Farnl Calendar X> ' ing oflihe -county Young farmers Association at the Penn Manor High' School. Carl Dossin, Extension poultry specialist will dis cuss poultry management. The public is invited. 8 00 p.m. Northeast Trac tor 4-H club- meets at Farmersville Equipment. 8 00 p.m. * Lancaster area tractor 4-H club meets" at Kaylor Brothers, Eliza- YOW Mm. .. ow Mm.. P'4 ,t*> - v / * fy s/s r>. '■ ■ s Keep the greedy hand of erosion from robbing your land of its valuable top soil. Terrace and contour-plow to provide adequate drainage and prevent torrents of water from gouging sterile valleys in your acreage. Plan your crop rotation to avoid soil depletion and maintain the productivity of your land for yourself and future generations. Investigate, study and apply this tested-and-provod method of soil conservation. Years of patient experimentation N and exhaustive research have developed and perfected to day's successful techniques of scientific soil conservation. Put these techniques to work on your farm .... and do it NOW! , shop of Mann , and Gru tnelii, ’south tf QuarryvlHe -betfatowh, * ' " ’ Feb, 15 10:00 a.m. - 26th annual - meet ng - of the Lancaster Comity Farm Bureau Cooperative Asso ciation in Pequea Valley H S. 8:00 p.m. - 4-H Electric club meets in the PP & L building on the square, in Lancaster. Feb. 16 9:00 am. -Farm and Home Planning ses sion at th-> North Queen Our future is in our land, let’s keep the land in our future productive. Soil conservation is an all-year, every-year job. " ~ / / v Soil Conservation Safeguards Your Future LANCASTER CO. FARM EQUIPMENT DEALERS ASSOC. COOPERATIVE FARM CREDIT ASSOCIATIONS Lancaster Production Credit Association Federal Land Bank Association Street branch o 1 .the tan caster County National Bank. 6:39 p.m. - Annual ban quet of the Lancaster Co unty Extension Associa tion. Plain and Fancy Farm near Intercourse. are hungry people in other 7.30 p.m. - Solanco Young parts of the world,” he said. Farmers meet in the Ag Supply Management room at the High School. Secreary Freeman has said Physics of Radiation he does not regard the en . ‘ H ° w „ to Stay Alive m tire $lO b i monworth of farm A Fallout Area. commodities held by the gov ernment as being surplus. At least half of that, he thinks, should be set aside as an Patronize Our Advertisers. LANCASTER FARMING Lancaster Farming, Saturday, February 11, 1961—5 This Week (From nace 4) emergency service. An. even tougher problem facing Hr Freeman will h® that of “adjusting” product ion to halt the build-up 'in excess supplies. Farmers for several years have been pro ducing from 5 to 7 per cent more than the markets will absorb. That excess has gone toward building up surplus es from under $2 billion to more than $lO billion. ' One way to reduce product ion he has suggested, might be for the government to “rent” approximately 60 mil lien acres of crop land and put it into a soil conserva tion program. That, it is fig ured, might cost about $1 bil lion a year.. But, as he has emphasized in talks with Congressmen and farm leaders, if such a program were effective the cost would be only a fract ion of the nearly $7 billion spent n farm programs last year. Many regarded Secretary Freeman’s job as one of the toughest in Washington. ‘But’ he commented recently, “I can be tough, too ” Witji the farm organizations divided, as they have been for years, it will take more then just being tough to get the job done. F.H.A. Loans Available For Conservation It is with pleasure that the Farmers Home Administra tion again reports its inter ests and activities in the pro motion of conservation of natural resources on our farms, Richard W. Hoover, County Supervisor reports. The primary objective of the Farmers Home Adminis trate i is to provide quali fied farmers With enough credit and farm management guidance and aid to become firmly established in the business of farming Conservation is basic and one of the ten most import ant practices included in the farm management plan to strengthen farm operations During the past fiscal year $365,045 00 was loaned thru the local office for various farm purposes. Although the major portion of this money was used to reorganize the (Turn to page 11) ■7A> *' v •*&*' /£ *4 r *■ ' f< n .v- Mi *! ■> ) y '/ t, siyj. /' w ✓ y> /•/ <v *//* r ✓ '■ {/*/>> y? HALF WAY TO THE LAYING HOUSE ON JUST 6 LBS FEED WITH DENLINGER'S n lbs. DENLINGER'S C CHICK STARTER / lbs. / DENLINGER'S L. All MASH PULLET GROWER Produce well-developed 10-weckold pullets on only 6 lbs feed per bird with Denlinger’s Master Made feeds' See ns today! se L J. Denlinger Co. PARADISE Ph. SO 8-3021 'Jv •V-*- W*>S MASTER FV*l
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