TNO. 28 I CLARENCE KEENER BELIEVES IN HANDLING COWS gently if you extpect the st xesults from them. Here are some of the high producing herd of 50 on the Manheim ! farm The cow being held by Keener is a 10 year o’d daughter of the late Lauxmont imiral Lucifer. All the cows in the herd are home raised from cows bred artifically with the bull maintained on the farm. The cows were contented on the lush Reed’s nary grass pasture. L. F. PHOTO Kurte Is Dairy Month dl Over America Milk is always a good buy i food value Milk gives ex tent leturns in high qual- Y protein, calcium, ribo mn and other vitamins and merals, according to Janet , Coblentz, foods and nutri mi specialist with the Uni jrsity of Delaware Exten on Service. So, she says—June xbeing airy Month give milk mal consideration in your e»ls. In a recent study of city mily diets, dairy products ok less than one-fifth of the oney spent on food, yet wided two-thirds of the kium and over two-fifths the riboflavin, phis pro iin, vitamin A and energy due. There are plenty of milk id milk products available, id the trend toward lower -1 fluid milk prices is anoth reason to use more milk i daily meals, Miss Coblentz •laments t 'Dairy products are versa k foods and can be used we or m combination with her foods At breakfast time cook m milk instead of Also, milk toast or toast adds milk to w menu. Por other meals, milk “Ps and chowders are a wilious way of combining ilk with other foods. Fav- Farm Calendar we 4— all day - Rose show the lobby of the Farm hmldmg, Harrisburg 6 —S pm. - First meet “g and election of officers “ new County 4-H at the Lancaster Center, Roseville Lancaster. m 7 T~®30 a. m - Christ tre© pruning demon- H)<ir/ 0n an d' management g’cussion on the farm v of p’."- Good, Manheim R 2. by E. P. Extension forest- Penn State. noon - Dr. William 'pf'/'Ag* Secretary of the Dept, of Ag- will address Kiwanis club in m’PHi- - Harvestore Turn to page 14) orite main dishes include baked macaroni and cheese, souffie and fondues, creamed chicken, eggs, dried beef or fish. Also, creamed vegetables add a tasty touch to many meals. And, to end up with —many popular desserts are made with milk—custards and ice creams. And don’t forget cold milk drinks as a summertime re freshment . . . plain milk, chocolate milk, egg nogs, and milk shakes with ice cream. I Poultry Assn. May Scrap Queen Contest Lancaster County may not have a poultry queen this year, a spokesman for the Lancaster County Poultry •Association said last night. The crowning of the queen and the chicken cooking contest, two of the features of the annual chicken barbe : cue at Lititz Springs park, ■ came in for some discussion i at a meeting of the directors of the association Thursday ; night. The association had decid ; ed some time ago to discon , tinue the annual event in fa vor of a series of monthly barbecues at the poultry center where take-out chick en only will be served. Reasons for the change | were time and money spent ■ in arranging for the event . and falling off of interest in . the cooking contest. Most of the members felt that the an i nual meeting had accom , plished its original purpose of promoting the use of , broilers through barbecues. A committee headed by : Robert Thompson of Moore’s - Hatchery has been appointed to study the possibility of holding the queen contest , and coronation in conjunc tion with the August barbe cue at the poultry center, | but the directors voted not . to enter the state contest ev , en if one is held in the couu : ty. The poultry cooking con i test has been discontinued (.Turn to page 14) Lancaster. Pa., Saturday, June 4, 1960 Summertime Is Flytime Summertime is fly time and these pests will soon be hatching in large numbers everywhere there is a suit able place lor the female to lay her eggs. Chemical science has pro vided us with some mater ials which will go a long way toward controlling flies, but entomologists remind us that santitation and destruct ion of natural breeding plac es is the best control method House flies, one of the most common of the summer pests, may require as little as eight to 10 days to com plete the cycle from egg to adult, and there may be as many as 10 to 12 generat ions of flies in one season. When insecticieds are used on dairy and beef cattle, it is of utmost importance that only approved materials be used at the proper time and at the proper rate. This is absolutely necesary in order 4o prevent any chemical res idues from appearing in the milk or meat. Even when the farmstead is kept as clean as possible, a fly problem sometimes de velops. When this happens, there are several methods and materials which can be used. A “squeeze” type of sprayer has worked well on both dairy and beef herds at the Pennsylvania State University. These sprayers are set to spray when trig gered by an animal walking between the nozzles. Emulsi fied concentrates using 1% pyrelhrins and 10% syner gist, preferbably with a re pellent, can be