—Lancaster Farming,
10
Friday, Aug. 31, 1956
Wilmer Guernseys
Make Outstanding
Records in Breed
A registered Guernsey herd
has made an outstanding produc
tion average in the Lancaster
County DHIA, according to the
American Guernsey Cattle Club
The 45-cow herd of Raymond
F Witmer, Willow Streat, has
finished the 1955-56 testing year
with an excellent average of
10,697 lbs milk and 534 lbs fat,
highest fat average in the county
for a herd of this size
As on-a would imagine, several
of Mr. Witmer’s cows made high
individual records For instance,
in the 305-day class, Barbian
Golden Dolly produced 14,782
pounds fat, Zaitler’s Prediction
Drucilla, 13,088 and 645, and
Barbian Fonatta, 13,266 and 634.
Witmer also had three cows m
this year’s county 3000-pound fat
club They included Sue’s Peer
less Santa, with 107,151 pounds
milk and 5177 pounds lat in 10
years, Meadow View’s Agnes
Gloria, 96,140 and 4572 in 9
years, and Meadow View’s Red
Blossom, 70,312 and 3237 in lust
over six vears.
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One of the busiest seasons of the year
in Lancaster farming is at hand, as the
heavy crop of tobacco moves from fields
to sheds Here is a view of a truckload at
American Agriculture Not Political
Benson Advises Poultry Federation
(Editor’s Note Published be-
low is the addiess by Secretaiy
of Aguculture Ezra Taft Ben
son before the Pennsylvania
State Poultry Federation, at the
3rd Annual Poultry Festu al in
Heishey Saturday evening):
U. S. Department of Agriculture
Office of the Secietary
I am honoied by your invita
tion to participate in this 3rd
Annual Poultry Festival of the
Pennsylvania 'State Poultiy Fed-
Tobacco Time
elation It is appropriate and
that the Poultry Festival
is held heie in the Pennsylvania
Dutch county, and on the oc
casion of the Pennsylvania Dutch
Days.
Throughout the length purl
breadth of this great lann,
the sturdy folk who are our
Pennsylvania Dutch, are
known as “good farmers. - ’
The title is well-earned
whether you are poultrywen,
dairymen, or crop producers.
And there is no higher title
that one farmer can bestow
upon another.
A few weeks ago I had the
pnvilege of attending the ]7 r oth
anniveisary meeting of Lho New
Jersey Agncultinal Society
Whether it is 3 yeais oi 175
that an oiganization nas been
active, I find mspirat on in the
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the entrance to barns on the new state
tobacco experimental farm near Landis
ville. (Lancaster Farming Staff Photo).
many oigamzatiors within agri
culture that go on year alter
year woiking studying
building to make fanning more
efficient and farm lilt- more
satisfying
And whether an organization
may be a few yeais oi many, the
farm people who are its mem
bers have their eye a tu the Ju
ture Of course, we look back
ward occasionally We want to
see where we have been, so we
may know where we ate. But
we want to know where we are
so we may see mote cleaily
where we are going What’s
ahead’ This is the imporlant
question along with what we
can do about it, as organizations
and as individuals, to make the
future what we want' P to be
It as this spmt thm un
ceasing quest for unproi etuent
that explains the inventive
ness and expenmentalion
through which our farming has
changed so rapid!., It is this
stnving always to build some
thing better that has made Am-
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erican agriculture so amazingly
productive.
May I ask you to look back
with me for a moment - back
to changes that seem to mo i 0
explain why you now have a
State Poultry Pedetation It )s
not far back oecau-c m just
one generation the poultry m
dustry has changed from small
flocks running loose in bai n
yards to its present status as one
of the most scientifically llt i.
vanced segments of a°nci;huio
Many of us can remembei
when we hunted hens’ nests m
the straw stack or the hiy ’olt
And we remember too, when
fresh eggs were a seasonal pio
duct available only during
the spring and summer
How times have changed!
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