VoL 4. No. 3
Federal-State Reports
October Chick Hatch Off
7% From 1957 Production
The Penna. Crop Report
ing Service announced this
week production of chicks
by commercial hatcheries in
the state during October to
taled 4,105,000, seven per
cent below October, 1957.
Broiler type production,
which'constituted 87 percent
of the total, was down a full
seven percent, while egg
type'cluck production, equal
ing 13 percent of the total,
was down two per cent, com
pared to October, 1957.
However, during the first
10 months of 1958, produc
tion of all kinds of chicks in
Pennsylvania was 13 percent
above production of the com
parable period in 1957.
Larger November hatches
than a year ago, PCRS re
ports, in the Middle Atlan
tic states, are in prospect.
Broiler type eggs and egg
type in incubators on No
vember 1 in New York, Ngw
Jersey and Penna. were one
and 18 per cent, respectively,
above Nov. 1 1957.
Nationally, the service re
ports, ' production of chicks
during October was up 12
percent from last year and
up 48 percent from the 1952-
56 average for the month.
Production during the month
totaled 149,012,000 chicks,
compared with 132,709,000 in
1957 and the- 1953-56 aver
age of 100,907,000.
Chicks produced for broil
ers were up 10 percent from
last year and egg-type chicks
were up 32 percent. Broil
er chicks produced during
October accounted for 89
EXPLAINING THE difference between, their prize-winning birds following the Eli
zabethtown-Donegal 4-H Club Capon Round-Up, are left to right, John Martin, Christ
Miller, Earl Koser, Mt. Joy Rotary president who was studying the-judging results, and
Bill Hackman. —LFPHOTO
4-H Capon Growers Show at Mt. Joy
MT. JOY— For approximately the 15th year, Mt. Joy
Rotarians served as sponsoring organization for the Eliza
bethtown-Donegal 4-H Capon Club Round-Up this week,
with eight members of the 4-H club entering 64 birds in ex
hibit competition.
Top exhibit pair of dressed capons was entered by
Christ Miller, Elizabethtown a complete monopoly ofhon-
R. D. 1, who also compiled ors m 1958 competition,
the highest project score for Miller was followed in ex-
percent of the total 131,894,-
000, compared with 119,701,-
000 in October, 1957.
US. production for Janu
ary through October reached
a total of 1,534,656,000 or 14
percent more than the pre
vious year’s comparable per
iod total. Egg-type chicks
hatched in the U.S. in Oc
tober totaled 17,118,000,
compared with 13,008,000 for
the month in 1957.
National ’ production 'of
egg-type chicks, January -
October, totaled 562,771,000,
or 14 percent greater than
that for the first 10 months
of 1957.
The USDA has predicted
larger November hatches
than a year ago of both
broiler and egg-type chicks,
are in prospect. More eggs
were in incubators on No
vember 1 for both types of
chicks than on November 1,
1957.
Farm Calendar
Dec. 6—County 4-H play,
Manheim Twp. elementary
school auditorium, 8 pm.
Dec. 9—26th Annual meeting
of Producers Co-op Ex
change, Coatesville, Guern
sey Pavillion, 7:45 pm.
Dec. 10—4-H Guernsey Club
Christmas Party. Time and
Place undecided.
Dec. 11—4-H Holstein Christ-
mas Party, George Rutt
home, Stevens Rl.
Dec 15—4-H Council Christ
mas Party, Betty Umble
home, 2350 Old Philadel
phia Pike, Lancaster.
E-town - Donegal Winners
Lancaster, Pa., Saturday, November 29, 1958
County Delegates Attending Nat l
4-H Club Congress in Windy City
Iris Martin
Betty Umble
hibit and project competition
by John Martin, Marietta R.
D. 1, club president, and
Bill Hackman, E-town R. D.
3. Jean Miller, sister to the
18-year-old champion exhib
itor won fourth place honors
in overall project scoring.
