812—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, October 23,1982 Farm Calendar Saturday, Oct 23 Pa. Simmental Assn, annual sale, Waynesburg Fairgrounds. Mason Dixon Polled Hereford Cattlemen’s meeting, 2:30 p.m., Garrett Community College, McHenry. Monday, Oct. 25 110th annual session of Pa. State Grange, Scottish Rites Cathedral, Harrisburg, con tinues through Thursday. Tuesday, Oct. 26 Dairymen Inc. District Schaefferstown Fire Hall Penn State Income Tax Workshop, continues . through Thursday, Dußois Holiday Inn, U.S. Rt. 219, Exit 16 of 1-80. Md.-Va. Milk Producers Co-op annual banquet, Embers Restaurant, Carlisle, 7 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 27 Dairymen, Inc. District 9 meeting, Price Station Hall, 7 p.m.. Price Station, Md. Lancaster County FFA Annual Leadership Workshop and Now is the Time (Continued from Page A 10) fo 4% is 84,000 eggs or 7,000 dozena year. This loss comes to $3,500 when eggs sell for 50* per dozen. Check the nests or cages for needed repair. Often we find eggs being broken right in the cages. Check the egg trays. If these are bent, they can break many eggs. Careful handling will reduce breakage if eggs are gathered by hand. Trying for too much speed in gathering may cause more loss than a little extra time. With mechanical gathering, check the escalators to be sure they are timed properly and are not breaking eggs. Check the orientors to be sure eggs are not piling up. This is an egg cracker on many farms. COUPON Chlorinated Sudsy I MANUAL GLEANER | I BUB. BEE I g w IlKib s I with each 351 b. pail I I I S SERVING THE FARM CO., INC. II g COMMUNITY SINCE 1884 AUentown, Pa g ,o g g Ask your dealer for Hoffman’s brochure of Cleaners and Sanitizers S g Henry Miller, Shelsburg (814) 733-2985 S lg Aaron Groff, Ephrata (717) 354-4631 a !g Floyd Heintzelman. Allentown (215) 395-3561 Fred Gaul, Sinking Spnngs § |g Mel Wenger, Elizabethtown (717) 367-2126 (215) 678-2210 S S Arthur Brandt, Lebanon (717)273-7063 Richard Derr, Middletown =» g K.C. Dairy Service. Mt, Bethel (717) 897-5283 (717) 944-9645 a Boyer, Carlisle (717) 249-1195 Hermit Kessler, >r>»g ——_ \ _ Nazareth \3I F SBS. lOr contact our office at (215) 432-4486 (215)568-3671 ImSßm offerexpires NOv.t2.^i—iS Banquet, Garden Spot High School, New Holland, 2:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct 28 Lancaster County Poultry Association Annual Banquet, Good ’n Plenty Restaurant, Smoketown, 6:30 p.m. Agway, Inc. annual meeting, Syracuse N.Y., continues tomorrow. Wayne County stray voltage seminar 1 p.m. 3:30 p.m.. Central United Methodist Church, Honesdale. Friday, Oct. 29 York County Farmers Assn., 7:30 p.m. Kay and Sam Taylor’s home, Airville. 14A, York Farmers’ Forum, 7 p.m. Rutter’s Restaurant, Red Lion. Saturday, Oct. 30 Dairymen Inc. Mid-Atlantic Division annual meeting, Hunt Valley Inn, Cockeysville, Md., Luncheon 12:30 p.m. NFO to meet LOUSIVILLE, Ky. - Mayor Harry Sload said here that the city of Louisville is dusting off the red carpet for the expected arrival of several thousand National Far mers Organization delegates who will be coming here Dec. 6-9 for the organization’s annual convention. Mayor Sload extended a cordial invitation to all NFO membners to see Louisville while they are in town. “We are sorry this isn’t Ken tucky Derby time, but we are sure you will enjoy your stay with us in Louisville,” Mayor Sload said. “We are proud of our ties to agr culture and will do everything in our power to make this convention memorable for your mem bership.” NFO President DeVon Woodland said the convention will focus on expanding its varied collective bargaining programs to meet the needs of fanners facing massive production cost increases and low commodity prices. Fall harvest in full swing HARRISBURG - Statewide, five days were rated suitable for fieldwork for the week ending Oct. 17 according to the Pennsylvania Crop Reporting Service. In the northern region four days were rated suitable, while in the central and southern regions reporters rated five days suitable for fieldwork. Activities for the week included harvesting of corn silage, soybeans, grain, corn, potatoes, tomatoes, cabbage, peppers, pumpkins and apples; plowing; planting wheat and rye; and making hay. Topsoil moisture in Penn sylvania was rated adequate by 66 percent of our reporters and short by 34 percent. By the end of the week 65 percent of the corn crop was mature and IS percent was harvested compared with last year’s average of 59 percent mature and 34 percent harvested. Com silage was 91 percent harvested compared with 88 percent harvested at this time last year. Soybean harvest at 30 percent complete made little program during the past week but is still way ahead of last year when at this time only 19 percent of the' crop was harvested. Statewide, 92 percent of the potato crop was harvested com pared with 87 percent harvested last year. In the northern region 91 percent was harvested, in the central region 92 percent was harvested, and in the southern region potato harvest was virtually complete. By the end of the week 88 percent of the wheat crop was planted compared with 86 percent planted last year. In the northern region planting was virtually complete, in the central region 86 percent was planted and in the southern region of the state 83 percent was planted. Statewide, fall plowing was 91 percent complete compared with last year’s average of 88 percent and also compared with a five-year OUR READERS WRITE, AND OTHER OPINIONS I read the letter (100-percent agreement, Oct. 9, 1982) from Sidney Lewis, Wysox, Bradford County, in which he said that neither the Grange nor Penn sylvania Farmers' Association did anything to help his plea for far mers to leave the roads and ditches as they found them. average of 91 percent complete, in the northern region 89 percent was complete, in the central region 94 percent was complete, and in the southern region 89 percent was complete. Harvest of third crop alfalfa was virtually complete by the end of the week, approximately two weeks later than last year. Statewide, fourth crop alfalfa was S 3 percent harvested compared with 62 percent harvest at this time last year. The quality of hay made during •the week was rated fair by 58 percent of the reporters, good by 21 percent and fair by 21 percent. Join and read it Sid would join PKA he would read in the newsletter: “There have been reports that farmers are working across the road ditches. Don’t plug them up with rocks. The ditch is for water.” Carl Gore President Bradford & Sullivan Farmers’ Assn.
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