Hi - r ■ 5. NO. 50 tuK -t ProKERo wtRE OjM ihE MOVE ail across the Garden Spot this week as re of the yellow gram went into the crib Harold M Hollinger, Lititz R 3, who picks reen 250 and 300 acres per year with the rig pictured says he can not make top speed lost fie ds this year because much of the corn is down. In good conditions, long rows with no wait for wagons, Hollinger says he can average IVz acres per hour with the low mounted picker Hollinger has a general farm at Lititz R 3 which he operates id tion to his custom work m combining and corn picking. —L. F. Photo ure Farmers Praised Leadership Meeting Nearly 200 blue-jacketed fare Farmers of America id their teachers of vocat nal agriculture were prais- I for the leadership they hibited Thursday at their nual Leadership Training inference at Penn Manor i{h School. In evaluating the confer ee, attended by the local lats As Farm Pests ire Hard To Control So much attention has been given to the control of in s on farm crops that it is easy to think of all pest con- in the terms of insecticides for growing crops. One of biggest pests on many farms does very little harm to crop until It, is stored, but it is a serious pest. Wie brown rat inhabits farms in varying num « even if the persons liv * on the farm never see a 11 or any sign of them. Bats * burrowing animals, “ugh not good diggers, and *fer hiding places conven “t to a food supply. Kats find convenient hiding Jc es common in old build and in new structures >t are not built to exclude k Outside of buildings gather in rockpiles, Spiles, piles of discarded juboi, discarded boxes or “ e r containers and similar ; arm Calendar »v 5—10:00 am- Conven tion of the County Farm Women’s Societies at .the Township High Auditorium, Neffs- Vlllc "to 12—Pennsylvania Exposition at the fa nn Show Building, Har -7—7-30—7-30 pm. - Meeting the 4-H county council !J the Farm Bureau Bldg , billorville road. '•5O pm. - Tri-County dai meeting in the Twin v »lley High School, Elver- L 0 R - 8—7:30 p.m. - Meeting (Turn to page 14) chapter officers from York and Lancaster Counties, G. Marlin Spaid, Supervising Principal of Warwick Union High School, complimented the boys on their dress, their actions and the program they and their teachers had work ed out for themselves. Spaid paid tribute to the (Turn to page 6) piles of waste materials These hiding places afford breeding areas from which rats can reach unprotected food materials stored in the nearby buildings. Thick stands of weeks or brush near buildings make ideal runways for rats to use m traveling from thel r hid ing places to their food sup (Tum to page 7) THE CULPRIT AT WORK in an unprotected comcrib can damoge a lot of feed he does not eat. A good ratproof hardware cloth on the inside of this crib would have kept this thief and his family so underfed that they might have decided to set up housekeeping elsewhere.. Lancaster, Pa., Saturday, November 5, 1960 Farmers Assn. State. Confab Is Next Week The Tenth Annual Meet ing of the Pennsylvania Farmers’ Association will be held m Reading, November 9-11. Mr. G. A. Biggs, PFA President, will open the con vention at noon on Novem ber 9 under the theme, “Shaping The Farmers Fu ture In A Changing World.” The PFA, an affiliate of the Amen can Farm Bureau Federation, will highlight the annual session by cele brating its tenth anniversary and a 10,000 farm family membership. Since its in ception, the Pennsylvania Farmers’ Association has- (Turn to page 16) Guernsey Men Plan Banquet Three new directors will be elected to serve three year terms when the Lanc aster County Guernsey Bre eders Association holds the annual banquet next week. After the banquet, schedil ed to begin at 700 p m., November 11, at Rhoades’ Spanish Tavern, Quarryville (Turn to page 16) County Corn Crop Wet, Down, Farmers Report Lancaster County farmers continued to slash their way through the bumper corn crop this week, but reports from around the county indi cate that the crop is stulhigh in moisture content. With yield estimated from all parts of the county aver aging 120 to 140 bushels per acre, many farmers are ha.d put to find storage facilities for the damp grains Reports from several mills this week show that much of the crop yet in the fields is carrying nearly 30 pe r cent water content. Safe storage range is under 27 per cent, say Penn State researchers. Corn on most county farms appears to be standing well, but custom pickers report that stalk rot and corn borer damage make the job of get- State Livestock Show Draws From 20 States County agents and teachers of vocational agriculture were advised this week by officials of the Pennsylvania Livestock Exposition that ticket requests fo r night time events at the exposition can not be honored. A rodeo announced on the premium list was cancelled after the premium list had been printed and no - other night events have been scheduled. Exposition officials have announced that 360 exhibit Darvin Boyd Is Class Proxy Darvin Boyd, son of Mr. and Mrs. E.mer Boyd, Eph rata Rl, has been elected president of his college class, it was learned this week. Boyd, long active in coun ty 4-H steer and swine club work, has recently been elec ted to serve as president of DARVIN BOYD the freshman class of 160 boys at the Delaware Valley College of Science and Agri culture, Doylestown. Specializing in a four year course in Animal Husbandry, Boyd enrolled at the school on September 20, and is in residence on the campus. As class president, Boyd will also represent his class mates on the student govern ment body of the college. $2 Per Year ting all the ears more diffi cu’t than it looks. One cus tom operator said this week, “I have to put the snouts right down on the ground and go slow, or I just don’t get it.” Another farmer in the Manheim area said he would like to leave the crop in the field for another month so that it could dry out, but many of the stalks are be ginning to develop rot near the bottom, even though the stalk is still green. Ears examined in several fields this week showed the stalk rot carrying over into the cob Unless the crops with sotl cobs are dried well or stored in well ventilated cribs, there is danger of spoiled grain. Repoits estimate that near 50 per cent of the county crop has been cribbed. ors from 20 states and the district of Columbia will ex hibit beef catt'e, hogs, and sheep at the five day show which opens in the Farm Show Buildings, Harrisburg, November 7. Pennsylvania leads the states m number of exhibit ors with 171, 47 per cent o£ the total. Ohio is second with 75. One Ohio exhibitor, back again for a second try at the 4-H club and FFA baby beef championship is Miss Dianne Rooselott, 17 year old 4-H club girl from Sardenia. She will be out to break a Live stock Exposition jinx on junior champions. None has yet won the grand champion ship of the show. Last year an Angus from the Pennsylvania State Uni versity, entered in the open stee r show carried off the (Turn to page 7) FIVE - DAY WEATHER FORECAST Saturday - Wednesday Temperatures for the next five days will average two to eight degrees below the normal range of 39 at night to 57 in the after noon. Temperatures are ex pected to moderate some what over the weekend but will tend colder again by Wednesday. Precipita tion may total 0.4 inch or more falling as rain about Saturday night or Sunday and again about Tuesday. The 1.11 inches of rainfall in Lancaster last month made it the driest October since 1930. Normal for the month is 3.13 inches. Total rainfall for the year, how ever has already exceeded the normal yearly precipi lation. Total to date in the city has been 42.21 inches compared to the normal yearly rainfall of 41.17.
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