KILE opens Friday with 3,400 quality livestock HARRISBURG - The Keystone international Livestock Exposition will open its doors Oct. 2 through 6 here at the Farm Show Building. The Keystone ' International Livestock Exposition is one of the top livestock shows in the country featuring 'quality beef cattle, sheep, swine and horse com petition. More than 3,400 head of livestock have been entered in this year’s show and will be competing for over $75,000 in premiums. Judging will begin Friday, Oct. 2 at 9 a.m. in the sheep arena with Southdown and Cheviot sheep. At 10 a.m. feeder calf judging will begin. A feeder pig show will be held in the swine barn at 10 a.m: Friday, and Appaloosa halter and performance classes begin at 8 a.m. in the large arena. Judging will continue throughout the day. A feeder pig auction will begin at 5 p.m. Friday, Oct. 2 in the small arena. At 6:30 p.m., feeder calves will be sold on the main floor. Saturday, Oct. 3 competition starts at 7:30 a.m. in the large arena with the National 4-H Horse Judging Contest. The National Horse Bowl will be held at the Holiday Inn at 9 a.m. The beef arena will feature the Polled Hereford Shows beginning at 8:30 a.m., while Shropshire and Suffolk breeding sheeji classes start at 9 a.m. At 2 p.ra.ln the sheep arena, the Dorset, Hampshire, Shrop shire, Southdown and Suffolk bred ewes will be sold. A Paint Horse Sale will be held Saturday at 9 p.m. in the small arena. At 7 p.m. Saturday evening, the Pennsylvania Livestock See us At The Bloomsburg Fair Sept. 28th thru Oct. 3rd. Ask about our fair special Notice; Special prices for early order Laidig Jr. grain unloader conversions SPECIAL SALE ENDS OCTOBER 15 See page 831 ★ * NOTICE * ★ WE HAVE ONE FAIR SPECIAL LEFT. CqllTodgyl - It's not too late to build your grain structure this fall Association will hold its annual followed by the KILE Ladies Lead meeting and awards banquetatthe Class at 5:30 p.m. During the lead Holiday Inn. This year’s guest class, young women dressed in the speaker is animal welfarist Dr. latest wool fashions will lead Michael Fox. Ticket reservations trained sheep at halter. At 7 p.m. should her made by calling.the, the Pennsylvania Junior Sheep- KILE Office 717/787-1295. Shearing Contest will be held in the Sunday’s-activities begin at 11 beef arena. A banquet and meeting a.m. with open class steer judging Of the Eastern Seaboard Sheep in the beef arena, Diirqc barrows Council will be held at 7:30 p.m. at on foot in the small arena, and the Jolly Fisherman Restaurant in open market lamb competition m Harrisburg. Tickets are $7.50 and the sheep arena. 'A Jive Hog ' anyone with an interest in sheep is Evaluation Contest open free to , welcome to attend. Reservations exhibitors and visitors begins at should be made by Sept. 29 by 12:30 p.m. Sunday in the small calling 717/787-5086. arena. Quarter Horse' halter judging begins in the large arena at noon on Sunday. The Pennsylvania Lamb and Wool Queen will be selected at 5 p.m, Sunday in the sheep arena HARRISBURG Overcast Topsoil moisture in the state was skies and intermittent showers rated 74 percent adequate, 13 during the week ending September percent surplus and 13 percent 21 limited farm fieldwork ac- short- In the north reporters rated tivities across Pennsylvania to soil moisture 72 percent adequate, three days, according to the 17 percent surplus and 11 percent Pennsylvania Crop Reporting short. The central region reporters Service. \ rated it 91 percent adequate and Field activities during the week included plowing; repairing machinery; planting wheat and barley; and harvesting tobacco, potatoes, ensilage corn and hay crops. 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Angus breeding cattle will be shown Monday at 9 a.m. and Arabian halter and performance classes begin at 9:30 a.m. in the large arena. The Keystone Livestock and Meats Judging Contest starts at 9:30 a.m. Monday on the main floor. The Intercollegiate and Junior Livestock Judging begins at 8 a.m. on Tuesday, Oct. 6. Swine breeding classes will start at 10 a.m. in the small arena. Livestock shows will continue throughout all five days. However, beef cattle, sheep and horses do not compete on Tuesday. All livestock Pa. fieldwork Statewide, the potato crop is 52 percent harvested compared with 61 percent last year. In the north 39 percent has harvested; in the central region 57 percent was harvested; and in the southern region 60 percent was harvested. Com to be harvested for grain in Pennsylvania is 53 percent dented and 35 percent mature. This compares with 60 percent dented and 26 percent mature last year and the five-year average of 59 percent dented and 19 percent mature. In the north 53 percent was reported dented and 30 per cent mature. The central region Sported 51 percent dented