lifted Seed leat Expected IGood Supply rrtsbUßG Exception- Ijigh yields and a 2 5 per mu ease in acreage will [ in a good supply of .jlvama certified seed I fm fall planting, the Aguculture Department meed today > total number of acres ived by inspectors for ication, 4,171, was the st in foui years, accord (o Heniy F Nixon, di r of the department’s Bu of Plant Industry The iei of acies rejected, 418. the second lowest since Piesence of prohibited seeds and poor appear were responsible for most e rejections, Nixon said. Icoat was the leading ty, accounting for 2,737 Pennoll was second with cres Also approved were acres of registered seed t. :on also reported a 13 per increase in the approved £e of Pennsylvania, certi barley The total, 1,725, ares to 1,519 last year, 1,348 in 1962. Wong was cost popular variety with icres, closely followed by rad with 761 acres io approved were 517 ac of legistered barley, pity acres of winter oats, if it the Nor line variety, appi oved for certifica- Eleven additional acres egisteied seed were ap !d ■tytwo acres of Tetra Pet rye weie approved for Scat'on and five as reg ed seed I legistered seed is used production later of certi seed rai Calendar 23-25 Homemaker’s *P at Camp Swatara. 4-H District Dress ,lew > Strawbridge and Btmer, Philadelphia. 10 Pm. Manor FFA wpter annual corn roast. Harbor. Jf P m Fulton Grange 'will meet. fPm Red Rose D.H. 1 Erectors quarterly meet -8 at the Farm Bureau litorium, Dillerville Road, “Waster |2a 30 Pennsylvania Federation’s Sum festival, Hershey, Pa. 26 4_jj state Dress Re ’ Pennsylvania State llv ersitv Jf ~~ District 4-H Dairy a t Hershey. 2q * " 3 oo .p.m. Miss „ la Poultry .Qjieen Hershey Park Band ' t'tiff - ' ■‘tu 1 *- Mt MXMt THE 4-H PIG SHOW CHAMPION Mark Nestle roth, Manheim R 3, showed his crossbred pig to the Championship in the 4-H Pig Roundup this week. The show was held at the Lancaster Union Stock Yards. Poultrymen Stop Attempt To Impose Carton Dating HARRISBURG The state Grey, deputy secretary of ag poultry industry beat back a nculture who served as hear second attempt by the Penn- ing commissioner, about the sylvania Department of Agn- absence of office hearing culture Tuesday to impose a notices, mandatory egg carton dating Imply ‘Railroading’ law on farmers and processors. Poultrymen four years ago stopped an attempt by the agency to incorporate carton dating regulations into the state egg law. Tuesday's coding proposal by the Bureau of Maikets was met with a wave of protests during an egg standards hear ing in the state capitol build ing Despite a rather bitter fight in 1960, the bureau was ap parently convinced an egg car ton dating system was neces sary to maintain quality and had again proposed its inclu sion in the egg code. Opposition to the date im print proposal came chiefly from spokesmen for the Penn sylvania State Grange and the Pennsylvania Poultry Federa ton who contended the regula tion would work a labor and financial hardship on produc ers who market eggs direct to consumers. Although the majority of persons attending the two hour session to upgrade state egg law standards were there expressly to protest inclusion of the coding system, others were amazed the issue was up for adoption again after its 1960 defeat. There was little opposition to other suggested egg stand ard changes. Many poultrymen at the hearing suspected the contro versial dating proposal was re sponsible for the lack of pub licity given the hearing. - Whqyi^complained;, to; Jack Their statement implied the buieau was attempting to “rail road” the dating piovision through anticipated industry opposition C W. Funk, bureau director, said, however, official hearing invitations were sent to about 1,100 egg processois and dis tubutors throughout the state. Other department proposals —all of which will apparently be incorporated into the state egg law Elimination of consumer grade C classification as obso lete Elimination of wholesale Fancy-80 grade because of the difficulty of obtaining 80 per (Continued on Page 7) 4-H Clothing Winners Listed The annual County 4-H Clothing Roundup was held on Wednesday at Penn Manor High School. Ten Lancaster County girls were awarded top prizes. The first six winners will compete in the District Dress Revue to be held Mon day in Philadelphia The winners in order, were Mary Alice Graybill, Lititz R 2; Virginia Wivell, Columbia Rl; Sharynanne Schreiber, New Holland; Judy