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■ ; r culll V/OlCllUar Apr. 11 All' Day' PfeM- ' jn th© Part'Ubterain
■ of- Ar-. (School. .- ’ ■' -V .
tifloial Breeders ;tcKrnttei£ at '7T3Q : ,p.m!’ KpoU
the Pennsylvania State*Uni- and Saddles 4-« horse .and
venlity. Governor Scranton pony club meats at the Lan.
to speak at banquet. “caster Biding Club, Lincoln
6:30 p.m. Manheim , Highway, west.
Young Farmers banquet at Apr. 15 8:00 p.m. Lan.
■the Brunnerville lire hall. caster county Senior Exten
-7:30 p.m. Lititz-Manheim sion Club Executive Board
4-H club meets at the Fair- meeting at the home of Bar.
land School. lene Bucher, Litltz, Pa.
County Soon To,Be Scabies Free,
Veterinarian Tells Sheep Growers
Hopes that Lancaster Coun
ty can 'be declared a “scabies
free” area by April 15 were
expressed by a state Depart
ment of Agriculture veterinar
ian Tuesday night at a meeting
of county shepherds.
Dr. George B. Smith, in dis
cussing the sitate’s sheep scab
ies eradication program said
the first two inspections total
ing nearly 2,000 flocks and 14,-
500 sheep turned up 32 flocks
■with scabie mites present or
suspected.
All the infected or suspected
flocks were dipped and Ithe
third round ot inspections is
now underway.
Livestock specialist 'Ben
Morgan fiom The Pennsylva
nia State University told the
sheep producers it is generally
more profitable to low
grading lamb crops for slaugh
ter rather than selling them as
feeder lambs.
Morgan used ithe example of
a western lamb “feeder who
bought a flock of 1,200 utility
lambs at about 65 pounds for
$8 50 per head.
The lambs were put on a self
feeder, after dipping and
drenching, and fed a mixture
of gram and corn cob rough
age The lambs made a pound
of gram on five pounds of feed.
The feeder realized a gross
return of $6,000 on sales of 21
cents and better. The producer
uho sold the lambs in the pool
could have made this profit if
he had ted the lambs himself.
He said the trend toward
feeding utility grade lambs to
slaughter iveighls is gaming
populanty m the state Farm
eis can turn an $8 potential
teedei lamb into an $lB slau
ghter lamb, after you have
developed a good breeding and
management program, he said
The mcieased trend toward
farm feeding was reflected by
the diop of utility giade lambs
at state giaded pools fioin 33
per cent in 1961 to only seven
per cent last jear.
Moigan advised the feeders
to aim for a 90 to 95 pound
slaughtei lamb by getting more
ciossbred \igor m the breeding
progiam In a recent test wh
ere double and triple crossbred
ewes weie bred to purebred
lambs, the lesultant lamb crop
was larger and weaned at hea
-1 lei w eights.
Sr. Extension
Elects Officers
The Lancastei Counfv Senior
Extension Club met at the
I'ann Buieau Building Lan
castei on Thuisday eiening,
Apnl -1
Bale Slink, Quairy\)lle Rl,
las elected piesident
Othoi otliceis elected were
V Pies , Darlene Bucher, Lot
us Sec, Donna Gamer, Wil
low Stieet, Ass. Sec Ruth
Shin oi, LitiU, Tieasmei,
William Eby, Alt Jo\
Coninntlee Cha.inien ap
ponitecl wene Public it\, .Joan
Michael Litit 7 R* ci .0.1,
Kaien Lut/ laUi/. and co
chan man, John Wol o mintli
hit Joy, Music Caicn Gieat
house, Litilz Relie-Jii'ients,
Sliii!e\ Ki eider, Quairyville;
LonuiMimU Seivce, Pi.scini
Buchei, Litit/
Speakei was R<n U'm,
Biown Bom 'Willow Stieet
Tome, retirnu; piesi
dent was in charge of tl.e
meeting
Ihe Annual Squate Donee
will be Salurclay, Apul 27 at
tlie .\U Jo> Annex, S 00 P M
IMai shall Decker is callei
Absence of work is far from
rest. ' ....
He urged farmers to try to
develop 150 ewes and the use
of a good meaty purebred ram.
He said a good ram is the
cheapest ram you can buy in
the long run.
County Agent M. M. Smith
also reviewed pasture renova
tion and forage crop produc
tion for producers.
He said it is possible to get
“one or two hay crops” this
year from alfalfa or clover
band seeded now without an
oats nurse crop if chemical
weed spray are employed.
It does pay to use
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den Spot High School.
7:30 p.m, Garden Spot 4-
H club meets in the Smoke
jtown Elementary School.
7:30 p.m. Blizabethtown-
Donegal 4-H club meets in
the Donegal High School,
■Mount Joy.
9:30 a.m. Quality hay
meeting on the farm of Don
ald Newcomer, Mount Joy
Hi.
1:30 p.m. Quality hay
1:30 p.m. Quality hay
meeting on the farm of J-,
-Robert Hess, Strasburg Rl.
Apr. 10 7:30 p.m. Qoun
ty Guernsey 4-H club meets
at the home of Elmer Lapp,
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Lancaster
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