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
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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$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
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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
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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.