'>i Once in 14 Million Births
It has been said that quadruplets among beef cattle oc-
cur once in every 14 million calvings, but these four little
r , Ataerdeen-Angue aristocrats are only interested in a square
meal at the moment. Born March 10 at Scenic View Ranch,
owned by 0. H. Delchamps near Point Clear, Alabama,
they, have plenty of blue blood. They are daughters of the
1954 Alabama State Fair Angus champion, Ankonian
3298th, and granddaughters of 1949 International Grand
Champion Angus bull, Eileenmere 1032nd Their dam,
Blackbird SF Bth is 5 1-2 years old and has previously
given birth to three single, normal'calves. The little heif
ers will receive the registered names of Blackbird 625th,
626th, 627th, and 628th. They were one week old when
this picture was taken.
Chicago Yards Seeking Oldest
Shipper; Many Records Destroyed
CHICAGO The Chicago
Stock Yards as delving into an
cient, dusty records and asking
for help from anyone whose
memory goes back more than
half a century in an effort to
find the names of individuals to
be honored at an Awards Ban
quet on June 14 next as a fea
ture of its 90th Anniversary
celebration.
The task might not he so com
plicated were it not for the fact
that many records were destroy
ed m the stock yards fire of
1934. For that reason, the
Awards Eligibility Committee
which will determine the win
ners, seeks the aid of individuals
having first-hand knowledge of
livestock farmers who have ship
ped animals each year to the
Chicago market for 50 years or
more.
Plaque or Cup Awarded
Top guest of honor at the
ceremonies to be held in the
Grand Ballroom of the Stock
Yard Inn will be the oddest ac
tive shipper to be selected from
among the half-century group
of award winners Each will re
ceive an appropriate plaque or
cup in recognition of his contri
bution to the long and meritori
ous record of the Chicago live
stock market
The records being studied en
compass shipments of more than
a billion head of livestock.
Nominations of livestock farm
ers for the honor must be made
either in person or by mail to
the Anniversary Awards Com
mittee, Room -116, Exchange
Building, Chicago Stock Yards,
not later than Tuesday, May 15.
Others to be honored include
the oldest active livestock sales
man. livestock buyer, individual
trucker and railroad man, op
erating at the market.
Cross-Sectio.n of Market
-All interests at the Chicago
market are participating in the
big celebration. The Awards
Banquet is being sponsored by
the Stock Yards Club of Chica
go which represents a complete
cross-section of the market
cemmlssion forms, livestock buy
ers, banks, packers and the Chi
cago Union Stock Yards.
The Chicago Stock Yards
reached its 90th anniversary on
last Christmas Day. President,
William Wood Prince announced
the Awards Banquet as the first
of two or three appropriate
events to be held this year to
properly commemorate the ac-
complishments of the oldest and
greatest livestock market in the
nation..
since the opening day, Dec
25, 1865, more than 1 billion
i 0 million head of livestock have
arrived at the market When
the billionth animal arrived on
Sept- 7, 1954, the entire livestock
industry joined in a fitting cele
bration ceremony under the arch
of the famous Old Stone G.jte
Entrance. President Prince, pre
sented a check of $l,lBO 'to the
livestock farmers who shipped
the animal to market, represent
ing a dollar a pound for the
Hereford steer whicn was give,
the appropriate nickname, “Billy
the Billionth ” Bert Fevold t
Sons of Humboldt, lowa, were
the shippers.
40 Times Around World
At that time, the statisticians
figured that if a billion animals
were placed in a single line
head to tail, the line would
stretch around the world at the
equator nearly 40 times. They
figured, too, that it would take
an automobile one year traveling
at a speed of 103 miles an hour
to reach the end of the line of
the bullion animals. And should
the animals pass by in a parade,
one every three seconds, it
would take nearly a centurf' to
pass a given point.
The billion animals represent
a value of $3l billion which, in
statistical fancy, would create
a pile of silver coins that might
go sky high if we let the boys
with the slide rule continue
But by anyone’s standards it’s
a staggering volume of business,
and the pace goes on as the
market,, operators look ahead.
