COLLEGE 6. NO. 38 contest may put himself out total of 413 points In a third ACCEPTING A CHECK AS HIS PRIZE for placing first m the Lancaster County of the contest until 1967 if he P ]ace was Ridiard Groff, L contest is Christ Miller, Elizabethtown El. Henry Givler secretary of the Coun- does a good job. Uurn to page 16) il Conservation District, sponsors of the event, makes the presentation Miller beat According to the rules, pur other contestants to score the win and secure a shot at the Keystone title when the corn club winner having PrgCinont SIOOS ate contest is held at Macungie next-Friday Miller represented the county in the the highest yield will be de- ” lilt last year and was runner up in the level land contest. dared the “CHAMPION” tor Dawicorl Rill ' - - 1961” ,provided .that his svvs y 01,1 . .1. * r\_ ‘ A U I Qarlorc yield is at least three bushels President Kennedy signed nnSVlVania l^airVrn©n uedueib higher than the next highest a revised farm bill into law 7 t rvi _ D yield” A “Champion” will this week after the Senate r * l/N jf.AM rian DdlDecUe not be named if a three and House passed a compro- CnV laDlt? rUSI I lUII . _ h :„ kerl bar- bushel differential does' not mise version of the omnibus ennsylvania dairymen are in an enviable price posi- becue is planne d as a fund- wdfnot f ° r rf ccr ® ,ary rtien compared to the dairymen of surrounding states raismg campaign by the be e] f glbre ? o^ol J pete man , g C tUre> ° rVllle Free * Key breeders were told Wednesday at their annual County 4-H leaders cmb. Untu 1g67 Freeman expressed disap i»y at the farm of Harry Mumma, Manlieim Rl. Each year tlie club finds County Agent MM. Smith pointment that he did not get n A Smith of the Pa. Phiiadelnhia 49 5- Cam- itsel£ in of , fu * dS +w said 31 Lancaster County the bill passed in the form Control Commission • ’ p -’ 1 .. carry out the work of the farmers had entered the con- originally presented, but i the originators of the den 44.2; Atlantic City, 41.2, coun ty 4-H. At present time test at the time entries clos- said, “I regard the Agricul control law in 1935, Albany, 42.5; New York the organization is in need ec j on Thursday. tural Act of 1961 as the most le nearly 100 dairymen City> 40 3; Wilmington, 41.8, of approximately $1,700 to The contest sponsored by constructve and promising ie milk control law has Baltimore 43 2 pay for trips . a . V, hGr o , r ' the Pennsylvania State Uni- farm legislation in many i good investment. ’ ' ’ ganized activities. Formerly versity Agricultural Exten- years.” it only has it worked “in Ohio where publicists business firms in the city and s i on service and the Penna. The President said of the ! advantage of the pro- say we have an ideal situa- county were asked to contn- Crop Improvement Associa- act, “Of particular signifi i m providing a higher tion because milk sells for bute to meet the expenses ot tion j s open to producers of cance is the extension of the one price for Pennsyl- 25c or less, farmers shipping the clubs, but the leaders corn f or f eec j but not for use of marketing orders to iarmers but it has been into the Cleveland market hope to raise some of the seec j pr oducers. Experiment- additional farm commodi 4 investment for the receive only 38.7 per cent of needed funds. (Turn to page 7) „ ties ”He said this wll offer mers as well.” the consumer’s dollar and in Eaph club in the county is producers an opportunity to cited a study in the Cincinnati, 38.6 per cent” asked to have a represents- e l| I • * lnfluence the market and of i issue of the United Smith said. tive present at a planning OMIUCK6rriOISTOin fer the consumers advantage Milk and Cream Re- „ „ meeting August 14 at B'oo P T • PMJII A nl,a,i+v regularity of sup- Much showed that in Tb * s y ea -h ps 'm. in the basement of the lOD m Dll IA Pty and stability of prices, hes along the Atlantic l£lon ,J”?