IsTn oTW OPER HERD MANAGEMENT was the theme of the panel of local dairymen mod by Joe Taylor, Extension Dairy Specialist from the Pennsylvania State University, g) at me Lancaster Dairy Day on Tuesday. Seated left to right are the panel ■s who all had a better than 500 pound average of butterfat from their herds last itus M Hurst, Lititz R 2; David H. Breckbill, Lancaster R 7; J. Mowery Frey, Lan n, and Parke Ranck, Ronks Rl Consensus of the group was that udder troubles ii )v always be traced to some form of udder injury —LF Photo p Hold Road Banks ) Directors are Asked mbeis of the soil conservation district were asked meeting Monday night to remind farmers that ! out to the edge of the highway right of way is one ay to fill gutters with topsoil off the farms. Del/, Assistant Co. tendent of Highways ;tnct directors, meet the county court hou t one of the largest time expenses in lamtenance is clear tters ot soil washed fields along the roads, the principle causes problem, he said, is light out to the loads asked also that farm ir m mind the right of roads as well as lines when planting tn many cases Detz ees glow up to over roads or interfere ie lines 18 was set by direc the date of the York ei aica FFA soil contest The event ed to begin at 2:00 all bo heid on the j Amos Funk, Millers will bo judged at shes on the farm embers of the county -onsorvalion Service os official judges. And Pony ) Elects W Groff, Denver was Piesident of the ‘ n “ Saddles, 4-H light j P° n v club at the Galen Sweigart. > recently r ofßceis elected al nt were vice " w °odrow Site of tie “Notary, Carol r’ p anh cim R 4, and ’ FI Ruhl, Man- Manh ClCl& aie Harold S n and Paul is lui u k ' ac,ci : s nre El - S\w r ’ Denver, 11 Knl ii Denver ; »’AfevTw® will be •droiv the home fiirn ,r d Steven Site 10 »age 13) In other business the dir ectors accepted applications for free conservation plans on 40 farms and 3,333 acres in the county. Most of the applications came as a re sult of the five watershed meetings held m various parts of the county since the first of the year. Approval of the new plans makes a total of 1903 co operators signed up with the district. Seventy-six farms have new plans this year to date exceeding last year’s total to this date by five farms. New cooperators, address (Turn to page 9) Witmer To Be Speaker At Homemakers Day Richard Witmer, Lancaster County Commissioner, will be one of the featured sp eakers at the annual County Homemaker’s day, April 21. Witmer, along with Wil liam F. Hoke, trust officer of a local bank, and William M Musser, Jr., Atorney at Law, and m cooperation wiit h the Lancaster Bar Assn., will present, “The How and Why of a Will” at the 10:00 am. meeting in the Moose Hall, 220 East King Street, Lancaster. Reservations for the event must be made no later than Monday, April 18, accord ing to Mrs Norma DeLellis, Associate Home Economist Mrs. DeLellis suggests that interested persons call the county agent’s office to ma ke reservations. Miss Elinor Harsh from the Lancaster Free Library will provide an exhibit on “Read ing for the Homemaker.” Care of house plants will be discussed by Mrs. Lynn B. Smith, extension floricul turist from the Pennsylvania State University Dr. James Becker, head of the Depart ment of Elementary Educa tion at Millersville State Col lege will discuss some of the work being done with retard ed children. During the noon hour the annual fashion show and en tertainment will add one of the highlights of the day. Lancaster. Pa., Saturday. April 16, 1960 NewHolland4-H Elects Officers Roy Mentzer, New Hol land R 2, was named presi dent of the New Holland community 4-H club meeting in the New Holland Bank Building Monday night. Other officers elected we re vice president, Glenn Smoker, Narvon R 2; secre tary, Lynette Burkholder, New Holland; treasurer, An thony Folker, New Holland E 2; news reporter, John Eby Jr, Gordonville Rl; song leader, Nancy Horning Ephrata R 3; game leaders, John Campbell, New Hol land and Linda Weaver of Bareville Rl. Elected as junior leader PRESENTING AWARDS FOR HIGH QUALITY MILK at the county Dairy Day on Tuesday, Max Smith, Comity Agent, said, “These