|OL 9 NO. 22 ■ YORK-LANCASTER AREA FFA LAND JUDGING winner, William Ulrich, Renter, is surrounded by the runners-up at the contest Wednesday. Left to right Ere George Eisenberger, James Brubaker, Ulrich, Robert Witwer, and Ray Bow wnan The contest was held at the farm of Robert Gibble, Manheim R 2 | \ L F Photo. Heptachlor No More For Alfalfa, Says USDA The U S Department of Ag iculture today cancelled 'the egistiation of heptachlor foi leatment of alfalfa. This action was taken because he Food and Drug Adminis ution has found amounts of leptachlor epoxide in milk Im irmed analytical procedures, vhich are 10 times as sensitive Farm Calendar 'lay 3 RURAL LIFE SUN DAY. * toy 340 Soil Stewardship Week. toj 4 8 pm. Northwest area 4-IH leaders training ses sion at Donegal High School, Mount Joy. Way 5 4 30 p.m. Lancaster County teachers of vocational agriculture meet -at the Eph iata High School. i3O pun. Southern Lan caster County 4-H Holstein dub meets at the home of EicJ Ki eider, Quarryvilleßl. Wav 6—730 p m. ■— Lancas- County 4-H Council meets at - the home of Lester Sch. eiber, Kinzer Ave, New Holland 8 pm Red Rose Baby -Bee f and Lamb club meets at John Neff School, Neffsville. aj ‘ 645,p m. Lancaster County Honey Producers ? eet at the Masonic Home l! ms fi uit storage, Eliza totniown 1 ’•) m County Senior Ex onsion dub to tour Lancas oC ° lmty Pnson • —7 30 pm. Boots ’ u ‘ 'uidles light horse and or. 4-H cluh meets at Ws 'T town Park n, ~~ 130 pm Farm thf^ 011 *° H° s t Society 21 at Conestoga Methodist as those used before, made pos sible detection of minute amounts of residue Heptachlor epoxide is the pioduct formed when an animal eats the in secticide heptachlor John O. Pepper, Penn State University extension entomolo gist, told Lancaster Farming this week, ‘•This means that heptachlor will not be included (Continued on Page 10 1 Syrian Visitor To Lancaster County Sees Differences In Farming A visitor to the county this week hires workers to follow a crop over thousands of miles each year. Talal M J .Kourabee, part ner and 'manager of a 4,oooacre farm between the junction of the Hhabour and Euphrates Rivers in Northern. Syria, has about 600 head of sheep which he keeps for wool and meat The sheep follow the water from lowland to mountains during the different seasons of the year, and the BedoWin workers who herd the sheep follow with all their families and possessions. Sometimes the sheep travel as far as 1,000 County Future Farmers Win Area FFA Meats Judging Contest Here Last year’s winner in the York-Lancaster area Future Farmers meat contest finished in the runner up spot Thurs day Winner of the competition at Kunzler and Company, Inc., Lancaster, was Tom Zartman, Ephrata Rl. The 15 year old sophomore at Ephrata High School is .the son of Mr. and Lancaster Fanning, Saturday, May 2, 1964 Swine Producers Hold Election John Henkel, Strasburg HI, was elected president of the Lancaster County Swine Pro ducers Association during a re cent meeting at the Lancaster Union Stock Yards. Henkel, a partner at Willow Glen Farm, succeeds C. War ren Leininger, Denver R 2, who was elected vice president of the association. Re-elected secretary treasur er was James Z. Martin, Chris tiana Rl. kilometers in one year, Koura bee said But the big crop on the Syri an farm is cotton Kourabee purchases cotton seed from the United States for his 2,500 acres The seed from his cotton is distributed to other growers by the government Seed from this second group of farmers goes to the smaller commercial cotton producers throughout the country Last year Kourabee won a silver cup from the government for high yields. Normally, he said, he produces 10,000 to 12,- 000 tons of fibre each year iContmued on Page 10) Mrs Ira Zartman. He scored 218 points. Elmer Stoltzfus, 18, the son of Mr and Mis Samuel Stoltz fus, Holtwood R 2, scored 210 8 points to finish m the second spot The Penn Manor senior finished seventh in the state contest last year. Both Zartman and Stoltzfus t (Continued on case uj County Future Farmers Sweep Land Judging Tilt Lancaster County Futuie Farmers completely shut out their iTork County competitors Wednesday at the area FFA Land Use and Management con - test Local blue jackets grabbed off the first 16 places in the five stage event on the Robeit Gibble farm, Manheim R 2 Nine of the contestants will go to the state land judging contest duung FFA week at Penn State University in June. Last year’s winner in the two county event, William Ul rich, Quarryville Rl, repeated his wm with a 23 point bulge County 4-H Dairy Show To Be At Guernsey Bam The 1964 Lancaster County 4-H Hairy club roundups will be held at the Guernsey Sales 'Pavilion, Lincoln Highway east of Lancaster, in August Club leaders meeting at the Farm Bureau Cooperative build ing in Lancaster Thursday night voted to hold the county judg ing event at the sales barn on August 11 and 12 or August 12 and 13, the dates will depend on how soon the facilities can be cleared after a state Guern sey cattle sale Drought Year Production Down 3 percent In County The value of Lancaster Coun ty’s farm production dropped only three per cent in 1963 de spite a severe drought over most of the area, figures from the Pennsylvania Crop Report ing Service show. The value of all agricultural products m 1963 was set at $89,- 906,610, the lowest volume since 1960 In 1962, county farmers grossed $92,701,590, nearly $3 4 million and three pei cent more Fulton Grange Has Youth Night Youth night was celebrated at the Monday night meeting of Fulton Grange at Gakryn Hall Young Grange members were selected by the youth commit tee to fill the chairs for the evening. ißay MCSpauan was acting Master. The home economics commit tee held a sewing contest with the winning dress going on to the state Grange contest. Mis Charles Wissler, who was spon sored by Mrs Chailes Long, was winner of the contest First and second degrees will be conferred at the May 11 (Continued on Page 12) $2 Per Year ovei his nearest rival The 16 year old Solanco High School junior scored 477 points out of a possible 500 Robert Witwer East Earl HI, a junior at Garden Spot High School, New Holland, was lunner up with 454 points The Grassland Chapter member is 16 years old Uhich passed up the chance at the state contest last year when the Solanco parliamen tary procedure team, of which he was a member, won the re gional contest and went on to the state finals Witwer was (Continued on Page 13) For several years the county roundups have been held in. conjunction with the annual Southeastern ‘Pennsylvania Ar tificial Breeders si ow, hut since SPABC cancelled the 11964 ex hibition, new facilities had to be found The 4-IH animals will be hous ed in the sales pavilion barn and one tent will be erected for a show ring Holsteins from ‘both the ‘Lan caster County club and the (Continued on Page IX) than last year. 'Drought created shortages in many field crops was offset by higher prices as demand for feed locally pushed the value upward The totals came as a surprise to many farm observ ers who expected much lower figures following the dry year. Biggest price jump was for corn and bay, the service fig ures showed. Despite less hay tonnage, for example, the value of the coun ty’s hay crop last year increas ed nearly $1 million from 1962 as prices soared to historic highs (Continued on Page 12) FIVE-DAY WEATHER FORECAST Temperatures during the day are expected to average 2 to 7 degrees below the normal range of 70 in the afternoon to 47 at night. Little day to day changes are expected. Precipitation may total less than 0.1 inch. Showers are expected over the Pennsylvania mountains on Saturday, but little if any shower activity is expected southeast of the hills.
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