AGRfCtf!
Quartet To
Arrive Today
A quartet of Garden Spot
teen-agers carried Lancaster
county’s 4-H club represen
tation into the National Club
Congress in Chiciago today
The four- Ins Martin, dau
ghter of Mr. and Mrs. Nor
man Martin, 108 Clover
Heights Road, Lancaster; Bet
ty Louise Umble, daughter of
Mr and Mrs Leon M. Umble
2350 Old Philadelphia Pike,
Lancaster; J. David Lapp,
son of Mr. and Mrs. John B.
Lapp, Bareville RD. 1; and
Darvin Boyd, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Elmer L. Boyd, Ephra
ta R.D 1, entrained from Lan
caster Penn station Friday at
10 10 am. for Chicago.
Lapp and Boyd are slatfed
to compete m the National
4-H Team Demonstration
contests Tuesday as Penn
sylvania’s official eitry,
The two g’rls won their
convention trips with a top
bread making demonstration
during the August Pennsyl
vania 4-H Club Week com
petition at Penn State.
The Boyd and Lapp dem.-
onstrahon is on “Reducing
Livestock Shipping Losses”
and utilizes a model stock
truck, pens and cattle, along
with pieces of reccommen
ded and condemmed stock
handling equipment.
- County organizations and
businesses sponsoring the
club members trip include:
Farm Women’s Societies
Nos 13, 14 and 22; Lafayet
te Fire Company Auxiliary;
Witmer Fire Company Aux
iliary; New Holland and Lin
coln 4-H Community clubs;
Union Nat’l Bank, Mt. Joy;
S. H. Hiestand and Co., Sal
unga; Lancaster Livestock
Exchange; Lancaster County
Livestock Trucking Associa
tion; Baffin Manufacturing
Co., Lancaster; Galin Hard
ware, Lincoln; Lancaster
County Farm Bureau Coop.,
Some Changes
New Test Rules, Elections
Spark Red Rose DHIA Meet
Directors of the Red Rose Dairy Herd Improvement
Association this week established a January 1 effective
date for county milk testers to observe a new rule which
pcrohlibits testers from testing Herds in which they may
personally be interested. Authorization o± the regulation
by the local group was made
to bring local practices in
line with herd improvement
registry rules of the various
breed groups.
Under HIR breed rules,
testers are prohibited from
conducting milk tests in
herds where the tester has a
personal interest, such as_ in
herds owned in part by him
self, maintained on property
owned by the tester, or herds
owned by relatives
The organization announ
ced that the registered Hol
stein herd of Warren B. Grif
fith, Strasburg RD 1. aver
aged 1,310 lbs of milk and
56 pounds of butterat during
August tests.
The Raymond Witmer
Guernsey herd, Willow St.,
RDTI, produced an average
$2 Per Year
Darvin Boyd
David Lapp
Eby’s Mill, Lititz; Leßoy K.
Andrews, Excavating, Lan
caster; John J. Hoober Feeds,
Gordonville; John W. Esh
elman & Sons, Lancaster,
Farmers National Bank and
Trust Company, New Hol
land; Martin’s Hatchery, Lan
caster and Kurtz Bros. Con
crete, Ephrata.
of 982 lbs. of milk and 50
lbs of butterfat, while the
nine-cow herd of J. Harold
Balmer, Manheim, R D. 4,
averaged 1,266 and 50 lbs.
J. Rohrer Witmer, Willow
Street R D 1 Guernsey breed
er and dairyman, was re
elected as president of the
association, during the reg
ular meeting of the group s
board of directors.
The election signaled Wit
mer’s third consecutive term
in the office Also returned
for the third time, was Don
ald S. Eby, Gordonville Hol
stein breeder and DHIA vice
president.
Charles Long, Manheim R.
D.l, was returned as treas
urer and Robert C. Groff,
Quarryville RD. 1, was re
elected as secretary.