)L . 6. NO. 26
RECOLLECTIONS OF PAST SPRINGS are brought to mind by the wooden plow
the wall. Made during the time when wood was plentiful and metal was scarce, the
v has a metal jointer, but the share and moldboard are of wood. Mr. and Mrs Rus
if 49 Robert Ave., Trenton, N J, left, are shown some of the exhibits at the Landis
ley Farm Museum by Raymond Althouse, right, an employee at the museum.
mdls Valley Museum
ans Two Crafts Days
From the time you walk in the front door of the 18th
ury kitchen until you walk out the back door of the
itry store at'the Landis Valley Farm Museum, you live
ural Lancaster County as our forefathers must have
1 a hundred years ago.
s the friendly guides just too familiar and too near
v you the tools of the at hand.
|e of farming as it was
|;iced before the mechan
revolution, you can’t
feeling a sense of pnde
ir rural heritage,
iwever, one of the most
mg observations is on
parking lot. Out-of-State
ls o plates outnumber the
asylvania tags by a good
)n ty Lancaster Coun
by and large, are not
' the visitors to the
Perhaps most Lan-
Countians have visited
>seum, or perhaps it is
i Calendar
Lancaster Sertoma
holds annual Chicken
-'cue m Long’s Park,
Harrisburg Pike.
22—6 30 p.m. - Joint
hug of the county bee
?rs and fruit growers
le orchard of Morse
>ma ». Ephrata R 2.
Pm - County Future
inors of America meet
Pe quoa Valley high
Pm . Elm-Penryn 4-
omnuinity club meets
«e Penryn fire hall.
00 pm. - Manor
cmb meets in * the
Manor High School.
Myers, State 4-H
"ill discuss 4-H
Oq
j' 1 00 am. - South-
Unct 4-H dairy
r °inmittee meets at
Guernsey Sales Pavi
’ . T nc °l n Highway,
f). l Lancaster.
00 pm. - Co
"H Holstein Club
at the home of
; ttiv, ePi Barevllleßl.
8 °0 p.m. Rough
, H light horse and
meets at VaUey
Pablos. Quarryville
A feeling of excitement is
in the air these days at the
Landis Valley Farm Museum
Craft days have been sched
uled for June 17 and 18, and
guides and other personnel
are looking forward to the
time when 20 craftsmen will
put into use many of the ma
chines which made life more
bearable when the country
was young and the industrial
revolution was but an infant.
During Craft Days, black
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County Girl
Is Member Of
Breed Assn.
AverriL L. Royer, the 11
year old daughter of Mr
and Mrs. Herbert M. Royer,
2025 Oregon Pike, Lancas
ter, has been accepted into
Junior Membership in the
Holstein - Fresian Associat
ion of America, according to
information received this we
ek.
Junior membership is a
vailable to persons under 21
years who are owners of
registered Holstein dairy
animals.
Boots And Saddles
Horse Club Meets
The, Boots and Saddles,
4-H light horse and pony
club held their regular
monthly meeting at the Lan
disville fire hall recently
with 49 members present.
The next meeting is sched
uled to be held June 9 at
the Mountain View Pony
Farm near Denver.
Steve Sites, reporter for
the club, announces new
members are welcome.
AGRICULTURAL LIBRARY
'Lancaster Farming, Saturday, May 20, 1961
By: Jack Owen
Washington D. C—The so-called Omnibus Bill for ag
riculture looks to take the government out of agiiculturc,
contrary to popular reports, Secretary of Agriculture, Or
vill Freeman told members of the Newspaper Farm Editors
Association this week.
In answer to the question,
“If you get the Omnibus Bill
passed, will you impose con
trols on beef, pork and poul
try’” the Secretary hurriedly
replied, “I have no plans to
impose controls on anything.”
Secretary Freeman pointed
out that he now has the pow
er to impose marketing quo
tas and authorize direct pay
ments under existing legisla
tion. -The new bill (The El
lender-Cooley Bill currently
in committee in the House-ot
Representatives), he said has
controls which are not to be
found in current legislation.
