—Lancaster Farming, Friday, June 22, 1956 10 Farm Women 12 Plan Supper Meet At Safe Harbor Society of Farm Women #l2 met on Saturday, June 16, at the home of Mrs Edith and Mrs. I*aul Harmsh, Route 1, Cones toga Mrs. Ames Ressler led the devotions by reading Psalm 24 The president, Mrs Lester Sig man, had charge of the business meeting. She gave a report from a recent Executive Board meet ing and passed out new By-law books to each member Roll call was answered with hints for keeping cool There were 20 members and two visitors pre sent. No meeting will be held m July On Tuesday, August 14, at 6 30 p m the society will hold a covered dish supper at Safe Har bor Park The hostesses, Mrs Edith Har nish and Mrs Paul Harnish, then served refreshments U. S. production reported steady in April 216 NEVIN STREET LANCASTER LANDIS STONE MEAL CO. 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WERTMAN, 133 N, 9th Sf., COLUMBIA, PH. 4-2380 ttttttttttnttttxttttttttttttttttzntttttit::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: Masonic Farms Cow Passes Yield Mark Generalissimo’s Best Bessie, a registered Ayrshore cow owned by the Masonic Homes Farms at Elizabethtown recently accumu lated a record of 100,195 lbs of milk This record was made in nine years and would supply a family with four quarts of milk per day for 32 years. Chester C Putney, Secretary of the National Ayrshire Breed ers’ Association at Brandon, Vt made the announcement. Mr Putney emphasizes that records like these demonstrate the per sistant longevity of Ayrshire cat tle which is a requisite of effi cient and profitable dairying Baltimore, Md —Hundreds of boys at the Samuel Gompers School here had the unexpected pleasure of witnessing an im promptu roundup of a wildly charging steer. The steer charg ed into the school yard just after 8 a mu while the children were on the playground prior to the opening of school. The children scampered to safety after clos ing three gates to the yard, mak ing a bull ring out of their play ground. Stockyard employes finally succeeded in lassoing the steer and pushing him into a waiting truck MAR-CRO Vitamin Supple ment Your cattle and hogsneed DUTCH BELL for Dairy BETTER BEEF for steers and TRIPLE RICH for Hogs We also have the famous DAN PATCH H >RSE POWDER Manufactured by Mar-Gro v fc Co , arage Consult Us For The Best IMPROMPTU ROUNDUP t< 2 Lancaster AARON S MARTIN DISTRIBUTOR RI EAST EARL Suavely Farm Service New Holland P.ione 4-2214 Cyrus B. Ferguson Kukwood Phone 30-K3 Seventy pickers formed an Army to meet the deadline of strawberry picking on the Charles Lutz farm south of Nine Points in southeastern Lancaster County. Brookville Herd Wins Guernsey Club Citation A navv tecord placing fouith in milk production among the 10 highest of the Guernsey breed in her class has lust been completed bj the registered cow Clarion Faims Lulu Belle, a ten >eai-old, owned by Charles |E Harding, Maplevale Faim, Bxookville, Pa “Bello”’ produced 17,175 lbs of milk and 699 lbs of fat in 305 days on two times daily milking and was bied to meet calving re quirements Conveited to every day teims, this record-breaking production icprsents appioxi mately 7988 quarts of high quality milk “Belle” has also produced 16,- 431 lbs of milk and 647 lbs of fat, as an eight year-old, in the Herd Improvement .Register, in the 305 3X division and met calving requirements “Belle” was sired by Clarion Farm’s Prince Royal, that has seven tested daughters in the Peifor mance Register of the American Guernsey Cattle Club The record of this cow was supervised duung the test period by Pennsylvania State University Army of Strawberry Pickers f Arden Lutz here packs containers of strawberries m larger boxes as the height of the strawberry season strikes Lancaster County. This photo was taken on the farm ot Arden’s father, Charles, south of Nine Points. (Lancaster Farming Staff Photo). Berks Comity Mar Featured in June Magazine Edition HARRISBURG, Pa Walter S Shearer of Route 2, Sinking Spring, Beiks County, and his diversified poultry enterprise are featured in an article in the June issue of Everybodys Poul try Magazine, Hanover,' Pa Mr Shearer, who is President of the Pennsylvania State Poul try Federation, sells some 15,000 turkeys, 150.000 ducklings and 95,000 broiler chickens annually. l His farm is located lust off U S Route 222, about five miles southeast of Reading The article, describing Shearer’s suc cessful production methods, is I illustrated showing management 'practices and equipment used I The organization. The Penn sylvania State Poultry Federa tion, which Shearer heads is one of the largest and most active state poultry groups in the na tion It has just successfully com pleted promotion and supervi sion of the east's largest Junior Ch’cken-of-Tomoirow Contests in which 733 of the Keystone State's ' young poultrymen took part. Here is a view down the field as the pick ers moved along, at a clip of about 125 crates per day. (Lancaster Farming Staff Photo) Packing Strawberries The Pennsylvania Motor Truck Association has announced the formation of a new “3000 Club” to honor patrolmen who have n rformed outstanding public r rvice in the Association’s Co operative Safety Patrol activity and has concurrently announced the appointment of the first three members to this select group. ( Thomas McMillian, Safety Di rector for Robert H. Carr & Sons of Frazer, Pennsylvania; Floyd Devitt, /Safety Engineer for J. Gordon Gaines, Inc., of Akron, Ohio; and Donald D. Shipley, Fleet Safety Engineer of the Pennsylvania Manufac turers Association Casualty In surance Company of York, Penn sylvania, were presented tro phies by Edward Gogolin, Gen eral Manager of the Pennsylvania Motor Truck Association, at the PMTA Annual Meeting, June 7 and 8 at the Penn-Harris Hotel * * Truck Associate Honors Troopers In New 3000-Club
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