16—Lancaster Farming, Friday, September 12, 1958
Consumer Role In
Agriculture is
Farm Show Theme
HARRISBURG “Agriculture
Everybody s Business” will be
Hie theme of the 1959 Pennsyl
vania Farm Show the Faun Show
Commission announced today
The Slate Farm Show will be
held next January 12 through 16,
making it the 43rd since the event
v. as founded in 1917
State Ague ultimo Societaly
William L Henning, chairman
of the Farm Show Commission,
toda\ pointed out that the theme
was chosen to emphasize the im
poitance of agncultuie to eveiy
Pennsylvanian, “especially the
consumers of Pennsylvania farm
foods ”
"Moie than one third of the
people in the Commonwealth de
pend on agriculture for ail or part
ot then living,” Henning said
"The growing, processing, trans
portation selling and serving of
farm food products is a huge busi
ness Another mammoth business
has developed in caring for the
farmer’s needs m producing this
food ”
For the coming show the com
mission has provided a record
cash premium offering of $62,
237 50 This is more than $lOOO
above the 1958 record premium
total Premium allocations repre
sent increases for 12 of the 30 de
pai tments of the next Farm Show.
Pennsylvania dairymen will vie
for a total of $17,034, the largest
amount offered in any of the 30
Faim Show departments Beef
cattle showmen will be trying
fei 59.653, and poultrymen will
divide $9,328 50
The Farm Show Folk Dance
SAVES CORN, TIME and MONEY
Early picking, with your own Allis-Chalmers Corn
Picker, is the sure way to highest yields and lowest
field losses. SURE-FLOW Design takes heavy yields
in stride:
• Long, low snouts and adjustable stripper plates
for sure, gentle, non-stop picking.
• Rotaiy feeder, keep ears on the move to xubber
on-rubbei husking rolls.
• 2-Row Model 33 fits WC, WD and WD-45
Tractors.
1-Row Model 35 fits any 2 or 3-plow tractor.
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SALCS AND SERVICE \fT
L. H. Brubaker
Lancaster, Pa.
Mann & Grumelli Farm Sen.
Quarryville, Pa
N. G. Myers & Son
Rheems, Pa.
Snavelys Farm Service
Festival, presented for the first
time at the 1958 show, will get a
boost at the 1959 Farm Show.
Premium awards offered winning
square and folk dance teams total
f 870, an increase of $l2O A maxi
mum of 480 pople may enter the
eicnt which will give a total of
60 sets opportunity to strive for
the prize money
Premium totals for other de
partments include horses, $3,850,
sheep, $4,950, swine, $2,94(, dairy
products, $2lO, corn, $475; small
grams, $357, potatoes, $279, grass
silage, $396, hay, $432, tobacco,
$258, apples, $2,407, edible nuts,
$3lB, vegetables, $1,095, maple
products. $lB6, apiary products,
$9lO, Chnstmas trees, $249, wool,
$l7B, eggs, $640, baby chicks and
poults, $l9O, dressed turkeys.
$l5O, home economics, $2,746,
school demonstration contest,
$600,. school exhibitors, $B2O, trac
tor driving, $l6O, potato grading.
SI 08, and horse pulling contest,
$5OO
Record Crop Year
The biggest crop year on rec
ord is forecast as of August 1
by the Crop Reporting Board.
An estimated all-crop pro
duction index of 113 would be
considerably more than the
previous record of 106 set in
1948 and equalled in 1956 and
last year. The per-acre yield in
dex covering 28 leading crops
is estimated at 137 a record
high, and 8 per cent above last
year.
Prospects were for record
per-acre yields for com, wheat,
oats, rice, rye, dry beans, fall
potatoes, cotton,, sorghum, and
lecord production of soybeans,
wheat, and barley.
Nissley Farm Service
Washington Boro, Pa.
R. S. Weaver
Stevens, Pa.
L. H. Brubaker
Lititz, Pa.
SILO FILLING is in full swing on many
county farms this week. Corn is tall and
silos fill rapidly. Clarence (Pete) Bevins,
Peach Bottom, on the tractor at left does
custom harvesting for Orie Kilby (on the
other tractor) on his farm near New Texas,
Soil District Directors to Meet;
Hackman to Present Annual Report
Benefits to be reaped by Pen- ember 18 and 19 in Sunbury.
nsylvania farmers from the Nat- The Pennsylvania Association
lonal Plowing Contests and Con- of Soil Conservation District Dir
servation Exposition held August ectors also will hold its annual
21 and 22 at Hershey will high- me etmg, dunngthe conference in
light the annual conference of Sunbury Henry Hackman) Man .
Pennsylvania Soil Conservation hplm> Laneaster County> 1S presi .
District Directors to be held Sept- dent of the association through
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Peach Bottom RL Kilby filled his 10x45
foot upright silo with the first four acres of
his 16 acres of silo corn. He plans to store
the rest of his crop in a trench silo.
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Rohrerstown, Pa.
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out the year, including participa
tion in the conservation exposi
tion wheel, one of the mam cen
ters of attraction at the exposi
tion
State Agriculture Secretary
William L Henning, chairman of
the State Soil Conservation Com
mision, will stress some of the
benefits to accrue to the State’s
agriculture through the exposi
tion during a session of the Com
mission to be held in conjunction
with the conference.