—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, April 29,1967
18
• Reflections
(Continued from Page 17)
Ten Years Ago
April, 1957
County Girls In Milkmaid
Contest Seven Lancaster
County dairymen’s daughters
have entered the second annual
“Miss Milkmaid” contest.
They are Misses Dorothy Elm
er, Lancaster R 6: Marion Wolf,
Denver R 2; Janet Risser, Holt-
wood Rl; Barbara Hoffmeier,
Gap R 2; Thelma Welk, Holt
wood R 2; June Long, Peach
Bottom; and Ramona R. Groff,
Lititz R 4.
They will be among 105
young women from the state’s
12 major milk-producing areas
competing for the title this
month.
Swine Producers Assn. Plann-
Farmers Attend Haymaking
York County Holstein Meeting Eighty-eight county
r._ R.-ifa-f-i farmers spent half a day Tues-
Hits /2-Ton Buttertot day (April 9) at t en ding two
A yearly production record Quality hay meetings sponsored
exceeding a half-ton of butter- hy the extension service,
fat has been completed by a The morning meeting was at
registered Holstein cow, Sink- the Robert Kauffman farm near
ing Springs Joe Sal, owned by Landisville. The afternoon ses
,Sinking Springs Farm, Inc., s j on was at the Gordonville R 1
York. farm of Donald S. Eby.
The Pennsylvania Holstein’s Various methods of dr\ mg
official record of production to- hay by heated and unheated air
taled 27,650 pounds of nulk were discussed,
and 1,036 pounds of butterfat McCurdy, PSU extension
in 333 days. She started her agricultural engineer, said that
lactation at the age of five longtime weather records in
years and 10 months and was Lancaster County show that 12
milked two times daily. days of rain can be expected
in June. “This means a day of
rain about every second or third
day,” he noted.
He recommended hay coming
to the barn for air drying when
it has about 40 percent mois
ture, and the making of short
bales when the hay is to be barn
dried.
• River Basin
(Continued from Page 13)
Dillsburg, White said that the
“compact is loaded against
Pennsylvania’s interests and
unfortunately few people have
taken the effort to examine the
contents.”
“I’m certain,” concluded
White, “that Senator Confair
will reexamine the compact in
light of the discriminatory sec
tion giving preferential treat
ment to the federal govern
ment.
• Deer Damage
(Continued. from Page 13)
He said foraging deer strip
farmers’ fields of alfalfa, corn
and other grain The foraging
is worse in di ought years when
deer go more frequently to cul
tivated fields for food, he noted
Bull advised farmers to con-
tact their legislators to see what
can be done by the Pennsylvan
ia Department of Aguculture to
help with this deer pioblem
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feeder pig and bred gilt sales,
end educational meetings, as
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Robrer, Lancaster R 7, Kenneth
Skiles, Narvon R 2, and Arhe
Anderson, Elizabethtown to a
nominating committee t o
choose candidates for a board
of directors.
Shreve, New Stock Yard Pres.
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caster Union Stock Yards Co. is
James D. Shreve, Neffsville. He
succeeds the late David E.
Longacre of Philadelphia, who
died March IS.
Shreve will continue to serve
as general manager for the
yards.
F. M. Campbell of Salem,
Ohio, was elected to the board
of directors and was named
lice president H V. Sheets,
Plainfield, N. J., was elected
ti easurer.
NEPPCO Pres. Speaks At
Booster Banquet Haiold P
Klahold, president, Northeast
ern Poultry Producers Council,
speaking at a $25 a plate booster Klahold reported on an opin- and two-thirds favored n very
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