60-—Lancaster Farmini. Saturday. Oct. 11. 197! Farm to fair4-H beef program CHICAGO - Beyond souvenir stands, commercial exhibits and carnival at tractions on the midway lie what many young people might call the "real action" at the state fair: the Junior livestock Judging events. Last summer’s fairs .are only a memory now to many of the 160,000 boys and girls in the national 4-H beef program. To others, the experience is to come in the next month or two. Regar dless of time, 4-H’ers who take part in judging contests get a real-life workout in decision making and con fidence building that perhaps can never be duplicated. Learn-by-doing ex periences like judging and Judging and showmanship con tests test the decision making abilities of the 160,000 young people in the national 4-H beef program sponsored by Celanese Chemical Company. The program, supervised For Farm Women News Read Lancaster Farming showmanship events arc only part of the 4-H beef programs sponsored by Cclancse Chemical Com pany, A Division of Cclanese Corporation. In a variety of projects supervised by the Cooperative Extension Service, 4-H members from 9 to 19 acquire breeding, feeding and management skills thay can apply to caring for one or more beef animals. 4-H’ers also earn awards donated by Celanese through the National 4-H Service Committee. The company offers $BOO college scholarships to six national winners in the program, and expense-paid trips to the 54th National 4-H Congress, Nov, by the Cooperative Extension Ser vice, enrolls 4-H'ers 9-19 in a wide range of breeding, feeding and management "learning by doing" projects. 30-Dec. 4 in Chicago, to one winner from each state. Up to tour 4-H'crs per county are eligible for medals of honor. All winners arc selected by the Ex tension Service on the basis of their records of ac complishment in 4-H beef projects. A beginning beef project may involve raising one or more feeder calves to market weight, then selling them for a relatively quick return. More advanced 4-H cattlemen can undertake beef breeding and stocker feeder projects. Whatever activity they choose, program members keep up to date on current trends in beef production and marketing. Young farmers to meet Area farmers arc invited to attend an educational meeting on Fertilizers on Tuesday, October 14, 1975, at 7:45 p.m. in the agriculture classroom of the Garden Spot High School in New Holland. Subject areas that will be studied at the meeting will include: fer tilizer price and supply for 1976, trends toward bulk blended fertilizer, update on new developments in fer tilizer industry, and a review of the various forms in which nitrogen can be applied and timing of application. The speaker for this meeting will be Mr. Max Maichele, an agronomist from Toledo, Ohio. If you are thinking of purchasing your fertilizer before the end of the year or plan any fall fertilizer ap plications, this timely meeting should help you make the decision more wisely. With an excellent production year with an excessive amount of rainfall, r Ais. Tf P/ -fc If you need softened butter for baking in a hurry, shred it on a vegetable grater, using the larger holes. r New idea’s Uni-Forage Harvester Superchopper Reliable. A real performer. Today there’s a really dependable forage harvester in the field! It’s the new generation of choppers from Uni-System, the No. 1 self-propelled forage harvester on the market. We call it the Superchopper, If you liked Uni choppers before, wait till you see this one in action. See its reliability... its added convenience ... and yes, its 15% greater capacity. Bigger, heftier cutterhead. Broader, wider design for even smoother flow of material. Let us show you this great Superchopper. But before you buy, be sure you’ve got enough forage boxes to handle the greater volume. Uni-System just plain makes more sense. A L HERR & BRO LONGENECKER FARM SUPPLY N G HERSHEY & SON 7,9 Ua Sc'i«, Rh6emS Manhe,m 717-786 3521 717-367 3590 717-665 2271 ROYH SUCH INC CHAS J McCOMSEYSSONS “"uS,’“ Ephrata R 0 2 Hickorv Hill Pa Lancaster 717-859 2441 215 932 2615 717-393 3906 STOLTZFUS FARM SERVICE Cochranville Pa 215-593 5280 large amounts of nutrients may have been used by plants or leached out. The importance of soil tests will EVERY WEDNESDAY IS P# DAIRY KT DAY AT NEW HOLLAND SALES STABLES, INC. New Holland, PA If you need 1 cow or a truck load, we have from 100 to 200 cows to sell every week at your price Mostly fresh and close springing Holstems. Cows from local farmers and our regular shippers including Marvin Eshleman, Glenn Fite, Gordon Fritz, Blaine Hoffer, Dale Hostetter, H. D Matz, and Jerry Miller. SALE STARTS 12:30 SHARP Also Every Wednesday, Hay, Straw & Ear Corn Sale 12:00 Noon. For arrangements for special sales or herd dispersals at our barn or on your farm, contact' Abram Oiffenbach, Mgr. 717-354-4341 ** Norman Kolb 717-397-5538 XP V ABC GROFF, INC New Holland 717-354 4191 also be discussed in relation to these conditions. Any area farmer is invited. Refresh ments will be served. M S YEARSLEY A SONS West Chester 215-696 2990
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