Vol. 11. No. 6
IVlemorial Plaque
Awarded at Farm
Equipment Meet
' Highlighting the Wednesday
night Christmas Party and Ladies
Night of the Lancaster County
Farm Equipment Dealers’ As
sociation meeting was presenta
tion of the Arthur Young Memor
ial Plaque,
The annual event of Local Club
No 4 was a dinner meeting at
Hostetter’s Dining Room, Mt.
Joy.
Mr. Young, pioneer Kinzers
implement dealer a.nd origina
tor of the Steam Threshers As
sociation. played a large foie
in organization of the Farm
Equiment Dealers’ Association.
Presentation of the plaque was
made by Elmer Landis, .Lan
caster.
Speaker for the evening was
Di. Caleb Bucher, principal of
Brecht School.
Dr. Bucher explained the sig
nificance of the Chiistmas ob
servance, how it has been in
fluenced by the scores of na
tionalises that have combined
their manner of observing the
holiday into what today is the
Americau Christmas. Dr. Buch
er is- the son of the. late Rev.-
Rufns Bucher, former pastor
of the Mechanics Grove Chdrch
of the Brethren.
Presentation of the Memorial
plaque was made to Mrs. Young
during the evening.
Group singing was conducted
by Miss Mabel Brabson and group.
Guests were introduced and gifts
distributed.
Officers of the association are:
Leroy Wenger, Buck, presii
dent; C. Everett Young, Kin
zers, first vice president; Ivan
Noit, Farmersville, second vice
president; Roy Brubaker, Lititz,
secretary - treasurer; Paul
Mount, Quarryville, assistant
secretary-treasurer.
Directors are Ben Snavely, New
Holland; L. B. Herr, Jr., West
Willow; Rankin Wiley, Peach
Bottom, and Robert Brubaker,
Salqnga.
Pork Purchases
.Are ,Discon tinned
Washington (USDA) The
U S. Department of Agnculture
made no purchases from the of
fers submitted on pork products,
m the week to Dec. 7 % and an
nounced discontinuance of pur
chases for the tune being.
Hog market prices have been
strengthening and made substan
tia! gains dunng'the Jast several
days. This permits suspension of
the buying operation.
Since early November when
first purchases were made, 4,-
989,600 lbs of canned pork -lun
cheon meat and 1,584.000 lbs of
canned ham for an overall total
of 6573,600 lbs'of canned pork
Products have been purchased.
The purchases will expend ap ;
Pi oxiihately $3.1 miKion of Sec
tion 32 funds.
TO BE OCCUPIED the last week of De
cember and open for business and auctions
the first week of January will be 'the new
Lancaster Poultry Center at Bypass 230
and Roseville Road north of Lancaster.*'
Eight Factors
In Forage Crop ,
Use Emphasized^
Eight factors are of prime im
portance in any forage crop
program in Lancaster County, A 1
E. Cooper, agronomy extension,
the Pennsylvania State Univer
sity, told 55 Garden Spot Farmers
in the annual Crops and SoiSs
Meeting in Lancaster Tuesday.
They are: - i
1, Utilize soil testing services,
to show requirements for lime,
fertilizer, etc.;
2, Use certified seed varieties,
innoculate legumes;
3, Prepare good seedbeds;
4, Use band-seeding methods;
5, Use a variety of grass-legume
mixtures;
6, Cut at the proper time;
7, Practice'regular fertilization
of forage crops;
8, Use curing aids, as preserva
tives, to get quality roughages.
These points were outlined in
his ta!ik on “Forage Crop Varie
ties, Fertilization, Management.*’
Mr. Cooper also reported on
1955 soil tests made at Penn
State'on Lancaster County soils,
showing that 17 per cent
needed more lime. 53 per cent
needed more phosphate, 44 per
cent needed additional potash,
and 52 per cent needed more or
ganic matter.'
Use cover crops, he told, em
phasizing the last point on or
ganic matter, lengthen rotation
leaving the ground in sod at least
one third of the tune.
yuarryville (Lancaster County) Pa., Friday, Dec. 14, 1956
Opens in January
In West Indies, No
Stockings, Are Hung
Down in the West Indies, no
stockings are hung by the chim-.
ney with care on Christmas
Eve, for Santa and his sleigh I
cannot negotiate the sandy
palmlands.
Instead, youngsters there
Lancaster Farming learns in a
recent tour of the islands
placg three boxes of grass un
der their beds Christmas Eve,
one for each of the three Wise
Mens’ camels.
Come Christmas morning, the
boxes of grass. are gone, re
placed by gifts.
Milton Hassel
Heads County
Fruit Growers
Milton Hassel, HI Christiana,
will head' the Lancaster County
Fruit Growers Association dur
ing the coming year, as a result
of his election Tuesday nighL in
the Farm Bureau Cooperatibe,
Lancaster.
Others elected are: Harry
Breneman, R 6 Lancaster, vice
president; Simon R. Snyder,
R 1 Ephrata, secretary; and
Daniel A- Brubaker, R 1 Eph
rata, treasurer.
