VOL. 6. NO. 40 County AS C Mails Ballots For Election Landis G Becker, Chair man of the Lancaster County Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Committee is sued an appeal to county farmers to vote in the elect jon of ASC county and com murnly committeemen to serve for the 12 month period beginning October 1, 1961 and extending through September 30, 1962. - For each community com mittee three regular mem bers will be chosen, with Ihe person receiving the highest number of votes be coming chairman . Two al ternates also will be elected m each community, to serve m the absence of a regular member The elected chair man of the community com mittee will also serve as delegate to the county con vention to elect the county committee Becker points out that all persons are eligible to vote who are eligible to participate in any of the programs being administered by Slate and County ASC Committees A husband and wife are both entitled to vole If the-.farm- deed-^s v: re corded in both names. Even those not of legal age may vote If they are in charge of the supervision and con duct of the farming oper ations of an entire farm. An eligible voter may be an individual, partnership, as sociation, corporation, estate trust, or other business en terpiises, or legal entity. An eligible voter, of course, is entitled to one vote. The county ASC commit tee, subject to the general direction of the State Com mittee and acting through community committees, have tee responsibility for carry “S put the county ACP, the Pi ice Supnort Program, Ac reage Allotment and' the Maikelmg Quota Program, Soil Bank, Feed Grain Pro (Tum to page 5) Farm Calendar u g 26 - Sept. 4 —Penna hutch Frolic six miles uimt ot Lane on the Lin coln Hwy Aug 26 ■ — Lancaster County dll' at the chicken barbe c'ie stand at Dutch Days at n e , shcy _ Aligns 28 8 p m - PHIA irec'ors Meeting Farm “Uix*au Aug 20 , e-45 pm Ex ctismn Service Executive oiPmiticc Dinner meet uig - at Town & Country iteHa.uant l * g 30 - 8.00 pm Final mectmg 0 f 4-H Town and onnti y Business Club at oni'Llmn Credit Assoc, Aim l" Sev ’iU e Rd q 31 4-H District Show at Guernsey tt! ( ' s Pavilion, Lincoln Aup » av ' East of Lane. ~ — 3 pm. - Youth Ac er ♦ y Committee of Coop d u c Council, Farm Bur- Se M Auditorium. D J EFA District Sdl, ®bow at Guernsey Hu,i S Pavilion, Lincoln 1 ' ay, East of Lane DISCUSSING POSSIBLE YIELD from a field planted at the rale of 20,000 stalks per acre are William M Fredd, left, teacher of vocational agriculture at Solanco High School, Quarryville, and Richard Geyer, a senior at Solanco Goyer set a goal of 200 bushels of corn per acre and calcul ated he would need the high plant population in order to realize the goal. He concluded this week that he will not reach the hoped-for yield un’ess he has more ram during the maturing period of the crop Fredd examines an ear which may not fill out without additional moisture If the crop does not progress properly, it may go into the silo la ter in the season. - —L F. Photo How Many Cornstalks Youth AimsAt2ooßushles How many stalks per acre docs it take to produce 200 bushels of corn? This was the question in the mind ot Richard Geyer last spring when his vocational agriculture class discussed corn growing practices. Richard, a junior at Solan- co High School last year, on hearing of some of the tre mendous yields produced in some parts of the country set his sights on a 200 bushel yield and set out to find what it would take to grow that much corn. His search led him to Wil liam Fredd, teacher of voca tional agriculture at Solanco ,and to a contest sponsored by the United States Steel Company. Richard decided he would They were Judy Buckwal have to plant the corn much ter of Lilitz R 3 and Wilmer thicker than it is normally Wenger of 76 Greenfield Rd. planted in the county But he Eleven-year-old Missßuck knew if he increased the waiter, daughter of Mr. and population to those high Airs David Buckwaller, won rates he would have to pro- the best flower exhibit for vide more plant food per second-year members. Her acre than is normally provid- outdoor flower display last ed -com crops in the county, year _was best-of-show. ~r ~ ~ , , ~ . , , Wenger, eighteen-Vear-old With the help of his teach- ?on of M ’, Mirjam Wenge ers of vocational agriculture, 76 Green fi e ]d Rd , dupheat- Fiedd and Herbert Heber- ed Miss Buckwalter’s show em R>chard took soil samp- ing , but ln vcgeta ble judg les from a field on the farm in g of Russell Kreider, Quarry- jj e won second-year hon ville Rl, where he works, ws w nh a mixed vegetable and had them analyzed at display Wenger was also the Penna. State University, best-of-show in 1960 With the soil test results as Other rosette winners on a basis, Richard began to Monday were, figure his fertilizer program First - Year Vegetables He decided to supply the Rruce Smith, eleven, son of needed nitrogen in the form I^ r AT and J} I '.' 