DlG—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, September 10,1983
IP*!! Brockeft's Ag Advice
■EL.\ By John E. Brockett
Farm Management Agent
Lewlstown Extension Office
Quality Forage
Don’t knock the weather; most
people would have a hard tune
starting a conversation if it didn’t
change once in awhile. How true
but it would have been nice to have
had a few normal days this spring.
On the other hand, I did read one
commentators report where he
Upper Susquehanna
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Clarence W Betler
Abby
Blossom
CE4WN Hauck
57
Elam Beiler
Susan
Roland Hackman & Son
Nancy
Amos J. Zook
Gatl
Jeany
Queen
John F Stoltzfus
56
Joseph E. Snyder
33
Mark M. Wehr
80
Wood Ann Farm Inc.
34
Reuben Z. Reiff
95
Chris S. Stoltzfus
Patty
Ben S. Yoder
Joy
Maple Lane Farm
29
Jacobs Stoltzfus
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Find the one
Safeguaid equipment can’t protect!
It's impossible.
Because, whether you raise rabbits,
pheasants, chickens, quail—or any
other type of small animal or gamebird—
Safeguard products provide lifelong
protection.
There’s the economical, modular
Series 1200 cage. Or the nigged, space
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They all reflect Safeguard’s engineering
and design philosophy—to help your
said “perhaps the weather we have
had so far this year will do more to
reduce agricultural surpluses than
all the past and proposed govern
mental action put together."
It’s In The Making
Forage quality is more directly
related to forage harvest than any
other single factor. With inclement
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animals and birds thrive in a sanitary,
protected environment.
Why not visit the Safeguard factory
showroom? In the Earland Industrial
Center, just off Rt. 23 east of New Holland.
Or write for your free copy of the new
1983 Safeguard catalog. Safeguard
Products, Inc., 114-116 Earland Drive,
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Small animal, gamebird and poulln equipment
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weather thru much of the early hay
crop making season, we now have
to play catch up. In many cases, it
would be justifiable to hire ad
ditional help and equipment. If you
do this be careful! Take some
preventative medicine like steps:
(1) hire competent help; (2) make
sure the help can handle equip
ment-put them thru some routine
tests such as stopping, turning off
PTO power, turning the equipment
around; (3) give the help some
safety rules that must be followed
such as turning equipment off
when re-fuelmg, repairing, or
unclogging; (4) have equipment in
reasonably safe state of repair; (5)
make sure your workmens com
pensation insurance covers all
hired help.
Forage quality is important.
Time for making good quality hay
crop forage is rapidly running out.
Down time due to broken
machinery or injured people can
cause great financial harm. So
remember this: Hiring of ad
ditional labor, extra long hours of
field work and hiring of additional
equipment may be some solutions
to the problem of how do I get the
best quality forage out of the tune 1
have left. But there is no such thing
as a perfect solution. Every
solution, no matter how good,
creates new problems.
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winter, I found that some farmers
evidently sold two to two and a half
tunes as much livestock product
per dollar of feed used as did other
farmers. This coming year one
question that I intend to explore in
my farm business enterprise
analysis is “how many pounds of
grain and concentrate is a
dairyman or hog fanner using to
produce 100 pounds of milk or
pork?” 1 also want to see how
many pounds of forage is being
used to produce 100 pounds of milk.
I suspect that the grain to milk
ratio is far different on many
farms than most fanners realize.
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