K. Bettendorf, librarian AGRICULTURAL LIBRARY Icultural Library " THE PENNSYLVANIA STATE COLIEGE i Pezma. State University Mary Agr The Ttot Vol. 111. No. 38. Benson to Be Main Speaker At Plow Contest HERSHEY United States Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Tatt Benson will be guest speaker on the second day of the 16th National dPlowing Contest an Conservation Exposit on to be held here Aug. 21-22 the exposi tion committee announced today Gov. George M. Leader is the speaker for the opening day when contour plowing matches will be run and tribute paid to “Pennsyl vania Agriculture.” Secretary Benson will partici pate m the exposition’s salute to “National Agriculture” on Friday, Aug 22, following the level land plowing match, according to Le iand H Bull, general chairman for the exposition. He said there will be no speakers other than Leader and Benson on either day The Pennsylvania State Police will’stage a half-hour rodeo and horsemanship exhibition on both days in the 15,000-seat Hershej Stadium, Bull announced This feature was aranged through the courtesy of Col. E J. Henry, State Police Commissioner, and Major C. C Keller, superintendent of the Slate Police Training School. Riders will open the program each afternoon followed by a “tractor tipping” safety demon stration to show various ways that farm tractors can upset, using a specially built tractor loaned by Cornell University. Following his address Leader ■will participate in making awards to the champion and runner-up in the contour plowing matches Similarly, Benson will assist in awards to level land plowing con test winners the following day. Bull said state Secretary of Agriculture William L Henning will present special certificates to first an second place winners m the Pennsylvania State Plowing Championships to he run off Tues day. Aug. 19 State winners will enter the national matches in level land and contour plowing SPABC Show To Be Aug. 7 The annual Southeastern Penn sylvania Artificial Breeding Co operative dairy show will be held Aug 6 and 7 at the SPABC head quarters on Route 230. Lancaster. On Wednesday evening, Aug 6, there will be a type demonstra tion headed by L. 0- Colebank, official classifier for the American Gueinsey Cattle Club. Judging of all breeds will start at 10 a m. on Thursday- At Hershey Saturday— Area Queeu to Be Picked Lancaster County’s two con testants for Queen of the Furrow ■will meet contestants from Leb anon. Schuylkill, Dauphin and York Counties Saturday at Her shey to decide the district title. The two contestants from Lan caster County are Misses Ruth Ann Carroll, Peach Bottom, and Rosemary Andrews, Willow Street. They were selected June 23 in a contest held at Millers ville State Tachers College The area contest at Hershey Quarryville (Lancaster County) Pa., Friday. August I, 1958 ONE OF THE newest phases of the highly specialized-poultry industry is the raising of started pullets. Elsewhere in this issue you will find a report on this new business, Ohio Farm Editor Sees Ending Of Leaf Surplus The tobacco surplus prob lem may soon be a thing of the past, writes Bill Zipf, farm edi tor of the Columbus, Ohio, Dispatch. He says, “In Fairfield County last week a farmer pulled a package of chewing tobacco out of his hip pocket . - . Noticed the package appeared strange Asked him ... He passed it to me ... It was mint-flavored chewing tobacco. “Every time I’ve thought a bout it since, I’ve been a trifle nauseated. “But I predict this new de velopment will boost the morale of farm workers throughout the land “What’s more, if this means women start chewing, we may have our tobacco surplus—of all kinds and types cared for !ii short order. “Co-workers and I are study ing the possibilities of selling kits for ladies tobacco with mint tinge, plus individual jew eled cuspidors.” will be thd seventh of ten being held throughout the state. More than 800 contestants will have participated in the various phases of eliminations county and regional by Aug. 15 when the state finals are held at the Community Theater in Hershey. The three regional finaists seected to date are Winnie Lee Hogan, Saegertown, Crawford County; Gwendolyn Carole Davis, New Castle, Lawrence County and Lee Nicodemus. Alum Bank, Bedford County. some of the advantages and some of the drawbacks. This picture was taken at the farm of James Garber, R 2 Elizabethtown. (LF Photo) County Poultrymen Staying Home for Annual Tour Lancastr County poultrymen will stay at home this year while going on the Lancaster County Poultry Assn’s annual tour Asix stop family tour has been arranged by aMrk E Myer, Richard Kreider, Arthur Gray bill and Harry S Sloat. Begin ning at 8 30 a. m., the tour is expected to end at about 4pm A picnic lunch will be held at noon. The tour will assemble at the New Holland Machine Co, New Holland. Here guided tours will show the construction and as sem'bly of farm machinery. The next stop at 10 a m. will be at Victor F. Weaver