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Newspaper
Lancaster Farming
Location
Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Feb 02, 1963
Page
12
Two Purina Dairy Center cows of similar age each calf regularly and have produced 15000 pounds of milk in ten months. One heifer is heavier but thinner due to experimental diet, highlighting the importance of body condition during dry periods and proper feeding for peak herd milk production.
American housewives seek white meat rabbits and will pay for variety at the supermarket. The Purina Way rabbit production offers a sound, profitable venture, usable part time in a backyard or full time on a farm. Talk with Purina sales about this opportunity.
At the Purina Research Farm sows on the Purina Hog Program produce more than 100 gallons of milk each year. They wean 18 pigs and maintain their own bodies as part of a demanding husbandry routine.
At year start alfalfa seed prices rise and clover sales pick up with exports to Japan. Canada and the US trade seed while Canada supplies 4 million pounds to Japan. Grass seed supplies are ample but prices have jumped about 200 dollars per hundredweight in two weeks. Penn State notes Lancaster County soils have low organic matter and timothy germination is weak.
Amos Funk advises irrigation rules of thumb noting June to October rainfall totals and urging about one inch weekly when rainfall is under one inch. He saysApplying an inch of water during tasseling can double corn yield versus full-season irrigation. He adds fall irrigation during strawberry blossom formation boosts production by about 20 percent.
Plant Manager Robert Metzler notes tight clover and alfalfa markets with Buffalo alfalfa and Pennscott red clover selling out. Grass seed steady but risk from ship strike on S-37 orchard grass. Spring seedings should be feasible. Vernal alfalfa stock strong and cheaper than Buffalo. open formula seed, bookings similar to last year.
In a business session several growers charged contract sprayers for railroads utilities and highways with damaging crops by misusing herbicides. The state vegetable group led by Paul Rowe named a committee to drive legislation if the practice continues. The conference also covered direct seeding tomatoes vegetable nutrition peat pots insects marketing and a new plastic mulch.
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