5 NO. 44
TOBACCO ON THE E. R- BOMBERGER farm at Manheim R 1 goes through a chop
smuar m design and operation to,a forage chopper. Bomberger cuts the tobacco with
owing machine and, after letting it yellow for a week over forced ventilation, runs
’entire stalk through the chopper. The chopped leaves are blown into an overhead bin
the blower on the left. The short pieces of stalk are elevated into the manure spread
in tlie far right. In -the background are the two workers needed to cut, haul in and
«ss a half acre per day with the equipment shown. Bruising does not damage the
■cco after it has reached the yellow stage, Bomberger reports. —LF PHOTO
5w Yearbook Of Agriculture
aces Machinery Development
How the mechanical revolution on the farm has
u 6ht a better -life to Americans in a few short years is
abed m POWER TO PRODUCE, 1960 Yearbook of Ag
dture just published by the U S. Department of Agri
tec
OWER TO PRODUCE in
“n’s language tells of
Carnatic change from
*drawn operations to the
rels of pushbutton auto
l{® The Yearbook, which
96 pages of photo
'K is designed for every
mttresied in the tremen
-1 benefits and problems
‘ tar >n technology has
|Sfrt tins country.
°WER TO PRODUCE is
ttu Calendar
j;26—7 30 pm. - County
’A meeting at Penn-Man
_High School.
p Pm. - Elm-Penryn 4-
coirununity club meets
“the I'enryn fire hall.
2?-~8 00 pm - Exten
l° a Service Executive
®arniu'ce meets at the
Credit Building, 411
JJ* Vl he Road, Lancaster.
““Pm - Manor 4-H Com
club meets in
Jean’s church, Millers
,2B—Lampeter and New
fairs open. Judg
* during the day. Parade
Holland at 7 p.m.
Sr Concert at Lampeter.
I, bn. - Swine judging
Pamp-eter fair, followed
show.
j.. 2 ®—10.00 a.m. annual
* judging contest at
.lp .page 7)~-
the latest in the modem ser
ies of comprehensive year
books published by USDA
since 1936.
The Yearbook was written
by 90 engineers and techni-
Ephrata Beef
Rosette Won
By Rhoda Mast
■Rhoda Mast, Elverson R 2,
who just last month showed
an angus steer to the grand
championship of the Garden
Spot baby beef show at Lan
caster turned the trick again
Thursday night at Ephrata.
The pretty, 18- year old
daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
• Jacob K. Mast, has been in
4-H club work for seven
years.
Judge Lester Burdette,
livestock extension specialist
from the -Pennsylvania State
University, went to another
■ angus for the reserve champ
ionship spot. David Zimmer
- man, Remholds, carried away
, the second rosette by shading
. the entry of Joyce Nolt, also
of Heinholds..
Joyce came back later to
; carry away a championship
I placing when she was named
top showman of the exhibi
l tion.
; Janice Showalter, Ephrata,
" _ (Turn to page 7)
Lancaster. Pa., Saturday, September 24, 1960
County Boy Is
First Entrant
In Stock Show
Larry E. Brubaker, of Mt.
Joy became the first entrant
m the Junior Show at the
fourteenth annual Eastern
National Livestock Show to
be held at the Maryland
Slate Fair Grounds Novem
ber 12-17. '
Larry entered a Hereford
steer for judging in the 4-H
Club and Future Farmers of
LARRY E. BRUBAKER
America classes at the reg
ional livestock show. It will
be Larry’s first showing at
the Eastern National, althou
gh his brother, Luke, was
one of the exhibitors last
year.
Other “early-bird” entries
include two Angas steers
from the Quarryville R. D. 2
farm of Fred Frey, thirteen
(Turn to page 12)
New Process Cuts Labor
Df Harvesting Tobacco
Can you handle an acre of tobacco from field to bale
with only four days of labor? You can if you use the Solar
anza process, E. R. Bomberger of Sahinga says.
Bomberger says with hi:
experimental process two
men can easily cut and pre
pare for the bale a half acre
of tobacco in one day.
