Vol 1, No.' 28
Top of $2550
Scored Here in
Guernsey Sale
By Staff Reporter
Averaging $778, thirty lots m
“Meeting of the Stars,” conven
tion sale of the Pennsylvania
Guernsey Breeders’ association
scored a top of $2550 and a total
of $23,350 here Tuesday after
noon
Stands were packed in the
Guernsey Sales Pavilion east of
Lancaster, and the top was scor
ed by Walter Dupes, auctioneer,
on the first offering, lot 9, the
July 18, 1953 cow, Bayville Max
print Bubblemist, bred and con
signed by Bayville Farms, Inc.,
Norfolk, Va., that sold for $2550
to Samuel Berke’s Deep Lake
Farm at Lakeville, Conn.
First Ten Average $975
The first ten head through
the ring averaged $975 and six
of the 30 lots offered sold at the
$lOOO mark or above The top
cow’s sire was Fairlawn Maxim’s
Imprint, who carries a star-stud
ded record in the showring and
in the salesnng.
Two lots sold at $llOO each,
lot 7, the,. Sept. 11, 1950 cow,
Fer-Manor Marva Lu, that was
consigned by James- Ferguson’s
Fer-Manor Farm. Mt Vernon,
Wash, and sold to James D.
Berry, Titusville, Pa, and the
lot 12 cow, the Jan. 3,1951 Mid
view’s Blaze’s Sally, bred and con
signed by A. Mistr & Sons’ Mid
view Farms at Richmond, Va.,
and selling to Harry G. Haskell,
Jr., Chadd’s Ford, Pa.
William H. Juzi was business
manager, and consignors includ
ed one each from Delaware, In
diana, Massachusetts, three from
Virginia, four each from Mary
land, New Jersey and Washing
ton. Buyers were on hand from
Connecticutt, Delaware, Indiana,
Illinois, Maryland, New Jersey,
Pennsylvania and Virginia-
None of he offering sold di
rectly into Lancaster County,
but Pennsylvania purchases were
numerous.
“Meeting of the Stars”
Convention Sale
The Pennsylvania Guernsey
- Breeders Association
Listed below by lot number,
are consignors, animals name,
date calved:
Lot 1, Wandamere Farm, M.
C Fleming, Troutdale, Ore.,
Mnlhocaway Lovely Judith, Oct.
24, 1950; 2, Mulhocaway Farm,
L B. Wescott, Clinton, N- J.,
Mulhocaway Holly Dale, Sept. 16,
1952; 3, and 4, Western Glow
Farms, Inc., Bow, Wash., West
ern Glow F. Muriel, Oct 2, 1951,
and Western Glow F Marcella,
Feb. 10, 1954; 5, River Road
Farm, James P. Olson, Mt. Vern
on, Wash., River Road Masher’s
Maid, Aug. 20, 1953, 6, -River
view Farms, George Dynes, Mt.
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Blooming’ 'Trees have Jtakin over the
color-spotlight of Lancaster County this
season, and here is a combination hard to
beat . white faced Herefords in the
shade of a blooming fruit tree. Magnolia,
Wind Damage
Heavy Over
Southern End
By LF Staff Reporter
Damage will run into the
thousands and thousands of dol
lars in a windstorm that came
with heavy rams across southern
Lancaster County and southeast
ern Chester County Sunday
night.
Trees were ripped out by the
roots in some places, barns
blasted open by tornadic winds
near 'the Kirkwood-Oxford area.
To add to the weather mixture,
light frost was tossed into the
low places at midweek; hail
shredded some alfalfa and clov
er in the Lititz and, Lincoln areas
Sunday night.
Barn Loss SIO.OOO
At the Arthur Astle farm, R 2
Oxford, just east of Optoraro
Lake on Highway 472, tornadic
winds Sunday ripped through a
large barn causing an estimated
$lO,OOO damage Twelve mem
bers of the Russellville Grange
came in Tuesday morning to
help clean-up. Machinery, buried
under the debris, was removed
by “Grange members.