Around 60 persons attended
the day’s tour, which took them
to pruning demonstrations con
ducted by John Reuf, extension
fruit specilialist from the Pen
nsylvania State University in the
orchards of Jay Brossman, R 1
Reinholds. and Mrs. H. S. Nolt,
R 1 Columbia.
Plans for the exhibit at the
1957 Pennsylvania Farm Show
will be made at a meeting Fri
day, Jan. 11. In the Masonic
Homes at Elizabethtown. it is
expected six. growers and five
. varieties will be represented.
u. - 1 ' V
Grading is being completed this week, and
work, mostly through volunteer labor, is
progressing^at a fast j)ace. First earth was
turned lasf'Febfuary, ground was broken
in July. (Lancaster Farming Staff Photo).
Extension Club
Seeking Fourth
Farm Agent Here
Addition of another county
agricultural agent to tha staff in
Lancaster County is a request to
be given Lancaster County Com
missioners in their 1957 budget
.by the Lancaster County Exten
sion Association.
Meeting in executive commit
tee Monday night, the group
pointed out the only cost to
the county would be an esti
mated 51200 travel expenses
and 5400 stenographic services,
with salary to be paid by the
Pennsylvania State University
extension service.
At present, the staff consists
of County Agent Max M. Smith,
Associate County Agent Harry S
Sloait, and Assistant Victor M.
Plastwo. Two home economists
are now serving, with one posi
tion created only last June.
Supporting (the association’s ap
peal were - requests for urban
service have increased in the
County Agent’s office; the coun
ty’s 4-H program can be ex
panded only through addition of
another man; soil testing has in
creased to the point where an
other man wdl soon be neces
sary, plus calls for educational
assistance and the need for fur
ther efficiency in farming meth
ods
Presenting the appeal will be
J. Homer Graybill, R 3 Man
helm, president of the associa
tion; Mrs. John Nissley, R 1 Mt.
Joy. treasurer, and County
Agent Smith.
Willis Esbenshade, Esbcnshade
Road, will represent ithe Exten
sion " Association on the annual
Lancaster County Dairy Day
Committee.
$2 Per Year
County Favors
Corn Controls;
Lose Nationally
Lancaster County corn produc
ers Tuesday voted 191 to 86 in.
favor of the proposed new con
trol program for corn, but nation
wide the measure lost by about
five and one-half per cent.
Nationally, the vote was about
61.2 per cent favoring the new
plan, a few points under the
required 66.7 per cent. Votes
subject to challenge are
thought too few to produce
any other trend in final fig
ures.
Although some 10,000 Lancas
ter County producers were eligi
ble to vote, only 277 votes were
recognized of 293 east, represent
ing about 68.5 per cent of the
voters favoring corn base acre
ages in the County, compared to
73 8 in the entire state.
Other results showed growers
favored continuing federal mar
keting quotas on rice, peanuts,
upland cotton and extra long
staple cotton
Lancaster County’s vote was
as follows:
1, Connoy, West Donegal, Mt.
Joy Twps., 33-5; 2, East Donegal
and West Hempfield, 23-6; 3,
Rapho, 1-9, 4, Warwick, Penn
and Elizabeth, 22-4; 5, East Co
calico, West Cocalico, Brecknock
and Clay, 9-4; 6, Caernarvon,
East Earl and Earl, 5-27; 7,
Ephrata. West Earl, Upper Lea
cock, 13-13; 8, Salisbury and
Leacock, 8-1; 9, East Lampeter,
West Lampeter and Lancaster,
8-1; 10, Manheim and East Hemp
field, 13-3; 11, Manor, Conestoga
and Pequea, 12-7; 12, Eden, Bart
and Sadsbury, 3-0, 13. Strasburg
and Paradise, 8-2, 14, Martic and
Providence, 10-1; 15, Drumore
and East Drumore, 14-0; 16, Ful
ton, Little Britain and Colerain,
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County Farmers
Association to
Meet on Dec. 27
Captains appointed in each
township for the 1957 member
ship drive of the Lancaster Coun
ty Farmers Association will meet
on Dec. 27 at 8 pm. in the
SPABC Building, Lancaster, it
was announced today.
At a recent meeting in the
home of Walter Wanner, Coun
ty Organiation Director, plans
were drawn up for the 1951
membership drive. Committee
members present included J.
Roy Greider, Isaac. Miller,
Fred Seldomridge, and Harold
L. Groff. Mr. Wanner was in
charge of the meeting, with
Fieldman Arthur Hoffman di
recting procedures.
The County was divided into
four sections with each of the
four committee members in
charge of each township. A "kick
off” dinner meeting for mem
bers of the membership commit
tee is scheduled for Jan. 7, with
Noah Engle of Connecticut as
speaker.
Mr. Engle is regional repre
sentative for the American Farm
Bureau Federations in the 12
northeastern states. The formal
membership drive will open Jan,
8.