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