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Newspaper
Lancaster Farming
Location
Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Nov 02, 1963
Page
1
More than 400 farmers and their wives will visit 25 participating Lancaster County business firms for the fifth annual Business-Farm Day. The event is hosted by the Lancaster Chamber of Commerce with tours from 9 30 a m to 12 30 p m November 7.
The Southeast District 4-H Baby Beef Club Roundup & Sale will be held Wednesday November 6 at the Lancaster Union Stock Yards. Judging runs from 10:00 to 12:00 am with sale from 1:30 to 3:30 pm. County groups from Chester Dauphin Northampton and Lancaster will compete with over 100 baby beef animals. This caps a year-long beef feeding project involving 441 youth. Steers will be groomed to perfection and halter trained.
Farm Calendar lists Nov 5 1 PM county 4-H beef club roundup with show cattle fitting and showmanship at Lancaster Stock Yards. 7:29 PM New Holland Young Farmers meet at Garden Spot High School on feeding dairy cattle. Nov 6 8 AM judging of District 4-H baby beef at Lancaster Stock Yards followed by 1:30 PM sale of District baby beef steers at the same yards. 4:30 PM Lancaster.
A spokesman for Interstate Milk Producers Cooperative Association said the marketing co op will seek a two cent per hundredweight assessment increase next month. Dr James Honan proposed raising from six to eight cents per hundred pounds of milk marketed to cover higher operating costs and to fund the American Dairy Association for promotion. If ADA assessment is approved, local voluntary two cent contributions to ADA may be discontinued.
The Southeast District Hay Show at the Guernsey Sales Pavilion crowned Elis Anders of Landsdale R2 Montgomery County as grand champion with a heat cured alfalfa bale slice. Roy Coover of Mechanicsburg R83 Cumberland County earned reserve. Galen Crouse from Stevens R1, last year’s district champ, earned six ribbons from seven samples including three blue and two red. He produced 48 acres this year and entered all heat cured first cuts and most later cuts. Mahton Shenk Holtwood R1 placed second in field cured alfalfa and fifth in alfalfa grass mix. Laban Byers Conestoga Ri took third in field cured.
Alaron Hostetter of Lancaster R2 faced paralysis from a rare disease that halted his harvest. Neighbors led by Elgin Hershey organized a rapid gathering. 65 acres of corn were stored in cribs in a single day as 49 volunteers from nearby areas joined the effort.
Daniel H Rohrer Jr of Manheim posted the high yield in the Manheim Young Farmers corn growing contest with 99.29 bushels per acre on two three acre strips in a dry county area. He used 5-10-5 and 8-8-8 fertilizer and noted delivery delays.
Kenneth Myer of Elizabeth town R3 spoke at the York Lancaster Area Future Farmers of America Leadership Training conference held at Eastern High School Wrightsville. He described his people to people tour of Europe last summer as part of the program. Local chapter officers from two counties attended to learn meeting procedures and duties of office.
The five day period starting Saturday will average 2 to 8 degrees below normal with afternoons near 58 and nights around 40. Temperatures will ease a bit over the weekend but stay cool through the period. Light showers are possible Saturday and again around Tuesday with little overall precipitation.
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