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KEE HONG AHN, A VISITOR to Lancaster County from Seoul, Korea,
looks over the analysis machine at the Lancaster County Farm Bureau Coopera
tive Association. Explaining the working of the machine is the regular operator,
Joyce Fisher, while Vincent Matter, Lancaster Branch manager of the cooperative,
looks on. Ahn said here that one of the great needs in his native country is the
application of more machines to industry. He is studying farm cooperatives and
cooperative banking and financing operations under the International Civil Assis
tance program between the two governments. L. F. Photo
Redcoat Wheat Passes
All Expected Qualities
Redcoat wheat is showing
up in tests better than all
expectations, Robert P Pfeifer,
Penn State University plant
Farm Calendar
June 25—Southeastern Pen
nsylvania County Agents
jucnic at Fiench Cieek
State Paik.
Jose 20 to 29—4-H club con
gress at the Pennsylvania
State University.
June 26 - 7.15 pm.—Manor
4-H community club project
tour. Members to meet at
Ann Letort School to visit
projects. Groups will return
to school for the regular
meeting.
June 28-7 pm—4-H bee
management meeting at the
Erlj, Brothers nuisery, 118
Kreider A\e , Lancaster
8 p.m—New Pi evidence 4-
H community club meets at
tne elementary school
8 p.m —4-H Holstein Club
meets at the farm of Heniy
Kettering, Lititz R 3, near
the Lancaster an port.
June 29-7 pm —Lancaster
County Honey Producers As
sociation meets at the Floi in
Farms, Mount Joy R 1
June 30 - 4 to 9 p in —4-H
Leaders Chicken Barbecue
at the Lampeter Community
Grounds.
breeder said Tuesday at a
Small Giains Field Day at the
Southeastern Field Research
Laboratory neai Landisville
Redcoat is the fastest glow
ing populaiitv wise vanety of
wheat in the state, and it looks
like it will suipass all ex
pectations. Pieiter said
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lowa Students
Tour County
Touring the Garden Spot
this week was a group of 34
agriculture students from lowa
State Unnersity.
The bus load of livestock,
educati on. journalism and
agronomy students made four
super-quick stops at as many
farms along their route from
Columbia to New Holland.
The first stop on the tour
arranged by County Agent. M
M Smith was at Turkey Hill,
the farm of Armer Frey, Con
estoga R 2, where the group in
spected the dany operation
w Inch includes all phases from
production of the milk to
bottling and distribution
The air-conditioned bus then
moved to the farm of Clyde K
Eshleman, Washington Boro
At the farm of Glenn Wiss
ler, the tour was particularly
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Lancaster Farming, Saturday, June 23, 1962
County 4-H’ers
Will Trek To
Club Congress
Nineteen 4-H club members
from aguculture clubs and 13
from home economics clubs in
the county hate been selected
by their clubs to attend Pen
nsylvania Club Congress'at the
Pennsylvania State University
next vv eek
The 4-vvard look with 4-H
Will be the theme of the con
gress which is scheduled for
June 26-29 Members fiom ev
ery state in the nation are
expected to attend the meeting
designed to emphasize to 4-H
members the three C’s of Citi
zenship education. Career ex
ploration and Character de
velopment
Former participants in the
congress are not eligible to
participate again, and only
members who were 14 or older
by January 1 have been chos
en to attend
Members will attend ses
sions ot lectures, discussions
and demonstrations of leader
ship actrutj The annual event
is held on the PSU campus
during late June
County 4-H Clubbers who
will make the trip, starting
from the Lampeter-Strasburg
High School at S a m Tues
day June 26. are as follows
AGRICULTURE
Charles Warfel, Conestoga
Rl, Wilbur Hosier, Manheim
R 3, James Houser, Lampeter,
Larry E. Hart,* Quarryville
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Farm Bill Is Defeated
In House By Ten Votes
A wateied-down yeision of
the Admnustiatiou s (aim bill
was \ oted down in the House
of Repi e&entatn es late Thm s
day aftei thiee dais ot bittei
debate winch saw some 40
amandmeuts applied to the
bill lepoited out ot commit
tee
Many of the amendments
boie little oi no i elation to the
bill Some weie tongue-m
-check and one was a cml
rights udei designed to Kill
the legislation on the flooi
The bill now goes back to
the House Agncultuie com
mittee wheie a new bill can be
dialled. 01 the Senate teisiou,
much moie neaily what was
asked by President Kennedy,
which was passed eailier can
be proposed to the House
This lattei comse appeared un
likely
Washington observers say it
is unlikely that any farm leg
islation will be passed this
term, in which case the faim
Size And Mechanization
Aimazes Korean Visitor
“Americans work very bard
I imagined everyone played all
the" time, but they are working
very hard They enjoy their
leisure time very pleasantly
though.”
