Vol. 1, No. 16 Goddard Wm Speak Feb. 23 At Lampeter Han. Maurice K Goddard, State Secertary of Forests and Waters will be -the featured speaker at the annual meeting of the Lancaster County Soil Conservation District Thursday, Feb 23 at 7:30 p. m- in the Lam peter-Strasburg High School, Lampeter, Pa. Water Use, Regulation' He is a member of the. Soil Conservation Society of Ameri ca and former director of the School of Forestry, College of Agriculture at the Pennsylvania State University; also, President of the Pennsylvania Forestry As sociation, Chairman of the Coun cil of • Foresters, the American Forestry Assn, and the Forest Products Research Society ' His'Topic will be “Water Use and Its Regulation”. Amos H. Funk, chairman of the district will introduce the directors and representatives of the various cooperating agencies. Harry R. Metzler, former county commissioner and''district board member will present a plaque to the named “Outstanding Farm Conserva tionist of 1955” during the meet ing. Color Film on Program Wayne B- Rentschlef, secre tary-treasurer, will deliver the annual report on the- progress of the conservation district. Entertainment will be provid ed by the Garden Spot Chapter of F. F. A- and a color sound motion picture, “Yours Is' The Land” will' be shown. Invocation will be provided by the Rev. John A. Breneman, pastor of the Willow Street Mennonite Church- Everybody is invited, to attend this county-wide meeting since, “Water” is a vital factor to the existence of people, animals, plants and soil, its use and re gulation, presents a program to rural, industry, municipal and domestic users. New Providence Herd Augmented PETERBOROUGH, ,N.H. — Willard B. and Arlene'H Delp, New Providence, have just pur chased the Guernsey sire, Gold en Harvest Colonel, from Clair H Witmer, Willow Street, ac cording to the American Guern sey Cattle dub- This richly-bred bull is out of the high-producing cow, McDon ald Farms King’s Janora, that has once been classified Very Good for type, and has two pro duction records of 12,260 lbs of milk and 629 lbs of fat, made on .three times daily milking for 365 days, as a senior two-year old and met calving require ments, and 14,639 lbs of milk and 744 lbs. of fat, made on three times daily-milking for 365 days as a five-year-odd. He is sired by Nyala Supreme Commander. SAMPLE COPY LOCAL BOXHOLDER Truly diversified is Lancaster farming, broilers and steers, brooder houses and and the view above is one many-share of feeders. Both are of prime importance, but Lancaster County. Only two of the innum- still but- a part of complex, vast pictures e rable agricultural lines are shown here, that is truly Lancaster Farming. Three Shows Set to Move Jnto County Lancaster County this summer will be host to several major live stock shows, some moving here from other locations due to the County’s increasing recognition as a livestock center. They are 1. The Eastern Polled Hereford Association Show and Sale, March 26, with an association banquet the night before (Sun day, March 25) at Hotel Bruns wick; 2. The South Central District 4-H Dairy Judging Practice July 17; 3. The SPABS Dairy Show, Aug. 9; 4. County 4-H Roundup, Aug. 10; x 5. Pennsylvania Guernsey Bre eders Association Show, Aug. 28, and 6. District 4-H Dairy Show, .Guernsey Sale Pavilion, Aug 29- 30. This will be th° first time the Southeastern Dairy Show, the Eastern Polled Hereford show and sale, and the State 4-H Dairy Judging Practice events have been scheduled here. This year the 4-H Roundup has been moved ahead one month. Two Governors are expected to attend the Polled Hereford ban quet, Pennsylvania’s George Leader, and Colorado’s Dan Thorntop. Gov. Thornton is a well-known Hereford breeder. Quarryville, Pa,, Friday, February 17, 1956 Lancaster Farming - Diversified Barn Raised On Landis Martin Farm Menaonite farm friends 150 strong moved in on .the Landis Martin Farm, R 1 Lititz, Monday to rebuild a barn destroyed by fire Oct. 21. The barn, originally built by Jacob Brubaker in 1805, burned in 1897 and 1914. An aromst ad mitted setting the most recent blaze Two Meetings on Trench Silo Use Scheduled Friday Two field meeting are schedul ed today to bring additional infor mation to Lancaster County farm ers on the practical use of trench silos. “The practical use of trench silos is being generally recogniz ed throughout our County as well as the entire country,’’ -M. M. Smith, county agricultural agent advises, and “‘many inquiries are made each year regarding this method of making silages.” # ' At 9-30 this mdrning, those in terested are invited to attend a meeting on the farm of Harry Griffith. Robert C. Groff is the operator of this farm, on R 3 Quarryville, about two miles north of town and his lane turns to the north of present #222 de tour route. This afternoon at 1:30, a field meeting will be held on the farm of John M. Groff, Rl Bareville, along Route #23. It’s the first farm on the south side of the road east of the new A. O. Smith Engineering Building. .John Walker, extension agri cultural engineer from the Pen nsylvania State University, will ho +o discuss all chases of trench silo location, construction and management. County Agent Smith will discuss making and" feeding high quality silage. Farm Bureau Returns Four Incumbents In the 21st annual meeting of the Lancaster Farm Bureau Co operative Wednesday, all four incumbent directors were re-elect ed. Site of the meeting was the Guernsey Sales Pavilion - east of Lancaster. Returned were: Samuel S. Hei sey, R 1 -Sheridan, northeastern district; Howard D. Wagner, R 2 Quarryville, southeastern dis trict; Mark S Hess, R 6 Lancas ter, southwestern district, and Abner H. Risser, R 1 Bainbridge, northwestern district. Reflecting the general trend in agriculture, the co-operative reported farm supply purchases by members declined $150,000 last year, the first time m the co-operative’s history that an increase was not shown. Reports were given”by Char les C. Burkins, general manager; Charles M. Wolgemuth,, assist general manager, and Harry R. Metzler, treasurer. A stock dividend of $25,288.03. was shared by the co-operative’s 5,500 members last year. Afternoon speaker was Ken eth Hood, assistant director of the American Farm Bureau Fed eration. WORK HORSES $345 Work horses sold at $345 each in .the Jonathan Beiler public sale Tuesday west of New Hol land. Cows sold from $l5O to $250 per head, shoats went at $9 each, iron troughs $3 to $5, a trotting buggy $34. Auctione'er was Abe Diffenbach. COVERED BRIDGE CLOSED Traffic on the 100-year-old bridge at Slackwater, south of Millersville, has been cut off after a survey by state engineers showed it was unsafe for use in travel. $2 Per Year Soil Bank Bill Both Good, Bad Benson Advises WASINGTON _ (USDA) “A mixture of good and bad,” were the words used by Secre tary of Agriculture Ezra Taft Benson in describing the Feb. 10 action by the Senate Commit tee on Agriculture The Commit tee reported out a bill which would put into effect a Soil Bank such as recommended by Presi dent Eisenhower, but by other provisions “would largely nul lify the good features of the bill ” Chief among these other provisions are a.return to rigid supports at 90 per cent of parity, a return to the so-called dual party (old or modernized parity, whichever is higher), a two-price plan for nee, and changes in the dairy support law “The Soil Bank would empty our warehouses, but ,90 per cent of parity would fill them again,” said the Secretary “These two parts of the Senate bill are in consistent. The Congress will have to decide which way it wants to go, we- cannot go both directions at the same time.” Refers to Jan. 9 Message The Secretary called attention fo President Eisenhower’s re peated warnings against the kind of action taken by the Senate Committee. “In his Special Message of Jan 9,” said the Secretary, “the President thus stated his posi tion: ‘As we seek to go forward, we must not go back