Adams Farm-City tour (Continued Irom Page DIOi 324 feet. They stock trusses from 18 feet to 72 feet. Steel is purchased in coils, weighing 8.500 pounds each, and a DAIRY-TRONI COMPUTERIZED DAIRY FEEDING SYSTEMS Simple - Precise Dependable - Inexpensive The DAIRY-TRONIC SYSTEM costs less - prices include computer. ID tags and feeders. 30 60 125 *6.637 *8.684 *12,878 *l6O *2lO *3ll Number of Cows Dairy-Tronlc System Cost Five year monthly lease payment The DAIRY-IRONIC SYSTEM increases cash flow by increasing production and reducing feed costs * Projected increase @ $153 per cow per year Annual lease payments Extra Cash Flow/year * Based on University of Missouri figures from “Feeding according to production”, and saving only one pound of feed and gaining only 3 pounds of milk per cow per day on a herd average. DAIRY-TRONIC SYSTEM Features that make a difference: 1. Simple to use and operate, computer teds you how to program step by step. 2. Automatically feeds each cow individually the exact programmed ration based on her milk production. 3. Dairyman can change individual cow’s ration with - just a push of a button at any time. 4. Feeders can handle high moisture, shelled or ear corn, complete feed, or concentrate. 5. Special feeders can meter out four different rations in various amounts totally independent of each other. 6. The computer automatically prints out the follow ing information every 24 hours or anytime de sired. It shows date, time, and the following in dividual cow information: cow number, amount programmed, amount of feed consumed and the monthly total to date. Plus, the herd daily and monthly totals to date. 7. An * shows cow didn't eat full amount of pro grammed indicating possible sickness develop ing or cow coming in heat. 8. Computer can be programmed for 1,2, or 4 cycles per/day. Example: on 4 cycles a cow pro grammed for 20 lbs. of feed will get 5 lbs. every 6 hrs. Jt automatically carries any left over rations into the next cycle. INQUIRIESINVITED FOR SALESMEN AND EXCLUSIVE DEALERSHIPS IN PA, MD, NJ, NY A DEL. For more information call: 1-800-443-8916 9r Write or Call: MARTIN DISTRIBUTORS 520 Prescott Rd. RD 1. Lebanon, PA 17Q42 Phone: 717-866-4906 or: 717-866-4555 s,oraee _» r fU-™""”"-”'" 1 their finished building. Increases Milk Production - Saves Feed With an I.D. tag on each cow, and a highly accurate scanner located in each feeder the computer is able to exactly identify - and control the amount of feed each cow can have, based on her milk production. *4.590 *9,180 *19,125 *38,250 *1,923 *2,520 *3,732 *6,132 *2,667 *6,660 *15.393 *32,118 9. Has a battery system with re-charging unit for back-up power to keep memory stored in event of a power failure. 10. Just pushing a few buttons will check, display (and print on tape if desired) each bins activity, a cows record, the computers, memory, and other information. 11. Priced lower than any other comparable com puterized feeding system on the market. 12. Simplified keyboard provides for ease of opera tion and allows programs for future such as, data storage, milk monitoring and etc. 13. Large black numbers are etched on yellow tags that can be used with chains or ropes. 14. A Dairy-Tronic unit can operate up to 15 feeders positioned at a maximum distance of one mile from computer. 15. Option: galvanized or stainless steel feeders. 16. Foolproof cow identification tag can receive and transmit an electronic signal up to 4 inches from the sensor: therefore, contact is unnecessary. No magnets or lights are used. Signal is un affected by excessive. light, manure or dirt coating, etc. SPECIAL DISCOUNT ON THE FIRST ORDER FROM EACH COUNTY IN PA, MO, NJ, NY & DEL. — 1 FREE INFORMATION (circle and mail) Dairy- | ! Tronic Computer System, Automatic Feed Milling j ! Systems (weighs in each ingredient), Grinder-Mixer, j j Feed Augers, Tanks, Soybean & Corn Roasters, j { Grain Storage Bins, Grain Driers, Bucket Elevators, j j Transport Augers, Feed Blowers, Scales. Con- i I centrate Metering Equipment. i | Name _ I I Address . _ ~_ . . _ ._ « | City I State I Phone (Turn to Page DI2) 250 *21,166 *5ll Lancaster Fanning, Saturday, October 17,1981—D1l At Round' Hill jrms, processed on assembly line. Drain Fields-Filter Beds Specializing in Sewage Systems Ail Types on Lot O Dynamic Masonry Contractors GORDONVILLE MIKE FISHER & LARRY HERR 687-6801 SPECIAL FARM PRICES FREE ESTIMATES ird, the turkeys are
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