,R 5 .p'imtW B—Lancaster Farming, Friday, Dec. 28, 1956 For the T~r r Farm Wife and Family Farm Women 15 & Families Hold Christmas Dinner Farm Women IS and their hus bands held their annual Christ mas dinner Thursday night, Dec. 20, at the Spanish Tavern, Quar ryville, with about 100 persons attending. The dining room was decorated with tall red candels and Christmas greens Small sleighs were filled with candy canes. Retiring president Mrs. Robert Weicksel turned over the gavel to the incoming president, Mrs. Bernard Jackson. Officers and their husbands were seated at the head table Christmas carols were led by Mrs. Ernest Miller, choir direc tor of the Union Presbyterian Church. She was accompanied by Off To A Flying Start! vll 'p&'w* M energized STARTING & GROWING MASH • EXTRA ENERGY • FASTER GAINS • EARLY PROFITS Farm Bureau Starting and Growing Mash wholesome, palatable, easily digest ed feed. In addition to Vitamin B-J2 aad antibiotics, it contains all the. high duality ingredients essential to better health, greater energy, and faster growth. ORDER TODAY SAVE WITH BULK DELIVERY ®FARM BUREAU Dillerville Road, Lane. QUARRYVILLE MANHEIM - NEW HOLLAND THE BUILDING ASSOCIATION Atglen, Pennsylvania Announces that you may subscribe to a new Series of Single, Double and full-paid shares dur ing December 1956 and January 1957. Three Per Cent Interest paid on FULL-PAID Shares. We suggest that you investigate the advantages ■ we offer for your SAVINGS PROGRAM.' For information and service you may call at our office in Atglen or contact any of the f6llowing directors: J- Gilbert Adamson—West Grove. Pa. James E. Brown—Atglen, Pa. 'George H. Eckman—Lancaster. Pa. . Aaron Fisher—Paradise, Pa. G, Leighton Hassler—Quarryville, Pa. John J. Hess—Gap, Pa. Reuben R. Hull—Atglen, Pa. Bryon R. Judy—Cochranville, Pa. Gordon B. Kingsbury—Coatesviile, Pa. Zach H- Leamy—Pomeroy, Pa. Mont Rutter—Christiana, Pa. Joseph P. Wentz—Atglen, Pa. Watch for our Thirty-First Annual Report. Mrs. Melvin Boyce, Farm Women 15 pianist. Mrs. Alicia Sterling, Fair mouqt, gave three readings: “Anna and Willie’s Prayer,” “The Modem Mother,” and an excerpt from the play “Family Portrait.” Gifts were exchanged and Big Sisters revealed. The group’s next meeting will be Thursday, Jan. 17 at the home of Mrs. Abram Herr, Kirkwood, RD. Committee members in charge of the dinner were. Mrs. Almus Shoemaker, Mrs. Robert White side, Mrs. Mack Willard, Mrs. Donald Weicksel, Mrs. Lindley Jackson and Mrs. William Adams Soil conservationists are giv ing serious study to the problem of flash floods which wash away tons and tons-of good soil year ly. Additional dams along small streams will be one way the ex perts will try to solve the prob iem Another way farmers can help put more land in grass crops. The Best Broiler Cross at its Best Martin fuses the work of the na tion's leading breeders to give you top quality chicks that mature early for quick broiler profits. PLACE YOUR ORDER NOW ! MARTIN'S HATCHERY POULTRY FARMS, INC. Lancaster, Po. Phone EX 2-2164 ATGLEN AND LOAN ‘[ l ;A%dbtas.' FARM WOMEN 12 HOLD CHRISTMAS PARTY Society ot Fann Women No. 12 met at the home of Mrs. Harold Wissler, 38 East Cottage Avenue, Millersville, Saturday, for their Christmas program. Mrs. James Brenner had, charge of devotions and also read several poems. Roll call was answered by telling “What I would like to give to mankind for Christmas.” There were 30 members and one visi tor present. A donation was given to the Clarence Weider Fund and a Christmas gift was presented to one of the older members. A new treasurer and a secretary were installed, Mrs Raymond Aston and Mrs. Paul Harmsh, respec tively. The President, Mrs. Lester Sig man, asked for volunteers for delegates to attend the Farm Show at Harrisburg on Jan. 14- 15. A Christmas party followed with exchange of gifts and serv ing of refreshments by hostesses, Mrs. Harold Wissler, Mrs. Ray mond Aston, Mrs. George Bren ner, and Mrs William Henry. The January meeting will be at the home of Mrs Willis Click, Creswell, Conestoga, Route 2, Jan 19 Bad Weather Plagues Flight To Meeting L. L Logan, London Grove, teturned from Wichita', Kans , last week where he attended the re gional directois meeting of the National Flying Farmers Associa tion Accompanying him in his four place Cessna 170 was John B Gehman of Baito, Montgomery County Mr Gehman is President of the Pa F'.ying Farmers As