TIMBER FIRE STOPPED
■Bainbmdge Fire Co. men Mon
day night extinguished a woods
fire on the farm of Jonas For
rey at' Stackstown. No damage
was reported. Refuse being
burned got out of control and
caused the fire, it was said.
EDINGER RETIRES
Paul E.. Edinger, assistant di
rector of agricultural and home
economics extension at the
Pennsylvania State University,
will retire July 1, ending 4l
years of educational service. He
was county agricultural agent
in Cumberland county from 1917
to 1929.
The World’s merchant fleet
has tripled since 1900.
Newsprint output and use set
new records in March.
State Farmer
Title Won by
Erie Countian
Robert C Boyd, 34, R 1 North
East m Erie County, Pennsyl
vania’s “Outstanding Young
Farmer” and three lunners-up
were honored Saturday night in
a banquet at the Palmyia Ameri
can Legion Home with the Penn
sylvania Junior Chamber of
Commerce as hosts
Also honored were Ralph M.
Horst, 32, R 3 Lebanon, and Don
old E Lanius 29, R 3 York, sec
ond and third place winners re
spectively
Cited for setting the example
ol progressive farming, the
thiee were the state’s top men
in the national search which
reached its conclusion in Pitts
burg Wednesday and Thursday
Mr Boyd, married and the
lather of two children, is part
owner and manager of a 204-
acre Erie county farm, speciahz
'ng in dairying and orcharding.
Mr Horst, is married and has
three children, a veteran of
Woild War 11, holding a Bache
’or of Science degree from the
Pennsylvania State University.
Operating 190 acres, he specia
lizes in orcharding and is a
member of the Lebanon Jaycees.
The third place winner, Mr
Lanius, operates a 325-acre
farm in partnership with his
father In 1953 and 1954 he won
the Pennsylvania State Univer
sity five-acre corn contest, and
through contour farming has in
creased his corn yield from 90
bushels to 159 busnels on the
average.
PARADISE TOASTMASTER
Robert D Esbenshade has
been nominated by President
Eisenhower as Paradise post
master He has been acting post
master since April last year
when he succeeded Samuel T
Hershey, retired His name now
goes to the Senate lor confirma
tion.
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Weather Wet,
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writes that again that section
may have to “dust in” its 1956
corn crop “The wind sure can
blow and March is going out
like a lion We have part of the
oats sowed and not a bit of ram.
Oh, the faith a farmer has to
have to go ahead and put the
ciop in ”
Florida Suffers Drought
Colonel John A McComsey,
USA (Ret), from San Antonio.
Texas, told Lancaster Farming
this week that his section has
known nothing more than an oc
casional ram measuring 02 of an
inch at any time in the past
four yeais
Spring dust storms and torna
does lashed the southwest dust
bowl again, with dust reported
worst m Texas, eastern New
Mexico, east and southeast Colo
rado, southern and southwest
Oklahoma and the panhandles of
Texas and Oklahoma
Florida has experienced an un
usual drought and last weekend
an 18-hour fire scorched and
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INDUSTRIAL NEED
GUERNSEY COWS
MAKE AR RECORDS
J W McCoy, West Chcstoi,
Pa, has two registered Guern
seys that recently completed of
ficial pioduction iccords m the
Advanced Regisliy division oi
the Ameucan Guernsey Cattle
Club
Osboi le Hill Pat Teresa, a
lunioi thiee year-old, pioduced
13.029 lbs of milk and 676 lbs
of fat in 365 days She was milk
ed two times daily This pioduc
tion represents appioximately
6250 quarts of high-quality milk
She met calving lequncments
Osborne Hill Baron’s Deloies,
a five year-old, pioduced 12,346
lbs of milk and 570 lbs of fat in
305 days She was milked two
times daily This pioduction
represents approximately 500
quarts of high-quality milk She
met calving requirements
burned 5,000 acres of timber -
lands in the northeastein sec
tion of the Sunshine State,
lakes were drying up, crop and
citrus trees were being killed
in the worst dry spell in 65
years Some relief came at Mid
week in showers that gave
Florida a “ten-Million dollar
boost,” in t ehwords of one state
agricultural specialist
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