VOL. 10 NO. 15 Sale Of Poultry Center Disclosed At Assn. Meeting Paul Hiestand, president of fche Lancaster County Poultry Association, opened the As sociation’s annual educational meeting Thursday night with the announcement the Poul try Center pioperty had been sold to the Conestoga Heat intg and Plumbing Supply, Inc , of Lancaster, for $50,000 When asked about the sale on. Friday morning, Wilbur Shoemaker of Conestoga Heat ing tol'd Lancaster Farming that he had just heard on the radio that his bid of the night before had been accepted by the Poultry Assn’s Board of Directors; Shoemaker has been active in the Farm and Home fund-raising campaign, having served as a team captain in the General Gilfts Division Since 75 percent of the net assets of the building’s sale will be turned over to Farm (Continued on Page 11) "Conservation Is Everyone’s Concern”: Theme Of Annual Soil & Water Consv. District Dinner At the 'annual dinner meet ing of the Lancaster County •Soil and Water Conservation District held at iSoianco High School Tuesday evening, Penn sylvania 'Secretary of Agri culture, Leland H Bull, told a- near-recoid audience that the- problems of “tpeopie pres sures” 'are here to stay “Let’s face it,” the Secre tary said, “within three dec ades our population 'will' he almost twice its present size. AH services to and for peo ple must expand ” He re ferred to recreation need's and to the byproducts of the "urban Sprawl” Water, se'w age, and space for. buildings, roads and homes. It is incumbent upon us as seif and water conservation people to know, understand, and be able to intelligently comtounicate the facts of con servation projects now in the works Pioject 70, the'Sus- Farm Calendar Mar 15 1 pm Lancaster ■County iSlwine Producers’ Association Carcass Show at Lancastei Stockyards 2 pm Adult Extension meeting at Farm Bureau Bldg, Dillerville Road, Lan caster 730 p.m Cattle Feeders’ Meeting at Breeht School, Lititz Pike, Lancaster “Out look for livestock and feed” and “Reducing costs of gain”; speakers will t»e Penn State Extension Specialists Les Burdette and Louis Moore 730 pun Northeast 4-H Tractor Cluh at Farmers (Contmued on Page 9) AMMON MARTIN, SCHAEFFERSTOWN, SHOWS TWO OF THE VEAL CALVES in his 84-head finishing pens. The stalls are constructed of wood. They are 22 inches wide, 4A/j feet long and 4 J /2 feet high. They are raised about one foot off the concrete floor, and the bottom of each stall consists of a panel of flattened, galvanized, expanded metal. The calves remain chained in these stalls until ready for market. L F. Photo quehanna River Basin, the Ap palachia hill, and others, Bull said The Secretary said 'we don’t have to like all of these pro grams, hut we should realize their implications for future generations", ~ and recognize that they are the -result -of the population explosion. By being informed we can all help shape the program de velopment along lines we feel suitable Amos Funk, chairman SOD Directors, and banquet toast master, also comimented on the role of conservation ’ in light of population increases. “For every 100 people horn in Lancaster County, agricul ture will lose 75' acres,” Funk said He pointed out the need for open recreational spaces in the county to keep pace with the population growth. “This will put an additional strain on agriculture,” Funk said, “hut may he good for the county as a whole ” Awaids were presented by Arthui Campbell, Ji , County Commissioner ElmeriSensenig, (Continued on page C.) Weather Forecast Temperatures for the five day period, Saturday through Wednesday are expected to average below normal with the' high in the lower or middle 40’s and the low temperature around the 30’s. It will turn colder during the weekend with little moderation until Wednesday. Precipitation may total Vi inch or more, melted, as rain or rain changing to snow some time over the week-end and again at the end of the period. Lancaster Farming, Saturday, March 13, 1965 Pa. Holstein Assn. Plans Breeders Inst. by Everett Newswsuiger Staff Reporter The Pennsylvania Holstein Association has announced plans for the annual Breeders Institute to be held the week of March 15-19, 1965 at eight locations throughout the state. The program /will feature three prominent dairy au thorities on important sub jects: handling dry cows, heavy producers and herd replace ments; preventing common breeding problems; and build ing cow families. Dr. David A. Morrow, Ithaca, New York, will discuss “A Profitable Breeding Health (Continued on Page 5) Inter-State Dish 7 Pledges $5OO To F&H Fund At Annual Bang. At their annual 'dinner meeting the memlbership of District iSeven of the Inter- State Milk Producers’ Coopera tive Association voted to do nate $5OO to the Farm and Home Campaign Fund to help build a Farm and Home Cen ter in Lancastei County The 250 dairymen and Wives, meeting at the Plain 'and Fan cy Restauiant at Bird-in- Hand, heard Dr Paul E Hand, economist with Intel (State, discuss some of the market ing pioblems and changes that have involved Interstate and the industry in the past yeai IntenState has complet ed contractual arrangements with Abbotts and with Penn Dames to handle members’ milk As a result of these two contracts. Hand said, Intei- State has added 500 nrw mem bers. Abbotts has agreed to pur chase all their milk from In (Continued on Pace 12) Ammon Martin Feeds Veal Calves Under Controlled Plan For Special Market Last year, Ammon Martin veal feeding operation on the of Schaeffers town decided he Mai tin farm is a cooperative was going to go into the veal effort between 'Carnation and business He visited veal feed- Martin The company Was an mg farms in Pennsylvania and exclusive airangement with New Jersey, ‘but saw no sys- Martin -whereby they lend tedh tem of housing 01 manage- meal assistance in return for merit that appealed to him So information he ‘designed his own, taking Ammon Martin had been, advantage of the mistakes that primarily a steei feeder un he observed Today he has til last Fall At that time he what is described by Dr Gil cut back on his beef-feeding Porter, Eastern Director of operation, converted an old Nutrition & Technical Sales bank bam and built an addi for the Albers Milling Com- tion to it, and set up for veal pany, as one of the most ideal calves He 5s starting his veal feeding farms in the cal/ves in the former blank barn country then moving them to the new Albers Milling is a division finishing pens in the addition, of the 'Carnation Company, He buys calves from local and their milk based veal feed dairymen, within a ten-mile is the link 'between Dr. Por- range, not on the open mar ter and Ammon Martin The (Continued on Page 4) Elmer Sensehig, Outstanding Conservation Farmer For 1965 This year’s recipient of the 'Soil Conservation District’s award for Outstanding Conser vation Farmer of Lancaster County is Elmer M. Sensenig of New Holland Rl. He ac cepted the award at the Dis trict’s annual banquet meet ing at Solanco High School this week. Amos Funk, Chairman of the District Directors, de scribed Sensenig to the audi ence of approximately 250 friends of conservation as “a champion conservation sales man. In just one year during his eight-year tenure as di- OUTSTANDING CONSERVATION FARMER AWARD FOR 1965 was presented to Elmer M. Sen senig by Arthur Campbell, Jr., county commissioner and Soil Conservation District Director, for his ex ceptional efforts in practicing and selling conservation during his eight-year service as a district director. $2 Per Year rector, Elmer signed up over 42 cooperators. As a result, he was asked to speak at the annual meeting of the State Conservation Directors to tell them how he performed this unusual feat,” Funk said. “He no only sold conservation to everyone he talked to, he con vinced others to sell it, too.” Chairman Funk later told Lancaster Farming that “El mer Sensenig is one of the two men of my acquaintance who have done most for con servation in the history of the (Continued on Page 9) L. F. Photo
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