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Farm Show
Premiums at
Record $55,968
HARRISBURG The Pennsyl-
Show Commission, Harrisburg, has
announced ‘ an alltim-e record
$55,968 to be offered in cash
s premium payments to competitive
exhibit place winners at ttye 40th
Pernsylvama Farm Show here
next Jan. 9 through 13.
Dr William L. Henning, chair
man of the Farm Show Commis
sion, also said that November 12
has been set as the deadline for
Ming entries m the livestock and
most divisions of the poultry de
partments of the show
The Nov. 12 closing date holds
for all livestock except 4-H baby
beeves and 4-H sheep for which
the deadline is Dec 17. Horse
pulling contest entries are due
Dec. 24. Closing date for turkeys,
4-H vocational poultry classes is
Dec. 1, and for broiler, fryer and
roaster chickens is Dec 12 All
other poultry entries are due
Nov 12.
Dairy Awards Increased
Cash premium offerings for
the coming show exceed the
amount offered at the 1955 show
by $156, Dr. Henning said. The
largest single department amount
is-$15,749 for dairy cattle, fol
lowed by $9,344.50 for poultry
and $8,113 for place winners in
the beef cattle classes
Offerings in the remaining 22
departments of the show include:
horses, $3,650; sheep, $3,921;
swine, $2,947; dairy products,
$118; corn, $475; small grains.
$297; potatoes, $270; grass silage,
edible nuts, $213; vegetables, $l,-
$380; tobacco, $258, apples, $2,343;
DOS', maple products, $185; apiary
products, $854; wool, $178; eggs.
$657; baby chicks and poults, $240;
dressed turkeys, $120; home econ
omics $2,54450;-horse pulling-con
r-test; ssoo;horseshoe pitching con
test, $65; log sawing contest, $75;
tractor driving contest, $140; state
school demonstration contest, $6OO
state contest of schpol exhibits,
$280; 4-H potatojftontest, $lOB,
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Head Staff of Lancaster
Ernest J. Neill
Ernest J. Neill, editor of LAltf
backgroundmagnculturalpoui
CASTER FARMING, brings a
broad back ground m agricul
tural journalism Born and rais
ed on an Adams county, lowa
farm, he has been closely allied
to the agricultural scene in Corn
Belt publications and radio sta
tions since graduation from
Creighton University, Omaha,
Neb, with a Bachelor oi Philoso
phy degree in journalism.
Both of his giandfathers were
pioneer farmeis m southwestern
lowa, and his parents established
Sunny Slope Stock Farm at Noda
way, operating about 1,200 acres.
Since his mother’s death in 1948,
Mr Neill has managed the 400-
acre home place and two 40-acre
pasture units m partnership with
two sisters.
- Radio Newspaper Experience
He has been news editor of
a Nebraska weekly, on the news
and program steffs of two Nebra
sko radio stations and prior to
being drafted into the Army, city
editor of the North Platte (Neb.)
Daily Tlegraph.
Ik service ,Mr Neill was at
Fort Leavenworth Kan; Camp
Grant, 111,; Jefferson Barracks,
Mo.; Air Corps Officers, Candi
date School and the Adjutant Gen
eral’s School. For three years he
was assistant base adjutant and
adjutant to the director of train
ing at a B-17 Flying Fortress
field in Sebring, Fla.
Editor of Farm Dairy
Released from active duty as a
Captain after four .years and
three months service, he joined
the Corn Belt Farm Dailies as
news editor of the Omaha (Neb.)
Daily Journal-Stockman, later
serving on the Kansas City (Mo.)
Daily Drovers Telegram and Chi
cago Daily Drovers Journal edi
torial staffs.
In Sept. 1947 he was named
managing editor of the St. Louis
Daily Livestock Reporter and be
came well-known throughout the
southeastern states for on-farm
reporting and covering fairs and
shows. During this time he was
travel editor for the four-paper
group and wrote travel-agricul
tural stones during visits to
Cuba, Mexico and the Bahama
Islands.
One brother, Harold H. Neill,
still farms the original homse
stead and is. president of the lowa
State Flying Farmers.
Mr. Neill, 38, of Irish-German
stock, is a member of Quarryville
Legion Post 603, and resides in
Quarryville.
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C. Wallace Abel
C. Wallace Abel, a native Penn
sylvanian, as business manager
.of LANCASTER FARMING,
brings extensive knowledge of
Pennsylvania journalism
Bom in Uniontown, Pa, he
was graduated from the Senior
High, school there and received
his bachelor of arts degree in
journalism , from Westminster
College, New Wilmington, Pa.,
and a master degiee from the
University of Missouri-
Fourth Air Force Photographer
During the recent war, he was
a photographer witlf the Fourth
Air Force, then joined the Eve
ning Standard at Uniontown as
a photographer. Leaving the Key
stone State briefly, Mr. Abel was
a reporter-photographer, city edi
tor and then managing editor of
the Daily Leader at Pontiac, 111.
