August Farm Calendar Highlights Lancaster County Events
Readers are urged to send event entries to Lancaster Farming. The calendar lists August happenings across southeastern Pennsylvania including 4H club tours at Oxford, Greenhouse Hortists Convention at Penn State, Farm Women events at Elizabethtown and Paradise Memorial Park, Garden Spot Baby Dairy Cattle Show, Butler Farm Show, Intercourse Summer Jubilee, and Pennsylvania Dutch Days at Hershey Park with related judging, fairs, picnics, and community gatherings across Lancaster County and nearby towns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Martin’s Church
Red UN
Oxford
Everett Ross
Harshey
Pennsylvania State University
Society of Farm Women
Elizabethtown
Paradise Memorial Park
Mastersonville
Lancaster County
Pp&l
Ghest Bldg
Lancaster
Colerain Grange
Robert Weichsel
Edison Osborne
Peach Bottom
Pennsyvania State
Pennsyl- Beef
Union Stock Yards
Pennsylvania State Poultry Federation
Vaccine Laboratoris
Marietta
Butler Farm Show
Union Presbyterian Church
Rough and Tumble Engineers Historical Assn
Young Implement Co
Kinzers
Intercourse
Octoraro Farmers Club
Middle Octoraro Church
Lancaster County Riding Club
Lincoln Highway West
Lincoln
Longwood Gardens
Kennett Square
Flying Farmers Association
New Orleans
Kutztown
Hershey Park
Pennsylvania
Hershey
Stadium
Millersville State Teachers College
Pennlawn Fescue Displays and Local Fairs Schedule
Pennlawn Fescue for sun or shade events list includes Fountain display at Longwood Gardens Ken net Square September 11 at 815 p.m. York Inter-State Fair September 11–15 Eastern States Exposition Springfield Massachusetts September 15–23 Southern Lancaster County Community Fair Quarryville September 19–21 Ephrata Farmers Day September 26–29 West Lampeter Community Fair September 26–28 and a tax return deadline September 30 for state taxes on farm tractor and farm machinery gasoline for year July 1 1955 to June 30 1956.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Longwood Gardens
Kennet Square
York
Springfield
Mass
Lancaster County
Quarryville
Ephrata
West Lampeter
National Holstein Show and Dairy Events Schedule
A Lancaster Farming page from August 3 1956 lists dairy events in Iowa Illinois and Pennsylvania. Shows include the National Holstein Show in Waterloo Iowa September 238 and Dairy Cattle Congress in Waterloo September 29 to October 6. Other entries cover fairs exhibitions and judging across October in New Holland Manheim Unionville Dillsburg and Mt. Joy with major events in Chicago Kansas City and Lancaster County.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Waterloo
Iowa
Dairy Cattle Congress
Mt. Joy
Ayrshire
Chicago
Dillsburg
American Royal
Kansas City
Future Farmers of America
Longwood Gardens
Kennet Square
Wirthmore Dealer Sponsor Meeting on Broiler Production
Over 100 growers attended a broiler production meeting at the Landisville Fire Hall on July 23 as guests of Glen L Herr Al Manheim and the Wirthmore Feed Co Talks by Roger Ham poultry service supervisor demonstrations of bulk feed trucks and a talk by Lew Whitaker from the Olean plant were part of the program Herr was master of ceremonies T C Johnson district manager spoke on the Wirthmore program in Lancaster County Local service men John Renshaw and Robert Eckberg attended in poultry and dairy service roles.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Landisville
Glen L. Herr
al Manheim
Wirthmore Feed Co
Roger Ham
Wirthmore
Lew Whitaker
Olean, N. Y
Herr
T C Johnson
Lancaster County
John Renshaw
Robert Eckberg
Farm Show Dates List for 1957 Regions
The notice lists livestock events with dates and locations including the Eastern National Livestock Show in Timonium Maryland November 10 to 16, the International Livestock Exposition in Chicago November 23 to December 1, and the Pennsylvania Farm Show in Harrisburg January 14 to 18, 1957.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Timonium
Chicago
Pennsylvania
Harrisburg
Also Mentioned on This Page
Lancaster Farming
Keditor
Pennsylvia
Raading
Pennlawn Fescue
Pennlawn Rescue
Pennsylvania State University Agricultural Experiment Station
South Lebanon
New Holland Farmers Fair
Manheim
Unionville
Jersey
Guernsey
Lancaster County Farm Women’s Societies
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