0RA034 1 ??, i0 ° I I 1 PERIIIDICALS DIVISION ■ ■ Tl *‘* s -—» I —' _ WfOV PATTE LIBRARY I I *■ ■ ll 1 "■ «- r . pi- NN STATE UNIVERSITY ■ OHO - • Vpl. 46 No. 12 Soyb**n winner* wara annouocad at tha Kay atona Farm Shaw. From laft, Stava Raigal, Annvllla, with Jaff Raigal. flrat placaj and Gary Truokahmlllar, Wataon town, third placa. Photo bgAndyAndnwe Before The Internet, There Was The Stockyard KtrtltjfS MICHELLE RANCK Lancaster Farming Staff Editor ?t Note: This series ex amines the - historical and present-day operation of Lancas ter Stoddards the storiet* the Hybrid Reports In Cork Ttitk This tome includes the Pennsylvania Master Com Growers Amo elation (WffCGA) newsletter. Corn Talk. The newsletter features the 2000 Pennsylvania Commercial Hybrid Itest Reports and Other arti cles and advertising messages of interest to com growers. Westmoreland-County Man Named Bld-Caßtog Champ HARRISBURG (Dauphin Co.) Randy Benton of Creensburg was given the’titic of “grand champion hid eiSar” at the 85th Pennsylvania State Farm Show. The Lehigh Valley Chapterof die Pennsylvania Association welcomed 35 profes sional auctioneer contestants from across the commonwealth to participate in the Bid Calling Contest and Benefit Auction from which a portion of the pro ceeds go to the Pennsylvania Farm Show Scholarship Fund. Winner* of the bid celling competition et the Perm Show were, from left, Randy Senton, Qreeneburg; Tim Rocoo, Erie; end Russel Wolf Jr., Lebanon. Rv» BMtom changes, * and the contribution of the stockyards to the economy and the agriculture business. Part one of the three-part Series gives an override of the founda tion and growth of the trading center urn urimri l!he competition began on Stage One of the Family Living Center, with words from Dennis Grumibinej, Farm Show director, and Agriculture Secretary Sam Hajes. First,' the nervous contestants began a warm up round. Next, each contestant was allowed three minutes to auction off two hems. After the first round, 10 finalists were selected to auction off two additional items in a three-minum time limit per con testant. The finalists were then (Turn toFef* AST) Lancaster Farming, Saturday, January 20,2001 Crop Winners, Announced At Keystone Farm Show ANDY ANDREWS Lancaster Farming Stqff YORK (York Co.) —Winners of the Pennsylvania Five-Acre Corn Chib and Pennsylvania Soybean Yield Contest were an nounced here at the York Fair grounds last week during the annual Keystone Farm Show. Dan Wolf, president of the Pennsylvania Master Corn Growers Association (PMCGA), noted that of the 103 entries in the corn contest, there were some “notable differences,” he said, in cultural practices com pared to the 1999 contest. Only 7 of 91 growers used cultivation, LANCASTER (Lancaster Co.) Before computers began to store information, before fax machines sent their first mes sages, before words zipped through lines, as e-mail, and before Internet became a maih information source, busi ness believe it or not was conducted. Founded in 1895, the Union Stock Yard Company, later These photos Introduce a three-part series on the hmery of-the Lancaster Stock yards. The top photo, with the date “March 14,1080,” shows the pens and alleys of the stockyard with the railroad, which ran adjacent to the yards. In the background. Origi nally owned by the Pennsylvania Railroad, the “Union Stock Yard Co.” was founded In 1808. Before the advent of sale bame, livestock were moved primarily by rail and came to “terminals” such as this one in. Lancaster. The bottom photo shows the short statured cattle reminiscent of that era. with most growers using 30-inch row spacing. The second highest spacing was,3B inches apart. Wolf noted it is “hard to find significant differences in yield to favor one type of tillage over an other,” he told those attending the awards presentation at the fairgrounds. About 44 percent of the con testants use sidedress nitrogen. Average planting depth was 1.7 inches. Corn acres grown by participants numbered 24,242. For the most part, the year was substantially different in terms of total yield, a vast im provement from the statewide Lancaster Stockyards, facili tated active livestock trading. The stockyard's original 23 acres, owned by the railroad, in cluded a hotel, office building, and pens. A tunnel under the railroad led to loading and un loading wharves on the south side of the railroad to handle shipments of cattle. The yards handled the roar ing ’2os the terrible ’3os, the $32.00 Per Year drought of the previous summer. “Some don’t appreciate how good of a year it was,” Well said. Greg Roth, Penn State corn specialist, noted on the sum mary that the “2000 season was a welcome improvement over 1999 for many producers,” he wrote. “Top yields like this don’t happen just by chance. They are the result of careful planning and top-notch man agement throughout the season.” Even with generally good (Turn to Pago Al 9) soaring ’6os, the addition of the auction, wars and the black market, fires, closing because of hoof and mouth disease, infla tion and prosperity, and droughts during its years of business.. Former cattle producer Ira D. Landis, Lititz, writes in a Febru (Turn to Pago A 36) 600 Per Copy Recollections
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