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Newspaper
Lancaster Farming
Location
Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Aug 24, 1963
Page
1
Auction manager John Munro reports stronger demand at the Lancaster Poultry Auction during the first half of this year. Birds sold rose by 309 445 compared with the same period in 1962, signaling growing activity in the market.
Calendar items detailing August 26 events in the Southeastern region including 4-H dress review at Strawbridge and Clothier Philadelphia 8 p.m. Red Rose Dairy Herd Improvement meeting at Farm Bureau Cooperative building August 29 state 4-H dress review at Penn State University 9 a.m. Judging begins at the District 4-H dairy show at the Guernsey Sales Pavilion near Lancaster with an 8 p.m. combined county dairy 4-H clubs meeting at Lampeter Community grounds. Also notes August 3–9 regional FFA judging at the Guernsey venue.
Kenneth Myer Elizabethtown R3 son of Samuel and Mrs Myer joined a Future Farmer People to People goodwill tour visiting 10 European countries and the British Isles for three weeks. He observed limited modern machinery and dual purpose cattle with Holsteins Ayrshires and British Friesian common abroad. He noted the Berlin Wall horror and saw a 4000 to 5000 pound yearly milk yield pattern, flown from New York to Bestwick Scotia with chaperone Ivan McGee.
Fifteen year old John Frey of Quarryville R2 was named outstanding manager in the Lancaster County Future Farmers swine ring at a banquet held at the Hotel Yorktown in York. He received a purebred arkstreet as a gift from Robert Wolgemuth of Peach Bottom in June 1962 and pledged to pass on a gift from the first litter to a Solanco schoolmate. In May this year his gift farrowed 10 pigs and he passed on one gift to George Eisenberger of New Providence. The sow has been rebred and is due to farrow again in October.
Lancaster County youths Don ald Trimble and Roy Mentzer have been nominated for the American Farmer Degree by the national FFA committee. The degree, awarded to at most one member per 1000 in a state, will be conferred in October at the Kansas City convention. Mentzer farms 307 acres with his parents. Trimble farms near his parents on a rented tract. Mentzer owns 100 registered Ayrshires and runs 80 steers and up to 250 hogs. he breeds 10 sows and tests a new cycle-feeding unit for a local machinery maker. Both are 21, Keystone Farmer degree recipients since January 1960. Roy is Pequea Valley High School graduate, has six years in FFA and 12 in 4-H.
Mark Nestleroth 19 won the grand championship with a 220 pound crossbred gilt, topping a 220 pound Duroc gilt. Teresa Walton the only girl winner, took Landrace blue. Auction totals reached 34,775 pounds with an average of 201 pounds, Kunzler and Martin among buyers.
Temperatures over the next five days are forecast to run 2 to 6 degrees above normal, with nights around 61 and afternoons near 82. Dry start gives way to scattered showers and thundershowers toward the end, with total precipitation about 0.14 inch.
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