Hayes A- Hastings, R 1 Kirk-
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Quarryvilie, Pa., Friday, May 11, 1956
Springtime Lancaster Farming
Landis Valley
Land Expansion
The Pennsylvania State Sen
ate has unanimously approved a
proposal offered and passed by
the House to purchase about
three acres more in Manheim
Township for expansion of the
Landis Valley Farm Museum.
Cost of the land, now owned
by Elmer Landis, would be
$B,OOO. This will give the museum
a 300-foot frontage on Route 222,
extending east from the present
property.
Benson Points
To Two Items
Objectionable
WASHINGTON (USDA)
“This bill is much improved
over the bill the President
vetoed,” was Secretary of Agri
culture Ezra Taft Benson’s com
| ment today* on H. R. 10875, the
Soil Bank bill passed by the
House on Thursday last week
“lt will permit us to begin a
soil bank along the lines recom
mended by the President,” said’
the Secretary. “It has removed
some of the most objectionable
features of the vetoed bill. It
will permit our already announc
ed corn program to continue,
that is, price support at $125
for corn in the commercial area
not within acreage allotments.
“But the bill has two fea
tures, one old and one new,
which are objectionable,”
said the Secretary. “The bill
provides ~ mandatory price
supports for feed grain- This
would bring about 100 mil-
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redbud, peach, apple, cherry and all add,
their part of the endless color shades that
mark springtime, blossomtime as an in
tegral part of Lancaster Farming.
Leader Signs
Tax Refund on
Farm Use Gas
Governor George M. Leader
Monday signed into law a mea
sure that permits farmers of
Pennsylvania to apply for full
refund of all States taxes on the
gasoline and other liquid fuels
consumed in the operation of
tractors and machinery used
(ContmUTd on page seven)
Honored at luncheon Monday noon in the Arcadia by the
American Business Club, Lancaster, were these four Lan
caster County 4-H Youth, flanked by their advisors. On the
left is Victor Plastow, assistant county agent in charge of
youth work and on the extreme right, County Agent Max
M. Smith. From left to right they are Bruce Boyd, Abram
Flory, Harry Lee Hoar and Miss Dorothy Stehman. (Lan
caster Farming Staff Photo).
- Farming, Friday, May 11, 1956—3
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'"v that livestock numbers be
’ed, corresponding to
Honored by Lancaster ABC
$2 Per Year
Four-H Winners
Honored by
Lancaster ABC
By ERNEST J- NEILL
Four Lancaster County 4-H
championship winners and their
counsellors explained to some
50 Lancaster businessmen Mon
day the whys and wherefores of
the livestock show business.
Each received a silver 4H
cloverleaf cufflink set, or, m the
ease of one 4H clubgirl honored,
a pair of silver 4H cloverleaf
earrings in the annual day
honoring the 4H winners by the
American Business Club, Lan
caster Chapter.
Around 50 members and
guests, meeting in the Arcadia,
heard each of the four explain
what they had done in various
4H projcts that led to champion
ships at the Pennsylvania State
Farm Show.
1200 Active in County
Max Smith, Lancaster county
agricultural agent, and Victor
Plastow assistant county agent
and 4H club leader in the coun
ty, told that there are almost
1200 active in Lancaster County
4H work, and that there are 20
youth clubs in agriculture, SO
in home economics in the Coun
ty-
Presentation of the gifts was
by Miss Pam Ulrich, Heading,
Miss Pennsylvania of 1956.
Miss Dorothy Stehman, E 3
Lancaster, a 4H member four
years, explained her projects in
lambs, baby beef, chickens, to
bacco, and home economics. She
told of the complex program
that must be followed in a 4H
lamb project, such as the one
that brought her grand cham
pionship in pen of Shropshires at
the 1956 Farm Show.
Feeding, Treating, Conditioning
Feeding, * treating, condition
ing, these and many others must
be followed closely to produce
a champion individual or group.
Showing, starting with the Oc
tober Roundup at the Mount Joy
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