LIBRARY VOL. 5. WO. 4 AFTER PRESENTATION OF THE PLAQUES xor outstanding work in the field of soil conservation, the donor’s representative ooses with the rec pients of the awards. Standing left to right are Robert Dickey, Field representative of Goodyear Tire and Rub ber Co. donor of the plaques; Elmer Sensenig, New Holland Rl; and Elmer V. Good, Lititz Rl. Seated Lto R are Henry Hackman, Manheim. R 2; Amos H. Funk, Millers-' ville Rl; and Charles Pearce, County Commissioner. Not present to receive his award was Martin Greider, Lancaster R 2, farmer of the year. The awards were made at the regular meeting of the Soil Conservation District at the courthouse on Monday evening. —L F PHOTO May the peace of which the angel sang so long ago, be in your home during this joyous season, and may the truths brought to earth by the Babe of Beth lehem, be with you and your loved ones throughout the New Year. The staff of Lancaster Farming takes this oppor tunity to wish to one and all— Little Change Seen In 1960 Farming Picture The farm picture in 1960 will not be very much chan ged from the one we saw in 1959. There will be a grad ual -improvement in a' few commodities, but the change will be slight. This seemed to be the consensus of the speakers at the 1960 outlo ok meeting on Tuesday ev ening. The panel of six leaders in the agricultural field poi- State Agri. Teachers To Hear Dean Hoffer Dean Iloffer, President of the North Atlantic region of the National Association of FFA will address the Penn sylvania Teachers of Voca tional Agriculture at their annual convention on Dec ember 28. Speaking before the agri culture section of the Penn sylvania Vocational Associa tion m Harrisburg, the Man heim R 3 youth will bring greetings from the national Future Farmer organization and recount some of his ex periences since his election to the office in October The PVA meeting is held annually in conjunction wi th the winter conference of the Pennsylvania State Edu cation Association The con vention is normally schedul ed during the Christmas school holiday "A MERRY CHRISTMAS" nted out that small changes in the selling price of some agricultural products would strengthen the economy con siderably While prices of consumer goods have gone up and the costs of product ion have risen, the agricul tural products have lagged behind. Panel members poi nted cut thar faimeis will have to be more efficient m order to compete in the ne xt few years. Panel membtns told farm ers that they can expect go od supplies of feed for live stock, but a small drop in the not returns from cattle, hogs and wheat Cash retur ns from dairy and poultry products will increase slig htly for quality products, and the returns from other crops will remain about the same as this year Farme- s should also expect a slight rise in operating expenses the panel warned Kermit Birth, Extension Agricultural Economist fr om Pennsylvania State Uni versity, was of the opinion that farmers who operated m the black in 1959 will ha ve a good chance of doing the same thing in 1960 Birth also said that the egg picture may be one of the brightest spots in the farm enterprise next year, and broiler prices are expe cted to improve during the (Turn to page 5) Lancaster, Pa.. Saturday, December 19. 1959 Square Dancers To Show Skill Thieo teams of square dancers wdl allemande and do-si-do their way through state competition at the fa rm show in January. All three of the teams ire entered m the C divis ion of the contests which is for teams with at least one member ove" 21 and one member under 21. Folk dancers from Fulton Grange, Senior Extension (Turn to page 8) FIVE - DAY WEATHER FORECAST Saturday - Wednesday Temperatures for the next five days will average one or two degrees below normal. Normal tempera tures for this time of year range from a low of 26 at night to a high of 41 in the afternoon. Temperatures during the month have been above normal for most of the days. Colder temperature is expected over the week end with warmer Monday and colder again about Tuesday or Wednesday. Precipitation is expected to be light. Light rain or snow Saturday ending some time before noon. Light precipitation again about Monday or Tuesday. The rain during Salurday of last week totaled .67 inch. Pequea