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rata; 4, Frank Frederick, R?
Denver.
POULTRY:
Gold medal for best exhibit of
chicks in the Show to Hubbard
Farms, Lancaster, Lancaster
County, and §ilver medal for best
individual , exhibit:' Pullorum
Clean Section Hubbard Farms.
dressed turkeys
Gold medal for champion tur
key carcass in the 1956 Farm
Show went to Harry Lamparter,
Mountville, Lancaster County.
Silver medal for» Reserve
Champion carcass was also won
by Lamparter.
The gold medal for the best
display of dressed turkeys also
was won by Lamparter.
HOME ECONOMICS AWARDS
Home Improvement
Open Class
Class 86b, floor rug —1, Ruth
M Brenner, Manheim; class 86c,
Floor rug sweepstakes, Ruth M-
Brenner; class 87b, Floor rug
wool, 4, Mrs. William S. Long
enecker, Mount Joy; 5, Mrs. Walt
er G- Hawthorne, Bambndge;
Class 90, Floor rug, cotton, 2,
Mrs. Allen B- Shearer, Manheim;
Class 91a, caned or rush seated
chairs or stools, 1, Mrs. Hamey
Sensemg. Adamstown; class 102,
woven chairs or stool seats, cane
or plastic, 2, Patsy Earhart, Lit
itz; class 103, slip covers' (one
piece from a set), 1, Nancy New
comer, Lititz.
, Class 105, Lamp shades, 1. Ro
maine Good, Lititz.
Clothing School Classes
Class 74c “(afternoon dress
cotton), 5. Betty Herr, Quarry-
ville. •
BELMONT
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Agricultural Limestone
SOIL TESTING SERVICE
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niShow Awards
AYRSHIRE DAIRY CATTLE
Bull’ Calf: 1. Masonic Homes
Farms, Elizabethtown.
Heifer Calf: 3. Masonic Homes
Farms: 4. Masonic Homes Farms;
5 Abram K- and Florence C.
Flory, Manheim.
Yearling Heifer: 2. Masonic
Homes Farms; 5. Ned Z. Paes,
Strasburg; 6- -Abram G. Flory;
9. Florence Mae Flory; 11. A- K
and F. C. Flory.
Senior Yearling Heifer: 1. Ma
sonic Homes Farms. 9. A. K
and F. C. Fldryi
Junior Get of Sire; 3. Masonic
Homes Farms: 4 A- K. and F-
C. FJory.
Two-Year-Old: (fresh): 3. Flor
ence Masonic Homes Farms: 4.
Joan S. Paes; 5-,Ned Z. Paes: 6-
Abram G. Flory.
Two-Year-Old: (fresh): 3. Flor
ence Mae Flory.
Aged Cow 3 A. K and F. C
Flory: 4. Marvin E. Miller, Rl,
5. Marvin E. Miller.
Best Udder; 4. Florence Mae.
Fiery (Mountain Gaiety Kitty).
Produce of Dam. 3- Abram K
and Florence C. Flory; 4. Flor
ence Mae Flory.
Best Three Females: 2. Ma
sonic Homes Farms - 4 A. K- and
F C. Flory
Dairy Herd of Two 3 A K.
and F. C Flory 4 Florence Mae
Flory.
Junior Yearling Heifer - 1.
Abram G Flory, 2 Florence Mae
Flory
Two-Year-old - 1. Florence Mae
Flory; 2 James >C. Brubaker; 3
Joan S Paes, 4 Ned Z. Paes; 5.
Abram G Flory
County Group of Five 1 Lan
caster County
FPA BERKSHIRE: Richard
Heagy, RD 1, Mount Joy; Melvin
Longnecker, RD 1, Ehzaebthtown;
Robert Mowerer, Marietta; Ken
neth Newcomer, Mt. Joy.
SMALL GRAINS
Barley; 1. Clyde Brubaker.
Since tax-time is nearby. Ches
ter County farmers will be inter
ested in a meeting scheduled -for
Wednesday, Jan. 18 at the
Russellville Grange Hall four
males north of Oxford- -According
to County Agent Robert A.
