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Newspaper
Lancaster Farming
Location
Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Sep 10, 1960
Page
1
County agent M. M. Smith notes corn blight may lower yields slightly in severe cases but no treatment is recommended as most crops withstand the disease. Soil moisture remains spotty but adequate for fall seeding with ongoing rainfall sustaining vegetable and field crops.
Lancaster County farmers returned three committee chairmen and elected 13 new ASC delegates in mail balloting this week. Winners include Veryl Brown Peach Bottom Herbert Wiggins Millersville R1 and John J Herr Mount Joy R1, who will help pick the 61 County Committee at the September 22 convention.
Almost 250 members and families attended a Western Barbecue organized by Red Rose Baby Beef and Lamb Club at Penryn Picnic Woods. Under County Agent M M Smith guidance, Glenn Foreman Martin Cassel and Wilbur Hosler prepared and slow roasted beef roasts in a forty inch pit, with the meat buried in sand and soil to simmer in its juices until the Wednesday night meeting.
E town Solanco plan first of local fairs as Quarryville and Elizabethtown open next week. Parades start 6 30 p.m. and 6 45 p.m. with early judging of capon dairy and other exhibits. Beef cattle shows Thursday afternoon. countywide tractor driving contest Thursday at Quarryville. Harvest Queen pageant closes Solanco evening.
Fred Frey of Twin Oaks Farm Quarryville R2 was the first entrant in the Quality Beef Carcass Contest at the Eastern National Livestock Exposition. He entered one steer in the open competition and one in the carcass class, ranking as the second entrant behind Maryland cattleman George H C Arrowsmith.
The five day outlook shows temperatures about two to five degrees above normal with daytime highs around 79 and evening lows near 58. Expect a warm Saturday followed by cooler days Sunday or Monday and rainfall totaling 0.14 to 0.34 inches as scattered showers or thunderstorms through the weekend and midweek.
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