VOL. 12 NO. 38
County 4-H Pig
Show Aug. 22nd
It’s County 4-H Pig Show
& Sale time again, according
to a reminder issued by as
sociate county agent Victor
Plastow this week.
The event will again be held
at the Lancaster Stock Yards,
and the Lancaster Livestock
Exchange will handle the sale
beginning at 1:30 in the after
noon. Judging of entries will
begin on Tuesday, August 22nd,
at 8 sum., Plastow notes. The
animals will be type judged by
breeds, with three weight
classes considered in each
breed.
The- weight classes will be:
lightweight, 190 pounds and
under; mediumweight, 195-220
pounds; heav y w e ight, 225
pounds’ and up. Club members
are eligible to show only one
pig in each weight class, Plas
tow advises, but each may
show in as many weight class
es and breeds as he has pigs.
At last year’s show, grand
championship honors went to
Franklin Ruoss of Epbrata R 2
for his Duroc-Jersey barrow.
The animal was later sold to
Kunzler & Co, Inc., Lancas
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County Poultry Dealer Introduces
New Cart For Carrying Cage Birds
Veteran Lancaster County
live poultry dealer Carl B. Ris
ser of Lititz recently applied
fo- a patent on a chicken car
rying cart designed especially
for modern cage layer houses.
Rasser, who has been in the
poultry handling business for
nearly 40 years, designed this
new cart to save time and la
bor in cleaning old hens out of
narrow-row cage houses, or for
putting new pullets in During
the peak of the season he han
dles up to 40,000 birds a week,
and has found the cart speeds
Ms work considerably.
“Previously,” he notes, “we
haetto-have men carrying
handsfuT of chickens up to 400-
500 feet to crates, and 1 then
carry crates to the truck.”
Now Risser uses a 14-man
crew counting those on the
truck and carts the birds
directly to the truck in lots of
400-5061 depending upon the
size of the birds and the weath
er conditions He keeps four
carts-operating so that there is
no wfciting for an empty cart
to return.
Farm Calendar
August 21-1 p.m., Southeast
District FFA Dairy Show at
Hershey.
August 22-8 am., County 4rH
Pig Show and Sale at Lan
caster Stock Yards; sale be
gin® 1 p.m.
-Regional 4-H Dress Revue
at iStrawbiidge & Clothier
auditorium, Philadelphia!.
August 25-9 a.m., Southeast
District 4-H Dairy Show at
Hershey.
Auguste 26 - State Poultry Queen
Contest at Hershey in con
junction with Pennsylvania
" DutciTDays. ' '
HENRY E. GIVLER will soon be leaving this desk
he has held down for the past dozen years as vocational
agriculture teacher at Pequea Valley High School. He
will be moving into the job of director of vocational agri
cultiire.for.the Lancaster-York area, working Out of the
county office of the superintendent of schools.
CHICKEN WALL
When a cart is fully loaded
it resembles an almost solid
wall of chickens The birds
are hung on hooks by the legs,
and the hooks are spaced ei
ther side of eight upright posts
which comprise the carts’
framework The eighth upright
was a modification of the orig
inal design which carried only
seven Risser gained the eighth
upright by adding a support
piece to the rear of the cart at
about a 45 degree angle and
anchoring the upright to’ it
The all-metal cart is mount
ed on six rubber-tired wheels.
Two of these are of large di
ameter, aiidi located in the cen
ter of the frame. "The other
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Cornerstone Rite Marks County
Farm and Home Center Progress
A ceremony set for yesterday and State Senator Richard A.
at 330 p.m. marked a mile- Snyder.
stone in the progress toward
completion of the Lancaster
County Farm & Home Center.
A delegation of Farm &
Home directors, staunch sup
porters, and local dignitaries
were on hand at the Center’s
site along the Route 30 bypass
for a cornerstone-laying cere
mony Friday The one-third
completed building is sched
uled for opening January first
of next year and will ba Penn
sylvania’s first such Center.
The program included talks
by three officials who have
.been long-time friends of .the
Farm & Home Center concept;
(Mayor of Lancaster Thomas J.
