Vol. 22 No. |S ■Snow seems to be a tradition with the on Thursday night it ■rived just in time to pretty things up a biroulpomplicate transportation. Ac- five cousins will I show steers ut Farm Show I By DIETER KRIEG BANCASTER - One little, twojittle, three Be, four littler-five, little Friys will be png their £-H steeds -to the Farm Show py. They are the children of three [others in southern Lancaster County who'* pnselves are graduates of the 4-H pgram. pie five cousins - all of them members of s Red Rose Beef and Sheep Club - are «nda, 16; Bonnie Sue, 12; Jamie, 10; foie, 12; and Fritz C., 9. wenda and Bonnie Sue are Mr. and Mrs. Adolf (“Petb”) Frey, fton. Jamie and Ernie are the children of r and Mrs. Ernest Frey, Quarryville, and [Continued on Page 34) feef production likely to drop WASHINGTON, D.C. - Beef production in 718 expected to decline, and retail prices *y be increasing later in the year, the of the American National Cat ®en’s Assn, said on Dec. 31. ; ta y Finney explained that the cattle “stry is nearing the end of a cyclical of rapidly expanding beef output, and ' Ca Prta supplies may begin to decrease in ‘ year ahead. As a result,” said Finney, “we are likely * e at least some increase in average beef itea * n as com P w hh 1976. It now Wars that production will continue large during the first half of the 1 an d there may be little -change in Sc ea However, beef production was at a r d high level - about 10 per cent greater i‘ n 19 '5, in fact. This brought a decrease erag e ca y-| e beef prices. In our own Sl) rvey of supermarkets, the 1976 1 a §o price of five cuts was 12 cents per (Continued on Page 141 Serving The Central and Southeastern Pennsylvania Areas ANNUAL FARM SHOW ISSUE Farm Calendar 10 Life on the farm 10 Farm Show schedule 20-21 , Farm Show features 16 22> 36 Homestead Ndtes .-42 Ida’s Notebook 43 Five Freys will be competing against each other in the 4-H baby beef event at the Farm Show. They are, left to right, Fritz C., Ernie, Lancaster Farming, Saturday, January 8,1977 cording to the weatherman, early Visitors to th,e big annual show are likely to be greeted by this scene. Womens’Calendar 43 Home on the Range 44 Bupp’s column 48 Master Farmers 49,54,96, 104,110,146 Farm Show features 50,82, . 108,148 Brenda, Bonnie Sue, and Jamie, Bonnie Sue, 12, had the reserve grand champion steer a year ago. 1976 reviewed . 84 Honorary FFA parents 98 Classifieds 97 Public Sales Register 113 Sale Reports 119 Keystone farmers 122-145 Chester DMA 157 Don Rohrer wins Lancaster open tobacco show LANCASTER - Donald M. Rohrer of Lime Valley Road, Lancaster, exhibited the best tobacco here on Thursday afternoon at the Lancaster County com and tobacco show. In winning the champion designation, he placed first in long wrappers, long fillers, long binders, and short binders. In the vo-ag contest, Steve Shertzer of Millersville had the champion tobacco, winning with his entry in the wrapper class. Jere Neff, also of Millersville, won the filler class. Gary Neff had the champion entry for short fillers. Showing the best tobacco in the 4-H division was Kerry Boyd of Ephrata. He received a perfect score of 25 points for his [Continued on Pate 17] Soleil Farms is Angus competitor By JOANNE SPAHR DOWNINGTOWN, Pa. - Soleil Farms, Downingtown, has a subtle air of glamour and wealth about it. Quietly situated at the end of an unusually long lane winding through occasional stands of stark, bare trees, and buffered from contact with un wanted visitors by 800 womblike acres surrounding it, the 300-cow purebred Angus operation goes on like it did for years when it was part of the estate of Mrs. H.A.W. Myrin, the Sun Oil heiress. At the former owner’s death, the estate was handled by Glen Mede Truk Company who was charged with finding a suitable recipient to run the farm for 20 more years as it had been run m the past. This recipient had to be a non-profit, charitable organization. As a result, in 1973 the farm became part of Devereux School, the largest school in the nation to deal with the ex ceptional child. The foundation also has more land near Elverson. | Continued on Page 18| $4.00 Per Year
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