NO. 11 fflfelNG WITH THEIR NEWLY-ACQUIRED GILTS ARE THE EIGHT BOYS select ffls the charter members of the FFA swine ring at The Garden Spot High School at Hklland Behind the boys are the donors of the gilts Standing left to right HA. B C Groff, owner of Grofi’s John Deere Agency of New Holland, donor of Hipshire gilts; Mr. Earl Sander, owner of Sander’s Feed Mill of New Holland, onp Yorkshire gilt and one Land race gilt; Raymond H Weaver, owner of Ha Farm of New,Holland RI, who donated two Landrace gilts; and Robert D. of the FFA representing the Sears Foundation which donated two York- Hts. In the front row, left to right, holding their chain gilts are Barry Nolt, of Hfoand RD; David Zimmerman, East Earl Rl; William Rhimer, New Holland R 2, East Earl Rl; Carl Gehman, Mohnton R 2; Leon Graybill, Mohnton R 2, Heaver, New Holland Rl; and Glenn Eberly, New Holland Rl. me Dealers m Hoober ■3rd Term Hoober, 621 N. Hltreet, was elected of the Lancaster H Exchange for his term Tues- to the office H for a similar num- was William S. two men were to the posts in M. Dunlap, who treasurer is the Hpce holder in terms 9|rn to page 9) Elected By egetable ers Assn. H. Funk, vegetable rom Millersville Rl, rned to the post of t for his third con term by the Penna. ; Growers Assn, le annual meeting Pennsylvania State y this week, link's fourth term snt of the state asso irn to page 9) Plant Food of Meeting S. Francis, Terre diana, will be the t the meeting of ien Spot Natural Soil Association on ivening, Feb. 8, at ic Poultry Center, Road. , vice president of lal Natural Food n, will speak on of Natural Farm :ordmg to John W. »unt Joy R 2, presi de Lancaster county i. organization was > promote farming ttle use of chemical and sprays as pos 1. a dependence on ant foods. in Calendar i Page 5 FIVE - DAY WEATHER FORECAST Saturday - Wednesday Temperatures for the next five days will average four to eight degrees above normal. Normal tempera tures for this time of year Range from a low of 24 at night to a high of 33 in the afternoon. Mild weather is expected today with somewhat colder Sunday or Monday and somewhat warmer again Tuesday or Wednesday. Precipitation over the weekend will be mostly rain. There was no precipitation in the county up to Friday morning this week. Officers And Directors Named By Poultrymen Mark Myer, Lampeter, was elected president of the Lancaster County Poultry Assn Thursday night. He replaces Jay Greider, Mount Joy Rl, who served two terms as head of the or ganization. Other officers elected wore C. Eugene Cassel, Manheim Rl vice president; Charles Warfel 11, Conestoga Rl. (Turn to page 9) First Of Area Poultry Meetings Are Scheduled The first of the senes of public meetings scheduled by county poultrymen will be held Tuesday evening, February 9, at the Agricul ture building of the Solanco High School, Quarryville. An educational film will be shown at 7:30 with an open discussion of the prob lems facing poultrymen be ginning at 8 p.m. The committee for the southern part of the county is J. Zeigler Hess, chairman, Quarryville R 3; Paul Rowe, Strasburg; and Harry Hoss ler, Holtwood Rl. Lancaster. Pa., Saturday. February 6. 1960 Swine Show And Sales Scheduled The Lancaster County Swine Producers Assn, have announced the date of their senu annual Gilt Sale as February 20 at Martin’s sale barn, Blue Ball. This sale is limited to 40 gilts and 10 boars. The association’s Market hog show and sale will be held on March 1 at the Lan caster Union Stock Yards. There will be classes for single barrows, pens of three, and truckload lots in the following breeds: Berkshire, Chester White, Duroc-Jersey, Hampshire, Landrace, Po land China, Spotted Poland China and Yorkshire. All entries must be sired by a purebred sire, and all crossbred hogs will show ac cording to the breed of their sire Sale of all hogs in the show will be held during the afternoon. Full details of the show or sale are available from show manager, Earl Fisher, East Earl HI, or Kenneth