16—Lancaster Farming, Friday, Oct. 12, 1956 52 Farm, Allied Organizations Plan 1957 Pennsylvania Farm Show HARRISBURG Intensive preparations for the 1957 Penn sylvania Farm Show next Jan. 14-18 started last week at the annual fall meeting of the Faim Show Committee composed of representatives of 52 statewide faim and allied organizations The 41st State Farm Show theme was announced as “Penn sylvania Agnculture Builds for Tomorrow ” State Secretary of Agricul ture W. L. Henning, chairman of the Farm Show Committee, also announced that a record breaking total of 858,556 is being offered by the Farm Show Commission for pre miums on winning exhibits at the 1957 show. This exceeds the previous record set last January by §2.588. Committee members filed re quests for rooms in which to hold annual meetings. Approxi mately 30 statewide - farm or ganizations plan to hold educa tional meetings during Faim Show week. Declaring that the 1957 Farm 6how theme is most timely, Sec retary Henning said. “Every in dustry must plan ahead in this, the atomic age, if it is to sur vive. Agriculture is no excep tion Technological developments in farming are bringing change ond advancement at a rapid pace.” He said education has been “the sparkplug for past achievements in Pennsylvania agriculture,” and the Farm Show “is recognized national ly as one of the State’s most valuable assets in the educa tion of producers and consum ers of farm products.” The theme will be reflected iaiiiiimiiiim; ■ Get Healthier S ■More Vigorous! J Plants with far ■ ■ ■ ■Less Labor with " VAPAM The Easy-to-Use Temporary Soil Sterilant For Tobacco Plant Beds ® 'Other Seed Beds B Green Houses j* One Application KILLS ® Weeds & Grasses (both annual & peienmal) {J ' Seed Attacking Fungi * Nematodes ■ TREAT SOIL NOW ■ 3 FOR BEST RESULTS 3 ■ (Soil Temperature should ■ jj be over 40 degrees; * * Economical - costs approxi- H mate!}' 1c per square foot. ■P.L.ROHRER S & BRO, INC. * Smoke town, Pa. J Ph. Lane. 22659 «■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■! in every phase of the exposi tion, “making the 1957 Farm Show one of the most effective ever held,” he added. Two new departments have been added for the coming Farm Show, the committee was told. The Commission is offering $240 in piemiums for Christmas trees and $360 as prizes in a hay show The additions make a rec ord total of 27 departments for competitive exhibits at the ex position. Representatives of the Penn sylvania' Flying Farmers As sociation and the Pennsylvania Yorkshire Swine Club attend ed their first meeting of the Farm Show Committee. Both were elected to membership at the 1956 spring meeting of the committee. A report of 'progress on the coming show was made by John B. McCool, Farm Show Direc tor Ailantic Rural Exposition Ends; Angus Winners Youthful Angus exhibitors were out in full force to compete for ribbons and pre'miums at the Atlantic Rural Exposition, Rich mond, Va, Sept 26, with very successful results Tommy Ashby, Churchville, Va, led out the grand champion steer of the junior show, a sum mer yearling Aberdeen-Anguss, which was first named champion of the Angus steer classes The winner was bred by Bailey Brothers, Fort Defiance, Va. Bob Long ot the Umveisity of Ken tuckv judged the show. At the Junior Heifer Show, held the preceding- day, the preceding day, the champion ship went to Jean H. Rucker, Eastham, Va., for her junior yearling Angus named Canter- bury Eline 31st. Thirty heifers competed in this show which was judged by Joe Keefauver of Jonesboro, Tenn. Jimmy Stark, Crozet, Va., exhibited the reserve grand champion, Blackbird 12th of Elk HU, a summer yearling. Kmloch Farm, Supply, Va, and Mambrace Farms, Queens town, Md., were the top exhibi tors in the Angus purebred show, held Sept 25 arichalso judged by Mr Keefauver. Beauty of Mam brace 4th was named senior champion and grand champion female, while Kmloch showed the junior champion and grand champion bull, Kmlochian 98515 t as well as the reserve grand champion female, Kmloch, Geor gina, 2nd, rserve senior cham pion Reserve grand champion bull was the reserve junior cham pion, Bandolier Kelton, an en try of Kelton Farm, Round Hill. Other top winners in the An gus classes were Kmlochian 2304th, a Kmloch entry named senior champion bull, Sir Graie mere 4 C 79th, reserve senior champion bull shown by Adams Plantation, Lynchburg, Va, Miss Blackcap CLC, entered by Sugar Loaf Farm, Staunton, Va, and named junior champion female; and the reseive junior champion female, Kingdom Blackbird E 2nd, an entiy of Kingdom Farm, Leesburg SKIDS 900 FEET FORT WILSON BEACH, Fla. A ear, rounding a cuive at high speed, went into a skid and skidded more than 900 feet the length of three football fields and then overturned. One of the four occupants was slightly injured Highway of ficials figure the only way it was possible for the car to skid so far was that the blacktop road was dry and the automo bile tires were slick. ( * The Weather Bureau’s 30-day outlook for October, 1956 calls for temperatures to average below seasonal normals east of the Mississippi. In the remainder of the country, above normal temperatures are predicted, with warmest weather in the Southwest. Precipitation is expected to ex- HERON HOOKED ON MINNOW ard, walked 45 miles to Paducah he. walked it again in 8 hours, MURRAY, Sakachewan A in 9 hours, 50 minutes. Offered 35 minutes. Munay district farmer, Joe Rich- $lOO to repeat the performance, J. M. Bomberger ELM Farmers Supply Co. 137-39 E. KING ST., LANCASTER Paul H. Gehma*» DENVER Fred L. & John E. Homsher STRASBURG AND QUARRYVILLE Outlook for r £•*“ 250 2?** Wenger’s Feed Mill, Inc. October, 1956 o> / -i t- V /r-l f \ J *tolrj *'' *j w \ r ?/" 4 r - ~ l \ / / L'j'j-"”-' I'v '/ H UVCH AtOVXfrr, NOHMAI i.l ASOVt ryi NQHHAI \2j nr At | —I NOAHAL | I BtLOW r*l HOHMAL I i pßZDicrrfr mCINTATION OCTOBER ceed normal in the North Atlantic States and in the Gulf Coast region. Near nor mal amounts are indicated in the Great Lakes region, the Middle and South Atlan tic States, and the Pacific Northwest In the rest of the nation, subnormal precipj tation is anticipated. O. Kenneth McCracken Millport Roller Mills Osceola Flour Mills RHEEMS NT V I** f ■“-/> * J N UooixAn I u j MANHEIM LITITZ Earl Sander NEW HOLLAND GORDONVILLE ■i -/ ' \ | imn-n I WQKMn [ 1 1
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