Signs of Spring Lancaster Farming
One of the surest-signs of spring is the
mellow Lancaster County earth being
turned for- the new crop year. Plowing
down cornstalks on contour strips is Rob
ert Sensenich, on the farm of his father,
Henning Seeks
Better Program
(Continued from Page One)
some of the large, low-cost pow
er development projects, such as
the proposed Niagara Falls
hydro-electric energy develop
ment project.
8 Expand and extend the
public school vocational agricul
ture program so that every farm
boy in the Commonwealth may
have access to this type of train
ing.
9. Expand and extend
the agricultural and fiomc'
economics research and ex
tension programs in the
Commonwealth.
10. Encourage the enrollment
of more agricultural students at
H Farm Compensation ::
H Insurance §
H There are more accidents in |
;♦ farming than in any other H
H business! ' H
H Protect yourself with a||
J| policy in the - H
H P. T. F. Company H
~ SEE H
H John F. Weaver Co., Inc. H
i: 202' Fulton Bldg. S
H Lancaster Ph. 2-6912 Jj
iIIIIIIhIIIIIIIII
unit's
HYBRID
Elmer Brill
Elizabethtown 7-5441
Frank H. Bucher
Lititz 6-9124
C. B. Erb
Landisville 2531
Lester Erb
Landisville 3216
Martin H. Kraybill
Elizabethtown 7-2696
a ■
l lllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll r
the Pennsylvania State Univer
sity with the establishment of
scholarships for the needy and
best qualified students with em
phasis on training college gradu
ates in the sciences of agricul
ture.
11. Institute and complete a
State-wide soil survey.
12. Encourage an effective
program of soil and water con
servation for the benefit of all,
through county districts.
13. Eliminate or greatly re
duce all taxes on gasoline used
on the farm for the production
of food.
14. Provide more services to
all farmers with special attention
to the family-size farm.
15. Encourage 'agricul
tural ' exhibits, fairs and
shows in the State with an
improved and expanded pro
gram of events in the State
Farm Show Building, such as
the new open livestock and -
junior dairy shows.
16. Modernize our Pure Food
Laws and provide adequate en
forcement for protection of the
consumer, also feed, fertilizer,
pesticide, and similar laws.
17. Make every effort,
through research, to adopt ato
mic energy and power for peace
time use and especially to dis
cover its nuclear value in disease
and insect control, seed and food
preservation, genetic changes in
animal and plant breeding, etc.,
with practical application for use
by farmers.
“BEST CORN
WE EVER PLANTED”
—say your neighbors about
FUNK G-91 for husking and
FUNK G-134 for silage*
Order your Funk G Seed
from
Jason H. Mellinger
Strasburg OV 7-2383
E. C. Seldomridge
Quarryville 64-R-3
Jonathan S. Shirk
Intercourse 8-3111
Levi M. Stoltzfus
Morgantown 64359
Edgar C. Umble
Gap HI 24525
V , . V-*' '
s ' J
* *. V,
A
<■> *
Elam Sensenich, R 2 Lititz. Cold '“weather
and an abundance of rain have caused a
rush of field work in Lancaster County, as
farmers try to make up delays already en
countered.
Rev. Dr. Bucher
Dies at 72 Years
(Continued from Page One)
wedding anniversary April 20
Born in rural Lebanon County,
he was the son of the late Rev
George and Fianna Pfautz Buch
er. His father served as a
Brethren pastor for more than
58 years
f He attended public schools in
j.outhern Lancaster County, was
graduated from Elizabethtown
College and served as president
of the board of trustees of the
college for 15 years.
In July, 1954, he was elected
chairman emeritus of the
trustees.
He was 3 moderator of the
National Council of Church of
the Brethren, a member of the
Home Mission Board of the
District for more than 40 years
and the General Brotherhood
Board of the denomination.
Half-Century Honors
In 1951 more than 1,100 resi
dents and ministers of all de
nominations gathered in the late
Rev. Dr. Bucher’s church to
honor him for 50 years of con
tinuous service.
As moderator of' the church,
in 1946 he toured war-ravaged
Europe to determine relief
needs.
