Chambersburg Purchase
Russell L Wilkison, Chambers
burg, Pa, has just purchased the
Guernsey Sire, Highland King
Irving, from J. Thomas Carman,
Glen Rock, Penna, according to
the American Guernsey Cattle
Club. «
This richly bred bull is out of
the well-bred ( cow, Highland
Beauty’s lota, that has a pro
duction record of 11,654 pounds
of milk and 557 pounds of fat,
made on two times daily milking
for 305 days, as a junior three
year- old in the Herd Improve
ment calving requirements He
is sired by Highland Chief’s
King.
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Royal Mausoleum of Baghdad
The Royal Mausoleum holds the remains of King Faisal
I of Iraq, one of the Bible Lands, in the capital city of
Baghdad; King Faisal I is known as the father of modern
Iraq, a statue in his honor dominates one of the principal
squares and several buildings are named after him. Bagh
dad is famous as the city of the Caliph Haroun Al-Rashid
and the thousand and one nights of Scheherazade. It is fil
led with golden-domed Mosques, museums and Mausoleums.
Within driving distance, are the ruins of Ctesiphon, the
world’s longest unreinforced arch, and those of Babylon,
scene of the tower of Babel and the Hanging Gardens.
Babylon was the .place where the prophet Daniel foretold
the downfall of the Emperor Belshazzar (Dan 5:25) in the
fateful words “Mene, Mene, Tekel, Upharsin ”
Guernsey Notes
Carman Sets Record
PETERBOROUGH, N. H
A registered Guernsey cow, High
land Beautvs Della D, owned by
J. Thomas Carman, Glen Rock,
Pa, has completed an official
production record of 11.031 lbs
of milk and 594 lbs of fat, accord
ing to the American Guernsey
Cattle Club
This production, made in the
AGCC’s Herd Improvement Re,-
gistry, is equal to 5300 quarts of
high-quality milk.
“Della D” was a seven year
' old, met calving requirements
arid was milked two times daily
for 305 days while on test.
N. G. Myers & Son
Rheems. Pa.
This official production record
was supervised'by Pennsylvania
State University.
Madeira Cow Scores
Imp Tulipg Petal, registered
Guernsey cow owned by Eugenia
C Madeira, Berwyn, Penna , has
completed an official production
record of 9 920 lbs of milk and
530 lbs of fat.
This production, made in the
AGCC’s Herd Improvement Re
gistry, Is equal to 4690 quarts of
high-quality milk
“Petal” was a senior four year
old, met calving requirements
and was milked, two times daily
for 305 days while on test.
Robertson. PR Set
Brownlie Snow Bird, regis
tered Guernsey owned by James
B. Robertson, Paoli, Pa, has
completed an official production
record of 8,681 lbs of milk and
417 lbs o'f fat, according to the
AGCC
This production, made in the
AGCC’s Herd Improvement Re
gistry, is equal to 4100 quarts of
high-quality milk.
' “Bird” was a junior two year
old, met calving requirements
and was milked two times daily
for 305 days while on test.
West Chester Mark
A registered Guernsey cow,
Herbert’s K Andrea, owned by
Herbert Schiffer, West Chester,
Pa, has completed an official
production record of 9,259 lbs
of milk and 449 lbs of fat, ac
cording to the American Guern
sey Cattle Club
This production, made in the
AGCC’s Herd Improvement Re
gistry, is equal to 4400 quarts of
high-quality milk
“Andrea” was a junior two
year-old, met calving require
ments and was milked two times
daily for 305 days while on test-
Purchases Sire
Dave Amspacher, Stewarts
town, Pa, has purchased the
Guernsey Sire, Highland Leader
Illustrator, from J. Thomas Car
man, Glen Rook, Penna., accord
ing to the American Guernsey
Cattle Club
This richly bull is out of the>
cow, Highland Chief’s Illean,
that has a production record of
7,735 pounds of milk and 401
pounds of fat, made on two
times daily milking for 305 days,
as a junior two-year-old m the
Herd Improvement Register, and
met calving requirements. He is
sired by Highland Beauty Chief
Leader
The administrator of the Fair
Labor Standards Act said that
more than half the businesses
checked last year were violating
it.
Lancaster Farming, Friday, March 16, 1956
AT WILEY STORE PARTY
PRIZE WINNERS LISTED
Two hundred and seventy-five
area people attended the Pan
cake Day open house at the C E
Wiley and Son store in Quarry
ville yesterday. Hotcakes and
coffee were on the menu for the
store party.
Winners of the door prizes
were; Paul Weaver, Quarryville
RD, first prize of a greasegun
and ‘ten cartridges, and David
Halladay, Kirkwood, second prize
of a gallon of washing detergent
for milk cows The prizewinners’
names, were drawn by Paul and
Edward Ammerman, sons of El
wood Ammerman, shop foreman
„A good turnout also was re
ported at the Wakefield store on
Wednesday.
ow.
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Ephrata Mt. Joy
James High.
Gordonville
J. H. Reitz Warren Sickman
Millway
Snader’s Mill
Mt. Airy
John Hess J. Fred Whiteside
Vintage Kirkwood
S. H. Hiestand John Hess II
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Two Farmers Win
Twenty Year Pins
Two southern end farmers,
David Eschbach and Enos B-
Hill, were awarded 20-year pins
at a Fanners Night sponsored
by the Tucquan Lipns Club in
Martic Township Elemental y
School recently
Henry H Hackman, Lititz High
school teacher and soil conserva
tionist, was speaker Ten-year
pins were awarded Leroy Hilton,
Ernest B Schules and Hemy R-
Weiler.
The Senate Aimed Services
Committee has named a “watch
dog” group to determine wheth
er the United States is lagging
behind the Soviet Union in mis
sile development
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