—Lancaster Farming, Friday, Oct. 19, 1956 12 Farm Calendar (If you wish your Coming Events listed in these col ums, write a card or letter to LANCASTER FARMING, Quarryville, Pa. Be sure to include name of sender.— Editor). ,t - i OCTOBER Oct. 15-26 Two-week course in Farm Machinery and Trac tors, by college df agriculture, The Pennsylvania State Univer sity. Oct. 18-20 Dillsburg Com munity Fait. Oct. 19 Alimar Farms Dis persal Sale, Sybertsville, Pa. Oct. 20 Lancaster County Pomona Grange 71, entertains Berks County Pomona Grange, Bnckervllle Fire Hall, 8 pm. Oct 20-27 American Royal, Kansas City, Mo., national Fu ture Farmers of America con vention. Oct. 20—Methodist Men, An nual chicken barbecue, Quarry ville Memorial Methodist Church, 5-8 p. m. Oct. v 22 Fountain display, chimes, Longwood Gardens, Ken net Square, 8 pm. Oct 22 —Farm Women 9, Hal lowe’en party, Mis Bertha Heir, Herr’s Nursery, R 6 Lancaster, covered dish supper, 6 p.m. Oct 22 Hereford Diamond. Jubilee Banquet, Kansas City Oct. 24 Fulton Juvenile Grange, No. 343 meets. Oct. 24 Bucks County Poul try As&ciation Meeting Segal Hall, National Agricultural Col- Fertilizers F arms ' Gardens Lawns Cocoa Bean Shells Organic Plant Food Co, " GROFFTOWN RD. Ph. Lancaiter 2-4963 Hunting Equipment Shotgun Shells, Caps, etc. Egg Washers Egg Graders Plastic Egg Baskets Feed - Fertilizer - Coal SPREADER SERVICE AVAILABLE WEST WILLOW FARMERS ASSOCIATION WEST WILLOW Ph. Lane. 4-5019 Chicken Barbecue AT -j£> 0 Quarryville Methodist Church y Sponsored By q Quarryville Methodist Men 2 Sat., Oct. 20, 5-8 P. M. g ($ Price $1.50 Children 75c & y iq | Barbecues Packed To Take Out lege, Doylestown, Pa. ' Oct. 27 Society of Farm .Women No. 5 will meet at Kauff man’s Tea Room.'Guest of soci ety will be member of Society No. 27. Dr. Caleb Bucher will speak. Oct 27—'Fulton Grange, Hal lowe’en Party. Oct 27—Oxford Grdnge youth, Hallowe’en Party. Oct 30 Pomona Grange guests of Ephrata Grange; Berks County Grange in charge of pro gram, Bnckerville Fire Hall. " Oot. 30 Farm Women So cieties aid Christmas seal prep aration, Rossm-ere Sanatorimu. Oct. 31 Lancaster County Red Rose Baby Beef and Lamb Club meets at John Neff School, Neffsville, 8 pm. NOVEMBER Nov. I—Farm Women '2O, home of Mrs Glenn Knecht, RD Kirkwood, 2 pm. Nov 3 Feeder Calf Sale, Lancaster Stock Yards Nov. 3—County Convention, Lancaster County Farm Women’s Societies. Nov. 3 Feeder Calf Sale, Nov. 23-Dec. 1 International Livestock Exposition, Chicago. Nov. 10—Farm Women 6, box lunch, educational room, First National Bank, Elizabethtown Nov. 10—Farm Women 1 meet with Mrs. C H. Nissley, Lititz. Nov. 13—Farm Women 22 en tertain Farm Women 12, Pequea Church of the Brethren, 130 p m. Nov. 14 Farm Women 16 meet, chapel of Middle Octoiara Church, poverty party, covered dish supper, 7 pm Nov. 15 Mail (Chustmas) deadline for overseas service men. Nov. 17 Farm Women 12 30th anniversary banquet, Mor ton’s Restaurant, Morgantown Nov. 20 Lancaster County Holstein Banquet, War Memoiiel Building, Leola. Nov, 29—Fulton Grange 66, pfay, “An Old Fashioned Mo ther”. Nov 30—Deadline, to sign un der Conservation Reserve Con tracts of Soil Bank. Martin Wltman, 25-year-old R 2 Man heim farmer, last week won the county title as champion plowman in the contest * * • Martin Witman County Plowing Match Winner By ERNEST J. NEILL Despite a cantakerous hitch and