6—Lancaster Farming, Friday, May 17, 1957
Top Broilers in CC
At Near Record Pr
HARRISBURG A ncar-rcc
ord puce of $6 00 per pound was
paid for .the grand champion
broiler-fryer, winner in the 1957
Pennsylvania Junior Chicken-of-
Tomorrow contest.
Happy, and richer by $324 is
the 17-year-old Future Fanner
of America grower, Dean R. Bix
ler, of Valley View, Schuylkill
County. His entry of 15 dressed
9% week-old birds was bought by
the Ralston-Punna Company at
the auction sale in Fredericks
burg. The lot of birds weighed 54
pounds. They topped all others in
quality in State championship
judging at the Farm Show Build
ing here on Tuesday.
The second highest pi ice in six
i egional sales was $3 a pound re
ceived at the Butler auction by
the reserve grand champion lot
of birds grown by Roy Barron,
Slippery Bock, Butler County
The 15 broilers weighed 47%
pounds for a total of $164 50 paid
by Eastern State Farmers Ex
change, Butlei
The all-time Pennsylvania
Chicken-o£-Tomorrow price per
T Contest Sold
ice of $6 a Pound
pound was $6.50 paid in Coates
vill in 1955 Last year’s top price
was $6 a pound at Butler.
Ray Morgan, Lewistown, chair
man for the statewide contest
sponsored by the Pennsylvania
Poultry Federation, was greatly
pleased with results of the 1957
contest to interest young people
in production of high quality
meat-type chickens.
Results of the auction sale at
Coatesville follow:
Top price was $4 per pound to
Carl Shearer, Dover, RD 2, York
County, for 55% pounds totaling
$223 bought by Beacon Milling
Company, White Vantress breed
from Martin’s Hatchery, Lancas
ter, Raymond D. Schar, Jr., Dills
burg, RD 1, York County, re
ceived $1 per pound for 52%
pounds bought by American
Stores, White Vantres-New Hamp
shire breed from Mountain View
Hatchery. Robert Southard, Ken
nett Square, RD 1, Chester Coun
ty, also received $1 per pound for
his 45% pound lot of birds. Sales
total 130 lots, 6,125 pounds which
averaged 48.75 cents a pound foi
a total of $2,986.07.
J. T. Asbury Wins
Scholarship
To Penn State
John Thomas Asbury of Peach
Bottom, has been awarded the
Arthur S. Young Memorial
Scholarship to enter the farm
equipment service and sales
winter course at the Pennsyl
vania State University.
Asbury won the scholarship
through a competitive examina
tion. Contestants from across the
state were'also rated on interest
in farm equipment service and
sales, and farm equipment deal
er recommendation. Asbury was
recommended by Chester E.
Wiley and Son of Quarryville.
The scholarship is given by
the Pennsylvania Farm Equip-"
ment Dealers Association. The
course is offered by the agri
cultural engineering depart
ment at Penn State. Total fixed
charges for Asbury’s first year
in the farm equipment service
and ."sales course will be covered
by the award.
The scholarship is given in
memory of Arthur S Young, a
pioneer in the organization -of
the Pennsylvania Farm Equip
ment Dealers Association. Young
was secretary-treasurer of the
Association for 17 years until
his retirement in' 1952. He serv
ed as honorary secretary until
his death in 1955.
The farm equipment service
and sales winter course at Penn
State consists of two 16-week
training (periods running from
November through March on
*wo consecutive years There is
a seven month on-the-job fram
ing period m between
Six of Top 10
In Egg Contest
From Pennsylvania
At the end of seven months, six
of the top io pens of birds in the
Pennsylvania Official Egg Laying
Test are owned by Pennsylvania
poultry breeders and the nation’s
leading pen is an entry in the
Pennsylvania test, according, to
the state Department of Agricul
ture.
In a race for national honors, a
White Leghorn pen entered by
the Graybill Poultry Farm, McAl
listerville, Juniata County, was in
third place in the state contest.
