TWO SONS of Eugene Wissler, Rl New Holland are shown with Pennsylvania Sec retary of Agriculture Thomas L. Henning, center, above. The young farmers, Reed and Glen Wissler, operate in a father-son; partnership. At the right, Noah Kreider, State Agricultural Officials Tour County Farms, Industry Monday Secretaries, directors and com missioners of agriculture from 11 northeastern states, lowa, Ohio, Michigan and Virginia spent Mom day afernoon touring Lancaster County. ~ Their first stop was at the Noah iit ' ATTENTION . •* 'tt H Limestone Sand For Use D. M. STOLTZFUS & SON, INC. Asphajt Paving & Crushed Stone .QuarryyiHe STerling- 6-2191 The World of Agriculture Can Be in Your Mail Box Farming is changing constantly. You stay abreast of those changes when you can take Lancaster'Farming out of your mail box each Friday. Right there in your hand you will have the latest news of agriculture. For Lancaster County farm news, farm features,'market news, home and family features and special articles, subscribe to Lancaster Farming-today. The rate is just $2 a year. For other rates, see page 4 of this issue. Fill in the coupon below and mail it now. Lancaster Fanning Box 126 Quarryville, Pa. BUI me Find $2 for one year Start my subscription immediately. Name- Address Kreider farm, R 3 Manheim, the next visit was to the baler plant of the New Holland Machine Co. and the last was to the Eugene Wissler farm, Rl New Holland. The officers were touring as guests of state Secretary of Agn- DAIRYMEN For Your In Dairy Barns Cali QuarryviUe, Pa. center, explains some of the fine points of his dairy-poultry operation to two of the visiting officials. Kreider, with his two sons, operates 860 acres near Manheim (LF Photo) culture, William. L. Henning, and as part of a conference of the Northeastern Assn of Secretaries, Commissioners and Directors of Agriculture being held at Her shey. One of the guests, Clyde Spry, of lowa, said that his grandfather was from Lancaster County and that this was his first visit here'. He remarked on the soil conserva tion practices in effect and on the good stands of small grains New Jersey’s representative, Phillip Alampi. called the two Garden Spot farms “wonderful operations.” A forenoon discussion on mar keting, disease control and agri cultural financing proceeded the tour Dr H A. Milo of the state Bu reau of Animal Industry spoke be fore the group on the tuberculosis and brucellosis eradication pro grams m the state. Another Pennsylvania official, Dr. Thomas A. Guyton of the Bu reau of Plant Industry spoke on the gypsy moth spray program being undertaken with the fed eral government. Another speaker was Dr. Al fred ’ Van Wagenen, managing director of the Northeast Poultry Producers Council, who spoke on integration, inspection of poultry, and the farm credit problem. He came out in favor of a poul try inspection bill now pending in Congress. The bill would pro vide fines and jail sentences for veloped. It /costs about $3,500 to regulations. The officials were practically unanimous in agreeing that bet ter quality control measures are needed in the poultry industry. Joseph N. Gill of Connecticut is an 'outspoken opponent of in tegrated poultry production. He said, “We are still fighting integration in Connecticut. We are now producing broilers at a cost of 15 cents for chicks, feed, litter and brooding.” Gill painted a dark picture for the future of tobacco. “We are through as a binder to bacco state The homogenized leaf has killed our market. Now most, of our growers believe-that it is just a matter of time until a synthetic wrapper leaf is de veloped. It costs bout 8,500 to produce an acre of wrapper and we have to get about $4 to $l2 a pound .when we sell it. Binders cost about $BOO to $1,200 an acre to produce.” Along with quality control and disease control, marketing was discussed by the conferees Rep resentatives of the various stales explained how their agricultural promotional programs were op erated. Most of them work simi larly to the USDA “plentiful foods lists” activities. At the Kreider farm, the visi tors were told that 360 acre farm Lancaster Farming, Friday, May 24, 1957—13 1 ■ supports a 46 head milk cow herd, 2,500 layers and 14,000 broilers. In addition, potatoes and small grains are grown The farm is operated as a part nership by Kreider and his sons Richard and Noah, Junior. The Wisslers are steer feeders, primarily This year they have 78 acres of potatoes planted in addi tion to tobacco and hay crops The Wissler farm is also a fa ther-son partnership with Reed, Wissler, Brownstown, as the jun ior partner. - SEE US FOR . . . 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