Powers, Jr., Fred H. Hughes, ex
tension farm .management specia
list from. Pennsylvania State Uni
versity, 'will discuss Farm In
colme Tax Reporting and Social
(Security Tax Coverage for Farm
ers, and a representative of the
Chester office of the Socaal Se
curity Administration will speak
on Farm Record Keeping Sys
tems. Meeting time is 7:45 p. m.
Rimers I like the paper
very much Miss Lena H-
Rohrer
Make The Difference
4-H AYRSHIRE
TAX-TIME MEET "
Likes Paper
Tuesday Sale -
Of Broilers
Scores 20.75
(Lancaster Poultry Exchange
(Rohrerstown, Pa—'Sales Report.
ISale #ll5, Tuesday, Jan. 10,
1955)—Eight lots totaling 13,250
ibirds solid in auction ihere Tues
iday at prices ranging from 2054
to 21% on 8350, and 21% on one
Hot, 4900 capettes. Eleven lots, a
total 18,150 birds, were listed, ten
lots of 11*6,250 sold. For the cor
responding sale a year ago' Tues
day, Jan. 11, 1955, ten lots of 34,-
800 birds were offered and soldi
in a range of 26 to 27%. Sates
Tuesday by seller and grower,
'amount and breed, age by weeks
and days, buyer, and price fol
low
Eber Hess, 3200 White Van
tress, 13 wks, to Victor J. Koser,
20%; J. J Hess II (Herbert Gil
gore) 1900 White Rooks, 9-2,
withdrawn prior to sale; Miller
& Bushong (John J. Lehman),
two lots, lot one 1100 White Van
tress Leghorns, 10 wifcs, to Ray
W dibble, 21%, and lot two 1050
White Vantress Leghorns, 10 wks,
no sale, 22 bids; Miller & Bush
ong (Isaac N. Miller) 4900 Red
Vantress Oapettes, 12-4, to'Walter
C. Mellmger. 21%; J W. Bshel
man & Sons (Redjlose Research)
1950 White Vantress, 10, wks, lio
sale, 18 4 bid; J. W*, Eshelman &
Sons (Red Rose Research), 200
While Vantress cockerels, 10 wks,
to Roy E Ream, 21; Henry Shenk.
425 While and Red Vantress, 11-4
to Daniel K Good, 20%; Warren
Bhenk, 425 White and Red Van
itress, hl-4, to John T Thomas,
21%; Robert Noll, 1300 Barred
Cross, 10 1 wks, to Daniel K. Good,
21%; Harvey M. Hostetler, 1700
Red 'Cornish Cross, 110-4, to
Leola Poultry, 20%.
FFA Officers at
Harrisburg Show
.Honor Parents
HARRISBURG State offic
ers of the Future Farmers of
America honored their parents
Wednesday during, the mid-wint
er FFA State meeting at the
Farm- Show.
lii ceremonies during the farm
boy Organization’s convention m
the Forum of the Education
.Building, the seven FPA State
officers will confer the degree of
“Honorary Keystone Farmer”
upon their fathers and will pre
sent to their mothers hand-en
grossed certificates as a token of
appreciation for “the encourage
ment, cooperation, and assistance
given her son, which contribut
ed to his outstanding achieve
ments m the Future Farmers of
America.”
Receiving these honors are Mr.
and Mrs. H. Leroy Welk, Stras
burg, RD 1, whose son, Robert,
is FFA State president; Mr. and
Mrs- Victor Cappuccui, Mehoo
pany, R Dl, whose son, Victor, is
State vice president; Mr. and
Mrs Harold M. Herr, Gettysburg,
RD 5, whose son, Richard, is
State secretary; Mr. and Mrs.
