00
750.00
1,650.00
$1,050.00
400.00
Lancaster Farming, Saturday, November 11,1978
tsdisubo iu? EdJdt&u
Dear Editor:
I have been reading the
latest issue of your
newspaper, and have noted
the success of the various
FFA members in the farm
ing enterprises. I too have
such ambitions. There is a
sales advertisement of a pro
perty which I am very much
Cage broiler
research continuing
NEWARK, Del. - In the
latter part of the 1960’5,
broiler producers started
taking notice of a practice
then catching hold among
egg producers - cage
management. They saw
caged layers producing well
in space-saving stacked
cages, and wondered
whether they too could
benefit from the new system,
explains Delaware Ex
tension poultry specialist
George Chaloupka. The
question of cage broiler
research was addressed by
Maine Extension poultry
specialist Harry C. Whelden
at the National Broiler
Housing Seminar held
recently at the University of
Delaware Substation.
A number of state
Agricultural Experiment
Stations soon took up cage
broiler research - among
them Delaware, Maryland,
Georgia, Arkansas, Maine,
and Ohio State. The early
work was directed toward
increasing broiler efficiency
- both performance and
space utilization. Resear
chers tried to develop
systems in which birds could
be transported in the cages
in which they’re grown, so as
to eliminate individual bird
handling.
The initial work on caged
broilers uncovered everal
problems. Birds got blisters
from the cages. They
developed crooked breasts,
AUTOMATIC
HEAD GATE
FOR CATTLE
interested in. I have tried
various local lending institu
tions and have been told the
property is out of my reach.
The point is that I tried all
that I know. Is there
anything else that can be
done?
George R. Diller
Red Lion, Pa.
bruises, and sometimes
broken wings.
Subsequent research has
been directed toward
eliminating these problems.
For instance, Delaware
Agricultural Experiment
Station research attempted
to determine which floor
materials best protected the
birds from bruises, broken
wings, and other causes of
downgrading.
Various current research
projects are looking into the
causes of downgrading -
attempting to determine if
some strains are more
susceptible than others, for
example.
Still other research
combines floor material
research with attempts to
perfect more efficient
systems for broiler cage
production. A goal of this
type of research is to
eliminate bird catching and
the problems associated
with it.
In spite of the different
approaches, Chaloupka
says, all broiler cage
research appears to be
directed toward eliminating
the difference in
downgrading between cage
and floor-grown broilers. In
the long run, however, cage
broiler production may show
its true economic worth
when we shift some of our
attention to developing new
commercial uses for
downgraded birds.
Chaloupka explains that
though a bird may have to be
trimmed of a broken wing,
the remainder would be
perfectly fine, and could be
sold in parts with no
sacrifice of quality to the
consumer.
Learning to use cost
efficient caged broilers in
this manner would con
tribute to our overall goal of
economical broiler meat
production.
Thanks to you
it works...
FOR
ALL
OF US
Unibed Way
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