used satis factorily with this type of sprayer. This concentrate is usually diluted one to 19 with water and can be used on both dairy and beef ani mals, PSU researchers say Aerosols and space sprays will usually give satisfactory control if used in closed rooms or stables. Aerosols containing at least 0 5% pyre thrins plus s*° synergist are most satisfactory. ,Malathion gives effective control of horn flies. Exten sion entomologists recom mend sprinkling three table spoons of 5% -malathion dust over the neck and back of the animal and rubbing it (Turn to page 11) Ton Of Milk Per Day On Clarence A ton of milk a day is a lot of milk, but this is the amount of milk produced during the first 15 days of May by the 46 head of pure bred Holsteins on the tarm of Clarence L. Keener, Man heim R 3. However, it is not the dairy herd which has brou ght the most recent fame to the Keener family. The elder daughter Barbara, a senior at Manheim Central High school, was selected last month to represent Lancas ter County Dairying as Miss Milk Maid of 1960. Barbara has received some well - deserved publicity, but there is a story behind her success which is worth Farm Work Schedule Lagging Heavy rains over most of .the State the early part of last week stopped nearly all farm work for several days the Pennsylvania Crop Re porting Service said in its weekly crop and weather roundup. All of the State had either adequate or surplus soil moisture. In some areas where soil conditions per-' nutted, farmers put in long hours in planting, cutting and spraying. The rains have been fav orable to the strawberry crop and most areas report an average set. However, a quality problem could de velop with a sudden temper (Tum to page 12) Three Youths From County To Attend Camp Three active 4-H members will spend ffve days next week at a Huntington county training camp designed to prepare counselors, 4-H lead ers and adult leaders for camp programs and other county and community rec reation activities. Camp Kanesatake, an Ind ian name meaning “camp at the top of the hill”, is locat ed about 20 miles south of The Pennsylvania State Uni versity. Attending the camp from June 7 to 11 will be Darvin Boyd, Ephrata R 3; Joanne Denlinger, Horseshoe Road, Lancaster; and Gerald Grein er, Manheim‘R4. These three young 4-H leaders will participate in group activity in archery, handicrafts, music, inspira tional programs, nature, photography, recreation and folk dancing, riflery, social dancing, planning evening programs, and understanding young people. The camp is conducted un der the direction of the Ag ricultural and Home Econo omics Extension service of The Pennsylvania State Uni versity. $2 Per Year Keener Farm telling too. Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Keener do not work alone in their farming operation. The Keener farm is a fam ily farm in the true sense of the y word. During the summer mon ths when the girls arc not in school, they may be seen driving a tractor across one of the 59 acres of legume hay on the farm. Nancy, a ninth grade student in high school, does her share of tiactor driving while Bar bara is one of the regular tractor operators in crush ing or raking the alfalfa crops. Clarence, Jr. is not a dairyman His operation on two farms at Manheim Rl, includes 72 steers, 8,000 to 10,000 pullets, 15 acres of tobacco, 57 acres of potatoes and grain crops. The young er Keener does not farm in partnership with his father, but the two men do trade work and share one set of tarm machinery. In addition to the family. Keener has a full time herds man, Calvin Lord, and a teen age boy, Richard Ober holtser, who attends school during the day and helps with the chores morning and evening. The ton of milk per day during May was no acci dent. The 50 cows of milk ing age are in top condition and are managed with skill and understanding. Alfalfa forms the basis of the' feeding program on the farm. At the present time, the milking string gets green chopped alfalfa each evening but the diet is as varied as it can be made. “Some people say they ha ve trouble getting cows to eat enough”, says Keener, “But I think part of it is because they don’t have en ough variety.” The herd is pastured dur ing the day on Reed’s Can (Turn to Page 5) Governor Asks Observance Of Dairy Month Following is a statement by Governor David L. Law rence urging observance of June as Dairy Month in Pennsylvania. “Production of milk and other high quality dairy pro ducts has a long history in Pennsylvania. The Common wealth is one of the Nation’s great milk producing stales. (Turn to page 12) FIVE - DAY WEATHER FORECAST Saturday - Wednesday Temperatures for the next five days will average near the normal range of 81 degrees in the after noon and 53 at night. A little cooler weather is ex pected over the weekend and little change thereaf ter. Showers occurring mostly Monday and Tues day will average around one inch.
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