—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, March 18, 1961
10
Poultry Assn.
Plans Meet
The Lancaster County 4-H I -.1 Ypar
poultry club roundup will •“0 31 - 1 cai
be held in conjunction with Farm fires caused losses es
an educational meeting spoil- timated at $165 million dur
sored by the county poultry ing 19 60, the U. S. Depart
association next week. ment of Agriculture report-
A panel of poultrymen, e( j today This is about five
i icderated by Professor Carl percent less than the estima-
Dossin, extension poultry ted 1959 loss of $174 million
specialist from Pennsylvania the highest on record.
State University,' will present . ; - ~ .
tlicir views on {‘Producer vs Economists o~ USDA s Ag-
Processor Grading of Eggs”, ricultural Research Service
Displays by-,- and awards' based their 1960 estimate on
to members of the 4-H club -reports received from 207
will make up'tfle first part farmers' mutual fire insur
of the program, according to ance companies, selected
Cleve Hastings, cliairman of from 1,625 such firms insur
the educational committee. farm risks
AU county poultrymen and The logs rate for 1960 f in .
Iheir families are mvued to C ] U£ jj ng lightning damage
the meeting at the Lancaster always resulting in fire,
County Poultry Center, 340 average; j 14 2 cents per $lOO
TV. Roseville Road, - uesda;>, Q; j. hisurance in force at the
March 21 at 745 p m end of the year. This com
- ~ pares with the rate of 14.8
cents for 1959.
$ Marking Timber
(Frofn page 1)
le of- Mrs Katherine Schroll
near Bambndge Kitch said,
a logger offered to "buy the
timber on Mrs. Schroll’s
woodlot for a flat fee of
$l,OOO and cut it immediat
ly
Mrs Schroll, he said, be
ing unfamiliar with the v al
ue ox standing timber, called
the state employed forester
to pleasure and mark trie
trees to be sold.
When the forester meas
ured the woodlot, he esti
mated nearly $2,000 worth
of umber ready foi hat vest
with the immature trees left
for further growth
Kitch said the sawmill op
orator agreed to lake only
the marked trees and the
selling puce was set at
$2,625
A farm area in woodlot
can supply a regular income
just as any other crop, Kitcn
said, if old, mature and we
ed trees are removed before
they prevent the younger
trees from growing “
“The foi ester’s program
includes all problems of wo
odlot management starting
with planting new planta
tions through timber stand
inmprovement to the final
Prepare Your
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H. M. STAUFFER HERSHEY BROS.
& SON'S, Inc, Reinholds
Wiimer - Ronks - Leola
ROHRER'S MILL
R.D. 1, Ronks
ABERDEEN MILLS
R.D. 2, Elizabethtown
MILLERSVILLE
SUPPLY CO.
Millersville
MOUNTVILLE
FEED SERVICE
R. D. 2, Columbia
Farm Fire Loss
$165 Million
Personal property losses
wore about 35 percent of
the total Livestock losses,
about 15 percent of all claims
paid, accounting for more
dollars than any other per
sonal property item. Most
livestock claims were due to
lightning
stage of harvesting and mar
keting ,
In Lancaster County there
aie approximately 82,483 ac
res in woodland, according
to a recent survey of soil
and water conservation ne
eds At the present time."
more land is being planted
to forest trees and managed
as a cash crop on more pro
ductive lahd
In other business, direct
ois approved seven new co
operators asking for free
conservation plans They are
Gunter P. Kaiser, New
Holland, 10 acres; Rufus Mil
ler, Bambndge HI, 14 ac
les, A Franklin Myer, of
Lancaster R 6, 145 acVes;
George Weaver, Quarryville
Rl, 328 acres, Mathan Mar
tin, East Earl Star Route, 96
acres, Clair Bomborger, of
Peach Bottom S ßl, 167 acres;
and Malcomb D Mertz, of
Peach Bottom Rl, 175 acres.
J. K. STAUFFER & SON
Lawn & Bellaire
ROSS C. ULRICH. JR.
R.D. 2, Peach Bottom
SUNSHINE FARM
SUPPLY
Lililz & Newmanstown
LIME VALLEY MILLS
R.D. 1, Willow Street
C. E. SAUDER & SONS
R.D. 1, East Earl
• Hog Show
(Prom pace 1)
pound,* a record for U-. S -
hog sales in 1961. The aver
age was more than double
the best market price of hogs'
on the stockyards Monday,
when the retail price was
$21.50. Total weight of the
199 hogs was 42,215 pounds
for a 212 pound average."
Auctioneer Abe Diffen
bach said, T think this is
close to an- all-time record
price for a pen of ten hogs
I don’t ever recall of hear
ing of a higher price.’
Other buyers and their
purchases were Arbogastand
Bastm, Allentown, 71 hogs
at $3,816,37; Fisher Bros ,
Bridgeton, N.J, nine hogs
at $420 00; Kunzler and Co
lne , Lancaster, 55 hogs,at
$3,012.50; Spungin Abattoir,
Harrisburg, five hogs, $204.-
75, and Weiland Packing Co,
of, Phoenixville, three hogs,
$16’3'.70.
Judging the show at 9'oo
a.m. were J. Carl Dalton.
Kunzler, and Co., Inc, and
William Crow, Woiland Pack
ing Co. They were assisted
by Jhmes O’Hara, in charge
of the USDA Market News
Bureau at the stock yards
Show committee for the
swine accociation included
Earl Fisher, Stauffer Home
stead Farms, East Earl HI,
chairman; H. B Endslow of
Marietta Rl, and Arlie An
derson, Masonic ll.me Far
ms, Elizabethtown
Other placings are as fol
lows.
CHAMPIONSHIPS
Grand Champion Barrow—
Norman Kolb, 355 Pitney
Rd. (Yorkshire)
Grand Champion Trio
Masonic Homes Farm, Eliza
bethtown (Duroc-Jersey)
Grand Champion Pen of
10 John J. Hess, Inter
course (Yorkshire).
Reserve Grand Champion
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Barrow , Millarden Farms,
Annville (Hampshire).
Reserve Grand Champion
Trio—George Cogley, Honks
HI (Yorkshire).
Reserve Grand Champion,
(Turn to phge 11)
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