iL. 7. NO. 1
SOIL AND WATER CONSERVATION esays won U.S. Savings bonds for these three
.iig people Presenting a $5O bond to Miss C Jane Henry of the New Providence Com
un.ty club is Mr Earl Rebman, Lancaster businessman, left Looking on are * Miss Pat
artmen, Ephrata R 1 and Gary Porter, Washmgton Boro Rl, winners of $25 bonds Reb
an made the presentations on behalf of the agriculture committee of the Lancaster Ki
'ams club at a luncheon Tuesday in the Hotel Brunswick —L. F. Photo
ount Joy Capon Club Roundup
'hampionship Goes To Shoemaker
Uniformity of the two- The Wivell capons carried
ird exhibit of Thomas Shoe better color, according to
iaker won him the grand judge Carl JDossm, Extension
lampionship in the Mount Poultry Specialist from Pen
>y Capon Club roundup nsylvania State University,
; Hostetter’s Banquet hall but the uniformity, finish,
itesday. fleshing and freedom from
With two dressed capons
iat the scales at
% pounds each. Shoemaker
16 year-old club member
•om Bainbndge Rl, topped
le entry of Virginia Wivell,
tolumbia R 2.
HI A Cows
etNew Records
Figures for* the 1961 test
ig year just completed
low that the average Dairy
erd Improvement Associat
in pow in Pennsylvania es
iblished a new-all-time re
>rd of 10,815 lbs of milk
id 423 lbs of butterfat.
ill F Kelso, extension
(iryman at Penn State,
ys this is an increase of
57 lbs of milk and 7 lbs.
: butterfat over 1960. Just
re years ago the average
•eduction of cows on DHIA
st was 9 733 lbs. of milk
id 389 lbs. of butterfat.
tie county agricultural ag
it can supnly further de
ils on the D H.I A program
Farm Calendar
tFrom cage 11
bv. 27 7:30 pm. - Lan
caster County chapter Fu
ture Farmers Of America
meets in the Pequea Val
ley High School.
fov. 28—11 am. - 4-H Baby
Beef club steers to arrive
at the Lancaster Union
Stockyards
1 -pm - Judging of the
Lancaster County 4-H Ba
by beef dub steers.
7:30 pm - Home prepared
ness -workshop at the New
Providence Elementary
School, sponsored by the
New Providence Civil De
fense. Speaker is N. E.
fov. 29 9 a. m - Judging
of the Southeast District
Baby Beef steers at the
Lancaster Union Stock
yards
1 pnn. - Sale of the baby
beef club steers at the
stockyards.
(Turn to page 9)
defects in the Shoemaker
entiT were outstanding.
Shoemaker, the son of Mr.
and Mrs. Willis Shoemaker,
won praise from Dossin for
the dressing job on the
birds.
In the project book scoring
Donald S Miller, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Christ N. Miller, of
Elizabethtown Rl topped the
field with a 98.7 out of a
possible 100 points. Miller
was fourth in the two-bird
Turkey Dinner
Cost You Less
Than Ever Before
This Thanksgiving the A
merican people enjoyed a
Thanksgiving dinner which
cost them less than at any
time in the past decade
They were able to do this
because the turkey grower
had to sell his turkeys at a
price which did not repay
him for his costs, let alone
pay him for his labor.
Cost of turkey and the
trimmings for a Thanksgiv
ing dinner for four this year
was about 80 cents less than
last year and lowest in more
than a decade, according to
a survey made by the U. S.
Department of Agriculture
through the Chicago office
(Turn to page 4)
Club Members
Draw For Steers
One hundred Lancaster
county youngsters became
the proud owners of as many
steer calves Saturday as
members of the Red Rose
Baby ‘Beef and Lamb Club
drew lots at New Holland
for their 1962 project calves.
Members first drew lots agricultural products,
for the order in which they Also reelected were Loren
were to draw for the calves. Murphy, Master of the lowa
A total of 64 Angus calves State Grange, assistant stew
and 42 Hereford calves we- ard, and Franklin Nixon,
re in the pens waiting for Master of the New Jersey
(Turn to page 12) State Grange, chaplain.
Lancaster Farming, Saturday, November 25, 1961
exhibit
Virginia Wivell, daughter
of Mr. and Mrs Clyde Wiv
ell, was second with 97.25.
Larry 'E. Brubaker, son of
Mr and Mrs. Robert Bruba
ker, Mount Joy Rl, was in
third place in both the two
bird exhibit and total score
H s pro ect book had a 97 for
management.
In fourth place in the ma
nagement contest was Jean
Miller, Elizabethtown Rl
(Turn to page 9)
J. C. McSparran
Named Treasurer
Of Natl. Grange
J. Collins McSparran, the
Master of the Pennsylvania
State Grange and formerly
a Lancaster County resident,
was elected treasurer o£ the
National Grange at a recent
meeting in Worcester, Mass.
Hershel D. Newsom, an
Indiana grain farmer was re
elected to the post of Master
a position he has held since
1955.
