Pennsylvania Hay Show Opens August In Hershey
The Southeast district hay shows run August 27 to 29 at Hershey stadium with sixteen counties sending samples for judging. Winners earn free chemical analyses and qualify hay for the 1960 Pennsylvania Farm Show. Judge William H Hosterman from Washington DC returns to rate the entries.
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William H Hosterman
Washington, D. C
Spring Hills
Centre County
US Department of Agriculture
Hershey
Dauphin
Lebanon
Berks
Schuylkill
Bucks
Lehigh
Northampton
Montgomery
Philadelphia
Delaware
Adams
Chester
Lancaster
York
Franklin
Cumperland
Hershey Stadium
Mark Greider Named Conservation Farmer of the Year
Mark Greider, longtime Lancaster County farmer and Manor Township supervisor, is honored as Conservation Farmer of the Year by the local Soil Conservation District. He credits his sons for advances in conservation and contour farming begun on the Columbia RD 2 upper farm, with a career tracing back to a Ferris Miller farm birth 60 years ago.
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Greider
LD Greider
Mark Gredder
Lancaster RD
Harold
Ner
C. Robert
Upper Place
Columbia RD
Mark Greider
Ferris Miller
Rapho Two
Mountville
Millersville
Broiler Type Placements Rise in Week Ending July 4
Broiler type chicks placed in Pennsylvania for the week ending July 4 totaled 814000, up 10 percent from the prior week but down 14 percent from the year-ago week. Pennsylvania hatcheries shipped 190000 chicks out of state with 49000 in-shipment. Indicated Pennsylvania broilers for market in about 10 weeks stood at 705000, down from 929000 last year.
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State
Penna
Penn State Professor Cited for Poultry Survey Work
Dr Ralph L Baker of Pennsylvania State University, a marketing professor, was cited for contributions to the poultry survey committee of the American Feed Manufacturers Association. He served with four other prominent researchers from land grant colleges and state universities.
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Ralph L Baker
Pennsylvania State University
American Feed Manufacturers Association
Ine
Baker
Conestoga Collegian Earns National Honor
Roland P. Gehman a June Penn State graduate from Conestoga Road earned first in undergraduate awards for technical papers at the American Society of Agricultural Engineers meeting Cornell University He received 50 dollars and expenses to the national meeting Gehman majored in agricultural engineering and wrote A Proposed Reserving Clutch and Control System for Self Propelled Windrower
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Roland P. Gehman
Conestoga RD 2
Penn State
American Society of Agricultural Engineers
Cornell University
Gehman
Five Day Lancaster Forecast From Local Weather Office
U S Weather Bureau Lancaster forecasts average temperatures near normal to three degrees below in the 66 to 87 range. Cooler through the weekend with a warmup by Tuesday or Wednesday. Showers mainly over the weekend. Hurricane Cindy brings little rain. storm expected to move out to sea off Virginia Capes. Light showers in southeast Pennsylvania.
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Cindy
Virginia Capes
S. E. Penna
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