Vol. 11. No. 31
THESE ARE SIX OF THE 11 girls who have entered the
Lancaster County Poultry Queen Contest. The winner
will be selected at the Seventh Annual Poultry Assn. Bar
beque at Lititz Springs Park tomorrow. The girls are
(from left) Ruth Osborne, 17, R 2 Quarryville; Marcalena
Hess, 17, R 1 Rareville; Betty Kauffman, 17, R 2 Willow
Street; Marion Wolf, 17, R 2 Denver; Mary Jane Landis,
Late Blight Reported on Tomatoes
Shipped Here from Southern States
Late blight has been reported
on tomatoes from southern tomato
plants shipped into Maryland,
New Jersey and West Virginia.
Associate County Agent Hairy
Sloat warns that the presence of
this destructive disease in these
areas and the panhandle of West
Virginia presents a threat to both
tomatoes and potatoes in Penn
sylvania.
Sloat urges growers to watch
any plants they leceive from the -
south, or other outside sources,
for signs of late blight. If blight
is found he recommends immedi
Now Is the Time.. •
By Mas. M. Smith, County Agricultural Agent
To Enroll in Clubs
The Pennsylvania Grassland Club membership will close July
15 and the State Five-Acre Corn Club will close Aug. 1. These two
clubs recognize the best practices and greatest yields in their respec
tive fields. Application blanks for both are available at the County
Extension Office.
To Provide Shade
Livestock efficiency is reduced by extreme heat conditions If
natural shade is not available, then artificial shade should be sup
plied. This is especially true for hogs and sheep. Plans and sugges
tions are available at the Extension office.
To Make Soil Tests
In case you are planning to make an August seeding of alfalfa
or an early fall seeding of pasture, we suggest that you submit your
soil sample soon so that you will not be delayed. A complete soil test
will pay dividends Grasses or legumes will not thrive unless both
lime and fertilizer requirements are met.
To Start Owner-sampler Testing
Last week the thirteenth group of dairymen in the County were
started on DHIA testing. And under the new IBM record keeping
system, testers are peimitted to enroll additional herds where the
farmer takes his own samples once a month and the tester picks them
up for testing This is an excellent way to discover low producers
at a low cost. See any tester or call the Extension office for details.
Quarryville (LSncanster County) Pa., Friday, June 14, 1957
ate spraying, with continued
spraying at seven to 10-day inter
vals during wet, cool weather
Protective sprays like maneb
70 per cent wettable powder
(Manzate) at two lbs per 100
(one level tablespoon per gallon)
are effective for leal spots and
anthracnose, which are also com
mon m garden and field.
Fixed copper 50 per cent wet
table powder, at four lbs per 100
'(two tablespoons per gallon) or
zineb (one and one-third table
spons per gallon) are effective for
blight and some leaf spots.
17, R 1 Mt. Joy; and Louise Herr, 17, 2237 Marietta Ave,
Rohrerstown. The other contestants who could not be
present for the picture are Audrey Burkholder, 17, 2169
New Holland Pk, Lancaster; Audrey Rowe, 17, R 2 Wil
low Street; Barbara E Reed, 17, R 1 Peach Bottom, Joan
G. Mumma, 22, R 2 Lititz; and Faye Boyer, R 2 Lititz. (LF
Photo)
Poultry Scholarships at Ag Colleges
Suffer from Lack of Applicants
BELLEVILLE, Pa Scholar-,
c hips m poultry husbandry at
Noitheastern colleges and um-{
varsities are going bagging, ac
cording to a survey of institu
tions in 14 states conducted by
the Northeastern Poultry Produ
cers Council
State colleges from Maine to
West Virginia and west to Ohio
told Council pollsters that much
ot the available financial aid to
noultrv students goes unused for
lack of applicants
Upon completion of its student
•ud survey, NEPPCO staffers
sampled poultry industry firms
for an outline of job opportunit
ies It found that there are at
least six or seven jobs available
for " every poultry husbandry
graduate that emerges from col
legiate ranks- this month.
“I’ve had two top flight posi
tions open for the past six
months,’’ one poultry industry
firm reported “We have only
slim hopes of being able to fill
them out of this year’s crop of
graduates There just aren’t
enough to go around ”
In Pennsylvania, Harry P
Metz, Belleville poultryman and
a director of the Council, evid
enced sharp concern over the
failure of young farmers to be
come interested in poultry
“The Council’s survey of schol
arships at Pennsylvania State
University indicates a wide range
of financial aid available to stu-
dents specializing in poultry,”
Metz declared “Many of these
have not been actively sought in
recent years ”
Scholarships at the University
(range all the way from $25 per
year to an $BOO four-year pro
gram Many are available to out
of-state students as well as Penn
sylvanians Even first-year stud
ents are eligible for several
Poultry raising has become a
multi-billion dollar farm indust
ry in recent years, the NEPPCO
dnector continued The advent
of industrialization and the use
of automation procedures has
provided a wide range of tasks
covering such technical fields as
electronics, all types of engineer-
mg, journalism and public rela
tions
Copies of the Council’s listing
of available scholarships for
poultry majors may be obtained
by writing NEPPCO, 10 Rutgers
Place, Trenton 8, N J
11 Beauties
To Compete
At Barbeque
Eleven young women, all rela
ciVcs of men in the poultry in
dustry m the county, will be
competing tomorrow night for
the title of Lancaster County
Prv’tiy Queen at the Poultry
Assn barbeque at Lititz Springs
Park, Lititz
To be eligible for the title,
the girls must be at least 17, sin-
/i and related to someone m
' ie industry
The contestants are Misses
Ruth E Osborne, 17, R 2 Quarry
villa, Audiey Btukholder, 17,
2169 New Holland Pk, Lancas
ter Mary Jane landis, 17, R 1
Mt Joy, Marcalena Hess, 17, R 1
Bareville, Audrey Rowe, 17, R 2
Willow Street, Betty Louise
Kauffman, 17, R 2 Willow Street;
Louise M Herr, 17, 2237 Mariet
ta Ave, Rohrerstown
Marian Wolf, 17, R 2 Denver;
Barbara E Reed, 17, R 1 Peach
Bottom, Joan G Mumma, 22, R 2
Lititz, and Faye R2 Lititz.
In addition to the poultry
queen contest, a poultry cook
ing contest with a junior and se
nior division competing will be
held
The prize winning recipes will
be printed in Lancaster Farming
next week
In addition to the contests,
there will be entertainment and
educational displays at the bar
beque Judging of the queen will
be held at 7 pm and the cook
ing contest will be held in the
afternoon
In addition to the events at
Lititz, an open house at the new
Poultry Center will be held at the
Center, 340 West Roseville Rd,
Lancaster
Lewis Mortensen, East Peters
burg, is chairman of the barbe
que.
County Producers
Hit High Price
Week of June 1
' Chicken growers selling to the
. Lancaster poultry market during
the week ended June 1 received
' the highest average price for
, their birds in 13 weeks
B’rds auctioned came to a
total of 116,000 for an average
price of 22 40 cents a pound.
The previous high was 22 72
cents
Pennsylvania broiler chick
placements at 783,000 continued
to decline and reached their
lowest peak since early April.
Placements were down two per
cent from the previous week and
well below the 984,000 chicks
placed for the same week m
1956 During the first 22 weeks
of this year placements of broil
er chicks were down six per
cent from the same period of
1956 ,
Eggs set for broiler production
for the week also took a sharp
drop, declining five per cent to
1,221,000 This was 11 per cent
under the 1956 production. Non
broiler eggs for the week also
were well below last year
$2 Per Year