Three County 4-H Winners Vie for State Honors
Three County students from Penn State fairs are finalists for top 4-H project honors. Denlinger, a two time Keystone Award recipient, led vegetable judging and holds 4 H and FFA leadership roles in Garden Spot and Lancaster County councils. Bucher and Virginia Wivell won a poultry foods demonstration, with Bucher elected Lancaster County Home Economics 4-H Council president last June. They seek state top project honors and a trip to the National 4-H Congress in November.
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Waterloo
Iowa
FFA
Denlinger
Penn State
Garden Spot
Lancaster
L County
Purine Early Weaning Chow Promises Fast Piglet Gains
Ten years of research support Purine Early Weaning Chow for piglets. In trials with 616 pigs, treated animals gained as fast as sow milk and creep feed from week 3 to 6, achieving 0.77 lb daily gain with 1.27 lb feed per pound gained. On-farm tests showed weights of 23 to 33 lb at six weeks with feed costs from 12 to 14.4 cents per pound of gain under good management.
63 tobacco crop prospects better
Harrisburg reports the Pennsylvania Crop Reporting Service forecasts a 1963 tobacco crop of 50.8 million pounds, above the 1957-61 average but below last year. Yield per acre is about 1,750 pounds, with showers in Lancaster County keeping crops in fair condition and prices averaging 23.5 cents.
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Harrisburg
Pennsylvania Crop Reporting Service Today
Lancaster County
Pennsylvania
Holst Sale Opens At Noon With 70 Head Milking Herd
The sale lists 70 head including 12 3-year-olds 14 2-year-olds and mature cows plus 8 registered and 6 grade bred heifers. Notable lots include a daughter of Fond Howe with 14 772m 522f in 328d and a Reserve Grand Champion from 1962 NEPA show. Health checks vaccinations and TB testing planned with records and DHIA data for Bradford County herd. Terms: cash or good checks day of sale.
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Fond Howe
NEPA
Gray View Skyliner
Verna
Curtiss
T.B
Pabst & Rag
Apple Cross
Dhia Ave
Bradford Co
Inc
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David Denlinger
Ge Eee
Cynthia Bucher
Donald Trimble
Ee Ee Service Bulletin
Wenger’s Feed Mill, Inc
Rheems
Ira B. Landis Valley Road
John B. Kurtz
Ephrata
Whiteside & Weichsel
Kirkwood
Poa
Earl Weamns
Chow Ane
Cedar Lane
S. H. Hiestand & Co
Salunga
J. H. Reitz & Son, Inc
Lititz
John J. Hess
Intercourse
New Providence
Warren Sickman Pequea
Oat Meadze
Einzers
Loa Shi
Ana
Honegger
J. Howard Moore
R. D
Penna
Windle’s Hatchery
Cochranville, PA
Atglen LY
Leraysville
Towanda
Sandall Quarryville
Holst
Ein Catt
Archie L
Mary E. Williams
Lerrysville
Oo. W
D. O. Rockwell
Mers
Troy
Diller & Kreider
Robert Storch
Clyde Wilson
R. H. Sweet
Allen H. Matz
Denver
Elizabethtown Farmers Supply, Inc
Elizabethtown
Keener Equip. Co
Rts
Lauder Bros
New Holland
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