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
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and state vegetable growers
associations, the vegetable
research program at the
Penna State University has
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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
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