ve West to Chicago International moniuni Winners Count Ribbons, By ERNEST J. NEILL Editor Lancaster Farming TIMONIUM Md. —'“You 10 w. Ernie when you fore ist two years ago that I would •oduce the first Register of nt sire in the state of Missis ippi, I figuied 1 had a lot to , e u p to- But two weeks ago it honor came, in the show at ungton, Ky-” . Counting hjs ribbons at the , se of female class judging in ' Eastern National, Livestock losition here, G Harold King, of King Herefords, Canton, found himself his herd, his herdsman, Allan Poe, /mg closer to the higher ickets of Hereford circles ■e he collected more points ( S rd Registei of Merit Competition Rugged Competition was rugged at ionium this year, and many the nation’s best herds were, hand, from the Atlantic States ] the Gulf Coast of Texas, from South to the Midwest. Angus, Herefox d, Shorthorn ceding animals and show steel’s all groomed to the peak of •fection passed m review ire nation: lly-known jdges :t? The national at Chi- The Atlantic Angus Associa m held its female sale during show and averaged $1,141 on lots for a total of $63,895 Top i Ankony Royal Lady 2d, from of the top-winning farms at Eastern National, Ankony •ms of Rhmebeck, N- Y She 1 to Claremont Manor, Claie it, Va , for $5,150 Lancaster Steers Do Well Lancaster County -steei s also 1 well in the show and sale ices ranged from $25 50 cwt $2B 50 c,vt Thelma Cassell, Manheim, scored $2B 50 on Pennsylvania Farm Cash Income (U- S. Agricultural Marketing Service) income, marketings $795,755,000 1953 176,774,000 Crops Livestock and products '■ie, home consumption :rops westock ,'rnment payments >tal cash icceipts vised ’'' Subject to revision FARM CASH INCOME FROM PRINCIPAL SOURCES ■stock and products (total) . $618,981,000 ' $579,010,000 ury products ■ 268,910,000 260,016,000 ; gs 109,858,000 148,702,000 ittle and calves 6S. 740,000 63,132,000 tgs . 41,429,000 37,609,000 ickens . . . 35,829,000 30,530,000 •oilers irkeys teep and lambs :her poultry ther 1 is (total) teld crops °at itatoes >bacco iatoes 'eet Corn ip beans irley een peas unach ... . »ybeans .. . ;d Clover seed ther 2 its and nuts: nles caches ■apes . . . terries .'awbemes chers 3 .. ■ Products: •est (including maple) .ienhouse and nursery tl all commodities tey, horses, beeswax, mules, etc. !, timothy seed, buckwheat, miscellaneous vegetables, ’*3, plums, other berries, other fruits. iitU'c ?C‘ los*s.,3K .« .fc ,J »ai ci I «»«*< )j her steer, an Angus, while Don ald Rutt of Peach Bottom sold his at the lower figure- Other Lancaster County sales included; $28.00 cwt, Jane Grei ner, El Manheim, Hereford; $27-50, Clyde Brubaker, R 1 Eph rata, Hereioia; and Walter Augsberger, R 1 Rcinholds, Here ford; $2700, Carl Bollinger, R 1 Lititz, Hereford; $26 50, Betty Bowman, R 1 Ronks, Angus; Don ald Hastings, Kukwood, Angus; $26 00, Dorothy Stehman, RJJ Lancaster, Angus and Lovis Lapp, R 1 Bareville, Hereford. Clyde Brubaker also scored $27 00 cwt on his champion Hampshire wetner. Georgia bred and Georgia fed was the champion steer, a Here ford, shown by 18-year-old Carl ton Cioom, IC, Donaldsonville, Ga. Judge was A E “Al” Dar low, Oklahoma A & M College, Stillwater, who had 271 head to soit and silt- Reseive grand champion was an Angus shown by Nancy Rutter, 13, and her brother, Phil, 10, of Queenstown, Md Fi’ed Kaiser Ellicott City, Md , won the carlot show with a load of Angus', and reserve there went to Roland H. Muliimx, Woodbine, Md. - Virginia Poly Scores Virginia Polytechnic Institute’s team, won the Intercollegiate Judging Content, under Coach Coy C Biooks Tied m second place were the University of Maryland and Cornell. Harold Thompson was coach of the Flora, Ind, high school team that topped the 4-H Livestock Judging Contest Records tumbled in the sale of champion nog, a 220-lb York shire shown by Blakeford Farms, Queenstown, Md, selling at $3 45 per pound to William Scluder bere-T J Kin die Co, Balti more. 1953-195# 618,981,000 70,469,000 24,399,000 46,070,000 5,135,000 871,359,000 18.318.000 10.935.000 1.607.000 1.028.000 2.337.000 2,990,000 $176,744,000 19,666 000 16,611,000 18,227 000 8,533,000 7.653.000 7,753 000 4.717.000 2.307.000 2.791.000 985,000 1,793,000 , 1,158,000 627,000 339,000 10,337,000 8,810,000 4,342,000 1.840.000 1.118.000 914.000 646.000 5,666,000 49,991,000 $795,755,000 New Vo-Ag Class For Lancaster Mennonite School Will Open Funds arc being collected for a proposed $25,000 vocational agncultuie depaitment building at the Lancaster Mennonite School, Dean Noah S Good ad vised Lancaster Farming today. Construction, likely to stait in the spring, wi'l not begin until $20,000 of the total has been col lected, the board advised. This will be the eighth voca ional agncultuie department in the county. At present, the school is offering a two-year course in agriculture, first and second-year agiiculture, and first year shop Thirty students are now enrolled, and that total is expected to increase consider ably when the new four-room building is completed Clarence Garber, retired farm er and former school teacher, will be the mstiuctoi. Increased Profits in Dairying Said Likely Farmers’ net returns from dairying m 1956 “may be a lit tle larger’’ than in any of the three past years, the USD A periodical “The Dairy Situation” repoits Feed costs should move low er Milk production is forecast to be upwards of 127 billion lbs, compared to 124'j billion this year LEBZELTER’S $760,046,000 1954 * 181,036,000 579,010,000 64,351,000 23,178,000 41,173,000 4,002,000 828,399,000 11,687,000 1.374.000 1.060.000 2,280,000 3,461,000 $181,036,000 24.821.000 14.935.000 14.563.000 10,276,000 '8,659,000 5.710.000 4.559.000 3.199.000 2.620.000 1.468.000 1.466.000 1.349.000 641,000 503,000 9,432,000 Quality manufacturing is the by word of every John Deere factory. Beginning with incoming ship ments of only the highest-grade materials, each manufactured part ... every finished implement is in spected thoroughly by skilled LANDIS BROS. Latest Improved Farming Equipment 1305 Manheim Pike Phone 3-3906 P. O. 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