THE PENNSYLVANIA STATE COLLEGE' VOL. 6. NO. 15 Baby Beef and Lamb Club Officers OFFICERS OF THE RED ROSE Baby Beef and Lamb Club after-their election on :dnesday night are, front row, left to right, Virginia Wivell, Columbia Rl, news re rter, Janet Frey,. Marietta Rl, assistant secretary; Jean Miller, Elizabethtown Jl3, secre y, Wilbur Hosier, Manheim R 3, president, David Lapp, Bareville Rl, vice president, 1 Glenn Foreman, Manheim R 3, treasurer. Back row left to right are, Larry Halt, of arryville R 2, Game Leader; Kenneth Weaver, Quarryville R 2, song leader, and David nlinger, 2351 -Horseshoe Road, news reporter. Not present for picture were Juliann b, Mount Joy Rl, song leader, and Nancy Landis, Strasburg, game leader. The mem rs reelected the following adult leaders: Mylm, R. Good, Elvin Hess, Jr., Fred W. iton, Victor Longenecker, Jay R. Nissley, and Harry Showalter. There are 103 mem rs in the club, ' ' —L. F. Photo •oil Expert Says, Tests )id Not Count on Weather Farmers may have to reevaluate results of soil tests on t basis of winter treatment of soils, county farmers were Id this week. jfoh.n E. Baylor, Extension ronomist from-, Pennsyl ua State University told 200 farmers - at the first. mty soils day, many live ek men planned- to give i ield an man. and received recorifunen- , tions from the ■ college’s ; 1 testing service, on that ] as. Because of snows, he d, many farmer* were not ' e to get the manure ap- ■ ed Baylor cautioned Tar- , rs to take this Into, con- , eration when applying tilizer to fields this sp- ■ 8- ; Another extension ngrono st, James Eakin,' said a it half the Lancaster Co •y soils tested at tKe col e could cut back on the oimts of commeccial" fer ®r, particularly- potash, W cause no reduction in Vd The other 50 per cent ■ted should have addition ■apphcations, he said. »akm urged farmers to a-' ■d “spoon feeding” a soil. ' K some of your tobacco ■ds, he said, the old 4-8-12 ■ the situation like a sq- , ■? Peg m a round hole. - ( ■You can not, afford to , ■pine for weed control. ■ said 2,4-D is still a good ‘ ■bicide, but atnzine gives ■ellenl control and the ■arm Calendar eh 4—7-00 pm. - Ban [U-l of the County Senior tension club in the Mt. EUB. Church. ; 6 —-7'30 p.m.—South n 4-H Tractor Club meets Wenger Implement, at uck 30 Pm. _ County 4-H ernlioy Club reorganiz .m tlie agriculture bldg , nco H. S , Quarryville, Pm, 4-H County wcil meets at the home Keener, Man tim m, 4:30 p.m. —Lan . County Teachers oi 10 nal Agriculture chooi the Done S al High ~~ First meeting H ri , ovm ahd Country at Production' Urtl to page l*>. cora will not become brittle , m the, stalks and roots. He . said, Randox, Randox - T, ' Epam, and 2,4-DB are NOT , recommended for use on j corn. < The more extensive use of 1 cover crops was urged by ' F. A. Raymaley x>f the A merican Cyanamid Company. . He said cover crops should be fertilized in order 1 ' to pro- 1 mote large growth and pro- * duce more residues. The j commercial i fertilizers ap- f plied to a cover crop will be • recovered by file following cash crop, he said. Prizes to winners in the ] five-acre com contest and ■ the District'hay shew at Her” 1 shey were presented by Co- i spoon feed a soil deficient ] in Phosphorus. 1 ! he said, “If , you have a deficiency, lime , the soil to the proper pH, add super Phosphate at the 1 rate of 1000 Ifas. per acre and J add high phosphorus fertili- i zer in the row. Get rid of the deficiency all at once.” ( Chickwced Control “It is still OK to spray ' Chloro IPC for chickweed 1 control in Alfalfa because ’ the weed has not made much i growth yet.” George Berg- . (Turn to page 5) CHAMPION COEN GROWERS of the county received ribbons Tuesday at the first annual soils day. Blue ribbons in the 1960 five-acre com contest, shown accepting, the congratulations of County Agent M. M. Smith, left, are, left to right, Clarence Keener, Sr., Manheim Til, Harold G. Rohrer, Lancaster R 7, and J. C. Garber, Jr., Lancaster R 6. Keener’s yield was 170.3 bushels per acre. —L. F. Photo Lancaster Farming, Saturday, March 4. 