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■ 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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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$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.
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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.