I No. 42.
Kunty Crop
Sudook Good;
■obacco Heavy
County crops con
growing under quite fa-
conditions and with the
f|gßfcent warm weather, further
;I||Korable growth is to be ex-
Igßited, County Agent Max M.
S®* lth advises today Tobacco is
rapidly but unevenly,
■liß l “by weight, we’ll have one
heaviest crops yet,” Mr.
JHnuth added
diß Corn is doing fine, but root
are not too deep, due
■aSp continued wet weather.
could cause damage if
BSiey strike. Tomatoes look
Jjßbod, hay and pasture condi-
are the best in recent
Sears.
l&VSome seeding of—alfalfa is un-
and August seedmgs
m s t be made by the 20th for
jßest results, Mr. Smith warns.
|[nray for the fourth cutting, he
IHBvises, a week or ten days la
i|Br when growth is three to six
inches Use three pints of me-
MKoxaclor in 25 per cent liquid
Bftution per acre
are making winter rye
now for cover crops or
Some tobacco is being
IBrvested, although the Landis
gfille Experiment Station doesn’t
Bppect to begin cutting until the
igßiddle _of next week
■ On Aug. 5 and 6, the last
rain was received here,
SHin inch and a third. One-one-
fell on Aug. 13, a
Bsprinkle Tuesday. Tempera
jjures are near normal or
IjKslightlv above. Ninety de
fflferees was recorded Aug. 9,
|Saiul temperatures have ranged
|Kn the middle or upper 80s
|K (Continued on Page Five)
Baturday 100th
ahnniversary of
Warmers’ Club
|K Sessions will get underway at
iBo Saturday morning as the
SBktoraro Farmers Club begins its
BRentenmal Celebration at Middle
Presbyterian Church.
Si Founded March 18, 1856, the
jwClub 18,006 of the oldest in the
■nation President is Ammon G.
■Huber, recording secretary, Elma
■Waule, an d registration will be in
Htharge of Almus Shoemaker
■ A Farmers Club quartet will
■furnish music, and visiting Farm-
M£ rs Clubs former members and
■Knends will be recognized Dur
■J n 7 the noon recsss, members
M Wlt ! Partake of a basket lunch,
■and interesting exhibits will be
■in charge of Sara Holmes
Bn * Solanco Instrumental
■quartet, a b storical review by
■Howard K Walton, and Jerome
■rl Pasto - associate professor of
■i™ “anagment at the depart
■JT:, °r. agricultural economics
Kama r s J OCI °J? gv at Penn «yl-
Bmcit * State , University, will
ma u e U P the afternoon
BQuartet\ ,T h °, Farmer s Club
R> nor tr, aISO furnish music
*°r to adjournment
The welcome mat’s out for the An
nual Reunion of the Rough & Tumble En
gineers Historic Association, Incorpo
rated, now underway at the Arthur S.
County Guernsey
Breeders Field
Day August 21
Lancaster County Guernsey
Breeders’ will hold their annual
county association field day
Aug. 21 at the farm of Mr. and
Mrs Frank Hershey, K 5 Lancas
ter, two miles northwest of Wit
mer
Three classes of cattle will be
judged, starting at 10 a.m., with
AI McKay, American Guernsey
Cattle Club fieldman as official
judge. In the afternoon a busi
ness meeting will be held, fol
lowed by entertainment features
and a talk by _AI Stag, feed nu
tritionist from Westminister,
Md.
The Farm Women of Witmer
will serve lunch at $l.OO per per
son, -half price for children.
On the field day committee
are Melvin R. Stoltzfus, Ellis R
Denlmger, and Frank L. Her
shey.
Featured at the Hershey farm
are pen stabling, a milking par
'or with pipe line milker and
bulb tank, an ungation system
usincf a special nozzle which
covers one acre, a mow finish
er and a trench silo
HOG HOGS ROAD
Needham, Mass. It was a
four-looted hog that hogged the
highway, causing an hour-long
traffic snarl recently. A 250-
pound pig escaped from a truck
oh Route 128 and its erratic am
bhngs-along the highway slowed
traffic to a snail’s pace until a
crane-equipped truck arrived to
ho’st the porker back into cap
tivity.
