Vo |, 1 No. 48 ■
Frost Strikes;
Corn Ripening,
Some Picking
Autumn has taken full sway
ovei Lancaster County, with
ripening grain and fall-shaded
leaves A killing frost last week
end _ which sent temperatures
to the coldest on record locally
tins early in the season has
hastened ripening of crops jnd
haivest.
Some corn picking is already
underway in the Garden Spot,
A small percentage of the
County tobacco crop pos
sibly ten per cent of the 28,-
OOOacres was hit by frost as
glowers sought to develop
every pound they could, and
will be reduced in value as
pull off. With the tomato har
vest past its peak, loss here '
was negligible.
Winter oats and winter barley
are being seeded. Silo filling is
in full tilt since some corn that
was a bit late and sorghums
were hit by frost, causing more
woik than was anticipated
The Weather Bureau, in Lan
caster reports 1 scattered frost
all over the County. Corn has"
lost its reen. Potato digging is
in lull progress around Ephrata.
On Friday last week. Lan
caster reported 40 degrees as
low, the»Water Works 31,
coldest on record this early in
the season. Holtwood had an
unfiicial 33, Safe Harbor 42.
Last weekend found a warm
ing trend during the day, with
cooler nights. Rainfall Satur
day and Sunday totalled .7 of
an inch, making the total for
September this far 2.7 inches,
just a little below normal.
The outlook is for tempera
tmes"to be slightly below nor
mal with a warmer movement
Friday and Saturday, cooler Sun
day and Monday with scattered
showers possible Saturday.
C. Richard Hastings Takes Honors
In Lampeter Fair Swine Division
By ERNEST J. NEILL
C Richard Hastings, KD Kirk
wood, Wednesday scored a re
peat m 1956 Lancaster County
community fair winnings when
hi'' Chester White Boar topped
; e field, his Chester White sow
; sc °ied the purples in the largest
:^’ tne show on record at the
| ost Lampeter Community Fair.
: a week before, Rich
ni ?u aced first at Q«arryviUe
r„ . Southern Lancaster
““‘y Community Pair. A
fi'»duate of Solanco High
hook class of 1956, he placed
hsentriesthartotai
fiook r l S 7 erv T e position was Bob
■ «7 Lancaster, a Lampe-
One of the most elderly of active Lan
caster County farmers is George M. Au
karap who Sunday celebrated his 92nd
birthday which occured Aug. 30. Fam-
FFA and 4H Angus
Heifer Show at
Unionvilie Saturday
Umonville, Pa. Young An
gus breeders from 17 counties
in cential and southeastern
Pennsylvania will gather here
Saturday for the 4-H andF.F.A
Angus Heifer Show, it is an
nounced by Orville F. Haas,
president of the Brandywine
Angus Breeders Association.
The all-day event will be at
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ter-Strasburg, student,' with a
Hampshire sow, while his broth
er, Ronald, placed reserve with
a Hampshire boar entry.
Here are other winnings:
pen of two: Donald Welk, R 1
Strasburg; pen of four: Rob
ert McCullough, R 1 Strasburg;
sow and litter, FFA, champ
ion, Bob Book, reserve Ron
ald Book.
In addition to the 62 head of
swine, Wayne Rentschler, secre
tary, reports 23 _ baby beeves
were entered, plus almost 100
head of dairy cattle. In general,
there were more exhibitor en
■ tries than ever, “the biggest ag
ricultural exhibit we’ve had,
one of excellent quality."
Muarryvme (mantaster county) fa., Friday, Sept. 28, 1956.
Lancaster Farming 92 Years
George M. Aukamp, Peach Picker
At 92, Still Farms Every Day
By ERNEST J. NEILL
Work hard m the open air
keep your faith in God.
Such is the advice to the
younger generation from a Lan
caster County farmer who passed
his 92nd birthday' August 30,
not taking time to pause his
Lancaster farming which began
about the time of the Civil War
War.
He’s George M. Aukamp,
R 1 New Providence, born in
Lancaster, who came to the
wooded hills near Truce when
but six weeks old. That was
in 1864.
Sunday scores of relatives
gathered for a picnic on the
old farm down in a hollow-west
of the settlement, a farm sur
rounded today by peach ' orch
ards. Sunday’s a day for Mr.
