"VOL 7. NO. 7
Three Generations Crop Reporters
To be Recognized Next Week
Three generations of Crop State Secretary of Agricul
reporting by the Graybill ture William L Henning will
Hershey family of Manheim, make the presentations at the
will be recognized at the fourth annual Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania State Farm Crop Reporters meeting, on
Show. Mr. Hershey enrolled Thursday, January 11.
as a reporter in 1934 and
continued .until December
1961 when his son Daniel as
sumed the traditional duty.
The elder Hershey’s service
dated back to pre-World War
I days when he assisted his
father with reporting.
-Twelve outstanding volun
teer crop reporters will re
ceive meritorious awards.
The recipients were selected
on the basis of years of ser
vice and regularity of reports
to the State Crop Reporting
Service.
Tobacco Sales
Open Season
The Lancaster County to
bacco market opened this
week with two firms going
into the field with contract
books Wednesday and most of
the other buyers following
suit Thursday.
Consolidated Cigar Corp
and P. Lorillard Co. were re
ported buying some tobacco
at 30 and 20 on Wednesday
afternoon.
'On Thursday these two
firms were followed into the
sheds by American Tobacco
Gn. offering 25 to 30 for
wrappers and 15 to 20 for
fiflera Considering quality,
General Cigar Co. paying. 30
andr 20, and Bloch Brothers
buying some crops- a 27
through with the junk out.
Consolidated continued its
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Auctioneers
Hold Meet
‘She 16th annual meeting
of -"the Pennsylvania Auctio
neers Association was in
session yesterday and will
continue In session today at
the Penn Harris Hotel, in
Harrisburg, according -to J.
Omar Landis, Area chapter
president.
* speaker at the
banquet tonight will be Co
lonel Bernard Hart, execu
tive secretary of the Nation
al "Auctioneers Association,
whose offices are in Frank
fort, Indiana.
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Farm Calendar
Jan. 8 thru 12—Pennsylvan
ia State Farm Show at
'Harrisburg. See complete
schedule in Farm show
section inside.
Jan. 11—B p.m. - Lampeter -
Streshcxg Young Fanners
meet in the Lampeter
-Strasburg High School.
Subject to be “Income
Tsk".
Jan 13—2 to 6 pm. - Chick
en Bar-B-Que at the Poult
ry -Center, Roseville Road
and the 230 By-pass. Take
outs only. Sponsored by
Lancaster County Poultry
Association.
Jan. IS—-7:30 jun. - Lancas
~ter County Soil Conserva
tion District Directors
-meet in the - Court House,
Lancaster.
There are approximately
15,000 voluntary crop .report
ers located throughout all
areas of the state actively en
gaged in submitting monthly
or periodic crop and live
stock reports to the Pennsyl
vania Crop Reporting Ser
vice. The reports embrace
acreages and yields of the
principal crops grown in the
Commonwealth; livestock on
farms, and livestock produc
tion.
The monthly and periodic
reports directly from the
farm front by the producers
provide the basic data from
which official estimates are
determined
The annual FARM SHOW section will be found
on pages 5 through 12 of this issue of Lancaster
Farming. The section includes a preview story of
the Farm Show, a story about each of Lancaster
County's stale degree winners in both FHA and
FFA, the complete Farm Show schedule, and other
interesting. Farm Show features. We suggest you
lift the section but .and take it to the Farm Show
with you. Because of the special seclion/Womeitfs
Features this week will be fouhd on pages 13 and
14.
Farm Show Theme
Land Grant Colleges' Centennial
Harrisburg' Tribute to
the land .grant colleges and
universities of the nation tjn
Cow Brings $615
At Noll Sale
One registered Holstein
cow brought “$(515 at the
Harry Noll dispersal sale on
Centerville Road, Lancaster
on New Year’s day.
Another registered Hol
stein changed hands at an
even $6OO while another
crossed the block at $590
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FUTURE HOMEMAKERS FROM LANCASTER COUNTY WHO WILL RECEIVE
STATE HOMEMAKER degrees next week when the Pennsylvania FH A holds the
annual winter convention are, top row, Ito 'r. Anna Ruth Swanger, Ruth Graybill, Pat
Fellenbaum and. Frances Mellingerr bottom row, 1 to r, Janet Ginder, Judy Warfel, Kath
leen Hoover and Theresa Huber. Pictures were not available for Janet Frey, Elaine Erb,
Marion McKinsey and Rosalie Kreider.
Lancaster Farming, Saturday. January 6. 1962
Fred Frey Wins Five Acre Corn Contest
Harvests 170.2 Bushels Per Acre
Fred Frey, owner and
manager of Twin Oaks
Farms, Quarryville R 2 has
won top spot in the Lan- !
caster County five-acre corn j
contests with a total of 170.2 ;
bushels of shelled corn per
i
acre.
