01. 1 No. 43
County’s Crop
Outlook Tops;
Com Excellent-
Prospects that Lancaster Co
untv this year may produce one
of the finest crops in years be
'come more evident day by-day,
[after adequate rams pushed corn
to the point where it may give
: o ne of the best yields in five
■years ' ■ _ ,
: According to Associate County
'Agricultural Ag°nt Harry S.
gloat “the two-inch ram Monday
and Tuesday should insure an
average season, with corn of
j abundance. We look for record
‘yields in our corn demonstration
[plots of 31 hvbnd varieties from
Penn State, Ohio and Connecti-
; cutt where fertility levels are at
the point to produce 150 bushels
[per acre where thure are 14,000
rto 18 000 plants per acre
[ Corn vrow*h is the
' color rich, the plants tallest in
years.
Cooler temperature at mid
'week came as respite to rain
; which fell from Sunday night tc
Monday night tu-irimne 2.25 inch
es, heaviest rain m that number
of hours locally since the Aug
ust 1955 hurricane
the County, reports of two inches
or more were general
Normal rainfall for the entire
month here is 4 3 inches,, jatid
■ already 36 has been ;recprded.
-Friday through Sunday was “quite'
iwarm, the high Saturday 92, the
minimum Saturday night 77. It
turned cool over the State Sun
day night and reached a low of
;54 Wednesday morning, coolest
here since Jur« 20, according' to
Bernard S White of the Lan
caster Weather Bureau office
Through Monday, tempera
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T,
stored outside un
til that stored in shed dries
and shrinks to provide more
room, the scene above is typi
cal of the Garden Spot today.
(Staff Photo).
Average $32.88 in
Garden Spot Beef
Sixty-two suers entered by
young Lancaster County produc
eif’ totaled 59,130 pounds and
sold for a total of -$19,43D.63 in
■ action last week at Lan
caster Union Stock Yards
Average price was $32.88, con
siderably abovj last year’s $27
Chlcago s top that day
os s3o on p nme beeves.
With a background of Pennsylvania
farm planes and helicopters, MrsT Flor
ence -
Qpeen' -of ‘Pennsylvania Flying Farm-'
ers, attended by a court that included sev
eral Lancaster - Farming area residents;
left to—right, Mrs Nedra (Bill) Richev,
Petersburg, Ohio; Mrs. Charlotte Adeline
Rough, Tumble
Museum May Be
Constructed
Prospect that a hall of antiqui
ty to make live again the steam
.hreshers of yesteryear bright
ened at the conclusion of the
'ighth annual reunion of the
Hough and Tumble Engineers’
Association at Kinzers last week
md.
At present, it appears a 12-
icre tract across Highway 30
’rom the present array of old
teamers in the lots of the Ar
hur S. Young Equipment Co.
nay be used for construction of
nuseum sheds to house these
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Ken. Butler Flying
Farmer President
New Orleans, La. (Special
to Lancaster Farming) Ken
Butler, Hutchinson, Minn.,
Wednesday was elected Pres
ident of the National Flying
'Farmers Association in its an
nual convention here. Elected
vice president was Craig Wil
son of Palmdale, Calif. Law
rence Sutter, Wichita, Kan,,
was named secretary, and Ver
non Pond of Scott, Ohio, treas
ure!.
lowa aud Pennsylvania del
egations, at th - ' meeting report
“a nice time.”
Quarryville ‘(Lancaster County) Pa., -Friday Aug. 24, 1956
Flying Farmer Queen Crowned
Mrs. Florence Kimmel re-,
ceives congratulations as Hew
Queen of the Pennsylvania
Fiying Farmers, while the out
going Queen, Mrs. Lois Lo
gan, steps down. (Lancaster
Farming Staff Photo).
Flying Farmers
Crown Queen at
Show in Butler
Bv ERNEST J. NEILL
Butler, Pa. Mrs: Florence
Kimmel, R 1 Enon Valley, Pa.,
will reign during the coming
year as ueen of the Pennsylvania.
