Ben F. Morgan honored (Continued from fagt l| caster County agent who made the presentation. Morgan was a 4-H boy from age 12 through age 20, and studied at West Virginia University. After graduation, he entered extension work while con tinuing his education. In his work at Penn State where he’s been since 1956, Morgan is head of the entire sheep extension program all over the state and very much involved in the breeding program of beef cattle. He offers advice to cow-calf operators and helps in the organizing of feeder calf sales. No newcomer to the Pennsylvania Livestock Association, Morgan Make Christmas s’. merrier next year. Christmas Club, open now at all pays a big 5 r 4 annual interest At unonwealth, you can save automatically \\ au may have payments as little as *. 12 every other week transferred auto -O. matically from your Gimmonwealth ■ checking account to your Christmas \ Club Saving in our Christmas Club has t never been easier 0 And if you are a bit short of cash Vfor Santa this year, why not ask us now about a holiday loan or a convenient Master Charge account / r □ Please send me the forms necessary to open a 57c Automatic Christmas Club O Please change the amount of my present Automatic Christmas Club payment to □ Please send me information on a holiday loan Name Address Signature Commonwealth National Bank Lancaster • Centerville • Lancaster East • Landisville • Lititz • Manheim Township • Park City Millersvilfe • Rohrerstown • Elizabethtown > Elizabethtown East ‘ Willow Street • New Holland Additional offices throughout south central Pennsylvania Account* now imurad to $40,000 by Fedcnl Dtpoiil ln»ur«nc» Corporation. managed the event from 1958 to 1963, and has been one of the Expo committee’s co chairmen since then. Asked about the future of the beef industry, Morgan confidently stated "it will come back it always has.” Puffing briefly on his pipe and pausing a moment, he added: "But I’m very concerned about the sheep industry membership is getting so low that we’ll soon have too many packers to handle the small amounts of lamb coming m." He ex plained, that without more lamb going to market, some of the packing houses will have to close up and thus competition will have been eliminated. The U.S. wool market, A Commonwealth National Bank I 28 Penn Square ■ Lancaster, Pa 17604 ■ un\ imount nur S 2 00t .Checking account no .City A very small in comparison to production in Australia and New Zealand, is down because wool prices arc controlled by international supplies. Low production costs in other areas of the world prevent American producers from gaining a better market. The situation is similar with some meat products, Morgan continued, especially canned meat. Cheaper labor costs abroad account for this situation. As Livestock Man of the Tear, Morgan was presented a plaque which pictures the four areas of the livestock business (horses, sheep, hogs, and beef cattle). Zip Showing sheep is a family affair, Dorset class. Elizabeth and Barbara especially for the Robert Herr’s of Herr helped their father at showing Narvon. Dr. Herr (center) is shown with expert advice coming from with his pen of three entry in the Charles Smith, a family friend. Top HARRISBURG - Jeff Brown of Bethel, Ohio, had the grand champion steer at the 19th Keystone In ternational Livestock Ex position Nov. 8-14 at the Farm Show. Judges at the Open Class Steers competition also named Debra Barker of Kendallville, Indiana, FACTORY REBATE ON UNI-SUPERCHOPPER Buy a brand-new Uni-Forage Harvester now and you immediately save $l,OOO. We are in a position to offer you the best trade-in allowance anywhere, plus Avco New Idea will give you a $l,OOO factory rebate if you buy during November. Purchase a 704 Uni-Power Unit plus a 707 Superchopper . and your choice of a 2 or 3-row crop head. Add up the savings! $l,OOO factory rebate Liberal trade-in allowances Up to 10% tax investment credit There will never be a better time to buy and save on a Uni-Superchopper. Hurry! Offer ends November 30,1975. A. L HERR & BRO. LONGENECKER FARM SUPPLY N. G. HERSHEY 4 SON Quarryville Rheems Manheim 717-786-3521 717-367-3590 717-665-2271 ROY H. BUCH, INC. CHAS. J. McCOMSEY 4 SONS LANDIS BROS., INC. Epnrata, RD2 Hickory Hill. PA Lancaster 717-859 2441 215-932-2615 717-393-3906 STOLTZFUS FARM SERVICE AIRVILLE FARM SERVICE Cochranville. PA - pa 215-593-5280 717-8623358 Lancaatar Farming, Saturday, Nov. IS. 1975 beef chosen reserve grand champion Jay W. Fought of Carlisle, steer of the show. Pa., last year’s grand champion winner at the open steer show, took the award for the reserve champion carcass. Jeff Brown’s crossbred steer was champion of the Junior Steers show, and Debra Barker’s Crossbred was the reserve champion steer of that show. The best steers in the competition were slaughtered and later judged as carcass steers on-rail. The champion carcass award was given to Phil Riecke and family of Avilla, Indiana. READ LANCASTER FARMING WOO Your depreciation schedule 15 M. S. YEARSLEY &SONS Westchester 215 696-2990
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