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VOL. 12 NO. 32
“C’MON THERE Let these folks
look -you oyer, ’ ’ say's livestock extension
specisSjat Dwight' as.he par
ades this aSiarket hog clfassliefore some
60 participating judges Saturday .at the
Bollinger Wins Gilt At Lancaster
County Swine Producers Field Day
Eugene Bollinger, 16, proved
again that he knows his pigs,
Saturday when he out-pointed
all competition in the youth di
vision swine judging event at
the Lancaster County Swine
Producers Association Field
Eugene Bollinger
Farm Calendar
July 10-8 pm, Lancaster Coun
ty SWCD directors at Court
house.
July 11-9.30 am„ Lampeter-
Strasburg 4-H Club at L-S
High School.
-10 a.m, Agronomy dealer
meeting at Fleetwood
Grange, Berks County.
July 13-10 a.m., Pa. Pork Pro
ducers Field Day at Penn
State University.
-7 p.m., 4-H County Queen
Contest, at Long Park, Lan
caster.,
Uancaster County Swine Producers As
sociation Field Day. Assisting Younkin
is Janies Horton, left center, who hosted
the field day Masonic Homes Farm,
-Elizabethtown. - Is. F. Photo
Day. He was presented with a
purebred Berkshire gilt as his
award. Two years ago, at the
County Conservation Field Day,
he also won a gilt. But then
his triumph came in the
greased pig contest in which
he out-figured that critter and
had it hogtied in what may
have been a record time of
one and a half minutes.
The son of Mr and Mrs Paul
Bollinger of Denver R 2, Bol
linger piled up 441 points of a
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Delaware Valley
Milk Base Plan
Recommended
An amendment to the Dela- i
ware Valley Milk Order was
recommended this week bv the
US. Department of Agriculture l
As proposed, the older would
be amended to include a base
excess plan identical to that
which was suggested by Inter-
State Milk Produceis Coopera
tive at the Philadelphia milk
hearing session June 12-13.
The amended order would al- !
so provide a reciprocal agree
ment among orders 4, 16, and 3 '
to the effect that a dairyman ;
could transfer from any one of
these to another without being
penalized.
According to Inter-State
director of public relations i
Boyd Gartley, there will be
no block voting in the refer- i
endum to amend the present
order; each dairyman’s vote
will be tallied. Inter-State
plans seven area meetings,
Gartley noted, to explain the
base-excess plan to dairymen, i
The first of these was held i
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Lancaster Farming, Saturday, July 8,1967
Farm Price Levels
Up Slightly For June
Substantial increases in the
prices received by farmers for
vegetables, meat animals, and
dairy products more than off
set declines to push the June
index of prices received up
one point, according to the
Pennsylvania Crop Reporting
Service. Vegetables, meat ani
mals, and dairy products all
registered two percent increas
es over the previous month.
The increase in the meat ani
mal price index was attributed
to the increased prices receiv
ed for steers and heifers and
slaughter cows The price of
steers and heifeis at $24 40
was 60 cents above last month,
with the price of slaughter
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County Poultry Association
To Host NEPPCO Tour Oct. 9
Directors of the Lancaster
County Poultry Association
voted unanimously Thursday
night to host a tour October
9th in conjunction with the
1967 Northeastern Poultry Pro
ducers Council (NEPPCO) Ex
position.
The proposal, made to the
association by NEPPCO execu
tive director Richard I. Am
mon was enthusiastically en
dorsed by the county board,
meeting at the Lancaster Faim
Credit Bldg.
With poultry industry people
fiom all over the northeastern
U.S, and Canada, attending
the annual NEPPCO Exposi
tion October 10-12, Ammon not
ed that a pre-exposition tour
of ■ Lancaster County’s famed
poultry industry and historical
County Barley Quality Sags
As Rains Hamper Harvest
The old adage “make hay
while the sun shines” also ap
plies to harvesting small grains,
but so far this month it has
been difficult advice to follow
for Lancaster County farmers.
Usually by this time of the
month the barley crop is finish
ed up, and a good bit of wheat
is moving into storage. Not this
year. With combining beginning
July 13, Field
Day For State
Pork Producers
Pork producers from all over
Pennsylvania will gather at
Penn State University on Thurs
day, July 13, for a field day, ac
cording to extension livestock
specialist Dwight E. Younkin.
Meeting at the university’s
swine center at 10 a.m., produc
ers will hear Dr. Grant Sherritt
discuss the colony houses and
slatted porches, and will see the
new "farrow-to-finish house.' A
tour of the boar lots will follow.
The rest of the morning will
be spent touring and discussing
the new meat evaluation center
with the center’s manager Rob
ert Kimble.
Following lunch, producers
will be given a demonstration
of carcass measurements made
on the evaluation center hogs by
John Ziegler and James Wat
kins Sherritt and Dr. J. L Gob
ble will also report on some
swine research now being con
ducted.
Eugene Wingert, St Thomas
Rl, chairman of the newly
formed Pennsylvania Pork Pro
ducers Conncil, will describe
the Council’s plans, activities,
and programs
NO QUEEN
The selection of a Pennsyl
vania Pork Queen for 1967, an
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sights should attract consider
able interest.
TENTATIVE SCHEDULE
Directors immediately rough
ed out a tentative tour sched
ule to he confirmed and pre
sented in detailed form by the
next board meeting August 3.
'Planned stops include mod
ern laying hen and bioiler op
erations, an egg piocessing
plant, an historical exhibit, a
barbecued chicken lunch, and
a family-style Pennsylvania
Dutch dinner served at one of
Lancaster County's several res
taurants noted for such fare.
If time permits, diiectors sug
gested the tourists might also
enjoy seeing how tobacco is
handled in sheds on Lancaster
County farms.
$2 Per Year
the latter part of last week in
the southern end, and some
brought to dealers and elevators
on the Fourth of July in all sec
tions of the county, it is esti
mated Thursday of this week
that 90 percent of the barley
crop is still in the field.
QUALITY OFF
Although some of the early
barley harvested looked pretty
good, the “quality is getting
poorer all the time” as harvest
continues, one elevator operator
notes.
Lodging has been quite wide
spread in the county’s barley
fields, and, although combines
are able to get most of the
downed grain, the continuing
moisture on the lodged crop
has taken it§ toll. Moisture tests,
12 to 13 percent before the re
cent rains, are now running as
high as 17 3 percent, according
to reports.
Test weights, as a result ef
the shriveling kernels;*seem, to
be averaging somewhere’ be
tween 40 and 43 pounds per
bushel, compared to some of the
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Selection Of 4-H
County Queens
Set For 13 th
The annual contest for selec
tion of junior and senior 4-H
county queens will be held
Thursday, July 13, at 7 pm.,
according to county home econ
omist Dons W. Thomas
The contestants will appear
in street clothes at the Long
Park amphitheater They are
advised to arrive at the paik
no later than 630 pm to re
ceive final instructions, Mrs.
Thomas noted
Since early applications for
the contest indicated a smaller
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Advance legislation and
publicity for the tour will be
handled by NEPPCO, with bus
es leaving Harrisburg at ap
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Temperatures for the next
five days are expected to av
erage near the noimal mean
temperature cf 76 degrees.
With little day-to-day change
expected, daytime highs and
overnight low temperatures
will range 87 to 65 degrees.
Precipitation, perhaps total
ing greater than %-iinch, is
expected in the form of show
ers Sunday and Monday.