OL.. 8, NO. 47
VI
Warwick Future Farmers
Retire Judging Trophy
Future Farmers of America from Warwick chapter took
a firm hold of the third leg of the Lampeter Community
Pair judging trophy and won permanent possession of the
revolving plaque. Announcement was made at a special
meeting of the county teachers of vocational agriculture at
Penn Manor High School Wednesday afternoon.
Manheim Chapter mem
bers, who had retired the Penn Manor and Albert Ob
previous trophy in just three er> Manheim R 3, Manheim
years, came in second in the’ Central High School with
field of 10 county schools. 2688 out of a possible 300
Warwick’s judges turned P°mts
in an amazing 416.75 aver- Another Penn Manor Stu
age of a possible 600 points dent > Larry Hess of Lancast
m the entire contest. Man- R8 > won the livestock di
heim racked up an average v^on > which included class
of 411.51 points. Total scores es in beef, swine and poult
of all the judges in all six ry ’ a 276.1 of a possib
judging classes at Lampeter * e 888 points. Second place
Fair were added together ound a tie a£ 272.3 shared
and divided by the number by Glenn Hess, Washington
in the contest to arrive at Boro R 1 o£ Penn-Manor and
the averages. Larry Rohrer, Lititz H 2 of
Five Warwick judges were Manheim Central,
among the ten high individ- Other placmgs in the
ual judges in the county, 3 ud Sing matches were as fol
but Maynard Shirk, East lows
Earl HI, of the Grasslands
Chapter at New Holland
Schoolf was high individual
scorer with a total of 515
points. Second high individ-
ual scorer was Glenn Hess,
Washington Boro HI, of
Penn-Manor High School
with 513.8 points.
In the dairy judging phase
of the contest a tie for first
place was shared by Harold-
C. Lefever, Lancaster R 2 of
Livestock Tour
Is Next Week
Livestock feeding opera
tions. -and a meat packing
plant will be on the program
next Thursday when the an
nual Livestock Tour for cat
tle and hog feeders in Lan
caster and nearby counties
moves out by bus.
Members of the tour will
visit the packing plant of
Abrogast and Bastian in
Allentown as well as the
Lehigh farm operated by
the same firm where 1,000
hogs are fed automatically
and manure is handled by
tlie lagoon system.
After a stop at the Lehigh
Valley Cooperative Bull Stud
at Allentown, the group will
see a 300-head cattle feeding
operation with automatic
ieedlng and materials hand
ling at Snyder-Lehigh Farms
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Farm Calendar
Oct. 16—8.00 pm - County
4-H Council in the Farm
Bureau Building. Diller
villo Rd., Lancaster.
Oct. 17 —8:00 p.m - Manor
Young Farmers. Panel on
Steer Feeding moderated
by County Agent M. M
Smith. Panel members are
John Sangrey, Clyde Esh
leman, Richard Neff and
Abram Charles. All Steer
feeder? are invited. Penn
Manor high school.
8:00 pm. - West Lampeter
Young Farmers meet. Pro
gram is Stocks and Bonds
As an Investment.
8:00 p.m. - Drumore Com
munity 4-H club meets in
the Chestnut Level Church
House.
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Devise Local Programs
PFA Secretary Warns
*lf you are going to continue to oppose federpL-aid to
education, you had better come up with a constructive pro
gram, and you had better be prepared to tax yourself to
provide it,” members of the Lancaster County Farmers As
sociation were told Tuesday night at Quarryville.
Hollis Hatfield, secretary sociation) is planning a
of the Pennsylvania Farm- marketing program, based on
er’s Association, speaking at contract growing, for process
the annual banquet of the tomato growers. The pro-
Lancaster County affiliate, gram will cut right across
called defeat of tha federal state lines and will be eh
aid to education bill, one of forced by the farmers them
the “three greats” accompli- selves. “And farmers have
shed by the American Farm a right to do this under the
Bureau Federation. The Capper-Volstead act,” Hat-
AFBF is the parent organi- field said,
zation of the Pennsylvania But he warned the farm-
Farmers’ Association. ers that if the program fail-
Hatfield said the failure ed to work, they (the farm
of the labor unions to or- ers) would have no one to
ganize farmers and farm la- blame but themselves. Un
bor in California and the de- less the farmers devise pro
feat of the Administration grams and make them work
proposed farm bill were the they can expect more fed
other two major triumphs eral controls,
of the AFBF during the past The members approved
year. 12 prepared resolutions, de-
Hatfield told farmers the one and tabled one
’“Farm Bureau” is opposed “ ntl * a special dairy commit
to federal aid to education, toe can meet with a repre
but it will probably pass the sentative of the PFA. The
next time it is proposed in act ion came _ after
Congress. He said farmers Arthur Brown, Nottingham
have three alternatives m questioned the advisitail
solving the problems of ag- asking for the season
nculture They can let the a l changes m the price of
government make the deci- to be discontinued,
sions and apply controls; After considerable discus
they can affiliate with labor sion, the members voted to
unions, or farmers can make delete that portion of the
the decisions and work out four point resolution. After
the programs themselves. questions had been raised on
Farm Bureau (not to be two of the other points of
confused with the Lancaster the resolution, the entire
County or Pennsylvania Fa- proposal was tabled,
rm Bureau Cooperative As- (Turn to page 4)
soSsSs-
Lancaster Farming, Saturday, October 14, 1961
ROBERT HENNEY, TEACHER OF VOCATIONAL Ag
riculture at Warwisk Union High School, Lititz, left, accepts
congratulations from George Myers making a presentation
on behalf of the Lampeter Community Fair Association.
