VOL. 7 N0.J47 JV Amos H. Funk Is President Of State SCD Amos H. Funk, chairman of the Lancaster County Soil Conservation District for the past 10 years, has been elect ed' president of the Pennsyl vania Soil Consei vation Dis trict Directors Funk, who succeeds Charles Gillette of Townvilie, Craw ford County, was installed last week at the.annual,meet ing of soil consei vation dis trict directors in Reading A formei pesident of the Pennsylvania Vegetable Glow ers Association foi five years and pesident of the Conestoga Valley Association, a water shed improvement group, for five years. Funk has served as first vice president of the state soil conservation group for the past year. Speakers at the GO-distriot meeting emphasized the im portance of cooperation be tween rural and urban dwell ers m accomplishing the whole job of conservation. ■Changes in land usa caused hy population increase and shifts will bring about new programs of soil and water conservation, the state dele gates agreed. Programs must be adapted to serve a wider variety of land users. David G Unger, executive secretary of the Pennsylvania Soil Conservation Commission, urged the transformation of soil conservation districts into natural resource districts that could help cooidinate all re source programs at the local level. Farm Calendar Oct. 29 6 p.m Eliza bethtown Kiwanis club to honor Elizabethtown area 4-H club members at their regular meeting in Aunt Sally’e- Kitchen. Oct. 90 11:30 a.m. Ground Breaking Ceremon ies- tor New Office and la boratory building of the Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture opposite the Farm Show Arena, Harris burg. 10 am, 4-H capon club roundup in the Hotel Brun swick, Lancaster. 7 pm. 4-H capon club roundup at the New Holl and American Legion Home. Nov. 1 7 30 pm Inter- state local meeting at the Lafayette fire hall Lincoln Highway, east of Lancaster. S p m. Senior Extension club meeting at the Frank lin and Mai shall College museum. Southern 4-H elec- Bpm trie club meets m the Little Britain Elementary School. Nov. 2 7pm Annual banquet of the Lancaster County Guernsey Breeders (Continued on Page 10) RECENTLY GRADUATED FROM Practical Nurs ing school, Mary Jane Herr is caught in the act of cleaning some test tubes at the Lancaster General Hospital. She hopes to continue her training in Phy sical Therapy in the near future. L. F. Photo. Twenty Seven County Showmen Enter 78 Head In Stock Show Twenty-seven showmen from Lancaster Countj will exhibit 78 head of Inestock m the sixth annual Pennsvlvania live stock Exposition which begins Nov ember 5 Accoiding to a report from Ben Morgan, general superin tendent of the show, of the 22 states represented in the entiy lists, Pennsvlvania leads with 1,396 animals out of a grand total of 3,126 head. Keystone State exhibitors, totaling an even 200, come Horn S 3 counties They will Egg Cooperative Signs Lease For Unused Plant Producers Cooperative Ex change with headquarters in Coatesville this week announ ced signing a lease for the balance of the idle Poultry dressing plant facilities. The plant, idle since the cessation of poultry dressing operations last fall, has been leased to the Dairy Sales Cor poration for an undisclosed pi ice The firm plans to begin us ing the facilities tor a butter processing plant about the first of the >ear, according to offi cials of the exchange Officials also announced that the board of directors has au thouzed rental of more effici ent egg sizing and packaging equipment which will include an electronic blood spot de tector and “scanner”, better (Continued on Page 10) Lancaster Farming, Saturday, October 27, 1962 show 3G4 head of beef cattle, including breeding stock in the tour principal breeds Angus, Hereford, Polled Hereford and Shorthoin, feeder steers, car cass steers, open class market steers and 4-H and FFA baby beeves Host state sw me exhibitors will include 354 head ot brood stock m seven breeds Berk shue, Chester White, Duroc, Hampshne, Poland China, Spotted Poland China and Yoikshire Swine entries from this state will include also 260 market barrows and 89 carcass barrows. Pennsylvania sheepmen will show 379 head. These include carcass and market wethers and bfood stock entries in nine breeds Cheviot, Come dale. Oxford, Dorset, Ram bouillet, Hampshire, South dowm, and Suttolk and Shiop shire Penasjlvama entries by (Continued on Page 