Vol. 1. No. 37
Crops Lower
Nationally;
Good Locally
By LF Staff Reporter
On the heels of a USDA re-
port that crop production na
tionally this year is expected to
average considerably less than
last year’s records, Lancaster
County is looking for a near
record tobacco crop
July 1 harvest is expected to
average near the levels of the
past five years nationwide, and
overall production is expected
to be but one per cent below
1955. -
In a forecast this week, the
USDA estimated the 1956 cigar
filler tobacco production to be a
near all-time record of 1,630
lbs per acre, just 20 pounds be
low the record grown in 1954
Barley Harvesting
1 Right now the barley harvest
is well underway in the Garden
Spot, with a little yet to be
combined, County Agent Max
M Smith adyises. Considerable
trouble Is being encountered
with grain downed by storms
and heavy rains. No- -wheat is
ready for combining, although
some gram binders are in op
eration. In general, wheat pros
pects are good here
Barley yields in the County
arp varied, with some producers
reporting highs of 80 bu. per
acre on winter varieties. The
second cutting of alfalfa is coming
along, and Mr. Smith advises
“second and third cuttings
should be permitted to go into
at least 50 per cent blossom be
fore cutting -to keep from in
juring future stands Farmers
should also keep in mind that i
this is now the deadline for
seedings this year. “If you want j
silage, 90-day corn can be plant
ed now to follow barley or hay,”
the county agent added.
Scattered Showers
Comparing this year and last,
Mr Smith said crops now are
looking very good; some are a
little behind, wheat is perhaps
a week behind normal. Vege
table harvesting is expected to
be m full swing within the
month.
There is a' chance of scatter
ed showers this weekend and
cooler temperatures Sunday,
Bernard S White of the Weath
er Bureau office m LancasteF
advises. July has been marked
with rain, in fact some rain fell
on Lancaster County each day
from July" 2 through July 8.
Since then it has been clear and
temperatures cooler. Tempera
tures in general have been sub
normal.
Two inches of_ rain have fal
len thus far m July. In the five
day outlook, temperatures are
expected to average near normal
through the weekend. The out
look for scattered showers is
“not too definite.”
• rFrieMs -and neighbors swarm the ratt
ers and-flooring of the new barn on the
farm' of Aaron S 7 Click, replacing a barn
destroyecf~ in winds of February. Work
started at 8 a. m., and after a break for
lunch the work continued. This photo,
lowa Aggies -
Tour County,
Three Farms
■ Lancaster County will prove
one of the highlights of a 6600-
mile farm tour being made by
a group of 33 lowa State Col
lege of Agriculture students
traveling by bus.
Tuesday the ISC students
visited three Lancaster County
farms under guidance of County
Agent Max M Smith Stops
were made at the farms of Levi
H. Brubaker, Rl Lancaster;
Ralph S Martin, R 3 Lancaster
and at the Stauffer Homestead
Farms, Rl East Earl.
Members of the tour party
are carefully selected among
seniors who sign up for the
one month trip Starting in the
Southwest, the group visited
New Mexico, Arkansas, Texas,
Louisiana, Alabama, Washing
ton D. C., and left Lancaster
County for Mansfield, Ohio.
Accompanying the group were
Dr Frank Gardner of the ISC
agronomy department and Dr.
Bruce Taylor of the- animal
husbandry department at Ames.
SONG SERVICE AUG. 5
Invitations have been issued
to the joint open-air song serv
ice at Martin’s Church, Red Run,
at one o’clock Sunday. Aug. 5,
Jacob A. Weber, R 1 Denver, ad
vises Lancaster Fanning.
Quarryville, Pa. } Friday, July 13, 1956
Barn-Raising at Aaron Click’s
Barn Raising on Click Farm Quick
With Help of 90 Friends, Neighbors
By LF Staff Reporter
Revenge against March winds
which flattened his tobacco barn
has been gained by Aaron Ghck
of R 2 Quarryville, thanks to
friends and neighbors.
Friday and -Saturday found a
barn-raising on the Click farm,
at a speed almost equal to that
of the gusts that tossed the barn
into a shapeless heap against a
tile silo about four months ago
By Monday, a smaller crew
was busy- placing the roof on
the new 36 by 75 foot struc
ture. In addition to many
friends and neighbors, mem
bers of the Church of the
Rain Abruptly
Ends Tour of
Vegetable Farms
Sudden showers that sent tor-
rents of rain down on the cara
van forced sudden termination
of the Pennsylvania Vegetable
Growers Association tour
through Lancaster County Wed
nesday afternoon.
Fifty-seven cars were in the
caravan that started at 9 o’clock
from the Amos Funk Farm, R 1
Millersville. The final stop was
at the Click Plant Farms in
Smoketown.
