County 4-H Dairy Showmen Sweep Three Breed Championships
Lancaster County 4-H dairy showmen won three breed championships at the 18th district show held at the Guernsey sales pavilion east of Lancaster. Sue Mumma led Guernsey to grand championship with her three year old, while Edwin Harnish’s Ayrshire aged cow claimed the rosette. Brown Swiss honors went to Donald Trimble with his senior yearling, and Jersey results featured Elizabeth Herr and Marian Jane Herr among top placements.
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Lancaster County
Guernsey
Ayrshire
Jersey
Lincoln Highway
Lancaster
Sue Mumma
Harry Mumma
Manheim
Mary Ellen
Sue
Lee Sharp
Landis
James Esbenshade
Quarryville
Donald Trimble
Gary Myers
John Bartsch
Ephrata
James Kettering
Lititz
Glenn Mmner
York County
Marian Jane Herr
Holtwood Ri
Elizabeth Herr
Chester County
Corn and hay crop estimates rise in Pennsylvania
The Pennsylvania Crop Reporting Service forecast corn at 567 million bushels for 1963, up 29 percent from last year and 3 percent above the 1957-61 average. Hay production is expected at 3.2 million tons, 28 percent above 1962. The corn yield per acre is projected at 61 bushels, nine percent above 1962 drought level, based on August 1 conditions despite July dryness.
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Harrisburg
Pennsylvania Crop Reporting Service
PCRS
County Native Appointed Assistant County Agent
John Wiley Weaver of Quarryville has been appointed assistant county agent on the Cooperative Extension Service staff at Pennsylvania State University starting Sept 1. A Penn State graduate in dairy science, he joins County Agent C I Robertson and Associate Agent Edgar C Sobers Jr in Pottsville offices in the courthouse.
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John Wiley Weaver
Quarryville R1
Schuylkill County
Cooperative Extension Service
Pennsylvania State University
Weaver
Olaf Weaver
Quarryville
Solanco High School
Penn State
C. I. Robertson
Edgar C. Sobers, Jr
Pottsville
Field Day to Feature New Plant Material at Penn State
A field day for commercial vegetable growers and homestead gardeners will be held at the Penn State Horticultural Research Farm on September 10. Paul Rowl announced the event, with demonstrations including a trans planter mulch er for plastic mulch and plant setting in one operation. James Dutt noted tomato pepper and eggplant breeding, cabbage and broccoli breeding, sweet corn varieties, plant nutrition plots, and chemical weed control will be shown, starting at 9 am on Route 45 five miles west of Pine Grove Mills in Centre County.
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Horticultural Research Farm
Pennsylvania State University
Paul Rowl
Strasburg
State Vegetable Growers Association
James Dutt
Dutt
PSU Horticulture Research
Route 45
Pine Grove Malls
Center County
New Holland Farmers Day 32nd Annual Fair Dates Set
The New Holland Farmers Day Association announced the 32nd annual Farmers Fair will run October 2, 3, 4 and 5. President S O Zimmerman led the meeting. Carl B Weaver heads arrangements and the premium list now promises more prize money than before.
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The
New Holland Farmers Day Association
S. O Zimmmermay
Busines
Carl B -Weaver
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Country Belle Dairies
Pittsburgh
Jack Fairchilds
Holstein-Friesian Association
Holstein
Terry Brubaker
Dauphin
Marvin Beshore
York
Nannette Stauffer
James Peeple
Chester
William Neagley
Kathryn B
Flotiman
Hoffman
Cody
Farmers Choice Brand
Climax
Hoffman Alfalfa
Funk
Future Farmers of America
John Weaver
Purina
Wenger’s Feed Mill, Inc
Rheems
John B. Kurtz
Cedar Lane
Ira B. Landis Valley Road
S. H. Hiestand & Co
Salunga
John B. Kurtz Ephrata
J.H. Reitz & Son, Inc
John J. Hess
New Providence
Whiteside & Weichsel
Kirkwood
Kinzers
Warren Sickman
N. Holland Fair
United States
Allis-Chalmore
Allis-Chalmers Sales and Service
Nissley Farm Service
Washington Boro
L. H. Brubaker
Lititz, Pa
Allen H. Matz
New Holland, Pa
Grumelli Farm Service
Quarryville, Pa
N. G. Myers & Son
Rheems, Pa
Lancaster, Pa
Lausch Bros. Equipment
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