The Dairy Farmer's A-B-C
BY ROXANNE LEA GABEL
1983 Perry County Dairy Princess
When you were little children
Your teachers taught you your let
ters;
And I’m sure at that time
You thought nothing could be any
better.
But I’ve got a surprise for you
If you’ll just listen to me.
Today I’m going to teach you all
The Dairy Farmer’s A-B-C.
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A 52.2 cubic inch, 15HP diesel tractor with
12.5 PTO HP that’s bred for performance.
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THE DAIRYMEN
Your participating Kubota dealer invites you to come in and see the full
line of Kubota tractors and implements.
PENNSYLVANIA
AVONDALE
Thomas Power Equipment
215/268-2181
BIGLERVILLE
O.C. Rice, Inc.
717/677-8135
BLOOMSBURG
Tractor Parts Co.
717/784-0250
DOVER NEW p ARK
Straley Farm Supply Inc. ? * L E !! U j!!? 1 . ent ’ lnc
-717/292-4443 or 292-2631 717/993-2511
HONESDALE
Marshall Machinery, Inc.
717-729-7117
HONEY GROVE SPRING MILLS CHESTERTOWN HAMMONTON
Norman 0. Clark & Son, Inc. Rishel’s Sales & Service W.N. Cooper & Son, Inc. Rodio Tractor Sales, Inc.
717/734-3682 814/422-8826 301/778-3464 609/561-0141
A is the grade of dairy products
That are the best your money can
buy.
If you want the best in quality
Give grade A dairy products a try,
B is for butter,
That tasty, golden spread.
It’s great when used in cooking;
Or terrific, just butter and bread
C, of course, is for the cow;
Jersey, Guernsey, Holstein,
Brown Swiss, Ayrshire, Milking
Shorthorn;
They give us milk that’s oh-so-fine.
IRWIN STATE COLLEGE
Laspina Equipment Rishel’s Sales & Service
412/864-5147 814/238-7788
LEBANON
Keller Bros. Tractor Co.
717/949-6501
LITITZ
Keller Bros. Tractor Co.
717/626-2121
REYNOLDSVILLE RISING SUN HAINESPORT
McGarvey Equipment, Inc. AG-IND Equipment Co., Inc. Material Handling Systems
814/653-9637 301/658-5568 or 398-6132 609/267-6100
D is for the dairy
Where the cow’s milk is then ship
ped to;
Pasteurized, packaged and
delivered fresh
From the dairy straight to you.
E is for eggnog,
That traditional holiday drink,
Made with eggs, REAL milk and
nutmeg,
And Christmas spirit, I should
think.
F is for the farmer
Who works from dawn till dim.
For milk and dairy products
We owe a lot of thanks to him.
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TRMTOR
86200
i'WMEVIT’I
Nothing like it on earth?
WELLSBORO
Benedict’s Ford Tractor
717/724-2839
WEST CHESTER
M.S. Yearsley & Sons, Inc.
215/696-2990
FLEMINGTON
Poniatowski Bros., Equip. Co.
MARYLAND 201/782-3514
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HAGERSTOWN
Arnett’s Garage
301/733-0515
NEW JERSEY
ELMER
Roork’s Farm Supply, Inc.
609/358-3100
Lancaster Farming, Saturday, June 2,1984—C3
Farm Talk
(Continued from Page C 2)
problem of getting the pollen from
one plant to another Unlike corn
pollen, soybean pollen is not
carried by the wind, so another
means of transportation must be
found One hope for this that is
being explored involves tran
sferring pollen by insects, such as
honey bees
The Illinois researcher has
produced data on 37 hybrid
combinations The best single year
increase was less than 30 percent,
and Nelson says the samples were
100 small to produce conclusive
results In producing soybean
hybrids, the plant expert points out
that breeders are striving for in
creased yields Traits like disease
resistance are often controlled by a
single gene and are relatively easy
to transfer in plant breeding Yield
Is a very complex trait and is more
likely to be improved in a hybrid
Potentially, he says, every gene in
the plant has an effect on yield.
The way the seed is produced is
dependent on the overall efficient
functioning of the plant from the
extracting of carbon dioxide from
the air to water and nutrition from
the salt, to the final conversion into
complex carbohydrate oil and
protein in the sea. Nelson says
parents should be elected for their
ability to produce good hybrids an<J
not for their ability to yield as a
pure line.
In other crop areas, researchers
are working with hybridization and
some are being grown com
mercially But Nelson thinks
researchers are still down the road
quite a ways from a commercial
hybrid soybean.