Sisters Win Grand, Reserve Beef
Championship at Elizabethtown
A blocky, highly finished Short
horn steer took top honors in tne
baby beef contest at .the Eliza
bethtown Kiwanis Community
Fair held last week
The animal, owned and shown
by Miss Marion Hackman, R 3
Elizabethtown, won out over 14
other entries. The reserve cham
pion, an Angus, was shown by
her Sister, Miss Lorraine Hack
man.
In the swine show a Berkshire
bred by the Milton Hershey
School won the purple for John
Martin, HI Marietta Reserve
champion was a Yorkshire, own
ed and exhibited by Stanley Ald
mger, R 3 Elizabethtown
Martin also earned a blue rib
bon in showmanship in the field
of 10 exhibitors
And in the tractor driving con
test, Richard Miller, R 1 Mt Joy,
took first prize. Other winners in
order of their placings were John
Oberhelser, Harold Musser and
David Gish.
In the baby beef contest, the
placings were a switch for the
two sisters Two years ago Lor
rames’s Angus took the grand
championship, while the Short
horn was reserve champion
The girls, daughters of Mr and
Mrs Willis H. Hackman, R 3 Eliza
bethtown, are now looking for
ward to the county beef roundup
and possible Farm Show competi
tion
Larraine, 15, is a sophomore at
Elizabethtown Area High School.
This is her fifth year of 4-H club
work
Marion is completing her ninth
year of 4-H Club work and is 19.
Showing the only Shoi thorn in
the show, she won out over seven
Angus and eight Hereford steers.
Ben Morgan of the Pennsyl
vania State University was the
judge.
The dairy show was curtailed
this year because of conflicts with
the state Black and White Show
and the state Junior Dairy Show
being held in Harrisburg.
Here are the placings of the
classes
SWINE
Berkshire first, John Martin;
second, John Risser, Rl Hershey,
third, Floyd Risser, Rl Hershey;
fourth, Leon Weidler, R 3 Eliza
bethtown, fifth, Robert Baker, R 2
Elizabethtown, sixth, Stanley Ald
inger, seventh, Raymond Baker,
R 2 Elizabethtown; eighth, Wil
liam Hackman, R 3 Elizabethtown,
ninth, Barbara Shenk, R 4 Man
heim, and tenth, Larry Shenk,
R 4 Manheim.
Yorkshire first, Stanley Ald
mger, second, Floyd Risser, third,
Larry 'Shenk, fourth, William
Hackman; fifth, John Risser;
sixth, Barbara Shenk; seventh,
Leon Weidler, eighth, John Mar
tin, ninth, Robert Baker and
tenth, Raymond Baker.
Showmanship first, Nancy
Gibble, second, Betty Hess.
Grand Champion John Mar
tin, Rl .Marietta, Berkshire
Reserve Champion Stanley,
Aldmger, R 3 Elizabethtown, York
shire.
TRACTOR DRIVING
First Richard Miller; second,
John Oberhelser, third, Harold
Musser, and fourth, David Gish.
BABY BEEF
Hereford first, Ed Esben
shade, R 3 Elizabethtown, second,
Nancy Gibble, R 3 Elizabethtown,
thud, William Hackman, R 3 Eliza
bethtown, fourth, Jean Miller, R 1
Elizabethtown, fifth, Leon Weid
ler, R 3 Elizabethtown, sixth,
Christ Miller, R 1 Elizabethtown,
seventh, Kenneth Enck, R 1 Eliza
bethtown; eighth, Raymond Bak
er, R 2 Elizabethtown.
Shorthorn first, Marion
Hackman.
Angus fust, Lorraine Hack
man, second, Robert Gibble, R 3
jElizabethtown, third,'James Gib
ble, R 3 Elizabethtown, fourth,
John Martin, Marietta; fifth, Bet
ty Hess, R 3 Elizabethtown, sixth,
Shirley Nelson, RI Linglestown,
seventh, Gary Kremer, R 3 Eliza
bethtown.
Showmanshi
first. John
Martin, second, Floyd Risser.
Fitting first, Lorraine Hack
man; second, Ed Esbenshade.
Grand Champm —Marion Hack
pian, R 3 Elizabethtown, Angus.
Reserve Champion Lorraine
Hackman, R 3 Elizabethtown, An
gus.
Apple Crop
To Be Greater
Than Last Year
Although excessively high temp
eratures and di ought conditions
existed during most of the crop
year in’ Southeastern Pennsyl
vania, statewide apple production
is expected to exceed last year’s
by 400,000 bushels, according to
surveys by the sfate Department
of Agriculture
Estimates of Sept 1 indicate a
commercial apple crop of 5,800,-
000 bushels This is 200,000 bushel
under the Aug 1 forecast and
compares with last year’s produc
tion of 5,400,000 bushels.
