Vol. 1 No. 49
Mount Joy to
Wind Up 1956
Fair Season
Mount Joy’s Community Ex
hibit, running Wednesday
through Saturday of next week,
will wind up the 1956 Lancaster
County community fair season.
This week, fairgoers have their
choice of two, the New Holland
Farmers Fair and the "Manheim
Community Farm Show/ Live
stock judging at both fairs was
scheduled for Thursday.
Twenty-two exhibitors took
part in the New Holland
Baby Beef and Pig Shows,
which was started three
years ago. Kids’ Day is today
at New Holland, and a pet
parade is scheduled for this
evening. The Garden Spot
High School band will pre
sent a concert at 9;30 follow
ing the 7:30 parade.
Saturday will include a baby
parade, and a program by the
Ad ahi Indian Dance Team of Ex
plorer Scout Post 348 at 9 and
10 30 p.m.
Manheim last night
downed Its Farm Show
Queen, andJbaby beef entries
were judged Thursday. A
dairy judging contest opens
this morning’s program at
10, and a tractor driving con
test is slated for 1 p.m. A
puppet show at 6:30, and a
street square dance at 8:30
highlight Friday events.
Miss Judy Manuel, daugh
tei of Mr, and Mrs. Eugene
Manuel, Manheim, was
named queen, elected by
the student body of Man
heim Central High School,
where she is a senior.
Judy was crowned by
Miss Kay Haug, last year’s
queen. (
Saturday at 4 pm Babv
Paiade and Childien’s Games at
exhibit.
f> P m will conclude the Manheim
harden Spot Baby
Beef Show Sale
Flans Developing
Plans for the 1957 Garden
Spot Baby Beef Show and Sale
ue\t August are now being
ioimed, although no actual date
has been -designated Tuesday
ni: 'ht a group of Lancaster Live
Mock Yards interests and farm
’'Oulh leaders met to initiate the
Pi ogram.
Entries are now being ac
cepted among youth six to 18'
'eais of age Baby beeves must
he pm chased at Lancaster Stock
cl| ds to be eligible for show and
sale i
W S. Bixler, Livestock Ex
change Secretary, announced
5 eh 1, 1957 will be the closing
date for entries.
Washington _has reported "that
,ln agreement with India was
“car for s? i e $4OO millions
'oi to of United States agricul
tii al surpluses to that country
Lancaster County walked off with the
lion’s share of awards at the Brandywine
Angus Association Field Day on Fox Hill
Farm near Union'ville. In the foreground
is Darvin Boyd of HI Ephrata, second
Greider White
Leghorns Win
State Contest
HARRISBURG A pen of 13
White Leghorn hens from the
Greider Leghorn Farms, Mount
Joy, won fust place in the 1955-
56 Pennsylvania Official Egg Lay
ing Test, the State Department
of Agncultun, which sponsors
the event, announced today
The winning hens laid 3,823
eggs for 4.097 points in lUi
months to lead the 78 pens m
the test from 15 states- and Can
ada A contest point is esuiva
lent to one 2-ounce -egg
The Greider entry finished ,
fourth highest among all birds
in eight egg laying tests con
ducted simultaneously in the
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Pennsylvania Feeder
Calf Auction sov. 3
At Lancaster Yards
Committees plannmg the sec
ond annual Pennsylvania Feeder
Calf Sale at Lancaster Stock
Yards this week gave leports in
a meeting reminding Gai den Spot
cattlemen of the Nov 3 sale.
Selling w'll start at 1 pm
There will be a laige selection
of calves and \earlmgs, repre
senting Herefords, Angus and
Shorthorns All entries will be
graded and sold both by individ
uals and m pen lots
Officials remind County farm
youth that this will be an excel
lent oppoi tunity to obtain club
calves.
Quarryville (Lancaster County) Pa., Friday, Oct. 5, 1956.
County Youth Score
County Youth Top Judging During
Brandywine Heifer Show at Fox Hill
By ERNEST J. NEILL
UNIONVILLE, Pa Lancas
ter County’s youthful Angus
breeders topped four of five
judging events in the 1956 Four-
H and FFA Angus heifer show
at Fox Hill Farm near here
Saturday afternoon
Grand champion, winning a
$5O award, was Ernst Fiey of
R 2 Quarryville. and in second
place was Damn Boyd, R 1 Eph
iata both of whom have left
indelible maiks in winnings at
Flying Farmers
Will Be Guests
Of Lycoming Co.