Overseer for the year will
be A. Lars Nelson, Master
J. COLLINS McSPARRAN
of the Washington State
Grange. William A. Brake,
Master of the Michigan St
ate Grange was elected lec
turer.
Newsom, 55, is also Master
of the Indiana State Grange.
He is currently serving on
several committees advising
the federal government on
rural development and in
ternational distribution of
AGRICULTURAL Li Rif ARY
MSYLVAWIA STATE COLLEGE
Soil And Water Essay
Wins Bond For 4-H Girl
The story of how a5O acre man, Ephrata Rl, and Gary
New Providence Township Porter, son of Mr. and Mrs.
farm fits into the national Edgar Porter, Washingto,
Soil and Water Conservation Boro Rl.
program won a SSJ Savings Miss Zartmen’s essay was
bond for a Lancaster Coun- on conservation in the "Sp
ty 4-H girl Tuesday. ace Age.” Porter wrote on
Miss C. Jane Henry, dau- the conservation program on
ghter of Mr. and Mrs. Ray his father’s farm.
mond Kenneth Henry, New Making the presentations
Providence Rl, reporter for was Earl Rebman, Lancaster
the New Providence 4-H com businessman, acting on be
munity club, won the bond half of John C. Long chair
in the Soil and Water con- man of the Kiwanis Agricul
servation essay contest spon- ture Committee
sored bv the Lancaster Ki- Arnold Lueck, assistant
wanis Club. County Agent, was main
Winning $25 bonds were speaker at the l uncheon of
Miss Pat Zartman, daughter tb° club in the Hotel Bruns
of Mr. and Mrs. Ira Zart- wick.
First Year Turkey Club Member
Has First Prize Thanksgiving Bird
A first year member in the
Lancaster County 4-H Tur
key club made the older
members eat crow Tuesday
night as he walked away
with the grand prize for his
dressed bird at the club
roundup.
(Picture on Page 5)
James Dombach, a 15 year
old student at Manheim Cen
tral High School, put down
25 Broad Breasted Bronze
turkey poults on April 27.
His first try at turkey rais
ing came to a high climax
when his 15 pound-12 ounce
hen was judged best in the
field of six well dressed
New Holland
Young Farmers
To Organize
Discussion and a demon
stration of Farm Tractor
Maintenance will be on the
program of the first meeting
of the New Holland. Young
and Adult Farmer classes
The classroom instruct .on
at the first meeting on Nov
ember 28 at 7 p.m. in the
Garden Spot high school, in
New Holland will feature
the use of a dynamometer
in testing a tractor engine.
Any intersted farmer in
the Eastern Lancaster Coun
ty Joint School District is
mvited to attend the class
in the Agriculture Depart
ment of the school, instruct
ors Robert Herr and Eugene
Daugherty say.
The Young and Adult Far
mer classes will run through
the winter months covering
a variety of topics of in
terest to farmers and will
include the use of the farm
mechanics shop. The pur
pose of these classes is to
keep local farmers up-to
date with the changing tr
ends in agriculture, obtain
new ideas in order to im
prove their own farming
operation, and to use the fa
cilities of the high school
to carry out these ideas.
The classes will be spon
sored bv the Vocational Ag
ricultural Department of the
Garden Spot High School
and will be free of charge.
Interested farmers are en
couraged to attend the or
ganization meeting or call
the Vo-Ag. Department for
further information.
$2 Per Yea*
birds.
James, the son of Mr and
Mrs Ira H. Dombach, Man
heim R 2, saw his entry sell
at auction to a member of
the sponsoring Strasburg
Lions Club for 62 cents per
pound or a total of $9.75.
The young farmer operates
a 14 cow dairy herd with
his brother Kenneth on the
40 acre farm of their father
who works away from the
farm.
In second place in the ex
hibits was another student
Mary Esther Hess, 17, the
daughter of Mr and Mrs.
Henry G. Hess, Manheim R 3
Miss Hess is a student nurse
at the Lancaster General
Hospital. Her dressed bird
weighed 16% pounds and
brought 61 cents per pound
for a total of $lO 21.
In the total project book
score Roger Stoner, son of
Mr and Mrs. H. Raymond
Stoner, 1051 Eden Road, led
the way with 98 points out
(Turn to page 12)
Mast Steer
Brings $2.55
Last Week, LANCASTER
FARMING mistakenly re
ported the price paid by a
Baltimore packing firm' for
the grand champion of the
Eastern National Livestock
Exposition as $2 25 per lb
The 880 pound Hereford
exhibited by Wesley Mast,
Elverson R 2, was bid in at
$2 55 per pound. This was
one of the highest prices
ever paid for a champion at
the show.
FIVE-DAY
WEATHER
FORECAST
Saturday - Wednesday
Temnoralures during the
next five days are expect
ed to average about two
degrees above the normal
range of 33 at night to
48 in the afternoon Near
seasonable temperatures
are expected during the
beginning of the period
and mild weather there
after Precipitation may to
tal 0.4 inch or more oc
curing towards the end of
the period. , ~