yOL- ® NO. STANDING IN FRONT OF HIS PICTURE WINDOW milking parlor is James Gray ,, LUilz R 2. James assumed the management of the home farm this spring and wanted enlaigo the size of the milking herd. He installed the milking parlor with all. the it improvements and is remodeling the o'd stanchion barn into a pen stabling set up. plans to add a pole type barn to give him more room to expand his dairy herd. _ nty 4-H'ers Club Congress irty one Lancaster Co -4-H club .members al wth four leaders and leaders will treck to •ennsv Ivania State Uni ' next week to parti in the annual State Congress. ;il last year, 4-H club at the University in judging contests and lions by University as well as leader activities by club mem- (Turn to page 13) s & Saddles Club Meets tain View Pony Farm te site of the recent of the Boots and 4-H light horse and dub A senior member club, Galen Swigart, * demonstration on tire of a show pony. interested persons are to attend the next • July 14 at Reams fin? hall, according to Suck, reporter for the 1 Calendar 24—9 00 a m - 4-H hvo h'dgmg practice at Swme Association °ay. John W. Eby . Gordonville Rl. 2 8—3 00 pm - South- county agents o New Holland '7-30 State 4-H club nl the Pennsyl • «Uu.‘ University. 00 pm - Solanco manners Assn, dem l? n of wheeltracb t-onvcntional corn ’ft at James Lefever Wuaj o . r iiie R 3, fJ? ' Extension Exe ommutee meeting 5™ Bureau audi- Oillerville Road. Manor 4-H com meets atSteh n ,u Page 14) USDA* Yearbook Is Out Seeds IsThemeof Volume Publication, of Seeds—the 1961 Yearbook of Agricul ture—was announced today by the U. S. Department of Ag riculture. In the yearbook’s seven seeds can be a means of our sections and 75 chapters, bringing about an Age of with 48 pages of photographs Peace and Freedom. We can and many drawings, 128 ex- use our good seeds to help perts explain in layman's end hunger and fear for the language the importance, life less fortunate half of the hu processes, production, proces- man family. So used, our sing, certification, testing, seeds can be more meaning and marketing of seeds. ful to a hungry world than “Good seeds are both a can the rocket that first car symbol and a foundation of ries man to the moon . . . the good life our people have “Seeds are ever a positive gained,” Secretary of Agr- and creatvive foj-ce. Seeds culture Orville I». Freeman are the germ of life, a begin says in the forward to the ning and an end, the fruit of new yearbook. “A basic fac- yesterday’s harvest and the tor in our realization of man- promise of tomorrow’s. With kind’s most sought goal, ag- out an ample store of seeds ricultural abundance, good there can be no national treasure, or no future for a , Nation . . . . ” Tobacco Disease The yearbook gives much Seen In County Blue mold and wildfire, Anri fVkiin/>il the tobacco bed diseases, '• V.WUIICII have been reported found in *t* _ r . p«i Lancaster County, Assistant l O 111111 COUn J y /^t nt «lT ld LUCCk Al} “embers of the Lam reported this we k. castor County Agricultural Inspection of beds m the Council nre bejn g ur g ed to county by Lucck and Do o a ft end and invite farmer fn- Carlton Taylor, extension rnc j s f n a ttend the regular plant disease specialist, mdi- q Uar t er ]y meeting next Thur cated the outbreaks are not president Charles Cow yet serious. an said this week. i KS? B • Muth. chairman to check their beds laimedi- of the Lancaster County Em alely and ollow a p ' - er g enC y Planning Committee myem-ferbam spray progr m Wli j p rescn t a fi] in “Fallout if any sign of either disease , md Aguculture .. and Wlll 13 report on the committee and Most serious outbreaks of functlons the disease were reported in General discUBßlon on the the southern and east c n suoject of agriculture’s role areas of the county. Lueck Ja |]j C evcn f of a nuclear said with wet weather fore- a^ac k JS scheduled follow cast, growers who have not ]ng t j ie f|j m *piac film deals completed pulling should wdb what is known about spray beds immediately with )0 o^cc t 0 f fallout on agri ferbam if blue mold is pres- Cl , lture ard what can be cut. done to defend against it. If the grower is now using Cowan said a streptomycin-ferbam spray The me oting is scheduled at six to seven day intervals to begin at 8 00 pm., June an extra spray of ferbam at 29 in the Lancaster County the rate of three pounds per Farm Bureau auditorium, on. 100 gals, of water should be the DiHerville Road, Lane (Turn to Page 7) as ter