Ifl ' r n tnm-r- g*m VOL. 6 N 0.23 PART OF THE" HERD ON HILBKOHI FARM in Drumore township grazes on the llside This herd has more than doubled production in the past six weeks. This fan die production increase has been accomplished without the addition of a single cow. fact, the herd has_l3 fewer milking cows now than six weeks ago. Good feed and magement programs of the new owners of the farm have accounted for the increase. • —L F. Photo blympic Film p Be Shown [The Olympic Film “Hold igh the Torch” will be bwn Friday evening at 8 h, May sth, at the Guern t Sales Pavilion, by the hencan Dairy Association [ere will be no admission arge, everyone is welcome Filmed, both at Squaw Bley during the Winter Lmpics and at Rome dur- I the Track and Field ev ts, “Hold High the Torch” nigs to its audience the eitemcnt, the suspense, the citation of victory and I lieai t break of defeat as ly watch the world’s fin- I (Turn to page 10) )ring Jamboree lanned By 4-H ’ony rides, games, booths, I a fashion show will be png the features at the an il Spring Jamboree spon- M by the Lancaster Coun [4-H Council. festivities for all 4-H club peers are scheduled to [under way at 7:30 p.m. [ght m the Guemsey p Pavilion on the Lincoln puvav east of Lancaster. Bembcrs of the light P e and pony clubs will lush free pony rides to 4- |lub members The county I home economics club I stage a fashion show I there will be booths and ps for all Admission and ■Kliments are provided I to all 4-H members ' in |«ount% um Calendar [1 to 8 p m - Chic- p ° l p ie supper at the V es °® Elementary : 00l by th e choir of'the E° ga Methodist We Serving Family i 29-730 - Annual 4-H L/ g Jamboree for 4-H I B [" f ;r bers ia lhe coun " bib™ , Gue msey sales bt a-c i Luicoln Highway r 01 Lancaster. L. 800 p m - Dairy lon ~m ' \r ove ment Associ bn(v._ ° r kshop for assn. Pit & l even in the base list Elizabethtown f^_L°>npany. Pm- Meeting of I « G Baby Beef I UIH to page 14) Farmers Pushing Spring Work As Fast As Weather Permits Long awaited warm- sunny days have come, peaches are blooming in the county, and Pennsylvania farmers are in frenzied action to catch up on delayed work, the State Crop Reporting Service said Tuesday in its weekly crop and weather summary. Apple trees are leafing out and the annual Apple B’oss ora Festival is now scheduled for May 7 in Adams County. Peaches have reached the pink stage in the Berlcs-Le high area and sweet cherry Annual Barbecue Is Planned The Conestoga Chapter American Business Club will hold its annual chicken bar becue and festival on Satur day, May 6, from 4 to 7 p m. The barbecue, being held at East End ave. and South Ann St., is the club’s method of raising money for its Boys Club Scholarship Fund. General chairman for the affair is Dr. Robert -E. Humphreville, 1042 Colum bia Ave. Co-chairman is William G. Parmer, 709 Fairway Dr. Stock Grading Pilot Program Is Initiated HARRISBURG—Sta te See retary of Agriculture Will iam L. Henning announced this week that a pilot veal calf grading program by the State Department of Agri culture has been instituted at Mason-Dixon Livestock Market, Stewartstown, York County and at Chambers burg Livestock Auction, m Franklin County. At these two auctions, State Department of Agncul lure livestock marketing specialists grade _ veal calves at the request of sellers as they are brought into the market. The graded calves are sorted and sold in uni form lots. This program is voluntary on the part of the seller, taut fees will be paid by the marketing agency. The pilot program is to de velop basic information on JioiiioUi.> viiihl LiullMliY > THE PENNSYLVANIA STATE COLLEGE Lancaster Farming, Saturday, April 29, 19GJ buds are - beginning to swell in Erie County. However, fruit trees in most areas are still dormant and the extent of winter freeze damage is still difficult to evaluate. Good weather in the east ern two-thirds of the State enabled farmers to have three busy days last week (Turn to page 14) SCD Organized In 2 Counties Harrisburg Pennsylvan ia Secretary of Agriculture William L. Henning, chair man of the State -Soil Con servation Commission, today announced that he has re ceived resolutions creating Pennsylvania’s fifty-third and fifty-fourth Soil Conservation Districts. Resolutions by the Sulli van County Commissioners and the Bucks County Com missioners have declared those two counties to be Soil Conservation Districts. Secretary Henning said that formal recognition of the creation of the two new Soil Conservation Districts is ex pected at he next meeting of the State Soil Conservation Commission. the effects of selling graded livestock Detailed records of the sale of graded and un graded animals are to be made by the Department of Agriculture Similar programs are in eifect for various species of livestock in North Carolina Tennessee, Virginia and in West