Holstein-Friesians Add 803 Members
Eight hundred three new members join the Holstein-Friesian Association of America, pushing total membership to 46,713. Members come from 45 states led by New York with 139 new members, followed by Pennsylvania with 129 and states Wisconsin Ohio Illinois and Michigan among the top contributors.
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Holstein-Friesian Association of America
Association
New York
Pennsylvania
Wisconsin
Oho
Illinois
Michigan
Red Rose Beef Lamb Club Hears Safety Warnings
Lancaster County Red Rose Beef and Lamb Club met at Central Manor Camp Grounds on July 11 where Joe McCurdy of Penn State warned that proper tractor use could prevent a large share of farm deaths and injuries. remarks by Wayne Muller Gladys Langrey and others followed winners announced.
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Red Rose Beef Lamb Club
Joe McCurdy
Pennsylvania State University
Lancaster County
Red Rose Beef and Lamb Club
Central Manor Camp Grounds
Wayne Muller
Gladys Langrey
James Herr
Marian Gray
Bil
Penn State
Leona Augsburger
Janice Showalter
Jamice Nolt
Verna Landis
Bernice Bare
McCurdy
Harvey Showalter
Mylin~Good
Clyde Brubaker
Max M. Smith
Donald G. Herr
Quarryville
Bareville Church Sends Heifers to Western Germany
Members of the Bareville Church of the Brethren donated three bred dairy heifers as part of a 23 animal shipment to needy families in West Germany. The Heifer Project Inc. based in New Windsor, Maryland, coordinated the June 14 departure by boat from New York. Donations came from farmers and church groups across Kansas, Oklahoma, Iowa, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania. Since 1944 the project has reached 39 nations and shipped varied livestock and poultry totals.
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Bareville
Church of the Brethren
West Germany
Heifer Project Inc
New Windsor
New York
Kansas
Oklahoma
Iowa
Wisconsin
Pennsylvania
Heifer Project, Inc
Potato Growers Meet in Potato City July 25 26
Harrisburg reports that Pennsylvania potato growers will gather at Potato City near Coudersport for the annual field days of the Pennsylvania Cooperative Potato Growers Association on July 25 and 26. They will discuss production in hundredweights instead of bushels as reporting methods shift under the U S Crop Reporting Board and the Pennsylvania Federal State Crop Reporting Service.
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Potato City
Harrisburg
Pennsylvania
Couders
Pennsylvania Cooperative Potato Growers Association
State Department of Agriculture
United State Crop Reporting Board
Federal-State Crop Reporting Service
Pig crop shows 8 percent drop from last spring
The Agriculture Department reports a spring pig crop of 53 085 000 head, down eight percent from last year. Pennsylvania late summer potato forecast is 690 000 hundredweight from 5 000 acres, with Cobblers averaging 138 bags per acre, while fall pig crop is estimated at 35 million, eight percent below last year, signaling tighter pork supplies and higher prices.
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Agriculture Department
Pennsylvania
Dewey
Boster
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Lancaster
Susquehanna
Port Deposit
Lancaster Farming
Snavely
Bareville Church
Western
Germany
Department
Dan Patch
Mar-Gro Mfg. Co
Aaron S, Martin
East Earl
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
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