• Feeding Savings • Program Each Cow to receive the more dollars over feed cost amounts of feed as compared to • Improve Herd Health production • Simple Installation • Easy To Operate Efficient feeding = Higher PROFITS Group feeding is costly and inefficient. To maximize your profits, you’ve got to supply each cow with the exact amount of feed she needs to maintain her milk production level. The computerized Sell ecutive 8085 System lets you do just that most dairymen find the system pays for feed bills and increased production in less It’s simple You determine a daily feeding allowance for each cow by programming the computer to dispense a certain amount of feed during each 6,8 or 12 hour cycle. You choose a unique ration for each animal by mixing sup plement and base rations with the computer. • Each cow wears an inexpensive, reliable identification tag. • Cows can feed at any feeding station. • Feeding auger automatically stops when cow steps away. • Each cow receives only the amount of feed you have programmed for it. Money-saving management tool You can get a printout from the Executive 8085 at any time. Each print out gives you the valuable feed management information: • Amount of feed programmed for each cow • Amount of feed dispensed to each cow, this cycle • Amount of feed dispensed to each cow, this month • Summary of previous cycle. You can quickly spot problem cows by asking the.computer to print out all cows not eating 75% of their pro grammed ration. Total herd management system For a total dairy management system, connect your Selective Feeder System with our Zenith Farm Management System. Readouts are available in your office on the Zenith computer. Optional software programs allow you to integrate health, breeding, production and feeding management programs in one computer system. For more information write for free product literature. ■ : OvnFR Supply IV lUL. I\ w 1 1 Chambersburg, PA 17201-0219 PH-717-263-9111 i 0 Selective Feeder Ram buyers have ‘hay day’ at WASHINGTON - Ram buyers had a proverbial “Hay Day,” despite rainy weather during the 1983 Performance Tested Yearling Ham Sale on Saturday, June 4, at the Washington County Fairgrounds here. The sale was sponsored by the Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture m cooperation with Penn State, the Pennsylvania Sheep and Wool Growers Association and the Washington County Sheep and Wool Growers Association and Auxiliary. The high selling ram was a Penn State-owned Suffolk which sold to William Patton of R 3, Waynesburg, for $490. Paul Leader of York owned the second highest selling ram, another Suffolk, which was sold to John Holbert of Bed ford for $4OO. The 17 Suffolks averaged a $306 sale price. The highest selling Dorset yearling ram, owned by Wind swept Farm m State College, sold to Elsie Harrison of Claysville. The 11 Dorset yearling rams averaged a $167 sale price. Paul and Nancy Wissinger of Sinking Spring had the high selling Dorset fall ram lamb which sold for $270 to Audrey Gamure of Pick the weeds in your corn you’d like to get rid 0f... e£j pigweed Then pick Banverherbicide... the Big Plus...to do the job. Pre-emergence: Banvel tank-mixed with ‘Lasso*to get broadleaf weeds along with grasses... ready and waiting when later weeds germinate Early layby (in corn up to five inches high): use Banvel at a one pint rate. Stop weeds before they’ve had a chance to develop This Banvel overlay controls cocklebur, sunflower, annual morningglory, other troublemakers. Post-emergence (corn up to 36 inches): Banvel herbicide controls the real problems—like smart weed, velvetleaf, bindweed, and seedling r “ Canada thistle. Before buying a less adaptable herbicide that may be short on performance, check out the Big Plus of Banvel... from Velsicol •Lma« >« «rogiMarod trademark of Monsanto Com—ny Th* LaMO + Banwvl tank mm * Rfll CtMr«d for UN in Colorado Minor*. Indiana low*. Kant— Kontucfcy. Michigan Minn—aa SSeo* Mr—own Montana. NM»—ka Now York. North Dakota Oho, P—ytvatw South Dakota Utah and Wi»con«<n P L. RQHRER & BRO., INC. Smoketown, PA Lancaster Farming, Saturday, June 18,1983—837 performance Huntingdon. The nine Dorset fall ram lambs averaged a $167 sale price. The Pennsylvania State University had the top selling ewe, a Suffolk which sold for $340 to Thomas Crouse of Prosperity. Another Penn State-owned Suffolk ewe was the second highest selling ewe, selling for $270 to Joe and Kathy Hixenbaugh of Beaver. Six Suffolk yearling ewes averaged $205 while $133 was the average for eight Suffolk ewe iambs. Four Dorset ewes averaged $94 each and three Hampshires had a $97 average. Overall, five black ewes averaged $76, ten commercial ewes averaged $7O, 11 purebred ewe lambs averaged $l2O, and 11 purebred yearling ewes sold for an average price of $164 per head. The 37 ewes sold for a $lll average selling price. The next Performance Tested Yearling Ram Sale is Saturday, Sept. 3 at 12:30 p.m. at the Penn sylvania Department of Agriculture’s Meat Animal Evaluation Center in State College. For more information, contact Robert Kimble at (814)- 238-2527. PH: 717-299-2571 KE> Banvel m •aim MMt m«i> MMieM*. raM MM<
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