These were the words of
Kee Hong Ahn, a visitor to
Lancaster County this w r eek
from Seoul, Korea.
Here to study cooperatives
and cooperative banking bus
iness under the auspices of
the International Civil As
sistance progiam, Aim said
he got his impiession o’f Amer
icans from motion pictures
and magazines in Koiea
His expressions of his im
4-H Leaders
Plan Barbecue;
Clubs Benefit
The second annual chicken
barbecue sponsored by the
county 4-H club leaders is
scheduled for June 30 in the
Lampeter Community Park
The leaders, wanting to do
something to help the clubs
finance their awards program,
last year instituted the bar
becues County 4-H club op
erate on a budget of nealy
31,800 a year which was de
ne ed almost entirely fiom so
licitation of county business
firms prior to last yeai
General Chairman, Ruhaid
Lefever. Quarryville Rl, an
nounced that both complete
meals on the grounds and
take-out meals will be avail
able from 1 to 1 pm
Many of the local clubs in
the county are planning to
conduct concession stands on
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$2 Per Year
piomam would reteit to tho
one clnmpioned bj foimer
& t-c iefa i ■v oi Apiculture Bara
Taft Reason tailing for guar
anteed pines to farmers but
no cmbs on pi eduction.
It appeals unlikely WaaK
mgton onseiteis beliete, that
Secietait of Agncultuie Or
tille L Fieeman will ask ft>r
etten&ion of the piesent wheat
and feed grains bills
The Honorable Paul Dagne,
Repiesentatite fiom Lancas
ter and Chester Counties who
toted with the majority m
killing the measure was re
poited to hate said the bill
got just what it deserved. Op
ponents of the bill had labeled
it a “.\loustrosit> ” which offer
ed farmers a choice betweea
“regimentation and ruin”.
A total of 42 Democrats
toted against the bill but only
one Republican toted in favor
as the bill went down to defeat
on a 2On to 210 roll call vote.
pressions of America included,
“The country is too big. . I
can not imagine the wkWJI
of America. It is too big •
too big ’’
Ahn was impressed witlb
th 1 e of ft he country
hat ing come to the county
after spending some time in
Nebraska and Colorado study
ing Fanners Home Adminis
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McSparran To
Head Program 1
At Banquet
J Collins McSparran. Master
of the state Grange will ba
toastmastei at the annual ban
quet of the state organization,
next Wednesday night.
Lecturers. GB5 of them,
from 56 counties, will hold,
their annual Grange Leader’s
Conference June 26 to 28 at
the Pennsylvania State Uni
versity. University Park, Pena
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FIVE-DAY
WEATHER
FORECAST
Saturday - Wednesday
Temperatures during the
nevt five da>s are expected
to average 2 to 0 degrees
aboxe the normal range of
63 at night to 84 in the af
ternoon. Utile day to day
temperature variation is ex
pected. Piecipitation will
probably total loss than .2
inch failing as scattered
showers Saturday and again
Tuesday or Wednesday. jjj