Vol. 11, No. 5
Apple Queen to
Be Selected
Next Tuesday
Selection of Lancaster Co
unty’s 1957 Apple Queen will
headline activities Tuesday in
one of three meeting arranged
by Associate Lancaster County
Agent Harry S. Sloat and his
committee.
•Events open at 9:30 a- ni. on
the farm of Mrs. H. S. Nolt,
HI Columbia, "where John
Reuf, extension fruit specialist
from the Pennsylvania State
University, will give a demon
stration on pruning apple,
peach, cherry,- grapes and
small fruit. The farm is along
the Marietta Pike, a half mile
west of Silver Springs.
At 1.30 p. m. Tuesday, the
meeting will move to the farm of
Jay Brossman, R 1 Remholds, to
inspect his orchard between
Adamstown and Terre Hill
Selection of the Queen will"
be in evening activities that
begin at 7:30 p. m. in the Farm
Bureau Auditorium along the
Dillersville Road between the
old Harrisburg and Manheim
Pikes.
Qualifications include Contest
ants must be single, between the
ages of 17 and 21, a resident of
Lancaster County; she must be
related to a fruit grower or fruit
handler, and have a desire to be
come an active Queen, free to at
tend the Winchester Apple Blos
som Festival next spring. The
Slate Apple Queen will be select
ed at the state meeting in the
Yorktown Hotel, York, Tuesday
afternoon, Jan. 29.
Basis of judging will be; gen
eral appearance and person
ality, 400 points; appearance
and attractiveness in street at
tire, 200 points; knowledge of
the apple industry, 200 points.
Contestants should notify R.
S Snyder, R 1 Ephrata, or
Anthony Stee, Millersville Pike,
not later than Dec. 10 - Monday.
Judges will be well-known Lan
caster folks, and prizes will be
given each contestant, the grand
prize going to the one selected
Queen.
There will be a short business
session, secretary’s and treasur
ers report, and election of offic
er for the coming year.
‘Fruit Culture and Fertiliza
tion” will be the mam topic of
discusion by John Reuf, exten
sion fruit specialist. He will also
bring some of his observations
on newer developments in fruit
production, including dwarf fruit
bees.
WANTS CASH HE FOUND
WILSON, N. C. C Louis
Doans, 26-ydar-old plumber, is
seeking to '518,000 he
s a\s he found in a hot-water
heater in the home of M. C.
Godwin near Buckhorn October
5, 1955. Deans found 180 $lOO
hills, m a cloth bag as he repair
ed a water heater He showed
l he bag to Godwin, who pro
fessed no knowledge of it or its
contents. God van in
com l that the money was hidden
W his wife, who died June 18,
1954
WINNING A RED award at the 16th
National 4-H Livestock Conservation Dem
onstration Contest during the 1956 Inter
national" Exposition" in Chicago last week
County Farm
Equipment Men
Meet Dec. 12th
Lancaster County farm equip
ment dealers, their wives, em
ployes and their wives are in
vited to the annual Ladies Night
Christmas Party at Eli Hostet
ters Banquet Hall in Mt. Joy
next Wednesday evening, Dec.
12 starting at 6 30. ■
Dr. Caleb Bucher, principal of
Brecht School of Manehim Town
ship will speak. There will be
singing, music, flowers and ex
change of gifts. Members are tb
bring small gifts.
Elmer Landis of Landis Bros.,
Lancaster, will present the
Arthur Young Memorial Plaque
to Mrs, Arthur S. Young and
family.
Mabel Brabson, Peach Bottom,
-will furnish music. Roy fihi
baker, Lititz, secretary, is in
charge of arrangements.
Crops and Soils
Meeting Set for
County Tuesday
Changing from a springtime
meeting date the annual Crops
and Soils Meeting for Lancaster
County will be held Tuesday,
Dec 11, County Agent Max M.
Smith announced today.
Starting at 10:30 a. m„ the
meeting will be in the Meet
ing Room of the Farm Bureau
Cooperative, Dillersville Road,
Lancaster, with the opening
discussion on “Forage Crop
varieties - Fertilisation - Man
agement,” by A. E. Cooper,
(Continued on page 7)
Quanyville
Team Wins Red Award
Remote St. Croix Produces Relative
Link to Lancaster County Natives
By ERNEST J. NEILL
Editor, Lancaster Farming
Chnstiansted, St. Croix, Virgin
Islands “Quarryville 9 We
have relatives at Kef ton!”
iSuch (is the greeting encoun
tered on the West Indian island
of St. Crdix, one of three of the
Virgin Islands visited m a ten
day tour by iplane, auto and boat,
winding up in Puerto Rico.
Throughout there was sur
prise: like the Lancaster County
affinity in the most eastern
point of U.S. property; like the
terrific progress Puerto Rico
is making under its Operation
Bootstrap, of “Fomento,” as
they call it, fomentation, fuel,
building; like the visit of the
liner Stockholm with its new
bow, on its first Caribbean
cruise since its collision with
the A-ndre Doria.
