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Vol. 111. No. 30.
Two Queen Contests Seek
Farm Girls as Candidates
Eight Girls
Competing for
Poultry Title
Eight young women will com
pete for the county “Miss Penn
sylvania Poultry Industry” title
tomorrow at the Poultry Assn,
barbeque at Lititz Springs Park.
And for those who see their
be a uty on a platter, rather than
a pretty face, there will be a cook
ing contest for both junior and
senior contestants.
The cooking contest, which too
leads to a posible state title, will
start at 2 pm. at the park
Judges for the cooking contest
are Mrs. Anna Smith, home econo
mist, Albright College, Mrs
Eleanor Ruhl, home economics
teacher, Warwick Union High
School, and Lee Zinn, owner of
Zmn’s Diner.
GENERAL CHAIRMAN of the
cooking contest is Harvey Specht
Others on the committee are Mrs
George Rutt; Mrs Norman
Lausch, Mrs Harvey Showalter
and Mrs Amos Nolt. Harry Ward
Jr is in charge of the stoves and
gas which are being donated by
the Ward Lottie Gas Co of
Ephrata,
The principle business of the
baibeque, the eating, will begin at
3 pm. and will continue until 7
p m Carryout service will be pro
vided
THESE ARE the contestants
for the queen contest Misses Ja
nice Koser, 18, R 2 Manheim, Mary
Kathryn Keene, 17, Christiana;
Loname Hess, 17, R 2 Peach Bot
tom, Rosemary Andrews, 17, R 7
Lancaster; Marilyn H Folkman,
Conestoga, Barbara Ann For
rej, 17 434 North Cendar St Lan
caster, Myrna J. Bailey, 18, 846
Eden Rd., Lancaster; and Chris
tiana K. Spickler, 17, Elizabeth
town
Jay Greider, Mt. Joy, is general
chairman of the contest. Howevei
due to Greider being hospitalized,
Charles Warfel, R 2 Conestoga,
will act as general chairman
THIS PROBABLY will be the
last large barbeque that will be
sponsored by the Poultry associa
Light Movement of Home Grown
Strawberries Likely this Week
HARRISBURG First pick
ings of Pennsylvania home-grown
strawberries are about to be made
and light movement of berries to
local stores, markets and road
side stands should occur this
week, the State Department of
Agriculture said today.
Prospects for Pennsylvania
strawberries are good, the Penn
sylvania Crop Reporting service
noted m its crop and weather
round-up for the past week. How
ever, warmer weather is needed
to help the ripening and matur
ing of the fruit.
FARM ACTIVITY was in full
swing during the past week, and
the cutting of grass silage con
tinues in most sections of the
slate Wheat is in head in some
southern areas, and plowing is
still being done on heavier soils.
In the South and Central sec
tions of Pennsylvania, the first
Quarryville (Lancaster County) Pa.. Friday, June 6. 1958
MISS MARCALENA HESS
1957 Poultry Queen
Con- Current feeling is mat me
large barbeque has outlived its
purpose the promotion of the
use of broiler chickens and fu
ture events will be smaller affairs
vath carryout and custom barbc
qaes only being offered.
A new feature at the barbeque
this year will be egg promotion
and consumer educations exhibits
County eggmen have arranged an
egg exhibit that will emphasize
the importance of eggs in the
diet and will show the importance
nt producing a good high quality
ogg.
The winner of the “Miss Penn
sylvania Poultry Industry” con
test will compete for the state
title at Dutch Days at Hershey in
August. The current Poultry
Queen is Miss Marcelena Hess,
Bareville.
cutting of alfalfa is under way
Some alfalfa has been damaged
by spittlebugs and alfalfa weevil,
especially in unsprayed fields.
Early corn is up and some
farmers have started to cultivate
However, in some localized areas,
corn remains to be planted Near
ly all of the oats is planted and
making good progress. In a few
sections, wdiere oats could not be
seeded, the land was shifted to
corn because of severe weather
conditions at planting time.
THE CROP REPORT also not-
ed- sweet cherries in the extreme
south are starting to turn color;
oilier fruit is developing nicely in
most areas; tomatoes for both
fresh market and processing con
tinue to be planted; peas for com
mercial processing are in blos
som in the South; early sweet
corn and cabbage are making
good growth.
AGRICULTURAL
Queen of Furrow
Contest to End
June 20 in County
Ten Lancaster County girls
have thrown their bonnets into
the ring to be considered for
‘ Queen of the Furrow” at the Na
tional Plowing Matches and Con
servation Exposition to be held in
August at Hershey
Amos H Funk, Millersville,
chairman of the county contest,
said that county finals will be
held at 8 pin June 23 at the
Millersville State Teachers Col
lege auditorium
If more than 15 girls enter the
contest, semi-finals and a final
contest will be held in the couu
ty
Two girls from the county will
compete in semi-finals preceding
the state contest Judging for
this contest will be Aug 2 and
the finals will be Aug 15, both
contests being held at Hershey.
