's. NO. 32
DONALD TRIMBLE, QUARRYVILLE Rl, stands beside Beauty, the first club calf
owned On the other side of Beauty is her first offsprings and the first FFA project
fer Donald had. The other cow in the picture is from the same cow family on
icli the State FFA reporter is building his future dairy herd. Beauty is headed for a
»r 600 pounds” fat record this year. Her first daughter is in her second lactation and
lomg well too. —L. f. PHOTO
leather
jives Break
Fo Farmers
Clear skies and high tem
eratures during the week
elped courdy farmers catch
p on some of the late farm
Most of the barley has been
irwted with exceptionally
yields being reported in
wit parts of the county in
xte of the widespread lodg
ig of the crop. Reports of
wrc than 80 bushels of bar-
V per acre have been re
nted from several sections
E the county. Reports indi
rio that most of the barley
is clean and bright ev
* with the plentiful spring
“**• Most of the barley
rew has been baled.
haymaking weather
emitted county farmers to
I t ua hy complete first cut
''g harvests. Curing of the
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f*ARM Calendar
6—B pm. - Red Rose
Baby Beef and Lamb club
the home of Harold
of Marietta R. D. 1.
farm Safety demonstra
u*® and home made ice
t l ' Kln ' |r,riy.
am. - Keystone
~ ‘am aud ewe sale in
~’ c farm Show Building,
'iaiTKburg
J l " - Meeting of the
, ts and Saddles light
“wse and pony 4-H club
J h »rne of Floyd Ruhl
Wsnheim R 3
I district demon
jf,.’!oll eliminations at
Coif^ -10 am * Lancaster
ftpw , Svvme Producers
j am . cia >' at the farm of
» Martin, Blue Ball,
tvj. p 130 Pm. - Lancas
frs t.° unty Swine Produc
ts Gilt sale at the
!« t>r ar tin sales stab-
Ue Ball
- t All Day - National
banners Nortlieast
t r ' Fly-In at tlie L.
Sq lWi , i^ an airport, Kennett
d «ormT 7 30 p - m> ' Scout '
ty p , a ■ Lancaster Coun
ty tr, re Farmers to be
s of County Boy
Phila. Milk Marketing Order
Is Partially Suspended
The U. S. Department of
Agriculture this week sus
pended from the Philadel
phia milk order for the
months July through Sep
tember the supply-demand
adjuster of the order’s pric
ing formula.
This will have the effect of
maintaining during July, Au
gust, and September the
same annual level of Class 1
price that has applied during
the three months of April
through June. It-will prevent
a 40-cents per hundredweight
reduction in the annual price
level which otherwise would
have occurred.
The suspension was re
quested by a cooperative as-
Hcw Wheat Variety
Redcoat Looks Good In County
Redcoat, a new variety of
winter wheat, was the main
attraction at the demonstra
tion plots on the Ralph
Brenneman Farm near Cress
well when county wheat
growers met there on Tues
day evening.
Not yet available for com
mercial production, Redcoat
has outyielded Pennoll by
four bushels per acre m tests
on plots at The Pennsylvania
State University, Elmer Filer
plant specialist at the Uni
versity told the group
Some thirty varieties of
wheat are in the Parentage
of the new wheat which was
about twenty years in
development Pifer said. On
ly abou,t fifty bushels of the
pedigreed seed stocks were
available to registered wheat
seed producers last year. The
foundation stock from this
seed will go the seedsmen
who will plant about 1,000
acres this fall. This could
mean that upwards of 40,000
bushels of the seed could be
available to farmers in time
for planting in 1961.
Redcoat in tests has been
shorter in the straw than
the three popular varieties
in the county. Over the past
five years, Redcoat has been
eight inches shorter than
Pennoll, four inches shorter
than Seneca, and three inch
es shorter than Dual.
The new variety, develop
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Lancaster, Pa., Saturday. July 2, 1960
sociation and milk handlers
representing a substantial
supply of milk for the mark
et.
Revision of the supply-de
mand adjuster of the Phila
delphia order has been under
consideration for some time.
