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PACKING APPLES FOR THE FARM SHOW this week kept Daniel A,
baker busy. Brubaker has exhibited at every Pennsylvania Farm Show since
This week he packed 25 bushels, 15 trays, 15 plates and 15 diamonds "of
js-in addition to exhibits of corn, wheat, barley, tobacco, honey, and five kinds
edible nuts. L. F. Photo.
. Teachers
o Apply For
te Funds
acaster County Teachers
ocational Agriculture voted
lay to apply for $2,000
the state harness racing
Os for county Future Farm
'ork in the county.
- county 4-H clubs formed
■oup last November to for
.te plans and apply for a
amount from the fund
Agn iculture Teachers’
mn came attei 2% month*
debate within the associa
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arm Calendar
11 2 pm. Farm
en #7 meets in the
.dise Elementary School
hers of society 11 to be
13 to 17 Pennsylvania
te Parm Sho'w, Cameron
MoClay Streets, Harns
■rg. Complete schedule on
>gee 13 to 18.
1'
3 7:30 p.m. Coun
cil Conservation District
;feors > meet in the com t
ie, Lancaster.
11 Fulton. Grange
meets m tie Grange
Oakr\ n
6 —730 pm Man-
Yioung Farmers nveet
m the Manheim Central
School Election of of
a-nd .planning for the
8 12:30 pm. Lan
-r County Pomona
ige installation, oit offi
at the .Farm Bureau Co
-tive building, i>iu er -
Ro»d, Lancaster. ' - | ’
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The annual FARM SHOW section will ho found on
pages 13 through 30 of this issue of Lancaster Farm
ing. The section includes feature stones about the
show, a story on Lancaster County’s FPA JCey stone
Farmer Degree winners, and the complete Farm Show
schedule. We suggest you lift the section out Jind take
it to the Farm Show with you. Other (regular features
of Lancaster Farming will he found in itheir regular
spots in tlie paper.
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Fulton Grange To Ask State
To Build Susquehanna Bridge
Fulton Grange #G6 has
petitioned the Governor and
the State Highways Depart
ment to construct a bridge
across the Susquehanna Rner
in the southern part of Lan
castei and Yoik Counties
At the last meeting of the
Grange at Oakryn, the follow
ing resolution was adopted
WHEREAS, Thousands of
dollars hate been spent mak
ing a survey and preparing
plans for a bridge across the
Susquehanna River in the vi
cinity of Holtwood. And
WHEREAS, There is no
bridge over the Susquehanna
Rner closer than twenty miles
in either direction. And
WHEREAS, A bridge at this
point is of vital mipoitance to
our National Defense And
WHEREAS. It is recognized
that both southern Lancaster
County and southern York
County are del eloping very
rapidly both industrially and
economically and said bridge
is vital to continuance of this
rapid growth. And
WHEREAS, It is only good
business to build roads and
bridges before development
reaches a point that would
seriously hinder such work.
And.
WHEREAS, . Said fridge
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Lancaster Farming, Saturday, January 11, 1964
would shorten the route be
tween Philadelphia and points
west by some fitteen or
twenty miles over an easy
ten am And
WHEREAS, The State is in
the process ot building a State
Park a few miles away from
the sue of said bridge and
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Cattle Feeders
Clinics Listed
A Cooperative Extension Ser
vice livestock chn'i'c for cattle
feeders will be held Jan. 30,
Feh 6 and 13 in the Rohrers
town elementarv school, Rohr
erstovvn, Pa according to an
announcement made today by
County Agent 3VI M Smith
Each clinic tv ill -consist of
three evening classes schedul
ed to start piom'ptly at 7:30
p m , at weekly intervals.
The 'clinic, 'Smith explains,
is designed to cover all phases
of modern-day Theef production,
including housing, feeding,
general management, market
ing, health, investment, labor,
agricultural engineering and
veterinary medicine.
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Perennial Farm Show
V
Winner Prepares Again
What would you do with. 25, 15 diamonds of apples.
