Mary K. Bettendorf, Librarian AGRICULTURAL LIBRARY
Agricultural Library (i THE PENNSYLVANIA STATE COLLEGE
The Penna. State Ifolverslty
Vol. 111. No. 4*
Area Team Ranks
Fourth in Nat.
Livestock Meet
The Lancaster Count} 4-H
Livestock judging team rated
fourth m the competion at the
International Livestock Exposi
tion in'Chicago. Representatives
of 30 states entered the competi
tion.
The- local teams left for
Chicago last Friday and frere ac
companied by Max Smith, Lan
caster Comity Farm Agent The
local team included Donald M.
Herr, 19, of Refton, James Hess,
21, and Donald Welk, 17, both of
Strasburg -Rl.
The team also placed second in
hog judging, 14th in cattle and
20th in the sheep competition.
Among the top contenders, the
contestants -were required to
orally answer questions, giving
reasons for their placings. These
oral answers are considered in
final judging.
Donald Welk was second high
est in the hog judging out of 90
contestants. He placed 15th m
overall judging, which included
hogs, sheep and cattle.
Donald Herr placed 6th in
hog judging and James Hess 16th
in overall judging.
Teams from Virginia, North
Carolina, and Texas placed first,
second and third in the livestock
judging. Wisconsin placed im
mediately after the Pennsylvania
contingent represented by Lan
caster County.
Other local people were Jean
Heisey, of Florin and LeVon
Nolt, Mount Joy R 2, m clothing
demonstration; Mary Grube of
Lititz R 3 and Marcalena Hess,
Bareville Rl, poultry foods de
monstration; Floyd Moore Jr.,
780 Eden Road, Glenn Porter,
Washington Boro Rl, and John
S. Schantz, Ephrata Rl, poultry
judging.
Miss Heisey and Miss Nolt
earned perfect scores in win
ning their state championship.
Now Is The Time . . .
By MAX SMITH
County Agricultural Agent
Max Smith
may be mixed with the gram feeds, or better yet,
provide a mineral box where they may have free choice; this is very
important with young stock or with animals in heavy production or
on full feed. Signs of mineral deficiency are eating of soil, licking
posts, chewing wood fences or posts, and an unthrifty condition.
Various commercial minerals or simple mixtures of ground lime
stone and steamed bonemeal will provide the needs to most animals.
TO GIVE CARE TO THE MANURE SPREADER This machine
probably deserves the best treatment of all machinerj on a farm
and in many cases receive the worst. It should be lubricated often,
chains and sprockets cleaned and greased, protected from the weath
er, and painted at least once a year. When operating in the field
it is advised to stop the machine before putting it into gear. Slower
speeds will lengthen the life of the spreader.
TO CONSIDER EMERGENCY ROPGHAGES Due to the shortage
of quality roughages in the east this winter, many livestock men ard
searching for hay or for suitable substitutes. A recent Penn State
publication, “Emergency Feeding of Dairy Cattle” is full of many
practical suggestions; a supply is on hand at your Extension Agent’s
office. , , iM
PARTHENOGENETIC turkey, 161 days old
as of Sept. 11, when this picture was taken,
is 10 per cent mbred. He appears normal
except for the dull witted expression. Owing
to bad eycsightur-improper. nerve coordina
tion, bird consistently undershoots- half -an
inch or -more when pecking at food or in
Soil Con. Directors
Advance Meeting Date
The date of the regular meet
ing of the Board of Directors of
the Lancaster County Soil Con
servation District has been ad
vanced from December 16 to
December 9. Meeting place is the
Lancaster County Court House,
Duke and King St., Lancaster,
and the time is 7:30 p m.
TO FORCE EXERCISE BREEDING HERDS
The practice of confining breeding herds of cat
tle and hogs, and flocks of sheep, is to be dis
couraged. Out door, daily exercise is very es
sential to herd health and re-production. Shep
herds will feed hay at the far end of the pas
ture or exercise lot in order to force the ewes to
walk that distance. The self-feeder or automa
tic waterer in the case of the swine herd should
be placed at various places in the exercise lot in
order to force the animals to move about.
TO SUPPLY MINERALS TO LIVESTOCK
During the winter months it is quite important
that all livestock having access to minerals: these
Quarryville (Lancaster County) Pa., Friday,, Dec. 6, 1957
Jamaica, Just a Few Hours Away,
Is Different in Speech, Character
KINGSTON, Jamaica Down
in-the land of coconut and calyp
so, bamboo and banana, there’s
rhythm that belies the slow pace
one usually pictures of a sunny
tropical island.
Bongo and limbo, sugar cane
and cattle, beaches, mountains,
forests, jungle: all these play a
role in a land where some day
soon tourism, may move into first
place importance at an annual
$lOO million- figure over the
sugar cane industry. <
In this, and following articles,
some sidelights of an eight-day
tour over the island by plane
and auto wil be related. The
island is best seen from the air,
where you can recognize the saw
tooth mountains, the precipitous
cliffs that make Jamaica mighty
rough country topographically.
