VOL. 8 NO. 14 > ' *' * < -*W in Mount •anquet .hall lonctay night, j Elvm Hess, Baieville, presi dent of the agricultural section >f county 4-H council presenit id certificates to the Lancaster Jounty Bankers Association re presented by Stanley Mussel nan; Lancaster Farming, rep resented by Jack Owen, Editor, ’W Intelligencer Journal, 'ry Stacks, Editor; Lancas- New Era, Ted Godshall, as lant City Editoi; Lancaster 'day News, Ron Stemraetz, *,or; Watt and Shand, Don ich, buyer; Lancaster Lives- Exchange, Robert Heilbr- -Southeastern lylvanla Artificial Breed iooperative, Roger Emig, i; and WGAL-TV, Mrs. inia Bi-own, home econom First Calf Heifer Produces Over 850 Pounds In 305 Days Blossomelle Zsa Zsa. a first January in the Red Rose Dairy Speaking on “Dairy Adjust calf Holstein heifer in the herd Herd Impiovement Association meats for 1963”, at the annual of Herbert and Rhelda Royer, Zsa Zsa freshened at two Lancaster County Dairy Dav 2023 Oregon Pike, made Sol years, six months, and is still Tueada , Dr pierce said quotas pounds of butterfat m 21,123 producing nearly 40-pounds a 1S not a issue and will not ' poun f s of “ llk * ltll i P ! r da> ' at th 6 end ° f 365 dayS ‘ be as long as the causes for dis cent test, to complete the high- The second high lactation cus &ion exist est 300 day lactation record m record was 822 pounds of but- He gAve two alternatives to terfat in 16,871 pounds ot q UO tas as a means of disposing . milk ™th a 4 9 per cent test of surp i ug m dk that has built Mary Jane rierr Ponced b >' Echo - a registered UP ln the Northeast. Ve could « a ~ Holstein in the herd of J. es t ab iish a regional milk mar- IS President Mowery Frey and Son. Lan- ket to share the burd en of sur c 1 caster R 7. Echo began her pi usse3 among all farmeis or Ot Beet dub lactation at nine years, 11 we could the class I pn ' months. ce so that more inefficient far- Miss Mary Jane Herr, Reft- The 23 registered Holstems mm would b& dvlve n out oi on, was elected president of the m the herd of John E Esh, busmess Red Rose Baby Beef and Lamb Gordonville Rl. had the high ..j am not tOO far from being club Wednesday night at MJ. monthly butterfat average The advocate o ' f this last method Brecht School. herd produced an average of .. be d „ Not beC a„ S e Miss Herr, the second g.rl -2 pounds of butterfat » 1.901 j *. ant to se * aa j one get hurt, ever to be elected president of P° ua & o mi wi a pe but because I believe it may be S® Clab ’ p aCC^ dS E h lrm HeSS - 06 Following with an average «>* eolutloa to the p,ob - Bareyile Rl The other woman pounds of butt erfat pei lem ‘’ president of the club was Mis. CQw was he 36 bead Holstem He said everything points to Herbert Royer, the former Rh- berd clavton Kreider and a continuing cost-price squeeze e da Eshleman. Curt Akerg> Quarlyville R 1 squeezing out the less effi- Other officers elected bv the The herd averaged 1 693 lbs clent producers and managers 115 member club were: Wes- m flk with a 4 0 test There will be a continued mci ley Mast, Elverson R 2, vice p lve other cows finished lac- ease m slze of individual busi president; Judy Longenecker, tations with over 750 pounds nesses and a continued special- Holtwood Rl, secretary; Eng- 0 f butterfat. Paul S Wyble nation in the business and in 12 7-l one Hosier, Manheim R 3, trea- b ad a registered Holstein with geographic area in the next few Hand v~. pm - New surer; Janet Frey, Marietta Rl, 17,411 pounds of milk and 772 years, and “these changes are ,t~ \ armers and Kenneth Hess, Strasburg pounds of butterfat Raymond likely to come more rapidly x, Sv* es a b Rl, game leaders, Larry Bru- and Louise Witmer had a re- than they have in the past, h° umt iselman, on behalf of the irs association presented larship awards to five 4-K irs. Blvin lend Bridgewater in Vir >. Lucille Kreider Quarry- Hl, is a student at Lock m Calendar 11'SO a m. Re alization meeting of the ''-astter County Extension /ice executive committee the Meadow Hills Dining 'm, Mew Danville Pike. 0 P-hi. Soil Conserva- District, Director meet the Lancaster Court hou- > <■ v ** M thtown College, while his twin sister, Judy, will use her grant toward tuition at the Univer sity of