NO. 9 IwLY ELECTED OFFICERS OF THE COUNTY FRUIT GROWERS association ■ward to the commg year after their election at the annual meeting on Wednesday, fright they are Melvin M. Groff, vice president, Lancaster R 6; Amos Rutt, man | Shank’s Fruit Farms, president, Mil lersville; Roy Erb, secretary, 118 Kreider 1 Lancaster Not present for the picture was Daniel A Brubaker, Ephrata Rl fas elected treasurer of the group. —LF PHOTO iity Extension Association near Murray D. Lincoln ny D. Lincoln, prest os Nationwide Insur es. will be the featured K at the annual meet- Khe Extension Associa- Bbe held Feb- 11 at Krs Banquet -Hall, in Hoy. / Wt£ tlie business meet- Bsided over by Willis ||ade, president, six tfs of the executive Y D. LINCOLN BPe will •be elected Hree year term There Brief reports of the Bork by the countv B stafr fflp e reservations and aßbrchases are requir |Rb 8 and are avail- Mbugh any of the ex dissociation members B county office of the IpAY HITHER SORECAST Bay - Wednesday Bratures for the He days will aver -10 degrees below Normal tempera this week range Blow of 23 at night Bh of 38 in the af- BXlold weather ov- Heek end with a ris- H* Tuesday or Wed- Little or no pre- B except for snow the week- Extension Service, room 202 Post Office Building, Lancas ter. Members of the associa tion are, North west district, Mrs. John Nissley, Mount Joy Rl; J. Homer Graybill, Manheim. R 3; Clayton Sang-* rey, Lititz R 2; 'North east district, Mrs. Allen K. Ris ser, Bareville Rl; Willis Z. Esbenshade, 1631 Esbenshade Road; H. Raymond Stoner, 1051 Eden Road; South west district, Harry F. Houser, of Lancaster R 7; Ralph D. Brenneman, of Washington Boro, Rl; South East district, Mrs. Robert Hess, Strasburg Rl; B. Snavely Garber, Wil low Street R 2; J. Lloyd Rohrer, Lancaster R 7; South fern district, Mrs. J. Everett Kreider, Quarryville Rl; Ira L. Rutt, Peach Bottom; and Richard P. Maiile, Quarry ville R 2. Farm Calendar January 25 7:30 p.m. Southern 4-H tractor club - meets at Wenger Imple ment at Buck. January 25 Monday thru Friday, Jan. 29 Annual Extension Conference at Penn State University. January 26—7.30 p m. North east 4-H tractor .club meets at Ephrata Machine Co. Route 222 north of Lan caster. January 27 —7.30 p m., 4-H electric club meets at P P and L. building, Lancaster. January 28—12.00 noon An nual meeting of the Inter state Milk Producers Co operative in the Memorial Methodist Church, Quarry ville. January 28—7:30 pm. Lan caster Area 4-H tractor club meets at H. S. New comer’s, North Barbara St., Mount Joy. February 1-2-3 Meeting of the Pennsylvania Vegeta ble Growers at the Penn sylvania State University. February 1 7:30 p. m. Southern 4-H tractor club meets at Herr’s Implement Co., West Willow. ' February 2—7:30 p.m. North east 4-H tractor club meets at McCormick Farm Store State Street, Ephrata. Lancaster. Pa., Saturday. January 23, 1960 Quality is Key To Better Markets For Vegetables Lancaster County Vegeta ble growers are going to have to put more emphasis on growing quality vegeta bles if they hope to keep their markets, J. O. Dutt, Extension vegetable special ist, fold growers at a special meeting on Thursday. Representing the National Junior Vegetable Growers Assn , Dutt presented awards to four Lancaster county 4-H members who may show the way to older growers. Win ning first award in the state in the fresh vegetable con test with projects in sweet corn and strawberries was Keith Overgaard, Lancaster R 4. Maria Frey, Quarryville R 2 was second with sweet corn and tomato projects. J. David Lapp, Bareville Rl, finished third with his on ions, sweet corn, potatoes & strawberries. In the canning crops divis ion, Leslie Witmer, Mount Joy, won the second place state award with a record of 16 tons of tomatoes per acre. Dutt went on to tell the growers that they could do very little outside the mark eting organizations to bolster the slumping vegetable pric- Rentschler Is CO-OP Council President Wayne B Rentschler, mem bership relations director of the