Mary K. Bettendorf, Librarian, Vol, 111. No. 39. Small Grains Mostly Harvested Between Rains The small gram harvest in this area is generally completed as farmers took advantage of half days of good dry cutting weather to get m the wheat and oats crops Corn is in the tassel and silk stage, some for as much as two weeks now All indications are that this is to be a good corn year and yields should be excel lent Hay generally has been reduc ed in quality by rains over the past month Many farmers lost cuttings caught on the ground by sudden rains Most of the quality loss came from the hay being ram ec on as it lay on the field The tonnage is good and it ap pears that at least four cuttings of alfalfa will be available gen erally this year. The state Crop Harvesting Serv ice reports that all vegetables in general are doing good Snap bean harvest is underway in Pot to County. Early tomatoes are moving to market and are of nice size and color. But potatoes in scattered sections are starting to lot in the ground because of too much moisture. Early peaches in the southern part of the state are moving in small volume. Summer'rams have helped the sizing of all fruit be yond expectations. During the past week the state temperature high was 93 degrees in Philadelphia on July 31 Th“ low in the state was 53 degrees at Wellsboro on Aug. 2 Heading has reported a total of 182 inches of rain during the week ending Aug. 4 Normal is 91 inches At Safe Harbor total rainfall to on y inches. -v Bth Poultry Festival to Be Aug. 21-24 The Pennsylvania P ® ustl J' n Fed oration will hold its Btb j*££' V.,nltrv Fe cf "-‘f at Herslley - Penns>lve» ia > Aug 21 through 24, fn moderation with Pennsylvania D The traditional chicken barbe c„e put on by the is Uus year expected to exceed 50. 000 halves of cuckens, a record foi any S inu tir aCtlvlty In the . / ct,ts Preparations are Lmted Sta tQ barbecue more being .TOqq ha j ves 0 f chickens ““aiy of the Festival to help the crowds attending the Kenneth Skiles Wins Berk Gilt pi Swine Producers Field Day A young Berkshire gilt from 4; Masonic Home farm was the j.fize won by Kenneth Skiles. IJ2 ' .arvon, as top swine judge at ll'he annual Lancaster County Swine Producers Field Day held at Masonic Home Saturday Other winners in the adult di vision were Bruce Boyd, HI Ephrata, James Martin, R 2 New Holland; Paul Ebaugh, R 1 East Earl, and Ralph Dietz, Annville Darvm Boyd, R 1 Ephrata. won the first place in the youth divi sion. Second place was won by Glenn Smoker, R 5 Lancaster, third was James Dombach, R 2 Lancaster; fourth was Wilbur Hosier, R 3 Manheim, and fifth, Quarryvillp (Lancaster County) Pa., Friday, August 8, 1958 LANCASTER COUNTY will be represented in' the finals of the “Queen of the Furrow” contest iby-'iS-year-old Rose mary Andrews Miss Andrews was selected to represent a five-county area'm seini-fjn-'U* held Saturday night at Hershey. _ ' (LF Photo) Star Farmer Picked; To Be Announced Oct. 14 A panel of judges this week met in Washington to select the l<)58 Stai Farmer of America. winner will be announced at thd Future Farmers of Ameri ca ConvehV.on in Kansas City on ; Oct 14 National Plowing Contests, a high light of Pennsylvania Dutch Days Included in the Poultry Festi val will be exhibits of fancy game birds, water fowl, 12 varieties of turkeys and chickens trained to ring a cash register for their feed. Climaxing the Festival will be contests selecting Miss Pennsyl vania Poultry Industry for 1958 and the Pennsylvania Poultry Cooking Champion The contests Vvill be held Saturday, Aug. 23 Kenneth Dombach Dr. Dwight Younkm PSU swine specialist, told the swine breeders and growers about plans for a proposed boar testing station to be established at Penn State. He also proposed that plans be made of organize a slate swine association that would represent commercial groweis as well as breeders. Also on the program was Larry Gobbles of the animal husbandry department of Penn State and M. M. Smith, Lancaster county agent. Chairman of the event was C Warren Leminger, R 2 Denver, president of the association Guernsey Field Day to Be Held At R. F. Witmer’s The annual Guernsey Breeder’s Assn field day will be held Aug 13 at the farm of Mr. and Mrs Raymond F Witmer, R 1 Willow Street. This modern dairy farm is lo cated about eight miles south of Lancaster on Route 222 The Witmer herd topped the county in DHIA testing for the Guernsey breed last year. The herd made an average of 578 0 pounds of butterfat Speaker at the event will be Frank D Brown Jr., Port De posit, Md. He will speak on the Ml. Ararat Farms operations Judging contests will begin at 10 a m Roger Emig, field super visor of the Southeastern Penn sylvania Artificial Breeding Co operative will be judge Theie will be three classes men, ladies and junior Prizes will be awarded to the high scorers m each class On the Witmer farm, one of the leading attractions is a forced hot air hay dryer that has been remodeled from an old tobacco shed. Witmer also makes exten sive use of his irrigation equip ment in his quality roughage pro gram. Lunch will be served by Farm Women 14 for a dollar a plate The field day committee is Ja son Weaver, Raymond Witmer, and John Graybill. Miss Andrews Takes Area 2 Title In “Queen of