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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
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670.000
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5,736,000
49,835,000
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LEBZELTERS
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Lancaster-Farming, Friday, November 25, 1955—!
Commercial Beef May Be Spi
WASHINGTON The United
States Department of Agriculture
has proposed that the commer
cial grade of beef be divided in
to two new grades designated as
standard and commercial. The
present grades for beef are
prime, choice, good, commercial,
utility and cutter and canner.
It is proposed that the division
of the present commercial grade
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Beginning with incoming ship
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"We Give and Redeem S&H Stamp’s”
lit into Two Grades
be made on the basis of matunty
and that the giade name “stand
ard” be applied to beef from car
casses of younger animals of the
grade and that ‘commercial” be
retained for beef from mature
animals falling in the present
commercial grade The change is
proposed in response to a recom
mendation from the cattle and
beef industiy committee
workmen to assure its meeting es*
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