—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, March 18, 1961 10 Poultry Assn. Plans Meet The Lancaster County 4-H I -.1 Ypar poultry club roundup will •“0 31 - 1 cai be held in conjunction with Farm fires caused losses es an educational meeting spoil- timated at $165 million dur sored by the county poultry ing 19 60, the U. S. Depart association next week. ment of Agriculture report- A panel of poultrymen, e( j today This is about five i icderated by Professor Carl percent less than the estima- Dossin, extension poultry ted 1959 loss of $174 million specialist from Pennsylvania the highest on record. State University,' will present . ; - ~ . tlicir views on {‘Producer vs Economists o~ USDA s Ag- Processor Grading of Eggs”, ricultural Research Service Displays by-,- and awards' based their 1960 estimate on to members of the 4-H club -reports received from 207 will make up'tfle first part farmers' mutual fire insur of the program, according to ance companies, selected Cleve Hastings, cliairman of from 1,625 such firms insur the educational committee. farm risks AU county poultrymen and The logs rate for 1960 f in . Iheir families are mvued to C ] U£ jj ng lightning damage the meeting at the Lancaster always resulting in fire, County Poultry Center, 340 average; j 14 2 cents per $lOO TV. Roseville Road, - uesda;>, Q; j. hisurance in force at the March 21 at 745 p m end of the year. This com - ~ pares with the rate of 14.8 cents for 1959. $ Marking Timber (Frofn page 1) le of- Mrs Katherine Schroll near Bambndge Kitch said, a logger offered to "buy the timber on Mrs. Schroll’s woodlot for a flat fee of $l,OOO and cut it immediat ly Mrs Schroll, he said, be ing unfamiliar with the v al ue ox standing timber, called the state employed forester to pleasure and mark trie trees to be sold. When the forester meas ured the woodlot, he esti mated nearly $2,000 worth of umber ready foi hat vest with the immature trees left for further growth Kitch said the sawmill op orator agreed to lake only the marked trees and the selling puce was set at $2,625 A farm area in woodlot can supply a regular income just as any other crop, Kitcn said, if old, mature and we ed trees are removed before they prevent the younger trees from growing “ “The foi ester’s program includes all problems of wo odlot management starting with planting new planta tions through timber stand inmprovement to the final Prepare Your Pullets for High EGG Production ...FEED WAYNE Crowing Mash —to help develop large, fully matured illels vith big capacity for early fall and inter eggs. t us help you get those EXTRA EGGS, me in NOW. H. M. STAUFFER HERSHEY BROS. & SON'S, Inc, Reinholds Wiimer - Ronks - Leola ROHRER'S MILL R.D. 1, Ronks ABERDEEN MILLS R.D. 2, Elizabethtown MILLERSVILLE SUPPLY CO. Millersville MOUNTVILLE FEED SERVICE R. D. 2, Columbia Farm Fire Loss $165 Million Personal property losses wore about 35 percent of the total Livestock losses, about 15 percent of all claims paid, accounting for more dollars than any other per sonal property item. Most livestock claims were due to lightning stage of harvesting and mar keting , In Lancaster County there aie approximately 82,483 ac res in woodland, according to a recent survey of soil and water conservation ne eds At the present time." more land is being planted to forest trees and managed as a cash crop on more pro ductive lahd In other business, direct ois approved seven new co operators asking for free conservation plans They are Gunter P. Kaiser, New Holland, 10 acres; Rufus Mil ler, Bambndge HI, 14 ac les, A Franklin Myer, of Lancaster R 6, 145 acVes; George Weaver, Quarryville Rl, 328 acres, Mathan Mar tin, East Earl Star Route, 96 acres, Clair Bomborger, of Peach Bottom S ßl, 167 acres; and Malcomb D Mertz, of Peach Bottom Rl, 175 acres. J. K. STAUFFER & SON Lawn & Bellaire ROSS C. ULRICH. JR. R.D. 2, Peach Bottom SUNSHINE FARM SUPPLY Lililz & Newmanstown LIME VALLEY MILLS R.D. 1, Willow Street C. E. SAUDER & SONS R.D. 1, East Earl • Hog Show (Prom pace 1) pound,* a record for U-. S - hog sales in 1961. The aver age was more than double the best market price of hogs' on the stockyards Monday, when the retail price was $21.50. Total weight of the 199 hogs was 42,215 pounds for a 212 pound average." Auctioneer Abe Diffen bach said, T think this is close to an- all-time record price for a pen of ten hogs I don’t ever recall of hear ing of a higher price.’ Other buyers and their purchases were Arbogastand Bastm, Allentown, 71 hogs at $3,816,37; Fisher Bros , Bridgeton, N.J, nine hogs at $420 00; Kunzler and Co lne , Lancaster, 55 hogs,at $3,012.50; Spungin Abattoir, Harrisburg, five hogs, $204.- 75, and Weiland Packing Co, of, Phoenixville, three hogs, $16’3'.70. Judging the show at 9'oo a.m. were J. Carl Dalton. Kunzler, and Co., Inc, and William Crow, Woiland Pack ing Co. They were assisted by Jhmes O’Hara, in charge of the USDA Market News Bureau at the stock yards Show committee for the swine accociation included Earl Fisher, Stauffer Home stead Farms, East Earl HI, chairman; H. B Endslow of Marietta Rl, and Arlie An derson, Masonic ll.me Far ms, Elizabethtown Other placings are as fol lows. CHAMPIONSHIPS Grand Champion Barrow— Norman Kolb, 355 Pitney Rd. 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