!■ > . ■illl?'■ I* f| B:ol. 8 NO. 5 m OFFICERS OF THE' LANCASTER' COUNTY Association of Future Farmers roAmerica assembled after their elec''on at a meeting in the Donegal High Spool. Seated, left to right are Keni ath. Martin, president; Carl Ginder, secre- Mry; Jay Mylin," treasurer. Standing, .eft to right are Ray Kline, chaplain; Gerald Baltz, Parliamentarian; Bill' Hackm a, corresponding secretary; R, Edwin Har- Bph, reporter; Glenn Esbenshade, va,- president, and Fred Hess, sentinel. w ‘ H . L. F. Photo. mnty Future Fanners Ass’n ects New Holland Student tenneth Martin, the six i year old son of Mr. and , Aaron H. Martin, Den- R 2, was elected president the Lancaster County are Farmers of America i recent meeting, he 11th grade vocational culture student from the sslands Chapter FFA at Holland High School e into the office from the presidency in his local iter He has also held the e of chaplain and junior president in the local of artm was the area FFA lie Speaking contest winu ist spring and went on to e fourth in the regional est. He was named star nhand of his chapter dur his freshman year, he future farmer has a ung program of twelve ects in swine, poultry and tobacco. arm Calendar 7- —Pennsylvania State arm Show all week at the arm Show Building, Cam :on and McCiay Streets, arnsburg. 8— 8 p.m. Meeting of ie Penns* 1 vania Agncul ire Reporters' Association i the Farm Show press >om. L **—Noon—Carl Bittner, intension hortic u iturist Som the Penna. State Unx jrsity will speak to Eliza- Ifthtown Rotary Cluib. Sub lipl is Agriculture behind W Iron Curtain. Ill—7 p.m.—Ndw Holland Wing - Farmers - Association bqnfet'in 'tho Garden. Spot Elected vice president at the meeting in Donegal High School was Glenn Esben shade. Paradise 81. a student at the Pequea Valley High School. Other officers elected were secretary'. Carl Cinder, Mount Joy R 2, treasurer. Jay Mylin, Willow "Street Rl, Chaplain, Ray Kline, Denver R. 2; parli amentarian, Gerald Waltz, Manheim R 2; corresponding secretary. Bill Hackman, Eli zabethtown ®3, reporter, R Edwin Harmsh, Christiana Rl; and sentinel, Fred Hess Bareville R 2. The newly elected officers will begin their duties at the next regular meeting. Tobacco Show Is Won By Roy M. Rohrer All three grand champion hands at the (Lancaster Coun ty tobacco show Thursday came from the same Stras burg R 1 farm. Roy M. Pohrer had the top hands in 'both the wrapper and Ibmder classes, while Eu gene Rohrer showed the grand champion filler exhibit. Roy also exhibited the runn er-up hand iu the filler divi sion Judge Ben Mann, tobacco broker, said the exhibits showed unusually good qual ity considering the growing season. He said the judges were hard put to decide ou the top/ placings in sojne of the classes, and' suggested that the present standards of judging' are’ outmoded. - . Mxrm amid -it, is' fairly easy Lancaster Farming, Saturday, January 5, 1963 The annual FARM SHOW section will be found on pages 5 through 13 of this Issue of Lancaster Farming. The section includes a preview story of the farm show, a story on Lancaster County's state degree winners in both FFA and FHA, the complete Farm Show schedule, and other interesting Farm Show fea tures. We suggest you hit this section out and take it - to the Farm Show with you. Other regular features of Lancaster Farming will be found in their accus tomed spots in the paper. SCD Directors Schedule Meet Amos Funk, .Rl, president of the Pennsyl vania Association ot Soil Con servation District Directors, Inc , will present a summary of the year’s 1963 program at the closing- session of the Ex ecutive Council meeting ne\t (Saturday. Beginning at 10 a m. in the Autoport, State College, the session will plan activities and a calendar of events for the coming year. A report on arrangements for the annual meeting will be given and (bids will be received for the 1964 meeting. to prepare an exhibit if the grower can sort through a large number of leaves, but it is much more difficult to select a stalk with all good leaves. He expressed the be lief that a contest in which the grower exhibited a stalk of tobacco which would be strapped at the time of judg ing would be of much more value and much more indica