* tbe dairy Xl \dustry Production Credit building The president expressed ird, Pennsylvania con- should finance the aammis- Qn Rosevlße Roa d, to plan A grade holstein cow in his pleasure with the fact s pay less and Penna (Turn to P a^e final details of the barbecue, the herd of David S Smuck- that the school lunch pro ccrs receve more than Date of the barbecue is on er > Elverson R 2, finished her gram was extended which he Neighbors September 16 m the Lampet- ac l a ff oll a re cord of said will “assure millions of er Community park. Tickets 18,669 pounds of milk and our children better nutrition will be available from, any 702 Pounds of fat to top the and better health” members of the 4-H leaders Hod Rose Dairy Herd Im- Freeman said, “We expect to club or from the. cpunty’s ag- provement Association cows learn from our experiences ent’s office, Lancaster completing records in June, under these programs, to the She had a 3 8 per cent test end that they may be im and milked for 305 days. proved and perfected ” 4UUrI Jl'f /■ I L, The herd of J. Mowery -M VY llQilt6v*lUD Frey, Jr, Lancaster R 7 had prtrp r\SV • I l i- i the highest monthly butter- rivc * UAI BuiiClS Feeders fat average His 34 registered WEATHER Holslems made an average Slate Game protector, 0 f iggg pounds of milk and FORECAST Richard Curfman of Potter go pounds of butteriat per County was the mam speaker cow ciuring the month The on the program of the Lititz herd had a 3 9 per cent fat 4-H wildlife club at its Aug test 5 meeting The 23 registered Holstcms j. The club, meeting m a in the herd of Paul B. Zim- OO pm - Soil hunting camp in Potter merman, Ephrata R 1 was to ° rVd! >on District di- County heard the game pro- second with 1,535 pounds of i s meet in the Lancas- . tector explain the state game milk and 59 pounds of but p D °“ nty House. Po+er tIl . of Mr and commission’s turkey feeding tcrfat This herd had a 3 3 £Pm . 4-H leaders Peter, the son_of Mr. and m He a , so told the P e r cent test. fen, B ' ds ' dMi m “ Quoted the share of the fteis dollar which went ’“'eis m several cities. ®Upanson was as fol -51 5%; Pittsburgh, 'M Calendar 'Fu>m page 1) *2— ail day - tour of Penryn 4 H club Wk-is All club xnem -5 'vul bo visited at their ies Judging & Ol u>liahon days at. the nsv K.una State Umver- Louise Witmer Scores 100% In Judging Mrs Raymond F Witmer, Willow Street R 1 was the only contestant present Wed nesday to agree entirely with the placings of official judge, Donald Brown, Manager of App’ebrook Farm, West Chester. A total of 61 persons plac ed the three classes of Guern seys in the herd of Harry Mumma, Manheim Rl, at the annual Courtly Guernsey Breeders Association Field Day. Lancaster Farming, Saturday. August 12, 1961 AL LIBRARY County Plowing Crown Again To Christ Miller “That young Miller is go- meet, Mller was nudged out ing to be hard to beat.’’ by the plowing of Mervin proved to be prophetic Shelly, but when Shelly words spoken by one of the could not attend the stale spectators at the annual meet, Miller went on to be- County plowing contest on come runner-up in the level Thursday. land phase of the matches Christ S. Miller who farms But that does not tell the with his father Christ N complete story Before the Miller on a 125 acre general county contest was sponsored farm at Elizabethtown Rl, by the Soil Concervation Dis eased the hand clutch for- tnct, it was staged as part ward and turned a better of the Mount Joy Fair Miller furrow than the four other turned a furrow in three of contestants. the contests; he was champ- Miller, just turned 21, will ion once and placed third be no novice at Ihe wheel once when 'he represents the Gar- When Miller enters the den Spot at the state next s t a l e Wls next week he will Friday At the 1960 county be working for a chance at the national plowing crown. _ The national contests this 5 Acre Contest year will be held September 14, 15 and 16 at Melrose Draws 31 Plots M ™ nes ° l , a . , . In Thursdays plowing, Ffnm C/‘xi infw Miller scored 440 out of a ■ ivsill ><wUi 11 y possible 600 pomts. his clcs- One of the 31 county en- est competitor Wilmer Me trics in the five acre corn Dona’d, Lancaster R 2, had a * ' / $2 Per Yeal Saturday • Wedne^daT Temperatures during the next five days will average 3 to 5 degrees below the normal of S 4 at night to 84 in the afternoon. It will be warm throughout ex cept slght’y cooler near the end of the period. Precipi _ tafion may total .5 to .8 inches occurring as scatter ed showers and thunder showers at times through the period.
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