In 1947 he was awarded an
honorary doctor of divinity de
gree by Bethany Theological
Seminary in Chicago. __
Surviving besides his wife are
nine sons and daughters, Wil
bur, Caleb and Martha, all of
Lancaster; Allan and Rhoda,
wife of William Feeney, both
of Mechanic Grove; Mary, wife
of Chhrles Mull, Downingtowa;
Paul, Peach Bottom; Dorothy,
wife of Dr. Grover Artman, Red
Lion; Grace, wife of Lester
Kreider, Quarryville RD; 19
grandchildren, and one great
grandchild.
Also, two sisters, Elizabeth,
wife of L. D. Ikenberry, North
Manchester, Ind., and Mary, wife
of P. M. Habecker, Mechanic
Grove; a brother, William P,
Mechanic Grove.
The Rev. Lester Schreiber,
New Holland, conducted-the fun
eral service, assisted by Dr. A
C. Baugher, president of Eliza
bethtown College, and Dr. R. W
Schlosser, past president of the
school.
Pall bearers were Frank
Schneider, Charles Scheiber,
Harry Kreider, John Kreider,
Aaron Weaver and Alvin Wen
ger.
Interment was in the Mechanic
Grove church cemetery.
Lancaster Farming, Friday, April 27, 1956
Octoraro Club Given
TalkjOn Activities
Ot flying Farmers
David S. Huber, Peach Bottom,
a director on the board of the
Pennsylvania Flying Farmers
Association, acquainted members
of the Octoraro Farmers Club on
activities of the association and
the use to which a farm airplane
may be put.
Mr. Huber, who operates a dairy
farm in the southwestern sec
tion of Lancaster County, and his
wife have been active members
of the Pennsylvania Flying
Farmers since 1949 Both Mr and
Mrs Huber are licensed pilots.
The meeting was at the home
of Bernard Pownall, RD Chris
tiana.
Willow Street Herd
Reserves Futureview
Peterborough, N H —Nancy
W and Ross Frey, Jr, Willow
Street, Pa, have reseived the
prefix, “Futureview” for use in
naming their purebred Guern
sey Cattle, according to the
American Guernsey Cattle Club
This new prefix has been plac
ed on -file with the Club, and
from now on they will have ex
clusive use of it In fact “Fut
ureview” will be their trademark
in the Guernsey world. - •
The American Guernsey Cattle
Club is a non-profit agricultural
registry organization serving
some 40,000 purebred Guernsey
breeders from coast-to-coast
Cattle $l5O-$350
Each In Shue Sale
In a public sale at the Gilbert
Shue property in Manor town
ship south of Washington Boro
Monday, cows sold at $l5O, $lB5,
$250, $265, and $350 each, with
heifers at $lOl to''sl32. Milk
cans sold at $5 each.
Guernsey Area
Tour Sees Silo
Within a Silo
Hill Girt Farms, owned by
Harry G Haskell at Chadds Ford,
provided one of the highlights of
the Tuesday tour of the Lancas
ter County Guernsey Breeder’s
Association. There a new $54,000
dairy barn with a wooden silo
being constructed inside of a
concrete silo drew much atten
tion from the 65 members and
guests.
Hill Girt’s barns will hold 100
Guernseys and 100 Holstems in
comfort stalls and box stalls. Two
hay-drying units are operated to
dry 1000 bales at a time from
large oil burners.
Also visited were Applebrook
Farms, owned by Charles O’Con
nor at West Chester, and Osborne
Hill Farm, owned by J. W. Mc-
Coy, West Chester.
Conducting the tour were J.
Rohrer Witmer, R 1 Willow
Street, Chairman, and C. Stanley
Hess, R 2 Lancaster, and Robert
McSparran, Peach Bottom.
Guernsey Top $535
In Andrews Auction
Topping the recent sale of 55
Guernsey cows and calves on
the C. J. Andrews farm near
Biglerville in Adams county,
was $535 paid by J. Thomas Car
man, Glen Rock, York county
The 55 head averaged $209, with
ten head figuring $382.50.
Auctioneer was Paul E. Sang
er, R 2 Myerstown.
24-Hour Service jj
** on—— m
| 1956 AU TO TAGS |
It EDWARD G. WILSON g
Jt Notary Y üblic *♦
♦* 16 5. Lime St, Lancaster, Pa. $£
3