Valley FFA Hosts Watershed Mtg. Officers of tnc Peqnca Valley Future Farmers we re hosts at the w atershed meeting held in Pequea Val ley High School on Wednes day evening in conjunction with the Lancaster County Soil Consemtum District. Lynn Hc«s, president of the FFA chapter was master of ceremonies, introducing the speakers and the panel to the gioup of over 80 farm ers from Leacock and Para dise townships. The program planned in cooperation with John Yost, Assaciatc Township Direct or, featured a panel discus sion, “Some things I have observed about Conservat ion”, moderated by Hemy Givler, teacher of Vocation al Aguculture and advisor New Cooperators Sign Up For Soil Conservation The boatd of directois of the Lancaster County Soil Conservation Distuct accept ed the application of 25 new cooperators to sign up a to tal of 6,464 acres at tl gular monthly meeting on Monday evening. ' Two of the larger tracts, 4400 acres in area, were sig ned' up by two municipal groups The Borough of New' Holland and the New Holland Borough Authority through their respective, J Paul Kachel, president of Borough Council, 12 North Railroad Ave, New Hol land applied to cooperate on 2400 acres m Earl Town ship. The Chester Munici pal authority, Nottingham, signed up 2000 acres in Lit tle Britain and Coleram Townships. Alter discussion of the tentative program of the year and presentation of the objectives of the participat ing agencies by secretary Wayne Rentschler, the Go odyear award plaques were presented to cooperators for outstanding soil conservat ion work Robert Dickev, field rep resentative of the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company presented the plaques to Amos Funk, Chairman of the county SCD, Charles Pearce, County Commission er: Henry Hackman, Vico Chairman Elmer M Scnse mg, Director, Now Holland Rl; and Elmer V Good, Di icctor, Litilz Rl Sccietary Rontsch’er ctli led on cooperating agencies to submit their annual re ports by December 31 New Cooperalors, in ad dition to the two mentioned above. address, township, and acres are as follows - Clarence Brubaker. Mount Joy Rl. East Donegal, 40 acres; James P Eweit Av ondale. Fulton 385. Oran Ddlabaueh. Conestoga R 2, Manor, 48 Garland E Gm guch, Millersviße Rl, Man or, 23, IT M Kcndig. Con estoga, Manor. 16, Amos Kc oport. Millersville Rl, Man or. 103 - Amour Frev, Con estoga R 2. Manor, 185. Mark Hershev, Paradise (Turn to page S') $2 Per Year of the Poquea Valley FFA. Donald Ranck, J. Aithur Rohrcr, and Kcnnetn Slid es, faimers in the area told of the experiences they ha\e had since they have applied conservation on their farms Skilcs said (hat he was ab out ready to destroy all the contours on his farm, but he saw the good thcj> were do ing and had learned to iarm with the contours instead of against them. Rohrcr, a road supervisor as well as farmer told the farmers m attendance that their tax money goes to help m the removal of mud from the roads when iaimlands erode Elmer Scnsenig. New Hol land R 2, a farmer director of SCD told of some of the interesting experiences ho has had in trying to con vince his neighbors that they need conservation prac tices on their land He said most fanners arc sure that soil conservation is a good thing, but they arc not sure it is a good thing for their (Turn to page 8) Warwiclc Senior Is Peach Queen Pennsylvania’s 1959 Poach desert Queen, Miss Mary Jane Hill, has been named 1960 National Peach Queen. The 17-year-old senior at Warwick High School lear ned of her election to the national honor on Tuesday MARY JANE HILL night at her homo at Bnciv civillo, Lititz R 2 Conloimation oi tho sc - cction came fiom. Mrs Fied nck Cicist, Miss Kill’s chap clone during her icign as Pennsylvania Queen Mary Jane said that she had an indication that sh< had been picked on Monday when Jack Gioe, piesidenf of the Pennsylvania PacL eis Association asked for i picture of her wearing hei crown Miss Hill said that when she learned Jiom Mi-* Greist that she had been elected, she was so excited she could haidlv think and was sure a ioke was being plavod on her The only child ok 11 ' Mrs Arthur Hill does not yet know what her dutu s or rewards will be as a in sult of the hnnm
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