In 1948 he was on the publicity
staff of the Missouri State Fair,
and for the United States Soil
Conservation Service.
Returning to Pennsylvania, he
served as telegraph and makeup
editor of the New Era in Lan
caster, leaving to become editor
and business manager of the
Quarryville Sun, and more recent
ly manager of the Christiana
Local Ledger.
Heads Chamber of Commerce
Mr. Abel is president of the
new Quarryville Chamber of
Commerce; a riiember of the
Pennsylvania Society of News
paper Editors; a member of Pi
Delta Epsilon, college journalism
fraternity; Alpha Sigma Phi, so
-cial fraternity; the Elks, Ameri
can Legion, and the Masonic
Order.
He resides at 410 West State
Quarryville, with his wife, the
former Laura Lee Wilkinson, and
has two daughters, Victoria Lee
and Clare Hollie.
TRAIN KILLS BUTTON BUCK
Members of the Mennomte
Orphanage at Millersville this
week may enjoy a dinner of ven
jalon. Monday morning a PUR
freight train struck a 90-lb But
ton buck along the Susquehanna
near Cerswell. August Dinkel ofc
Washington Boro dressed the
buck after Game Protector John
M. Haveratick had taken change.
SAFE DRIVING DAY DEC. 1
Clement J. Sipe, acting dierc
tor of the 'State Highway Bureau,
will be the commonwealth’s S-D
(Safe Driving Day chieftain for
Dec. 1.
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Lancaster Farming, Fi
Farming
Robert G. Campbell
As advertising manager of
LANCASTER FARMING, Robert
G. Campbell, 28, is a native of
Lancaster County with wide ex
perience in advertising
The son of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur
C Campbell of 130 East Chestnut
Stieet, Lancaster, Mr. Campbell
staved in both ox the recent wars,
in the Navy during World War 11,
and overseas with the Infantry m
the Korean conflict
He attended grade school in
Manheim Township and is a
graduate of Valley Forge Mili
tary Academy. From 1947 to 1951
he attended the Wharton School
of the State University of Penn
sylvania, where he received a
Bachelor of Science degree in
economics.
Prior to entering college, Mr.
Campbell was a cadet m the
United State Naval Reserve dur
ing 1945 to 1947, stationed at
Philadelphia and was on active
duty as a first lieutenant in the
Infantry from 1951 to 1953.
For about i year and a half
Bob was on the advertising staff
of Lancaster Newspapers, Inc,
before joining LANCASTER
FARMING. He is well acquainted
with the county, and is known
by his many business contacts
throughout this neighborhood.
Mr. Campbell is a member of
mencan Business Clubs, the Uni-'
versity Club, an officer in the
Lancaster Junior Chamber of
Commerce, a member of the Uni
versity of Pennsylvania Club and
Phi Gamma Deit fraternity.
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Corn Support
Price Set at
$1.75 in 1955
Lancaster county’s 1955 corn
crop will be supported at $175
per bushel, accoi ding to the Agri
cultural Stabilization and
sei ration office. This price is
near last year’s $179, ighest'ever
paid under the support program,
and near 1953’s rate of $1.77
The national support figure for
ihe 1955 crop is $1.58 per bushel,
oi 87 per cent of parity.
Producers who stayed within
acreage allotment limits ard eli
gible to place their corn under
loan. Corn must be stored on
the farm at least 30 days, and a
moisture test at that time must
be less than 0 per cent. Those
sealing corn must pay a $3 serv
ice fee
Lancaster County is one of the
850 counties ’n the naiion idesi
gnated as a “commercial tcorn
area,” and of the total, 30 are u*.
Pennsylvania “
In its Oct 1, 1955 forecast' the
United States Department of Agri
culture estimates the national
yield this fall may be 3,100,000,-
000 ushels, four million above
the Sept 1 estimate, and possibly
the sixth largest corn crop on rec
ord
County Holstein Meet
November 22 at Gap
The Lancaster County Holstein-
Firesian association will ohlfl its
fifth annual meeting Tuesday,
Not. 22 at 6 45 p. m. in the Fire
Hall at Gap
Various committees will report
on the year’s activities. Officeers
will b elected and Max M. Smith,
county agricultural extension
agent, will offer remarks _ A.
Nesbitt, escretary and fieldman
Of the State Holstein association,
■will speak briefly, and a special
l&lm on dairying will be sohwn
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