VOL. B—NO. 9
SEP AIR ANQjPAINTING OF TRACTORS and other farm machinery consti
tutes a large, portion of the winter shop- program at Manheim Central High
School. Vernon Martin, Lititz R 2, left; brought the tractor into the shop for re
conditioning. Helping Martin with the work are, left to right, John Wagner, Man
heim Rl; James Hess, Manheim'Rl; Glenn-Metzler, Manheim R 2, and Lee Her
shey, Manheim R 4. All the boys are seniors in the vocational agriculture course
at the school. L. F. Photo
Manheim Future Farmers
Study Machinery Care
Future Farmers of America
■believe in being prepared when
spring planting season rolls
around.
In preparation for the spring
season, vocational. agriculture
students at Manheim Central
High School are busy recondi
tioning and painting tractors
and other farm machinery in
tbe school shop.
Under the direction of Jos-
Farm Calendar
Feb. 4 12 noon Pennsyl
■ vama Egg Industry promo
tion campaign kickoff lunch
eon in the Hotel Harrisbur
ger.
Feb. 5 4 30 p.m. Meet
ing of the Lancaster County
Teachers of Vocational Ag
riculture at Penn - Manor
High School.
7.15 p.m. New Holland
Young Farmers meeting at
the high school. Subject
Dynamometer testing of
tractors.
Feb. 7 8 pm. Solanco
Young 'Fanner class meets
in Solanco High School,
Quarryville. Third in a. senes
of classes on Farmers' Per
sonnel Problems.
Feb. 8 8 p.m. 18th an
nual stockholdefs meeting of
the Lancaster County Tohac -
«o Growers Cooperative at
* F'arm" Bureau Building, Dill
eryllle Hoad, Lancaster."
eph H. McGahen, teacher of vo-
cational agriculture, the senior
class has undertaken' a senes
of lessons on tractor mainten
ance m ithe school agriculture
shop.
McGahen sajs, “we do not
encourage major overhauls of
tractors, hut stress preventive
maintenance such as adjust
ing carburetors",' cleaning spark
plugs, servicing the air clean
er system and the battery sys
tem.
Beginning with the general
principles of the operation of
internal combustion engines,
the class has studied, with ac
tual service to tractors brought
in by the'hoys, care of the air
cleaning system, the cooling
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Richard Wenner
Is ASC Head
D. Richard Wenner, Harris
burg, has been appointed to the
post of executive director of the
Pennsylvania State Agricultu
ral Stabilization and Conserva
tion Service, it was announced
this week.
In announcing the appoint
ment, Howard R Porter, chair
man of the state ASC commit
tee, said Wenner will replace
Harry A. Peters,"Scotland, who
has been 'appointed northeast
area director for "ASCS in
"Washington; D.C. ‘ * ' '
la hU new post. Weaner will
Lancaster Farming, Saturday, February 2, 1963
Jack Grey Is
Named Deputy
Agri. Secretary
HARRISBURG Appoint
ment of Jack R. Grey, 42,
York, as Deputy State Secre
tary of Agriculture, was an
nounced this week by Gov Wil
liam W. Scranton. Grey’s ap
pointment becomes effective
February 1 He will have char
ge of program as the depart
ment’s No. 2 man under Secre
tary Leland H. Bull. He will
receive $16,127 annually
A native of Winburne, Clear
field ■County, Grey has been
identified with Pennsylvania
agriculture nearly all of his
adult life. Since 1954 he has
been with the Pennsylvania
Canners Association, for the
last three years as President
and prior ,to that as Executive
Secretary
During World War II he
served from 1943 to 1946 with
the U. S Army in Europe as
tank platoon leader and admin-
istrations officer. He held the
rank of First Lieutenant.
v.
Grey has been active in a
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he responsible for administra
tion of such farm programs as
allotments, marketing quotas,
price supports, feed grain and
wheat stabilization programs,
farm storage facility loans, and
the agricultural conservation
program.
He will resign /the post of
deputy /Secretary of Agricul
ture of Pennsylvania to accept
the new post.
