Will This Pig Go To College
Harrisburg will host PMTA’s Fall Meeting at Galen Hall September 18 19 20 where two purebred pigs will be auctioned to fund pig project exchanges. Winners donate pigs to local youths who promise to pass on offspring, potentially creating an eight pig chain by 1961 and funding an agricultural scholarship at Penn State.
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Harrisburg
Pennsylvania Motor Truck Association
PMTA
Galen Hall
Reading
George Wolff
Livestock Carriers Conference
Wolff
Edward Gogolin
Pennsylvania State University
Hershey Estates
John May
Samuel Shhotzberger
Lancaster
Breeders Plan To Show Top Strains At Northeast Exposition
Ray Schar of Harrisburg announces a three day exposition drawing close to 7 000 poultry growers from 14 northeastern states. The event features top strains selection, a data sheet with each cage, a NEPPCO FFA Star Poultry Farmer award, a market egg show, and about 160 displays of poultry supplies equipment and services.
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Ray Schar
North
Poultry World
Neppco-Ffa
Star Poultry Farmer
Northeast
15-Year-Old Boy Wins National Chicken Cooking Contest
Denton Maryland coverage reports 15 year old Jim Collins Bennett wins the Junior division of the National Chicken Cooking Contest with Imperial Chicken of Tomorrow. He claims a 1st prize range valued at 250 dollars and 150 dollars in cash from Delmarva, plus an engraved sterling silver tray from the Poultry and Egg National Board presented by Lloyd H Geil.
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Denton, MD
Jimmy Collins Bennett
Delmarva
Jimmy
Poultry and Egg National Board
Lloyd H Geil
PENB
FFA Degree To Be Awarded At National Convention
National FFA rules require applications to reach the National FFA Office by June 15 with June 30 final deadline. Lancaster County winners noted, Garden Spot and Solanco chapters highlighted for multiple degrees. several instructors named for long histories of receiving the degree.
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FFA
Ben
American Farmer
National Board of Directors
National Board of Student Officers
Lampeter-Strasbore
Wayne Rentschler
George Myers
Solanco
Lester Wiker Quarryville
Solancs
Jackson
Owen Ralph Bitler
William Fredd
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Rockland
Rat - Ola
Rockland Chemical Company
West Caldwell, New Jersey
The
DuPont
du Pont Vmp
Vpm
J. C. Earlich CO
E. Chestnut St
Greider Leghorn Farms, Enc
Shaver
Canada
Mt. Joy
Greider Leghorn Farms, Inc
MT. Joy, R- 1
Ross
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