o—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, August 5,1967
Tindall Cow
Has V2-Ton Fat
Record 3rd Time
Another official production
record exceeding a half ton of
tout tci fat Ins been completed
to> Pleasant Grove Lucinda
Dean (GP), a registered Hoi-
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Hail Hits Hard la New Holland Section This Week
stein cow owned by Charles C Holstein cows on official test.
Tindall Peach Bottom. This The Pennsylvania Holstein’s
is the third time that “Lu- official record of production
cinda” has achieved the 1,000 totaled 23,881 lbs. of milk and
lb 'butof-t production level V O2l ot “ J 565
. , . , . days. She started her lactation
in a single lactation. Pus lec- age of nine yeiais and
ord ranks among 2,319 similar- three months and was milked
ly completed by Registeied two times daily
Particularly hard hit in this
week’s freak hail storm were
corn, tobacco, and potatoes in
a belt approximately 1 to IVa
miles wide, running from iust
north of New Holland towaids
Terre Hill.
According to Harry Fox,
New Holland HI, whose faim
seemed to be about at the cen
ter of damage, the cherry
sized hailstones weie borne in
on a hard lainotorm from the
southwest Monday afternoon
Corn on the Fox imm, shown
at left h/ >oung Elam Fox,
had its leaves slashed into rib
bons with many stalks bioken
This crop will likely recover,
but some younger ciops were
sot back substantially
At right is a closeun view of
a tobacco p'’ant in the same
area This tobacco was recent
ly topped, and had been grow
ing better than mo't tobacco
plants since 1961. Not only are
the leaves on the plants in
this field completely “punched
out”, but mest of the ribs and
stalks aie also smashed Some
younger plants 111 the aiea may
come back all right, but this
wop looks like a complete loss
The home vegetable garden
on the Fox farm was flattened
to such an extent it was diffi- While the extent of the dam
cult to tell tomato from squash age has not been completely
plants. Grapes on the arbor determined, it will undoubted
split under the pel'mg of bail, ly run into many thousands of
with hardly a grape escaping dollars in lost crops and. in
injury. come
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