Maryland. On behalf of the County 4-H Leaders Council, Mylin Good (Continued on Page 10) Joy 1R COUNTY’S OUTSTANDING Conservation :ontour strips on his farm He pointed out the rainwater gathered before the strips were ap 'd up and down the hill in the background, heavy ram storms. With Harry is his son, L. F. Photo. Council Teachers College, and Hess, Washington Boro mg Messiah College Warfel, Conestoga Rl, ill next fall at Ehzabe- Lancaster Fanning, Saturday, March 9, 1963 Cattle Feeders Schedule Meet- County cattle feeders w ill take a look at the coming econ omics of cattle feeding at a meeting scheduled by the coun ty extension sen ice next week Louis Moore, extension agri culture economist from Penn State is scheduled to open the session at 10 a m in the basement of the Poultry Center, Rosexille Road on (Continued on page 4) Quarryville Farmer Named Outstanding Cooperator Hairy L Troop, a 30 year old dairyman from Quarrj villa R 3, was named Outstanding Conservation "Farmer for 1962 Wednesday night at the Lan caster County Soil Conservat ion Distnct banquet. Tioop, who operates four faims, helped complete the conservation plan on the home place in 1952 Aftei a two yeai stretch in the U S Marine Coips, he hook ovei opeiation of the home faim m 1954 Sin ce then he has added 122 ac res of rented land to the 45 acres at home * As soon as was practicable, he put conservation piactues on all his lented land “I belie ve in soil consei \ ation, and think there should be moie ot it ” he said Tioop believes in conseiva tion so strongh that he not on ly uses hd on "his own faun, he takes every;, oppoitunitv to sell the idea to his neighbors Last yeai he won the district’s aw ard for outstanding associate director when he convinced 15 of his neighbors to sign up for fiee conservation plans on their Quotas Not A Dead Issue Dairymen Are Told Here Dairymen are going to con tinue hearing discussions about quotas and regulated product ion for several yeais, according to Dr William Pierce, agncul tuie Economist at the Penns>l rama State Umveisity. $2 Per Year fauns. Troop milks 20 Holstein cows and farms about two ac res of itobacco m addition to the corn, small grain and hay foi livestock feed In looking back over his ex perience with soil consei ration practices, Troop lecalls the time on the home place when potato rows lan up and down the hill “I can remember pick ing up potatoes m the load af ter a heavy ram, and the mea dow used to lay full of water in wet periods ” he said In addition to putting con tour strips into his rotation of corn, small grain, hay, hay, co rn, he leaves some of the odd shapped strips and steep slopes in alfalfa foi several years He has planted tiees on some of the steeper places, established grassed waterways, and bulldo zed out fence rows and gullies in the middle of the fields “I’m not finished y'et,” he says. “Conseivation is a conitin uous job, but I don’t see how I could farm Without it.” Hea rn Hackman, -vice chairman-of the district directors made the (Continued on Page 9) for the buildup of surplus milk Milk production has out run consumption, in the North east An imbalance of use and. production of milk products has developed throughout the U S This has come about not «o much by overproduction as bv the loss of the fat market and the changing from u cream market to a whole milk market by niidwestern farmers. This has caused an accumulation of milk solids-not-fat that once were fed to hogs The rapid de velopment of methods, equip ment and technology has forc ed the dairyman to get bigger in order to spread the cost of new equipment over larger un its of production. Unfortunat ely there is no good alternative to dairying, he said (Continued on Page 8) FIVE - DAY WEATHER FORECAST Temperatures during the uo\t five dajs are expected to average 2 to 8 degrees below the normal range of 30 at night to 50 in the af ternoon. The weather is ex pected to turn colder Satur day with some moderation expected about Monday and, turning colder again to wards the end of the period. Precipitation is expected to total is inch or more (melt ed) .during the ' ''first 'half of the period.
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