Vol. 1, No. 29
Crop Picture in
County Generally
Good at Present
Throughout Lancaster County,
the general crop picture is good,
County Agent Max M Smith re
potted today, adding that a good
soaking rain is needed in south-'
ern Lancaster County, the sole
area that needs moisture on a
more immediate basis
'Corn planting is just starting,
and already perhaps 10 to 20
per cent of the total acreage has
been planted. Mr. Smith reiterat
ed his note of caution .issued
last week that there is a threat
of weed problems in corn, and
use of pre-emergence sprays at
the spike stage is highly recom
mended.
Rye Going Into Silage
Some rye will be going into
grass silage shortly, he told.
Rye should be cut while in the
blossom stage that is the ideal
time before any kernel has
developed. Do not permit rye
to wilt, he advises Use of'pre
servatives is highly recommend
ed, such as sodium bisulphite
powder at the rate of eight
pounds per ton of forage.
However, he added, to offset
the low palatability of rye silage
somewhat, use of a molasses
mixture, 100 to 150 pounds per
ton, is recommended.
Alfalfa Weevil Hits
There is a current threat of
alfalfa weevil at -this time, and
spraying is .recommended this
week or next, using one and one
half pint of 'No. 2 emulsion
heptachlor.
Tobacco plants are behind
schedule, a week or two late,
and tomatoes started very slow
due to frost and the continued
cold weather. Hot temperatures
over the weekend, that soared
up into the 90s, moderated into
chilly nights by midweek, with
scattered reports of light ram
Chicks of Tomorrow
Fly to State Meet
Chickens of Tomorrow en
tered in the Pennsylvania-
State Contest by James Clan
ton, R 2 Kennett Square, were
flown to Holhdaysburg Tues
day by L L. Logan, vice pres
ident of the Pennsylvania
Flying Farmers.
Accompanying Mr. Logan
and Mr. Clanton .was Clyde
Jackson, supervisor of voca
tional agriculture in Chester
and Delaware Counties. Mr.
Clanton sold his entries at
CochranvilLe for $4 per
pound.
HOUSE SELLS AT $6lOO
Jnnie IStaub, Mountville, pur
chasedthe 2 % story-frame house
in Mountville offered by Aman
da S Hendricks for $6lOO in
public sale Tuesday Auctioneer
was Edar F- Funk.
Every seat was filled when bidding be
gan on the 30 lots offered in the “Meeting
of the Stars” Guernsey Convention sale at
the Guernsey Sales Pavilion, Lancaster,
Top Four-H
Youths This
Year Named
By LF Staff Reporter
Miss Jeanette Breneman, R 2
Mount Joy, and Walter Augs
burger, Rl Reinholds, Saturday
night were named outstanding
farm youths of Lancaster Coun
ty for 1956 at the spring party
of the Lancaster County 4-H
Club in the Guernsey Sales Pa
vilion, Lancaster.
Miss Breneman, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. J Roy Breneman,
was cited for her work as pres
ident of the County 4-H Home
Economics Council, and Mr.
Augsburger received his award
for work as president of the Lan
caster County 4-H agricultural
Council. v
Other receiving citations were
Miriam Roland, R 2 Mount Joy,
recreation and rural arts; Phyllis
Rutt, Rl Stevens, clothing; Jos
ephine Lausch, Rl Denver, lead
ership; Gladys Sangrey, R 2 Lit
itz, achievement, and Nancy
Newcomer, R 2 Lititz, records
maintenance. Each received a
pm.
Checks of $25 each were given
Miss Breneman and Mr. Augs
burger on behalf of the Lancas
ter County Farm Bureau’s Rural
Youth Award Fund. -
Cited as outstanding in boys
work were Eugene Groff, R 1
Stevens, dairy, Glenn Shirk, R 2
Quarryville, electric program,
and Bruce Boyd, R 1 Ephrata,
field corps. Awards were given
girls by Miss Ruth Kimble, ex
tension home economist for Lan
caster County, and Victor Plas
tow, assistant Lancaster County
agent.
Quarryville, Pa., Friday, May 18, 1956
Crowd al Guernsey Auction
Chicago Hogs at 10
Month Top of $17.75
Hogs m Chicago Wednesday
scored an extreme of $l7 75,
highest since July 26, 1955.
The maiket there that day
was 25 to 50 cents higher
Scoring $17.75 were 30 head
of No. Is. averaging 215
pounds The bulk of Wednes
day’s offerings sold from
$17.25 to $l7 50.
Chicago’s action was not
reflected elsewhere in the
major hog markets. The trend
at Indianapolis and St Louis
National Stock Yards was
substantially lower, at Na
tional Stock Yards 25 to 40
off, with a high of $l6 85,
Inilk' $l6 25 to $16'.50 and mod
erate nulnbers $l6 60 to
$-16.75.
