I, warmer Monday, fcain Tuesday or Jay. Precipitation prage Vs inch or String mostly about I Precipitation dut- Ipast week was .35 ptly on the night 87-28th. t precipitation for |th was 2,23 inches pred to the normal P*ry of 3:16 inches. Bvfall in January If Friday morning pches as compared fcormal of 7 to 8 av ■Jkove normal for Farm Calendar 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 pm. North east 4-H tractor club meets at McCormick Farm Store State Street, Ephrata. February 1, 7:30 p.m. An nual meeting of Poultry Association, at the Lancas ter Poultry Center, Rose ville Road, Lancaster. February 5, Baby Beef banquet at Armstrong Cork Company. February 1 7.30 pm. An nual meeting of the Lan caster County Poultry As sociation at the Poultry Center, Roseville Rd., Lan caster. 730 p.m. Meeting of the Lancaster County 4-H council in room 202 Post Office Bldg., Lancaster. February 3 —4.30 p.m. Meet ing of the County Teachers of Vocational Agriculture at Solanco H. S. February" 4 7:30 pm. Lan caster Area 4-H tractor club meets at Kauffman Brothers, Main Street, Mountville. February 12 Second ses sion of the Farm & Home planning ' meeting, at the North Queen branch of the Lancaster Co. Nation al Bank, Lancaster. February 26—Third session of the Farm & Home plan ning meeting at the North Queen Street branch of the Lancaster County Na tional Bank, Lancaster. 7.30 p.m. Educational meeting and - 4-H laying flock management round up at the Poutlry Center, Roseville Road. Lancaster, Pa.. Saturday. January 30, 1960 Poultrymen Schedule Meetings Election of new directors and a resume of the past year’s activities will be the two major items of business at the annual meeting of the Lancaster County Poultry Association scheduled for Monday night February Ist at the Poultry Center, 340 Roseville Road, Lancaster. Speaker for the event, scheduled to begin at 7:30 p m., will be Robert F. Wil liams, district sales manager for the Lancaster Newspa pers. A series of six meetings with county poultrymen to try to develop ways to pro mote the poultry industry are being planned by the county association. -*■ Several of the regional meetings have been schedul ed and others are to follow in the New Holland, Denver, Quarryville, Lancaster, Eli zabethtown, and Penryn areas. The meeting in the Quarryville area is planned for the night of February 9 in the Vocational Agricul ture building at Quarryville. Another will be held on Feb 15 at 7.45 in the Penryn fire hall The central committee from the poultry association is composed of Levi Brubaker, Mark Myer, Daniel K. Good, and Harry S. Sloat. USE A BROOM When heavy snow falls on your ornamental evergreens and other shrubs, use a broom to remove it, suggests A. O. Rasmussen, Penn State extension ornamental horti culturist? Surplus Milk Is Problem Interstate Members Told “Class one utilization will be less in the coming year than in the past year, and farmers will have to assume some of the blame for the surplus milk situation”, dairymen were told by Dr Tames Honan, asst. mgr. of the Interstate Milk Produc ers Cooperative at the an nual meeting of district 11 at Quarryville on Thursday. Speaking to the nearly 300 dairymen and their families, Honan cited an example of a cooperative group in Mary land producing slightly over a million pounds of milk on 106 farms After the farmers installed bulk tanks, 68 of the producers produced over a million pounds of milk. Honan said that temptation is great to enlarge herds to help pay the costs of install ing bulk handling equipment but he cautioned, “We must be careful not to produce more milk than the total County Boy Reports Agriculture In Peru The following is a report received from Mrs. Elvin Hess, Slrasburg HI. James, youngest son of Mr. and Mrs. Elvin Hess is at present in Peru as one of the two delegates to that country in the International Farm Youth Ex change program. The following report was forwarded from Peru. (Editor's note) After spending a week for instructions on Peru in Wash ington* D. C. we left for Peru by plane on October 15. We had a nice trip stop ping in Honduros and Equa dor before arriving in Peru. I spent the first week with the SCIPA (the same as our county agent) at Lima. The agent and his assistants were Americans working for the American Foreign Service folks. Lima is quite a city with a population of one million people. On one side of the street corner is a man sion and on the other is a hut. The church 1 attended was nondenorainational for the Americans. I then left for nay _ first vis it to an Indian family who lived 14,0000 feet high in the Sierra mountains. They planted potatoes which was all done with oxen and wood en plows plus about twelve servants. The chief took me to an old fashioned Indian Roast one day. The roasting was all done in a hole dug in the ground and heated stones, good. In this town the only The potatoes were especially two cars were owned by a very wealthy man and the doctor who lives right out side of town. Traveling down where it was a little warmer, my next stop was Huaraca, a small town but in this country a large one. One day we traveled up into the moun tains by horseback to spray their potatoes. They use hand sprayers that strap onto your back. The agent and I only directed the operation. The next town had no el ectricity although the people were very friendly. They had a big welcome for me with a big arch of flowers and pro duce. From November 12 to No- $2 Per Year market can use.” Honan said, “We in man agement can do nothing un less we are directed by the membership of the coopera tive.” Interstate has gone on record as opposing any rela ting of Philadelphia mills prices to the prices in the Midwest. The Cooperative recogniz ed four dairy club members for their outstanding work during the past year. Receiv ing show halters were Don ald and Paul Trimble, Quar ry ville Rl; Lucille Kreider, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ev erett Kreider, or Quarryville Rl; and Carol Ann Krantz, daughter of Mr and Mrs. Elvin Krantz, New Provi dence Rl. Arrangements were i n charge of Golden Davis, Ox ford, fieldman for Interstate. Chairman was Daniel Trim ble, Quarryville Rl. JAMES HESS vetnber 30, I attended a con ference for Latin'American 4-H clubs which was very interesting. I also spent sev eral days with an American family which was very en joyable because it was little more like home. On December 14 I went back to the country again to a large dairy farm near Cajamorico. They have 250 milking cows and about 350 heifers. The farm is 1500 acres and is all m grass. The pasture is rotated every couple of 'days and used all year around. The only barns are square milking sheds. They tie about 100 cows at one time and women do all the milking. I will be spending one month from January 17 to February 17 in the sugar cane and cotton country. These crops can only be grown by irrigation. My stay is only half over I will arrive home sometime in April.