Longenecker, Holtwood Rl; Judy Buckwalter, Lititz R 3; Gloria Hershey, New Holland; Margaret Grube, Lit itz R 3; Rebecca Kling, Mount Joy; Lilli Ann Wivell, Colum bia Rl; Nancy Rohrer, Lititz fit; i.M r i : « u Mark Nestlercth Wins 4-H Club Pig Roundup Title For the second year in a low Maik Nestleroth, Manheira R 3, showed a Crossbred pig tc the Giand Championship in the Lancastei County 4-H Pig Club Roundup held Thursday at the Lancaster Union Stock Yards Judge Lester Buidette, Pennsylvania State University Extension Service livestock specialist, called Nestleroth's Duroc-Yorkshire crossbred en try an outstanding pig with a wide ham and a most desir able carcass ■The Reserve Grand - Cham pion of the show was given to jerry Snader, Ephrata Rl, who followed Mark to the top m the Cross Breed Class, The Breed Grand Champions and Reserve Grand Champion Winners weie Beikshne Eugene Hosier, Manheim R 3, tooth Reserve and Grand Champion; Chester- White Robert Groff, Peach Bottom, Grand Champion, and Nelson Rohrer, Lititz R 3, Re serve; Duroc-Jersey Eugene Hosier, Manheim R 3, and Mark Nestleroth, Manheim R 3; Cros ses Mark Nestleroth, Man J. Mowery Fred To Send Four Bulls To ABS Stud A contract for the purchase of Fultonway Schoolmaster fiom J Mowery Frey Ji , Lan caster, was announced Thurs day by Leland W Lamb, Di rector Dairy Cattle Breeding Program, American Breedeis Seivice, Inc. Cmcago, 111, at a special meeting at the Frey farm for the members of the Holstein Bull Advisoiy Commit Relation Of Milk In Diet Study How the amount and kinds of feed in a dairy cow’s diet affect her milk its protein and fat content, as well as its fatty acid composition is be ing studied by the Maryland Agricultural Experiment Sta tion under a contract with the US. Department of Agricul ture. The studies, being conducted for USDA’s Agricultural Re search Service, will cover three consecutive 300-day lactation periods by selected groups of high-producing dairy cattle. One group will be fed corn silage alone; another, corn si lage and hay in unrestricted amounts; and still another, limited amounts of hay alone All diets will be supplement ed with various amounts of concentrates. The milk produced by these cows will be analyzed for to tal fat and total protein con tent and the amounts of sat urated and unsaturated fatty on:,Pate 4).: henn R 3, and Jeny Snader, Ephiata Rl, Hampshires Mark Nestleroth. Manheim R 3, and Eugene Bollingei, Den vei R 2; Landrace Cail Sie ■gust, Lititz Rl, and Glen Sander, Manheim R 3, Poland China 'Marlin and Eugene Bollinger, both of Denver R 2, Spotted Poland China Nel son Rohrer and Richard Buck waiter, both of Lititz R 3; Yorkshire Nancy and Mark Nestleroth, both Manheim R 3 In the Junior showmanship class, Nelson Rohrer was the winner followed by Eugene Bollinger, Marlin Bollinger, Michael Leimnger and Philip Lemnger Top boys in the Senior di vision were Jerry Snader, Mark Nestleroth, David Heisey, Richard Buckwalter and Eu gene Hosier. In the afternoon sale the Grand Champion pig was-sold for 55 cents a pound to Kunz ler and Co, Inc. and the Re serve Grand Champion was purchased by Ezra W. Martin Co for 37 cents a pound tee and a group of interested breeders Schoolmaster has 8 milking daughters in Mowery’s herd and one in the heid of Donald Eby, Gordonville, that average 17,847 lb of milk and 700 lb. of fat to show an increase over their dams of 1,698 lb of milk and 51 lb of fat. When com pared with their herdmates of the same age from other sires, the Fultonway bull shows a 112 lb of milk and 5 lb. of fat increase. The Dam of Schoolmaster is Frey’s Rachel Ann cow with 26,034 lb. of milk and 982 lb. of fat and a life total of near ly 100,000 lb of milk. The next dam is the famous brood cow Wightwick Glenafton Rachel that is still going strong at past thirteen years of age. Also made public at the meeting was the purchase of three young sons of Ivanhoe from Fultonway Farms to en ter the young sire proving pro gram now being conducted by ABS. One of these youngsters is out of the Rachel cow. Weather Forecast Temperatures during the next five days are expected to average 2 to 5 degrees above normal. Generally warm throughout the period. Precipitation may total % to> 1 inch as showers and thun der showers through most of the period. Normal tem perature range is 82 in the ' ofterndont with 62 at night.
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