o—Lancaster Farming, Saturday,
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Penn-Willows
Club To Present
Money Donations
By Peggy Eshleman, Reporter
The Penn-Willows 4-H Club
will present a donation to the
Farm and Home Foundation,
the Lions Club and the Farm
Women at the Pequea Elemen
tary School in Willow Street,
Thursday, Sept. 14. The club
members had a bake sale and
raised $52 as a project. These
funds will be presented to rep
resentatives of the local organi
sations at the evening affair
starting at 7:30 p.m.
The Penn-Willows club is a
combination of youth from the
Pequea and Willow Street areas.
How Reliable Is The
“Eye-ball" Method Of
Evaluating Steers?
Just how reliable and prac
tical is the “eye ball” method
of selecting and evaluating a
“modern” muscular beef type
steer? And when you look at
cattle, how can you tell where
“muscle” ends and “fat” be
gins?
lowa State University scien
tists hav e sought answers to
these questions and reported
on their studies at the 59th
Annual Meeting of the Ameri
can Society of Animal Science
at the University of Nevada,
Reno.
Although it is readily ap-
•tember 9,1967 carcass” for 72 to M hours,
— photographs were taken and
parent that there is variation the hide, head and shanks re
between body form and car- moved.
cass composition of beef steers Results from measurements
of similar weights, just how taken showed that the most
much was discovered in work heavily muscled steer had a
done at lowa State University, carcass of 66 percent lean
There animals were slaugh- W hii e the fattest steer had 43
tered and then their carcasses percent lean. Likewise the ibest
were chilled and subsequently muscled steer had only 18 per
frozen in a normal standing cen t fat while the fattest steer
position. produced 44 percent of its
After freezing the “standing body weight in fat.
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AUCTION
676 ACRES OF PRIME LAND FOR
COMMERCIAL AND/OR INDUSTRIAL
DEVELOPMENT
YORK COUNTY PENNSYLVANIA
Public sale of valuable real estate from the estate of
Mahlon N. Haines, the Shoe Wizard*'These farms will be
offeree! at public sale at Farm No. 1 on September 14, 1967.
All are prime commercial, industrial or residential
development * properties. All are located in fast-growing
York County, Pa. All are located near U.S. 30, only a few
minutes from downtown York.
Farm No. 1 Approx. 89 acres.
Farm No. 2 Approx. 127 acres. Penna. Rail*
road runs through property.
Farm No. 3 Approx. 460 acres. Penna. Rail*
road runs through property.
To be offered at public sale by the acre. Each farm
will be offered separately and also all three farms as a unit.
For brochure write The York Bank and Trust Co.,
executor, Trust Dept., 21 E. Market St., York, Pa. 17405.
Tel. (717) 843-8651, Ext. 262 (Mr. Roller), or write to Jacob
A. Gilbert, Auctioneer, R. D, 1 Wrightsville, Pa. 17368 Tel.
(717) 246-5056.
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