1961 Wilful Waste Is Scored By Biemsderfer Planned obselesence, a big term for things made to wear out in a short period of time, is one of the revolting por tions of our way of life, Dr. D. L. Biemsderfer, president of- MrllersviH©'-State College, told soil conservationists on Thursday night. “We live in an age which is somewhat antagonistic to the idea of conservation.” he said at the banquet of the Lancaster County Soil Con servation District at the Eph rata EUB Church. “Waste, becomes a key word in ■ our society.” Dr. Biemsderfer said. He said he was not calling for a return to a time when we did not have the material things of fered to us In 1961, but if we are constructing- a socie ty in which conservation is foreign, we should recognize it. Dr. Biemsderfer defined conservation as the use of any resource, not only soil, to derive the maximum good while the resource is being used and to preserve the re source as long as possible. (Turn to page 16) AGRICULTURAL LIBRARY Natl. 4-H Week Marked By Local Clubs, Workers Being celebrated this week in Pennsylvania and 49 other states, is an important event of real significance to millions of Americans. This is National 4-H Club Week. During 1960 there were 1,400 club members in Lan caster County with over 43,500 club members thro ughout Pennsylvania- and more than 2,300,000 mem bers across the nation. The observance will consist of a variety of activities all de signed to call public atten tion to the achievements of 4-H members and Jo the ad- vantages of club member ship tor boys and girls not Red Rose DHIA Seats Directors, Hold Election, of Officers The board of directors of the Red Rose Dairy Herd Im provement Association Monday night seated eight new members and installed new officers for the year. Six of the new directors will represent their testing association on the board for a three year term. One new* member will finish the unex pired term of another direct or who has gone out of the dairy business, while the other director will represent a county breed association. Jay Landis, Lancaster R 6, was elected president of the board for a one year term. Other officers elected were vice president, Robert Hess, Strasburg Rl and secretary, John Shelly, Manheim Rl The board hired Jacob Hous er, Jr. to continue as treas urer of the association. In other business the board hired Earl Martin, of Ephrata Rl, as tester in As sociation 15 to replace Irvin Wenger who recently resign ed. Mrs. Clarence Creider, Manheim RS was approved as an assistant tester. ' The directors instructed testers to include the names of all owner-sampler mem bers in their monthly finan cial reports. 'Members of the board of directors' voted to withhold the sum of $30.00 from the first month’s pay of all new testers. This amount would be applied toward the norm al with-holding of 20 cents per herd per month until the normal with-holding readied the sum of $30.00. By: Winthrop Mexrian, Assistant County Agent $2 Per Year yet enrolled in this youth movement. 4-H club work not only teaches boys and girls bel ter methods and skills re lated ot agriculture and to home economics; it gives them training and exper ience in citizenship, commu nity life, character building, and spiritual development Events such as National (Turn to page 4) The directors further made it mandatory for a new test* er to work a full year in or der to collect . the amount (Turn to page 6) Solanco Girls Will Present Demonstration Four members of the So lanco Future Homemakers of America have won a trip to Drexel Institute of Technol ogy to present a demonstra tion called “Kitchen Hit Pa rade”. The girls, all studests at Solanco High School, will' leave Quarryville after school on Friday evening, March 10. After staying on the campus at Drexel over night, the girls will present their demonstration in the Home Economirs building on Saturday at 10:30 a.m. The demonstration will be (Turn to page 12) 53 Countians At Co-Op Meet A contingent of 53 mem bers of Eastern States Farm ers’ Exchange left Lancaster Thursday by train to attend the 43 annual meeting of the cooperative at Springfield, Mass., according to Laverne Pownall, District Manager. The group attended busi ness and educational sessions of the cooperative’s annual meeting and will return to Lancaster County sometime this evening. FIVE - DAY WEATHER FORECAST Saturday - Wednesday Temperatures during the next iive days will average about eight degrees above the normal range of 30 at night to 47 in the after noon. Mild weather is ex pected throughout the per iod except briefly cooler a bout Sunday and Tuesday. Precipitation may total a bout 0-2 f to 0.6 inch falling as tain mainly about Sun day.
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