Farm Women and Club Events Span April to June
Readable listings show April events across Lancaster County including Farm Women meetings, 4H programs, Grange activities, dairy breed tours, buses to Washington, and a Penn State Spring Weekend. Highlights include Massey Harris field demonstration, 4H officer training, and Egg graders course at Rutgers with various deadlines and dates through June.
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Fulton Grange
Oaklyn Hall
Brunnerville School
Society of Farm Women
Washington, D.C
Raymond Stoner
Farm Women
Harold Keneagy
Paradise
Penryn Fire Hall
Aaron Slick
Punkin Creek
Middle Atlantic Carnation Growers
Hestetter
Mount Joy
Ira Heisey
Elizabethtown
Massey-Harris
R M_ Brubaker
Henry H. Eshleman
Floyr
Lancaster County
Union Presbyterian Church
Kirkwood
Pennsylvania State University
Quarryville Memorial Methodist
Zinn
Officers Training School
West Whiteland School
Oxford County
A.m Safety Institute
Penn State
First Presbyterian Church
Lancaster
Rose Society
First National Bank
Winchester
Margaret Hagen
Rawlinsville
University of Tennessee
Knoxville
New Holland Machine Co
Lancaster County Farm Women’s Societies
C. WH. Reinhold
Holstein-Friesian Asso
Milwaukee
Wis
Rutgers University
New Brunswick
N. J
Chicago
Red Rose 4H Opposes Any Sale Changes
Red Rose 4H opposes changes to how proceeds from champion steer sales at the Pennsylvania State Farm Show are distributed. At a recent meeting the group narrowly supported the current winner take all method with 111 votes in favor and three for change. State officials had proposed two new plans to share proceeds among all 4H members showing steers in the statewide show.
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Red Rose 4 H Baby Beef Club
4H Club
Pennsylvania
Ex tension Homemakers Week and related events listed
The notice lists events from Pennsylvania State University and various agricultural groups. June events include extension homemakers week, a business management conference in Uniontown, and a farm society bus trip to New York City. August features the 11th National Flying Farmers Convention in New Orleans. November notes a county convention in Lancaster County.
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Pennsylvania State University
Summit Hotel
Uniontown
Farm Society
New York City
National Flying Farmers Association
New Orleans
Lancaster County
President Proclaims April as Cancer Control Month
President Eisenhower designates April as Cancer Control Month urging national support for cancer agencies. The 1938 resolution prompted governors and territorial leaders to issue similar proclamations to back the fight against the disease.
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Eisenhower
Congress
Red Rose Club Seeks Fairer 4-H Steer Rewards at Farm Show
The Red Rose Club championed a more equitable prize system for 4-H steers at the Farm Show to boost youth entry. Leaders argued reduced prize money would dampen incentive. Guest speaker Arthur MacArthur of Port Deposit Md discussed fat steer feeding and exhibit tips, noting his four children also won 4-H titles at the Eastern National Livestock Exposition Timonium.
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Red Rose Club
Arthur MacArthur
Port Deposit
Lancaster
MacArthur
Timonium
Elm-Penryn Four-H Club Organized
Twenty-five members enrolled in the Elm and Penryn 4-H Club and a meeting is set for April 23 at the Penryn Fire Hall. Officers include Donn ald Hosler president Dawn Quinn vice president John Michael secretary Kenneth Brubaker treasurer Shirley Brubaker and Wilbur Hosler game leaders Mary Esther Hess news reporter and Kathryn Her sey song leader. Mrs Raymond Michael is advisor.
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Elm and Penryn
Broiler Placements Reach Record High Across States
Broiler chick placements in 22 leading producing states reached 25 915 000 for the week ending March 31 marking a 20 percent rise from the same week a year earlier. Lancaster Poultry Exchange reports Pennsylvania placements averaging 723 000 across 9 to 11 week periods.
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Lancaster Poultry Exchange
Pennsylvania
Fulton Juvenile Grange 343 Talent Night Event
Members of Fulton Juvenile Grange 343 enter a Night program hosted by Fulton Grange 66. The meeting is at Oaklyn Grange Hall on Monday night with Miss Patsy Eshelman as steward presiding.
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Fulton Juvenile
Fulto Grange 66
Oaklyn Grange
Patsy Eshelman
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Lancaster Farming
Quarryville
Strubridge Mass
Oxford Agricultural
Brickerville
Bergstrasse
ABC
Arcadia
New Holland Evangelical United Brethren Church
American Guernsey Cattle Club
Philadelphia
Winterthur
Wilmington
Elvin Keener
Chicago Union Stock Yards
Martin Forge
Latiz
Red Rose 4H
Elm-Penryn
MR. Farmer
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