14—Lancaster Farming, Friday, July 4, 1958
Progress Reports Show Plow Contest
To Be Largest Outdoor Ag Event
HERSHEY, Pa (SPECIAL)—
Progress reports showed todaj
the 16th National Plowing Con
test and Conservation Exposi
tion to be held here August 21
and 22 will be the biggest out
dor agncultural event in Penn
s.hania history I
‘ Leland H. Bull, Pennsylvania
(Deputy Secretary of Agriculture
and general chairman of the
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K-137 entries ranked FIRST
IN NET INCOME among all
nationally sold chicks entered
in three or more of the abore
tests. The average net income
from Kimberchiks was 56f
higher than the average of all
entries. Such consistent, prof
itable performance in a wide
▼ariety of environments should
’encourage you to order K-137
Kimberchiks this season.
Longenecker’s
Hatchery
1110 South Market St.
Elizabethtown, Pa.
mammoth exposition, said plan
ning is progressing as scheduled
and that “everything indicates
this will be the nation’s fore
most outdoor agricultural, ob
servance this year.’
Actually, Bull explained, the
exposition, termed the “World
Senes of Agriculture” will be
part of a six day schedule of
events including a colorful folk
festival, farm machinery display,
sheep dog championships, hay
show and beauty contest.
But he quickly stressed the
fact that displays and demonstra
tions of soil, water and wildlife
conservation will hold the center
of tha stae. Work started in April
on the first of three farm ponds.
During the exposition two more
ponds and a score of conserva
tion practices will be under con
struction with the most modern
machines available.
More than 2,300 acres of the
10,000-acre Milton Hershey Farms
will be used for the celebration
which begins August 19 with
the Pennsylvania State Plowing
Contest County champions will
compete for State level land
and contour plowing titles, and
entry in the national event. The
rain date is August 20
Another highlight of the six
day program will be “Pennsyl
vania Dutch Days,” a gay folk
festival that annually attracts
many thousands of persons from
all parts of the nation. This cele
bration, from Thursday, August
21 through Sunday, August 24,
emphasizes the traditions and
crafts of pioneer German farm
ers who settled in Pennsylvania
areas now commonly called “the
Dutch Country” in which the
town of Hershey (population 5,-
300) is located
The exposition is' the first of
Us type held East of Ohio and
on a single farming operation
anywhere The site is 14 miles
East of Harrisburg and adjacent
to the Pennsylvania Turnpike.
Opening day of the national
plowing championships will be
dedicated to “Pennsylvania Ag
i multure ” Governor George M.
Leader, the first farmer to be
come chief executive of the Key
stone State in nearly 150 years
will tour the exhibit and dem
onstration areas, address a
stadium and attend a plowmen’s
banquet. On August 22 tribute
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JOHN H. HAUCK, Tunkhan
nock, has joined the field
staff of Bowman-Martin de
velopment breeding farms.
He will devote most of his
efforts to organizing added
breeding flocks. He form
erly was owner-operator of
North Star Hatchery.
Butchers Fully
Steady, Active
At Chicago
CHICAGO, June 30 CATTLE 19,-
000 Receipts will exceed the estimate
bv around 500 head Slaughted steers
and heifers mostly steady, heifers a
long with steers weighing around 1,100
lbs down fairly activce, spots strong
on 900 1,100 lb steers, some slowness
on steers ovei 1,200 lbs Other classes
moderately active, steady to strong
liw loads prime 1,150 1,325 lb slau
ghter steers $3l-31 50, high-choice and
mixed choice and prime steers $2B 75
30 50, mostly $29-30, several loads most
ly prime 1,075 1,125 lb weights $3O
- 50, bulk average choice steers all
weights $2B 28 50, good to low-choice
$25 50-27 75, several loads steers in the
price range of $27 75 31 50, feedlot
motes of cattle that broght the same
prices last Wednesday, load high
choice 1,250 lb weights at $29 feedlot
mates of $2B 50 steers last Monday, few
loads utility and standard steers $22 50
25 00, load mostly utility 1,050 lb Hol
stems included at $23 50 Some mixed
choice and prime heifers $2B 25, most
good and choice, $25 28, utility and
standard $2O-24 Few standard cows
$22-23 50, utility and commercial $l9-
22 few utility Holsteins as high as
$2l 50 and some commercial beef bred
cows down to $2O 50, canners and cut
lers $l6-19 75, utility and commercial
bulls $23 50-25, cutters $2l 50 23
Most good and choice vealers $2B 31
Llihtj and standard $l9-28, culls down
to $l2
Load good and choice 726 lb year
ling stock steers $27 50, Stockers and
feeders in the smallest supply for any
Monday market in some time
HOGS 6,500 Fairly active, uneven,
mostly 25 cents higher on both butch
eis and sows Instances up more both
classes All interests in trade and early
clearance No 1 lots butchers very
scarce, particularly weights below 230
lbs U S No 2 and 3, 190 230 lbs $24 25-
24 50, around 300 head at $24 50 No 2
and 3, 250 270 lbs $23 50-24 Limited
volume No 2 and 3, 270-290 lbs $23-
2d 50, few lots No 3 up to 310 lbs down
to $22 50 and lot No 3, 330 lbs $22
Larger lots mixed grades 400 500 lbs
sows $l9 25 20 25, 325 375 lbs S2O 50
2150, few down to 300 lbs to $22 and
most 500.550 lbs $lB 50-19 25.