Lewis S. Gregg, Grove City, RD
2, parents of Kenneth Gregg,
State treasurer; Mr. and Mrs
Irvin L Hitchcock, Montrose,
RD 4, whose son, Eldred, is State
reporter; Mr- and Mrs. Clair B
Burkey, Williamsburg, RD 2,
whose sop, Donald, is State sen
tinel; and Mrs Esther M. Hein
baugh, Summia Station, mother
of Kenneth Heinbaugh, State
chaplain
Recognition of the parents’ co
to be absent from home to Ml
operation which enabled the boys
the many engagements which
befall a State officer, first be
came a feature of the FFA con
vention at the 1954 Farm Show.
The State officers’ fathers will
be among 49 farmers, business
men, newspapermen and school
men accorded the title of “Hon
orary Keystone Farmer” at the
FFA meeting. Selected for out
standing assistance to farming
and agricultural education, the
honorary awards were presented
by H. C. Fetterolf, State FFA
adviser and chief of agricultural
education in (the Department of
Public -Instruction.
,jtnca&tcr Farming, January 13, 1956—3
Growers of
Vegetables
Meet Jan. 18
'Problems of the vegetable gro
wer wiH be- discussed in an all
iday meeting Wednesday Jan. 18
at 'the Guernsey (Breeders Sales
Pavilion on Lincoln Highway
(Route 30) five miles east of Lan
caster at the Strasburg Pike
crossroad.
Amos H- Funk. Rl, Millersville,
(Will preside at this parley of the
Lancaster County Vegetable Gro
wers, and Rev. Joseph Ball, R 2
Litxtz, will 'give -the invocation.
Sessions open at 9:30 am.
“Farm Safety” Film
“Farm 'Safety,” a sound and
color motion picture, will show
precautions to use in handling
equipment around the home and
on the farm. At 10 am., Dr. Kirby,
extension plant disease specialist
from the Pennsylvania State
University will discuss. “Increa'-
Birag net profits fiy controlling
vegetable diseases as anthracnose
on tomatoes and beans, grey leaf
Spot, early and late blight on
tomatoes, root rot and raosiac on
peas and beans, downy mildew
on beans and pumpkins and
leaf spots on carrots
Group singing will be led at
10 30 by Willis Noll of the Farm
Bureau.
Discussion on Insects
At 10’40, the theme will shift
(from plant diseases to insects,
with J. O. Pepper, extension
entomtolgist from Pennsylvania
State^University talking on plug
ging the holes hv killing the
bugs—wiretwormte, on most vege
tables. flea beetles, sour fly,
squash borer, apbids on peas,
tomatoes, beans, pumpkins, mites
on beans and tomatoes, leaf hop
pers on carrots, string and lima
beans.
Other features of the morning
program include soil testing and
farm labor James Baking, ex
tension agronomist, will tell of
soil testing, soil structure, soil
management for profitable crop
production, and Henry A. Gruber,
manager of a farm labor oamro,
will apeak on “Farm Labor—
-Supply. Use. Housing”
Rev- Joseph Ball, R 2 Lititz,
-will .give the noon Prayer of
Thanks, followed bv a oafeteria-
Istyle baked* ham dinner. Pnce- of
the noon meal is $l5O per plate,
24-Hour Service
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for my subscription to Lancaster
Farming- We like it so much,
especially the good recipes which
you have in your paper David
Ehrille
'and will give an excellent oppor
tunity for discussion of mutual
problems between growers.
Vegetable Culture
Mr. Nolt will open the after
noon session at 1:15 with group
sipging. J. O. Dutt, vegetable
specialist from Pennsylvania
State; University, will discuss
vegetable culture' practices, fer
tilization, planting, cultivation,
harvesting, handling, use of
folier sprays, side dressing with
anhydrous ammonia or other
forms of nitrogen and chemical
weed control.
At 2:00 p- m- a solo will be
given by Mr- Nolt, then the Rev-
W. E. Trexler, pastor of the
First Reformed Church, Lan
caster, will speak on “Looking
Ahead.”
There will be a question box
at the door for those who enter
the hall if questions were not
included on the return card, and
at 2.50 answers will be given.
Reservations must be in today
—Friday— to processors.
Parts and Service
Headquarters for
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Farm Equipment
GflfC Trucks
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Spring Planting
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