Vol 11. No. 44 Fall Fairs Start With Openings At Reading, York The fall fair season was off this week with the opening of the Reading and York Interstate Fairs on Sunday and" Monday, and the Lititz Farm Show Wednesday One of the early winners at the Reading Fair was Warren Lein inger, R 2 Denver, who had both giand champion boar and female in the Spotted Poland China The grand champion boar and junior champion boar in the state Hampshire show was won by Stauffer Homestead farms, East Earl The grand champion and junior champion females were exhibited by Ford Cooper, Reynoldsville There were nearly 200 head enter ed in the show. In the barrow show a Yorkshire won first place and a Berkshire was second The champion was shown by Ernest Haas, Maxa tawny, and Ford Cooper had the reserve barrow. There were 43 head in the show. There were as many Lancaster CounUans judging as exhibiting at the Reading event Arhe Ander son, Elizabethtown, was swine judge, and Clarence Lyons, Lan caster, was judging dairy cattle The only other Lancaster Coun tv exhibitor at Reading was Stauf fer -Homestead. Farms, E 2 East Earl, with several head of Hamp shires Two head of Brown Swiss from the Warfel herd represented the Garden Spot at York' The threat of lain Monday l damped the crowd at Reading after a record first day attend ance Sunday However lain failed to keep a\»ay crowds at the York event. The grounds were full of students Tuesday despite a light drizzle as schools were dismissed for the day However it seemed that the rides and the midway held more attention for the students than did the agricultural or educational displays The Litilz Show this year will he slightly condensed version of the annual event. Crowded for space this year due to construc tion at Lilitz Springs Park, the fair will be without the annual baby contest, usually a highlight of the event. Next week wall bring shows at Quairyville and Elizabethtown Solanco Fair Offering $450 Premium Money for Farm Exhibits Premiums totaling more than $450 m the agricultural division will be up for exhibitors of top flight livestock and field crops at the Southern Lancaster County Community Fair which will be held at Quarryville Sept 18, 19 and 20 Besides the strictly agricultural items, artwork, handiwork, sew ing, canned goods and flowers will be on display. This will be the eighth fair to be given by the association Jack son Owen is president of the fair and Charles Phipps is general manager. The mam feature of the Solanco Fair will be the Rural Youth Con test This contest, open to boys and gills under 19 who live in Southern Lancaster County, is ased on the number of points earned in the vanous departments of the fair. Kicking off the fair will be a wuarryvilie (Lancaster County) Pa., Friday, Sept. 13, 1957 FOR THE PAST FEW weeks now, most other farming in Lancaster County has come to an abrupt halt because it is tobac co cutting time. Although the yield this year is down considerably because of the ‘Keystone International’ Drawing Hundreds of Entries from State HARRISBURG— Advance en tries and requests for piemium lists indicate that hundreds of out standing Pennsylvania-bred beef cattle, swine and sheep will be ex hibited at the first annual Penn sylvania Livestock Exposition to be held in the State Farm Show building here Nov 12 through 16 exposition officials predicted Monday Pennsylvania livestock men showing their purebied animals will compete for the first time within their own state in an inter national show, according to Leon Falk, Jr., Pittsburgh, exposition parade through the streets of Quarryville followed by the crowning of the Harvest Queen The queen last year was Miss Viv ian Kreidei, daughter of Mr. and Mrs Clayton Kreider, R 1 Quarry ville. On Thursday will be a tractor driving contest, pet show and band conceit. Friday’s programs show a baby paiade at 2 p.m, entertainment by the New River Ranch Boys at 8 pm. and the presentation of Rural Youth Awards at 9 p.m. All livestock will be judged Wednesday afternoon. Here are the heads of the vari ous departments Rural youth, William Fredd, Knkwood, dairy, Hayes A. Hast ings, Kirkwood; baby beef, Fred W. Lonton, Quarryville; swine, John E. Hastings, Kirkwood. (Continued on page 16) dry summer, tobacco will still be the num ber one cash crop in the county Current predictions are that the yield will be down some six million pounds from normal chairman. He explained that en tries in the State Farm Show are accepted only from Pennsylvania breeders while entries at the live stock exposition are open to breeders from any state or foreign country. He added further that the so called “Keystone International” gives Pennsylvania livestock men a chance to obtain national recom tion for their breeding and mar ket animals through winning in competition against livestock