VOL. 9 NO. 12 NOT EXACTLY A PIG IN THE PARLOR, but a whole litter of them in a store window. To publicise National FFA week, the Future Farmers of Elizabethtown put a display of pigs and baby chicks in the front store window of Newcomer’s Fire stone Store on the main street of Elizabethtown. Here, Elvin Hess, left, teacher of vocational agriculture and. advisor of the FFA chapter checks on the sow and litter with two committee members, Larry Givens, Bainbridge Rl, and Donald Patches, Elizabethtown Rl, - L. F. Photo. Elizabethtown Future Farmers Pig In Store Window Draws Interest Elizabethtown residents pro bably did a “double take" this week as they waiilked jip the mam street. The -unusual scene which gieeted them was. a. large white saw and a litter of 10' pigs in a store window. To draw the public’s atten tion to National F>FA week, the Future Farmers of America at the Elizabethtown 'High ©choc! put the display ot pigs, and a hatch of (baby chicks in the liont show window of Newicom- Farm Calendar Feb. 24 7 30 pan. Ex tension Home Economics de monstration on freezing (foods at the PP&L building on the square, Lancaster. 7.30 p.m. Adiult weldnng class m the vocational agri culture shop at Ephrata High School. 7 t'S 0 p.im. Central 4-H Tractor club meet® at the N. G, Hershey garage, Man heam. 8 pm. Reorganization 'meeting of the Red Rose Dairv Herd Improvement As sociation board at the Farm Bureau cooperative, Fuller tliHe Road, Lancaster. Feb. 25 9 30 am. to 3 Ptni Oountv Crops and 'Soils day at the Guernsey Pavilion, Lincoln Highway east of Lancaster. 7 ‘30 pm Manor Young Farmers class on hog pro motion in th e Penn Mlanor ‘Riigh School First of a ser ies at three, postponed from F«(b. 18. JPagfr.l3).. er’is Firestone store on Market Street. John Ness, owner of the store, said Thursday “People were still bringing their chil- dren down to the store In pa jambs at 1(0 O’clock at night on Monday.’’ He said there had been a steady stream of adults and children locking at the ex hibit all week The most often heard remarks are, “Aren’t they oute 9 ’’, “Are they for (Continued on Page 10) State SCS Officials Will Explain River Basin Study Here Next Week County and (municipal offi cials, (planning commissions and conservationists of the county will get a first hand look at the U IS 'Department of Agriculture’s work in the Susquehanna IRiver Bhslm, Wednesday evening February 26 at the Manor 'Shopping Cen ter Auditorium, Lancaster. State Conservationist Ivan McKeever, Chairman, U S De partment at Agriculture Field Advisory Cominuttee iu tihe Ba sin study, will outline agricul ture s lole in developing the comprehensive plan for the Susquehanna Rnver The Department 'has Ibeen as signed major resipouisiibilities !by the U S Congress in Studying the problems and needs in up stream ;watersheds Agriculture is now working with t'he U.S Army Corps of Engineers and others in developing the total plan for the Basin iwiMeh is expected to lb© completed With in the next 5 years. Lancaster Farming, Saturday, February 22, 1964 Poultry Ass’n Schedules Meet The first educational meeting of tie season, sponsored Iby the Lancaster County Poultry Growers Association will he held at tie Poultry Center on February '27. The (meeting:, at 3'4'o W Roseville Road, will he called to order at 7 30 pm. Tie tiwo part program will feature Hr Floyd Hides, Poul try Extension Specialist from Pennsylvania 'State University, who will cover the general (Continue on Page 10) IVAN' McKKKVER At the meeting McKeever. who is in Charge of the work r th e Soil ‘Conservation Ser yjce m pen nsylvania, is eipec Drought Emergency Com Received In Lancaster Co. Fred G Seldomndge, chan man of the Lancaster Countv Agricultural Stalblization and, lOonseirvatrou Oom/miititee, an nounced todiay the first ship ■ment of Commodity Credit Corp corn being supplied to farmers in Lancaster County under the Emergency Live stock Feed Program arrived Thursday morning at Hlie sband's Mill at Salunga This is the first shipment of com in this county that has ibeen made under the recent emergency declaration miade by the Secretary of Agriculture, Orville L Freeman Under the emergency designation, govern ment owned corn ts being made available to farmers in disaster counties of Penna at i educed prices to supplement feed shortages caused hy severe drought couditnons that exis ted during the past summer and early fall. SPABC Members Approve Merge With Westem Co-op iMemlbers of the Lancaster District of tie Southeastern Penna Artificial Breeders Co operative voted Thursday night to merge with Western Penna. Cooperative. The vote of 126 to 2S follows tie pattern of hi other district meetings where the voting has been about 89 per cent in fa vor off the merger plans, ac cording to David Yoder, Gen eral Manager (Members of tie Clarion-ba sed, Western Penna coopera tive wtild vote at district meet ings until sometime next week Yoder said tie voting in dis tract meetings there have been even more heavily in favoi of the merger than in the local cooperative If the expected ap proval is given by the member ship, the target date for the opening of business as a new cooperative is July 1. Iff merger plans are appro ved, the Western cooperative facilities will be sold, and all Cattle Auction Set To Open April First Tlie Lancaster Livestock Ex change announced tins week that the grand opening of then new auction pavilion will he held on Wednesday. April 1, with w-eeM> Irvestock auctions each Wednesday there alfter The first sale is scheduled to begin at 10 am After a recess from noon 'until 1 p«u selling will continue during the rest of the afternoon Order of sale will see hulls , ,(Continue^; on Page 4). . $2 Per Year On hand to receive the first shipment which armed this morning were Edison Osborne, State ASC Committee, Earner L Huher, and John J Hecrr, County ASC Conumi'ttee, Rich ard A Pennay, ASC Farmer FieMiman, and Dorothy Y. Neel, ASC County Office Man ager The car of corn originated at the COC elevators in Grid-, lev, Illinois, and was the first of numerous cars scheduled to arm e in this county in the near future Farmers on hand to receive distribution of corn were J. Harold Musser, Mervm Neff, Paul Brulbaiker, WMlbur ESrflh, all of Mount Joy RD and Rofb ert Nolt, Lancaster RiD. The County ASOS Office has a considerable backload of or ders which wifi he filled as raipid!b> as cars are received: at (Continued on Page 6) barn and laboratory facilities will be located at Lancaster. The name of the cooperative will become Atlantic Breeders Cooperative Yoder reported that 1963 marked the first year in the history of the cooperative that total volume fell below the previous vear. “Income was (Continued on Page 5) Soil Day Is Next Week Lancaster County Crops and 'Soils Daj will be held on Tues day, February 25 at the Guern sev Sales Pavilion along Route 30, east of Lancaster, accord ing to Arnold Lueok, assistant County agent Several Pennsylvania State Extension agronomists will ■present timely information on sma l 'l grams, field corn, weed control practices and potato fertilization A new feature this >ear will lie reports of work being done on tobacco, (Continued on Page 12) FIVE-DAY WEATHER FORECAST Temperatures during the next ti\o clajs are expected to aierage two to sexeu de vices below the normal range of 44 in the afternoon to 35 at night. Cold through out the period xxith the cold est w eathor about the mid dle of the five day period. Preeipitation may total about a half inch (melted), oc currink ~as. snow on Sunday. * IT » '
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