12—Lancaster Fanning. Saturday. August 9.1969
GARY BUCHEN (left) receives the championship FFA
Sw me trophy and rosette for his brother Burnell. Mark Nes
tleroth made the presentation for the Lancaster County
Swine Producers. L. F. Photo
pound for 218 head weighing 46,-
585 pounds The range was 28
cents to 33Va cents and the total
champion brought 81 cents a was $14,712
pound or a total of $162 on the Youths having breed cham
wi uphill P he k 76 g P lo f,f nd re ' erve champions aie CHAMPION BARROW at the County
pound and $144 40 total of the tol lows. Hampshire, Eugene Hog Show and showman Gary Buch
-IP6B chaApion shown by Frank- Bollinger, Ephrata; Ed Donough
1 „ Fnhrat-! no Manheim Yorkshire, Robert
nn xtuoss, ispnraia nz. Hartmg, Ephrata; Roy Musser, bethtown. (both). Duroc, Earl
The reserve champion was pur- New Holland. Poland China, Eu- gtauffer Ephrata; Eugene Bol
chased by E W Martin Co for gene Bolbnger Spotted Poland, j Crossbred) Buinell Buch
-60 cents a pound or a total of Eugene Bollinger (both) Ches- 'vr,r,
$,141 ter White, Raymond Bollmgei en > Manheim: Ed Donou o h, Man
, T , T ~ heim. Berkshire, Jesse Balmer,
The sale aieiaged 31 o cents a Landrace, Lany Baum, Eliza-
• Manheim Youth
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RESERVE CHAMPION at the FFA serve champion was a litter-mate to the
Hog Show and owner Ed Donough. The re- champion. L. F. Photo
WINNING BOTH SHOWMANSHIP Ralph Layman (center), President of the
AND FITTING awards at the FFA Hog Lancaster County Ag- Teachers made the
Show Tuesday Morning is Clark Stauffer presentations and Henry Gruber, A & B
(right), a member of the Cloister Chapter. Packing Co. Allentown was the judge.
en. The champion was a light-weight*
three-way crossbred.
Warwick. Open Class, Linford Daniel 'Brandt, Manheim and Eu-
Weaver, Ephrata; Eugene 80l- gene Bollinger,
linger. Fitting- Clark Stauffer, Earl
Showmanship - Clark Stauffer, Stauffer, Linford Weaver.
Conservation Head 011 the farmlands are included in
c D .. ij-lJ the projects To date, 37 dams
Says Practices Held j ljVe been built an[ j excellent
Soil During Rains pi ogress has been made m apply
, mg conservation on the land.
The lecent storms caused con- DdVls f ee i s that flood damages
sideiable flood damage in eastern wou i(j h av e been reduced fuithet
Pennsylvania according to State the pi anne( j dams were in-
Conservation R M Davis, Soil s t a p e d
Conseivation Service, Hams- ' , t
, We now have requests for as
=” _ sitting the local peoplei'J.n de-
Crops and roads suffered the 1 veloping 33 watershed protection
heaviest damage as numerous an d flood prevention projects
small streams left their banks covering over a million 'acres of
and covered the lowlands Some i £n d in the state,” Davis said. “In
communities were also flooded these projects the local people
and many farm fields were left receive assistance from the feder
gulhed by the heavy rains, Davis d j a nd state agencies in building
because they were protected with for flood prevention, rec«
added leation and water supply for
Davis said that some aieas municipal and industrial uses.”
escaped the heavy flood damage
local flood prevention projects Stocks of all grains in Penn-
Small dams in the headwater S jivama storage on July 1, ex
sti earns and conservation prac- eluding soybeans and rye, totaled
tices on the farmlands helped 27.3 million bushels, down 33
control the floodwaters and re- sui vey by the State Crop Report
duce soil erosion. survey by the tate Crop Report-
In Pennsylvania there are 22 in g Service showed the greatest
flood prevention projects auth- decrease was in corn, down to
onzed for construction by the 17,134,000 bushels, less than half
U.S Congress Over 100 dams the amount in July 1,
and extensive conservation work iggg.
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L. F. Photo