Before the process can be
come established in the coun
ty, many an old timer will
have to revise all his think
ng about the way tobacco
should be handled from the
field through the sheds and
into the bale.
While his neighbors at
Manheim R 1 were cutting
their tobacco a stalk at a
time, spearing it on laths,
hauling it to the-bam on lad
ders and hanging it in the
shed to wait for the stripping
season, Bomberger was cut
ting his tobacco crop with a
mowing machine, loading it
on flat wagons and hauling it
Sec. Henning Calls For
Ag. Marketing Changes
Legislation which will al
low farmers to set up mark
eting advisory boards with
the power to increase the
orderliness of products is one
ot the most pressing needs of
agriculture today, Dr. Wil
liam L. Henning, Pennsylvan
ia Secretary of Agriculture
told members of the county
Agriculture Council Thurs
day night.
Speaking to the approxi
mately 50 farmers and rural
leaders in the auditorium of
the Farm Bureau, the Secre
tary said, “We all hear stor
ies of rich fanners, and in
this county particularly, can
point out well-to-do farmers
and farm families. But these
cold, hard statistics tell the
story that not all—certainly
not a majority—of our farm
ers are even close to- being
well-to-do.”
Secretary Henning listed
low income, increasing costs
County Riders
To Compete
In District Show
Thirteen youthful horse
men from the county’s two
4-H riding clubs will exhi
bit their skill at the District
horse show October 1, at
Ludwig Corner, Chester Co
unty.
The district show is the
elimination contest for the
state competition held in
conjunction with the Live
stock Exposition at the Farm
Show Building in Harris
burg in November.
Two riders in each class
in the five county event will
win the honor of competing
in the state show.
Lancaster County riders
winning one of the first three
class placings in the county
roundup last month to pur
chase a berth on the district
team are as follows:
Break and out class: Bar
bara Shoemaker, Quarryvil
le R 2; Michael Shoemaker,
(Turn to page 16)
$2 Per Year
is
to the shed to be put through
. the Solaranza process.
Bomberger, who admits
that the process is still in
. the experimental stage, has
, harvested over four acres
'this year and will have six
’ acres in the bin when he is
finished.
To begin the process, the
tobacco is cut and wilted in
the field to take some of the
; moisture out of it. It is im
: portant to get as much mois
. ture out of the crop m the
field as you can, Bomberger
says, but if the weather is
not good for wilting the to
bacco, it can be hauled into
the shed as soon as it is cut
since it does not have to be
speared. If the wilting is not
; (Turn to page 10)
of fanning, and depletion oi
natural resources as the maj
or problems facing Pennsyl
vania farmers today.
He pointed out that the
average realized net income
per farm in Pennsylvania last
year was only $1,882, and
added, “This income includes
the yalue of products produc
ed on the farm, the rental of
buildings and inventory . . .
and income from ofl-farm
jobs..
Interest rates for both long
and short term credit are
prohibitive, the Secretary
said and continued, “Poultry
farmers, I understand, are
hard pressed to find loans' at
any rate of interest.”
Dr. Henning pointed out
that Lancaster county farm
ers are more fortunate than
some in the state since milk,
one of the major income pro
ducing enterprises in the
county, has continued to sell
at favorable prices, and To
bacco prices have been on
the rise for the past few
years.
Henning said he intends to
push for the formation of
marketing advisory commit
tees with the authority to rep
(Turn to page 13)
FIVE - DAY
WEATHER
FORECAST
Saturday - Wednesday
Temperatures for the
next five days will average
2 to 4 degrees above th®
normal range of 54 at nite
to 74 in the afternoon.
Mild temperatures are ex
pected through Monday
with cooler air coming in
about Tuesday or Wednes
day. Showers about Mon
day should average less
than one tenth of an inch.
Hainfall for September in
the county has already
broken all existing records.
A total of 8:10 inches was
recorded in downtown Lan
caster with reports of hea
vier amounts in other coun
ty areas.