Lancaster County Farm Bureau Cooperative was re elected chairman of the Lan caster County Council of Farmer Cooperatives Mon day night. Also returned to office was C. P Brantley, South eastern Pennsylvania Arti ficial Breeders Cooperative, who will serve the 11 mem ber council as secretary. Chester Singley, Lancaster Production Credit was elect ed treasurer. The youth program of the council this year will in clude the sponsorship of one delegate to the American In stitute of Cooperation in August at the University of California at Berkley. Changes Noted In Spray Schedules For Orchards Changes in the spray pro gram for orchards this year are being made to give the growers better finish on the fruit rather than for better insect and disease control, county fruit growers were told by Henry Menusan, Ac ting head of entomology ex tension at PSU, -at the meet ing of the county association on Wednesday. Menusan pointed out that the spray schedule has been giving good control in the past and will probably con tinue to do so, but some of the newer sprays and the timing of these sprays will give better quality and more highly colored fruit. es But he pointed out that Lancaster Coutny can hold its market against outside competition by employing good management practices in all phases of~production. to Amos Funk, president of both the county Ranck Holsteins Tops In Red Rose D. H. I. A. Parke H. Ranck, Ronks Rl dairyman managed his herd of 24 registered Hol steins to the top award in the Red Rose Dairy Herd Improvement Association for 1959. Only one pound of butter fat average separated the Ranck herd from the Pure bred Guernsey herd of Ray mond and Louise Witmer, of Willow Street Rl, the pre vious year’s winner. The Ranck herd led the 288 mem ber herds on test with an average 14,476 pounds of milk and 559 pounds of fat. Witmer’s herd made an av erage of 10,912 pounds of milk and 558 of fat, accord ing to DHIA records. Ranck placed third in the over all competition in 1958 and was second in the Hoi- ACCEPTING THE PLAQUE FOR highest butterfat av erage in the Red Rose Dairy Herd Improvement Associa tion on Wednesday night is Parke H. Ranck, Ronks Rl (center) and his wife. Presentation was made by president J. Rohrer Witmer at the Association banquet at Mount Joy The Ranck Herd was second in butterfat average last year —LF PHOTO $2 Per Year One of the major change in the spray program for this year is the discontinuation of the dormant spray recom mendation. Menusan sug gested instead a spray of miscible oil and either para thion or malathion applied at the green tip stage. Menusan pointed out three essentials to good control of insects on the trees. The right material is very im portant. He said that some times orchardists apply plen ty of spray at the right time but they use the wrong ma terial for the insect they want to control. The second essential is timing. Insects, especially mites and aphids, can become a problem in a very short span of time. It is necessary to do the pob at just the right time. Control will be only as effective as the job of covering the trees. Many farmers, menusan said, merely delay the action of the insects without controll ing them. Sometimes trees (Turn to page 7) and state vegetable growers associations, the vegetable research program at the Penna State University has Turn To Page 11 stein division. During the year just past he had won several monthly high herd honors. In winning first and sec ond place, Ranck and Wit mers scored the top averages in the Holstein and Guern sey breeds. The mixed herd of Ray P. Bollinger, Stevens Rl, was high with his 19 cows averaging 511 pounds of fat. Jersey breed honors were taken by Canes Point Farm, the Prentis estate, Lancaster R 6, with 481 pounds of fat. The Ayshire crown went to the herd of David Harnish, Qaurryville R 2 with a fat average of 382 pounds, while the Brown Swiss herd of John M Beiler, Gap R 2, wi(h a 364 pound fat average v T . s (Turn to page 9)
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