I _ _ - _ - rm ■ liii ■ 5 NO. 45 ■ REX Ilf STANDS IN THE WINNER’S CIRCLE with his master, Glen foreman, of ■Manheim R 3, after they carried off the grand championship rosette at the Manheim ■arm Show Wednesday night. Backing up the champion is the reserve titleist with his ■oimer, Miss Arlene Long, Manheim R 4, The steers stood one and two m the Angus class Bjariipr m the evening before beating out the Hereford and Shorthorn competition i —L. F. Photo ■Manheim Beef Rosette ■Goes To Glen Foreman B Glen Foreman, Manheim HK came within one first ■place of making a dean Hwep in the Baby Beef show ■>l the Manheim Farm Show ■Wednesday night. ■"The son of Mr. and Mrs. Himson Foreman, <e .two Him winner of the Beef Bftr competition at the Pa. Bpe Farm Show, in addition m garnering the grand cham ribbon, took honors Bf fattest steer and show- He finished second Bj*hmd Marlin Cassel, Man- Bfctoi Rl, in the fitting con- B3 unn er up in the judging H B5 tlie angus exhibited by ■Henning Answers Ag. Critics ■At Business-Farm Day Meet B Tl-.st of tire criticisms of agriculture can be classified about three categories, Dr. William L. Henning, Penn- Secretary of Agriculture told the farmers and ousi- at the second annual Business-Farm day Thursday. ■ Heni, ng speaking to the ■°ver TOO farmers, busmess o'id their wives at the ■wernsy Sales Pavilion, ihe three criticisms as; uumers are already ■nch why make them rich giving them subsidies; farmers are the prin group in our society ■who i i ceive subsidies and Btorkrj protection; .. third, is ' a declining ■®«ustiy a nd has become ■tlativoly unimportant. ■, The Secretary went on to ■%trate each of these criti with quotations from B,| newspapers and nation al magazines, and then re- each contention with of his own. Bki tary Henning said he Bin! no complaint with the BJf ticul tural writers and far- BtM newspapers which gen- do not attempt to mis W* the urban dwellers. i Arlene Long,. Manheim R 4. ; Miss Long placed fourth in i both the fitting and showing ' contests. ' In contention for the crown in the hard fought grand ■ championship scramble was • John Henry Hess, winner of i the Hereford judging, with • the steer he won last year at i the Penna. Livestock Expos • ition’s calf scramble. The i Shorthorn -champion was • shown by Kenneth Miller of I Manheim R 2. Foreman, showing a Glen ■ Angus, Maryland-bred steer, has his sights again set on ! the big prize he first won r (Turn to page 8 Speaking of the first cate go— of criticisms. Dr. Hen ning said, the average com mercial farm family earned $5,415 in 1956 while the av erage non-farm family had an income of $6,900 or $l5OO a year more than the aver age farm family. Farmers are not the only segment of the economy ta king subsidy payments; in fact they are not taking as much as are some other, sec tions of the nation’s industry the Secretary pointed out. He then mentioned many other forms of subsidy pay ments made by the Federal government to other sections of industry. “There has been some pri ce fixing in agriculture,” Dr. Henning said, “But it is rela tively minor'Compared with price fixing in non-farm in (Tum to page 5) Lancaster Pa., Saturday, October 8, 1960 Baby Beef Club Will Hear Former Champs “What it takes to make a champion” will be the topic of discussion at the next meeting of the Red Rose Ba by Beef and Lamb Club. On a panel to examine the. subject will be'four former 4-H member who have shown grand champion steers. They will explain to the present members some of the details which go Into the making of a champion. Speaking in the West Lampeter elementary school, October 12 at 8 pm. will be Mrs. Herbert Royer. Oregon Pike, the former Rhelda Esh leman; Mrs. Kenneth Moyer, Manheim, the former Jane Greiner; Dale Kreiner, Eliza bethtown R 3, and .Donald Hastings, Quarryville R 2. Jay R. Nissley, Manheim R 4, will be moderator of the pan el. The meeting has been post poned from October 5 be cause of the conflict with the beef show at Manheim. Farm Calendar Oct. B—2-5.00 pm. - Chicken Barbecue at the Poultry Center, Roseville Road at the 230 by-pass. Oct. 9-15 —Fire Prevention week - Oct. 10-15—National FFA Convention m Kansas City 4.30 pm. - Meeting of the County teachers of Voca tional Agriculture at the ' Elizabethtown High School. 7:30 pm. - Soil Conserva tion District meets in the Lancaster County Court house. 