Inc, plant in New Holland. The group will observe a poultry dressing plant with a 45,000 oird per day capacity, and egg grading, cand ling and packing facilities. At 1-15 p m. the tour will stop at the farm of George Weav er, R 1 New Holland. Weaver has 4,000 Leghorn layers, 16,000 On Aug. 9 contestants from j Berks, Lehigh, Bucks, Montgom-j ery, Philadelphia, Delaware andj Chester Counties will compete at | the West Chester American Legion Past Home. Contestants must be Pennsyl vania Farm girls who are unmar ried and between the ages of 16 and 21 inclusive. Former or pres ent Pennsylvania agricultural, commodity queens are eligible if they meet the contest require ments. One queen that has done so is Miss Margaret McPhearson, broilers, and 40 milk cows. He uses a concrete block house, bulk feed bins, automatic feed ers and no roosts The 36 by 200 foot block broiler house has a built-up roof, exhaust fans, radi ant heat, a feed mixer, automa tic feeders and waterers I David G. Musselman, R 1 New Holland will be host at the 2 pm. stop He has 9,000 Leg horn layers in several houses and a remodeled barn The mam house is two story concrete block with bulk feed bins, auto matic feeders and waterers, no roosts, and with nests in the center of the house. The farm has a humidifier and cooler op erating in an egg cellar. Another New Holland farm, this one belonging to Mervm Hoober, R 1 New Holland will be the 245 p. m. stop. Hoober has 3,000 Leghorn layers. How ever he is using a pole type house with a pit in the center. There are double decker roosts above the pit and a litter clean er to remove droppngs. In ad- I dition he has 18 cows and 10 acres of tobacco The pre-cut Homesote broiler house will be observed at the of York County, the current stale poultry queen. Edward Fisher, Coudersport, 1957 president of the Pennsyl vania Assn of OSII Conservation District Directors, and Thomas Malm, vocational agriculture supervisor for the Lancaster- York County, area, are co-chair men of the contest committee. The contest is sponsored by the Soil Conservation Districts of Pennsylvania, vocational agri culture departments and local S 2 Per Year Wheat Harvest Still Delayed By Wet Weather The 1958 wheat harvest here may go down in history as one of the most prolonged m recent years At the beginning of this week, an estimated half to two thirds of the County acreage re maine dto be harvested Combining has been stopped by fiequent rains which have kep the crop too tough to be havested. An exceptionally heavy straw growth this year aggravated the situation. Many farmers are starting to head the wheat to get the gram off before shattering begins. They then mow the straw for baling. Actually this piactice is best if there is a hay or cover crop plant ed with the wheat By mowing oft the straw short, the new crop will have a better chance than if it has to compete with some four to six inches of stubble. SECOND CUTTINGS of hay are also behind schedule in most areas Many farmers have been unable to get good quality hay in the barn Pastuies continue to remain in generally good condi tion with very little insect dam age. The state Crop Reporting Serv ive says that picking of early peaches has started in the Berks- Lehigh fruit belt and is continu ing in the Adams-Frankhn-York Apples and peaches are siz ing nicely and have good color. Tomatoes and sweet corn are moving to fresh markets in small volumes in the Southern tier of counties and limited quantities of potatoes are being dug. SHOWERS AND thunderstorms the early part of last week pro vided rainfall totaling one-haf rnch to IV2 inches in most sec tions of the state Exceptions were the extreme northwest part of the stale where amounts were light and he south-central and south cast where more than two inches fell Temperatures averaged about normal, but humidity remained high and oppressive throughout the period The Safe Harbor weather re porting station registered 91 de grees on July 27 as the high tem perature for the week just ended- The average high was 84 and the average low was 70 degrees. A total of 83 inches of rain were reported at Safe Harbor during the week ending July 28. I The total this crop season is now 1 13.62 inches In Reading during ' the same period a total of 1-47 i inches fell swelling the total rai- I fall to 14 76 inches, which is about I roimal for the penod Reading’s average high temper ature was 82 degrees and the average low was 69 degrees. farm of James Hih, R 1 Gordon ville when the tour arrives at 3:15 p m. This house measures 36 by 450 feet. There is fine type heat with a hot water pipe running down at the center of ■the house. Four rows of hanging tube feeders are serviced by a feed cart on a track The house has a dirt floor and cellopane windows. All interested poultrymen are invited to participate in any part ol the tour. dealers of the American Steel and Wire Division of the U. S. Steel Corp.
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