Quarryville (Lancaster County) Pa., Friday, Aug. 17, 1956
Steamer Signpost
Lancaster Livestock Cattle Prices
At Highest Level Since April 1955
Wednesday to Wednesday
REVIEW
By DAVID S. LORENSON
USDA Market News Service
" Lancaster, Aug 15- (Wednes
day to Wednesday Review)
(USDA)—CATTLE Supplies of
slaughter cattle on sale at the
Lancaster market this week wera
the smallest of the current sea
son and top prices pushed to the
h’Phest level since April 1955
Fed steers by Wednesday were
$lOO to $1.50 higher than a week
ago. With Wednesday’s supplies
very small the full advance in
prices registered at midwest
markets was untested locally for
tha lack of stictly choice ani
prime offerings. Stockers and
feeders this week were strong to
$lOO, cows around 25c higher
Bulls held barely steady. In
Monday’s trade bulk of the
choice and prime fed steers
1000-1300 lbs sold or $25 50-27 50;
.while individual leads of prime
fed steers brouaht $2B 00-29.00
averaging 1350 lbs. and und°r
Good and low choice steers
brought $22 50-25.00 with stand
ard grades from $l9 00-22.00. A
few good and choice heifers $20.-
00-23 00 with •> few choice and
prime 789-1095 lb heifers $24 00-
25.00 Utility and commercial
cows mostly $ll5O-13 50 canners
and cutters largely $8 50-12.00,
thin canners down to $7 50
Utility and commercial bolls $14.-
50-17 50, good fed bulls 800-1050
lbs $lB 00-20 50, cutter grades
$l3 00-14 50 Bulk medium and
good 425-750 lb stock steer
calves and yearlings $17.50-20.50
a few good and choice stock cal
ves $2O 00-21 50„ common Stock
ers $13.50-16 50. Fleashy 800-
1000 lb feeder steers mostly
good $19.00-22 00; load partly
fattened 1075 lb feeders $23.00
and one load 930 lbs. $23.25.
Young Implements Co. in Kinzers. Here
is the steamer along Highway 30 that ad
vises passershy of what’s to come.
(Lancaster Farming Staff Photo). "
CALVES Veal calves mostly
steady this week with bulk good
and choice $20.00-23 50, high
choice and prime $24.00-28.00;
utility and commercial $l5 00-
19.00, culls down to $12.00 or be
low.
HOGS- Barrows and gilts about
steady with a week ago, sows
fully steady Bulk barrows and
gilts Wednesday, U S. mixed 1-3,
200-240 lbs. $lB 25-18 50 a few
lots mostly No 1 and 2, at $lB.-
75; 240-270 lbs. ,$17.50-18 25;
160-180 lbs $16.50-18.25 Sows Til
weights $12.00-1400
Two southern Lancaster County brothers, John Frey, 8,
(left) and Ernest Frey, 17, (right) Wednesday walked off
with championship and reserve championship honors at
the Garden Spot Baby Beef Show in Lancaster. (Lancaster
Farming Staff Photo).
Frey Brothers
Sweep Garden
Spot Awards
By ERNEST J. NEILL
Taking homo a check for $737-
plus, John Frey, 8, Wednesday
stepped into the grand champion
ship ranks by topping the Garden
Spot Baby Beef Club Show in his
first experience on the tanbark.
John was one of four Freys in
the ring, sons and daughters of
Mrs Fred Frey, Twin Oaks Farm
down in the region below Quar
ryville Matter of fact, there were
five, for Fred, Jr., who now man
ages the Angus farm, was there
to pass on pointers to his bro
thers, John and Ernest to his
sisters Mane and Magdalina.
John’s accomplishment Wed
nesday was a repeat of his old
er brother’s performance back
in 1939, when it was Fred that
took home the coveted purple
ribbon.
There was much debate in the
final moments of judging, as the
judges juggled the tops, pitting
brother against brother But the
smaller one won out, and Ernest,
17, placed reserve
With a pedigree dating back to
International grand champion
Eileenmeres, John’s steer came
to Lancaster County through the
feeder calf sale last fall from
Downsbragh Farms ut Far Hills,
N J Included in his ration were
70 lbs of corn, 10 of oats, 10 cook
ed barley and 10 protein supple
ment.
Ernest’s steer came from New
Jersey too, purchased at the
same Lancaster sale from a Rut
gers University consignment,.
New Brunswick, N J.
John’s 945-lb champion sold
at 78 cents a pound, grossing
$737.10, going to E. H. Diem Sc
Son, Lititz, through Armour Sc
Co., while Ernest’s 1,080-lb
Angus reserve champion sold
at 50 cent a pound to H. F.
Hildebrand, Strasburg, gross
ing about $540.
Although entries—totaling 62
were considerably below last
year’s 98, prices ransed from $2B
cwt to ten highs of 50 cents and
(Continued on Page Three)
Brothers Win
$2 Per Year