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York Countians dominate
5-Acre Corn Club awards
HARRISBURG - State
com growers who produced
the highest yields in the
machine and hand harvest
divisions of the 1975 Penn
sylvania 5-Acre Com Club
were honored here today at
the 60th Farm Show.
Dr. Joseph H. McGahen,
Penn State Extension
agronomist, announced the
winners. Sponsor of the
program is the Pennsylvania
Master Corn Growers
Association and the Penn
State Extension Service.
Winner of the shelled grain
harvested class was Wayne
McCullough, of R 2, Sharp
sville, Mercer County, with a
yield of 195.6 bushels per
acre.
In the ear com harvested
class, James E. Quesen
beny, of Rl, Stewartstown,
York County, was declared
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Lancaster Farming, Saturday, Jan. 10,1976 —
champion with a yield of
182.7 bushels per acre.
Lester Luckenbaugh, of
Rl, Spring Grove, York
County, was named com
growing champion in the
shelled grain harvested class
over a three-year period. His
average yield during the
three years was 163.7 bushels
per acre.
Tri-champions were
declared in the ear com
harvested class over a three
year period. They are
Russell Megargee, of 502
Welsh Road, Horsham,
Montgomery County, 161.6
bushels per acre; Leroy
Bupp, of RD, Seven Valley,
York County, 161.3 bushels;
and Bruce Bivens, of Big
Cove Tannery, Fulton
County, 160.4 bushels.
Second place in the 1975
shelled grain harvested class
was won by Eugene Kilgore,
of Rl, Airville, York County,
with a yield of 185.9 bushels
FFA booths judged
HARRISBURG A Third place went to T^high
colorful review of County AVTS FFA Chapter
agriculture entitled with their exhibit called,
“American Agriculture” “200 Years Better
gave the Blue Mountain FFA Livestock,” comparing the
Chapter first place in the fatty type of hogs of 1776 with
FFA Window Exhibit the leaner hogs of 1976.
Competition at the Farm
Show. The exhibit compared Other FFA Chapters
the methods of seed bed competing were: Eastern
preparation, planting, Northampton AVTS, Easton,
harvesting and storage in Northampton County;
1776 as compared to 1976. Kutztown Area FFA, Kutz-
Second place went to the town, Berks County; Berlin
Central Columbia FFA for Brothersvalley FFA, Berlin,
their exhibit entitled, “FFA Somerset County; Somerset
Helps Make Change.” This' Area FFA, Somerset,
exhibit showed the advances Somerset County; Tri-Valley
of the farmer from the use of FFA, Begins, Schuylkill
hand tools to the modem use County; and Penns Valley
of electrical and portable Area FFA, Spring Mills,
power tools. ' Centra County.
Farms down 1 pet.
U.S. farm numbers seen at
2,785,780 during 1976, is down
one percent from a year
earlier, 14 percent below the
1966 total - and the lowest
since 1870 when 2,659,985
were reported.
Meanwhile, land in farms,
at 1.085 billion acres, is down
only two-tenth of one percent
from a year earlier, four
percent below the 1966 total.
Average size of farms is seen
at 389 acres, up from 387
acres in 1975 and 348 acres in
1966, according to USDA.
The number of farms
remained the same in 20
states, were up only in
Pennsylvania, which
recorded its second straight
yearly increase. Penn
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per acre; and Lester
Luckenbaugh, of Rl, Spring
Grove; and Joseph Stump, of
RIO, York, tied for third with
175.1 and 174.3 bushels per
acre respectively.
George Staxnbaugh, of Rl,
Newville, Cumberland
County, placed second in the
ear com harvested class
with 174.3 bushels per acre.
In the same class, Herman
Espy, of Spruce Creek,
Huntingdon County, and
Roscoe Green wait, of Rl,
Middletown, Dauphin
County, tied for third with
averages of 168 and 166.4
bushels.
James McCullough, of R 2,
Sharpsville, placed second in
the shelled grain harvested
class over a three-year
period with 157.7 bushels per
acre; and Richard
Luckenbaugh, of Rl, Spring
Grove, was third with 151.6
bushels per acre.
sylvania farm numbers, are
seen at 73,000 this year,
compared to 72,000 last year
and 71,000 in 1974,
Brucellosis
CAN PEOPLE GET
BRUCELLOSIS BY
EATING MEAT?
There is no danger from
eating cooked meat products
since the disease-causing
bacteria are readily killed by
normal cooking tem
peratures. The disease may
be transmitted to man when
slaughtering infected
animals or when processing
contaminated meat from
freshly killed animals.
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