000 show ribbons ’ A consistant winner of ri‘
This is the problem facing boas with his apples, Bruhake
Daniel A. 'Brubaker, Ephrata also shows corn, barley, whea
Rl, who estimates he has won tobacco, honey, and five van<
this many in his 24 years of ties of edible nuts,
exhibiting at the Pennsylvania At the 1-963 Farm Shos
Farm Show and Fairs around Brubaker's crop and fruit «
the state. hibits won one purple nhboi
The problem has more or 10 blues, 17 reds, 13 white
less resolved itself with ribbons and a host olf lesser placmgs.
going into a large box with Brubaker is not a large pn
room enough on top for the ducer of apples by some me)
new ones he hopes to win next sures, hut he does have a lavj
week at the 1964 edition of the number Of flavors to choos
big state show. from His 200 apple trees ii
Brubaker spent most of this elude some 40 varieties
week preparing and, pjickmg He say* he usually resem
the 25 bushels of apples he about two bushels of apples fc
plans to exhibit. In addition to each bushel he expects to <N
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the bushel packs, he will have hibit. “It depends on whi
about 15 plates, 15 trays and
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Fisher Wins Four Classc
At County Tobacco Sho
Melvin S, Fisher, Strasburg Fisher, who farms eight ak
81. won four of the six classes res of tobacco on the sharei
on his march to the champion- used a strain of Improved Hi
ship in the Lancaster County Island and had "pretty goc
tobacco show Thursday at the rainfall” during the droug)
Farm Bureau Cooperative year.
•S building. Lancaster.
Tobacco Ass’n
Re-elects Three
County tobacco growers
meeting Thursday at the Faim
Bureau Coopeiative, Lancaster
returned three o£ their four
offlceis to the posts for another
year
Re-elected at the meeting,
held in connection with the
annual county tobacco show',
low, Marietta Rl, vice piesi
were president, Harold Ends
dent J C Stahnian, Lancaster
R 6, and secretaiy, Marlin Cas
sel, Manheim Rl Leroy Funk,
Washington Boro Rl, was
elected to succeed Willis Hack
man Elizabethtown R 3, as
treasurer
Henry B Engle, USDA to
bacco researcher at the Penn-
sylvama State Field Research judges Raymond Enb, Man 1 :
Laboratory farm near Landis- o er qij p. Lonllars Co., an
Vincent Hurst, retired Manage
of Bajulc Cigars, Inc , said tl
qualitj of the 195 entries ;
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Ed Osborne
Is Appointed
To State ASC
Edison W Osborne, opei
ator of a 500-acre dairv faim
in Fulton Tup , was appoint
ed to the Pennsylvania Agn
culture Stabilization and Con
servation Committee Thuisdav
The appointment was made
by Secretary of Agriculture
Orville L Freeman
Osborne, a Jersey breeder,
succeeds Charles M. Long,
Manheim Rl, on the state
ASC committee.
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Osborne's 131-head Jersey
$2 Per Ye;
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Fisher lost out only to Bi
gene M. ROhrer, also of Strai
burg Rl, who had the chant]
ion filler hand, and Glenn 1
Schultz, Pequea Rl, who nose
out Fisher’s hinder entry i
the “under 2G inches” class.
Schults finished third in tt
Future Farmers of Amen*
filler class '"behind Kennel
Martin, Denver HI, and Tilde
Tavlor, New Holland HI.
Champion of the PFA class*
came from the wrapper clas
and was shown by Donal
Herr 2125 South View Hoa*
Lancaster
iHerr the 17 jear old son o
Mr and Mi's Harry G. Herr, i
a junior vocational agricultur
student at bampeter-Strasbur
High School He has FPA prc
jects m corn and tobacco
two acres of Pen-Bel 69, Whic'
averaged 2,450 pounds to th
acre
FIVE-DAY
WEATHER
FORECAST
Temperatures during the
ue\t five days are expected
to aveiage near tlie normal
range of 34 at night to 39
in the afternoon. It will be
cold Saturday and Tuesday
and relatively mild at other
times. Precipitation may to
tal oxer a half inch (melted)
falling as rain and snow
about Sunday and part of
Monday and again near the
end of'rthe period. ,
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