Flying Farmers. She was
crowned at ceremonies here Fri
day, attended by a regal court
that included representatives of
both Lancaster and Chester
Counties.
It was Flying Farmer Day
at the Butler Farm Show, sun
ny and hot overhead, ankle
(David) Huber, Peach Bottom; Mrs. Lois
(L. L.) Logan, Kennett Square; Queen Kim
mei;Miss - Joyce - Huber, crowpbearer;
Peach Bottom; Mrs. -Helen (Robert) Jack
son, New Galilee; Miss Janice Kathryn
Kimmei and Miss Judith Ann Pistor.
(Lancaster Farming Staff Photo).
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Garden Spot Is
Most Colorful
In Aerial View
By ERNEST J. NEILL
Proof that Lancaster County
has scored a bullseye on soil
conservation and strip farming
is most conspicuous and colorful
from the an. Without any ad
vance notice, it’s certain an out
sider would recognize the Gai
den Spot with no trouble
Heie are patterns of color, as
though a painter had dipped a
piece of comb m first one shade
of green and then m a shade of
brown Fields appear as colorful
sculptured rugs, with color com
binations no interior decorator
could equal
Enroute to the Butler Farm
• Show with L. L. Logan in his
Cessna 170, with Rolf Egli of
Bern, Switzerland, our course
led from Kennett Square into
Lancaster County at approxi
mately Nine Points. Passing
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4H Pig Club Sale,
Roundup August 29
Entries are being received for
the Lancaster 4-H Club Pig Club
Roundup and Sale at Union
Stock Yards, Lancaster, Wednes
day, Aug 29.
Choice hogs from Lancaster
and Lebanon Counties will com
pete, and the auction, conducted
by the Lancaster Live Stock Ex
change, will start at 2 p. m
“These 4-H Pig Club members
have made everv effort to pro
vide you with hogs of good quali
ty and weight conditions,” the
Exchange advises.
$2 Per Year
Farmers Club
Hears Forecast
Of New Century
By ERNEST J. NEILL
Closing its first century of
activity, and taking a look into
the next century, the Octoraro
Farmers Club celebrated its cen
tennial Saturday the “18th
of the Bth Month, 1956” in
the Chapel of Middle Octoraro
Presbyterian Chuich east of
Quarryville.
Jerome J. Pasto
Offering the glimpse into the
next century was 'Jerome J.
Paste, associate professor of
farm management in the depart
ment of agricultural economics
and rural sociology at the Penn*
sylvania State University
Mr. Pasto’s forecast his pa
per, his talk, following typically
the line the 100-year-old blub
has hewn to throughout its ex
istence offered a few opti
mistic as well as pessimistic
problems that may be forthcom
ing on the push-button farm.
“This is one of the oldest far
mers clubs in the country,”- Mr.
Pasto told Lancaster Fanning*
“and perhaps this the Octo
raro Farmers Club is the
cradle of farmers clubs in Penn
sylvania.
Reviewing the turn from
farming to agriculture, which
came about the time the Lan
caster County club was organ
ized, Mr. Pasto told the 125
or-more guests that “This de-
velopment of agricultural sci
ence in the past 100 years
SPEAKER: Jerome J. Pasto,
who addressed the Centennial
Celebration of Octoraro Farm
ers Club last weekend. (Staff
Photo).
. surpasses all before in re
corded history. Foundations
were made earlier, we admit.
“Here’s some crystal-gazing, a
look ahead automation is
spreading more. We’re provid
ing more controlled, environ
mental climate for our livestock-
We will stop using a variety of
machines for several jobs, in
stead there will be one that may
be adapted to every phase of
farming There will be new
chemical developments to curb
weeds.
“But,” he told, pointing out
that all is not rosy ahead, “this
will demand more skill, more
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