tive of the quality of the crop. He said he believed this type otf contest would have more value at the Farm Show than the contest that is now con ducted. All entries in the on Page 11) MH-30 Still Best Bet For Tobacco Sucker Control The chemical, MH-30, pio perly and wisely used is the best method of tobacco suck er conti ol yet deyised, a re search scientist told members of the Lancaster Countv To bacco Growers Association Thursday at the group's annu al meeting held in conjuntion with the annual tobacco show •Speaklng in the Farm Bur eau Cooperatne’s auditorium, Henry B Engle. U S Depart ment of Agriculture tobacco expert stationed at the South east Pennsylvania Field Re search Laboratory farm near Landisy die. told growers that, “men in the trade have con sistency rated JMH-30 sprayed leaves higher m quality than hand suckered leaves.” Engla said there are some objections to the use of the growth retarding chemical, but he believed most of the damaged leaves were a re sult of spraying at the wrong rate or at the wrong time. Witness Oak Chapter Wins Tobacco Show Teamwork paid off for the Witness Oak Chapter of Fut ure F'armers Thursday -when a. hand of tobacco from a group project topped the Lan caster County FPA tobacco show. Each year the Future Far mers at Donegal High School m Mount Joy conduct a farm ing program as a fund rais ing venture. With the help of thfeir teacher of vocational agriculture, Grant Miller, the boys selected fifteen leaves •from this year’s crop and en tered In the Chapter’s name. Miller said the boys first selection of wrappers contain ed some leaves with green tlecks, a fairly common con dition in tobacco crops m the county this year, bbut a col lective decision eliminated the undersirable leaves and came up with the winning entry. Judge Ben Mann, Lancas ter tobacco broker comment ed on the uniform quality of the sample. Assisting Mann with the judging chores was Raymond Er*b of the P. Loril lard Tobacco Company. Prizes in the show were contributed (Continued on Page 10) t-Aa-Aiitii iti-M ill $2 Per Year He said yellowing of the top leaves on the plant will oc cur if spiaved too soon after topping Three to five days should elapse between topp ing and spraying to allow the top leaves to mature slightly. Three days time is sufficient if the crop is in a rapid grow ing condition, but the longer period is better if the plants are growing slowly. Research at the experimen tal farm this year tested three other chemical sprays for sucker eontiol, but in each case qualitj of the leaf was effected Some of the new chemicals had a bad effect on the appearance of the leaf as well, causing some leaf curl ing, puckenng and coloring. “We ha\e not jet come up with any chemical as good ns MH-30. which is still u.. J , ’■ the UjS d) A experimental farm at Beltsville, Md. as a standard to judge other chem icals.’’. Engle said. , Oils ana oil mixtures * are still being used for sucker control in the experiments. “Oils, especially some of the vegetable oils, have given good results as far as they go Engle said, but the coet (Continued on Page 12) Tobacco Ass’n Retains Officers The Lancaster County To bacco Growers Association re turned all ofticers to office during an election Thursday afternoon in the Farm Bureau building, Dilleiville Pike Harold B Eudslow, Marietta Rl. was reelected to his ten th term as president. At the meeting, held in con junction with the county to bacco show, other officers re elected were J. C. Stehman, Lancaster R 6. vice president; Marlin Gassel, Manheim Rl, secretary, and Willis Hackman, Elizabethtown R 3, treasurer. FIVE-DAY WEATHER FORECAST Temperatures during the nevt five days are expected to average two to ten de grees below the normal, range of 24 at night to 39 in the afternoon. Cool weather at the beginning of the period will give way to milder temperatures Monday or Tuesday and turn cooler again near the end of the period. Precipitation may total up to 0.1 inch (melted) falling as snow or ruin about Tuesday. A storm forming on Friday morning in the Rocky Mountain area may bring the possibility of some snow Saturday or Sun day. .li t*i * l’ - . i. ♦ £- j ' r
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