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On June 17, FFA boys partici
pating in livestock judging
will work out at the Lancas
ter Stock Yards. A practice
session, judging dressed poul
try only, will be held on June
23 at Victor Weaver's. poultry
processing plant at New Hol
land. Dairy judges will work
out on June 27 at Ephrata
High School. Livestock, poul
tiy and dairy sessions will be
gin at 9 a.m.
The annual FFA County
Hog Show will be held this
Some Thoughts For. ..
Farmers!
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DAIRY MONTH
Did you do all you could to help promote your industry in the
past year?
Do you talk milk to consumers?
Do you explain its many nutritional advantages?
Do you set the example when you take your family out for a
meal and order milk as the beverage?
Do you have the feeding program which gives you the best re-
turn per dollar spent?
If you ore in doubt about this last item talk to our Nutrition
Department or our Dairy Specialist.
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year on July 26, the teachers Fair calf awards will be due
announced. It will be at the no later than September 7 this
Lancaster Stock Yards, and year, the teachers stated. This
Henry Gruber of the A & B will allow time to interview
Packing Co. will be the judge, all applicants and reach de
in addition to the main judg- cisions on these awards.
ing contest, Eby’s Feed Mill, The county contour plowing
Lititz, will award trophies for contest is slated for late July,
fitting and showmanship per- Forney Longenecker, SWCD
formances. associate director, announced.
It was announced that ap- He ‘ urged all teachers with
plications for County Star young and adult farmer class-
Farmer will be due at the es to encourage their students
teachers’ meeting in early Au- to enter. “We should have at
gust. A limit of one applicant least one entry from each
per school has been set this chapter,” Longenecker said,
year. The July 29 agriculture
Entries for the Lampeter teachers’ meeting will be the
Whot- else can we do to help you?
Just call
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Bushong, Inc.
Dairy
JUNE IS
Miller
&
Lancaster Panning, Saturday, June 4, 1966—-'
annual picnic, held this year
at William Fredd’s farm near
Quarryville.
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to attend the College of Agri
culture at Penn State Uni
versity.
He was presented with a
•$5OO scholarship grant-in-aid
at an awards assembly at So
lanco High School, as recipi
ent of the fifth annual Kunz
ler & Company scholarship.
Kunzler’s, a Lancaster
based packing company which
has long been a supporter of
farm youth activities, makes »» i p
this grant available specifical- rlCrSilCy vOW OC
ly to a student entenng the «-i. i t* jqn
college of Agucuiture at risner rterci iop
Smith has been an outstand- April DHIA
ing member of the Solaneo
Future Fanners of America The highest single 305 day
Chipter for four yeais, and lactation completed in Apnl
earned the highly-regarded , R ° se D f ll - V
Keystone Farmer Degree in Herd Impiovement Association
Tannarv was b y a registered Holstein
January. „ owned by Earl L Heishey,
He is president of the So- Q U anyvrlle R 2 She made .18,-
lanco FFA Chapter, has seiv- 254 pounds of milk and 776
ed as chapter delegate to the 0 f butleifat
county chapter, and is a mem- Second high lactation was
her of the area championship scored by a registered Holstein
Parliamentary Procedure team owned by Herbert and Rhelda
■Dick placed second in last Royer, 2025 Oiegon Pike, Lan
year’s Lancaster-York area caster Jewel produced 19,885
-land judging contest, and fin- pounds of milk and 767 pounds
ished fourth in the state con- of fat.
test. He placed second in that High herd average foi Apnl
category in the 4-H—FFA con- went to Bennie L Fisher of
test in the state during the Ronks Rl. Fisher’s 18 register-
IMational Grassland Field Days ed and grade Holsteins aveiag
at Hershey.
Dick is currently vice presi
dent of the senior class at A close second on herd aver-
Solanco High School, and is age butterfat for April was
a member of the varsity cross- Mervin Neff, Mount Joy R 2,
nnnntrv fpam whose herd of 312 icgisteied
counry • and grade Holstexns averaged
Did you know that one P° un ds of fat and 1630
quart of milk weighs 2.15 P ouncls of milk,
pounds? “""“
& £
"60 tons an hour
that’s product!
m
gO"* Jr. II > \*' [ f f/
/4 '■/,,>' t'«-tfp
Big capacity, uniform cut, with
AKis-Chalmers 780 Forage Harvester!
The 780 with pick-up head uses 64 fingers to comb
the windrows arid feed a steady stream .to the six 36"
Cut-and-Throw knives. Knives adjust to the shear
bar for clean cut... 7/32" to 214.". Direct-cut head
takes 6 H-foot swath. Or switch to 1 or 2-row corn
head in season. Chop fine forage fast with a 7801
N. G. Myers & Son Grumelli Form Service
Rheems, Pa. Quarryville, Pa.
Chet- Long L. H. Brubaker
Akron, Pa. Lancaster, Pa.
L. H. Brubaker Nissley Farm Service
Lititz, Pa. 1 Washington Boro, Pa.
Allen H. Motz Farm Equipment
Weather Forecast
Temperatures for the five
day period, Saturday through
Wednesday, are expected to
average near, or slightly
above, the normal range of
80 to 58 degrees. The weath
erman expects little day-to
day variation, but says it
may be cooler toward mid
week.
Precipitation may total >4-
Vi inch, occurring as show
ers in our area about Tues
day or Wednesday.
ed 66 pounds of butterfat and
1786 pounds of milk
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