Skiles, Narvon Rl, secretary-treasur er of the Swine Assn. County Agents Elect Max Smith State Director Max M. Smith, Lancaster County Agriculture Exten sion Agent was one of the four directors elected by the Pennsylvania County Agents’ Assn at the recent confer ence of the group at Penna. State University. Officers elected at the meeting arc president, J S. Thurston, Greensburg; vice president, J Stanley Hum mer, Bloomsburg; secretary treasurer, C. I. Robertson, Pottsville. Other directors are John Shearer, Blooms burg; H. C. Terndrup, Ebcns burg, and Lee Kummer, of Meadville. Also attending the confer ence from Lancaster County were Associate County Ag ents, Harry S. Sloat and Vic tor Plasto, Assistant County Agent, Winthrop Merriam, and County Home Economics Agent, Mrs. Norma DeLcllis. Swine Ring Is Started By New Holland F.F.A. Eight students of Vocation al Agriculture at the Garden Spot High School are the new owners of purebred gilts as the result of a pro gram sponsored by four in terested businesses and de signed to help the boys be come established in the swine business. The boys, all outstanding members in the newly-organ ized chapter of Future Farm ers at the New Holland school,' won the gilts by writing essays on the sub ject “How I Would Raise a Gilt”. The eight registered Hamp shire, Yorkshire, and Lan drace gilts were selected from some of the most outstanding herds in Lancaster Co. The boys agree to raise the gilts using the approved practices and to have the gilts bred to purebred boars of the same breed When the gilt farrows her first the boy will give one of the sow pigs out of the litter back to the FFA E'town Dairyman Raw-Bulk Milk License How many farmers in Lancaster County are selling raw milk legally? Perhaps there are quite a few who think they are, but Melvin Sager, Elizabethtown R 3, is one who knows he is selling raw milk legally. Melvin has a license issued by the Pennsylvania State Department of Agricul ture. According to Sager, there are only two other dairymen in the county who belong to the Raw Milk Association, but there may be others with the license to sell milk that has not been pasteurized. Sager got his license June 2, 1959 after almost three years of inspections, hear ings, and more inspections. “Almost good enough won’t do.” Sager says, “The regula aions are very strict, and they have to be followed to RAW MILK IN GALLON JUGS is the stock in trade of Mr. and Mrs. Melvin Sager, Elizabethtown R 3. Customers come to the milk house with their own jugs and carry the milk away for their own use. The license, issued by the Department of Agriculture entitles the Sagers to sell two gallons of raw milk to each customer, Mrs. Sager does most of the bottling of the milk. —LF PHOTO $2 Per Year chapter The chapter gives the sow pig to another boy in the chapter under the same set of conditions Alter the boy has fulfilled the obliga tion to return one gilt from the first litter he is free to do as he likes with the original gilt and all the rest of her ollspring. Selecting life boys to re ceive the gilts was a com mittee -composed of Earl Fisher, manager of Stauffer Homestead Farms, East Earl Rl; Raymond Weaver, own er of Conestoga Farm, New Holland Rl; Earl Sander, owner of Sander’s Feed Mill, New Holland; and Robert Herr, teacher of Vocational Agriculture at The Garden Spot High School, and advis or of the local chapter of F - F. A. Donors of the gilts were ABC. Groff, New Holland; Earl Sauder, New Holland; Raymond H Weaver, New Holland Rl, The Sears Foun dation. Has the letter. I spent over $lBOO and almost three years get ting that license and it does not cost one cent.” The license stipulates that the milk anust be sold on the premises where it is produc ed and it must be placed in the customer’s container. Sager said, “I can’t fill a jug with milk and then sell it to you, and I can’t even carry it out and put it in your car. Two gallons to a (Turn to page 12)
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