fiom many other states. October 1 is the closing date for entries in the Pennsylvania Livestock Exposition, State Agri culture Secretary W. L. Henning said. Cash premiums offered by the exposition total $75,217 50 of which $50,000 was provided by the 1955 session of the State Leg islature for advancement of the over-all livestock meat produc tion industry in the Common wealth. The 1957 Legislature al located another $50,000 approved by Gov. George M. Leader for a second Keystone International to be held in November of next year The 1957 exposition will pro vide more than $40,000 in premi ums for winneis in the beef cattle divisions, nearly $lO,OOO for sheep and appi oximately $12,600 for swine Premiums offered m a junior steer show for 4-H Club and Future Farmer exhibitors come to $3,505 Additional prize money will be offered in special awards and in carcass shows for market steers, hogs and lambs, and in the National Polled Here ford Show and Sale, one of the outstanding features of the ex position. Atlantic Angus Assn. Sale To Be at Richmond, Va. The Atlantic Angus Assn, has formed a sifting committee for the annual sale Feb. 24 and 25 at Richmond, Va , it was announced this week Now Is The Time . . . By MAX SMITH County Agricultural Agent TO MAKE NEW PASTURE SEEDINGS Early September is recognized as the best time to seed pasture mixtures, due to the present; drouth conditions many producers did not make the seeding last week. This should be done by the middle of this month in order to get the desired growth and cover for winter. The application of a complete fertilizer prior to seeding and the use of the roller or cultipacker following seeding op erations is strongly recommended. Both perman ent and the triple-purpose pasture mixtures may be seeded at this time. AGE CROPS Fall applications of both phos phorus and potash are strongly recommended to ward the harvesting of more quality forage next summer. The use of three to four hundred pounds per acre of 0-20-2 C following the last cutting of a permanent hay field, or after the grazing season in pastures, will give the plants a chance to store much of these soil elements into the root system for top production next summer. Max Smith TO CONTROL RODENTS Fall is rapidly approaching when rats and mice will be moving from the fields to your homestead. One of the best control practices is to destroy all places where they may hide, harbor, and make nests Rubbish piles, brush, open stone walls, dirt floois, and other places where they gather might be de stroyed or improved. The annual loss of stored grains from rodents 1 is enormous, rat-proofing through the use of galvanized metal strips around your bins or cnbs, or the use of half-inch hardware cloth. Poison bait stations have reduced many heavy infestations. TO ESTABLISH SOIL SAVING PRACTICES Prior to the seeding of fall gram is one of the best times to adopt contour strips as a means of reducing both soil and water losses from a hillside. Alternate strips may be sowed to gram this fall and the remaining strips to row crops next spring and the change-over is completely working Assistance is available from the Soil Conservation Serv ice and from our Extension Service Egg, Hay Prices Increase Sharply In August HARRISBURG Average prices received by Pennsylvania armers far eggs and hay showed sh?i n increases during the month ended Aug 15, according to Fed eral-State surveys announced Fri day by the State Department of Agriculture The advances sent the Pennsyl vania index of prices received for ail nrincmal products up seven points or three per cent. The in dex now stands at 250 per cent ot the 1910-14 base level, the sur vey shows Seasonal decline in egg produc tion wore accompanied by an ad vance for the month averaging six cents per dozen to 45 cents receiv ed by farmers on Aug 15 This was about the same as a year earlier In mid August farmers were receiving an average of $2O 10 pe>- ton for all baled hay, up $2 00 from a month previous. But farmers were paying an av erage of $35 50 for baled alfalfa hay on Aug 15, the survey show ed Nat.-onally, the index of prices received by farmers for their pro ducts was one point or less than one-half of 1 per cent higher than a month earlier The national in dex was 248 pe’’cent of _the 1910- 14 base level Despite gains in prices received foi small grains in Pennsylvania, the crops index was down nine points from last month, attribut ed to a 44 point decrease in fruit prices A 10-point increase in prices re ceived by farmers for wholesale milk was reported as a result of a seasonal increase of 20 cents per, hundred pounds Milk production, although 6,000 more cows were listed in dairy herds than for July 1957, remained unchanged TO TOP-DRESS PASTURES AND FOR- $2 Per Year
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