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s oultrymen To
Hear McSparran
J. Collins McSparran, Mas
er of the Pennsylvania State
Grange will be the main
J. COLLINS McSPARRAN
le in the Poultry Center on
oseville Road, the member
lip of the association will
e asked to vote approval of
mendment of the bylaws to
ermit the appointment of
>me “Committeemen at
arge” by the directors of
le association.
Also on the agenda will
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Yorkshire
F ype Conference
rfHarrisburg
!■ The Pennsylvania State
'arm Show building in Har
isburg. will be the site of
le 1962 Yorkshire Type
bnference sponsored by the
merican Yorkshire Club,
ic.
Activities in the three day
rent will get underway at
am, on January 25 with
ie penning and numbering
I entries. During the same
ly, at 3 pm, showing of
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arm Calendar
m 23 - 10 a m.—Poultry
Outlook meeting by York
Extension Service at Cat
erpillar Tractor Plant on
Rt. 30 East of York.
8 p.m —Special member
ship meeting of Producers
Cooperative Exchange
(Coatesville Egg Auction)
m the Pequea Valley
High School.
to 27—National
Yorkshire" Swine Type
Conference in the Farm
Show Building, Harrisburg
1 ?25 - 12 noon—lnterstate
Milk Producers banquet at
the Quarryville Methodist
Church.
f J?‘ m - anniversary
tather and son banquet of
the Solanco FFA. In the
Solanco High School, Rt.
■&2 South of Quarryville.
8 p.m.—Annual meeting of
the Lancaster County Poul
try Association at the
poultry Center, Roseville
Road and 230 bypass. Col
htts McSparran, speaker,
tn 29 . 7:30 p.m.—County
chapter FFA meets at the
Requea Valley HighScho
°‘- Rose Farmer de
to be conferred.
Lancaster Farming. Saturday, January 20, 1962
New D.H.I.A. Directors
THREE NEW DIRECTORS of the Red Rose Dairy Herd
Improvement Association pose with the winner of the high
herd award at the annual banquet of the association. Direct
ors are L to R, Kenneth Skiles, R2, John J. Ober
holtzer, 171 Newport Road, Leola, and Irwin Musser, Mount
Jo® R 1 Far right is J. Mowery Frey, Jr., Hans Herr Drive,
Lancaster R 7, whose herd of purebred Holsteins produced
an average of 600 lbs. of butterfat during the year to take
first place in the_association for the second consecutive year.
The banquet was held Thursday at noon in'the Hotel Bruns
wick. —L.F. Photo
County Tobacco Company
Contracting In Kentucky
1 x, > \ it ■ m
About 300 acres of Lancaster Seedleaf (Type' 41) tobac
co were grown in Washington County, Kentucky last year
under contract with a local tobacco company.
A story in the Louisville
(Kentucky) Courier-Journal ers here are with to
for January 8, quotes a Lan- becco growing ”
caster County cigar company “Pennsylvania filler grow
official, Paris Gruber, as say- ers have always rejected
ing “Continued urban en- marketing quotas or acreage
croachment on farmlands is restrictions on their crops,”
causing acreage to dwindle” the story continued, .“and
in Lancaster County. will vote again on a control
The story continues, “The Program for the 1962 crop,
tobacco is grown here on a Gruber said his company is
kind of contract basis with no * interested in any more
the company which supplies growers now.’
farmers with the seed and The Courier-Journal’s farm
then buys the tobacco.” editor interviewed some of
The story credited Gruber
with saying, “there are a
bout 300 acres of the tobac
co being grown in the six
county area in Kentucky. He
said officials of his company
selected Washington County
area to introduce the crop
here because the land is
most nearly like that in
Pennsylvania and the farm-
Poultry Disease
Meeting Set
By York Assn.
All poultrymen of Lanc
aster County have been in
vited to attend the joint
meeting of the York-Adams
poultrymen on January 23.
The Poultry Outlook, the
latest on Leucosis, vaccines,
use of records and egg mar
keting regulations will be
subjects for discussion by
experts in the poultry field.
Carl O. Dossin, Extension
poultry specialist from the
Pennsylvania State Univer
sity will lead off _the pro
gram at 10 a.m. in the Cater
pillar Tractor plant on Rt.
30 just east of York.
Other ‘speakers will be Dr.
