Lancaster Farming, Friday, May 16, 1958—5
Champion COT Birds Bring $6.50
To Equal Record Set at Coatesville
The Pennsylvania state cham
pion jumoi chicken giower pock
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PLANT STARTERS
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Liquid Fertilizer
1 gal
5 gal can
Transplantone 1 lb 400
V H. P F. Case
(10-3 lb ) 7 50
Nutn-Leaf 5 lb bag 175
Nutn-Leaf 25 lb bag 750
Isotox Transplanter
Solution
For Wireworm Control
6 oz (makes 200 gal) 185
Isotox Seed
Treater (F)
Just Dust on Seed Corn
Controls
• Wire Worm
• Seed Rot
• Seed Corn Maggot
• Damping-off Diseases
4M> oz treats,! bu 1 35
1 lb treats 3% bu. 3.45
Arsenate of Lead 3 lbs 120
5% Chlordane 5 lbs 110
50% DDT 4 lbs 145
25% Malathion 3 lbs 210
Ferbam 3 lbs 195
7% Duo Copper Dust
5 lbs 1 15
53% Duo Copper 6 lbs 275
Orthocide “50” 3 95
1% Rotenone Dust 4 lbs 1 15
Tomato & Potato Dust '
4 lbs 1 15
AGRI ■ MYCIIV >
For Control of Fire <
Blight and Blue Mold >
Large bottle - 675
Dried Blood 100 lbs 850
Bone Meal 25 lbs 185
Cyanamid 100 lbs 450
Sheep Manure 50 lbs 195
Cattle Manure 50 lbs 225
Weedone
2,4 D Products
Weedar “64” (Amine Salts)
1 gal. can 375
5 gal. can 17.75
Weedone LV4 (Low Volatie
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1 gal can
5 gal. can
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STORE HOURS
7 A M to 5 P M,
Mon. thru Sat
SMOKETOWN, PA.
Ph. Lane. EX 22659
cled a check for $347 75 when his
1 ( '58 Chicken of-Tomorrow entry
ol 15 broiler-fryer chickens
brought $6 50 oer pound at auc
tion May 7 ijn Sunbury The price
per pound equaled the all-time
state record set at Coatcsville in
1955
The happy boy is 16 year-old
I'red R Romig of Beaver Springs
RD 1, Snyder County The check
came from Mattern’s hatchery,
Beaver Snrngs, where Fred
bought his chicks It was the high
est bid at all six regional auc
tions where more than 600 en
tiics were sold today
Young Romig's cross bred
chickens won the state title at the
Farm Show Building on Tuesday
m competition with the 24 top en
tries out of the original 43 in the
statewde contest The 15 dressed
chickens weighed 53% pounds,
averaging 3Vz pounds each at 9Vz
weeks of age.
Second best price in the State
uas $3 00 per pound paid at the
I redencksburg auction for the
reserve championship entry of
Lcien L Woman, 19, Bernville
KD, Berks County His lot weigh
ed 59 pounds and netted him $174
fiem Purina Mills, the buyer.
While the reseive champion birds
weighed moie than the champion
entry the judges found shghty
higher quality gave the edge to
the Romig chickens
Slate champion birds brought
S 6 per pound in 1956 and 1957
At each auction the regional
grand champion brought the high
est price per pound, as lollows
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LANCASTER EXpress 4-0541 MANHEIHI MOhawk 5-2466
QUARRYVILLE STerling 6-2126
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A CHECK FOR $347 75 was the material
rewax-d to Fred R Romig, Rl Beaver
Springs, who grew the Grand Champion
entry in the state Junior Chicken of To
morrow contest. This price, $6 50 a pound,
equalled the record set in Coatesville in
Deeply Appreciated
IF YOU ARE NOT
FAMILIAR WITH OUR
“Low Cost” DELIVERY
PLAN CALL Farm
Bureau TODAY.
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1955 Statewide, the average price was
54 77 cents a pound Live contest birds
sold for an average of 24 11 cents a pound
at the Lancaster Poultry Exchange Thurs
day.
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