“Some people say the checks
go so far as to be burden
some,” he said. , -
Mr. Freeman said he is East©m H. 5. Adds
Break In The Rainy Weather eac^ er
7 Robert G. Daugherty, for-
Sends Farmers Into Corn Fields merly of Dubois, Jefferson
rdimeib lIIIU V.um neiUb County, has been elected
Warm weather and clear thought earlier, the Pennsyl- teacher of vocational agricul
skies this week sent farmers vania Crop Reporting Ser- ture by Eastern Lancaster
into the field to try to bring vice says today in its week- County School District at
corn planting - up to date, ly crop and weather round- New Holland, it was announ-
Many tractors were on 24 up. There’s some concern that ced this week,
hour schedules with mem- cool, wet weather may have Daugherty, who will grad
bers of the family taking adversely affectel pollination, uate from The Pennsylvania
shifts in order to take ad- but most growers feel that State University in June, will
vantage of the ideal plowing there have been enough begin his duties with the
conditions. (Turn to page 12) school as of July 1. As with
Many fields were planted other teachers of vocational
by late Thursday with many J_ _ A M agriculture, he will be era
more farmers hoping for the vJoiQ©n OpOT n - n ployed on a full 12 months
weather to hold through the *|- «• , i basis.
week end- Early-planted corn I OUTS fiOTnOUS© Daugherty will leach one
is up in a few scattered fields of the four classes of high
around the county. school vocational agriculture
Color of the crop is excellent (the other three classes will
except in a few low or wet continue to bo taught by
spots. Robert D. Herr, the present
Forage crops in the county teacher) and spend the rest
continued to make excellent his time with the out of
growth. Alfalfa weevil dam- (Turn to page 13)
age has been reported in sev
eral parts of the county and
spraying with Methoxychlor
is being done by those farm
ers who do not plan to har
vest the alfalfa for another
seven days.
Canning tomatoes in many
areas are responsible to the
weather. Those fields not
caught by late frosts are in
excellent condition, while
frosted crops look only fair,
but promise to grow out of
most of the damage. Weeds
threatened to be a problem
m some fields but with the
finer days, cultivation can
now begin in most fields.
Winter damage to peaches
was not as extensive as
Beekeepers And Orchardists
Plan Joint Meeting Next Week
lnnf oU Srowor b c eC^ CeperS , l n , d colonies of bees (weather
~8-5S S=."K
Orchaidists and apiarists care and management,
will discuss common prob
lems in the orchard of Dr. Carl Bittner, Exten-
IVlorse Brossman, Ephrata q ’on Fruit Specialist, will
82, beginning at 6:30 p.m. discuss orchard management
(DST) on May 22. > - 'nd fruit tree disease prob-
W. W. Clarke, Extension * ems -
Bee Specialist from Penn- The Brossman orchards
sylvania State University, arc located three miles east
with the assistance of local of Akron and one mile west
beekeepers present at the of route 322 on the Bethany
meeting, will examine the road.
Farm Bill Limits Power
Freeman Tells Reporters
Bees In Action was the
title of a demonstration giv
en by Donald Kraybill at the
Thursday night meeting of
the Garden Spot 4-H club.
Kraybill, who lives at 599
Lampeter road used a glass
frame enclosing live bees to
tell the story of life in a bee
colony.
The business of the meet
ing at the home of Wilmer
Wenger, 76 Greenfield Road,
followed a tour of the mem
bers through the greenhouse
of Raymond Burkhart, 1865
Old Philadelphia Pike. Dur
ing the business session, the
club voted to send a copy of
“4-H News”, the official
news letter, to the Lancaster
Free Public Library as one
of the community projects
of,the club.
Next meeting is scheduled
to be held June 15 at the
home of Harvey Heller, 751
Willow Road. Lois Ovcrgaard
is reporter for the club.
$2 Per Yeai
“Playing it strictly by oar”
and being a pragmatist in re
gards to the new program.
“No program can work'with
out producer cooperation
and producer concurrence”
lie said.
As long as it is cute to
cheat on a program, the pro
gram is in trouble, he said.
The Omnibus Bill, in looking
to take the government out
of agriculture, calls tor the
cooperation and concurrence
of producer groups m plan
ning a program tor the in
dustry.
The Secretary called at
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Hatch Report
Shows Increase
During April a total of
5 5 million egg type chicks
were hatched in the Key
stone state. Tins was 20 per
cent above April 1960 but
slightly below the five year
(1955-59) average. For the
four-month (January throu
gh April) period, egg type
chick production was up six
per cent over a year ago
and one tenth above the five
year average over the na
tion as a whole. In Pennsyl
vania, production of egg type
chicks during the period was
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FIVE - DAY
WEATHER
FORECAST
Saturday * Wednesday
Temperatures during the
next five days are expect
ed to be near the normal
range of 54 at night to 77
in the afternoon. Little day
to day change in tempera
ture is expected during the
period. Precipitation may
total in excess of inch
falling as rain about Wed
nesday.