County Host to Vegetable Tour
County Host guides a full day vegetable tour visiting Clyde Eshelman Farm Funks Brothers Farm Washington Boro Tomato Growers Cooperative Wilmer Rohrer Farm Paul Rowe Farm Walter Himmelreich Farm Ghek Plant Farms and Consumer Packing Company. Participants learn about irrigation packing processing and market routes for produce in Lancaster and Philadelphia areas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clyde Eshelman
Manor View Farms
Eshelman
Funks Bros
Washington Boro
Funks
Washington
Boro Tomato Growers
Central Manor Camp Meeting Grounds
Washington Boro Fire Company
Manor Camp Meeting Grounds
Wilmer Rohrer Farm
Rohrer Farm
Paul Rowe Farm
Strasburg
Rowe Farm
Walter Himmelreich
Old Homestead Farm
Banks
Lancaster
Philadelphia
Himmelreich Farm
Ghek
Smoketown
Consumer Packing Company
Lancaster County
Spring Mill Ayrshires Top Producers Among Nation's Best
Spring Mill Farm at Malvern reports its purebred Ayrshire herd ranking high in the Ayrshire Herd Test Division for 50 to 75 cows. The 57 producers averaged 889 pounds of 4.2 percent milk and 37 pounds butterfat actual, with all registered cows on test. The Ayrshire breed record notes 16,000 cows on test, the highest test participation among dairy breeds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ayrshire
Spring Mill Farm
Malvern
All Fish Legal Game In State For July
Harrisburg notes all Pennsylvania fish are legal in July. Largemouth and smallmouth bass, northern pike, pickerel and muskellunge become fair game on July 1 with trout season ending July 31. Warm water species like walleye run May 30 to November 30. Size limits apply: bass six per day. pickerel 15 inches. muskellunge 24 inches two. pike 16 inches four. Bait limits 35 of each, 50 combined.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harrisburg
Pennsylvania
Holsteins Leave For Guatemala to be shipped
The report details Holstein heifers purchased from multiple Lancaster County farms for shipment to Guatemala. Buyers include Elvin Hess Jr J Robert Hess Richard Hess J Mowery Frey Harold Book and Earl Amble. The cattle are first calves due to calve in August and September. Weights and feeding plans in North Carolina and Miami were considered to affect shipment weights.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Central America
Elvin Hess, Jr
J. Robert Hess
Richard Hess
Ri Strasburg
J. Mowery Frey
Lancaster
Harold Book
Banks
Chester County
Earl Amble
Atglen
Lancaster County
North Carolina
Miami
McCardel Estate Realizes 5500 From Summer Hall Sale
Real estate and personal property from the late Margaret McCardel’s estate at Summer Hall Little Britain Township sold for 5500. Pearl Coleman bought the five acre tract eight room house summer house and outbuildings auctioneer Kersey Bradley reported. Various items fetched modest sums including a combination wood and gas range 46 dollars old fashioned rocker 36 dollars and glass goblets 350 each.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Margaret McCardel
Summer Hall
Little Britain
Kersey Bradley
Also Mentioned on This Page
M. W. Schein
Pennsylvania State University Agricultural Experiment Station
Boro
Visit Packing Plant
Spring Mill
Ayrshires
Guatemala
McCardel Property
Pearl Coleman
Nottingham
Beacon
J. M. Bomberger Elm
Farmers Supply Co
E. King ST
Paul H. Gehman
Denver
Fred L
John E. Homsher
O. Kenneth McCracken Manheim
Millport Roller Mills
Lititz
Earl Lauder
New Holland
Osceola Flour Mills
Gordonville
Wenger’s Feed Mill, Inc
Rheems
Beal
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