VOL. 6. NO. 9 NEWLY ELECTED BOARD of the Lancaster County 4 H Leader’s council are as follows. Seated L to R. Mrs Walter Overgaard, Mrs. Harold Fry, Mrs Paul Erb. Standing L. to R. Mylin R.. Good, Elvin Hess, Jr., Everett Kreider, Richard Lefever, Bl uer Boyd. Not present were Mrs. Kenneth Musser and Mrs. John Stoner. bbacco Market Opens ction Slow, Cautious The 1960 tobacco crop market opened in the county tils week. After a slow start Monday, buying picked up ittle momentum Tuesday and seemed to pretty well stabil :ed by Wednesday. By Thursday most activity ground to halt as buyers snow covered county roads ha^ly. Consolidated' " Cigar Co., ait the 30 and 20 figure, but (ne af the first companies to some crops changed hands at leld buyers was reported a bid of 28 cents through, p’enng bids of 35 and 20 The 28 through figure lents for wrapper and filler was made Wednesday after espectwe y, Monday. Other noon when it was report ed eports that day ranged .„ own to 25 and 15 for the (Tum t 0 Tage 5 > jrted tobacco and 25 cents A total of eight firms had 4-H Tractor Club lyers in the sheds on the i| » i E i ■st day, but reports indi- MOICIS CIOCtIOM °d that very little tobac- ~ ~ . was moved. Farmers we- Kreider, son of Mr. reluctant to seU what »nd Mrs. Kreider, of ly consider a very high QuarryvUle Rl, was named lity crop president of the Southern 4- !y Tuesday,' Consolidated K tractor club Monday reported out of the field tranly, but the Ameri- Tobacco Company and jral Cigar Co., Inc., both which had made bids up - 0 and 18 on Monday, we out the second day and Other officers elected at the meeting at Conestoga Farm Service, Quarryville included Kenneth Weaver, son of Mr. and Mrs. Jason Weaver, Quarryville R 2, vice president; Robert Wenger, son of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Wenger, Quarryville R 2, secretary - treasurer, and Kenneth Rutt, son of Mr. and Mrs. Amos Rutt, Quarry vine R 2, news reporter. 1 A t» \ t Pi t -rutvr-t. *t» Next meeting of the club ARM V-/ALENDAR Will be January 23 at L. H. 23—7:30 p.m. - Annual/ Brubaker’s Farm Equipment, eting of the Lancaster Strasburg. some success n moving lew crops at bids of 30 18 to 30 and By Wednesday the mar had seemed to stabilize unty Poultry Association the Poultry Center, All Offlf'Al'C •Seville Road and the 0 By-pass. Speaker will D R\/ Professor R. W. Schlos- ■'““'“CTca Dy % Elizabethtown College, r •. 0 Pm - Southern 4-H rfUIT NjfOWerS ictor club meets at L, Amos Rutt, Lancaster R 6, Brubaker Farm Mach- manager of Shank’s Fruit oa’ Strasbur g- Farm, was reelected presi pm. - Lancas- dent of the Lancaster Co- Area 4-H lractor Club unty Fruit Growers Asso at Kauffman’s Farm ciation Tuesday. iq lnery ’ Mountville. Over thirty members of 1 P .m.. . 4-H Tractor the organization, meeting in meets at Ephrata the Production Credit build - b?Ji pment - ing, Roseville Road, retum ' P' m - - 4-H El- ed all other officers to tneir - S™* meets in the posts for another year. Lanca<JL. 0n the square > Vice president will be 26—1 9 nn‘ Melvin M. Groff, Lancaster ' Milt- 0 £° on ‘ Inter " R 6: R °y Erb, 118 Kreider ban Pr °ducers an- Ave., Lancaster will be sec , Memorial retary and reelected treasur er! urch, Quarry- er was Daniel A. Brubaker, Ephrata Rl. Lancaster. Pa., Saturday, January 21, 196 f Co. Poultry Assn. Plans Meeting Professor Ralph W. Schlos ser, Elizabethtown College, will be the featured speaker at the thirty-seventh, annual meeting of the Lancaster County Poultry Association next Monday night - Scheduled to begin at 7:30 pm., January 23, in the Poultry Center, Rose ville Road and 230 Bypass, the meeting will feature a resume of last year’s activi ties, election of officers, re freshments and music. The program is under the direction of Mark Myer, president of the board of di rectors. Solanco Y.F.A. Elects Officers Kenneth Murphy, Quarry ville R 3, Wednesday night was named president of the Solanco chapter, of Young Farmers. At the meeting in the So lanco High School agricul ture rooms, Quarryville, the following other