awards were won at the Pennsylvania Stale Farm Show, but are uSually presented at Dairy Day.” Accepting awards for milk scoring over 92% or better are from lejft to right Robert Keene, representing Queen Dairy Co; Melvin Stoltzfus, Ronks Rl; Howard D. Wagner, Quarryville R 2 and Charles Frey, representing Turkey Hill Dairy, Conestoga R 2. Stoltzfus and Wagner received a wards in the wholesale milk division while th other two awards were m the retail divis ion of the contest. —LF Photo Home Ec Leaders Meet Is Scheduled The first of the 4-H home making club leaders’ meet ings is scheduled for Mon day, April 18, Mrs Norma DeLelhs, Associate Home Ec onomist announced this week The meeting is scheduled for 7.30 pm in the Farm Bureau Auditorium, Diller ville Road, Lancaster. Project materials will be distributed. The new 4-H Camp will be discussed and also some of the changes in state-wide activities explain cd. The schedule for leader training in projects and jud ging and special round-up and district events as well as county-wide meetings will be presented and discussed. Any person interested m Dairy Day Draws 200 In Spite Of Weather Lancaster County Dairy Day 1960, proved to be a success in spite of the wea ther. Twice the weather conspired to keep dairymen away, and once it succeeded completely with the snow storm on the original date in March. This week it was the oth- Mark Witmer Is President Of Breeders Mark N. Witmer, Dalma tia, Northumberland County was elected president of the Southeastern Pennsylvania Artificial Breeding Coopera tive Tuesday night. Witmer, a Guernsey bre eder, succeeds Earl L. Groff who has held the post since the inception of the cooper ative 17 years ago. Returning to the offices they held last year were Abner Risser, Bainbridge Rl vice president and Lee M. (Turn to page 14) and representative to the co unty 4-H council was J. David Lapp, Bareville Rl. Leaders for the group are James and Mary Martin of East Earl; John Lapp, Bare ville Rl, and John Eby, Sr, Gordonville Rl. Farm Calendar April 18 7-30 p.m Eastern States Member ship meeting, Hostetlers m Mount Joy. April 18 8.30 am—Co operative Career Day. Co unty high school seniors will bo the guests of the County Council of Farm er cooperatives. Meet at the Farm Bureau Auditor nun. 7 30 pm. Home Econo mics 4-H club leaders me eting at the Farm Bureau Building. 8 00 pm. Southeastern District Baby Beef Show committee meets in the Livestock Exchange Room at the Lancaster Stock (Turn to page 16) coming a leader is urged to attend. $2 Per Year er extreme. Warm tempera tures and sunny skies taun ted the approximately 200 in attendance with spring work undone because of rain and cold But along with the com ments of the farmers who telt the pressure to be home and at work, were the com ments that this was one of the more successful meetings of its kind Extension specialists from the Pennsylvanai State Uni versity brought down to ea rth advice on many phases of the dairy business. Dairy specialist Joe Taylor listed five factors which will low er the fat percentage in milk. Not feeding cows en ough roughage, feeding heat ed grams, grinding hay, fish oils, or anything else that in creases total milk product ion will tend to lower fat percentage, he said. Temperatures high enou gh to lower total production will tend to increase fat content in the milk as well as almost any other thing that lowers total milk pro duction. Excess oils in the ration will increase butler fat content, but only tempor arily. A small amount of ex citement at milking time can be counted on to increa se fat percentage, but if the (Turn to page 8) FIVE - DAY WEATHER FORECAST Temperatures for the next live days will aver age 8 to 12 degrees above normal. Normal tempera tures for this time of year range from a low of 42 at night to a high of 63 in the afternoon. Warm con ditions will continue thru Saturday, not so warm on Sunday. Warmer again on Monday and Tuesday turn ing cooler Wednesday. Chance of showers late Saturday or Sunday and again Tuesday. Precipita tion is not expected to to tal over Vi inch. Only pre cipitation during the past week was the trace of rain on April 11.