I NO. 8
-DIXIE PRETTY POSES with her owner, Ralph Edwin Harnish II at
Kg after being named, Grand Champion Female Ayrshire of the show. The 14
ffhowman, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Harnish, Christiana Rl, has shown the
Bold heifer to five grand championships, six junior championships, a senior
Hphip, and seven first place class ribbons. Dixie has yet to be beaten in class
ffn —LF PHOTO
KDon't forget the Chicken Barbecue at
Center todayll Delicious Golden
Hvn Halve? of Chicken cooked over Qui
ff charcoal fires and wrapped in foil. At
B 5 p.m. at the Poultry Center, Roseville
ff and the 230 by-pass. First come first
Stose DHIA Plans Banquet
Hi Rose Dairy Herd
Bent Association has
■ the speaker for
Hpal banquet -which
Bid in Hostetler’s
Ball, Mount Joy on
B evening January
Bker is Mr. Earl D
Bresident of Warn-
B, Inc of York.
Bner has often been
Wjp as a world trav-
Bhas visited forty
Bountnes and has
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| Calendar
B* 7:30 Pm, -
ff 4-H tractor at L.
Bakers Farm Equip-
W Open Space
ffan Sprawl forum
ffstrong’s Auditor
■fliam Whjte, will
ffpeakcr
B* 7.30 pm -
B 4-H tractor club
■ Matz Farm Equip-
Benver.
BO — 130 p m -
|Pride Fruit meet
ffe Lancaster Coun
■ Bureau, Diller
ffd- Disease and
|pecialists from the
be present.
Ba- Meeting of
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PROMENADE ALL AROUND THE RING as the square dance team from the Fulton
Grange won a blue ribbon in competition on Tuesday evening. Square dancers are right
to left, Cathy Gilbert, Christiana; Clair Murphy, Peach Bottom; Beverly Styer, Drumore;
Earle Gilbert, Christiana; Nancy Jane Groff, Greene; Gerhard Neustadter, Holtwood Rl;
Dottie Black, Peach Bottom; and Stanley Stauffer, Quarryville Rl. Alternate on the
team but not shown was Karol Stver, Drumore. Two other teams from the senior ex
tension ciub - in the county won red ribbons in the contest. All three teams were in the
mixed age division. —LF PHOTO
Lancaster. Pa„ Saturday, January 16, 1360
County Hatchery Owner
Addresses State Session
The problem of poultry
raisers lies in surplus pro
duction, Martin Musser, Mt.
Joy poultryman, said at the
1960 Pennsylvania Farm
Show held this week at Har
risburg.
There need only be a few
percentage points ot surplus
County Show Exhibitors
Bring Home The Ribbons
Lancaster Countains prov
ed their right to' claim the
title Garden Spot for their
home base this week as
they carried off a goodly po
rtion of the blue and some
of the purple rosettes in the
hotly contested judging ev
ents at the state farm show_
this week.
Grand championship aw
ards in the livestock divis
ions went to Ralph Edwin
Harnish, Christiana Rl, for
his Ayrshire Heifer and to
Glenn Foreman, Manheim
R 4, for his Angus steer. Ma
sonic Homes Farms showed
the Garnd Champion Arysh
ire Bull. Reserve awards we
re picked up by Fred Hess
of Bareville Rl with his fat
Hampshire Lamb, and C.
Author Speaks
'Open Space and Urban Sprawl'
“Open Space and Urban
Sprawl” is the title of the
address which will bo deliv
ered by William H. Whyte,
Jr., Associate Editor of For
tune Magazine, at a forum
sponsored by the Conestoga
Valley Association on Janu
ary 18.
Lo,cal government and
farm officials will join with
to demoralize the market,
he said. For every one per
cent of surplus, there is a
drop of several percent in
price.
Speaking on “The Bank’s
Relation to Poultry Farm
ing,” Musser, who is a suc
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$2 Per Year
Warren Leininger, Denver,
showed his junior spring sp
otted Poland China Gilt to
the reserve spot in tlidl bre
ed.
The only exhibitor of bre
eding sheep from the coun
ty, Mrs. Milton Morgen, of
- 1916 New Holland Pike, won
red ribbons with her young
Suffolk ram and ewe and a
blue ribbon with her pen
of three lambs.
In the crops division, Lan
caster county exhibitors vir
tually made a clean sweep
of the tobacco judging. Paul
Trimble, Quarryville Rl, to
ok first place for the sec
ond consecutive year, in the
4-H corn competition, while
David M. Landis took first
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Mr. White in discussing some
of the problems facing areas
of industrial and domestic
housing development when
the forum convenes at 8:00
pm. in the Armstrong Audi
torium.
Summations of the local
problems will be given by
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4-H Baby Beef
Title Returned
To Lancaster Co.
Glen Foreman, 18, Man
heim, R 4, who won the
grand championship in 4-H
Baby Beeves at the 1957
Farm Show repeated with
“Rex II”, 980 pound Angus.
His second grand champion
ship steer was named for
“Rex”, his winner three
years ago, also an Angus.
“Rex II” was bred by Mark
Hosier, Manheim R 3.
Foreman, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Harrison Foreman, and
a senior in Manheim Central
High School, has been feed
ing 4-H steers for eight
years and has shown at three
Farm Shows. “Rex II”
weigh-ed 435 pounds when
Foreman started feeding him
November 23, 1958.
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FIVE - DAY
WEATHER
FORECAST
Saturday - Wednesday
Temperatures for the
next five days will aver
age about 2 degrees be
low normal. Normal tem
peratures for this lime of
year range from a low of
25 at night to 40 in the af
ternoon. Colder over the
weekend, warmer Monday,
colder Tuesday or Wed
nesday. Rain or snow
likely on Monday and a
gain on Wednesday. Pre
cipitation during the past
week was .37 inch of rain,
freezing rain, sleet, and
snow on the 12th and 13th,
and the rain on Friday
bringing' the total to over
.8 inch for the week.