possible stage fright from competing the first time Mar tin Witman, 25, R 2 Manheim top ped the field in the Lancaster County Plowing Contest at Mt. Joy Friday, earning the right to compete in the State Match next year The son of the late Amos Witman, Martin farms 47 acres in the Manheim neighborhood, cropping tobacco, corn, wheat and grass running a herd of 13 Holstein and Guernsey cows. Farming five years this com ing spring, Martin entered the county contest for the first tune, and ranked first in. a field of sev en competing on the H. B. End slow faim at Donegal Hall, the former rural school now used as a church hall by historic Done gal Church. Martin scored 506 points. In second place was Ray Miller, R 2 Mt Joy with 495; in third Rob ert Kauffman, R 1 Manheim with 482; fourth, Warren Miller, R 2 Mt Joy, 449; fifth, Ephnam Hernley, R 1 Elizabethtown with 442, and tied for sixth, Henry Stoltzfus, R 1 Mt. Joy and C. J. Mumma, R 1 Columbia, with 433 points. Judges for the event were Paris Gruber, R 1 Mt. Joy; Wil lis Hackman, R 3 Elizabeth town, and Lewis Bixler, R 1 Marietta, while William K. Risser, Salunga, was chairman of the contest committee. Bert Home, extension engine er from the Pennsylvania State University, was present to help supervise }udging on straight ness and depth of furrow, spac ing between furrows, coverage and speed The winner, who did the best job in the 50-foot plot, is mar ried and has a son who will be four years old next March. He started farming as a hired hand for Irvm Snyder, Donegal, and Martin Greiner, R 2 Mt. Joy. Declaring that human under standing was the “truest path” to enduring peace, President Eisen hower urged that “every pos sible chink in the Iron Curtain” be widened." Champion Plowman President of MFIC Shows Improvement COBLESKILL, N. Y. The leader of one of the Northeast’s largest farmer' cooperative groups, Dr. Kenneth A. Shaul, continued to show steady im provement here today from a respiratory illness suffered last week, officials at Community Hospital reported. Dr. Shaul, president of the 7,500 member Mutual Federation ot Independent Cooperatives, has been undergoing treatment and resting here since entering the hospital Oct 6 Members of the family told friends today that Dr. Shaul’b illness was' due more to over work and exhaustion than to any organic difficulties. It is expected, however, that he will remain in the hospital for several more weeks, his son, John, said today. QUARKYVILLE CONCRETE PRODUCTS COMPANY so* THE HARRY E. tEIGHTLEY & CO. Wishes to express their appreciation to the many people who visited with us and ex pressed their interest in SOYL-AID at the Mt. Joy Fair. The response was very grati fying. Soyl-Aid... Nature s Complete Soil Builder HARRY E. LEIGHTLEY & CO, INC. MT. JOY, PA. that was part of the Mt. Joy Community Exhibit. (Lancaster Farming Staff Photo). Calories in Fat of Meat Boost Energy Calories in the fat of beef, veal, pork and lamb add mate rially to the energy which is so essential to our dually activities —our work and our play. Maat, with its store of pro tein, minerals and vitamins, fits equally well into the reducing diet Stanley H. Deiter Auctioneer And Appraiser 1906 Willow Street Pike A. H. BURKHOLDER—Ph. 175 Chimney Block and Lintel, Steel Sash, Cement Paint, Ph. Lancaster 4-1796 Phone 109R3
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