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I CLARENCE KEENER BELIEVES IN HANDLING COWS gently if you extpect the
st xesults from them. Here are some of the high producing herd of 50 on the Manheim
! farm The cow being held by Keener is a 10 year o’d daughter of the late Lauxmont
imiral Lucifer. All the cows in the herd are home raised from cows bred artifically
with the bull maintained on the farm. The cows were contented on the lush Reed’s
nary grass pasture. L. F. PHOTO
Kurte Is Dairy Month
dl Over America
Milk is always a good buy
i food value Milk gives ex
tent leturns in high qual-
Y protein, calcium, ribo
mn and other vitamins and
merals, according to Janet
, Coblentz, foods and nutri
mi specialist with the Uni
jrsity of Delaware Exten
on Service.
So, she says—June xbeing
airy Month give milk
mal consideration in your
e»ls.
In a recent study of city
mily diets, dairy products
ok less than one-fifth of the
oney spent on food, yet
wided two-thirds of the
kium and over two-fifths
the riboflavin, phis pro
iin, vitamin A and energy
due.
There are plenty of milk
id milk products available,
id the trend toward lower
-1 fluid milk prices is anoth
reason to use more milk
i daily meals, Miss Coblentz
•laments t
'Dairy products are versa
k foods and can be used
we or m combination with
her foods
At breakfast time cook
m milk instead of
Also, milk toast or
toast adds milk to
w menu.
Por other meals, milk
“Ps and chowders are a
wilious way of combining
ilk with other foods. Fav-
Farm Calendar
we 4— all day - Rose show
the lobby of the Farm
hmldmg, Harrisburg
6 —S pm. - First meet
“g and election of officers
“ new County 4-H
at the Lancaster
Center, Roseville
Lancaster.
m 7 T~®30 a. m - Christ
tre© pruning demon-
H)<ir/ 0n an d' management
g’cussion on the farm v of
p’."- Good, Manheim R 2.
by E. P.
Extension forest-
Penn State.
noon - Dr. William
'pf'/'Ag* Secretary of the
Dept, of Ag-
will address
Kiwanis club in
m’PHi- - Harvestore
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orite main dishes include
baked macaroni and cheese,
souffie and fondues, creamed
chicken, eggs, dried beef or
fish.
Also, creamed vegetables
add a tasty touch to many
meals. And, to end up with
—many popular desserts are
made with milk—custards
and ice creams.
And don’t forget cold milk
drinks as a summertime re
freshment . . . plain milk,
chocolate milk, egg nogs,
and milk shakes with ice
cream.
I Poultry Assn.
May Scrap
Queen Contest
Lancaster County may not
have a poultry queen this
year, a spokesman for the
Lancaster County Poultry
•Association said last night.
The crowning of the queen
and the chicken cooking
contest, two of the features
of the annual chicken barbe
: cue at Lititz Springs park,
■ came in for some discussion
i at a meeting of the directors
of the association Thursday
; night.
The association had decid
; ed some time ago to discon
, tinue the annual event in fa
vor of a series of monthly
barbecues at the poultry
center where take-out chick
en only will be served.
Reasons for the change
| were time and money spent
■ in arranging for the event
. and falling off of interest in
. the cooking contest. Most of
the members felt that the an
i nual meeting had accom
, plished its original purpose
of promoting the use of
, broilers through barbecues.
A committee headed by
: Robert Thompson of Moore’s
- Hatchery has been appointed
to study the possibility of
holding the queen contest
, and coronation in conjunc
tion with the August barbe
cue at the poultry center,
| but the directors voted not
. to enter the state contest ev
, en if one is held in the couu
: ty.
The poultry cooking con
i test has been discontinued
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Lancaster. Pa., Saturday, June 4, 1960
Summertime
Is Flytime
Summertime is fly time
and these pests will soon be
hatching in large numbers
everywhere there is a suit
able place lor the female to
lay her eggs.
Chemical science has pro
vided us with some mater
ials which will go a long
way toward controlling flies,
but entomologists remind us
that santitation and destruct
ion of natural breeding plac
es is the best control method
House flies, one of the
most common of the summer
pests, may require as little
as eight to 10 days to com
plete the cycle from egg to
adult, and there may be as
many as 10 to 12 generat
ions of flies in one season.
When insecticieds are used
on dairy and beef cattle, it
is of utmost importance that
only approved materials be
used at the proper time and
at the proper rate. This is
absolutely necesary in order
4o prevent any chemical res
idues from appearing in the
milk or meat.
Even when the farmstead
is kept as clean as possible,
a fly problem sometimes de
velops. When this happens,
there are several methods
and materials which can be
used.