Robert F. Gentry of the de
partment of veterinary sci
ence at PSU; James T. Hall,
farm management specialist
from PSU, and Edward Law
less of the Bureau of Mar
kets, Harrisburg.
the farmers who have been
growing the Lancaster Coun
ty tobacco in addition to their
Burley allotment. One of the
growers, William Smith
hopes it will be a successful
crop. He was quoted as say
ing “I can’t put anything
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Purebred Stock
Associations
Listed In Book
The National Society of
Live Stock Record Associa
tions has published a direct
ory of the Purebred Live
stock Registry Associations,
listing the secretary and ad
dresses of the Associations
of Beef and Dual Purpose
Cattle, Dairy Cattle, Draft
Horses, Light Horses, Ponies
Sheep, Goats and Swine
These are now available for
free distribution.
To those interested in
Purebred Livestock, this
booklet furnishes the names
and addresses of the breeds
from which free literature
may be obtained, and serves
as a very useful reference
to all segments of the Live
stock industry. The directory
should be of much interest
to members of 4-H and
FFA chapters
Mail requests to Allan C
Atlason, Secretary, 3964
Grand Avenue, Gurnee, 111.
Frey Herd
With 600
J. Mowery Frey, Jr, Hans Herr Road, Lancaster' R 7,
was awarded a plaque and a gold irosette for having the
highest herd average in the Red Rose Dairy Herd Improve
ment Association testing program in 1961 at the annual ban
quet of the association, Thursday.
Frey’s herd of 34 pure- relative position with the
bred Holstein cows produced Frey herd as last year
an average of 15,082 pounds Holding third position, as
of milk and 600 pounds of it did last year, the register
butterfat per cow during the ed Holstein herd of Paul B.
testing year. Zimmerman, Ephrata HI,
Following closely in sec- produced 565 pounds of but
ond place was the herd of 45 terfat in 14,922 pounds of
purebred Guernseys owned milk.
by Raymond F. and Louise Fourth and fifth positions
A. Witmer, Willow Street were reversed from last year
Rl. With an average of 595 with the herd of Hiram
pounds of butterfat in 11,662 Aungst, Elizabethtown Rl
pounds of milk per cow, the averaging 565 pounds of but-
Witmer herd held the same (Turn to page 9)
Producers Cooperative Exchange
To Vote On Merger Proposals
Stockholders in the Pro
ducers Cooperative Exchan
ge will be asked to vote on
proposals to turn over the
management of the coopera
tive to a larger cooperative
at a special meeting next
week.
The board of directors of
the Producers Cooperative,
known locally as Coatesville
Egg Auction, have called
the special meeting for 8
pm, January 23 in the
Pequea Valley High School.
Stockholders will be asked
to consider resolutions re
lating to ratification and ef
fecting the boards action m
considering the proposal of
Pennsylvania Farm Bureau
Cooperative Association to
acquire the assets and liabili
Funk Elected
To 10th Term
By County SCO
Amos Funk, Millersville
Rl, was reelected Monday
night, to his 10th consecutive
term as chairman of the Lan
caster County Soil Conserva
tion District Directors.
Funk, who was elected
first to replace Arthur E.
Brown, Nottingham R 2, the
AMOS FUNK
first chairman of the district,
in 1951 has served every
year since
Brown, who served one
year as chairman of the
newly-organized district, was
named the Outstanding Con
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$2 Per Yeai
Tops DHIA
Pounds Fat
ties of Producers Coopera
tive Exchange and to oper
ate the business of the ex
change.
The action of the board
was taken in December of
last year after the poultry
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4-H Leaders
Name Directors
Five new directors were
elected and five were reelect
ed by the Lancaster County
4-H Leaders’ Council Monday
night.
The council elects one
home economics club leader
and one agricultural club
leader from each of five
county districts to act as a
board of directors.
From the Southeast dis*
trict both members wen
newly elected to office. They
are Mrs Earl Kreider, Quar
ry ville HI, and Wilbur Hous
er, Lampeter.
New directors from the
Northeast district are Mrs.
Herbert Royer, 2025 Oregon
Pike, Lancaster, and Chester
Nolt, Bareville.
Daniel Trimble, Quarry
ville Rl, was elected and
Mrs Charles Woods was re
elected to represent the
Southern district
From the Southwest dis
trict both Mrs Kenneth Mus
ser, Columbia Rl and Rich
ard Lefever, Quarryville Rl,
were returned to office as
were Mrs. Hoxie Thomas, of
Manheim, and Mylin Good,
Manheim Rl
A reorganization meeting
will be held later this month.
FIVE-DAY
WEATHER
FORECAST
Saturday - Wednesday
Temperatures during the
next five days are expected
to average two to ten de
grees below the normal
range of 24 at night to 39
in the afternoon. Contin
ued cold is expected thru
most of the period except
some moderation Monday
or Tuesday. Precipitation
may total V 2 inch or more,
melted, falling as snow
Saturday and a chance of
rain or snow again about
Wednesday.