Form Show Building Remodeled For Spoce <The 13-acre Pennsylvania Farm Show Building that each January houses the big State Farm Show has set a new off season i ecord as an exposi tion center, according to Horace L. Mann, show direc tor. To make the big hall and its several additions available for large commercial events, the Farm Show Commission authorized the conversion of stationary stanchions and pens in the dairy, hog and sheep barns with removable type equipment. This work, started last fall, was completed just recently in time for a mammoth mo bilehome show that for the first time in the building’s history filled this entire area and the main exposition hall with more than 300,000 square feet of commercial displays. State Secretary of Agricul- Secretary Bull said no ex ture Leland H. Bull, chair- tensive changes have been man of the Farm Show Com- planned to the big horse and mission, said all commercial beef cattle barn since it was use of the building is on a pu t U p as a temporary struc rental basis and that these ture and soon may need to earnings help to finance its be replaced. This addition w'as maintenance. - erected during World War II Secretary Bull said still when the whole building was other improvements to the used for military purposes. *JHM*^********¥*******+**+**+*+*****+*****+***.*.*.*******.**Jf*********j| ' 'V i" ■ A ‘ l ( Y 'tf i 7 **•* * ' *|i *j^| """ ’>" j r^^j||||ii I'W 1 ' nl High capacity and low maintenance win fame for Allis-Chalmers C n Gleaner combine! Down-front cylinder leaves room in balanced weight distribution and the the thresher body .for 49 square feet full-jewelled smoothness of running of separating area! That's capacity parts. New variable-speed cylinder that puts more and cleaner grain in control lets you set RPM’s to match the bin. Low upkeep begins with the crop conditions. Easily switched to heaviest main frame in the industry, regular or narrow 4-row corn head! L'. H. Brubaker Lancaster, Pa. Nissley Farm Service Washington Boro,'"Pm. *********************itlt 1C M Fulton Grange Acts On Two Legislature Bills .. Fulton Grange #66 held their regular meeting June 28 at Oakryn, Pa. Gyles Brown was in charge of the business meeting. The Grange took action on two bills in the State Legislature, going on record * favoring HB. 1152 which would require a mu nicipality annexing a whole township instead of a portion building are being planned to meet the requirements of an even wider variety of rent paying tenants. Biggest room in the expan sive complex still is the main hall that covers 188,000 square feet of space, with the dairy barn next at 54,000 square feet; the hog and sheep quar ters, 38,000; poultry shed, 27,- 000 Added floor area is avail able in two arenas. w come so many cus perators use Gleaner Grumelli Farm Service N. G. Myers & Son > Rheems, Pa. Quarryville, Pa. Chet Long Akron, Pa. of it. They opposed S, B. 2'M which would relieve people building a new house from the real estate transfer tax. The Grange is sponsoring a one-day bus trip to the New York World’s Fair, Saturday, July 31, leaving Quarryville at 5 am. The Youth Committee, Mr. and Mrs Chester Todd Jr, Mr. and Mrs Eaile Gilbert Jr, Miss Lois Tindall, Robert Black and Rev Kenneth Hill, is sponsoring a splash party at Earle O Gilbert’s home near Rising Sun, Md. Tues day evening, July 6. The group will leave the Grange Hall at 7 pm. During the program Mrs. Jesse Wood spoke about the U S. Post Office Department considering renting cars for the rural carriers at eight cents per mile instead of pay ing the carriers for the use of their own cars. She listed several problems that would be involved. Mrs. Adaline Ed wards showed colored slides of local Historical places in southern Lancaster County. Francis Gillespie will show colored slides of many places around the world at the next meeting July 12 and the an nual picnic will be held at the Grange Hall July 26. Allen H. Motz Farm Equipment New Holland, Pa. L. H. Brubaker Lititz, Pa. Lancaster Farming, Saturday, July 3, 1965 “TAKE IT EASY!” It has been said that raising boys on 'a farm is as important as harvesting crops. With one flick of the camera shutter this week, Lan caster Farming’s Staff Reporter, Everett Newswanger caught both, the boys and the harvest. It would be a very hard-hearted farmer who could not find a bit of sentiment in this down-on-the-farm photograph. The stage setting is Paradise R 1 in Jacob Seiler’s nicely shocked wheat field. The actors are (1 to r) Jerry, Kent and Carl Gehman, sons of Mr. and Mrs. Glenn Gehman, Paradise Rl. GOLDEN BULKY for all dairy coins Now commercial Dairymen can get six bushels of true quality dairy nutrition in every 100 lbs. of New Purina Golden Bulky. Cows love this bulky, sweet Chow packed with extra Vitamins A and D. Top feed it or Check-R-Mix it in your milking ration to help boost milk production. Purina Golden Bulky ... 6 bushels per 100 lbs.. . . makes an excellent roughage supplement when your hay or silage runs low. Extremely good for cows on pasture. Try it! John J. Hess, II Paiadise John B. Kurtz Cedar Lane James High GordonviUe John B. Kurtz Ephrata L. F. Photo Ira B. Landis Valley Road, Lancaster Whiteside & Weicksel Kirkwood L. T. Geib Est. Manheim West Willow Farmers Assn. Willow Street 13
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