B—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, Nov. 16, 1974
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Along with the trophies and ribbons given out by
the Ephrata Rotary Club during their annual 4-H
capon round-up, Kerry Boyd (right) RDI, Ephrata,
collected $9 per pound for his Grand Champion bird.
Jeff Gehman, RD2, Denver, (left) exhibited the
reserve Grand Champion capon at the event.
Prize Capon
Sells For $Bl.
Although many consumers Capon Round-up sponsored
have seen the cost of meat by the Ephrata Rotary,
skyrocket over the past Kerry, who is the son of
several months, paying $9 a Mr. Elmer Boyd, RDI,
pound for a dressed capon Ephrata also exhibited the
sounds just a little too ab- pnze winning record book
surd. which scored a 99.6 percent
However that is ou t 0 f a possible 100 percent
precisely what David Eby, scor ing.
an attorney from the a pair of capons shown by
Ephrata area, paid for Kerry j e ff Gehman, son of Mr. and
Boyd’s grand champion 4-H Mrs. Roger Gehman, RD2
dressed capon at the annual Denver, took reserve
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Lebanon , Chester Co.
Farmers To Open for
Farm-City Week Tours
Both the Lebanon County
Farmers Association and the
Chester County Farmers
Association have scheduled
open house tours of county
farms on Sunday, November
24, to celebrate Farm-City
Week, which runs from
November 22-28. The Chester
County farms will be open
from 1:00 to 4:00 p.m. on
Sunday. They’ll also be open
the same hours on Saturday.
The theme for this year’s
champion honors and were
sold to Ray Sumrtiey,
Ephrata for $4.65 a pound.
Other exhibitors, all from
the Lincoln 4-H Community
Club, included; Tessie Geh
man, RD2, Denver; Gail
Gehman, RD2, Denver; Ann
Weaver, RD2, Denver;
Ronald Weaver, RD2,
Denver and Scott
Augsberger, RDI,
Reinholds.
Jay Irwin, Associate
County Agent, explained that
all of the capons had been
DAIRY COWS SALE
at The Shady Lane Dairy Cow Stables, '/« mile
West of Quarryviiie off Oak Bottom Road.
SATURDAY,
1:00 P.M. Sharp
65 HEAD HI-GRADE YOUNG HOLSTEINS
This sale consists of
15 fresh and close springers from 1 herd,
12 fresh and close springers from 1 herd,
10 fresh and close springers from 1 herd;
1 real top load of cows from Virginia and
Maryland.
Farmers we know when you need cows this
year you want them ready for the milk pail On
this sale we will have them Plan to see us the
23rd
TB and Blood Tested
Kersey Bradley, Auct.
E. H. Eschbach, Clerk
Bring in your early order (or NK seed com now And bring m
your top corn yield next year
As you know severe weather damage in midwest seed pro
duction areas is expected to drastically limit the availability of all
seed corn for next year
Your signed order in the hands of your Stanford Seed dealer
is your best assurance that you will have the top performing
Northrup-Kmg corn hybrids you need for your farm So bring m
your early order now M
farm city observance is
“Know Your Neighbors and
Work Together”
There are seven dairy
farms on the Lebanon
County tour. They are:
Willow Maple Farm, owned
by Harold and Donald
Bollinger, Milbach Road,
Lebanon, which will be open
from 1:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m.;
Harold Kleinfelter, half-mile
east of Avon on King Street,
3:00p.m.t06.00p.m.; Henry
Martin, Rt. 241, one mile
well tended and dressed and
that they averaged out to
about 9 pounds a piece.
The 4-Hers were guests of
the Ephrata Rotary for
dinner and helped Wilbur
Hosier, a noted local auc
tioneer, to sell their prize
animals.
TRY A
CLASSIFIED
AD!
1974
NOV. 23,
Owners
FITE BROS.
Glenn 717-786-2750
Gerald 717-548-2543
Qys) mfirmofto/Tm co. )NCI
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PO Box 230 Plymouth Meeting Pa /PO Box 366 Buffalo NY
north of Rt. 322,1:00 p.m. to
4:30 p.m.; Ralph Patches,
one mile west of Quentin on
Rt. 322, 4:00 p.m. to 7:00
p.m.; Irwin Kreider, half
mile north of Campbelltown
on Lingle Ave., 1:00 p.m. to
4:00 p.m.; Dale Pride Farm,
Dale E. Hostetter, owner,
one-fourth mile north of
Bellgrove on Rt. 934, 1:00
p.m. to 5:00 p.m.; Fern Host
Farms, Albert Moyer,
owner, 1.5 mile north of
Lebanon along Rt. 343, 1:00
p.m. to 5:30 p.m.
There are 13 farms on the
Chester County tour. They
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are iu Da i ia J rvin 8« tw o miles
south of Oxford and Barn
sley; Keelc B. E
mushroom farm, south of
Nottingham on Park Road
Robert Pebble dairy S
if °f lnterse ction
ot U.b. Rt. 1 by-pass and Rt
10 at Oxford; Farms
north of Oxford at in’
tersection of Scroccy anH
Street Roads; Leslie andßai
Walton. 1.3 miles west o
Cochranville on Homeville
Rd.. turn right on Jebb
Road; Wilkinson Farm
south of Avondale. '
Also in Chester Countv
Glen Willow Orchards, north
of Avondale on Glen Willow
Road; J. H. Thompson Inc
roses, west of Kennett
Square on Thompson Rd ■
Tobi Hill Farm, east of
Honeybrook; Truman
Hertzler, north of Elverson-
Bachelors Flowers
Snowdenville; Kulp Bros’
Dairy, south of Pottstown;
and Buttonwood Farm east
of Phoenixville.