COBLESKILL, N.Y. - The sixth annual Dairy Fashions Sale at SUNY Cobleskill grossed a total of $48,090. The profits are earmarked for scholarships for incoming freshman enrolled in the College’s division of Agriculture and Natural Resources. The sale averaged $858.75 on 56 head of registered Holsteins. Quietcove Peg QS Peace-ET sold for the high price of the sale on a bid of $1,725 placed by Scott Evans, Norwich. The Peggy Syndicate, Gray, Maine, consigned Peace, an open heifer sired by Air-OSA Quick Shot. Eric-Dew Conductor Peggy, her EX-93 dam, produced records up to 30,570 pounds of milk and 1,309 pounds of fat. The second dam, Eric-Dew Archie Bell, EX-90 GMD, owns records to 33,310 pounds of milk and 1,165 pounds of fat. Tied for the high price was Blue- Slope Sweet Fair-Twin. The Tradition daughter is due in early June to MancUngo. Todd Milligan, Pavilion, purchased the bred heifer consigned by Blue-Slope Farm Inc., North Franklin, Conn. Her dam, a Boot-Nick daughter, classified Very Good. The next Hess Mills now supplies the feed needs of the ~ f - sheep industry JV/#Vrfc with two new IV*** complete feeds in bag or bulk: Also available for on the farm mixing: • Purina Mills Lamb Balancer 32% protein 325 g./Ton Aureomycin Give us a call during the week or on Saturday until 11:30 A.M. KSS^UiS V >JH:]l7ild!lilVHl II 11 4 t. ishhibb^bhbb ® 6 S. Vintage Rd. Rt. 82 Paradise. PA 17562 Unionville. PA 18375 (717) 442-4183 (215) 347-2377 (717)768-3301 Registered trademark of Ralston Purina Company Dairy Fashion Sale Nets W vC" Quietcove Peg QS Peace-ET sold to Paul Faigle (second from left) and Scott Evans (on halter) for $1,725, the high price of the Dairy Fashions Sale. Also pictured are Andrea King, sale chairperson, and C.B. Elwell, representing auc tioneer A. Bruce Whittier. dam also scored Very Good. price. Maryjane Cooper, Mid- A March 1986 calf by Walkway dleburgh, purchased Perkiomen Chief Mark sold for the second high Polly Peggy-ET. Perkiomen • Hess Lamb Creep Feed • Hess Lamb Finisher M $1,725 Top Partners, Millbrook, were the s® l ®’ B executive committee of 17 consignors. students worked closely with Peggy is out of Ralls Ned auctioneer A. Bruce Whittier, Pollyboots, EX-90 2E GMD. Hadley, Mass. Pollyboots produced a top record . . ... of 35,490 pounds of milk and 1,149 Andrea King, an Agricultural pounds of fat. Science senior from Jordanville, The sale, co-sponsored by the an ce > a dairy science Alumni Association and the freshman, headed the sale corn college’s Dairy Cattle Club, was notice. The students handled all held on the college’s campus in the details of the sale from arena near the dairy bams. The selection to record keeping. ■II T~| ' 'I H Mi. I I ———M| I / W-* - Wet fields slowed down preparation of Pennsylvania farm fields for spring planting, but above-normal temperatures should continue with little rainfall for the remainder of this week, the State Department of Agriculture said Wednesday. - Scientists at Washington State College, in experiments with chicks and poults, have discovered a treatment using either water or an enzyme mixture for barley that results in just as good growth of the birds and produces as much meat per pound of feed as corn does. -Although most field work on Pennsylvania farms was on schedule by the first of this month, prolonged statewide rains last week brought a temporary stop page in plowing and planting, the State Department of Agriculture reported Monday. - A number of dairymen throughout Pennsylvania are taking advantage of extremely favorable prices for soybean oil meal, reports Richard Adams, LAIRDSVILLE - Paul Bower of Derr Jr. of Muncy, vice president; Hughesville was elected president Torrence Fulmer of Unityville, of the Four-County Local of secretary, and Glen Ashelman of Eastern Milk Producers Stillwater, treasurer. Cooperative during a recent The Local also elected a meeting here at the Fire Hall, delegate, Anna Mae Bower of Eastern Director Dale E. Hughesville, and an alternate Paulhamus of Jersey Shore an- delegate, Frances Fulmer of nounced. Unityville, to represent local Other officers, also elected to farmers at cooperative business one-year terms, are: L. Earnest meetings. • All-Natural ACTIVE Prehistoric Desert Polysilicates J A TESTED and PROVEN supplement with r over 30 years of results 1 RESEARCHED BY: EFFECTIVE AS: | • N.A.S.A. 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In many areas soybean oil meal is selling for less than the usual 32-36 percent dairy sup plements. • Though the greater portion of the year’s trout plantings has been completed, the Pennsylvania Fish Commission’s 1957 program to replenish Commonwealth waters with adult fish will take place on a new proportion this week, ac cording to an announcement by Dewey Sorenson, superintendent of hatcheries. Involved in the activity in addition to trout, will be smallmouth and largemouth bass, walleyes, northern pike, catfish, crappies, yellow perch and elvers. - A number of new and highly desirable shade and ornamental trees for home and street planting are now being developed in nur series and botanical gardens throughout the country, says Dr. Henry T. Skinner, director of the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Arboretum in Washington, D.C.
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