VOL. 10 NO. 43
Ephrata
Fair
Steer Show
Angus Dominate Steer
Show At Ephrata Fair
Led by a 4-H Club baby beef
named Midnight, owned by
Glenn Fhckinger of Ephrata
R 3, Angus cattle at the Eph
rata Fair finished one and two
to shut out some excellent
Hereford steers.
Flickinger’s grand champion
ship was won over 29 other
pi ejects, and represented his
second show ung effort He is
the 14-year-old son of Mr and
Mrs. Willis Fhckinger, and is
a fteshman at Ephrata H S.
The reserve Angus shown by
Miss Shaion Weaver, daugh
ter of Mi and Mrs Lester M.
Weaver of New Holland Rl,
was picked by judge John Fog
el, Cumberland County agent,
for the reserve grand cham
pion title Miss Weaver’s steer,
named Claude, was bred by
Old Home Manor Farm.
In the Shorthorn division,
,Mss Susan Hess of Mount Joy
El, won over David Heisey of
Newmanstown.
In the special classes, Show
manship honors went to Lany
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Dairy Co-Ops
Petition Sec.
On Milk Pricing
(Dairy cooperatives in the
New York-New Jersey milk
producing area have filed a
joint telegraphic petition with
Secretary of Agriculture Or
vWle Freeman asking for sus
pension of a portion of the
fluid milk pricing formuila for
the mkmths of October, No
vember and December.
The joint telegram, signed
by the presidents of the four
cooperatives pointed up the
situation in the milk produc
ing area, stating that drought
conflations continue; that pro
duction coats have increased
2%% since the same time
last year, dairy feed costs are
up 5%, while hay nnces are
up 15%; and pasture condi
tions are only 50% of nor
mal for thus season of the
year.
An August 6th joint peti
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Farm Calendar
September 28 8 p.m. Meet
ing of -executive committee
oJ Extension Club at Ag
wuy Bldg., Lancaster.
September 29 through Oc
tober 2, New Holland Farm
ers Fair.
September. 30 1 p.m. 4-H
Bmiby Beef Show at New
Holland Fair.
2 p.m. 4-H Hog Show at
Nfew Holand 1 Fair.
Sale of hogs and baby
toeedwill follow (the show..
Lancaster Farming, Saturday, September 25, 1965
JOHN WELK, STRASBURG Rl, shown with his grand champion individual
hog at the Lampeter Fair. John also had the Pen of 2 championship. Although he
entered six littermate Yorkshires, he only showed three and they were all winn
ers- L. F. Photo
Countians Will
Attend Nat. 4-H
Club Congress
Three 4-H'ers from Lancas
ter County will (be represent
ing Pennsylvania at the Na
tional 4-H Club Congress at
Chicago oh. November 28 - De
cember 2, it whs' announced
this Week The three dub
members were named state
winners in the 1865 national
awaids .program and will toe
amlong 42 443’ers attending
the Congress from Pennsyl
vania
They are
J DaJias Wolgemuth, six
teen-year-old son of Mi 1 , and
Mins. Lester Wolgemuth, Mount
Joy Rl, state winner in live
stock iconsentetion demions,hia‘
tion.
Mliss Nancy Frey, sixteen
year old daughter of Mr. and
Mis J. Harold Frey, Marietta
Rl, also a state winner in
livestock conservation demon
stration
Miss Virginia Wivell nine-
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Virginia WiveU
Dave Erb To Attend
Atlantic States Exp.
David Ehb, president of the
Manor FFA Chapter, will be
leaving Sunday, September 26,
for the Atlantic States Ex
position at Richmond, Va. He
will represent Pennsylvania in
livestock judging competition.
Eilb placed eighth in that
category at Penn State in
June during the State FIFA
competition.
He is the 17-year-old son of
Mir. and 'Mrs. ‘Daniel Brb of
Columbia R 2, and is a senior
at Penn Manor High School
Greider Leghorn Farms, Inc. Wins
Penna. Bth Random Sample Test
A Shaver Starcrosa 288 en
try 'from Greider Leghorn
Fa rims, Inc, Mount Joy, has
been announced the winner
off the Eighth Pennsylvania
Random (Sample Egg Laying
Test which concluded on Sep
tember 8, 1965.
In topping the 32-entry
field, the G-r eider birds
shelled-out 2743 eggs per pul
let housed, 32 5 eggs higher
than the test average But to
wan the contest they 'had to
return the greatest net an
come over feed and ‘chick cost,
vuhuJh they did with a figure
off $2 524 per bird. The test
average was $1 STL'S.
Also in terms of return
over feed and chiok costs,
NATIONAL 4-H
OP CLUB WEEK
September 25 —
October 2
County Diversion
Payments Total
1/3 Million $
Farmers in Lancaster County
thus far have received program
payments totaling $333,085 for
participation in the 1965 feed
grain and wheat stabilization
programs, Fred G. Seldom
ridge, Chairman, Agricultural
Stabilization and Conservation
County Committee has report
ed. The payments included di
version payments of $219,555
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Lancaster County hatcheries
had the second arid third high
entries They were Keystone
Poultry Breeding Farm, Terre
Ha®, \.i ‘h $2 491 net return;
and Babcock Hatchery, Lititz
R 3, With $2 475 return per
bird
The Random Sample test is
operated by the Pennsylvania
Department of Agriculture. It
is designed to measure the
important etoonoma'c 'traits off
a randomized sample of a
breeder’s commercial birds
These traits are measured and
recorded from hatching to 500
days off age, and include, to
tal eggs per pullet housed;
hen day percent production;
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$2 Per Year
Lampeter
Fair
Hog Show
John Weik Shows Top
Individuol And Pen
John Welk, 16-year-old sopja
omore at Lampeter-iStrasburg
High School, won double hon
oris Wednesday afternoon at
the West Lampeter Comlrmm
ity Fair by capturing cham
pionships in bolth (he individu
al and Pen of 2 events He
was the defending champion
in the Pen of 2 competition,
having won that honoi at last
year’s Fair
Welk, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Leroy Welk of Straslburg Rl
showed t'hiee of six York
shire httenrates to the above
honors These pigs were the
first totter of a Yorkshire gilt
he purchased last year. His
individual champ weighed 250
pounds, while the Pen Pair
weighed 275 and 240 pounds.
He has two sows ait home and
expects to expand Ms hog
program substantially in the
future
The champion Pen of 4 Was
bwned by Ear) Livengood of
1648 Mornimgside Drive, Lan
caster, but were shown in Ms
absence by Robea.lt Weaver, a
16-year-old junior at Lamjpe-
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Court Ruling
Finds "Chains”
Are Packers
A U. S. District Court has
ruled that two national food
chains, Safeway Stores, Inc.,
and The Great Atlantic & Paci
fic Tea Co, Inc., are meat
packers subject to the juris
diction of the Packers and
Stockyards Act, the U. S. De
partment of Agriculture has
reported.
The judgment was entered
in the U S District Court for
the District of Columbia on
Sept 13
The Court ruled that the
firms’ manufacture and pre
paration of meat and meat
food products for shipment in
commerce constitute the opera
tions of a packer within the
meaning of that term as defin
ed in the P & S Act. The
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Weather Forecast
Temperatures for the five
day period, Saturday through
Wednesday, are expected to
average near or slightly be
low normal. Normal high
and low for the period Is 74
and 52 degrees. It will turn
cooler over the weekend with
small day to day change
thereafter.
Precipitation may total
inch or more locally at the
beginning of the period and
again at the end.