A “squeeze” type of
sprayer has worked well on
both dairy and beef herds
at the Pennsylvania State
University. These sprayers
are set to spray when trig
gered by an animal walking
between the nozzles. Emulsi
fied concentrates using 1%
pyrelhrins and 10% syner
gist, preferbably with a re
pellent, can be used satis
factorily with this type of
sprayer. This concentrate is
usually diluted one to 19
with water and can be used
on both dairy and beef ani
mals, PSU researchers say
Aerosols and space sprays
will usually give satisfactory
control if used in closed
rooms or stables. Aerosols
containing at least 0 5% pyre
thrins plus s*° synergist are
most satisfactory.
,Malathion gives effective
control of horn flies. Exten
sion entomologists recom
mend sprinkling three table
spoons of 5% -malathion dust
over the neck and back of
the animal and rubbing it
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Ton Of Milk Per Day
On Clarence
A ton of milk a day is a
lot of milk, but this is the
amount of milk produced
during the first 15 days of
May by the 46 head of pure
bred Holsteins on the tarm
of Clarence L. Keener, Man
heim R 3.
However, it is not the
dairy herd which has brou
ght the most recent fame to
the Keener family. The elder
daughter Barbara, a senior
at Manheim Central High
school, was selected last
month to represent Lancas
ter County Dairying as Miss
Milk Maid of 1960.
Barbara has received some
well - deserved publicity,
but there is a story behind
her success which is worth
Farm Work
Schedule
Lagging
Heavy rains over most of
.the State the early part of
last week stopped nearly all
farm work for several days
the Pennsylvania Crop Re
porting Service said in its
weekly crop and weather
roundup.
All of the State had either
adequate or surplus soil
moisture. In some areas
where soil conditions per-'
nutted, farmers put in long
hours in planting, cutting
and spraying.
The rains have been fav
orable to the strawberry
crop and most areas report
an average set. However, a
quality problem could de
velop with a sudden temper
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Three Youths
From County
To Attend Camp
Three active 4-H members
will spend ffve days next
week at a Huntington county
training camp designed to
prepare counselors, 4-H lead
ers and adult leaders for
camp programs and other
county and community rec
reation activities.
Camp Kanesatake, an Ind
ian name meaning “camp at
the top of the hill”, is locat
ed about 20 miles south of
The Pennsylvania State Uni
versity.
Attending the camp from
June 7 to 11 will be Darvin
Boyd, Ephrata R 3; Joanne
Denlinger, Horseshoe Road,
Lancaster; and Gerald Grein
er, Manheim‘R4.
These three young 4-H
leaders will participate in
group activity in archery,
handicrafts, music, inspira
tional programs, nature,
photography, recreation and
folk dancing, riflery, social
dancing, planning evening
programs, and understanding
young people.
The camp is conducted un
der the direction of the Ag
ricultural and Home Econo
omics Extension service of
The Pennsylvania State Uni
versity.
$2 Per Year
Keener Farm
telling too.
Mr. and Mrs. Clarence
Keener do not work alone
in their farming operation.
The Keener farm is a fam
ily farm in the true sense of
the y word.
During the summer mon
ths when the girls arc not
in school, they may be seen
driving a tractor across one
of the 59 acres of legume
hay on the farm. Nancy, a
ninth grade student in high
school, does her share of
tiactor driving while Bar
bara is one of the regular
tractor operators in crush
ing or raking the alfalfa
crops.
Clarence, Jr. is not a
dairyman His operation on
two farms at Manheim Rl,
includes 72 steers, 8,000 to
10,000 pullets, 15 acres of
tobacco, 57 acres of potatoes
and grain crops. The young
er Keener does not farm in
partnership with his father,
but the two men do trade
work and share one set of
tarm machinery.
In addition to the family.
Keener has a full time herds
man, Calvin Lord, and a
teen age boy, Richard Ober
holtser, who attends school
during the day and helps
with the chores morning and
evening.
The ton of milk per day
during May was no acci
dent. The 50 cows of milk
ing age are in top condition
and are managed with skill
and understanding.
Alfalfa forms the basis of
the' feeding program on the
farm. At the present time,
the milking string gets green
chopped alfalfa each evening
but the diet is as varied as
it can be made.
“Some people say they ha
ve trouble getting cows to
eat enough”, says Keener,
“But I think part of it is
because they don’t have en
ough variety.”
The herd is pastured dur
ing the day on Reed’s Can
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Governor Asks
Observance Of
Dairy Month
Following is a statement
by Governor David L. Law
rence urging observance of
June as Dairy Month in
Pennsylvania.
“Production of milk and
other high quality dairy pro
ducts has a long history in
Pennsylvania. The Common
wealth is one of the Nation’s
great milk producing stales.
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FIVE - DAY
WEATHER
FORECAST
Saturday - Wednesday
Temperatures for the
next five days will average
near the normal range of
81 degrees in the after
noon and 53 at night. A
little cooler weather is ex
pected over the weekend
and little change thereaf
ter. Showers occurring
mostly Monday and Tues
day will average around
one inch.