Indianapolis' hogs were ful
ly-a quarter off, with the bulk
$l6 25 to $16.50, and several
hundred head scoring $l6 65
to $l6 75.
House Approves
|1.9 Billion for
Farm Programs
Tha House of Representatives
this week passed a bill that will
appropriate $1,983,512,568 for
the United States Department
of Agriculture for the fiscal
year beginning July 1
The measure, passed by voice
vote, has gone to tha senate.
There is no connection be
tween this measure and the one
providing for a Soil Bank pro
gram.
REP. WOOD RECOVERS
Rep. Norman Wood, Peach
Bottom, who Was been a surgical
patient at Temple University
Hospital, Philadelphia, has re
turned to his home and is re
suming atendance at sessions
of the General Assembly in
Harrisburg.
last week.-This picture was taken just aft
er the first lot was sold for the highest
price of the sale, $2550, Bayville Maxprint
Bubblemist.
Four-H Heifer
Outstanding in
Auction Here
Moving from the minor
leagues to the majors is the goal
of many a baseball hopeful, but
in a short time IH Fred Downey
of Williamsport, Md., has done
something similar.
At the recent Meeting of of
the Stars Guernsey Convention
Sale in Lancaster, Fred. 16, join-
ed the upper brackets, making !
another step ahead over the i
bridge between Four-H and pro-]'
fessional dairying.
In that sale, which averaged
$778, Fred was one of the top
fiv-e price-wise in the 30 lots
offered. His four-year-old cow,
Curies Robin’s Bonnie, selling
as lot 20, scored $1,050, selling
to William Y. Lee of Rocky Hill
Farm, Doylestown, Pa-
This was the first sale the
young assistant at his father’s
Woodside Hall Farm had enter
ed. But it was a case of a Four-H
Club heifer that moved up
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By ERNEST J. NEILL/
H. FRED DOWNEY
Top Chicken of
Tomorrow Sells
At |6 Per Pound
By ERNEST J. NEILL
Paying $6 per pound, the Bea
con Milling Co., Inc , of Cayuga,
N. Y established the top of the
Pennsylvania regional Chicken
of Tomorrow Contest Auction at
Coatesviile Wednesday
Receiving a total of $26175
for his six dressed birds was
Ronald Shaffer of R 1 Dover, at
the Producers Cooperative Ex
change in Coatesviile From
York County, Ronald’s entries
came from Martin’s Hatchery,
Lancaster, where White Van
tress Cross fed on Wineka.
Feeds
In second place, scoring
$5 a pound, or a total of
$165, was Miss Shirley Ann
Ream of R 2 Lebanon, whose
White Vantress Arbor Acres
from Moore Farms were fed
on Miller & Bushong Pro
ducts. Miller & Bushong
paid the $5 figure for her
entries.
Purchasing the third-place lot
was L. L. Logan Hatcheries of
Kennett Square, at $4 a pound,
or a gross of $132 for James
Clanton of R 2 Kennett Square.
James entered pure white Cor
nish produced at the Logan
Hatchery and fed on Caleb P-
Fulton, Est. feeds. James and
his brother have placed among
the first ten in regional chic
ken-of-tomorrow contests the
past three years in a row.
Haymond Winters Wins
A Lancaster County entry
moved into fourth position, also
scoring $4 a pound for White
Vantress x Arbor Acres. from
Longenecker’s Hatchery raised
by Raymond Winter, R 2 Cone
stoga. Miller & Bushong, who
produced feeds used by Ray
mond, purchased the exhibit.
Another Lancaster County en
try, that of Sara Ann Herr,
Rdhrerstown, was next in fifth
place, selling at $3 per pound
to American Stores one of the
more extensive buyers of the
'day White Vantress x White
Rock produced at Moore Farms
Hatcheries were on Miller &
Bushong feeds. Gioss figure,
$lO5
Sixth place winners, entered
by Donald L Geisey, R 2 Dills
burg, sold at $2 50 to D. E.
Horn, grossing $BO, on Moun
tain View Red Vantress chicks,
using D. E. Horn feeds- In
seventh place, grossing $131.25,
was James Light of R 3 Lebanon,
whose Hubbard Farms White
Mountains were fed on E. H.
Gerhart Co. feeds. John Kissing
jer was buyer.
j Ruth Longenecker, R 3 York,
scored eighth on White Vantress
x White Rocks produced by
Longenecker Hatcheries. Fed on
Miller & Bushong rations, they
sold to Miller & Bushong at $1
per pound, grossing $42- Lan
caster County moved back into
the picture on ninth place when
Louise May Herr, Rohrerstown,
received $1 per pound, $43.39
gross, on Martin’s Hatchery
White Vantress x New Hamp
shire, that sold to Producers Co-
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$2 Per Year