fsTNO- 36 TROPHIES ARE ADMIRED BY THE WINNERS and by the speaker at the annual ilstem Field day on Tuesday. Left to right are Stanley Wright, manager of Great ooks Farm, Carlisle, Mass, speaker at the meeting; Mrs Richard Hess, Strasburg Rl, nne’ of the Women’s division of the dairy cattle judging and runner-up in the total ntest, and Elam Bollinger, Mahheim Rl, grand champion of the judging contest Wright Ids the tiaveling trophy won by Bollinger,, but for only one year For permanent pos sum, the winner must take the championship spot for three yeais. The Field Day was Id on the farm of Clarence Keener, Manhdim R 3. L. F. Photo it Shady Brook Farm ■VaEking Horses Reign ■Polling lulls dotted with ■nncssee Walking Horse Btres and foals, a 200 year ■d stone farmhouse, miles ■d miles of dirt roads and ■(bng trails through beauti- Bl wooded river hills and i'F access by macadam ■ads is only a short descrip ■>n of Shady Brook farm in ■mmoie Township. ■ As jou drive down the hill ■ward Shady Brook Farm ■om Liberty Square, the ■st thing you see is the lush ■ream side pasture with the ■ates and foals relaxing in ■* sl ' a de or growing fat on ■* bluegrass and mixed ■tees growing in the old ■tabhshed meadows. ■ On the bank above the ■t the old stone house ■j 1 tlle cornerstone bearing B 8 date 1765. A dutch even ■ olle side of the house ■'? s cadence of the bread and butchering once Paium Calendar 30 —l pm. - bred gilt' * n a hoar pig sale at Mar- Stables in Blue Sponsored by the u nty Swme Breeders ® I:L ~ 7 30 pm - Meeting Q tomato insects in the fire hall J. O. e PP° ! . insect specialist 11 i>c m cliarge of discus sion P m - Meeting of the p n! -i' 4-H council at the *r» Bureau auditorium, Road. i —Annual state fruit will assemble at the J W ; rSlt:7 rr Experimcnt Kea meysville at am - For further in- contact Roy B. ( p • LO 9-1580 or the vu> otm ue< j on p age 13 j done there when bakers and butchers in town were not so accessible as today. When Ber Herr, Quarry ville, purchased the farm in 1958, the buildings were in poor repair and much of the fencing had been neglected. " The barn, stone at the ends and framed with native timbers at the sides, has been restored and the interior fit ted with stalls for the Walk ing Horses now on the farm. The large old stone house has not yet been restored, but is scheduled for renova tion in the next few years. A smaller house several hun (Turn to page 6) t>tjtCH OVEN OUTSIDE AND FIVE FIREPLACES INSIDE consumed much of the wood cleared off the three hundred acres of Shady Brook Farm when the h °use was ■ Xhe cornerstone bQars the date 1765 and the condition of the big -stone the almost two hundred years have done little to destroy the colonial type - The window decorations, fireplace mantles and spiral staircases appear to be me original colonial woodwork. Very little work at present has been done on restoration p turesque old structure. Tire only sign of .modernization is the electric wiring. —t'noio Lancaster Pa., Saturday, July 30, 1960 Baby Beef Tour Wednesday Members of the Red Rose Beef club will have an op portunity to study the feed ing and management practic es of 'fellow members, as well as size up their compe tition, when the club holds its annual tour on August 3. Parents, friends and neigh bors of club members are in vited to join in the tour scheduled to begin at 8 30 a. m. at the home of club lead er, Mylin R. Good, Manheim Rl. The tour will stop at the following farms during the morning. Mary Sue, James, and John Henry Hess, Man heim Rl; Marlin Cassel, (Turn to page 13) Dairy Program Plotted At Holstein Field Day Some people have a pho bia against buying female re placements for their dairy herds, Holstein breeders we re told at their annual field day on Tuesday. Some 250 persons heard Stanley Wright, Manager of Great Brooks Farm, Carlisle, Massachusetts say, he thinks it is a mistake for dairymen to rely entirely on his own herd for all the replacement cows. “I can’t overemphasize the importance of good forc ed cows if the dairyman can arrange finances.” Wright SPABC Adds Staff Member Roger Gundlach, a recent graduate, of the University of Wisconsin, has been nam ed to the post of Director of Member Relations for the Southeastern Penn. Artifi cial Breeding Cooperative. He will work m the Lanc aster office. Gundlach holds B.S. and ROGER GUNDLACH MS. degrees in agricultural journalism and received training in farm communi cations at the university. A native of Frederic, a rural (Turn to page 13) S 2 Per Ye; said. He went on to say that some farmers will boast that “No female dairy animals have come on this farm in 20 years”, and in many cas es those herds are no better than they were 20 years ago. Wright, speaking after (Turn to page 11) Over4oo Entries In SPABC Show Over 400 head of artificial ly-sired dairy cattle will pa rade before the judges at the Southeastern Pennsyl vania Artificial Breeders’ Co operative show next week. Judges for the event, scheduled to get under way at 7 pan. August 3 with the judging of Jersey, Ayshire and Brown Swiss cattle, will be Gordon Cairns, Dean of Agriculture, University of Maryland and George New im, Manager of Hillgirt Farms, Chadds Ford. Judging will resume at 10 am. on August 4 when the Guernseys and Holstems will vie for honors. On the following day, the Holstem-Fr'iesian association will hold its annual Ellack & White, show on the same grounds at the Bull barns on the 230 Bypass near Landis ville. County 4-H dairy clubs will hold their roundups on the same day. Roger Emig, speaking for SPABC, said this week the show will be the largest ever staged by the cooperative. The largest class, a Holstein (Turn to page 11) Producers Co-op Stops Processing Of Live Poultry Financial losses which cau sed the cancellation of broi ler growing contracts by the Producer’s Cooperative Ex change in Coatesville re cently caught up with the processing plant forcing dis continuation of that operat ion. Even though the live bird processing ime is temporar ily closed down, a spokes man for the cooperative said this week, the plant will (Continued on Page 13) I FIVE - DAY J WEATHER 5 FORECAST j Saturday - Wednesday Near normal tempera tures are forecast for the next five days. Normal temperatures for this part of July range from a low of 65 at night to a high of 86 in the afternoon. Satur day will be near normal cooling a few degrees Sun day and a little warmer the first of the week. Rain • likely Saturday or Satur day nite and showers again Tuesday or Wednesday will average about one inch. July rainfall to Fri day morning was 3.88 in ches. Normal for July is 4.37 inches. July tempera tures averaged about two degrees below normal.
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