The Future Farmers of America judging team coached by
Henney captured the team trophy for the third consecutive
year and gained permanent possession of the placque.
Myers is teacher of vocational Agriculture at Lampeter-
Strasburg High School. The presentation was made at a
meeting of tire county Vo Ag. teachers at Penn Manor on
Wednesday —L F. Photo
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3 Countians Plan
Grass Field Day
Three Lancaster Countians
have been selected to serve
on "the planning committee
for the first annual Grass
lands Conference to be held
next year.
Edward A. Silver and G.
Richard Olmstead, both of
New Holland Machine Com
pany and J Carlton Schuldt,
Farm manager of Masonic
Homes Farms, Elizabeth
town, along with representa
tives of other related indus
tries as well as representa
tives of the Milton S. Her
shey farms, host for the con
ference, will have the re
sponsibility of planning the
program for the two day af
fair, August 16 and 17, 1962.
Co-sponsors of the event
are the American Grassland
Council and the Pennsylvan
ia Grassland Council, and
the presidents of the two
councils, Dr. John B Wash
ko, American and Dr. John
E. Baylor, Pennsylvania, arc
co-chairmen of the planning
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Former Editor
Chairs Meet
Ernest J Neill, former
Lancaster Farming editor,
will be presiding officer Wed
nesday, Oct 18 at the after
noon session of the Feed In
dustry Public Relations Con
ference in Chicago
As vice chairman of the
public relations committee
of the American Feed Mfg
Association, Mr Neill will
introduce James J Bowe,
Cargill account executive for
Carl Byoir & Associates.
Minneapolis; Jack R. Haskin,
assistant director of Research
Curtis Publishing Co , Phila
delphia; Frank Neu, public
relations director ot the Am
erican Dairy Association,
and W T (Bill) Diamond,
secretary-treasurer, AFMA.
Mr. Neill is on an extend
ed marketing trip into Colo
rado and Nebraska as well as
conferring in Chicago and
Des Moines on advertising &
sales programs.
$2 Per Yea*
Poultrymen
To Hold Two
Meetings
Two meetings have been
scheduled by the Lancaster
County Poultry Association,
it was announced this week.
At the first of the two,
members will be asked to
consider moving to join’ with
the Lancaster County Agri
culture Center and move
them operations into the
proposed Agriculture Centei
building. The meeting is
called for Oct. 19 at 7:45, in
the Poultry Center 230 by
pass and the Roseville Road.
During the following
week, Dr. Carl Bitner of the
Poultry Department at the
Pennsylvania State Univer
sity, will show slides and
speak on his recent trip to
Russia at the Annual Ban
quet of the Association. The
banquet is slated to begin at
6 30 pm. in Hostotter’s Ban
quet hall, Mount Joy on Oct.
26. Tickets are available
from directors or the office
at the Poultry Center
Three To Attend
State SCD Meet
Three Lancaster County
soil conservationists plan to
attend the 14th annual Con
ference of Soil Conservation
District Directors to be held
at Bloomsburg, October 26-
27.
Announcement will be
made at the meeting of a
new conservation youth pro
gram designed to stimulate
conservation interest among
the Commonwealth’s 11,000
vocational agriculture stu
dents, according to Amos
Funk, chairman of the Lan
caster County Soil Conserva
tion District. It will bo spon
sored under a grant of the
Sears-Rocbuck Foundation,
he said.
Over 200 district directors
and conservation leaders are
expected to attend the two
day meeting Presiding wiH
be W L. Henning, chairman
of the State Soil Conserva
tion Commission, and Gerald
Bullock, Belleville, president
of the Pennsylvania Associa
tion of Soil Conservation
District Directors
Raymond Shafler of Dal
matia will report on plans
for Pennsylvania’s first na
tional meeting of over 2,000
soil conservationists to be
held in Philadelphia next
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FIVE - DAY
WEATHER
FORECAST
Sntnrdnv •
Temperaiuros during the
next five days are expected
to average near the norm
als of 67 in the afternoon
to 45 at night, becoming
somewhat cooler at the be
ginning of the week but
warming up again Wednes
day. Precipitation during
the period may total 0.1 to
0.5 falling as rain or show
ers Sunday or early Mon
day.