JUDGING IN ALL the contests
will be done with the contestants
wearing street clothes The young
women will be chosen for beauty
charm and poise Only farm girls
are eligible
Deadline for entering the coun
ty contest is June 20 Entry forms
are available from any of the vo
cational agriculture departments
in the county.
Assisting with the contest are
Mrs. Elam Buckwalter, president
ol the Lancaster County Society
of Farm Women; Mrs, Elizabeth
Myers, home economics instruc
tor, Solanco High School; and
Mrs Ruth Kreibach extension
home economist.
JUDGES WILL BE Dr William
Duncan, Millersville State Teach
ers Colege, Wayne B. Rentchler
secretary of the Lancaster Coun
ty Soil Conservation District, and
Bussell Shelly, professional pho
tographer
The winner of the state title
will win a trip to New York City,
a wardrobe of new clothes and
will make personal appearance*
throughout the Commonwealth
Last year the Queen of the Fur
row was a Id-year-old farm gul
from Ohio
Feed, Hatchery
Interests Attend
Italian Show
The importance of good feeding
-- for which U S. feeds are avail
able in poultry raising will be
demonstrated by a U. S. Depart
ment of Agriculture exhibit at the
Italian National Poultry Show,
Which opens in Varese, Italy,
June 14
Several leading U. S, poultry
breeders will be at the Poultry
Show to develop business con
tacts.
The U. S. representatives will
be Charles A Denton, poultry nu
tritionist, USDA’s Agricultural
Research Service; J- L. Krider,
vice-president, Central Soya Com
pany, Fort Wayne,; W. W. Bridges
feed mill manager, Producers’
Grain Corporation, Amarillo,
Texas, and S. C. King, poultry
geneticist, Purdue University.
GOOD GERMINATION and vigorous growth are evident
here as Richard Miller, R 2 Mt. Joy, inspects his wheel
track planted corn field. Miller planted 32 acres of corn
using this method for the first time this year (LF Photo
Two Lancaster Comity Farmers Find
Wheel Track Corn Planting Okay
To speed heir planting opera
tions this spring, two brothers liv
ing near Florin, C. Richard Miller
and N Parke Miller, R 2 Mt Joy
switched to wheel track planting
for their corn crop.
Having no previous experience
with the method, they decided to
play it safe Instead of planting on
100 per cent plowed ground, they
ran over some of the rougher por
tions of the fields with a disc once
before planting
These were places where the
ground tends to be heavy and
tight Some other spots that were
plowed when the ground tended
to be too wet were also hit with
the disc.
HOWEVER THE bulk of the
crop was planted just as the soil
I lay after plowing.
The Millers like the method
now that they’ve tried it Richard,
who planted about 20 acres, said
that if the yields are as good as
with the conventional method, he
plans to continue using the wheel
track method.
The corn is up now, and any
doubts about the stand are gone.
The stand is very even and the
seedlings show good color and
vigour. An important item is that
some of the corn sprouts are two
or three inches high and there
are no weed seedlings out of the
giound.
The Miller brothers did not use
a pre-emergence spray.
THEY PLAN TO cultn ate once
after the coni gets well up and
the weeds begin to show. Two
cultivations might be needed
The Miller brothers do not farm
in partnership However Richard
got the idea this spring, approach
ed his brother with it and found
that he too had been thinking
S 2 Per Y«*ar
about the same thing
One tractor was used for plowing
and the other was ngged for
wheel track planting The rear
wheels were set in to 46 inches.
A two-row planter was used.
; IN PLANTING, a spacing of
' about 36 inches was made to com
-1 pr-nsate foi the extra wide rows
made by the planter However.
' no special equipment or modifica
: tions to the tractor or planter
were required
: The Millers found that good
plowing is the first essential in
j w heel track planting It took them
a while to get the plow adjusted
1 to give the type of covering ac
tion desired They added a sweep
! to the plow to help knock down
L trash and heavy growth.
Some of the fields were small
grains and otheis were old mea
dow and hay fields.
ANOTHER DISCOVERY about
the plowing job was made when
planting was started The tractor
with the rear wheels set in is
slightly harder to stem. And in
corn planting the rows must be
kept as straight as possible. But
when the furrow is crooked, the
planting tractor tends to follow
the furrow and thus crooked rows
art made.
Contour planting is not neces-
Sar% on the Millei farms because
there is little slope to the fields.
Much of the com will be used
for silage although some will be
allowed to mature for grain. The
Millers are steer and poultry feed
ers and as such use large quan-
tities of corn.
By using the wheel track meth
od, they feel that their corn will
cost them less this year a sav
ing that will stay in the pocket.