10) Farmers Invited To Help Harvest Co. Corn Plots The -well known and widely acclaimed Lancaster Couutj Corn Vanetv plots will be har vested next week and yields checked Farmers and seedsmen aie invited to come to either or both of the two plots next Tuesday Ocober 30. to assist with the harvesting and yield checking according to Arnie Lueck, assistant county agent. (Continued on Page 6) Mary Jane Herr Wins Trip To Club Congress Turning a flair for enter- tainment into a recreation pi o ject has won a state award and an e\pense-paid tup to Chica go for Maiy Jane Heir of Refton. Marj Jane will he among twentj four 4-H club membeis fiom the state who have been selected to represent Pennsyl vania at the 41st National 4-H Club Cougiess in Chicago, Nov 24 to 20 Stalling hei club work eight jeais ago with a steer, CMaiy Jane has won some 14 tioph ies m countv, distnct and state competition with her beef pioiects She has won ribbons m stiawbenv and ca pon project competition, clo thing const! notion and food preparation, in addition to holding most of the ofhces in livestock Men Hope For Scabies-Free Rate For Pa. Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture officials hope to see the state officially declared “Scabies Free” by the first of the >ear, a PS Department of Agncultuie Veterinarian told stock jards men and farmers Wednesday. At the fourth meeting be tween members of the Lancas ter Livestock Exchange and local livestock farmers, spon soied bj the exchange as pait of the National Terminal Live stock Markets month celebra tion, Dr George <L Smith, US DA veterinarian assigned to the Lancaster Stock Yards, said officials hope the state w'ill be declared Scabies free after completion of the second round of treatment for the disease this fall. 150 FFA Boys Take Part In Leadership Meet More than 140 blue jacket ed Future Farmers of Ameri ca took part in the annual Leadership Training Confer ence of the York-Lancaster Area FFA. Thursday afternoon in the Solaneo High School, QuarryviUe- Chapter officers from the local clubs in the two coun ties took part in parliamen tary proceedure and public speaking drills and. discus sions of the official duties of each office Chaptei Sweethearts elected bv seven local groups joined in a panel discussion to bring the girls point of view to 5 meeting dominated bv bovs Paul Trimble Quarr.vville Rl. state FFA treasurer, and (Continued on Page 10) $2 Per Year her local community club and the county beef club. “M> first great thrill m 4-H woik came m my second year in the beef club ” Mary Jane says In that jear, 1955, she showed the champion Hereford of the district show, and went on to show the calf to reserve champion and v. in the show manship trophj for herself. Pei haps the thrill was grea ter because Mary Jane beat out her brothei Donald, who had been in club work for six >eais This keen competition between brother and sister seems to haie been one of the spins to success for both. Donald is now in his final jear at the Cornell School of Veteunarv Medicine, and Mary Jane has recently graduated (Continued on Page 6) Smith said second round in spections and dipping treat ment of sheep flocks in the state are beginning now tha' weather has begun to get cooler and the certification should be forthcoming about Januarj first. If the state is not declared scabies free, a thud round would then be planned He said that Pennsylvania was “m a bad way” concern ing the shipping of sheep to other states before the eradi cation program was instituted earlier this jear. The eradica tion program, he said, is part of the federal government’s program of standardizing live stock health regulations. Smith said he sees the role of the terminal livestock mar ket increasing m importance in the event of a national emergency In each terminal livestock market a radioactivity mon (Continued on Page 5) FIVE-DAY WEATHER FORECAST Temperatures during the ne\t five days are expected to av erage seven or more de grees below the normal range of 41 at night to 60 in the afternoon. Cold tem peratures during Saturday and Sunday are expected to gixe xv ay to more moderate readings on Monday. Tues day xv ill be cooler again follow ill by a xv arming trend Wednesday. Precipita tion will probably be less than 0.l inch falling as light rain Monday and again late Wednesday.
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