will be paid to the nation’s ag
riculture. Invitations 'have been
extended to President Eisen
hower whose Gettysburg farm
is but 50 miles from Hershey
and to U S. Secretary of Agri
culture Ezra Taft Benson.
The schedule of events in
cludes the sth annual Supreme
Championship Trials of. the
American Sheep Dog Society,
plowmen’s banquet, hay show,
livestock show and the Penn
sylvania Poultry Federation’s
annual Poultry Festival and
queen contest finals.
Several hundred Flying Farm
ers from all parts of the United
States and Canada are expected
to use the facilities of the Her
shey Air Park whick has re
served an area large enough to
park 400 planes Airplane tours
to outstanding farm areas near
by will be offered at low cost
Import events will be held in
a concentrated area centering on
a football stadium seating 15,000
persons. The plow areas will be
a short distance from the stad
ium.
Hostess for the exposition will
be a Pennsylvania farm girl who
will be selected on August 15
as National “Queen of the Fur
row ’
Large displays by farm mach
inery and equipment manufac
turers and dealers and conser
vation agencies will be housed in
a 25-acre tent city to be erected
in the center of activities
Thousands of persons will be
transported on tractor-pulled flat
bed farm wagons to the various
conservation demonstrations. 80
tractors will be used to pull
160 rubber-tired farm wagons
over a 2-mile sight-seeing route.
Adequate Accommodations for
Flying Farmers at Plowing Matches
Members of the National Flying
Farmers organization and pri
vate pilots were assured today
adequate accommodations will be
available at the 16th National.
Plowing Contest and Conserva
tion Exposition Aug 21 and 22
at nearby Hershey. Included in
plans is a 14-acre parking area
for 400 airplanes.
Leland H. Bull, Pennsylvania
Deputy Secretary of Agriculture
and general chairman of the cele
bration, said the exposition’s
avaiation committee has mapped
out plans to insure the safe oper
ation of aircraft during the event
which will spread over 2,300
acres of the 12,000-acre Milton
Hershey Farms
John W. MacFarlane, execu
tive director of the Pennsylvania
Aeronautics Commission, is act
ing chairman of the committee
which includes veteran private
pilots, reperesentatives of the
Pennsylvania Flying Farmers As
sociation, Civil Air Patrol and
■agencies of the Civil Aeronautics
Administration.
COMMITTEE MEMBERS have
scouted the terrain and facilities
of the Hershey Air Park located
close to the stadium area that
will be the hub of activities next
August, MacFarlane explained.
He added the committee has
stressed that proper air safety re
gulations and controls would be
in effect during the plowing
event expressed to attract thou
sands of visitors frpm all parts of
the nation Air traffic control,
communications, weather infor
mation and first aid facilities
have been studied by the group.
Hershey’s 2,500-foot airstrip is
seeded in heavy grass and will
permit landing and' take-off by
planes under DC-3 size.
SIGHT-SEEING AIR tours
over soil conservation areas in
nearby counties are planned. The
comnutte is considering the pos
sibility of establishing a heliport
for use m the transportation of
officials and important guests to
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and from key points. Bus service
will be maintained between the
Harrisburg State Airport and
Hershey.
Bull said International Harves
ter Company will serve as host to
all Fymg Farmers attending the
exposition, largest outdoor agri
cultural event ever held in the
state.
Each of the 5,000 members of
the National Flying Farmers or
ganization in the United States
and Canada will be invited by In
ternational Harvester to attend
the celebration wihch is being
held east of Ohio for the first
time.
Conservation of soil, water
forests and wildlife will be stress
ed throughout the celebration
which is part of a six-day sche
dule of events including the an
nual Pennsylvania Dutch Days.
Dead Animals
Removed
Promptly
Will Pay Full Value
For Dead Animals
Dealers in
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and Hides
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