Pennsylvania Flying Farmers
will be guests of Lycoming 4>t
Williamsport, Pa, 'Friday,
19, it was announced today toy
John B Gehman, Baito, newly
elected president pf the associa
tion
Lycoming, one of the major
producers of aircraft engines,
especially in light and farm
type aircraft, will conduct a
tour of their factory, and will
entertain the Flying Farmers
at luncheon.
Fly-m time will be 10 to 10:30
a m. at the Williamsport Airport.
Lycoming will furnish ground
transportation.
Reservations are to be made
with Mrs. L, L. Logan, Ken
nett Square, secretary 'of the
association, by Oct. 15.
Harry W. Arnold, RI). Birds
boro, has been elected director
of the PFFA to fill the unex
pired term of L L. Logan, who
resigned following election as
National Director for Region 1.
place show winner, and with striped shirt,
Ernst Frey of R 2 Quarryville, winner of
the $5O-first place award (Lancaster
Farming Staff Photo).
1956 Lancaster County commun
ity fairs Damn was awaraed
$25.
Darvin just last week top
ped the Angus division at the
Ephrata Fair and emerged as
Number One showman, while
Ernst won the purple in the
steer division at the Southern
Lancaster County Community
Fair in Quarryville a week
earlier.
Both youths will he honored
for their progress in the Brandy-
FIRST PLACE WINNER at
the Brandywine Field Day
judging contest was Ernst
Frey of R 2 Quarryville, son
of Mrs. Fred Frey.
wine Heifer Project at the an
nual meeting of the association
Friday, Nov. 16 at the Coates
ville YMCA. At the meeting, a
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$2 Per Year
Fly Free Date
For Wheat in
County Oct. 10
Lancaster County Agricultural
Agent Max M Smith reminds
fai mers Oct. 10 is the flyfree date
for planting wheat in this sec*
tion, if Dual variety is used.
Barley planting is m full
swing, and many farmers are
getting ready for wheat plant
ing.
Silo filling is in full tilt, and
some corn husking is in prog
ress already. Corn harvest
brings a safety reminder, that
outside the tractor, mechanical
pickers have caused as many
injuries as any other farm ma
chine. Constant care is urged.
Potato digging is underway,
and a good crop is reported
throughout the Garden Spot.
September in Lancaster Coun
ty turned out to be one of the
coolest since 1949, averaging
about three and one-half degrees
below normal'. Total precipita
tion locally was 351 inches,
about two-tenths of an inch
above normal for the month.
Last week was a little cooler
than normal. Late last week
unusually heavy cloudiness
••prevailed- here ■due' to •side ef
fects of Hurricane Flossy.
Ram Sept. 27 and 28 totaled
.8 of an inch. It remained cloudy
through Sunday, then turned
somewhat warmer with no fur
ther rainfall. In the outlook,
pretty good weather is ahead,
temperatures about normal, be
tween 50 and 70 degrees, with
possible light showers late in the
week, according to Bernard S.
White of the Lancaster Weather
Bureau Office.
Auditorium
Top Item in
Civic Center
Need firs\ for an adequate au
ditorium and secondly dining
facilities for large groups were
listed by some 20 Lancaster
County farm organizations as
primary needs in the proposed
Community Center
Meeting Thursday night at
the SPABC directors’ room,
the Lancaster County Agricul
tural Council tallied question
naires returned by farm
groups LaVerne Pownall was
in charge of the meeting, and
the poll was conducted by
Stanley Musselinan’ farm rep
resentative of the Lancaster
County National Bank and his
committee.
Further information will b©
collected and tabulated to learn
the needs of the city and coun
ty No other moves will be made
until that time.
Two members of the Civic
Commission, Robert Chestnut,
manager of the Alcoa Alumi
num plant, and Elmer Esben
shade, who donated land for
the proposed Community Cen
ter, attended.
Other needs mentioned by the
groups polled included office
space for agricultural agencies,
a demonstration kitchen for
farm womens’ groups, meeting
rooms, an arena and exhibition
rooms.