VOL. 7 NO. 'UNDAUNTED BY THE RAIN OUTSIDE. Governor David Lawrence goes through ground breaking ceremonies in the mam exhibition arena of the Farm Show Building while Dr. William L Henning. Secretary of Agriculture looks on. Ceremonies signaling the start on the new $2 9 million Department of Agri culture office and laboratory building were moved inside the building when rain turned the site of the proposed building to mud. A wheelbarrow of soil from the site was hauled in, dumped by the Governor and Secretary, and dutifully ‘‘broken” by the smiling Governor. Farm Calendar Nov. 6-9 —Pennsylvania Live stock Exposition at the Farm Show Building in. Har risburg. Nov 5 Judging of pens of five steers and 4-H and FFA steers begins at 9 a m Nov. 6 Angus bleeding cattle, market wethers, mar ket barrows, and open class steer judging begins at 9 a m. Nov. 7 Hereford breeding cattle, Dorsett, Southdown, Suffolk, Che-Aei White, Dur oc, Hampslnreb Spotted Hog, and polled Herefoid judging begins at 9 a m Nov. 8 Shoi thorn bleed ing cattle, othei sheep and swine judging and feeder steer sale market animal sale (wetheis. barrows, steers) and carcasses, begin ning at 9 a.m. Sale at 2 P m. Each Evening 7 p.m. Polo- game w ith calf scram ble- at half time. 4-H horse - .{Qbhtlnupa pn Page 9) i t » r w - * i • Meet Scheduled By State Ass’n Of Farm Co-ops A series of seven director conferences has been scheduled for November by the Pennsyl vania Association of Farmer Cooperatives, State College. The conferences, to he held in various places across the state, will feature discussions on communication processess in cooperatives, on policy de velopment on financial state, me u t interpretation and ‘'handling hot potatoes ” One of the meetings is sche duled to be held Noverahei 13 in the Dutch Town and Coun trv Kitchen, 10 miles east, of Lancaster. The programs are scheduled to begin at 9 30 a m and ad journ at 3 pm. Participating in the various discussions and presentations will be the fol lowing . « Edward B. 'rabsant, Penn sylvania AssociwtQa of Ffixm >> 1 ,+'* J'-sV/St-JG *■- - 'i>As - Lancaster Farming, Saturday, November 3, 1962 er Cooperatives- Wallace Dunlap, Eastern States, Wil. (Continued on Page 4) Holstein Men Set Banquet The annual banquet of the Lancaster County Holstein. Friesian Association will be held November 13 at Hostel, ter’s banquet hall in Mount Joy. The program, scheduled to get under way with the meal at 6 45 pm. will feature a roast chicken dinner. Speaker of. the evening will be--Hr I) L JJiemesderfer of Mfttersville who will present his \ talk, “The Good Old Days”. Reservations for the ban. quet ahdtlld be made with the committee before - Tuesday, November 6. Committee-jgieln. hers are Clyde ,M. Bnhhen, Ray and John K. Rissor. “ / ! - -v-.W -iji- Indoor Ground Breaking Calls For Some Ingenuity Neither lam, nor wind, nor gloomy da\ could long stay the swift completion of the giound biealcing ceremonies planned In the PennsiUania State Department of Agncul tme this week When the scheduled giound bieakmg ceiemoines tlneat. ened to become a “mud bust ing’’ spectacle the whole e\_ ent, soil and all, was moied mdoois This posed some pioblems but the indomitable dut fai. meis in the Dep'itment of Agiicultme weie not to be outdone When rain began to fall, the -decision to moie the giound hi eaKmg ceieinonus foi the new depaitment build ing into the aiena of the Faint Show Building len into au othei, snag The Standardbied Horse bieedeis weie holding a sale m the; aa'eaa. F-dtallyp- a-.- ‘Veilee 1b a ~ ‘growitmi'Xfi=-aiTi'"t!’ e site-of '-Sae new building was wheeled in to the main e\lubition budd ing and dumped with gieat ceiemonv onto a taipauhn bj the Goiernor Hand Law rence and Secietan of Agii cnltuie. William L Henning The Governoi then dutifully “bioke giound” foi the new Local Poultry Hatcheryman To Leave County Leslie S Hubbard, a iesi_ dent of Lancaster Countv since he moved to Bphrata from New England thutv veais ago will letuin to his companv s main office in Wal. pole, N H about Decenibei 1 Hubbard i s well know n in Ferns ylvania poultry circles thi ough the many offices he has held in 10. cal and "state. HUBBARD vide poultry industry posts Mr. and Mrs Hubbaid have sold their home in East Pet. ersburg in pieparatiou for the move. Hubbard’s duties with the famih firm now include dir. ec-ion of its foreign subsidi. ar>, Hubbard Eui o.Poultry, S A . with headquarteis in Belgium, development of the parent line of its breeding stock in the American mid west and southwest, and dir ection of its expanding busi ness m Canada and South America At Walpole, he will work with -other members of top management at headquarters on sales, research and devel. (Continued on R*ge 10) building AppioximateU 120 persons lepiesentmg all phases of agncultme around the state looked on as the Governor dug in, sometimes to the tile floor of the building, to the great delight ol the news photo giaphei s Site ot the new building w r ill be on Xoith Cameion St, just acioss fium the Farm Show Building Aiena The bunding scheduled to be stalled immediate!} and ieed\ foi oceupanci in July 10 6 4 will house the mam segments of the Department now located in the South Of fice Building on Capitol Hill, plus the laboiatoi} of the (Continued on Page 6) PFA Schedules Tomato Meet County tomato growers are mi ited to attend a “Tomato Roundup next week, Xov. 8, 7 30 p m in the Lancaster Poultiy Center The meeting is being spom soied b\ the Pennsylvania Maiketmg Association, an affiliate of the Pennsylvania Fanueis Association. Among the speakers at the meeting Mill oe the following: Jack Giei, piesident, Penn. sihania Canneis Association.; Barney Slamp, extension mar keting specialist, Penn State Universiti Wame Tyler, field duector, Amencan Agncul tuial Maiketmg Association; and G A Biggs, president, Pennsylvania Agricultural Marketing Association The poultiv center in on Rt. 230 noith of Lancaster. Mew Holland Fair Association Elects Directors Si\ directors were elected to three - year terms Tuesday night at the annual meeting and banquet of the New Hol land Farmers Daj Association, Ino (Continued on Page 8) FIVE - DAY WEATHER FORECAST Temperature*, during the ne\t fne dajs are expected to avei.ige about fixe de gree*. below the normal range ot 3f) at night to 57 in the afternoon. Colder weather Sunday and Monday is expected to give xxaj to milder weather by Wednes daj. Rain Saturday and again Wednesdaj ma; total over a half inch. $2 Per Year
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