Harco Orchards and Poultry
Farm, South Easton, Mass., led aP
egg laying tests in the nation at
the end of the sixth month. Birds
from this pen by May 1 had pro
duced 2,404 eggs and had 2,582
points, a point being equivalent
to one two-ounce egg.
Other Pennsylvania hatchery
men and breeders in the Penn
sylvania test’s top 10 are: Greider
Leghorn Farm, Mt. Joy r two en
tries; Guy A. Leader & Sons,
York; and L. E. Tice, Hummels
town, Dauphin County,
r High bird in the contest is a
single comb White Leghorn en
tered by Keystone Breeding
Farm, Ephrata. This hen has ac
cumulated 224 points while pro
ducing 205 eggs.
Another- Keystone entry is
third, and two hens from Greider
Leghorn Farms are ninth and
tenth.
In the cross bred pens, a Hub
bard Farm, Lancaster, entry is in
second place with a total of
2,389.7 points.
Sleeping Sickness
Season Starting
With the warmer weather
buildup of insects, owners of
horses and mules should be alert
to the danger of sleeping sickness'
among these animals, according!
to a warning issued today by the
American Foundation for Animal
Health.
To play safe, horses and mules
should be vaccinated by a veterin
arian well ahead of the peak sea
son for the disease, authorities
suggest.
Peach Bottom Farm Wife Elected
Pennsylvania Flying‘Farmer Queen
Mrs. Charlotte Huber, wife of
David H. Huber, R 2 Peach Bot
tom, was Elected Pennsylvania
Flying Farmer Queen to succeed
Mrs. Florence Kimmer, present
queen, at the May meeting of the
Pennsylvania Flying Farmers,
held at Beaver County Airport
May 10 and 11.
. Mrs. Huber will be crowned
and begin her reign at the Butler
Farm Show in August and will
compete for the National title at
the National Flying Farmers Con
vention in Chicago the last of
August.
The new queen enjoys flying
and hijs her private license with
over 50 hours to her credit. They
fly a four place Piper Pacer from,
their own airstrip northwest of
Quarry ville. She is mother of four
children, is active in-church and
community affairs, makes her own
and the plants a
Cattlemen, like producers of
other consumer goods are con
stantly striving to produce the
kind of meat consumers want and
need. By conscientiously putting
into practice new knowledge of
such subjects as animal husband
ry, genetics, feeding, veterinary
science, pest control and pasture
improvement, the cattle raiser
working with scientists and spe
cialists in these fields succeeds
year in and year out in produc
ing a product of quality and
flavor.
SAVE
TIME
and
MONEY
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Lancaster—. Manheim— New Holland Quarryville
large garden, cans and freezes
their vegetables and helps daily
with the milking. _
The two day program included
a tour through the Babcock &
Wilcox steel mill at Beaver Palls,
a turkey supper with business
meeting, and the queen selection
after which Bill Ritchey showed
movies of various flying farmer
events
On Saturday morning the group
enjoyed a guided tour of the,
Greater Pittsburgh airport and fa
cilities, which is the second larg
est in the world.
Pilots only were permitted into
the air route traffic control cen
ter under the guidance of Mal
colm Small, chief controller of
Pittsburgh office C.A.A. Small ex
plained the procedures and use of
equipment and how the job of
complete space separation of air
craft was carried out efficiently,
how the Flying Farmer pilots
could best utilize the facilities,
and how C.A.A., by Radar and
other means, can help the private
flyer when in,trouble.
- The local Flying Farmer mem
bers opened their houses to-the
more distant flyers. Those attend
ing from this area included Mr.
and Mrs. David H. Huber, Peach
Bottom; Amos F. Shenk, Lititz;
President and Mrs. John Gehrnan,
Barto; Mr. and Mrs. Homer Gray
bill, Manheim; Warren Wetzler,
Umonville; and Mr. and Mrs. L L.
Logan, Kennett Square.
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