Taking the purples in Jerseys at the re
cent Fifth Annual SPABC Cattle Show in
Lancaster was King Lawn Maple Dafty,
a Sept. 28, 1950 daughter of DJ7 Dairy-
Penn Manor Farm, R 3 Newark, Del,
topped the Guernsey division of the recent
SPABC Cattle Show in Lancaster with J
—, Turkey Tests
MA9-GRO Vit-min Supple- 1
ment Your cattle and hogsneed j UIICICrWcIV £IS
DUI CH REU for Oairy "
BETTER BEEF for ateer. and Proving GrOUlld
IRI LE RICH for Hots i
We alao have the famous DAN | The SeCOnd annual teSt deSl S n ’
PATCH HORSE POWDER ed t 0 advance Pennsylvania’s
Manufactured lay M*r-Gro JV>fg, Co., ending BS a high quality tUf
h 2 Lancaster key producing state is now und-
AARON S. ' erway ‘ Turkey e SS s totaling
ni!rci..,T«o 2,800 selected at random from
DISTRIBUTOR ~ , , ~
hi - EAi>l EA RL the farms of 11 groweis were
hatched May 15 at the Pennsyl
vania State University The
_ poults are being raised under
uniform growing and feeding
conditions, measured and weigh
■■EIIIIIBBBIIIIB ed at 'regular intervals.
jjg The project is regarded as a
P-1 a ■ proving ground for the breeding
OCimOlll ■ ability of various turkey strains
* produced by the growers
97 Per Cent Pure || I Each of the ll growers pro-
Agricultural Limestone ■ vided 200 turkey eggs as an en
_ ■ try, three breeders making two
Calcium Oxide .... 30% 5 entries each. Fifty male and 50
Magnesium Oxide 20% ■ female P° ults from each entr y
_ ' ' ■ will be raised on the turkey
Calcium Equivalent 57% farm of Donald McAlva ne,
* Whitford, Chester County Repre-
Wen?er & ■ sentatives of the Bureau of
■ Markets will make weight and
Spncmiin l ■ body measurements at intervals
‘JtlloClllJ' ViO* Jupto 28 weeks The birds then
G B will he killed, dressed, weighed,
Phone Gap HI 2-4500 measured and sold
■ KD 1, Paradise, Pa. ■
Grand Champion Jersey
Grand Champion Guernsey
The special test is conducted
by the Department with the co
operation of the State Poultry
like Sybil King, and out of the dam, King
Manle Lawn Dewdrop. Her owner Is
Charles T. Wollaston, Toughkenamon, Pa.
their Sept. 25, 1949 Berkley Lady Gloria,
sired by DG29 Coldspring’s Noble’s Fash
ion. Her dam was Berkley Lady Gloria.
Federation and the poultry de
partment at Pe_nn State Univer
sity Entry fees by growers cov
er all expenses.
Success of the 1955 test was
such that nine out-of-state breed
ers sought entry to .the new
test Due to limitations,. six of
these had to be refused
APPLICATION blank
A merican Mechanics Building and Loan Association
“Lancaster’s Oldest” _ Organized 1868
Meets Fourth Monday of Each Month
58 N. Duke St., Lancaster Pa.
New Series Opens Monday, July 23, 1956. Shares SI.CO per month.
/\ O/ currently paid on
1 hereby subscribe for shares. installment shares
GIVE FULL NAIHF INDICATE MISS OR MRS
ADDRESS
MAII OR PRESENT APPLICATION TO OFFICE, OR CONTACT ANY ONE OF
THE FOLLOWING DIRECTORS.
' Bruce A Roots S. Richard Harr, Esq. O- J Sm'th-Jr
, n d b T «tw H Herr Robert A. Smith
John D Brenner Lester n. rierr
H Stanley Earner Harold E. Smith
Arthur W. Siegler. Treas. Joseph R. Byars, Solicitor
Dairy Farms in
State Decline;
Milk Yield Up
HARRISBURG A decline
of 5,500 or 12 5 per cent in the
number of dairy farms in Penn
sylvania doling the 'past five
years has been offset laigely by
an increase of 39,000 or 5 5 par
cent in the numbei of milk
cows, enabling dairy famiers of
the Commonwealth to maintain
milk production at record levels
Dr William L Henning, State
'Secretary of Agriculture, discus
sing the coming obsei vance of
June as Dairy Month, today said
the cost-price squeeze in milk
production has forced many
small milk pioducers to give up
their herds The better produc
ing cows have been absorbed by
the larger dairy faims, he ex
plained
The 1950 census reported
43,800 dairy farm in Pennsyl
vania. The 1955 tally totaled
38,300 farms where the ma
jor source of income is from
milk.
Improved breeding for higher
producing cows, better feeding
and disposal of low-producing
animals have been unportant
factors in keeping milk output
at high levels, he said Also,
average annual production of
milk per cow has been increased
7 per cent in the 5-year period
and last year stood at a record
6,770 pounds per milk cow The
average number of cows in milk
ing herds now totals 940,000 or
39,000 more than in the spring
of 1950 when 891,000 head was
lecord high to that time.
Volume of milk pioduction
last year leached a record 6,-
364,000 pounds with a farm
value of $289,562,000, Depart
ment records show The average
price received by producers in
1955 was $4 51 per hundred lbs
at wholesale compared with
$4 45 in 1950 when the totat
value of milk produced wa
5250,580,000
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211 N. Ann St. Lancaster, Pa. Ph. 3-3694 |
Lancaster Farming—ll
Friday, Aug. 17, 1956
Farm Calendar
Oct 2 Fountain display,
chimes, Longwood Gaidens, Ke'n
net Square, 8 pm.
Oct 2-s—South Lebanon Com
munity Fair, lona
Oct 3-6—New Holland Farm
ers Fair.
Oct 4 6—Manheim Community
Fair.
Oct. 4-6—Unionvillle Com
munity Fair.
Oct. 6-13 Fouith Interna
tional Dairy Show and World
Championship Rodeo, Chicago.
Oct 8 Intel national Junior
Dairy Show, Chicago
Oct 9-10 Jersey, Guernsey,
Brown Swiss judging, 4th In
ternational Daily Show, Chica
go.
Oct 10-13—Mt. Joy Community
Exhibit.
Oct. 11-12 Holstein, Ayr
shire, Milking Shorthorn judg
ing, 4th International Daily
Show, Chicago.
Oct. 18-20
munity Fair.
Oct. 20-27 American Royal,
Kansas City, Mo, national Fu
ture Farmers of America con
vention.
Oct 20—Methodist Men, An
nual chicken barbecue, Quarry
ville Memorial Methodist Church,
5 Bpm
Oct 22 Fountain display,
chimes, Longwood Gardens, Ken
net 'Square, 8 p.m.
Nov. 3—County Com ontion,
Lancaster County Farm Women’s
Societies.
Nov 3 Feeder Calf Sale,
Union Stock Yaids, Lancaster.
Nov 10-16—Eastern National
Livestock Show, Timomum, Md.
Nov 23-Dec 1 International
Livestock Exposition. Chicago. “*
Jan. 14-18—Pennsylvania Farm
Show, Harrisburg.
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JANUARY, 1957