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Ram, warmth boost state crops
Simmental show
is new
for 1980 KILE
HARRISBURG The 24th Keystone International
Livestock Exposition, the largest international livestock
show on the East Coast, will feature seven beef cattle
breeds along with junior and open steer shows and a
junior breeding show, from October 2-6,1980.
A new beef cattle show added to the 1980 KILE, which
will be held at the Farm Show Complex, features the
Simmental breeding cattle division. The October 3 show
will be co-sponsored by KILE and the Pennsylvania
Simmental Association.
A Chianina cattle sale will be another new Expo ad
dition. It follows the steer show on October 4.
“We expect a record number of cattle exhibitors at this
year’s show,” KILE manager Charles Itle said. “We are
looking forward to exceptional beef cattle shows with
some of the top farms m the country attending both shows
and sales.”
Over $84,900 will be offered in premiums at this year’s
Keystone International with more than $45,500 in the beef
show sweepstakes. Exhibitor deadline for entries is
August 31.
The following are dates and events for beef cattle shows
and sales:
October 2 3pm
October 3 9am
10 a m
12 30 p m
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3 30p m
6 30p m
October 4 8 30 a m
9a m
Ham
3pm
4 30p m
7pm
Octobers 12 noon
2pm
October 6 8 30 a m
Ham
spm
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SATURDAY, AUGUST 23, 1960
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Weigh Feeder Calves
Weigh Junior Steers
Feeder Calf Show
Charolais Show
Weigh Open Steers
Simmental Show
Feeder Calf Sale
ChiamnaShow
Junior Breeding Show
Junior Steer Show
Open Steer Show
ChiamnaSale
Pennsylvania Livestock Association
Banquet
Angus Show
Shorthorn Show
Hereford Show
Polled Hereford Show
release all livestock
HARRISBURG - Ram
mixed with warm weather to
provide a good growing week
for Pennsylvania farm crops
during the week ending
August 4, according to the
Pennsylvania Crop
Reporting Service.
Statewide, five days were
reported as suitable for
fieldwork, which included
harvesting of peaches and
cabbage, digging potatoes,
combining small grams and
making hay. Some farmers
were topping tobacco and
beginning fall plowing, and
traces of barley and wheat
planting were reported.
Early cabbage harvest is
reported as good, as is the
cherry harvest. Tomato
harvest is beginning, but the
crop will be hurt by dry rot.
Soil moisture throughout
the Commonwealth is still
rated as short to adequate.
While northern farmers
rated soil moisture as 44
percent adequate to 31
percent short, central and
southern farmers rated then
soils as 75 and 72 percent
short in moisture, respec
tively.
Small gram harvest is
nearing completion, with
barley virtually complete.
Wheat harvest was 89 per
cent complete throughout
the state compared to 69
percent a year ago. Harvest
stood at 60 percent complete
m the northern region while
central and southern regions
reported wheat harvest as
virtually complete.
Oats harvest was at 57
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percent completed, well
ahead of the 27 percent mark
of a year earlier. Northern
operators reported 74 per
cent of the oats crop har
vested.
Com was 79 percent silked
statewide, with less than five
percent m the dpugh stage.
This is slightly ahead of 1979
when 50 percent was silked,
and the average of 54 per
cent silked and less than five
percent m dough at this
tune, historically.
Northern areas reported
44 percent silked and traces
m dough, central areas
reported 53 percent silked
and traces m dough, and the
south reported 51 percent m
silk and eight percent m
dough.
Potato harvest is now
eight percent complete
statewide, below last year’s
12 percent. Traces of potato
digging were reported in the
north, less than five percent
in the central counties and
nine percent m the south.
Traces of fall plowing
were reported across the
state, on a par with last year.
Southern Pennsylvania
farmers reported ten per
cent of fall plowing com
plete, while central and
northern aras were reported
to have traces complete.
Second cutting of alfalfa
was 75 percent complete,
compared to 56 percent a
year ago. Second cutting was
at 60 percent m the north and
84 percent in the central and
southern areas. Third cut
ting of alfalfa is 19 percent
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complete, 18 percent in the
north and 19 percent in
central and southern areas.
Quantities of hay in third
cutting are reported as low
due to dry weather.
Second cutting of clover
timothy hay is 33 percent
complete, the same as last
year. Harvest is reported as
38, 30 and 15 percent com
plete in northern, central
and southern areas,
respectively.
Hay quality is once again
being rated as good to fair.
In the north, hay was rated
as 34 percent fair and 33
percent good. Central far
mers rated hay at 47 percent
fair to 46 percent good, and
southern farmers rated their
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hay at 54 percent good to 46
percent fair.
Feed from pastures
continued to decline with 55
percent rated below average
and 43 percent average.
Central Pennsylvania,
hardest hit by lack of ram,
rated pastures as 62 percent
below average and only 38
percent average. Northern
pastures were rated as 50
percent average and 43
percent below average.
Pennsylvania farm fuel
supplies were rated as
adequate to surplus.
Gasoline and diesel fuel
were rated 86 percent
adequate and 14 percent
surplus, while L.P. gas was
rated 83 percent adequate to
17 percent surplus.
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1351 Lincoln Way East
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Store Hours:
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