Reports from Erie County and
most other Northwestern Penn
sylvania areas indicate a good
crop Sizing was reported normal
in these areas and attributed to
sufficient moisture.
Dry weather losses were most
severe in the extreme southeast
ern counties where some apple
and peach trees were reported to
be dying Sizing of fruit was af
fected, some peaches being too
small to pick.
Meanwhile, the Pennsylvania
Crop Reporting Service revised
its statewide peach estimate on
Sept 1 to 2,300,000 bushels, a re
duction of 150,000 bushels from
a month earlier.
This year’s national peach crop
is estimated at 62,646,000 bushels,
10 per cent below the 1956 pro
duction and two per cent under
the 10-year average.
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Leader Asks
Benson For
Drougth Help
Governor George M Leader
Thursday gave his “unqualified
endorsement” to the appeal of
farmers in six drought counties
for federal emergency assistance
to cover losses running into mil
lions of dollars
In a telegram to United States
Secretary of Agriculture Ezia
Taft Benson the Governor sup
ported recommendations' of the
Pennsylvania United States De
partment of Agriculture Disastei
Committee which earlier in the
day voted to ask the National
Agricultural Disaster Committee
to recognize the existence of dis
aster conditions in Southeastern
Pennsylvania
The State committee decided
against foimal declaration of the
counties as disaster areas Mem
bers held a two hour session for
consideration of the appeals from
the six counties that had filed offi
cial requests for federal aid The
final decision was left to the na
tional group, committee members
said The state committee is sub
nutting detailed data to back its
requests.
Chairman Arch V: Ritts, Valen
cia, Butler County, said the state
committee recommended that the
national agncultuie disaster com
mittee in Washington grant faim
eis credit toward purchase of sur
plus feed grams at the maximum
rate of $1 per hundred pounds
But this would net be available
unless the national committee de
clares the six counties to be dis
aster areas, he explained. Such
feed could be used only for breed
ing type livestock kept for herd
replacements f
Governor Leader’s telegram to
Secretary Benson stated.
“The Agriculture Disaster
Committee of the Common
wealth of Pennsylvania met to
day and has recommended that
the counties of Berks, Bucks,
Chester, Lebanon, Montgomery,
and Monroe be declared eligible
to receive federal emergency as
sistance. I urge your immediate
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most serious consideration of the
recommendation submitted. It
has my unqualified endorse
ment. I sincerely hope that you
will take favoiable action.”
Governor Leader on Aug 19 in
spected results of drought on
farms in Berks Bucks, Chestei
and Montgomery Counties At that
time he found conditions that
prompted support of the appeals
from farmeis in the drought coun
ties
Three counties estimated
drought losses to crops Berks,
$8,187,560, Bucks, $5,640,000 and
Montgomery, $3,600,000
State Agriculture Secretary
William L Henning also attended
the conference and suppoited the
committee action
George Hummer, Pennsylvania
chairman of the USDA Farmeis
Plome Administration, is a mem
ber of the State agricultural disas
ter committee His agency han
dles emergency loans for disaster
relief provided a county is official
ly declared a disaster area by the
national committee
Such loans could not become
available to farmers in the six
counties unless the national group
designates them as disaster areas,
Hummer said Loans then would
be available at three per cent in
terest piovided the farmer could
not obtain loans elsewhere, he ex
plained Most emergency FHA
loans followed too much ram m
western Pennsylvania counties
last year and as a icsult of the
1955 drought aveiaged between
$l,OOO to $1,500, he'said
In addition to Ritts and Hum
mer, state agricultural disaster
committee members at today’s
meeting were Dr H R Albrecht,
agucultural extension director at
the Pennsylvania State Univer
sity, and Dr. Richard Gerstell,
State Director ot Civil Defense
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COMMUNITY EXHIBIT
OCTOBER 9-12
Parade October 9
Corn Queen Contest October 10
Plowing Contest October 11
Talent Contest October 12
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Former Editor
Receives Promotion
Former Lancaster Fanning
editor, Ernest J Neill, has been
advanced to the medical divisioa
of a major New York City advei
tismg agency He still retains as
signments in the agricultural and
veterinary division
Neill, a native of lowa, was
editor of Lancaster Farming
from its inception in 1955 until
December of 1956
Solanco FFA Boys To
Sell Lancaster Farming
The Solanco FFA Chapter this
week embarked on a fund raising
project by selling subscnptmos
to Lancastei Farming, it was an
nounced by Jack Owen, Solanco
chapter advisor
The chapter, the largest in the
County with some 110 boys will
use the funds obtained in various
Chaptei projects and activities.
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