sociation. Mr Logan is director of the national oiganization The day that had been set upon for their departure was one of those wet, foggy, ones. They were not able to fly until after noon, but had an uneventful trip to Beaver Falls, Pa, where they spent the night with The Rev erend and Mrs. Harold S Faust, pastor of the Fust Presbyterian Church, Beaver Falls. Mr Faust was formerly pastor of Tough kenamon, Unionviflle, and later Faggs Manor Presbyterian Churches. The .next morning it was foggy and raining in the Pittsburgh area, but the flyers decided to try anyway hoping for bet* ter weather, to the west but were soon grounded at the Peima-Ohio line, so spent an other night with Flying Farm ers in that community. They took off just before day break the following morning with an 800 foot ceiling and went as far as Delaware, Ohio, by 8 a.m where they struck freezing ram and had to turn back after sev eral attempts, only to learn that even .the airlines were canceling most of their flights westward. Finally, late in the day they and about 40 other persons who had been stranded at Columbus, Ohio were given tickets aboard a new twin engine Martin of Trans World Airlines. They flew right into the ice storm and were scheduled to land at St. Louis. After several at tempts to land the- plane in an ice storm the .pilot gave up and proceeded to Kansas City- where they finally landed in' a snow storm. They .then ; traveled by. Constellation to Wichita- which had picked up an inch of tee in passing through the storm in the Chicago area, but continued the flight after 4'hours delay whde crews cleared the plane of the accumulated, ice. In spite of the flying difficul ties, all directors were on hand eventually for the business ses sions which had to be postponed for their fate arrivals. Mr. Logan visited his distribu tor in the Kansas and Nebraska 1 area. Mr. Gehman and Mr. Logan left by night plane for Farm Shaw Draws Record Entry Of Livestock A record number of livestock will be seen at the Farm Show this year. To date, 2>o£s head of horses, beef cattle, dairy cattle, sheep and hogs have been en tered. Biggest expansion in number of entries is in dairy cattle ac cording to state agriculture Sec retary William L. Henning. - The total of dairy cattle entries is an all time record - of 643 head. They include 462 in the open classes, 144 en tries by 4-Hers, and 37 by vocational agriculture students. Beef cattle entries received by the closing date total 419 head, including 130 young steers en tered by 4H baby beef club mem bers A rearrangement of stall space in the beef cattle barn will take care of this large number which WiSl fill the barn to capa city Sheep entries total 467 head, but this number will have to be reduced due to unavailabili ity of pen space- Swine entries total 407 head including 52 entered by F.F.A. students. Horses number the same as for the show last year, 89- Poultry entries exceed the capacity and must be reduced to about 4,500 birds This wi!l make the poultry show one of the largest in the East $35,595 m premiums will be divided as follows Horses, $3,- 850, beef cattle, $8,043, dairy cattle, $16,069, sheep, $4,686, and swine, $2,947 Poultry premiums total $9,- 440 50. Chicago after their evening ban quet was over and arrived in Columbus about day break They picked up their plane just as an other storm was setting in and with one stop in Pittsburgh ar rived home in time for lunch Most of the way home was storming and rough A 50 knot tail wind from Pittsburgh en abled Mr Logan to break his previous time record from Pitts burgh. The flight to his home took only 1 hr 35 minutes but the turbulence was quite severe' and there was rain and snow as far as Altoona. FOR BETTER RESULTS... 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The last production test of the (Silvis Farms herd in the Herd Improvement Registry pro gram was completed Oct. 31, 1955, with the 23-cow- herd aver aging 12,330 lbs of miJlc and 485 lbs of butterfat on two milkings daily. The herd has also been officially classified for type with an average score of 83.7. The current award is based on a herd of 55 amma!ls, of which 40 have freshened. Thirty of these were bom and developed on the Silvis Farms. Read Lancaster Farming classi- fied ads. WINTER COMFORT HEATING OIL AUTOMATIC DELIVERIES GARBER OIL COMPANY Mt. Joy, Pa. Phone 3-9331
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