Garden Spot 4-H Members Off To Flying Start at State Club Week
Lancaster County 4-H members begin state club week at University Park with 451 agricultural judging teams in state championships. The softballs team defeated Montgomery County 9 to 1. Livestock and poultry judging teams won state titles with blue ribbons. several other 4-H demonstration teams won or placed. Individual top livestock judge was Donald Werri Strasburg with James Hess of Strasburg second and Seat M Herr of Reston fifth. Additional contests in electric and dairy demonstrations and vegetable use were held Wednesday.
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Lancaster County
University Park
Montgomery County
Dairy Foods
Northampton County
Blair County
Donald Werri
Rough and Tumble Engineers Reunion at Kinzers this Weekend
Steam engineers from across the state gather in Kinzers Pennsylvania for the ninth annual Rough and Tumble Engineers Historical Assn. reunion. The event runs Thursday through Saturday with devotions, thrashing, flailing, and various steam powered displays, contests, movies, a ladies hobby show, parade, and evening entertainment plus steam cooked meals.
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Rough & Tumble Engineers
Kinzers
Rough and Tumble Engneers Historical Assn., Inc
Henning Outlines Steps For Drouth Relief Bids
Harrisburg reports drought spreading in Pennsylvania with poor crop conditions across the southeast. State Secretary Henning outlines disaster relief steps, county committees, and the federal aid process as eight southeastern counties evaluate conditions for relief.
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Henning
Drouth Relief
Harrisburg
Pennsylvania
State Department of Agriculture
Indiana
Feyette
Lawrence County
U. S. Weather Bureau
W. L. Henning
Usda Disaster Committee
Berks
Bucks
Chester
Montgomery
Delaware
Lancaster
Lebanon
Lehigh
USDA
Arch V. Ritts
Harrysburg
Pennsylvania U S. Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation
Norman C. Dale
Dale
Ritts
Holstein Herds Complete New Lactation Averages
The Holstein-Freisian Assn of America reports new lactation averages for Lancaster County breeders. Robert C. Groff Quarryville 19 cows average 12231 pounds milk 456 pounds butterfat J Lester Stauffer Manheim 14 cows 14499 pounds milk 509 pounds butterfat Mrs Mary B Stoltzfus Morgantown 30 cows 12513 pounds milk 505 pounds butterfat Records reviewed by Pennsylvania State University on two milkings daily for a 305 day mature equivalent basis.
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Brattleboro
Holstein-Freisian Assn. of America
Lancaster County
Robert C. Groff
Quarryville
J. Lester Stauffer
Manheim
Mary B. Stoltzfus
Morgantown
Pennsylvania State University
Breed Association
Top Plowman To Be Decided At Dutch Days
Leland H. Bull announces the Pennsylvania Dutch Days event in Hershey August 22 to award the top plowmen. State finalists will showcase contour and level land skills with tractors. Pennsylvania winners advance to Peebles Ohio for national finals September 18 to 20.
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Harrisburg
Leland H.bull
Pennsylvania
Hershey
Peebles
Ohio
Pennsylvania State University
State Department of Agriculture and Agricultural Organizations
Bull
Beware of Poisonous Plants and Timely Forage Harvest
Farmers warned of poisonous forage risking livestock losses from plants like nightsade buttercups milkweed pokeberries hemlock and celandine. Advice covers harvest timing for silage hay crops and the use of dual wheat for pasture and grain.
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John A. Harnish
Lampeter
Drouth
Max Smith
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