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Newspaper
Lancaster Farming
Location
Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Dec 26, 1959
Page
3
Local dealers offer reconditioning of tractors and farm machines with a 6 percent plan from Herr's Implement Store West Willow. Snavely's Farm Service promotes New Holland equipment. Specials include generator and welder discounts. Vent-O-Matic offers dairy and poultry house ventilation with guaranteed installation.
New portable typewriters start at 49.95 and 10 key adders from 89.95. Novelco shavers priced at 15.95. At Nolt's Book Store in Martindale Pa contact Terre Hill HI 5-2526 for details.
A scanned notice describes Mail Box Market rules for Lancaster Farming subscribers with a five line 26 word limit and Monday 6 pm deadline. It then lists varied for sale items including a Holstein heifer, butcher hogs, bicycles, farming machinery, wood stoves, a Kennecke egg cooker, a Winchester cook range, a brown gabardine overcoat, and a brown belted coat with phone contacts.
For sale items include a Browe uptight feed mixer with 1200 lb capacity and unused status. Also offered are Chore-Time Air Cushion Egg Washer models and repair services for all makes of egg washers. Contact Rast Seed Company in Mt Joy PA or Representative John M. Clymer in Quarryville PA for details.
Used space heaters and oil and gas heaters offered by L. H. Brubaker at 350 Strasburg Pike Lancaster plus Latitz and Tappan ranges with water heaters washers dryers Ben Hur Freezers Bottled Gas and Service by Benjamin Shenk Lampler Pa contact numbers EX 3 7607 OV 7 6002 MA 6 7766 EX 7 2486.
Six month old Shetland pony stud colt with silver dappled coat and white mane and tail eligible for registration. Price 150 dollars. Contact Leola OL at 6 7851.
Written bids are invited to purchase and demolish Old Enterline Garage buildings in Rheems Pennsylvania. Structures include a three story frame carriage shop and rear garage containing heavy lumber and joints. Demolition must remove salvageable materials and level site within 30 days of bid acceptance. Bids due by December 28 1959 to Martha Shaffner.
Minnow Creek Eden Delight 2494802 EX, owned by J E Taylor in Orange Virginia, set a new career butterfat record of 10 671 lbs from 246 979 lbs of milk as recognized by the Holstein F r i esian Association of America. The prior mark was 10 599 lbs set in 1954 by Pansco Hazel 1817843 EX in California. Delight, long associated with Taylor’s Meadowdarm Dairy, is famed as a top brood cow with nine direct descendants and a legacy of yearly records at Lakefield Farms, Clarkston Michigan.
Lancaster County 4-H Club members who attended the National 4-H Club Congress in Chicago and the National Dairy Conference express gratitude to contributing organizations. The letter from delegates Linda Mumma, Glenn Porter, Fred Bernhard, Donald Hossler, Melvin Shenk, and Kenneth Young credits supporters for enabling enriching experiences.
Antibiotics fed to newly shipped feeder steers help them cope with shipping stress and prevent low grade infections from becoming serious. Sick or poor doing animals should be examined by a veterinarian promptly. Sick animals may show early signs of a highly infectious disease. Farm worker productivity has increased 100 percent since 1940.
Classified notice for MARTIN'S 1960 FARM EQUIPMENT SALES in Blue Ball PA. Multiple sale dates listed: Wed Jan 6 at 10:00 AM, Wed Feb 10 at 9:30 AM, Wed Mar 9 at 9:00 AM, Wed Apr 13 at 10:00 AM. Offers farm machinery on commission. contacts WM. Z. Martin and Paul Z. Martin in New Holland PA. R 3 Lancaster PA. Phone numbers EX 4 6414 and EL 4 6671.
The passage notes an emphasis on improving forage quality and overall farm management. It discusses relying on high quality roughage to weather rough spots, with expectations that the best hay isn’t yet produced and that good silage is hard to replace. It stresses better management across dairying and all farm phases.
One mile south of Millersville State Teachers College in Shenk s Lane a public sale lists a complete line of appliances and household items including a Norge 18 cu ft deep freezer, automatic washer, a Webcor tape recorder, chairs, a Westminster chime clock, a piano, bicycles for children, frozen vegetables and poultry equipment, chicken feeders, nests, brooders, tools, a 20 ton corn hammer, and a power mower. Lunch will be available.
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