Frey planted his Pfister 1
FSXI9 on the 10th of May 1
and got a stand of 17,480
plants per acre. When the
yield was checked by per
sonnel of the County Agent’s
office on October 12, the •
grains tested 17.7 per cent
moisture. (
“I planted that piece of 1
com on ground that has
been in corn for about five 1
years,” Frey said. He also
felt it was not as thick as i
it might have been, but he :
had plant food available for
i the 109th birthday of their
I creation will be featured at
i the 1962 Pennsylvania Farm
Show .here January 8 thru
.12th.
The nation’s biggest indoor,
mid-winter -agricultural ex
position la dedicated to the
“Century of Progress” ach
ievedby the many state col
leges and universities that
were made- possible when
President Abraham Lincoln
signed the Morrill Land
Grant College Act in 1862.
Each of the 50 states now
has one or more such institu
tion of higher education of
fering instruction, extension
AGRICULTURAL LIBRARY
the crop and each year the
stover is plowed back into
the soil. “I believe my corn
crop has been better every
year I have planted corn
after corn in this field,” he
said.
Second high yeild in the
county was made by Harold
Rohrer, Lancaster R 7, with
a stand of 18,801 plants per
acre of Funk G9l. His yield
of 161.8 bushels per acre
was checked on October 3
when his com moisture
tested 20.7 .per cent. He
planted his corn on May 17.
Levi and Clinton Rohrer
of Lititz R 2 made 157.5
bushels per acre with 29,810
plants per acre of Funk G 93.
They planted May 16.
Last year’s winner, Clar
ence Keener, Sr., Manheim
R 3 was in fourth place with
154 8 bushels per acre He
Lancaster Farming Purchases
Lititz Record-Express Newspaper
Robert G. Campbell, Publisher of LANCASTER
FARMING, this week announced the purchase of the
LITITZ RECORD EXPRESS and the Record Printing
Company, commercial printing unit operated jointly
with the paper.
The transaction, which be
came effective January 1, in
cluded the business, equip
ment and machinery of the
Record-Express, one of the
county’s oldest weekly news
papers.
Operation of the printing
plant and publication of the
Lititz Record Express was
assumed by Campbell and
will be operated jointly with
Lancaster Farming.
William N. Young, pub
lisher of the Lititz paper
since October 15, 1938, will
continue temporarily - with
the editorial and news phas
es of the paper. He has been
an active newspaperman
since his graduation from Co
and research in agriculture
and the mechanic arts, accor
ding to State Agriculture
Secretary W. L Henning who
is chairman of the Farm
Show Commission.
$2 Per Yea*
planted 18,050 plants per
acre on May 17.
Other blue ribbon win
neis in the contest were
Carl Shelly of Manheim R 1
with 153 5 bushels per acre;
Jay Garber, Lancaster R 6,
with 153 2 bushels per acre
and Lloyd Sensenig, Ephra
ta R 1 with 150 bushels per
acre. All contestants produc
ing over 150 bushels per
acre were awarded blue
ribbons, Red ribbons went
to farmers producing betwe
en 125 and 149.9 bushels
per acre.
All records were made on
the basis of 56 pounds per
bushel of shelled corn cor
rected' to 15 5 per cent
moisture. Yield checks were
made by County Extension
Service personnel and veri
fied by the Pennsylvania
State University.
lumbia University in 1925.
Campbell, a Lancaster
County native, is a graduate
of Valley Forge Military
Academy and the Wharton
School, University of Penn
sylvania. He has been ac
tively engaged in newspaper
work in Lancaster County
for the past eight years and
has been publisher of Lan
caster Farming for three
years.
Rohrer Wins
Tobacco Show
Roy Rohrer of Strasburg
B 1 took his third consecutive
championship Thursday in
the Lancaster County Tobac
co show.
•Rohrer, who has won four
state Farm Show tobacco
championships turned the
trick this •tf'eek with a hand
of long filler.
J. C. Stehman, Lancaster
R 6 had the top hand of
wrapper tobacco while J. Ar
thur Swarr, Landisville ex
hibited the best binder hand.
The first FFA exhibition
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FIVE - DAY
WEATHER
FORECAST
Saturday - Wednesday
Temperature during, the
next five days are expect
ed to average 3 to 8 de
grees below the normal
range of 25 at night to 40
in the afternoon. Cold is
expected at the beginning
of the period moderating
somewhat near the middle
of the period and moder
ately cold again near the
end of the period. Precipi
tation of rain or snow is
expected about Saturday,
Monday and Wednesday
with up to an inch melted
falling during the period.