8:00 p.m. - Meeting of the county Ayrshire-Jersey 4-H dairy club at the home of Elvin Krantz, New Provi dence Rl. Oct.. 11—12:30 pm. - Sale of (Turn to page 12) County Loses 900 Farms Census Figures Show Figures from the 1959 census of agriculture just re leased show a net loss of over 900 farms in Lancaster coun ty since 1954. Of the loss, 197 farms we* le lost because of the ch ange in definition of a farm by the Department of Agri culture, Bureau of Census The figures show Lancaster County had 5,690 commer cial farms in 1959. Dairy again led the list in number of farms with a to tal of' 1,706. General farms were in second place with 1,276 while livestock farms other than dairy and poul try ranked third with 1,218. Poultry with 906 farms was followed by crop farms with 386, tobacco farms with 330, and vegetable farms with 55. There were 45 farms classi fied as cash grain farms and 11 called othqr field crops. Sixteen farms were classi fied as fruit and nut farms. One -large group of farms listed as miscellaneous and unclassified totalled 1,503. Of the commercial farms in the county only 329 had a gross income of $40,000 or more in 1959. The largest number, 2,190, ranked in class three with between $lO,OOO and $19,000 in total 1 Kauffman Herd Posts Manheim Holstein Wins Robert Kauffman, of Man heim Rl, took nine first place ribbons on his way to win ning the grand championship of the Manheim Farm Show Holstein Exhibition. The top animal was a two-year-old cow which was junior cham pion of the same show last year. Junior championship as well as the 4-H champion ship in the Holstein judging went to Harold Brubaker of Mount Joy Rl. Judy Flory, whose junior yearling Ayshire has not been defeated in class com petition took the grand cham pionship in the breed judg ing. Junior and 4-H cham- Aungst Herd High Average DHIA Records The herd of Hiram Aungst, Elizabethtown Rl, posted the county’s highest butterfat av erage for the month of Aug ust, according to official Dairy __ Herd Improvement records released this week The 20 registered and grade Holstein cows made an average of 59 pounds of but terfat on 1,516 pounds b£ milk with a 3 9 per cent test. Posey, a registered Hol stein in the herd of J. Mow ery Frey, Jr, Lancaster R 7, completed the highest 305 day lactation with 21,323 lbs. of milk with 926 pounds of fat and a 4 3 per cent test. Second high lactation record was made by a registered Holstein belonging to Parke H. Ranck, Ronks Rl. Her rec ord was 758 pounds of but terfat in 17,246 lbs. of milk with a 4.4 test In 298 days. (Turn to page 10) $2 Per Year sales for the year. The figures also show that the farms tended to get lar ger during the five years. While the number of farms over 500 acres remained constant, the number of far ms between 200 and 499 ac res increased from 49 to 53 and those between 100 and 199 acres rose from 443 to 504. Farms with 50 to 99 acres decreased in number from 2.517 to 2,339 while the smaller farms, 30 to 49 acres decreased in number’ from 1,501 to 1,323. One interesting sidelight shows that county farmers used more fertilizer on their crops during 1954 than dur ing 1959. While the ownership of most equipment and conven iences by farmers increased, the tables indicate that 311 fewer farmers had telephon es last year than had them five years ago. More farmers have full ownership of their farms and more have part owner ship, but the number of ten nants has declined. pionships went to the same heifer. Following is the complete listing of the placings in both Ayrshire and Holstein judging. AYRSHIRE Grand, Junior and 4-H Champion Judy Flory, of Lititz R 2. Junior Calf—l, Judy Flory 2, Barbara Ann Kulp, Man heim R 3; 3, Sandra Eshle man, Elizabethtown Rl; 4, Kenneth Eshleman, Eliza bethtown Rl. Senior Calf —1, Kemieth Eshleman. Junior Yearling—l, Judy Flory (GC-JC-4HC). Senior Yearling—l, Linda Eshleman, Elizabethtown Rl. HOLSTEIN Grand, Senior Champion—■ Robert Kauffman, Manheim Rl. Junior, 4-H Champion Harold Brubaker, Mount Joy Rl. Bull Calf—-1, Donald Heis oy, Manheim Rl. (Turn to page 12) FIVE - DAY WEATHER FORECAST Saturday - Wednesday Temperatures for the next five days will average about five degrees above normal range of 48 at night to 69 in the after noon. There will be little day to day change in tem perature. Rainfall during the period will total one -1 tenth to one ..half inch, oc i curing mostly as scattered showers Monday or Tues day. Temperatures to dale for October have averaged , about three degrees below normal.
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