5 Charles Smith of ammoniun nitrate andbal- H °lland ance out the phosphorus with T Th,rd * Year Vegetables; nn Jerry Snader, seventeen, son 20 per cent super Phosphate f Eva Snad Ephratd As with many Lancaster R 1 ’ 1 County soils, long and heavy Swecl Com Gary Porte applications of barnyard ma- twclve> son of Mr and Mrs nure had built up a reserve Edgar Porter, Washington of potassium m the soil. Boro Rl. The soil test had showed a Field Tomatoes: Roger good amount of organic mat- Stoner, sixteen, son of Mr ter in the soil, and since the and Mrs. H Raymond Ston (Turn to page 16) (Turn to Page 5) Lancaster Farming, Saturday, August 26, 1961 1960 Winners Win Again In 4-H Round-Up Two 4-H club exhibitors repeated their 1960 rosette showings at the annual Lan caster County 4-H Flower and Vegetable roundup Mon day at the Landisville Ele mentary School. Donald Trimble Shows 4-H Pig Club Champion A 185-pound liveweight Yorkshire shown by Donald Trimble of QuarryviUe Rl, won grand championship hon ors at the annual Lancaster-Lebanon 4-H Club Pig Show at the Union Stockyards Wednesday. Reserve championship hon ors went to Larry Hart, 15, show > he ’ s bccn working with also of QuarryviUe Rl, who P for SIX years and this showed a 210-pound medium- summe r had a total of forty weight Berkshire. home. Don also was a The Yorkshire chamnion member of the championship br“by Dola™ S 4 J" 18 !,” 6 Tea ’" Lancaster E 3 brought $lOO judging con a pound from S W. H.ppey, al P “ M ' Willow Street during the af- fata e U ty ' ternoon auction. Larry, a junior at Solanco Trimble, 19, a graduate of H'gh School, has been show- Solanco High School is no mg Pigs for six years He stranger to the winner’s cir- showed a reserve breed cle, having shown the reserve champion the first year he champion last year in only entered the contest but this his first year of showing pigs is the first time since then in the 4-H Club show that he has shown a winner. Although this is only the A total of 240 pigs, raised second year he’s entered the (Turn to page 5) Three Local 4-H Members Among Top In Penna. Three county 4-H club members have been selected as “Keystone Winners”—tops in Pa. 4-H Club Program. They axe Darvin Boyd, Ephrata Rl; Lgis Ann Overgaard Lancas ter R 4 and Barbara Ann Gamble, Columbia R 2. Boyd, 19, son of Mr. and Mrs Elmer Boyd, has been Leonard McChesney, R 3, selected as one of six boys Blairsvillc, for leadership, and girls from the state to _ . , , represent Pa at the 4-H Con- Darvm is a sophomore at gress, Nov. 25-30 in Chicago. Delaware Valley College or He was selected for achieve- Science & Agriculture. He ment - was reared’ on a 75-acre farm Lois Ann Overgaaid and Barbara Ann were a warded $5O Savings Bonds by Standard Brands, Inc, for team demonstration of bread making. Records submitted by boys and girls from throughout the state were studied by an extension staff committee for achievement, citizenship and leadership, and six were sel ected to represent Penna at the 4-H Congress There they will compete nationally for college scholar ships In addition to Boyd, the five selected are- Marcia Migyanko, R 3, Box 532, Uhiontown, also for achievement ; Jewel Ann Bit tner, R 3, Catawissa, and Goff Whitemght, Rl, Orangeville, for citizenship; Barbara Barkman, R 2, Somerset, and FIVE - DAY WEATHER FORECAST Sorturdov - Wednesday Temperature tor period Saturday through Wednes day expected to average near or a little above nor mal. Normal this time of year 61 degrees at night, 82 degrees in the afternoon. Warm through Saturday. Litle cooler Sunday. Only minor day to day changes thereafter. Precipitation may total 6/10 of an inch or more. Scattered showers Saturday and Sunday night and more general rain like ly about Tuesday, $2 Per Yea* *** ' V V f * ***** * ' ■***»■ DARVIN BOYD and has boon in 4-H Clab woik for 10 years having a 4-H investment of moie than $15,000 and has reported a profit of more than $4,000 His protect include swine, steel’s, beef bleeding, capons bees, tobacco, held com, el ectric, tractor strawberries and soil conservation II <> was piesident of the Lancas ter 4-H County Council in 1960, piesident of the £ies'>- man class in college, vi e piesident ot Student Countd and was twice selected to at tend 4-H Leadership School He also attended the Nihon al 4-II Conleronce The investment m agm al lure amounts to M 93 300,000- 000 This is •*! the value of surrent assets of all coi por tions in the United States
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