Lanchester Pony Judßcs for their May 2 horse Brig Gen F. F. Wing, Jr. show hove been announced by Leesburg. Va. Col D W Lanchester Pony Club. The Thackeray, New Windsor. Md fourth annual show, to benefit Miss Susan Powers, Monkton Pony Club activities, will be Md. and William H Mini ay held at Pony Club Hcndquaitcrs Newark, Del. have accepted at the John Gibson f.nm at Dm- invitations to judge the show more, Pa Bug Gen Wing judged at TRADITIONALLY NEW ... FIELD TO FEEDLOT Built rugged... Whether you’re storing or feeding, you’ll take the hard work out economically with the Gehl BU6IO self-unloading box. It unloads fast to provide the round trip speed you need to keep big harvesters going. Tilt top roof rises 24" to catch the entire stream of material from chopper deflectors, then lowers to the height of the box sides. Unit features a pawl and sprocket feeder apron> drive, auger cross conveyor, standard safety trip and two and three beater combinations. 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HERSHEY & SON Manheim G KE—■— M CALL YOUR AGWAY SALESMAN /,, i\\, /m./<n Ai\\\UAil i/il \/• I. i/n \ w/n\/i\\ Judges for Show the Pennsylvania National Horse Show and the Washing ton International Horse Show in 1009 Ho is a former chairman of the Dressage Committee of the United Slates Pony Clubs Col Thackeray is the current chan man of the Dressage Com mittee of the United Stales Pony Clubs, and United Slates Combined Tunning Association and the Ameucan Hoise Show Association Miss Poweis is a National Examine! of the United States Pony Clubs Mi Mm ray is Dis ti ict Cotnmissionei of Delawaic Pony Club The Lanchester Pony Club show will bo open to udeis through 21 yeais of age There will be 34 classes for hoises and ponies A complete list of classes is available from the show secretary, Mrs W W Rankin, R D 6, Lancaster, Pa Entry fees will be $2 per class Mrs George Hassler, 11, Hid den Acres Farm, and Joseph Little, both of Quanyville, are the District Commissioners of Lanchester Pony Club Try These NEW VEGETABLES for FLAVOR and HIGH YIELD NIAGARA 773 Green Bean. White seeded, \ ery tender and fleshy. About 56 days. S M R 58 Cucumber. Blocky ends, excellent for pickles, heavy yielder. Grown by farmers in Lancaster County in 1969. VENUS Hull Peas. Uniform size, excellent flav or. per feet for freezing and canning Big yielder. Hybrid No. 9 Tomato. Uniform in size, average 5 oz Disease resistant. Does exceptionally well in this area. Early. GARDEN PRIDE Premium Lawn Seed GARDEN PRIDE Regular Lawn Seed r .. We Give \PLANT FOODI W- STORM IP I ——TMTPpmifBSE PA. 17534 PHONE (717) 768-8451 T TRADEMARK LINURON WEED KILLER Wc just received another let ter from Amos Hively, who has written to us regularly for near ly two years from Australia. Amos is a former Lancaster Co. agribusinessman. Besides giving us a run-dowr on the over-supply crop situation in Australia. Amos tells us abou* his own good for tune in finding a farm for him self: Deal editoi Since it takes six weeks or more lot sea mail to leach us, by the time I get the Lancastei Fanning issue that contains my last lettei, it is time to wnte again Aftei a slightly cool, and moderately wet summer the days are getting shorter and the nights a bit coolei The harvest of soighum, sun flowers, millet and coin is in full swing, with yields about double of last year But with prices cut in half or less the faimeis are unhappy to say the least They Y fcg—— : PLUS ATRAZINE H ** /h I. Lancaster Farming, Saturday. April 18.1970 Across the Editor’s Desk v / y(i il 'in.fMd held a piotest match in Melbour ne last week in which 10.000 fai mei s took p.n I Wool puces aie the lowest for 20 yeais and theie was a gathei ing of 2,600 wool gioweis in Mo.ee, New South Wales, last week to tiy to deade what course of action to taki The soybean haivest will not stait toi a few weeks, but the p.ospccts ot a heavy yield look excellent Many ciops should go well ovei a ton to the acie Oiu company is planning a much largei aeieage next yeai, and I am suie we will have no trouble getting groweis The beef maiket is holding up well with heavy exports to U S and also Japan and Russia Since the drought seems to be broken in most areas, many breeders are buying females for expansior of their herds again and this also helps to keep prices high The King Ranch had a record breaking sale of Santa Gertrude’s here in Queensland last week with an average on 12 bulls of $23,667 The top bull sold for $39,000 The pure-bred Brahman of top quality are selling even better The first Charolais-Cross calves in Australia hate been arriving the last two months They made television and radio news at first. Now thev have 50 at the Queens land Agricultural College, about 25 miles from here They are weighing them every week and icport gams of 3 3 pounds pet day on the bull calves After a long «eaich of trying to locate the light farm at the right price 1 closed .the deaLon one yesteiday It is onlv 141 acr es, but I have an option on 70 more acies that joins up perfect ly It has 50 acies of lucerne (al falfa) and I hope to be able to irrigate nearlv all of it There is 50 acies moie of nice level culti vation and the balance in native pasture It has a laige barn and a very nice house, and is on a black-top load It is only 10 miles fiom oui new house I hope to buy about 40 white Shoithoin heifets oi cows before Seplembei when I will be getting 'he Charolais semen I plan to keep on with mv selling 30b for ‘wo or thiee years, until the held gets built up The government announced a 'ew months ago that all weights and meastues will be going on ‘he metuc system within 10 years They estimate the cost at 100 million dollars Most coun tries we expoit to are on the metuc system now. The Australian government has idised the immigrant quota to 250,000 a year and they pay all but $25 of the faie to come here it you qualify Also lead that 3,500 Americans came heie m 1969 which was 27 pei cent more than in 1968. Anothei faim family arrived heie in Toowoomba last week fiom Geoigia He sold 1,100 acr es of land in Georgia This coun try still looks like “a diamond in the tough” to me Until next time Amos Hivoly Teenogers Will Spend $2O Billion in 1973 By 1973 teenagers will have $2O billion a jea l- to spend Aveiage spendable teenage in come todaj is moie than many women living in $40,000 homes have to spend on themselves Suiveys show between 50 per cent and 60 pei cent of high school gi Is spend own money for school lunches and between 21
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