r Is Member g Reporters Owen, editor of Lan Farming, and three Lancaster Count ians >en admitted as char ters of the newly led Pennsylvania Ag ial Reporters Assoua 0 four men were am- Pennsylvanians to be ci this honor in the j e organization Mem is limited to profes agncultaral writers, sters and telecasters Commonwealth. Idition to Owen, tho utted to membership Jack Keyser, farm Lancaster Intelhgen uinal; Homer K Lut assistant manager of ising and public re- New Holland Mach mpany, and L E Pet jitor, Grassland News, Holland ,pt Bail Bond Service" BUHRMAN'S VENIENT PARKING LOTS osile Brunswick Hotel osite Post Office • to Western Auto Store i East King Street ormon A. Buhrman, 128 N. Duke St. ipt Beil Bond Service" d a ROUGHAGE Extender ed iacon e-Co-Lass r ay is P° ol ' or just average in quality, or when f jf. 1 ® short supply, cows need the nutrient balance > Beacon Be-Co-Lass. Feeding four pounds of ss daily will bring cows as close to lush pasture as e lll barn feeding period. !ed aS \ 18 in energy - provides, through its ' a a^a^a an( -i molasses content, unidentified ‘ ee by rumen bacteria. It carries 2,000 I.U. of J > ooo LU. of vitamin A per pound. >„. n Is laxa tive,and highly palatable. Cows relish iis 1 i UP at each feectin £- g et ° (aj ’ fo \‘ information on how Be-Co-Lass can m^ e m |J Ga ge out of your roughage, help your Beacon Milling Company -j A Division of Spencer Kellogg & Sons, Inc. j 'LADELphia & CARLISLE STS., YORK, PA. ' Telephone: York 8-2341 AGON • 4-H Week (From Page 1) tion as weT as Interesting, worthwhile work. Charact er development and good ci tizenship are their most sig nificant goals Of the members in the co unty, were enrolled in 46 Home Economics Clubs and 875 were enrolled in 22 Agriculture clubs. A total of 182 local club leaders vol unteered their services to the young people. By far the largest agri culture club in the county was dairying with a member ship of 143 enrolled In sec ond place was the baby be ef club with a membership of 115. The swine club’s 79 enrollees were in fourth pl ace following the 82 mem bers of the flower club, but 69 of the swine clubbers completed their projects wh ile only 44 of those in the flower club finished Poul try club numbers were next in line with 75 entrants. Oth er clubs ranged from that number down to three each in the potato and soil and water conservation clubs. In the Home Economics division, clothing and food projects were by far the mo st popular. Clothing clubs had a total of 538 members locally while 225 members enrolled in food clubs. The other 100 members are en i oiled in all the other home economics clubs Nationally, 4-H Club We ek will be highlighted in For Your Cows ? Washington, D. C., by six previously selected members who will present the annual 4-H “Report to the Nation” The report will summarize in story and pictures out standing 4-H accomplishmen ts and current projects. The three girls and three boys, while in the Nations Capi tal, expect to review the re port with President Eisen hower at the White House. They also p’an to visit Sec retary of Agriculture Ezra Taft Benson, C M Fergu son, administrator of the F ederal Extension Service?, and various Senators and members of Congress on Capitol Hill. 4-H’ers everywhere will share honors with the 296,- 000 adult volunteer leaders who guide 4-H work in local communities throughout the 50 States and Puerto Rico. The main purposes of 4-H Club Week are. To acquaint more young people with op portunities available to them through loining or forming 4-H clubs, to assist new Under the wheat market members in starting projec- mg quota program, any ts in farming, homemakmg, grower who produces more community service, and oth- than 15 acres of wheat is er activities; and to inform - subject to a penalty on any the public about 4-H aims “excess” wheat harvested and methods. Tne penalty must be paid 4-H Club Work locally is before the wheat is eligible under the direction of the for marketing CV” ■' . . . FAMOUS FOR PRODUCING EGGS WITH HIGH INTERIOR QUALITY AND SOUND WHITE SHELLS. H & N Research has iak en