and 39 percent mature, while southern region reported 54 percent dented and 38 percent mature. Enisbge com harvest is 33 percent com plete compared with 45 percent last year. Fall plowing in the Com monwealth is 56 percent complete compared with 61 percent last year. The north reported 48 per cent complete,'the central region 65 percent complete, and the south 53 percent complete. The third cutting of alfalfa was 82 percent complete compared with 78 percent last- year. The northern region reported 70 per cent of the third cut harvested; the* central region reported 80 percent harvested; and the southern region (Continued from Page A3l) years they participated here, and having won the national contest twice in the last ten years. Part of the reason for their success, Osland says, is the “tremendous number of students" wanting to try out the team. This year they had 20 interested students, so Osland says, "We left some very good judges at home." Cal Poly has 17,000 students, with 4,000 in agriculture and 115-120 in dairy science. Roth recalls that the contest was initiated when several directors of the All-American Dairy Show felt there was a need for an activity for youth other than the state junior dairy show. “They conceived an idea of an invitational judging contest,” he says. Harry was asked to organize it and agreed, but adds, “Little did I realize I would become as involved as I did.” To get started, Roth wrote to other contests to learn how they were run. He says, “The game plan we started with was good enough that we have not had to make many changes, other than management changes.” He recalls that in the early contests students were taken to the Penn Harris Hotel in downtown Harrisburg to give rasons. Since then space has been found to LF 9/26 | Uncaster Farming, Saturday, September 26,1981-A33 Judging and horses are released at noon on Tuesday. The KILE Trade Show will be held throughout five days. Com mercial exhibitors will have on display and for sale many different items from leather goods to livestock show equipment. A barnyard babies exhibit can be found on the main floor Saturday and Sunday. The Keystone International Livestock Exposition kick&off October as Pennsylvania Livestock Month. KILE is spon sored by the Pennsylvania Livestock Association in cooperation with the Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture and the Pennsylvania Farm Show Com mission. For more information contact the Expo Office at 717/787- 2905. reported 93 percent harvested. Fourth cutting alfalfa was reported as 28 percent complete statewide compared with 38 percent last year. The northern region reported 4 percent .of the fourth cut harvested, the central region 29 percent, and the southern region 34 percent harvested. The second cutting of clover timothy stands was 94 percent complete while at this time last the harvest was virtually complete. The northern region reported 93 percent complete, the central region virtually complete, and the southern region 94 percent com plete. Barley planting in the state was reported as 31 percent complete compared with 36 percent last year, while wheat planting was reported as 24 percent complete compared with 43 percent last year. Statewide, the quality of hay made during the week was rated fair to poor. In the’ north hay quality was rated 69 percent fair and 31 percent poor. In the central region it was rated 43 percent fair, 43 percent poor and 14 percent good, while in the southern region hay quality was rated 62 percent fair and 38 percent poor. The amount of feed obtained from 'pastures in Pennsylvania was rated mostly average. contest conduct that portion of the contest at the Farm Show Building itself. “Little by l|ttle we improve it," he states. Roth feels the contest experience is invaluable to students. “The experience in learning about the fundamentals of dairy cattle selection is an important point. But it is also an opportunity for the youth to have an experience which will help them in a competitive world. It’s an opportunity for kids to leant to win and lose, and to be good sportsmen. It is a good ex - perience for young peole as they develop a lifestyle which them well and help them take their place in the world." He observed, “There are some who are disappointed, but some of those will go home and realize they. must try a little harder at the next •contest.” v In Harrisburg, the winning collegiate teams were: 1. Cal Poly; 2. Virginia Tech; 3. University of Wisconsin, Madison; 4. Delaware Valley College; 5. University of - Minnesota. Top five 4-H teams "were; 1, Virginia; 2. Illinois; 3. Michigan; 4. Minnesota; 5. New Jersey. Top live FFA teams were; i. Indiana; 2. Maryland; 3. New York; 4. Pennsylvania; 5. Phillipsburg, New Jersey.
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