Following a hearing in Phila
delphia m October and No
vember 1959, USDA issued a
“recommended decision” in
March 1960 which recom
mended setting up a revised
supply-demand adjuster in
lieu of the one which h,as
been a part of the order for
the past nme years. Such re
vised supply-demand adjust
er would not have resulted
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LOOKING OVER THE NEW wheat variety are Elmer
Pifer, left, Penn State Extension agronomy specialist, and
Ralph Brennefnan, on the Brenneman farm on Tuesday ev
ening. Redcoat, the new wheat variety developed by Pur
due University has outyielded Pennoll by four bushels per
acre m tests at the University during the past five years.
Seed of the new wheat will not be available to farmers un
til the fall of 1961. —-L F PHOTO
Cow Families Are Basis
Of Don Trimble Herd
Five cows from one cow
family are the foundation
upon which a young dairy
man at Quarryville El hopes
to build his dairy herd.
Beginning almost 9 years
ago with one purebred Hol
stein heifer as a 4-H project,
Donald Trimble, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Daniel Trimble,
today is well on the way to
becoming established in the
dairy business.
“I still have that first heif
er and all her heifer calves.”
Don says. ‘‘This year I ex
pect her to produce 600 lbs.
of fat. The way she is pro
ducing now, she will come
very close to it if she doesn't
go over six hundred”
When Don enrolled in the
vocational agriculture course
at Solanco High School,
Quarryville, he took the first
May Milk Records
Hurst Herd Tops DHIA
The nineteen registered
and grade Holsteins in the
herd of Titus M. Hurst, Lititz
R 2, posted the highest herd
average in the Red Rose Dai
ry Herd Improvement Assoc
iation for the month of May
according to the monthly re
port released this week.
The Hurst herd averaged
1808 pounds of 3 8 per cent
milk for 68 pounds of butter
fat per cow. Second in
the ranking was the Red
Rose Research Center, Pitney
Road, Lancaster with 1553
pounds of 4.2 per cent milk
and 66 pounds of butterfat
for each of the 15 registered
Holsteins.
The high record for com
pleted 305 day lactaton her
longs to “Jewel”, a register
ed Holstein in the herd of
Everett Newswanger, Kinz-
$2 Per Year
heifer calf from his founda
tion cow as his first FFA pro
ject. This heifer is now well
along in her second lactation
and is on her way making
another outstanding record.
Last spring, Don rented a
60 acre farm on the halves.
It is on this farm that he
milks his six cows plus three
belonging to his brother Paul
and one owned by his father.
"For awhile I was shipping
five cans a day from those
ten cows ” Don said, "But
then I had to be away for a
few days and I can’t quite
get them back up to produc
tion. It takes individual at
tention all the time, and the
cows get to know one per
son.”
Don "had to be away for a
few days” when he went to
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ers HI. Jewel produced 17,-
814 pounds of milk and 723
pounds of fat with a test of
4 1%.
Second high in the com
pleted lactation records was
a registered Holstein in the
herd of Noah W. Wenger, of
Manlieim R 3. Dunlog pro
duced 712 pounds of fat in
19,060 pounds of milk with
a 3.7 per cent test. No other
cow in the association topped
700 pounds for the year end
ing in May.
The single cow with the
high butterfat record for the
month was the registered
Holstein of Wilbur Hiestand,
Salunga. Tne Hiestand cow
made 74 pounds of butterfat
in 1,313 pounds of 5.6 per
cent milk.
Five herds in the associa
tion posted averages of over
60 pounds of fat for die
month. In addition to the
Hurst and Red Rose herds,
the Abram G. Flory Jr. Ayr
shire herd, the Hiram S.
Aungst Holstein herd and the
Raymond and Louise Witmer
Guernsey held all had 60 or
more pounds of fat per cow.
A total of 38 herds had aver
ages of between 50 and 60
pound per cow, while 335
herds produced over 35 lbs.
per cow.
FIVE - DAY
WEATHER
FORECAST
Saturday - Wednesday
Near normal or slightly
below normal temperatur
es are predicted for the
next five days. Normal
temperatures range from a
high of 86 in the afternoon
to a low of 65 at night. A
little cooler Sunday be
coming warmer by Tues
day. Otherwise little day
to day change is expected.
Showers Saturday & Mon
day through Wednesday
may total 1/2 inch. Rain
fall during June totalled
2.88 inches or 1.13 inches
below the 4.01 normal for
the month. Average Juno
temperatures were about
one degree below the nor
mal.