Two Countians
Among Top 5 In
Corn Club Tests
HARRISBURG Two Lan
caster County farmers scored
among the top five produceis
in the hand harvested class of
the 1966 Pennsylvania Corn
Club, it was announced at the
Club’s annual banquet here
Tuesday night.
Herbert B. Frey, Marietta
Rl, was third with a yield of
195.6 bushels per acre, while
George W. Jackson, Christi
ana Rl, placed fifth with a
yield averaging 178.8 bushels
per acre.
The Corn Club champion of
the class was Carroll Rohr
baugh of Glen Rock, York
County, who moved up from
third place last year. His 1966
yield average was 205 5 bush
els per acre.
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Doebler Wins Machine
HarVested Corn Honors
HARRISBURG T. A.
Doebler, Clinton County, who
produced an average corn
yield of 158.7 bushels per acre,
has been named 1966 Pennsyl
vania Corn Club champion in
the machine harvested class.
The Pennsylvania Corn Club
is sponsored by the Coopera
tive Extension Service of the
Pennsylvania State University
and the Pennsylvania Crop Im-
Rohrbaugh, who operates a
127-acre livestock farm, plant
ed the winning field on May
13. He used hybrid seed corn,
Pioneer 3306, and his plant
population at harvest was 26,-
400 plants per acre.
The Corn Club is sponsored
by Penn State University Ex
tension Service and the Penn
sylvania Crop Improvement
Association.
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provement Association. Doebler
received a championship award
at the Pennsylvania Certified
Hybrid Seed Corn Banquet at
the 51st Farm Show in Harris
burg Tuesday night.
Doebler, who operates a 400-
acre seed farm, planted the
winning field on May 2. He
used hybrid seed corn, Doebler
64 X. The hybrid was develop
ed on the Doebler Farm. Popu
lation at harvest was 27,750
plants per acre.
An advocate of high soil
fertility and organic matter
levels, Doebler fertilized with
136 pounds of nitrogen, 103
pounds of phosphorus, and 202
pounds of potassium. Fertilizer
was applied according to soil
test recommendations. Soil pH
was 6.3 in 1966. A post-emer
gence weed killer, atrazine, was
applied at a rate of 114 pounds
per acre in bands.
The field was plowed at a
depth of 11 inches, disked
once, harrowed and cultivated
Jonathan Shirk,
Bareville 656-9302
Edgar Umble,
Gap 442-4525
Lancaster Panning, Saturday, January 14, 1967
twice. In 1965, the field was
seeded to small grain and
clover.
Four other Lycoming Coun
ty farmers producing top yields
in the machine harvested class
were also honored.
Hess Hold On
4-H Lamb Show
Leads To Sweep
HARRISBURG - Nineteen- ~ OtherP'acmgs mduded ewe
year-old Fred Hess of Leola “ nd ®‘ one y f a ’ £lfth ; pen o£
R 1 led a sweep in the 4-H Club second: and gel of sire ’
lamb classes here Thursday by 1 ‘i/L „„„ ,
repeating last year’s grand „ ?^ ei pnze raoney totaJed
champion individual placing: * u
he also had the grand Cham- Jelferson and Bucks County
pion pen of three lambs This entries won the ewe champion
was the 6th consecutive indivi- ship and reserve championship,
dual lamb championship for in 1966, a Morgan ram won
the Red Rose 4-H Lamb Club, a championship and broke a
and same in the trio class. 12-year string of victories by
, Hess, a 1965 graduate of War- Mrs Ford Cooper, Reynolds
i wick High School, showed ville R 2. Jefferson County. Mrs,
Hampshires Cooper again was victorious
Donald Miller, Elizabeth- this year, winning the ewe
town, backed Hess up solidly championship
in the trio competition by tak-
in /* hetltle Wlth a pen R 2. second In individuals, it
of Southdowns was Donough, first, and 801 -
Other Southdown wmneis in „ er third
from the county weie Linda t,
Obei’, 532 Petersburg Road, Beck > Bushon e , Columbia
third in pens of lambs, and f 2 \ only Dorset editor, was
Tim Bushong, Columbia H 2, fllst ! n pe " ° f ambs ’ and
fifth in the same class second in individuals.
Anna Mae Donough, Mount Judge for the event was Jack
Joy R 2, was first place winner Copenhaver, department of ani
in Shropshire pens, followed mal husbandry. Virginia Poly
by Marlin Bollinger, Denver teJmic Institute
ABS Purchases
4 Top Bulls
American Breeders Service, Inc., of De Forest,
Wisconsin, excited the Holstein world by purchasing at
a Public Auction on December 17, 1966, the four prov
en sires that headed the great Don Augur Holstein
Herd at Northford, Connecticut. This herd was the
highest producing herd in the U. S. for five out of the
last seven years with a current HIR average of 21,933
M 3.7% 821 BF, for 35 records. Don Augur Mother
marthas Promis and Don Augur Mothermarthas Pride,
two brothers out of the grand old brood cow in the
herd, sold for $lOB,OOO each to American Breeders Ser
vice. This price set a new record for a Holstein Bull
sold at Auction. American Breeders Service also pur
chased Don Augur True Type Model for $70,000, and
Don Augur Wis Ideal for $30,000. The tremendous sale
average for the more than 70 animals sold was $8,719
. . . more than twice the former record price for a
dispersal on the North American Continent.
Now every ABS customer, and customers of other
breeding organizations who will soon be switching to
the WORLD’S LEADING STUD, will have at their
fingertips the same genetic building blocks that Don
Augur used in building his great herd.
PRICES:
Promis and Pride will be per 8 Ampels for $95.09
with order, True Type Model $90.00 for 8 Ampels and
Don Augur Wis Ideal $60.00 for 8 Ampels.
Please order before January 31.
PAUL H. HERR
Rawlinsville
284-4592
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Elverson ' West Grove
215-286-9173 215-869-9187
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3 Firsts For Morgan
Suffolk Sheep Entries
HARRISBURG Suffolk
sheep shown by Mrs. Milton K.
Morgan, 1916 New Holland
Pike, won six placings here
Monday, including three first
place-ribbons
Mrs. Morgan's entries won
first place in ewe, under one
year; three ewe lambs bred
and owned by exhibitor, and
breeder’s young flock.
For information Call
GLENN HERR
Palmyra
717-964-3105
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