BEAVERTOWN - Brooks End
and Par Kay Farms held their
annual spring sale on April 2, with
205 head selling for $65,910 for an
average of $322 per head.
The top selling animal was a
Yorkshire Boar, Lot 109 RBTI A total of 37 Yorkshire Bred GUIs
Alpine 115-9, for $950, purchased by averaged $442; 32 Yorkshire Boars
~Same Lane, Dover, N.C. averaged 505; and 69 head of
The top-selling Yorkshire Bred Yorkshires averaged 471.
Gilt was Lot 11 for $OlO, which went A total of 30 head of Landrace
to Powissett Farms, Dover, Mass. Bred Gilts averaged $416; 10 head
Now is the season for saving on new Massey tractors.
It’s time to spring into spring! And we’re
ready to help you meet your busy-
season challenge with healthy deals on
all new Massey-Ferguson machines.
Massey has rolled back their prices to
us on practically every new Massey on
our lot. This means you’ll save now on
new MF tractors big or little, farm or
industrial plus implements, hay tools
and combines.
PETERMAN FARM EQUIPMENT LEBANON VALLEY IMPLEMENT CO.
225 York Road
Carlisle, PA
Ph (717)249-5338
S. G. LEWIS AND SON
West Grove, PA
Ph; (215) 869-9440
869-2214
MARLIN W.SCKREFFLER
Pitman, PA
Ph: (717) 648-1120
Brooks End holds sale
The top-selling Landrace Boar
was Lot 135 for $725 purchased by
Sam Lane, Dover, N.C.
The top-selling Landrace Bred
Gilt was Lot 49 for $470t0 Diem and
Yohn Enterprise, Hanover.
Offers good for limited time only.
See us for details.
N.H. FLICKER & SONS, INC.
Now more than ever,
700 E. Linden St.
Richland, PA
Ph: (717) 866-7518
Maxatawny, PA
Ph: (215) 683-7252
M.M. WEAVER & SON
N. Groffdale Rd.
Leola, PA 17540
Ph; (717) 656-2321
MF
Massey Ferguson
of Landrace Boars averaged 438;
and 40 head of Landrace averaged
421.
The 95 head of Commercial hogs
averaged $l7B.
The sale offering went into nine
states. Most of this sale offering
was new imported blood from
Scotland. The next sale offering of
Brooks End and Par Kay Farms
will be June 25,1982.
Special waiver of finance charges, too.
Here’s another way to save. Buy now,
finance through Massey-Ferguson, and
take advantage of a waiver of finance
charges as follows:
Hay tools ’til May 1, 1982
Tractors & implements ... ’til June 1, 1982
Grain combines &
swathers ’til Aug. 1, 1982
Gorn/bean combines ’til Sept. 1, 1982
Waivers available on selected used equip
ment too.
ARNETT’S GARAGE
Rt. 9 Box 125
Hagerstown, MD
Ph: (301) 733-0515
GUS FARM EQUIP. INC.
Int. Rt's6l6C2l4
Seven Valleys, PA 17360
Ph: (717) 428-1967
R.W. KELLER SALES
Perkasie, PA 18944
Ph: (215) 257-0101
Massey makes sense.
Lancaster Faming, Saturday, 10,1902-031
5-year study
conventional
MEDFORD, Mass. -
A five-year study by
researchers at Tufts
University-in Medford,
Mass., and Washington
University in St. Louis,
ABRACZINSKA’S FARM EQUIP. INC.
RDI, Catawissa, PA
Ph: (717)356-2323
(South on Rt. 42)
WEB SNYDER INC.
ROl
Watsontown, PA 17777
Ph: (717) 538-5555
MEYERS IMPLEMENTS INC.
400 N. Antrim Way
Greencastle, PA
Ph (717)597-2176
compares
farming
Mo., of commercial
organic farms in the
Midwestern Corn Belt
has found that such
farms have both ad-
vantages and
drawbacks in com
parison to conventional
farming methods.
Organic farms do not
make use of uiorganic
fertilizers and synthetic
herbicides and in
secticides that are an
important component of
conventional crop
production systems of
the Midwest.
The study found that
organic farms are
somewhat
productive per acre of
cropland than con
ventionally managed
farms, with the dif
ference greatest during
years with favorable
growing conditions but
less pronounced during
droughts, according to
William Lockeretz, a
research associate at
Tufts University School
of Nutrition, who con
ducted the study with
Georgia B. Shearer and
Daniel H. Kohl of
Washington University
and Robert Klepper.
However, Lockeretz
continues, organic
farms had lower
operating expenese, so
the two groups of farms
were quite dose in net
profit. In addition, the
organic group required
less than half as much
fossil energy per unit of
crop output. Because
they used more soil
' conserving rotations,
mainly involving
meadow in rotation with
row crops, the organic
farms suffered about
one-third less soil
erosion.
The study is par
ticularly significant in
view of the growing
interest in production
methods that are less
dependent on inorganic
fertilizers and synthetic
pesticides. Lockeretz
points out, noting that
those substances add to
the total energy
requirement of crop
production and pose
concern because of their
environmental effects.
“The fairly high
performance level of a
group of farms that
have completely given
up conventional fer
tilizers and pesticides
suggests that there
could be interesting
intermediate systems
that are basically
similar to the organic
practices of this study,
but which also involve
carefully selected ap
plications of moderate
amounts of agricultural
chemicals,” says
Lockeretz.
“Such systems might
offer many of the ad
vantages of both of
these farms—the high
production levels of
conventional farms and
the greater resource effi
ciency of the organic
farms,” he concludes.
For more information
on the study, contact
Lockeretz at Tufts’
School of Nutrition,
617/628-5000 ext. 6128.
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