Other farms visited included
those of Clyde Eshelman (Man
or View Farms) near Millers
ville, Funk Bros, at Washing
ton Boro, Washington Boro To
mato Coop., Wilmer Rohrer sqt
Washington Boro, Paul Rowe
near Strasburg, and Walter
Himmelreich, near Ronks.
taken at 3 p., shows how much had
been acomplishedlh a. day before work
was concluded. Another group
back Saturday to continue. (Lancaster
farming Staff Photo).
•I >
I Brethren, Mechanics Grove,
and the Little Britain Presby
terian Church answered
church announced appeals for
help in the barn-raising.
While the barn was being
raised, another crew fiom the
distaff side buised itself in the
Glick kitchen, preparing food
for the fast-working crew
Workers Included
In this issue of / Lancaster
Farm : -ng is a senes of photo
graphs showing progress made
at various stages of the barn
raising.
From Lancaster County, sur
rounding counties and Maryland
came the willing workers as
many as 90 at one time which
included:
Joel Bubble, Isaac Hershey.
Paul"Lefever, Bob Graeff, Mel
vin Stoltzfus,- Ralph Kreider,
Jake Lefever, Lewis Aument,
Paul B Myer, William Charles,
David M. Hostetter, Gid Stoltz
fus, Amos Rutt, L. Stumpf,
Aaron Weaver, Forest H. Rein
hart, M M Slaymaker, George
Tractor Overturns,
Fanner Is Injured
John L Shelly, Jr., 38, R 4
Manheim, suffered back injuries
when his tractor overturned
along an embankment on the
Raymond Moyer farm last week
end. .
Passing motorists, found him
pinned under the overturned
vehicle He was treated at Lan
caster General Hospital
'Continued On Page Six)
Poultry Tour
Across County
Next Wednesday
Seven stops will be made on
the Lancaster County Poultry
Tour scheduled Wednesday,
July 18 for poultrymen, their
wives and families, Associate
County Agent Hairy S. Sloat
advises
Serving on the committee with
Mr Sloat are Maik E. Myer,
Roy B Herr, John H Herr and
Richard Kreider
Listed below ai a times and
stops
8:00 a. m. Assemble at Es
benshade Turkey Farm, Para*
disc, one-fourth -mile north of
Strasburg-Gap Pike, two miles
east of Strasburg. They grow
15,000 turkeys, various ages,
Beltsville White, Midget and
Broad Breasted Bronze and
White Holland. Shed type, con
crete “block houses, open front,
stocker, hot water heat. Also
produces pea fowl
9:15 si. m. Farm of Martin
Landis, 1913 Millport Road, Lan
caster, between Strasburg and
Lampeter roads. Concrete block,
twq-story house, capacity 15rf
.000 broilers, all White Vantress.'
Fuel oil-hot water heating sys
tem. Ten fans in ceiling sue
thermostatic and four hand
controlled pulling air from
first floor by means of
tion slots at sides of house.
Central feeding box piped to
mechanical feeders.
10:15 a. m. E. Marvin Herr,
Willow Street, at edge of West
Willow Street near new Pequea,
schoolhouse. Single-story, con
crete block and frame house
30’ x 480’. Five thousand White
Leghorn layers in cages.
Mechanical feeder, cleaner, and
egg gat h e r ing equipment
mechanical cooler in egg room.
11:30 a. m. Safe Harbor
Water Power Corporation, one
of the most modern hydro-elec
tric plants in the East. Due to
limited parking facilities and
guides, groups of 20-25 will go
through the plant at a time.
Lunch Safe Haibor Recrea
tional Park along road. Bring
your own basket lunch Water,
milk, and ice cream will bo
available.
2:00 p. m. Farm of Armor
Frey, R 2, Conestoga Turkey
Hill Dairy, 200 milk cows, milk
ing parlor, loafing pens, hay
dryer with heat, large farm
pond Milk pasteurizing and bot
tling plant, ice cream manufac
turing
3;00 p. m. Funk Brothers
(Amos), Washington Boro, north
of Washington Boro-Millersville
road. 27,000 all White Vantress
broilers. Three-story concrete
block house 320’ x 32’, automatic
feeders, exhaust fans at each
end of the house, oil burner, hot
water heat 1,000 White Leg
horn layers in range shelters
60 beef cattle on pasture.
3:30 p. m. Paul S. Keper
ling, R 2, Lancaster. Located one
half mile north of Central Man
or 3200 Leghorn breeders Shed
type house brooder house
and part of barn remodeled for
layers. Bulk feed piped to all
houses, and chutes from feed
(Continued on page three).
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