7. NO. 10 '■‘T-'y* r , V V ■* V. 'n „ i involved in a nuclear atta«. Learning some of -ne points operating Geiger funters are left to right W. Martin Muth, Work Unit Conservationist; Abner Houseknecht jnservation Aid; Henry Mellott, Soil Conservationist, and Paul Anderson, Conservation id. gg Producers' Co-op o Stay Independent Producers Cooperative Ex ange voted overwhelming this week to remain an (dependent egg marketing operative. At a special meeting in e Pequea Valley High hool Tuesday night, stock ilders in the cooperative >ted 150 to 54 to reject the oposal by which Pennsyl mia Farm Bureau Coopera /e Association would as ime all assets and liabilities the egg marketing coop ative in an exchange of ock transaction. At a meeting of the board the Producers Cooperative tchange on December 8, st year, the directors ap 'oved, subject to acceptance r the membership, the pro >sal of the state wide co lerative organization. During the regular annual eetmg of the Producers ooperative Exchange on ecember 12, members were formed of the board action id told a special meeting arm Calendar >n 29 - 7:30 pm—County chapter FFA meets at the Pequea Valley High Scho ol Red Rose Farmer de grees to be conferred. in 29 - 31—Vegetable grawers, cannfirs, fieldmen educational conference at the Pennsylvania State University. - •n 29 - 8 pm —Farm Out look meeting sponsored by the County Extension Ser vice Production Credit Building, Roseville Road , !n 30 - 6:30 pm—New Holland Farm Show Ban quet, Liberty Fire Hall. 5b l - 7so p.m —Solanco Young Farmers Meeting. Subject Farm Fires. In the Solanco High School, at Quarryville R 2. 4-9—-National Conven tion of Soil Conservation District Directors in the Sheraton Hotel, Philadel phia. e J ) 5 - 8 p m.—County 4-H headers Council election officers in the Farm Bureau Building, Diller ville Road, Lancaster, •V *< J. would be called during Jan uary for the purpose of tak ing action 'on tile board’s recommendation. Heavy losses in the poul try dressing phase of the (Turn to Page 5) Farm Women 12 Hear Delegates The Society of Farm Women No. 12 met recently at the home of Mrs. James Fry, Conestoga R 2, with Mrs Amer Ressler as co-hostess. Misses Janet Fry and Joyce Fisher sang a duet Miss Fry sang a solo. Reports from the state convention earlier this mon th were given by Mrs. Lester Sigman and the president, Mrs. Willis .Click. The society voted to raise their dues to $2 00 annually, payable in October. Plans were made to sew for the American Cancer Society on February 21 at the home of Mrs William Shenk, Lanc aster R 6. The next meeting is sched uled for February 17 at 2 pm at the home of Mrs Willis Click, Conestoga R 2, Fur Pelt Care Demonstrated At 4-H Club A demonstration on skin ning fur bearing animals and properly preparing the pelt was presented by Marvin Shenk and Jay Foreman at the recent meeting of the Lititz 4-H Wildlife club. During the meeting in the home of Anette Long, Lititz R 3, members answered roll call by naming the birds they had observed at their feeders Jay Foreman, president, exhibited a flushing bar and explained how it is placed on the front of a tractor to flush wildlife away from the path of the mower cutter bar. Lancaster Farming, Saturday, January 27, 1962 < v>< ; t S. -•sS-J County SCS Men Study CivilDefejise Lancaster County has be en designated as One of the Pennsylvania stations sched uled to assemble data on radioactive fallout' reports State Conservationist, Ivan McKeever of the U. S. Soil Conservation Service. McKeever said the county station will be part of ,the national network for provid ing instructions to farmers in the management of soil, crops and farm animals in case of an atomic attack. ~ , , ~ _ , by Agindustry, He said. At the annual meeting of .. The + up Owen, a former student the association in the Lancas- Soil Conservation Sendee and teacher of vocational ag- ter Poultry Center, members Instructions for monitoring nculture at the school cited elected six members to three radioactive fallout and op- man y changes in agriculture year terms on the board of erating the station in Lan- in the past 25 years and urg- directors. caster County were provid- ed farmers to stop thmging John Copenhaver, Eliza ed at Harrisburg last week about the “Good old days” bethtown, will represent egg for W. Martin Muth, Work and to begin thinking about handlers while Jay Greider, (Turn to page 8) the “Good new days.” He Mount Joy, will be one of the spokesmen for hatcheries _ . n I on th e board for the next 3 Soil Conservation Parley years. . _i • i lII* Growers elected were Mark Scheduled For Philadelphia Hosier, Manheim R 3 and Carl