But there’s a friendliness here
that is warm.
Most stories start from the be
ginning, in this case Idlewild In
ternational Airport at New York
City, departing on a Super Con
stellation of Avianca Colom
bian National Airways, for whom
Pan American World Airways
serve as general agent. By sea,
Kingston is 1,645 miles from New
York City. By air, a bit over six
hours.
Before takeoff, the stewardess
or purser explains first in Spanish
then in English, use of life jac
kets. Here is your first engage
ment with an English language
of a different sort, one that be
comes progressively more com
plex until you anve in Kingston
and encounter Calypso, or Jamai
can. It’s English, with a mixture
of British, perhaps Spanish, and
native idioms. At times it’s under-
sects. He eats well, exercises normally, sleeps
a good bit. Weight is low average 12
pounds at 24 weeks. Bird has crooked toes.
He is not agressive. He is so tar the longest
.livedo, of several parthenogenetic poults
■hatched at Beltsville. (USDA Photograph)
(Special to Lancaster Farming)
By ERNEST J. NEILL
standable. Sometimes it’s incom
prehensible*
Like Gilmore Altamount Delga
do member of a Kingston real
estate loan association, who shar
ed the double seat in the forward
cabin of the Connie. “I always
judge the language to use by the
person to whom I’m talking,” he
explained, and, in the course of
an evening with him and his wife,
“Jamaican” and English became
commonplace perfect English
in the presence of “Yankees,” Ja
maican in conversation with na
tives. “One of the first expres
sions you will probably hear is
‘soon come',” he told, and you
recognized it more as “soonkum”
one word a nice way of say
ing, “Just a moment, please,” or
“hold your horses!"
The “a” is pronounced softly
here, and one of the favorite
greetings is “Hi mahn,” for “hi,
man.”
Conservation and food alone
must occupy the first few hours
of the air trip until the sea
changes from a deep blue to a
sapphire to turquoise, indicating
Cuba is below. Meals, incidental
ly, prepared in New York or in
Montego Bay were delicious.
Delgado pointed out highlights
of Jamaica .from the air, after a
delay in Montego Bay airport,
where passengers not yet checked
into the Jamaican customs service
are restricted to certain areas of
the airport terminal. Montego
Bay’s airport is a single concrete
strip, built on artificial land ovei
what once was swamp. It was ex
plained this was constructed as a
relief project during the war.
Soon the Constellation wings
up from Montego which in
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$2 Per Year
Milk Producers
To Ballot on
Federal Order
So u t heastern Pennsylvania,
>lew Jersey, Maryland and Dela
vare milk producers will ballot
m proposed amendments to Fed
■ral Milk Order 6L All ballots
mist be cast before December 12.
Federal Order 61 regulates the
ninimum prices to be paid to
lairy farmers for milk supplied
o the Philadelphia marketing
irea.
The proposed price changes do'
rot include higher price for Class
r (fluid) milk; a lower Class II
(manufacturing) price. Also not
included are provisions for out
of area pricing and an expanded
manner of paying the producers.
If the amended order is approv
ed, the Philadelphia area will be
expanded, milk plants regulated
on the basis of their performance
m supplying milk to the area.
The differentials allowed to near-
Iby plants,would be eliminated.
Secretary of Agriculture Ezra
Taft Benson denied the request
made by the producers and ord
ered the election.
Changes included in the pro
posal would reduce by 8 cents the
31 cent rate now allowed dairies
for receiving and transporting
milk from country plants; would
increase the transportation rate
of country received milk from one
cent to one and one-half cents;
would reduce from 4 per cent to
3.7 per cent the basis butterfat at
which milk is priced to dairies
and paid to farmers.
Hearings were held at various
times from June, 1956 through
September, 1957, and the propos
ed amendments are the result of
the evidence produced. Ballots
are being mailed to each eligible
producer supplying the market
ing area. There are approximately
8.500 eligible producers in the
area comprising the four states,"
who have delivered milk to the
Philadelphia market in July of
this year. The market area is one
of 68 different areas regulated by
federal orders.
For the referendum, milk co
operative associations of produc
ers qualified by the Agricultural
Marketing Agreement Act of 1937
may cast collective ballots for
their members. All others are to
be cast as individuals. They
should be mailed to the Referen
dum Agent, at 1612 Market St.,
Philadelphia 3, Pa. The deadline
is midnight on Dec. 12.
Hungry Hogs Grow More
Meat at Lower Cost
Results of a 10-year study by
Washington State College at
Pullman shows that when bogs
are kept a bit hungrey, they out
perform thedr fat or fullfed bro
thers and sisters.
A total of 1,705 hogs were in
volved in the WSC study and. ac
cording to animal scientist S. H,
Fowler, the lean hundry hogs
grew taller, produced more meat
per pound of feed, and produced
and weaned more pigs than the
fullfed fat hogs.
The fullfed hogs did put on
weight faster and, of course, got
fatter.
According to Dr. Fowler, the
study shows that swine breeders
do not need to feed hogs all they
can eat for most efficient produc
tion.