6. NO. o
>ES OF BRINGING THE AYRSHIRE BULL CHAMPIONSHIP to Lancaster
ride on Ridgelawn Pre Wonder,- bis owner, R. Edwin Harmsh,
Eddie showed a heifer to the championsKlp" spot last yGSF a* Hie Penn
-1 , S n ? arm Show, and will exhibit the same animal again this year ’ The *l5-
youth is a sophomore student in vocational agriculture at' Solancx> High School
been in the 4-H dairy club for three years, —HF. photo
0 Farm Show Winners Ann c n , mf ii
For 1961 Exhibition To Reorganize
icaster County’s winners at the 1960 Pennsylvania 37
Farm Show have begun getting their entries shaped arket of the 60’s”
■ the huge spectacle set to swing Into sear January
Agricultural Council meets
tors from all parts expositions in Pennsylvania. December 29, at the Lanc
county are grooming When the doors open on aster Production Credit
and selecting crops Monday morning, January 9, Building, Roseville Road,
tducts for entry into' many hours of work will Springboard for discussion
'daddy of all farm (Turn to page 12) CT U rn to page 5)
it-**'
RM Calendar Two Farm Show Demonstrations
fp 27 « made Tte To B © Put On By County Girls
warns dub meeting at HARRISBURG— Farm and in teams of not n ore than
0 n run swick. city women visiting the 1961 sl * students, each team il
nera clu’b at the Walter Pennsylvania Farm Show *wtratuig an appoved home
-laiThle »11 be able to see actual ■£“““•
R 4 demonstrations in a variety „„„J\ s ’, uo , , ttcuvwald,
» Pm. . Meeting of the * homemalcmg «hdlte the state De!
«> »d Saddles 4-H ™'•»£ of the day , nmgmg p ,Sn? o? I„ ?tl om
r-e and pony club at frol *J. P aintm g on glass to 10n and s ( a t e advisei for the
a mstown P fire hall., g**
Wstmas party. Show Commission aunouuc- tlon *
ftp - cq today. *"*'
j 0 I'OO pm. - County Nearly 200 homemaking Each team is assigned a
cora and tobacco student members of Pennsyl- fuU hour for lts portrayal
Raup at the Bayuk V ama Future Homemakers of Wlth ei ® ht Afferent demon
b AT C ° mpany wareh ouse, America from 38 high scho- stra tions scheduled per day
1 N Water St., Lancast- ols in 28 counties will pro- throughout the week. A new
L vide one-hour demonstrat- tcam appears every hour
Pm. - Organizational ions on a schedule starting from 9 am - to 5p m, except
p ln g of the southern at 9 a.m. on Monday. Janu- Fnda y when the senes do
Jion Tractor Mainten-, ary 9, opening day of the es at 3 o’clock.
• „ club at C. E. Wiley Farm Show. The feature Two Lancaster County
s °n, Quarryville will be seen at the Public chapters of FHA will present
Pm. . Postponed Instruction booth on the demonstrations on Wednes
■uug of the Red Rose second concourse of the lar- day, January 11. Beginning
rn. Eee£ and Lamb ge arena. at 900 am., girls from the
to page 10) FHA members will work (Turn to page 8)
Merry Christmas
May the peace of which the angel sang so long
ago be in your home during this joyous season and
may the truths brought to earth by the Babe of Beth
el 6 ?? be with you and your loved ones throughout
the New Year. '
The staff of Lancaster Farming takes this oppor
tumty to wish to one and all—
"A MERRY CHRISTMAS"
Lancaster, Pa., Saturday, December 24, 1960
Two County 4-H Members
Win Scholarship Awards
Two Lancaster County 4-H club members will be pre
sented scholarships of $lOO each from the Lancaster Kiwanis
Club next Tuesday.
James Brubaker, son of committee of the club
Mr. and Mrs. Milton Bruba- make the presentations.
ker, latitz Rl, and Anna Miss Singer, already a stu-
Mary Singer, daughter of dent in Home Economics at
Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Singer, the ‘Pennsylvania State Uni
-133 Kready Ave, Millersville, versity will use the grant
have been chosen as the boy to further her studies there,
and girl 4-H club member to Brubaker, a senior in Voca
receive the annual scholar- tional Agriculture at War-
ship grants. wick Union high school.
The awards, to be made plans to enroll at the Penn
on the basis_of 4-H club ac- sylvania State University in
tmties and accomplishments, the fall of 1961. His curricul
will be presented at the reg- um will be either Pre-Veter
ular meeting of the Lancast- marian or Agriculture Econ
er Kiwanis Club December omics.
27 at noon. John C. Long,
chairman of the agriculture
Brucellosis In Pennsylvania
Is Nearly Eradicated
Harrisburg Milk ring day that milk ring testing
testing for the presence of from February through Nov
brucellosis in Pennsylvania ember of this year indicates
dairy cattle herds indicates that infected animals may be
that incidence of the disease in only 280 herds. All told,
continues to decline steadily. 850,544 animals in 36,580
Dr. Paul B. Clarkson, head dairy herds were through the
of the brucellosis division of milk ring test,
the Bureau of Animal Indus- “This compares,” Dr.
try, Pennsylvania Depart- Clarkson says, “with the test
ment of Agriculture, said to- made from September 1959
through May 1960 when 425
herds were found to be sus
pect as the result of the milk
test There were 36,207 herds
checked in this test period.
“Actual blood test of the
animals in the suspicious
herds disclosed that infected
cows were in 71 herds in the
early tests, and with 57
herds remaining to be blood
tested, infected animals have
been found in only 57 herds
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Tractor Clubs
To Be Organized
By: Winfhrop Merriam,
Assistant County Agent
One of the annual winter
4-H projects in our county
for boys is the 4-H Tractor
program This project is de
signed to stress and teach
preventative maintenance
care, and safety of farm trac
tors and other farm machin
ery.
The project is composed of
eight lesson sections dealing
with various phases of care
and maintenance. In Penn
sylvania the program is
sponsored by the American
Oil Company. As a sponsor
ing agency this company
makes available funds which
help to provide record books,
county, state and national
awards as well as training
clinics and other helps for'
leaders.
In addition to the eight
regular meetings of the club,
a county, regional and state
tractor driving contest is
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ANNA MARY SINGER
The standard *4-H report
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FIVE - DAY
WEATHER
FORECAST
Saturday - Wednesday
Temperatures during the
next five dayss will aver
age eight or more degrees
above the normal range
of 25 at night and 40 in
the afternoon. Slight mod
eration is expected over
the week end turning much
colder toward the end of
the period. Precipitation
may total less than 0.1 in.
as flurries throughout the
period.
$2 Per Year
will