the best of nature and blended this with proved experiments to RUTH produce a superior laying hen for your farm. Try new H&N Mark II Leghorns, with famous H&N Quality Breeding plus larger eggs. H&N Re search assures you of the finest layers available . . . . today, tomorrow and in the profitable future. Write or phone for more information and new re duced prices. FLORIN FARMS, Inc, FOR MORE PROFITS, PLANT smsm's etmesr warns CONSISTENTLY GOOD, YEAR AFTER YEAR SEE YOUR HOFFMAN SALESMAN OR Phone LandisviUe TW 8-3421 A. H. HOFFMAN SEEDS, Inc, Lancaster Farming, Saturday, March 5, 1960—5 Lancaster County Agricultu ral Extension Service in Co operation with the Pennsyl vania State University and the United States Depart ment of Agriculture. County Farmers Advised To Get Wheat Quotas Any farmer who has seed ed wheat for harvest as gram next summer but who does not have a wheat allotment or a feed wheat exemption should notify the county Ag- ricultural Stabilization and Conservation office of his es timated acreage, Landis G. Becker of the Lancaster Co office said recently In this way, county records can be established and steps can be taken to make such a farmer eligible for a wheat market ing card if he decides to sell any of his gram MOUNT JOY, R. D. 1 Telephone OLdfield 3-9801 Farm Calendar (From Page 1) nity club, Odd Fellows’ Hall, Kirkwood 730 - E.izabethtown, Don egal 4-II club meeting in Washington Schoo 1 , Florin. 7.30 p m Sokmco Young Farmers Assn, meeting on Farm Management at Sol anco High School, Quarry ville March 9 10.30 a m to 3.- 30 pm - Southeastern Dairy Show -committee meeting at Southeastern Penna Artificial Breeders, Landisville 7 - 30 pm 4 H Guernsey club meeting at Southeast ern Artificial Breeders March 9—8.00 p. m. Milk marketing school at Farm Bureau, Dillersville Rd March 9-10—Ninth annual potato growers institute & meeting of Penna. Potato Growers Cooperative, Po tato City, Penna March 10—8 00 p.m Lampe tr-Strasburg Young Farm er meeting, Lampeter-Stras burg High School ' Discus sion of livestock feed pel leting March 10—8 00 p m Final milk marketing school at Production Credit building Roseville road 730 pm - Lititz - Mr»j heim 4-H community club at the Fairland school, Fruitvil'o 800 p m County Agent's sheep meeting at Product ion Credit building, Rose ville Road March 11 —9 30 am to noon - Custom sprayers, fieldman, insecticide deal ers, meeting at Art’s Res taurant, Manheim March 14—7 30 pm - Ayr shire - Jersey 4-H club re organization meeting at Southeastern Artif Breed ers, Landisville March 14-16—Agricultural Extension Soil Consera tion Service meeting at Penn State University March 17 730 . County 4-H Tractor c’ub tour of Caterpillar Tractor Com pany plant in York March 23 730 p m - EJ octric club roundup, PP&L bui’ding on the squaie in Lancaster March 24 6 30 p m - Lan caster County Swine Pro ducer’s Annual Meeting & banquet, Blue Bali firehaii Farmers Assn. •s''’ To Tour D.C, A delegation of five farm people ft om Lancaster Co unty will bo in the Nation’s Capitol this month to meet with Congressman Paul B Dague Under the sponsorship of The Pennsylvania Farmers' Association, the local group wiP iom with the delegat ions from 40 other County Farmers Associations in the State Congressman Dague will be the guest of the local delegation at a dinner meet ing m the Washington Ho tel on the evening of March 7 In announcing the Wash ington t"ip, County Farmers’ Association President, J. Rov Grcider said that the top hrr> a double barreled pur pose 1 “It gives farmers a ch ance to see how politics are pla\ ad, and it shows us how politics affects our net in come 2 ‘lt provides the Con fessmen an opportunity to gain first-hand information os to how farmers feel ab out severa l icgis’ativc is- sues ’’ Tho c o chosen to rnersent the Lancaster Countv Farm cis' Association at the Wash inglon meeting arc Arum- Rcist. 1050 Eden Road, Lancaster; Herman Shirk R D 2. Quarryville, II Ra\ mond Stoner, * 1051 Eden Road. Lancaster, and Mr and Mrs. J Roy Greider of Mount Joy R D 1
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