But to Frederick P. Reynolds,
Ji., and his wife Barbara of
Chnstiansted, like the Reynolds
family of Refton, there’s a link
to home. Sailors on the guided
miss ' -3 ship, USS Canberra, tour
ists as well, all were looking for
a famihar face, for a common lan
guage in a region where a mix
ture of English, French, Spanish,
Flying Farmers
Farm Show Mee.ts
Two meetings of the Pennsyl
vania Plying Farmers Associa
tion during the Farm Show next
January in Harrisburg have been
announced.
On Wednesday, Jan. 16, the
group will meet at the Harris
burg State Airort, and will con
vene at 10-30 Thursday morning,
Jan. 17 in the Farm Show Build
ing.
was this Lancaster County team, Donald G.
Herr, Quarryville, left and Donald M. Herr,
Kefton, right.
perhaps Danish has produced a
calypso language, entuely foreign
to any other.
In Puerto Rico there was a
Spanish ship on a South American
good-wiM tour, the Ciudad de
Toledo (City of Toledo) docked
to display products manufactured
in the old country.
Gone are the days of the Buc
caneers and pirates. There’s
change in the Carribean to
day, drastic change. Increased
operating expenses, competition
from the States and islands to
the north have caused agri
culture to dwindle. The sugar
beet has pushed sugar cane
into the background.
There are cattle on St. Croix,
developed on Annaly Estates by
Mr. Cannady, a leading member
of the board of WiSlys Oveiland
who was at the St Croix airport
just before I departed for San
Juan A good many hundred
head of Red Polled, crossed with
the Sengalese fiom Africa, are
found on both St. Croix and St.
Thomas. Efforts are being dou
bled to produce a true polled
strain that could be dual pur
pose.
Otherwise, wildlife is at a low
ebb, thanks to the mongoose
Charlotte Amalie on iSt.
Thomas, was once a leading
world port What were once ware
houses are now stones, the mono
tonous arched top, wide iron
bound doors differing only m the
wide choice of color today’s mer
chant uses.
At one time, when these ware
houses were filled with goods
of the world, rats were ramp
ant. Someone imported the
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$2 Per Year
Referendum on
Corn Allotment
Plans Tuesday
Taking part m the nationwide
referendum Tuesday will be Lan
castex County producers who will
help choose between the corn
allotment program or the com
base acreage plan.
A national majority of two-
thirds must prefer the new
corn base program in the ref
j' erendum if it is to be adopted.
> Announcing election sites. Lan
dis G. Becker, county Agricul
tural Stabilization and Conser-
vation committee chairman,
points out farmers may plant
as much corn as they wish, re
gardless of the vote outcome,
provided they do not desire to
participate in either the price
support program or the soil
bank plan.
Offered under the old com al
lotment program for Lancaster
County are 67,139 acres and a
national average suppoit price
of $1 36 per bushel, oi under the
new soil bank com base acreage
plan, 91,826 acres for the county
and a national suppoit of $1.31.
Open Tuesday fi om 8 am. to
7 pm. will be the following poll
ing places;
1. For Conoy, West Donegal
and Mount Joy Twps., at Kaylor
Bros implement Co , across from
Country Kitchen on Route 230
2. East Donegal and West
Hempfield. at Red Rose Dairy,
one half mile south of Florin.
3. Rapho, at Mastersonville
Fire Hall.
4. Penn, Warwick and Eliza
beth, at J Harry Hershey farm,
one mile northwest of Lititz
5. East Cocalico, West Cocalico,
Brecknock and Clay, at Stevens
Fire Hall
6. Caernarvon, East Earl and
EaU, at Liberty Fire Hall, New
Holland.
7. Ephrata, West Earl and Up
per Leacock, at Bareville Fire
HaH
8. Salisbury and Leacock, at
White Horse Fire Hall.
9. East Lampeter, West Lam
peter and Lancaster, at Dull’s
Restaurant, one-quarter mile cast
of Lampeter.
10. Manheim and East Hemp
field, at East Petersburg Fire
Hall
11. Manor. Conesota and
Pequea, at Herr & Brenneman
Garage, 237 Manor Ave, Millers
ville
12. Eden, Bart and Sadsbury,
at Bart Fire Hall.
13. Strasburg and Paradise, at
voting place, one mile south of
Strasburg.
14. Martic and Providence, at
Rawlmsville P.re Hall
15. Drumore and East Dnrmore,
at Marron’s Service Station,
Route 72.
16. Fulton, Little Britain and
Colerain, at Roy Anderson’s Store,
Elim
Services He!*! for
Past PFFA President
Funeral services for Gerald
Tvler, of New Milford, Susque
hanna County, were Thursday a
week ago Mr. Tyler was a past
president of the Pennsylvania
Flving Farmers Association.
Mr Tyler was r mnd dead
while sawing lumber for a
"hurch addition.