Farm Women 12 Plan Supper Meet At Safe Harbor
The Society of Farm Women 12 met on Saturday June 16 at the home of Mrs Edith and Mrs Paul Harnish Route 1 Cones toga. Mrs Ames Ressler led devotions reading Psalm 24. President Mrs Lester Sigman led the business meeting and distributed new by law books. Twenty members and two visitors attended. No July meeting. A covered dish supper is planned for Tuesday August 14 at 6 30 pm at Safe Harbor Park hosted by Mrs Edith Harnish and Mrs Paul Harnish with refreshments served.
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Farm Women
Safe Harbor
Society of Farm Women
Edith
Paul Harnish
Conestoga
Ames Ressler
Lester Sigman
Safe Harper Park
Masonic Farms Ayrshire cow sets long milk record
Generalissimo’s Best Bessie a registered Ayrshire cow at Masonic Homes Farms Elizabethtown reached 100195 pounds of milk in nine years. Chester C Putney secretary of the National Ayrshire Breeders' Association announced the milestone noting Ayrshire cattle persistence and profitability.
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Generalissimo’s
Masonic Homes Farms
Elizabethtown
Chester C Putney
National
Impromptu Roundup at Baltimore School Yard
Hundreds of boys at Samuel Gompers School watched as a steer charged the yard just after 8 am. Students fled to safety as stockyard workers closed gates to form a bull ring. The steer was lassoed and driven into a waiting truck.
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Baltimore
Samuel Gompers School
Stockyard
Brookville Cow Clarion Farms Lulu Belle Sets Milky Record
Clarion Farms Lulu Belle, a ten year old Guernsey cow owned by Charles E W Harding of Maplevale Farm Brookville Pa, earned fourth among the top ten in her breed in 305 days with 17 175 pounds of milk and 699 pounds of fat. Sired by Prince Royal this cow produced 16 431 pounds of milk and 647 pounds of fat in the Herd Improvement Register as an eight year old. The record was supervised by Pennsylvania State University.
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Guernsey
Clarion Farms
Lulu Belle
Charles E W Harding
Maplevale Farm
Brookville
Belle
Clarion Farm
Prince Royal
American Guernsey Cattle Club
Pennsylvania State University
Berks County Poultry Leader Featured in June Magazine
S Shearer of Route 2 Sinking Spring Berks County is profiled in the June issue of Everybodys Poultry Magazine Hanover Pa. He heads the Pennsylvania State Poultry Federation and sells about 15 000 turkeys 150 000 ducklings and 95 000 broiler chickens annually from a farm off U S Route 222 five miles southeast of Reading. The article notes his production methods and equipment and highlights the federation as a major state poultry group that recently directed the Easts largest Junior Chicken of Tomorrow Contests with 733 Keystone State youth participants.
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Harrisburg
Pat Walter S Shearer
Sinking Spring
Pennsylvania State Poultry Federation
Shearer Heads
Keystone State
Truck Associate Honors Troopers In New 3000 Club
The Pennsylvania Motor Truck Association forms a 3000 Club to honor patrolmen for outstanding public service in the Cooperative Safety Patrol. First three members Thomas McMillian Floyd Devitt and Donald D Shipley received trophies from Edward Gogolin at the PMTA Annual Meeting June 7 at the Penn Harris Hotel.
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Pennsylvania Motor Truck Association
Thomas McMillian
Robert H. Carr & Sons
Frazer
Pennsylvania
Floyd Devitt
J. Gordon Gaines, Inc
Akron
Ohio
Donald D. Shipley
Pennsylvania Manufacturers Association Casualty Insurance Company
York
Edward Gogolin
PMTA
Penn-Harris
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Edith Harnish
U. S
Cushman Husky
Shank’s Garage
Nevin Street
Lancaster
Masonic Farms
Mar-Gro Vig Co
Aaron S Martin
Landis Stone Meal CO
White Lilly
ALL Purpose Minerals
Rheems
Perpede
Army of Strawberry Pickers
Charles Lutz
Nine Points
Lancaster County
Lancaster Farming
Brookville Herd
Pa State University College of Agriculture Extension Service
J. W. Graham
West Chester
Shollenberger Farm Supply Centerport
Leesport
Snavely Farm
New Holland
Cyrus B. Ferguson
Kirhwood
A. L. Wertman
N. 9Th St
Columbia
Arden Lutz
Arden
Charles
Berks County Man
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