w ill This Pig Go To College? ► *** t"'’ s'ss+/KSry % HERSHEY ESTATES HERDSMAN John May (right) and Samuel Shotzberger. Lancaster, president of Pennsylvania Motor Truck Association’s Livestock Carriers Conference, inspect the registered Duroc which will be auctioned off at PMTA’s Fall Meeting, September 19. HARRISBURG Two Penn sylvania Motor Truck Association members will liteially “bring home the bacon” after PMTA’s Pall Meeting at Galen Hall, near Reading, September 18-19-20 And they’ll thereby launch a program directed at improving bleeding stock on farms in then areas. According to PMTA’s Farm Representative, George Wolff, th° Association will sell at auction to the highest bidder at the conven tion on September 19 two pure bred, registered female pigs, ready to fairow in four to six weeks One will be a Berkshire and the other a Duroc The pigs will be delivered to the winning bidders by members of PMTA’s Livestock Garners Conference But the story doesn’t end there Each ot the winners will present liis pig to a local farm boy or gul interested in developing a “pig proiect ” The youngsters agree to return to the donor two 1 emale pigs from the first littei farrowed by the ‘ gift” pig These dividend” pigs, the donoi then presents to two more farm youngsters under the same agreement Thus, PMTA’s Mr Wolf! points out, it is possible that each of the men who entered high bids for the pigs at the Galen Hall auction may, by the Erne PMTA’s Fall Meeting of 1961 rolls around, have piesented eight p,gs of premium stock to the bleeders of his county And the Cycle continues to 101 l Will PMTA make a piofit on Breeders Plan To Show Top Strains (Continued from Page One) Ray Schar Harrisburg, Pa, ex hibit chairman Another 20-odd entries are expected to be in be fore deadline tune on Sept 15 All landom laying test entries ending in the top quarter of the scoie of nel income are eligible for the display ' This will give exposition visi tors a firsthand look at a random sampling of the nation’s most fam ous strains.” Schar commented “Coupled with the data sheet on performance that will be attached to each cage, ponltrymen will have an unequalled opportunity to see for themselves what these birds look like and how they per form ” Close to 7,000 poultry growers from every part of the 14 north eastern states are expected to at tend the three day exposition In addition to a top flight line-up of speakers from the poultry world, the exposition includes such spe cial events as the selection of the NEPPCO-F FA. Star Poultry Farmer for the Northeast, a spe cial market egg show, and some 160 displays of the latest in poul try supplies, equipment and serv ices. i this auction and those it plans to lun at subsequent annual meet ngs’ Well, if it does, Vice Presi dent and General Manager Ed ward Gogolm says, the profits will no deposited in a fund from which PMTA hopes to found an annual agricultural scholarship at Penn sylvania State University The slyest, surest roden ticide of them all Lures them with its sweetness, kills them quick' * JMllllllllllllllllllllllllllillllllllilllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll The SHAVER nH I G H HEN-HOUSED PRODUCTION Shaver Starcross layers averaged 289 eggs per bird housed at four separate test locations over 2000 miles apart GOOD EGG SlZE—Eggs lllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllNlllllllillllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll “The Best Gol-Durned RAT - KILLER YOU CAN BUY” ROCKLAND RAT - OLA &OCKLANC CHEMICAL COMPANY West Caldwell* New Jersey laid by Shaver Starcross leghorns averaged 26 2 ounces per dozen. OUTSTANDING BREEDING PRO- GRAM —The Shaver Poultry Breeding Farm, Ltd. of Galt, Ontario, maintains a constant testing program, supervised by three of the continents top geneticists, and involving 108 strain crosses, conducted at four widely separated locations in Canada and two in the States The results of each cross are evaluated on their performance at all locations. 15-Year-Olcl Boy Winner of Cooking Contest DENTON, MD A freckle faced and husky boy of 15, Jim my Collins Bennett by name, up set the girl contestants in the junior division of the National Chicken Cooking Contest, and walked off with top honors for his dish called “Imperial Chicken of Tomorrow” The contest was sponsored here by the 11th Annual Delmaiva Chicken Festival Jimmy regaled in the winner’s tobe -“and crown, received a Ist prize of a $250 kitchen range and $l5O in cash from Delmarva His prize from the Poultry and Egg National Board, an engraved sterling silv'er tray, was present ed by Lloyd H Geil, General Manager of PENS. TOBACCO GROWERS-Don’t risk ivet-iveather planting delays next spring I Kill weed seeds this fall with one application of DuPont VPM SOIL FUMIGANT Treat beds with Du Pont VPM soil containers Ask your supplier today fumigant this fall and you’ll effectively for Du Pont VMP! control weed seeds . . . be assured of q h a n chemicals, follow label instructions abundant, healthy seedlings next and learnings careudiy spring VPM saves labor, cuts pro- . _ . j ar duction costs, requires no gas-tight lMf| M |«/| cover It’s easy to apply as a soil vUJU MNpjL/ Ya. if* drench with power equipment or hand soil fumigant sprinkler. Available in 1,5, or 30 gal. Better Things lor Better Uvlng thlough chemistry VPM and other DuPont Agricultural Chemicals distributed by J. C. EHRLICH CO. 738 E. Chestnut St., Lancaster GREIDER LEGHORN FARMS, INC. . . . an achievement of Canada’s great breeding farm presents + V I r, I * £ * iiuiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiuiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiiiiiiiiiimi 111111111 l Lancaster Farming, Friday, September 5, 1958—5 FFA Degree To Be t Continued from page one ) be in the National FFA Ofhce not l:ter than midnight ot June 30, or shown, by postmark or other re liable evidence, to have ben mail ed to the National FFA Ofticc on or before June 15, prior to the national convention at which the application will be considered No additions or corrections will be accepted Applications must be neatly prepared on forms supplied by th<> National Executive Secretary Amencan Farmer candidates must be recommended by the Na tional Boaid ol Directors and Na tional Board of Student Officers and receive a majority vote of the delegates present at a na t.onal convention of FFA All three ot the Lancaster STARCROSS 288 1 4 ■y 4 Write or Phone Mt. Joy OL 3-2455 Greider Leghorn Farms, Inc. C 7 MT. JOY, R. 1, PA. Awarded County Degiee winners were well over the minimum qualification^. The Gaiden Spot chapter whico is located at Lampeter-Strasburg High School has pieviously had a total of 12 bovs who have won the degree The chapter which was started in 1930 by Wayne Rcnlschler had a total of 6 de grees awaided while he wa-> teacher of Vocational Agncultuia at the school The present teacher George Mvers, began his duties there in 1949 and since that time f! degrees have been received For Solanco chapter it is the second degree in the history ot the department Last year the do -iioe was awarded to Lester Wiker Quarryville R 3 Teachers of Vo cational Agriculture at Solanco nt Jackson H Ow r en Ralph Bitlcr and William Fredd Hvery low mor tality Laying house mortality for a peuod of 12 months at four locations was only 1 67 c h, or over 98 hens remaining out of every 100 pullets housed. . EXCEPTIONAL FEED UM CONVERSION Shaver Starcross layers produced a dozen eggs for each 3 83 pounds of feed consumed, or 4 pound less than the average of the other strain-crosses and hy brids tested. Phone EX 3-2489. SHAVER B P iimiiiiiiiniminimiiiiiiiii:,.nni,^-
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