Agricultural Library ' .... AGRICULTURAL AND
The Penna, State
VOL. 12 NO. 35
FFA Hog Show
Set For Aug. Ist
Future Farmers from Lan
caster County’s nine high
school vocational agriculture
departments will show and sell
some 351 animals at the an
nual FFA hog 'Show August
Ist
According to FFA advisor
Clair Zerby, the contest will
start promptly at Sam. at the
Lancaster Stock Yards. It will
feature type judging, plus fit
ting and showmanship competi
tion, -with trophies to be do
nated by Eby’s 'Mill, Lititz
At last year’s show, Bob
Fisher, Grasslands Chapter,
nearly enjoyed a clean sweep.
He had the individual grand
and reserve champions; the
champion Pen of Three; and
the fitting title winning rib
bons and trophies for five firsts,
one second and one third plac
ing.
Henry Gruber, of A & B
Packing Co., Allentown, will
again serve as judge, Zerby
noted.
CHAPTER RIVALRY
The Cloister* FFA- Chapter is
expected't© -toward
regaining; of a ro
tating plaque ivMeh. goes each
year to _ the chapter whose
(Continued on Page 3)
Yost Wins Plowing Title
In County Competition
Ivan Yost, Narvon R 2, be
came the county’® new contour
plowing champion Tuesday, up
setting defending champ Mar
vin Zimmerman, Blast Earl Rl,
by a slim four-point margin in
the event sponsored 'annually
by the Lancaster County Soil
& Water Conservation DiStnciti
In his first county plowing
match last year, Yost finished
in a second-place dead heat
with John Campbell of New
Holland. Thus year, foe maneu
vered his Faiinall 656 tractor
with a semi-mounted four-bot
tom plow expertly enough to
(Continued on Page 7)
Farm Calendar
July 31 - 7 30 p.m., Kick off
rally for Farm & Home Fund
workers from southern part
of county at Strasburg Fire
Hal; northern workers wall
hold a rally Aug. Ist at the
Lititz Rec. Center.
August 1 - 7:30 a.m., Lancas
ter County Poultry Assn, an
nual torn’, leaves from Lan
caster Shopping Center.
- 8 am., Annual FFA Swine
Show & Sale at Lancaster
Stock Yards.
- 9 a.m., County 4-H Dairy
Roundup, Holstein groups
only, at ’ Guernsey Sale Pa
vilion.
August 2 - 8:30 a.m., Red Rose
4-H Baby Beef Club tour, be
gins at J. Harold Frey farm,
Marietta HI.
- 9 a.m.. County 4-H Dairy
Roundup, Guernsey, Ayr
(Continued on- Page 4) -
Conservation Held Day Features Fish And Youth
. _ SPECTATORS LINE THE BANE
of Indian Run to watch the fish shock
ing deantohstration-put on by State Fish
Commission personnel ait ' Tuesday’s
Lancaster County Conservation Field
FEW SEATS STILL OPEN
FOR POULTRY TOUR
“Anyone who had meant
to reserve a seat for the
Lancaster County Poultry
Assn, annual tour and didn’t
get around to it before last
Wednesday’s deadline, may
still be in time,” notes tour
committee chairman John
Jacob Oberholtzer.
A few seats are still avail
able on the second bus, and
if enough people indicate in
terest a third bus will be add
ed for Tuesday’s tour (Aug
ust 1), Oberholtzer states.
Stops are scheduled for
the - Pennsylvania Random
Sample Turkey Test at Her
shey Estates, the Hershey
Chocolate Co., Grimes Poul
try Processing Plant, Frede
ricksburg, and Whitmoyer
Laboratories, Inc., Myers
town. The tour will leave
from the Lancaster Shopping
Center at 7:30 a.m.
Anyone wishing to be in
cluded is advised to tele
phone Oberholtzer TODAY
at Leola, 656-9147. Bus fare
is $1.35.
DH!A Director-Tester
Meeting Set Aug. 7th
Directors of the Red Rose
Dairy Herd Improvement As
sociation have scheduled a
joint meeting with association
supervisors for August 7th, at
7:45 pm., according to advisor
Victor Ptostow.
- „ (Continued on Page 6)
Lancaster Fanning, Saturday, July 29,1967
Ranckßated Top Judge At County
Holstein Assn. Annual Field Day
'*
by Everett Newswanger, '
Staff Reporter
A registered Holstein breed-
er from Romk® Rl took top
WINNERS AT THE HOLSTEIN
FIELD DAY. (1. to r.) Parke Ranch,
Ron'ks, Mrs. Robert Kauffman, Eliza
bethtown and Patricia Eby,‘ Gordon-
Day. Fish wairden'Sam Hall, left) sweeps
thte.water With one electrically-charged
loop as does his fellow worker at right.
The power source is towed alongioehind
in a small plastic boat. L. F. Photo
awards Wednesday, when he
out-scored M contestants in
type judging at the annual
Lancaster County Holstein
Fish Shocked?
Pig Chased? And
Skills Tested
Fish in Indian Rum found
fish warden Sam Hail’s dem
onstrahon shocking Tuesday at
the County Conservation Field
Day, which, of course, was the
main idea
Bail and associates staged
two demonstrations for the
crowd estimated ail close to 300
people Fish were stunned by
the electric charge put into
the water, and -momentarily
floated to the surface. “The
greater their body surface, the
faster the charge 'affects them,”
Hall explained, pointing out
the large ’suckers and carp—
but no trout—floating on the
small stream’s surface Hall
further explained that the elec
tric charge is kept at a level
that does no permanent dam
age to the fish; they recover
rapidly and swim away. The
technique is a-vgreat %qlp to
the Fish Commission in study
ing stream - populations > for
quantity, size, and - kinds of
fish present. Ball added.
(Continued on Page 6)
SffS,
Par^ e Ranek ’ a
possible 300 points, hiad the top
overall score as well as the best
in the men’s dimsuon. He won
the annual challenge trophy
(Continued on Page 7)
voile. Three hundred daiirymen and
fiends attended the all-day affair held
Wednesday at the Ames Butt Farm,
Quarryville R 2. L. F. Photo
$2 Per Year