the Furrow” Contest Lancaster County will be repre senled in the finals of state “Queen of the Furrow” contest by Miss Rosemary Andrews, R 7 Lan caster. Miss Andrews won the area semi-final contest held at Hershey Saturday night The 18year-old redhead won out over contestants from Dauphin, Schuylkill, Lebanon and York Counties There were 10 girls in the contest She was presented with two bouquets of flowers and a wrist watch The flowers were present ed by Alfred Dugan, agricultural supervisor of the Milton Hershey School and by Christian Musser, chairman of the York County Soil Conservation District Jim Sedg wi(k, representing American Steel and Wire, presented the watch THIS IS THE second watch that Miss Andrews has received The first was presented at the county contest at Millersville State Teachers College on June 23 It was awarded by the county Soil Conservation District, spon sor of the local contest Others m the area contest were Misses Ruth Ann Carrol, Peach Bottom, Donna Landis and Cyn thia Zell, Dauphin County, Ce celia Tice and Charlotte Miller, Schuylkill County, Rachel Sang er and Barbara Roe, Lebanon County, and Margaret McPherson and Bonnie Abel, York County Miss McPherson, one of the Yoik County contestants, is the present state poultry queen She will give up her title to the 1958 “Miss Pennsylvania Poultry In dustry” at a contest to be held at Hershey on Aug 23 A buffet dinner at Palmyra for the contestants, their parents and officials preceded the contest Saturday MISS ANDREWS IS a graduate of Lampeter-Strasburg High School and was May Queen this year. She was runner-up for the Lancaster County Poultry Indus try Queen title She plans to enter college at Westminster Choir College, Pnnston, N J, this fall. In the state contest to be held at Hershey Community Theater Aug 15, Miss Andrews will com pete with nine other girls from all parts of the state THE LUCKY WINNER, in ad dition to presiding over the Na tional Plowing Matches and Con servation Exposition, will receive a complete wardrobe, a “dream weekend” with her parents in New York City, and numerous ladio and television appearances This is the first and probably Cigar Filler Stocks Down 3.6 Million Pounds on July 1 From Year Ago The federal government this week announced that dealers and manufacturers held leaf tobacco inventories totaling 4,609 mil lion pounds as of July 1 This is 237 million pounds below the figure of a year earlier Cigar filler stocks were down 3 6 million pounds from a year ago The total of type 41-44 tobac co now in stock is pegged at 137,359 million pounds. Stocks of flue-cured were down eight per cent from the previous July The marketing year for flue-cured tobacco is on a July- June basis, and total disappear ance (exports plus domestic dis- $3 Per Year only occasion in which a Pennsyl vania farm girl will preside as ‘ Queen of the Furrow” over the National Plowing Matches since this event is held m a different side each year JUDGES FOR THE area con test were Mrs Richard Redman, former Powers model now wife of the manager of WHP, Harris burg, Clarence Funk, of the Farm Bureau Co-op information sen - ice, and C S Jackson, vocational agriculture supermsoi for Ches tei and Delaware Counties Slated to judge the state con test are Jack Brand of the United States Steel Houi, Miss Lenore Brundige, fashion editor of the 1 ittsburgh Press, Richard Red mond, manager of WHP and WHP-TV Harrisburg, Mrs L H. Bull, wife of the deputy secretary oi agriculture, and David Unger, Soil Conservation Director, Har nsbuig Master of ceremonies at the re cent contest and to be MC of the finals is Robert Malick, WGAL TV farm director Barbeque to Be Held Aug. 9 For Lampeter Fair A chicken barbeque for the benefit of the West Lampeter Community Fan will be held Aug. S (tomorrow) at the Lampeter Community Center Barbeques will be served m the pavilion from 4 pm. to 8 p m Carry-out service will also be available at these times. From 3 to 5 pm there will be a calf roping contest by the Lap and Tap Roping Stock The price for tickets will be $1 50 for adults and $ 75 for chil dren Roy B Herr is general presi dent of the barbeque and Harold Rohrer is fair president. Wayne B. Rentschler is secretary-trea surer for the fair Chairmen of the various com mittees for the barbeque are as follows Publicity, Wayne B. Rentschler, purchasing, Harold Rohrer, tables and grounds, B. Snavely Garber and Leßoy An diews; barbeque pit, Mark Myer, supervisor and J. Lloyd Rohrer, chairman, parking, Isaac Herr; serving lines, Mrs Leßoy An drews, take out service, Mrs. Frank Leed; table service, Mr. and Mrs Paul Rowe; and play ground supervision, Mrs Robeit Adams. appearance) during the year just ended was 1,178 million pounds (1,170 million the year before) based on July 1 stocks. Domestic consumption of flue cured which had been declining in recent years turned upward, and this increase more than bal anced lower exports. Significant decreases from the previous July 1 wete shown in stocks of flue-cured, down nine per cent, dark air-cured, down 10 per cent, and cigar binder, down 13 per cent Shade grown cigar wrapper was the only do mestic kind with larger stocks this July 1 than a year earlier.
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