VOL. 12 NO. 42
PENN SPRINGS BILL TOPPER
with ownef SUSAN ANN KAUFFMAN,
Elizabethtown Rl. Topper and .Susan
Lancaster Youth Make Moderate
Showing At State Jr. Show
HARRISBURG Lancaster
County Youth had a Reserve
Senior, Reserve Grand and a
Junior Champion here Monday,
along with five first places and
several noteworthy second
place finishes at the Pennsyl
vania Junior Dairy Show held
along with the All-American
Dairy Show.
In the 4-H Holstein division,
Susan Ann Kauffman Eliza
bethtown' Rl, showed her in
creasingly famous Penn Springs
Bill Topper junior yearling
heifer to first place "and junior
champion. The homebred
daughter of Lockway Lucifer
Farm Calendar
Sunday, Sept.' 17
National convention of Coun
ty Agents begins in Omaha,
Neb. In session until Thurs
day, 'Sept 21.
Monday, Sept. 18
1:00 pm.-Cutting To Fit
Workshop, United Gas Im
provement Company, Cones
toga- 'St, Lancaster
3 00 pm. -Beginning Cloth
ing Construction Workshop,
Farm Credit Building.
Wednesday, Sept. 20
Solanco Fair begins
1:00 p.m. - Judging dairy cat
tle and various other judg
ing.
7.00pm.-Formal opening of
the fair.
8 30 p.m. - Talent contest and
crowning of the queen.
3 H- *
8:00 p.m.-Lancaster County
4-H Council' Roller Skating
party at Rocky Springs.
9:30 a.m. - Beginning Taitor
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the Junior Dairy Show in Harrisburg.
The next day Topper was again first in
her class at the State Holstein Black
„and WhitejShow. L. F. Photo
Dill Ivanihoe came back the
next day to show first in hei
class 'in the Holstein Black and
White show
Stephen Arrowsimth Peach
Bottom Rl, was only one ani
mal away from topping the
show 4 with his own homebred
Hiliacres Liberator’s Eggnog
Eggnog was reserve senior and
reserve grand champion of the
4-H Jersey show following an
entry from Washington Coun
ty in the three and four-year
old class
Of special interest in the
FFA Guernsey show was the
placing of Jesse L. Baliner's,
Litistz R 4, Gordldne’s S. H. Hol
ly heifer that was junior and
grand champion at the South
eastern Pennsylvania FFA
Dairy show held at Hershey
several weeks ago Holly had
freshened and* stood second in
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Solanco Opens
The Fair Season
Again Next Week
Fair time is here again with
the opening of the Solanco Fair
on Wednesday. September 20
and umning through Friday the
22
Dairy cattle judging will be
on opening day and Swine and
Baby Beef judging will go on
Thursday Friday is the Fat hog
and Baby Beef Sale
Solanco is the first of five
fairs The others are at Lam
peter, September 26-29; Eph
rata, September 27-30; Man
heim, October 4-6; and New Hol
land, Oct. 4-7.
A complete list of the events
at Solanco next week may be
found in our Farm Calendar.' >
Lancaster Farming, Saturday, September 16,1967
CCC Grain Bins
Average $512
On Closed Bids
The first load of CCC Grain
bins were received in the coun
ty and have been sold to the
highest bidders. The minimum
price for the 10 bins was 5470
and they were sold for an av
erage of $512
Additional bins are on order,
but there is a backlog of or
ders and the A'SCS office does
not know when they will arrive
AT THE CORN DRYING MEET-
ING. Joseph McCurdy, Extension En-
gineer from Penn State fright) shows
the workings of !a grain moisture tester.
County Agent M. M. Smith is holding
the tester and looking on is (left) Jerry
N o Sense Com Spoiling And
Hay Drier Idle, Group Told
A Pennsylvania State Univer
sity Extension Engineer told a
group of local corn growers
gathered on the barn floor of
Robert G Harnish, Conestoga
R 2. that if ihcv have hay drying
systems thej tan use them for
drying corn.
Joseph McCurdy, speaking at
the corn drying meeting Wed
nesday morning, said, “It
doesn’t make sense to me to
have corn rotting in the crib and
a hay drying system setting
idle.”
One of the fust things you
Soil And Water
Directors Plan
State Affair
The Lancaster County Soil
and Water Conservation Dis
trict Directors and their asso
ciates met Monday evening, at
the Production Credit Building,
411 W. Roseville ,Road
‘The evening was spent dis
cussing plans and making final
■arrangements for the planned
20th Annual Joint Conference
of the Pennsylvania Associa
tion of 'Soil and Water Conser
vation District Dnectors Inc.
and the State Soil and Water
Conservation Com mission
For the first time ever, this
state meeting will be held in
Lancaster County, November 8
through 10, at the Host Town
Resort Motel, 30 Keller Ave.,
Lancaster.
The tentative program al
ready includes Secretary of Ag
riculture L. H. Bull and Da
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B. Shaffer, Farm Specialist, PPoeX. and
Robert G. Harnish owner of the farm,
Two meetings were held Wednesday,
one at the Harnish Farm, Conestoga R 2,
and the other at the Farm Credit Build
lug. L. F. Photo
$2 Per Yeas
should know before trying to
dry corn is that corn dries from
the inside out ‘if you pile the
corn around the drying duct,
the corn next to the duct will
dry before the diving process
continues on to the outer lay
eis,” McCurdy said
You also want the corn well
distributed around the duct,
and the engineer warned that
junk (extra stalks and com
leaves) in the pile would dis
rupt the drying pattern
“We want corn down to 12
percent moisture ’’ he said Mc-
Curdy then gave examples of
temperature and relative humi
dity that would accomplish this.
You can do it with outside tem
peratures of 35-55 degrees and
relative humidity of 55 percent.
Oi if the outside temperature is
55 65 then you can get the de
sired dryness with 60 percent
humidity. And at temperatures
of 65-75 you can do it with 65
percent humidity.
He "said'that IT you are" going
to go to drying corn artificially,
especially heat drying, you need
a grain moisture tester. “The
kind of tester needed would cost
about $125,” he said.
High Moisture Corn
In speaking of storing high
moisture corn McCurdy said it
can be done in the form of
ground ear corn, ground shell
ed or whole shelled corn stored
in the form of silage at mois
ture levels of from 25-35 per
cent The advantages of this
type of storage are earlier har
vest, less loss in the field, in
expensive storage, mechanical
handling and no artificial dry
ing needed. The disadvantages
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