Crop outlook in Lancaster County mixed but favorable overall
County Agent Max M Smith reports general goodness of the crop picture in Lancaster County. Corn planting has begun with 10 to 20 percent done. A soaking rain is needed in southern Lancaster. Rye silage timing, pre-emergence weed sprays, and preservation methods are advised amid alfalfa weevil pressure. Tobacco and tomatoes lag due to frost and cold. hot weekend gave way to chilly midweek with light rain.
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Lancaster County
Max M Smith
Smith
Chicks of Tomorrow Enter State Contest in Pennsylvania
Chicks of Tomorrow entered in the Pennsylvania State Contest by James Clanton of Kennett Square were flown to Hollidaysburg on Tuesday by L L Logan vice president of the Pennsylvania Flying Farmers. Accompanying them were Clyde Jackson and Clanton sold entries at Cochranville for 4 dollars per pound.
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Pennsylvania
James Clanton
Kennett Square
Hollidaysburg
L L. Logan
Pennsylvania Flying Farmers
Logan
Clanton
Clyde Jackson
Chester
Delaware
Cochranville
Mountville House Sells for 6100 at Public Auction
Janie Staub of Mountville purchased the 2 percent story frame house in Mountville offered by Amanda S Hendricks for 6100 in a Tuesday public sale. Auctioneer Edar F. Funk conducted the sale.
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Janie Staub
Mountville
Amanda S Hendricks
Edar F. Funk
Top Four-H Youths Named by Lancaster County 4-H Club
Lancaster County 4-H Club honored ten youths at a spring party in the Guernsey Pavilion Lancaster. Miss Breneman received the Rural Youth Award for home economics leadership and Mr Augsburger for agricultural council leadership. Each winner earned a 25 dollar check from the County Farm Bureau fund. Other outstanding youths included Miriam Roland Phyllis Rutt Josephine Lausch Gladys Langrey Nancy Newcomer Eugene Groff Glenn Shirk Bruce Boyd with awards and pins.
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Jeanette Breneman
Mount Joy
Walter Augsburger
Rl Reinholds
Lancaster County
Lancaster County 4-H Club
Guernsey Sales Pavilion
Lancaster
Breneman
J Roy Breneman
County 4-H Home Economics Counci
Augsburger
4-H Agricultural Council
Miriam Roland
Phyllis Rutt
Eugene Groff
Stevens
Glenn Shirk
Quarryville
Bruce Boyd
Ephrata
Ruth Kimble
Victor Plastow
Chicago Hogs Reach Ten Month High at $17 75
Chicago hog market Wednesday pushed to a ten month high of 17.75 a cwt as 30 head of No 1s averaging 215 pounds sold at that level. Most sales ranged 17.25 to 17.50 with higher bids not echoed in other markets. Indianapolis and St Louis National Stock Yards posted sharper declines, with bids 16.25 to 16.75 and many lots around 16.50.
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Chicago
Indianapolis
St Louis
National Stock Yards
House approves 1.9 billion for farm programs
The House passed a bill funding the USDA with 1.983 billion dollars for the fiscal year starting July 1 by voice vote. The measure is sent to the Senate and is not connected to a Soil Bank program.
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House
House of Representatives
United States Department of Agriculture
Senate
Rep Wood Recovers Returns Home to Resume Assembly Work
Rep. Norman Wood of Peach Bottom has been released from Temple University Hospital Philadelphia and returned home. He plans to resume attendance at General Assembly sessions in Harrisburg.
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Norman Wood
Peach Bottom
Temple University Hospital
Philadelphia
General Assembly
Harrisburg
Four H Heifer Outstanding in Auction Here
Four H Club member H Fred Downey of Williamsport Maryland rose from the minor ranks to the upper brackets at the Stars Guernsey Convention Sale in Lancaster. Downey, 16, was among the top five priced in a 30 lot sale averaging 778 dollars. his four year old cow Carlos Robinsons Bonnie sold for 1050 dollars to William Y. Lee of Rocky Hill Farm Doylestown PA.
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Meeting of the Stars
Guernsey
Lancaster
Fred Downey
Williamsport
Ihe Stars
Sale
Fred
Carlos Robin
William Y. Lee
Rocky Hill Farm
Doylestown
Woodside Hall
Top Chicken of Tomorrow Sells At $6 Per Pound
The Beacon Milling Co of Cayuga New York set the top price at six dollars per pound in the Pennsylvania regional Chicken of Tomorrow Contest Auction held in Coatesville. Ronald Shaffer of Aldover received 26.75 for six dressed birds, with other winners including Shirley Ann Ream of Lebanon and L L Logan Hatcheries of Kennett Square.
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Beacon Milling Co., Inc
Cayuga, N. Y
Pennsylvania
Coatesville
Ronald Shaffer
al Dover
Producers Cooperative Exchange
York County
Ronald
Martin’s Hatchery
Lancaster
Wineka
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Bayville
Ernest J. Neill
H. Fred Downey
Shirley Ann Ream
Lebanon
Archer Acres
Moore Farms
Miller & Busheng
L. L. Logan Hatcheries
James
Logan Hatchery
Caleb P. Fulton
Haymond Winters
Longenecker
Raymond Winter
Miller & Bushong
Raymond
Sara Ann Herr
Rohrerstown
Donald L Geisey
Dullsburg
D. E. Horn
Mountain View
Red Vantress
James Light
Hubbard Farms
White Mountains
EB. H. Gerhart Co
John Kissinger
Ruth Longenecker
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