THE FUN SIDE OF 4-H is evident at the 4-H Soil and Water servation practices in strip cropping, contouring and terracing. There
Conservation Club “doggie roast” and picnic. The members, leaders were 52 members, leaders and parents present including Jay W. Irwin,
and parents enjoyed this outing at the Vincent Hoover farm near New Assistant County Agent.
Providence, The event also included a field trip to observe good con-
PENN MANOR
KOOKIE KOOKS
The first meeting of the Penn
Manor Kookie Kooks was held
last week at Stehman’s Church
Pavilion. Linda Porter led in
the election of officers. The
following were elected: presi
dent - Terri Brenner, vice pre
sident - Linda Leaman, secre
tary-treasurer - Darlene Eshle
man, songleaders - Connie Hoak
and Doflica Neff and game lead
ers - Kris Stejiman and Jenny
Campbell. After the meeting
was adjourned Kns Stehman
made brownies and Connie
Stehman made muffins
The second meeting was held
on June 26 at the Penn Manor
Junior High School Announce
ments were made after which
Linda Kauffman gave a demon
stration on how to set a table.
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After the business meeting was H £ T"V •
adjourned, the first year girls fiPfil ■ I JQJTV
made sandwiches and a bever- *
age while the second year girls Calves born to Brown Swiss
made baked custard and a salad. dams bred to bulls of beef
* X a I ?. eeting 'J'/ jbe held breeds weighed more and made
at 11-30 A.M. on Wednesday, higher gains than other crosses
ml lU* f 6nn an ° r JUIIIOr straightbreds in a recent ARS
High School. stud y.
CLASHING THIMBLES Brown Swiss dairy cows were
The second meeting of the 4-H ed , tO . ef c ord ' n Ang “ s \ and
Clashing Thimbles Sewing Club Charolais beef bulls. Matings
was held recently at the Steh- als ° were ™ ade bulls
man's Church Pavilion Every- and cows of , tbese tbree bre ? ds
one received a book, entitled to com P are ad possible straignt-
Groommg Magic for Modern bred and crossbred combina-
Girls. The members then dis- tlons Wlth the beef-dairy crosses,
rinpc Data were collected over a 4-
. , >ear period at the U S Range
A demonstration was given by Llves £ ck Experiment Station in
Mrs. Loia Porter on how to sew Mlles Clty> M OnC „ by ARS cat .
on _f J l ’. j • hit „ , tie researchers, OF. Pahnish
lead6r 13 MrS ' Ed ' and J - J Unck. ARS statistician
gar Porter.
NORTHERN HOLSTEIN party with the Lebanon County
The Northern Lancai ter Holstein Club as guests A
County Holstein Club met last baseball game preceded the
week for its annual ice cream party
Lancaster Farming, Saturday. June 29,1968—!
Crossbreeds
BW. Knapp, and J. S. Brinks, Major expansion of feed
now of the Colorado Agricultural , . r . T .
Experiment Station. Fort Col- manufacturing facilities at John
l ins< W. Eshelman & Sons, Tampa,
On the average, crossbred Florida plant for the efficient
steers from Brown Swiss moth- production of Red Rose Feeds
ers outweighed steers from beef j S expected to be completed in
mothers by 12 pounds at birth, j a t e jggg was announced by
even though both groups of Hugene McKoy, plant manager,
steers were sired by the same
bulls. Crossbreds with Brovin
Swiss mothers gained 0 3 pounds
more per day before weaning
and weighed 74 pounds more
than the beef breeds when both
were weaned
The researchers say the heavy
birth weights of calves born to
Brown Swiss mothers can be as
sociated with the relatively large
frame of that breed. The high
level of milk produced by the
Brown Swiss dam appears to
have contributed to the fast pre
weaning gains of their crossbied
calves.
The Tampa plant, currently
serving most of Florida, com
bines with Eshelman manufac
turing plants in 5 other loca
tions to form a network which
serves independent dealers in
22 Eastern states, and 39 foreign
countries Eshelman manufac
tures more than 100 different
Red Rose feeds for livestock,
poultry and pets, and has pio
neeied many manufacturing
systems, types of products and
nutritional programs in its
more than 125 years of busi-
ness
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