Aukamp to pause, for “I’ve been
working every day, picking
Cattle Feeders x
Tour October 16
From Lancaster
Studying the producing, feed
ing and packing end of the beef
cattle business will be the pur
pose of a Lancaster County Cat
tle Readers Tour scheduled for
Tuesday, Oct. 16, according to an
announcement today by Max M.
Smith, Lancaster County agri
cultural agent.
The all-day tour will be
made by bus and private aut
omobile, with assembly at
7:30 a.m. at the . Conestoga
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ily 1 members w 'and friends were on hand
for picnic' dinner at the old homestead.
(See accompanying story) (Lancaster
Farming JStaff Photo).
peaches, or if not picking
peaches, spudding tobacco.”
Guests included scores from
his 12 living children, 43 grand
children 43 great grandchil-
Steer Shown by Joyce Nolt Champion
At Ephrata; Leona Augsburger 2nd
Miss Joyce Nolt, 13, who has
shown Herefords always Here
lords lor three yeais Wed
nesday morning scored grand
championship of the baby beef
division of the 38th annual
Ephrata Fair.
Miss Nolt, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Amos M. Nolt, R 1
Reinhold, is a freshman at Co
calico Union High School. This
was the first time a Hereford
has won the Ephrata steer show.
Coming from the Eagan Cattle
Co., Ashby. Neb., the steer
weighed 485 pounds on arrival,
and probably tipped the scales
at 1000 pounds Thursday.
Judge of the show was Tom
King of the Pennsylvania
State University livestock di
vision.
Reserve went to Miss Leona
Augsburger, Rl, Remholds; third
to Darvin Boyd, Rl Ephrata,
and fourth to Miss Gloria Bru
baker, Rl Ephrata.
Mr. Boyd, 14-year-old son of
Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Boyd, is in
the tenth grade at Ephrhta, and
his showing experience of five
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By LF Staff Reporter |
$2 Per Year
Soil Bank Must
Be “Voluntary,”
Benson Asserts
By ERNEST J. NEILL
Editor Lancaster Farming
READING, Pa. “Some farm
ers are pulling out of the Soil
Bank plan in the Corn Belt, but
from the beginning of study of
the Soil Bank, it was considered
the program must be voluntary
the farmer should make his
own decisions on his own farm.”
Thus United States Secretary
of Agriculture Ezra Taft Benson
explained to a Pennsylvania
news conference why in recent
weeks penalities were waived
for a few farmers who found it
necessary to violate their Soil
Bank contract There was great
delay m passing the measure?
some crops in the South were
already planted, the program
began too- late to become fully
effective, the Secretary explain
ed, here to address the Pennsyl
vania Millers’ and Feed Dealers
Association.
Mr. Benson answered
charges issued by the Demo
cratic presidential candidate,
Adlai Stevenson, who said the
administration was neglecting
the little man:
“There are no little men,” he
answered a question presented
by Lancaster Fanning, “there is
no common man m the United
States. This is a land of real op
portunity. We do have some
small farms. I myself was a
small farmer, with 80 acres" of
irrigated land in southern Idaho
This administration has dona
more to encourage small busi
ness, to encourage the small
farmer than any in Washington.
Since he was speaking just.an
hour or so before President Eis
enhower was presenting his
pledge in Peoria, 111., “to give
farmers a full share in our coun
try’s good times,” Secretary Ben
son offered no specific outline as
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years came to the fore when he
topped the Showmanship con
test, as well as winning first in
Angus.
Other winners included: An.
gus: 2, John Zimmerman, and
3, David Zimmerman, both of
Reinholds; Hereford: 1, Joyce
Nolt, 2, Leona Augsburger, and
3, Gloria Brubaker. Showman
ship: 2, Leona Augsburger; 3,
Carl Bollinger, El Lititz; 4, Lo
vis Lapp, El Bareville, and 5,
Janice Showalter, El Eeinholds.
Fitting contest winners
were: 1, Carl Bollinger, R 1
Lititz; 2, Leona Augsburger;
3, Janice Showalter; 4, Darvia
Boyd; 5, Joyce Nolt, and 6,
John Zimmerman.
The Ephrata Fair continues
today with a Republican rally at
7 p.m., and a concert by the fa
mous Pottstown Band and Glee
Club. Saturday final day
will see a baby parade at 2 p.nu
(rain date, Monday, Oct. 1, 7'
p.m.), and a 7 p.m. Democratic
rally followed by a band con
cert with the Ringgold Band of
Reading.