Virginia. Official Pennsylvania gra des for veal calves are based on US. Department of Ag riculture grades. They are prime, choice, good, stand ard, utility and cull. State DHIA Sets 2 Records Dairy herd improvement association work has reached a new all-time high in Penn sylvania, H. C. Gilmore of Pennsylvania State Universi ty, announced Wednesday following a meeting of the State Dairy Herd Improve ment Association. (Turn to page 5) Milk Production Doubles In 6 Weeks At Hilbrohi Is it possible to double the milk production of a herd in six weeks without adding any cows? If you had asked the new partners of Hilbrohi Farm that question six weeks ago, they would have doubted if any such thing t could be pos sib’e. But they proved that it can be done. Not only has production been doubled, but ten cows have been sold and three more have been dried off. No cows have been added to the milking string through pur chase or freshening. This record is the begin ning of a dream-come-true for three young men who planned and hoped through their days in the armed forc es to become owners and managers of a large dairy farm. None of the three men had enough capital to go into a large farming operation, but by pooling their assets, the three purchased 415 acres on three combined farms near Fairfield in Drumore town ship. Clair Hilsher, Eugene Brown and Jocob High not only combined their interests and money, but their names "as well to come up with the pic turesque farm name, “Hil brohi”. The three men met and Manor F.F.A. Holds Election James Benedict, son of Mr. and Mrs. Harold Benedict, was elected president of the Manor chapter Future Farm ers of America at the April 21 meeting of the club in the Penn Manor High School Benedict, 229 East Main Street, Mountville, who is an 18 year old student of vo cational agriculture at the sclfool will serve the club during the 1961-62 school term. Other officers elected were as follows: vice president, Glenn Hess, Washington Boro Rl; secretary, Harold Herr, Millcrsville Rl; sentin el, Nelson Hafaecber, Lan caster R 2; treasurer, Millers ville Rl; reporter, Glenn My -Im, Miller sville Rl, and chaplain, Glenn Shulz, of Pequea Rl Local Man Is Elected Co-op Secretary Daniel L Herr, formerly of Quarryville, was elected secretary of the Blair-Hunt ington County Council of Farmer Cooperatives at a recent meeting in Hollidays burg. Herr, manager of the Eastern ‘States Farmers’ Ex change station, at Curryville since last December, had be en associated with Eastern States in Quarryville. He now lives at Roaring Spring. He is the son of Mrs Henrietta C. Herr and the late Daniel H. Herr of Peach Bottom R 2. He mar ried to the former Cynthia Quigley of Georgetown $2 Per Yea? talked while fulfilling their military obligations. Each had been farm, reared, and each wanted to get back to the farm Hilsher lived near Elizabethtown, Brown near New Holland and High was a native of Lititz When the acreage in the southern part of the county became a vail able, the partners-to-be took it as an answer to their aspirations. When the trio moved onto the farm, which they had purchased “lock, stock and barrell”, on March 15 they found 79 cows in the milk ing string. At the first few pick up runs, the bulk tank truck from Wa Wa Dairy loaded just about 1,600 pounds of milk. This represented two day’s production from the herd During the next six weeks three cows were dried ofiE and retained in the herd. Ten other cows were sold be cause their production and condition were so poor, When the milk truck dri ver stopped at the farm on April 26, he pumped 3,700 pounds of milk out of the bulk tank While 1.850 pounds a day for a herd of 66 cows can not be considered outstand ing production, the record is significant in the fact that the (Turn to page 6) Donegal 4-H Home Ec. Club Organizes Tire organizational meet ing of the Donegal Horae-Ec. 4-H Club was held Tuesday evening, at 7 30 at the Done gal Fellowship Hall The meeting was opened with the 4-H Club pledge. The following officers xveie elected. Pres. Gmny Wivell, V. Pres Sylvia Ober, Sec. Marylin Wenger, Asst. Sec, Nancy Vogel, Treas. Lily Ann Wivell, Asst. Treas. Jams Bixler, Song Leader Sue Eshleman, Asst. Song Leader Ruth Arndt, Game Leaders Mary Hess and Re becca Kling, News Reporter Mary Anne Rcsslcr, Asst. News Reporter Florence Bix ler. The local leaders are Miss Elizabeth Noli, Mrs Arlme Forney, Mrs Lewis Bixler hve - day WEATHER FORECAST Saturday - Wednesday Temperatures during the next 5 days are expected to average two to six de grees below the normal range of 67 in the after noon and 45 at night. Cool temperatures are expected during most of the period with some warming possib ly about Wednesday. Pre cipitation may total over Vz inch falling the latter part of Sunday and again Wednesday,
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