Lancaster Farming, Saturday, June 24, 1961 \ JV 'V *y*v * , '* >r *. + \ / ” m f > </. > V ✓ 1 «*** " *' * v * ' -1 —L. F. Photo (Turn to page 13) This Has Many parlors have picture windows, but one Lancaster County farm has a picture window in the milking parlor, But there is more to the story than the fancy win dows on the outside of the building. On the inside is the most modern equipment for efficient milking and the operator is a young man with the vision it takes to start in the business of farm ing today. James Graybill, Lititz R 2 graduated from the vocation al agriculture curncum at Manheim Central high school m 1956. He came home and worked for his father on the home farm until 1960 He was getting valuable experi ence in agriculture and buil ding up the beginnings of his dairy herd of 36 holstem cows. >1 - i In the spring of 1960, the 21-year-old James took his County 4-H Council Elects Trimble, Members of the Lancaster County 4-H council Thurs day evening elected Donald Trimble and Joyce Denhnger, presidents of the agriculture and home economics sections respectively. Trimble, son of Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Trimble, Quarry ville Rl, was'a leader at the state 4-H club congress last year, and was elected to the county council by the Dru more community club He succeeds Darvin Boyd, Eph rata. Miss Donlinger is daughter of Mr. and Solanco YFA Sets Wheeltraclc Demonstration Comparison of “wheel track” and conventional planting of corn will be the the item for discussion at the June meeting of the Sol anco Young Farmer’s Associ ation. Members of the association have set up a field compari son on adjoining farms near Quarryville and are inviting farmers to come and make a comparison. The two plots are on the farms of J. Zeigler Hess and James Lefevcr at Quarryville R 3. A social period will be held and refreshments will be served on the lawn at the farm of James Lefever after the demonstration, according to William Fredd, advisor to tire group Ayrshire Farm Name Assigned Exclusive use of TINY ACRES as a iarm name in registering purebred Ayr sin rc cattle born in her herd has been officially reserved for Barbara Ann Kupp, Man heim.by the Ayrshire Breed ers’ Association, Brandon, Vermont Tiny Acres is one of tlie more than 20,000 herds of Ayrshires existing in the United States, all of which are descended from century-old herds in the breed's homeland. _ agricultural library THe PENNSYLVANIA STATE COLLEGE Milking Parlor Picture Windows Denlinger, Presidents the Mrs. * , **£ e ’*' #w «**. $2 Per Yeai bride and his small herd and moved onto the cash-rented iarm ot a neighbor. When James found out that his neighbor wanted to mo\e back on to his farm, he began to look tor another place to live The elder Gray bll wanted to move to a smaller farm and switch, his opera hon to steer feeding, so James moved to the 118 acre home farm Three months ago, Mis. Graybill, the former Janice Koser, presented James with a baby "I have a future milkmaid ” James says “And girls can easily milk cows m the new par lor” The herd size has not m ci eased yet, but James hopes (Turn to page 7) Raymond Denlingcr, 602 En field Drive, and represents the Conestoga sewing club on the council. She replaces Londa Boyd, Manhcim R 4, Delegates to the council’s reorganization meeting met at the Lancaster Poultry Cen ter, 340 W. Roseville Road. In other action, the coun cil approved an amendment to .the constitution whereby any member of the executive, board missing two consecu tive meetings will be replae (Turn to page 13) Providence 4-H Hears Biologist Members of the New Prov idence 4-H club learned the importance of birds an ’ in sects to the farmer of today at their last meeting when Mr. John Rorabaugh, a teach er of Biology at Millersville State College spoke to the group. The club has scheduled a family get-together at the home ot one of its members on June 29 at 6 pm. Miss C. Jane Henry is the nows reporter for the news roportei for the club. FIVE - DAY WEATHER FORECAST Saturday - Wednesday Temperatures for the ext five days are expected to average two to five de grees below the normal range of 84 in the after noon to 63 at night. Near to slightly below normal temperatures over the week end will be followed by a warming trend Tues day or Wednesday. Precip itation may total three quarters of an inch .occur ring Saturday and again towards the end of the per iod.
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