—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, Feb, 12, 1977 104 Reading Fair cancelled By LAUREL SCHAEFFER Berks County Reporter READING, Pa. - The Reading Fair has been cancelled for 1977. This decision was made recently by the 12 member board of directors. “June is not a good month,” Wayne Readinger, vice president of the Fair, told Lancaster Farming. “It is too early for farm crop displays and also too early for 4-Her’s. The people are not fair minded this early in the season. Schools are just ending and vacations are on everyone’s minds.” Also cited as reasons for the decision were the problems involved with Muhlenberg Township’s curfew. Readinger said he felt all the directors regretted the move and he felt the fair wouldn’t be very successful in June. Also, it was too late to move it to another more suitable date. The directors are planning to resume the fair in 1978, Instant Replay \>i > -i'y Know Where the Activities Will Be? Read the Farm Women Calendar. Save More with Stormor’s Winter “Buy for Less Sale** Now you can buy for less Big savings available on Stor mor’s gram bins, gram conditioning systems, and the revolutionary new EZEE-DRY that dries up, to keep your costs down See your Stormor dealer today for a FREE Winter saving estimate prices will never be lower EZEE-DP” The rev 1 -tionary new grain condition ing system that dries up To keep costs down see- LOUCKS GRAIN £m^PUQUA| however. They are going to try to move it back to the original date which is the second week of September or to the latter part of August. The fair was originally moved to June because the school cooperation wasn’t very good, Readinger said. When asked if there would be a substitute for the 4-H and FFA members, Readinger explained that they couldn’t do it. This was because the prize money comes from the state and from the fair on a 50-50 basis and there would be no way to raise the money this year. The fair has built a new livestock barn in recent years and plans to use it in 1978. There are plans to expand the building in the future so the fair may be bigger and better when it returns. “To have a suc cessful fair” Readinger said, “you need a midway car nival, a good farm crop, and livestock display and the peoples interest.” Big Winter Savings On: INC. Box 216, R.D. 12 York, PA. 17406 Phone 717-755-2690 “BuyforLess Sale” Stormor Inc Fremont, Nebraska HARRISBURG, Pa. - An estimated 52,000 Penn sylvania cattle farms had 1.960.000 cattle and calves on hand January 1, 1977, un changed from a year earlier, ccording to the Penn sylvania Crop Reporting service. The inventory value • of $656,600,000 compares with $607,600,000. The milk cow inventory on 24.000 dairy farms was 706.000, the same as a year earlier. Milk replacement heifers 500 pounds and over at 221,000 were also un changed. The inventory of beef cows at 196,000 was down six per cent, while beef cow replacement heifers 500 pounds and over at 51,000 were down four per cent. Other heifers 500 pounds and over numbered 69,000, un changed from a year earlier, while steers 500 pounds and over at 294,000 were up 20 per cent. Bulls 500 pounds and over were also up to 51,000 or nine percent over a year ago. Calves, steers, heifers and bulls under 500 pounds, at 372.000, were off nine per cent. The 1976 Pennsylvania calf crop was 790,000, down one per cent or 10,000 from the 1975 crop. All cattle and calves In the United States on January 1, 1977 are estimated at 122.9 million head, down four per cent from a year earlier and seven per cent below January 1, 1975. This is the sharpest percentage decline since 1948 and represents the second consecutive year of herd reduction in the current cattle cycle. All cows and heifers that have calves, at 52.4 million head, are down four per cent from January 1, 1976. The number on July 1, 1976, at GRAIN BINS Built better from the ground up Rock solid anchoring, hill-and-valley bolting, heavy-gauge sidewalls Built to last EQUIPMENT Pa. cattle and calf inventory unchanged from year ago 53.9 million, was down Seven cent below January 1, 1975. The 1976 United States cal per cent from a year earlier. Milk cows at 11.0 million are crop is estimated at 47.- Beef cows at 41:4 million down one and two per cent million, down six per cen are down five per cent from from January 1, 1976 and from 1975 and seven per cen January 1, 1976 and nine per 1975, respectively. below 1974. m I THE ULTIMATE IN RIDE CONTROL % 1 Shock J 1 Absorbers V\ # II 48,000 Series \ \ IS Heavy Duty I Xl IB Suggested List Price $16.57 ||| - 9 43 JK DOUGLAS ygg MICHELIN TIRES
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