officers were elected to one-year terms: vice president, Robert Arm strong, Drumore; secretary, Clyde Aument, Holtwood Rl; treasurer, George I. Knight, Quarryville R 2; ✓ reporter, Isaac L. Hershey, of New Providence, and chaplain, James Lefever, Quarryville E 3. ' Elected to the ' executive 'committee were Murl Au ment, Quarryville / 6l; Dale Shirk, Quarryville Rl, and Ray Wiles, Peach Bottom. Next meeting of the group OFFICERS OF THE LANCASTER COUNTY Fruit Growers Association are left to right, Roy Erb, secretary; Amos Rutt, president, and Daniel A. Brubaker, treasurer. Not present was Melvin Groff, vice president. , Glenn Porter Is IFYE Delegate To The Orient Where is Nepal? This was the question Glenn Porter had to answer many times Tuesday night at the meeting of the Lancaster County 4-H leaders. It was announced at the meeting that Glenn would be Lancaster County’s represen tative to that country through the International Farm Youth Exchange. For the 22 year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Por ter, Washington Boro Rl, the trip comes as the culmina tion of a 10 year career in county and state 4-H activi ties. Glenn, the 1959 state win ner in 4-H leadership acti vities continued his interest Glenn was a member of a State Champion 4-H poultry judging team and won two state championships on dem, onstration teams. Porter par ticipated on the top 4-H teams in the state poultry and electric demonstration contests. Among the many offices he has held are - president and vice president of the co unty Electric club and presi dent and secretary of the 4- - H Tractor club. The International Farm ''' Youth -(IFYE) program, spon „ sored by the National 4-H Foundation, encourages in ternational understanding , through an exchange of GLENN PORTER farm youth throughout the - world, in club work even though Glenn, who was among he has passed the age of three from the state to be active participation in pro- approved by the national of ]ect work. He Is a leader in (Turn to page 9) Pepper Says Heptachlor Not Likely To Be OK'ed There does hot appear to be any chance of getting heptachlor approved for use on alfalfa this spring, a Penn State Spray Specialist told county farmers this week Speaking to farmers at Singer Farm Equipment at Ronks, John O. Pepper, Ex- tension entomology specal lise from the Pennsylvania State University, said does not believe heptachlor will be given clearance for use to control alfalfa, weevil during 1961. Pepper said the recommen dation for alfalfa weevil con trol will be either Mala thion or Methoxychlor. “But don’t be m too big a hurry to put it on your crop” Pepper said. He recommend- ed waiting until weevils are will be a demonstration on correct milking machine op eration, February 2, in the high school building. $2 Per Year the Manor Community 4,-H club and the Northeast Trao tor club. During the ten years ha has been in 4-H club work, Glenn has carried projects in capons, chick rearing, po ultry management, sweet corn, field com, bees, trac tor and electricity, winning many awards with his pro ject exhibits and record, bo oks. visible on the crop, even though the plants may 22 inches tall. “Hold the spray just as long as possible,” Pepper said, “But then get it on just as soon as you can.” Rates of application recom mended are still three quarts of Methoxychlor per acre or IVz pints of Malathion per acre, “We can see no advan tage in mixing the two.” Pepper said. - The spring use of Delidrin is not being recommended for control of alfalfa weevil by the Pennsylvania State (Turn to page 9) FIVE - DAY WEATHER FORECAST Saturday - Wednesday Temperatures during Ih© next five days will average eight or mote degrees be low the normal range of 24 at night and 39 in the afternoon, with very cold weather throughout the period. Precipitation may total over three quarters of an inch, melted, occur ing as general snows late Sunday and again about the end of the period. Fre quent snow {lurries are likely at other times.
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