Monaghan; County Commission
er-chairman'Benjamin Weaver;
Lancaster Farming, Saturday, August 19,1967
District 4-H Dairy
Show Set Aug. 25th
Associate county agent Vic
tor Plastow issued some in
structions to 4-H'eis this week
who will be participating in
the district dairy show to be
held at Hershey on Friday, Au
gust 25th
The show will begin at 9
am, Plastow notes, with Jer
sey, Ayrshire, and Guernsey
animals performing in Ring 1.
At the same time in Ring 2,
Blown Swiss, Holstein, and
Milking Shorthorns will be
featured.
No entries wall be released
before 2pm, Friday, Plastow
advises, adding that animals
are slated to arrive at Her
shey between the hours of 9
am and 5 30 pm. on Thurs
day.
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L.F. PRESERVED
One of the objects placed
into the cornerstone for pres
ervation was a July 29, 1967
copy of Lancaster Farming,
which featured an editorial
urging support for the Farm
& Home Center. Other objects
included in the preservation
were copies of all of the Farm
& Home brochures listing di
rectors and officers for the var
ious campaigns; a statement by
Levi H. Brubaker reviewing
development and goals of Farm
& Horde; and a copy of the
local paper.
Building committee chairman
Jacob Kurtz, Jr. layed the cor
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Area Vo-Ag Directorship
To County Agr. Teacher
As soon as a replacement
can be found to fill Henry E.
Givler’s present teaching posi
tion, he will become the new
Lancaster-York area director
of vocational agriculture, it
was announced this week by
Dr. Harry Gerlach, Lancaster
County Superintendent of
Schools.
Givler will fill the post vacat
ed last December 31st by T M.
Malin of Y irk Malm retired at
that time, ending a 41-year ca
reer in agriculture and educa
tion. The position has been un
filled since his retirement.
A two-year veteran of World
War 11, during which he served
as a radio operator with the
U.S. Navy, Givler attended
Penn State University following
the war, majoring in agricultur
al education.
For the past 15 years, Givler
has been teaching vocational ag
riculture. He started that de
partment at Red Lion in 1952,
then came to Pequea Valley
High School to do the same
thmg in 1955.
Looking back on bis 12-year
teaching career at Pequea Val
ley, Givler notes he has gradu
ated approximately 100 boys
from that vo-ag department
Two of these, John Eby, Jr
and Roy Mentzer, went on to
win the highest national Future
Faimer award available the
American Farmer Degree
Raised on a dairy farm in
southern Lancaster County, Giv
ler’s mam agriculture interest
FARM & HOME DONATION Representing the
Northern Lancaster County 4-H Conservation Club, vie©
president Dennis Martin of Stevens R 1 presents a check
for $25 to noted conservationist Amos H. Funk to sup
port of the Lancaster County Farm & Home Center fund
drive. Funk is a director in Farm & Home, and is one
of five area chairmen serving in the fund drive. Several
other county 4-H clubs followed suit with donations
presented to Levi H. Brubaker Thursday evening at the
4-H Achievement Days program. ' L. F. Photo
52 Per Year
is still dairying His depth of
experience in that field is re
flected in the performance of
his students over the years, both
in dairy showing and judging
competition, and in the career
choices of Pequea graduates.
The Lancaster-York area
which Givler will be supervis
ing is probably the state’s larg
est. It consists of 18 vo-ag
chapters nine in each county
with approximately 300 boys
in York County and 400 in Lan
caster.
Until the Lancaster County
Farm and Home Center is com
pleted next year, Givler will
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Consv. Directors
Study Field Day
Activities
Directors of the Lancaster
County Soil & Water Conserva
tion District Monday night re
viewed results of last month’s
conservation field day and
county plowmg match.
Disappointment was express
ed that only three plowmen
had turned out for the annual
event, and suggestions for in
creasing- this number next year
were offered
J Everett Kreider, director
from the Quarryville area, no
ted he would like to see next
year’s plowing contest held
“somewhere south of Willow
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