Navy K. Battendorf, Übrarlap IcuXtural 'LI l£ Peana. State University OB STATEeOLLEft*r tfcitweity P»irk, Penx». Vol. 11l No. 48. FINISHING A FIELD of 1958 corn nearly a month before other farmers in his neighborhood can hope to get in the field, Bob Hess, Quairyville, swings on the last “through” of early season harvest m this field. The picker-sheller can be hoisted from this equipment’s power system and a Egg-to-Cliick Winners Co. Birds Shine at HARRISBURG, Oct 8 Hubbard Farms, Inc, Lan c ister and DeKalb Hatchery, York made a clean sweep of Grand Championship honois in the 1958 EGG to CHICK Show of- the Northeastern Poultry Producers Council ex position at the Farm Show Building in Harrisburg, Tuesday through Thursday Hubbard’s Cornish Cross (Peterson X # 43 pullet) en try scored 89.43 points in the Meat Production Division to cop high honors in the first separate contest for this poul try grouping. DeKalb Yoik Hatcherj won Champion honois in the Cioss hied Egg division with their De- Kalb 121 entry scoring 93 31 points The 121’s vvent on to edge .mother Keystone' Staler Bur- Lng’s Hatchery, Oxford, Pa, "lose entry of White Leghorns ‘■(Died 92 47 points. 38 Entries in Event Thirty-eight entries from 19 halcheroes in the northeastern s ates competed in the contest It got underway early in September, v hen entrants shipped hatching esgs to the Mountain View Hatch eiv_ Dillsburg, Pa There judges caecked and scoied the eggs on s ich things as quality and she’d ’cvture When the entries popped the ->'lefts last week, the resulting chicks were scored on vigor uni 1 'Unity of size and color, condi i on and weight Hatchability was ilso a mdging factoi BurUng’s Hatcheiy won the White Leghorn Egg class and Quarryville (Lancaster County) Pa., Friday, Oct- 10, 1958 their New Hampshire entry scor ed 84 57 points to take top honors ,n the Miscellaneous Bleeds class Penna Farm Buieau Hatcher} Hcrnsburg. with its White Ply mouth Rock entry scoring 84 21 points won the Pme Breed Meat Division class Other winners included Penna FB, Hainsburg, 3rd, Misc Egg class, with New Hampshires, scoring 84 05 and 2nd in Puie Breed Meat class with White Americans scoring 79 95 Sweep of Crossbreds Indian River Poultiy Farm, Lancaster, joined with Hubbard Farms and Moore Farms, also of Lancaster to give local hatcheues a clean sweep of the crossbred meat class, backbone of the coun ty's broiler industiy The Indian River Cioss scoied 88 85 behind the Hubbard champs to take second, with Hubbaid winning third with a Cornish No 43 cross, scoring 86 72 points Moore Fauns, Inc with a Van tiess-Arbor Acres White Rock cross scored 86 26 points foi fouith place in the class Longeneckers Hatcheiy. Eliza bethtown, scored 88 51. less than four points behind the champion, grain combine dropped on, greatly reducing equipment costs In operation for the past four years on the Hess farm, this unit is considered a “must” in their operation, greatly reducing labor and expense in harvest Story on page 12 LF PHOTO NEPPCO Crowned Top Hen The nation’s champion laying hen as determined in the recent Missouri Egg Laying Test, is a White Leghorn owned by Darby Lcghoin Faim, Somerville, N J The new champion won her title on the basis of her per formance and that of members of her team in the tests The Darby bud pio duced 330 eggs in 35] days of the contest year, for a 94 17 per cent lay ing average Top buds in all the country s standard laying tests are eligible for competition m this prestige contest to take fifth in the lighth group ed White Leghorn egg class Pa PB dropped back 4*'2 points in the Crossbred egg class from the championship group, while Do Kalb York hatcheries followed their fust place with a 92 42 scoie on a gioup of DeKalb 101 s for second The FB enliy was a White Rock New Hampshire cioss PB also won thud in the Misc Egg class with 84 05 points on a New Hampshire egg - to - chick group (Continued on page five) State Crop Round-up HARRISBURG The first kill mg frost m the Keystone State this year occuned on October ? and coveied most of the noithein section of the Stale, the State De railment of AguculUue lepoited today Another killing fiost, this one extending into the central portion ol the Stale, occuned on Octoboi A Penns\lvania Crop Repoitmg Seivice survey shows that haying and vegetable harvest are com plete Among the faim activities still uadei wav arc apple harvest coin cnsjlage cutting and buckwheat harvest Winter grains germinated and giew vvell this fall and most fields h„ve good winter vegetables cov- Siatewidc tempcratuies aveiag ed near five degiees below the wcekh normal while precipitation was onl\ about 60 per cent of the . \pccted duung the week ended Monday Mild tenipeiatuies pie vailed the fiist two da\s, but a cold snap developed in midweek \\iih another and moie seveio cold period dining the weekend mopped tenipeiatuies as low as 2C degiees in the usuallv cold noith cential area Emporium was the cold spot dining the repoit penod wilh a low' of 18 degrees Philadelphia repoitea a total of 1 40 inches of ram to be the wettest spot m the Commonwealth $2 Per Year PL-480 Contract Signed with India The U S Department of Agu culture today announced commod ity details of an agreement be tween the Unxed States and In dia which provides for financing sale of $238 8 million worth (in cluding certain ocean transpoita tion costs) of U S. agricultural commodities for rupees (Indian currency), The agreement is the first to be concluded under Title I of the recently extended and expanded Agricultural Trade Development and Assistance Act of 1954 (Pub lic Law 480). This agreement will help India meet food shortage problems re sulting from a reduced food gram crop brought on by unfavorable weather conditions. The commodity composittion of the agreement is as follows Wheat/flour/hulgai (approxi mately 100 million bushels), $lB2 million Giam sorghums (approximate ly 200 000 metric tons) $8 million. Com approximately 100,000 me tric tons), $5 1 million Ocean transportation (estimat ed), $43 7 million Total $238 8 millions Sales under this piogram will lie made by private United States ladeis Details of pm chose authoriza tions will be announced when, such auhouzations are issued. Ihe issuance of purchase au- Ihonzations for wheat will pio vide for the purchase of 600,000 metnc tons v about 22 million bushels) ot white wheal under the agreement Twenty five pei cent of the ru pees obtained from these sales will be set aside for loans to Unit ed States and Indian private en terpuse These loans will be made b\ the Exportlmpoit Bank of Washington State Farm Prices Show Slight Rise DURING THE month ended Sept 15, the index; of prices re ceived by farmers rose nearly three per cent according to the Agricultural Prices Report re leased from Washington USDA headquarteis, Sept. 30. Record high prices for grape fruit, near record prices for oranges, and increases for beef cattle, eggs, milk and cotton were primarily responsible for the m ciease Partially offsetting were lower prices lor hogs, chickens, and coin On the other hand, the Sept. 15 index of piices paid by farm ers for commodities, services, faim wages, etc, was up one-third of one per cent fiom the month earlier. Theiofoie although the price index shows a gam for farmeis of tw'o pei cent in the pantj ra tio (he somewhat limited and specialized aiaa of gain, oflset by a shoit supply of some of these commodities and the overall cost inciease of farm needs, leaves the farm biumg dollai m a posi-' lion similar to one \ear ago
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