Harnish, Conestoga. Returned Harrisburg Pennsylvania tion and generously sprin- the board were Raymond is the host state for the 16th kled with social activities Stoner, 1051 Eden Road and annual convention of the Na- designed to point up the Charles Warfel 11, Conestoga tional Association of Sod Commonwealth’s reputation R 2. Conservation Districts. It op- for hospitality, is being ar- Officers will be elected ens in the Sheraton Hotel, in ranged. from the board of directors Philadelphia, Sunday, Febru- Philadelphia's Mayor Rich- on February lat the regular ary 4 and runs through Fri- ardson Dilworth will wel- (Turn to page 10) day, February 9. come the delegates on Mon- This is the third time in da y morning. On Tuesday FIVE - DAY less than five years that the Governor David L. Lawrence WPBTWPB Keystone a major will officially extend he WEATHER national agricultural conven- welcome in behalf of the FORECAST tion. In each case it was the Commonwealth, first time that Pennsylvania U. S Secretary of Agncul was accorded the recognition, ture Orville Freeman will de- In 1958 the National Plow- liver a major address. Other ing Contest was held at Her- top level speeches will be shey. It the first time delivered by Pennsylvania this contest was held in any Secretary of Agriculture Wil state outside the middle West ham L Henning who is the A few months ago the Na- immediate past president of tional Association of State the National Association of Departments of Agriculture State Departments of Agri was held at Hershey. culture; Lyle Carpenter, im- Upwards of 2,000 delegates mediate past president of the from each of the 50 states Future Farmers of America; will be in attendance. A pro- Roy D Hockensmith, presi gram featuring specialists in dent Soil Conservation Soci every field of agriculture ety of America; and William with emphasis on conserve- (Turn to page 8) Milk Quotas Are Pushing Dairy Co-op Head Says Dairymen who are adding cows in the hope of build ing quotas for themselves are laboring under a mistaken idea, members of the Interstate Milk Producers Cooperative were told Thursday \ V Members of the Quarry- dairymen, he said. Many ville and Southern Lancaster people have the feeling that County locals of District 11 there are no alternatives to of the cooperative heard O. quotas—many say that quo- H. Hoffman, general manager tas will be so rigid that they of the cooperative say, “Any can not change unless a dairy quotas, if they come, will be man buys more quota from a based on 1961.” Don’t add neighbor or from the gov cows, he said, with the idea ednment the government that you will be given a big having bought the quotas ger quota if production con- from dairymen going out of trols are imposed. business. There is a great deal of Hoffman said he did not misinformation and faulty know what would happen m ideas about quotas among (Turn to page 5) Agindustry Needs More Trained Men, Editor Says ■t some Aginindustry could absorb twice as many high school graduates, Jack Owen, Editor of Lancaster Farming, told Solanco Future Farmers Thursday night at the 25th anni versary Parent and Son banquet. Many people will say that traced the history of voca there is no room in agricul- tional agriculture at Solanco ture, but the facts do not from a basement room at bear this out, Owen said. It Quarryville High School in is true that only about four 1936 to the modern facilities out s of every 10 boys growing in the new and modem So up on farms will have an op- lanco High School just com portunity to make their liv- pleted. This year marked the ing on the farm, but with 40 first time the school had fa per cent of the jobs of the (Turn to page 12) nation directly related to ag riculture, there is no scarcity Dm iltrx/ A ccn of opportunity for high Y school graduates with a farm U A |J. Plarflnn background. nwiUs tIBV,|IWII Every year industry needs Lancaster County poultry twice as many college train- men Thursday evening voted ed farm boys as are avail- a change in the bylaws to able, and technicians with allow the “Appointment of any education beyond high Committeemen at large” by school are in great demand the board of directors. $2 Per Yea* Saturday • Wednesday Temperatures during the next five days are expected to average three to nine degrees above the normal range of 24 at night to 39 in the afternoon. Mild most of the period except colder late weekend and b gain near the end of the period. Precipitation may total .4 to .8 inch, melted falling primarily as rain at the beginning of the period and as snow flurries late in the period.
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