Periodicals Division
VOL 15 NO. 3
Poultry Symposium Airs New
Ideas In Waste Disposal
“I trunk that in three or four
years the entae cost of a system
for d-ymg ooultiy manure will
more than be off-set by the sale
of an end product,” sa,d Di
Glenn Biessler, Professor of
Poultry Science at Penn State
Speaking at the Poultry Waste
Symposium held Tuesday at the
Faiin and Home Center, Biessler
showed slides and gave figures of
cost for a poultry diymg system
he has developed and is now be
Farmers Asked
To Separate
Moldy Tobacco
Mold in the 1569 tobacco ciop
now being strapped on local
farms has moie often than any
thing oeen named the chief cul
prit causing concern for both
faimers and the tobacco industry
in general The fact that no
body knows just how much of
the crop is affected has caused,
buying" that started about two
-weeks ago, to be almost at a
total stand-still now with only
an .estimated fifty percent of the
crop in dealers’ hands And
farmers that have sold aie being
warned to keep separate all the
leaves that are moldy
Leonard Pol'd, USDA Inspect
or, tnat grades - tobacco sold
through the Agway Cooperative
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SALE SCENE, The sale ring was full Wednesday
afternoon, at the Lancaster Stockyards for the District
4-HBaby Beef sale. A few minutes after this photograph
mg tried commeicially with
pleasing results
An economical method, the
diymg system was developed as
a component of the sloping wue
floor egg production system
Poultry dropping when voided
contains between 75 and 80 per
cent water Bresslei’s drying
system is designed to begin eva
porating water immediately and
reduce the water content to
about 30 percent before remov
ing the manure ft om the house
Basically, it consists of blowing
air at velocities over 500 feet per
mmute across the manuie as it
falls to the flooi underneath the
sloping wue along with stmmg
the manure several times daily
Fans cuculating an aie mounted
underneath the buds housed on
the wue flooi and about 15 inch
es above the mania e Fans are
centeied ovei flooi aieas 10 to
12 feet wide and spaced 50 feet
apart lengthwise to the house
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National Young
The meeting of National
Young Farmers will be held
next week in Lancaster at the
Host Farm Motel, Lincoln High
way East, starting tomorrow,
December 14 through Wednes
day, December 17
Registration will start at 2 p m
wuth the Manheim Young Faim-
Lancaster Farming, Saturday, December 13.1969
Soil And Wo ter District
Lists New Objectives
The Lancaster County Soil
and Watei Conseivation District
Dnectois listed theii objectives
foi the coming year at a lengthy
meeting held at the Farm and
Home Centei this week
Included in the objectives are
a lasolution to give moie assis
tance to y outh pi ogi ams FFA,
4-H, Boy Scouts etc The district
plans to hold a woik shop foi
teacheis on environmental sensi
tivity in the Spring of 1970 and
conduct geneial education on
conseivation
They want to set aside an area
in the County park tor an out
door lab that will be available
to all local schools
The youth dnector progiam is
to be expanded and the Consei
vation Field Day including the
Plowing Contest and Land Judg
ing Contest is to be continued
Also listed was a request foi. an
executive assistant and an educa
tional program for board mem
bers The distnet plans to spon
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Farmers In Lane.
ers in charge Paul Kline is chair
man
Monday morning’s opening ses
sion will feature Congressman
Edwin Eshleman and color slides
of state fanner activities In the
evening Moms Fonda, General
Sales Manager of A O Smith
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was taken, Suzie duPont’s grand champion steer was
sold to the high bid of Robert Frame, Whitford Sales
Co., Exton. L. F. Photo
Champion 4-H Steer At
District Show Brings
$1.30; Average Is 38.75 c
The highest price since 1959 i
foi a grand champion at the
Southeast Distuct 4-H Baby :
Beet Show and Sale was leceived
Wednesday afternoon as a climax ,
to the event held at the Lancas- .
tei Stockyards ;
With a crowded ringside ot ,
4 Hers, parents, businessmen
buyers and other interested per
sons, Suzie duPont, West Chest
ei R 4, led hei grand champion, :
an Angus, to the tune of the ,
auctioneer’s call and when all .
bids were in, Robert Frame of .
Whitford Sales in Exton, took
the winner along back to Chestei
County foi $1 30 pei pound oi a
total of 51306 50 Suzie is the 13-
year-oid daughtei of Mr and
Mis R Jacques duPont
The 1959 puce of SI 64 was the
highest in recent years but the
. 1945 price of 52.00 is the highest
* recorded on the wall plaque in
the Lancaster Auction building
Last year, the grand champion,
. also from Chester County shown
by Milton Howe, sold for $1.19
to the Hershey Motor Lodge
The reserve grand champion,
a Hereford shown by Cathy Bru
baker, daughter of Mr and Mrs
Glenn Biubaker, 345 Running
Pump Road. Lancaster, was pur
chased by E W Martin for Smu-
$2.00 Per Year
cker’s Amish Village, Allentown
for 63 cents a pound or a total of
$706 75
The Shoi thorn breed champion
shown by Donna Hess, brought
41 cents a pound from Watt and
Shand, the reserve champion An
gus shown by Randy Scott went
to Hildabrand Meats for Dutch
Wonderland for 44 cents a pound;
the reserve champion Hereford
shown by Carol Ann Harnish
sold foi 44 cents a pound from
Acme Maikets, and the reserve
champion shorthorn shown by
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Local Steers
Selected For
State Farm Show
The Lancaster County 4% Ba
by Beef Roundup was held Tues
day afternoon at the Lancaster
’ Stockyards to select the local
; steers that will be held to go to
the Farm Show in Harrisburg in
January.
In the annual Lancaster Coun
ty Showmanship contest held
after the Farm Show selections
were made, Ray Brubaker 17-
year-old son of Mr and Mrs. Ray
mond S Brubaker, Rohrerstown
Road, won ovei 10 other con
testants The prize for Ray’s ef
forts was the steer calf annually
given by the Lancaster Inteli. to
the winnei of the contest
Those selected for the Farm
Show aie as follows
ANGUS
Gaiy Dean, Gregoiy Greider;
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4-H Veal Calf
Club To Start
The 1970 4-H Veal Production.
Club will again be formed 'ac
cording to Victoi Plastow, As
sociate County Agent Anyone
between the ages of 9 and 19 may
join
Participants should contact
Plastow at his office in the Farm
and Home Center no latei than
December 19 and a record book
and other information will then
be supplied
Rules call foi 4-H’ers to feed
their calves a high fat all-milk
pioducl leplaeei and house them
in an elevated tie stall
Farm Calendar
Sunday, Dec. 14
14 -17 National Young Farmer
Institute, Host Farm MoteL
Monday, Dec. 15
7-30 pm 4-H Ayrshire, Jer
sey, Brown Swiss Club
meets, Kenneth Eshleman
home, Elizabethtown,
Tuesday, Dec. 16
7:30 p.m. Ephrata Young
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