Complete Water Study
Set By County Planners
Lancaster County Commiss
ioners announced today that
thev ha;e earmarked $lO,OOO
in the proposed General Fund
Budget foz 1963 towards the
initiation of a Comprehensne
Watei Resouices Study foi
Lancaster Count;
Commissioner C Abiam Sn
\dei said. "The findings and
recommendations of the Water
Resources Advisor; Committee
of the Lancastei County Plan
ning Commission and the mam
comments made to the Commis
sioners by citizens and local
officials indicated to us the de
finite need for such a stud;
The Commissioneis were much
impressed b> the well attended
meeting in Ephrata on January
17th which indicated the grow
mg concern for watei and the
Count}-wide interest”
"We take note of the fact
that the Couat> Soil Cousei\a
tion-Distuct has passed a reso
Amos Funk Is Featured Speaker
At Vegetable Growers Meet
Amos Funk, Mlllersville Rl,
was one of the featured speak
ers this week at the two day
educational conference of the
Pennsylvania Vegetable Grow
ers Association at the Pennsyl
vania State University.
Vegetable growers and can
nera’ fieldmen from all over the
Two Countians
Re-elected By
State Ass’n
The Pennsylvania Vegetable
Growers Association this week
reelected two countians to of
fices in the organization.
Paul Rowe, Strasburg Rl,
will serve his second consecu
tive term as president of the
state association, and Rudy O
Groh 2063 Stone Mill Road was
named to his fourth term as
secretary.
In the election, held in con
junction with the annual meet
ing at the Pennsylvania State
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CVA Elects
Funk President
Amos Funk, Millersvllle Rl,
Thursday night was elected
presidfent of the Conestoga
Valley Association, a post he
held for five years prior to the
election of John Kitch in 1961.
Kitch served as president' for
two years.
Funk, president of the state
association of Soil Conserva
tion District Directors, is also
chairman of the Lancaster
County Soil Conservation Dist
rict.
The association also elected
Harry Althouse, Denver, secre
tary, succeeding Benjamin M.
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$2 Per Year
lution supporting such a study
arid the Conestoga Valley As
sociation has shown a contin
uing concern oiei the yeais in
oui mci easing water probl
ems '
The study as pioposed by the
Watei Resomees Advisory
Committee would be multi
purpose in scope It would take
into consideiation the water
needs for agi icultural, domes
tic. Industrial, and recreational
uses
Meeting with the County
Commissioneis to leport on the
watei lesources meeting in
Ephiata were Call \V Fuehrer,
Boiougli Manager of Ephrata
and organizer of the public of
ficials meeting, Amos H. Funk
of Alillersville member of the
Water Resources Commission,
and Piesident ot both the State
and County Soil Conservation
Districts, John H Kitch, Presi
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state, who braved snow, wind
and sab-zero weather to attend
the annual conference heard
Funk say timing irrigation of
celery fields can not only in
crease yields, but can help pro
tect the crop from frost dam
age.
Funk, a well known vege
table grower and conservation
ist. said, a field irrigated be
fore an expected frost can prcA
tect the crop from damage des
pite a 28 degree temperature.
He said solar heat absorbed
by irrigated soil is released
at night and raises the tem
perature around a plant enough
to protect it from temperatur
es four degrees below the
freezing point.
Effectiveness of the control
can be increased, he said, by
irrigating immediately follow
ing transplanting and just pr
ior to weed control spraying.
Weeds were controlled effec
tively in the Funk plots by
spraying with five quarts of
Vegetex as soon as a tractor
can go through a field which
was irrigated after planting.
Funk said a crop can be ex
pected to use 0 6 inch of water
a week in May, an inch a week
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FIVE-DAY
WEATHER
FORECAST
Temperatures during the
next five days are expected
to average near the normal
range ot Zi at night to 39
in the afternoon. The n rath
er is expected to turn some
uiiat colder Sunday and
Monday, and moderate again
towards the end of the per
iod. Precipitation will proba
bly total less than 0.1 inch
(melted) falling as light
drizzle near the beginning
of the period.