Vol. IL No- II
uPoultrymen Plan
JlOO Banquet
For New Center
Solicitors began contacting
processors, feed suppliers,
hatcherymen ajnd others con-
nected with the poultry indus
try this week selling tickets to
the $lOO-a-plata Poultry Boost
eis Dinner.
The dinner is scheduled -to be
held at the Hotel Brunswick.
The date wi'il not be announced
until a prominent speaker can
be obtained.
The Lancaster County Poultry
Assn hopes to raise $25-30,000
f y the dinner to pay off construc
toin costs of the new Poultry
Center. '
The first sale at the new
center is scheduled for Jah. 24.
Formal dedication of the new
building will not be held until
next spring after landscaping
has been completed
The solicitation plan for the
Booster Dinner works like this.
► Directors of the association
have prepared cards with the
names of the persons to be con
tacted. These cards were issued
to members who are to contact
the person named.
$3,000 worth of tickets were
sold at the meeting.
The association also passed a
resolution supporting the con
struction of the Lancaster Coun
' ty Community Center.
The resolution reads- “We,
the Lancaster County Poultry
- Assn., wish to commend the
Lancaster County Community
Center Commission for the
splendid report which was sub
mitted. The association suggests
that authorities give the report
due consideration,”
k It is estimated ,tH|t about
$25,000 will be needed to com
plete the Poultry Center build
ing and $30,000 will permit pav
ing the driveways and parking
lots in addition to landscaping
the property.
The directors of the associa
tion estimate that this need
represent less than .1 per cent
of the annual value of -eggs and
m the County.
They say that the total value
of eggs and poultry are -worth
$33,033,507 or 34.7 per cent of
the $95,268,637 total farm pro-
duct value in Lancaster County
m 1955.
To date 542 individuals and-
organizations have contributed
*17,268.12 toward the building
of the Center. Additional fin
ances have been obtained
through a construction mortg
age.
If anyone desiring a ticket to
the $lOO Booster Dinner is not
contacted next few days,
he may obtain tickets by writing
to Lancaster Poultry Association,
Mr L. Howard Martin, Treasur
er, 2823 Columbia Ave., Lancas
ter, Pa.
Deadline for ticket sales is
Peb l.
Honey Producers Display Wins First Prize
THIS IS THE HONEY products display
that won first place for County producers
at Farm Show. This is the first time that
Lancaster County Honey Producers have
walked off with the top prize. The display
'Feeder Cattle Numbers
Up 4 Per Cent on Jan. 1
WASHINGTON The num
ber of cattle and calves on feed
for market in the United States
on Jan. 1, was four per cent larg
er than the same date a year
earlier, according to the Crop Re
porting Board. Numbers were
estimated at 6,099,000 on the
first of the year compared with
5.880.000 on Jan. 1,1956 and the
1951-55 average of 5,280,000
head. In the North Central States
numbers were up five per cent
from a year earlier. The 13 west
‘ ern states showed only- a slight
increase of 2,000 head. -
Cattle and calves on feed in
the Com Belt at 4,425,000 head
on J'an. 17, this year compare with
4.216.000 a year earlier. Feeding
in the Western Com Belt states
was up four per cent and the
Eastern Com Belt was up six
per cent from a year earlier. Fe
eding in lowa, the leading state,
was up nine per cent from Jan. 1,
1956, while Illinois, the second
ranking state, this year showed
an eight per cent increase.
Minnesota showes an increase
of 10 per cent, .Nebraska was up
three per cent, and'phio was up
11 per cent. Indiana, Missouri,
and South Dakota each had the
same number on feed as a year
earlier. Kansas and Nona u dkota
each had a decrease of 11 per
cent from January last year.
,iiio (Lancaster ; oavi’i Friday, Jan. 18, 1957
V,UJ
Comity. Vegetable Growers Plan
Extensive Program At Meeting
The vegetable growing situa
tion will be reviewed from insect
and disease control to the prob
lems and ethics of handling farm
labor in harvesting vegetable
crops at the Lancaster County
Vegetable Growers meeting to be
held at the Guernsey Breeders
Sales Pavilion at Lincoln High
way and Strasburg Pike, Jan. 23.
Four men from Pennsylvania
State University, Dr. Charles
Moran, Campbell Soup Co. re
search dept., and a panel discus
sion make up the program.
The speakers and their subjects
are;
J. O. Pepper, extension entomo
logist, “Controlling the insect in
vasion by killing cutworms, wire
worms, flea beetle, on
peas, tomatoes, beans, pumpkins,
squash borer, sourfly, mites on
beans and tomatoes, leaf hopper
on lima and string beans and car
rots.”
