Mary Pruss Shows
Champion 4-H Capons
With 90 4-H members each
exhibiting two dressed
capons, or 180 birds, Miss
Mary Pruss of Wayne
County won the grand
champion honors at the
Wayne-Plke 4-H Capon
Roundup. She exhibited the
grand champion pair of
birds, which were of the
Penobscot strain, each
weighing ten pounds. Mary
is seventeen years old and
has been in 4-H club work for
seven years.
The reserve grand
champion award was cap-
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1973 TOBACCO
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For More Information Call
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VAN DALE
CALEB M.
WENGER, mC.
R.D.I DRUMORE CENTER, QUARRYVILLE, PA.
PHONE 548-2116
tured by Charles
Shushenick, also of Wayne
County.
This two county roundup
has become in ten years the
largest in continental United
States and perhaps the
world. These youngsters in
Wayne and Pike counties
raise and market more than
5,000 capons each year. Day
old cockerels are purchased
from Mattem’s Hatchery,
Beaver Springs, Pa., and
distributed in basic units of
thirty-five chicks to each 4-H
member in late May. The
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other machines a difference that means better performance
The DA 1230 has double augers but more important they re differ
ential augers The rear auger is larger than the front auger and the
two augers turn at different speeds The result is up to 30*. more
wall pressure for smoother performance m all types of silage soft
or frozen Silage flows into the impeller in an even stream no
slugs or pads of silage that can clog other machines and rob
capacity Thu differential augers break up compressed silage to
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Stop Feeding with the new DA 1230 unloader
basic unit is provided by a
local Rotary Club member,
but 4-H members are free to
purchase additional chicks.
This year two 4-H members
raised 600 capons. The birds
are caponized at ap
proximately twenty-one
days of age by county ex
tension agents and senior 4-H
members. Currently five 4-H
members are able to
caponize proficiently.
At roundup time each 4-H
member presents his Rotary
sponsor with a dressed capon
in repayment for the chicks
provided. The Rotary Club
members visit and
correspond with the 4-H
members, creating in many
cases a close friendship
between the town
businessman and the rural
young person.
John Creighton, Wayne
County Agent and Richard
Plotts, Associate County
Agent, have built this
program into an annual
$45,000 gross business. When
the aid of a second Rotary
Club was enlisted two years
ago, Pike County 4-H
members under the direction
of Joseph Staley, County
Agent, joined the program.
In the course of the
program several hundred
youngsters have learned -
basic principles of poultry
production, processing and
marketing, as well as sound
Mary Pruss, Grand Champion of the Wayne-Pike 4-H
Capon Round-Up. exhibits her winning birds.
business practices. These
youngsters usually bank
more than $l.OO per bird
profit each year. Some have
made as high as $2-3 per bird
when good management,
good luck, and a good
Pennfield Promotes Harter
James H. Harter, a 15-year
veteran of L. M. Sheaffer
Company, Pennfield Cor
poration’s Egg Division, has
been named maintenance
supervisor for the division.
His promotion was an
nounced by Donald E. Horn,
general manager of L, M.
Sheaffer, who added that the
position was newly created.
Harter will handle
operational and preventive
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I.H. 46. Baler
I.H. 816 Mower Conditioner
COMBINES
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Corn Head, 13 ft. Gram Head
HARVESTERS
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Ford Harvester w-2 Heads
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market all have been
favorable. More information
may be obtained by writing
to Mr. John Creighton,
Agricultural County Agent,
Wayne County Courthouse,
Honesdale, Pa. 18431.
maintenance of equipment
and machinery for the
processing plants and
Pennfield Farms. He plans
to expand the new depart
ment in the future.
Before joining Pennfield,
the Ephrata High School
graduate was employed by
Harter’s Grocery Store in
Ephrata. He resides in
Akron with his wife,
Eleanor, and five children.
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BRUBAKER, Inc.
Has a Large Selection of
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Wickert Named
Executive VP
John D. Wickert has
named senior executive
president of Dauphin Dei
Trust Co., W. D. U
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Dauphin Deposit Presid
has announced.
Wickert, of 805 Mai
Lane, Camp Hill, had b
senior vice president
National Central Bank.
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He is secretary-treasu
of the Pennsylvania Bank
Association Political Act
Council, the Pennsylva
Higher Educati
Assistance agency,
American Banke
Association Third Fede
Reserve Lending Advisi
Board, the Board of
Aviation Corp., the I
vertising and Control Bo;
for the Pennsylvai
National Horse Show and
the support committee
the Hemlock Council, G
Wickert is Past Chairman
of the Pennsylvania Bankers
Association lending com
mittee and of the Downtown
Harrisburg Association. He
also has been active in
United Fund solicitations.
He is married to the for
mer Yvonne M. Miller, of
New Cumberland and they
have three children.
He is a member of Grace
Evangelical Lutheran
Church, Camp Hill, the
Country Club of Harrisburg,
West Shore County Club,
Harrisburg Kiwanis Club,
Tuesday Club, West Shore
Chamber of Commerce and
the Greater Harrisburg
Chamber of Commerce.
Wickert is an alumnus of
Erskine College, Muhlen
berg College and the Stonier
Graduate School of Banking,
Rutgers University.
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Fox P.T.O. Table Blower
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Several Used Plows
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