Dr. O. D. Burke, xtension plant
disease specialist, “Boosting
net profits through disease con-
Lititz Boy Sweeps
Leaf Championships
James Graybill, R 2 Lititz, a
member of the Northwest Lancas
ter 4-H Club, won a four-way
championship in tobacco at the
Farm Show. His entries won the
4-H championships in filler and
wrapper tobacco, and also took
the grand championships in the
open class.
consist of a collection o£ prepared honey,
in the comb and extracted, surrounded by
samples of honey candy, honey cookies,
beeswax and small gift boxes of honey.
(Staff Photo)
trol by spraying and dusting.” A
review of some of the more im
oortant' diseases that are giving
us trouble such as late blight on
tomatoes; downy mildew on
beans and pumpkins; anthraec
nose on tomatoes and beans;
downy mildew on cauliflower,
beans and pumpkins; and leaf
spot on carrots and tomatoes.
J. O. Dutt, vegetable specialist
“Vegetable culture practices.”
A survey of the use of chemical
weed control, fertilization, plant
ing, cultivation, harvesting,
handling, use of folier sprays,
side dressing with anhydrous am
monia and other forms of nitro
gen.
Dr. A. H. Reed, department of
education “AnaSyzing the
Problems We Face Today.”
Dr. Moran “Results of toma
to variety and fertilizer tests in
Lancaster County.”
The panel will discuss “Prob
lems and ethics on handling farm
labor in harvesting vegetable
crops.” Panel members are Harry
S. Sloat, Lancaster; Henry A.
Gruber, manager, Farm Service
Assn.; Hamburg; Herbert Royer,
R 5 Lancaster; William Jacobs R 2
Narvon; Wilmer D. Rohrer, R 2
Lancaster; Charles Ressler, Sr.,
R 2 Holtwood.
Recognition for high yields in
tomatoes, peas and lima beans
will be made at the afternoon ses
sion.
A question and answer period
will close the meeting.
$2 Per Year
Heavy Crowds
Mark Opening
Of Farm Show
Crowds estimated at 85,000 at
tended the opening of the 40th,
anniversary Farm Show Monday.
Snowfall in the Harrisburg
area Sunday night served only
to slow down arrivals, officials
said.
The estimated attendance Tues
day was 95,000 and crowds were
equally as heavy Wednesday.
Although the Wednesday crowd
is usually the largest of the Show,
heavy snow Tuesday night and
the cold appeared to have had a
dampening effect.
Gov. George M. Leader opened
the Farm Show officially Mon
day night.
Tuesday night saw the annual
rural talent festival The Lancas
ter County participation was a 1
large globe surrounded by farm
produce and a sign saying “Lan
caster County, the Garden Spot
af the World.”
Lancaster County’s biggest
achievement at Farm Show has
been the clean sweep of the to
bacco show. Close on the heels of
this has been the first prize won
oy the honey produceis and a
sweep of the dressed poultry
prizes by Harry Lamparter,
Mountvile.
The 4-H baby beef show was
held yesterday and the sale is
being held today. Results will be
listed in next Friday’s paper.
Seed Co-op Sees
Bright Future
For Cpming Year
HARRISBURG The Penn
sylvania Foundation Seed Coop*
erativ-s rounds out its first year
of existence next month with
“excellent prospects for 1957,”
an official announced this week;
K. W. Lauer, president of thee
cooperative, told the Pennsylva
nia Crop Improvement Assn, that
a “good acreage” of various;
small grains was being grown un
der contract.” *
“We have a more than ade
quate supply of corn hybrids pro
duced during 1956 for distribu
tion during the spring of 1957,”
he said..
Lauer declared the coopera
tive, which was organized last?
Feb. 14 was “ip, good financial;
condition.” It opened operations
with seed stocks valued at ap
proximately $39,000 and a ware
house and seed processing plant
at Jersey Shore purchased forr
$14,000. Funds were raised!
through sale of common and pre
ferred stock to members.
The cooperative was “designed l
to take the Pennsylvania Agri
cultural Experiment Station outf
of the business of *producing and;
distributing foundation seed,”
Lauer said, “thereby permitting,
the plant breeding research pro
gram to be pursuded more vigor
ously.”
Lauer cited the origin and or
ganization of the seed coopera
tive which, he said, intends to'
make grants periodically to the
.University to further the plant?
breeding urogram of the Exper
iment Station. L